To so many people, this is what the word "America" means. We do not have to let that go away

We are in Week 1 of 2026.

In shmemoriam

look at some point you gotta face the fact that not everything is a distraction from everything else and there’s just a lot of bad stuff going on all the time

To capture funding and ride the wave of the AI bubble, a variety of institutions (commercial and otherwise) have pivoted to calling their machine learning applications "AI." The paper I am linking below explains what's going on here. But there's also more to it than that!

i subscribed to the red zone channel in order to hear the latest about draftkings, but i'd conservatively estimate that 75% of the broadcast has nothing to do with draftkings. they keep trying to shoehorn in all these football games. i don't like football. i don't watch football. what is this shit

no surprises in my Sportify Wrapped, but it's good to see some new material crack my top five

I could tell this photo was taken in my neck of the woods because these people look like my grandparents doing the only thing my grandparents do outside of the house (eat a pile of slop at 4 pm)

Man, the Bluesky Wrapped 2025 is pretty brutal

They are calling it the Chiblee Effect. @chiblee.bsky.social

Cannot believe this soccer game announcer who talks like a @jonbois.bsky.social post

Oh I have plans to blow up the middle two lanes of the parkways and replace them with light rail, and they're gonna hear about it!

i think that people who use headphones in public places like trains are selfish. keeping all your cool music and podcasts to yourself is genuinely sociopathic and deranged behavior. play it on your phone's speaker and let everyone enjoy it, or don't play it at all

in case you were wondering how things were going on the other site

this is the play in which sheldon rankins conjured a scorigami out of absolutely nothing. 30-29 had happened plenty of times and so had 37-29. scorigami only happened because the refs didn't make them stick around for the extra point

hail to Pitt

Get in, Pitt Volleyball fans: We're raising $1,390 for the Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank. The Bandwagoner's Guide has some suggested donations for you too.

@jonbois.bsky.social How many times has a team gone 4 and out on their opening drive starting in their own territory? I have to imagine the Jets made some sort of history.

Which country will win the World Series: Canada, or Japan

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

i now want to address each candidate with a simple question and would like a yes or no answer: do you commit to changing new york’s name to york junior

thank god the red zone channel started running commercials. when it was commercial-free i'd get to 7:30 p.m., look at how i'd spent my day, and realize i'd burned through an entire sunday without growing or developing at all as a consumer. and if i'm not a consumer i'm nothing at all

“What is a catch?” but make it baseball.

note-perfect show-stopper of a day in Chicago. the kind that tricks high school kids into going to college here

What a fire drill FG. They were lined up in 8 seconds.

Welcome back to the end zone Ashton Jeanty.

Disney does not have enough money to send someone to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They couldn’t hire a yinzer to provide live updates on the Pitt Panthers game.

Did anyone ever come up with a nickname for Duquesne v Pitt? @keithelong.bsky.social and I came up with Boulevard of the Rivals but open to anything

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using my tennis racket as a spoon of sorts and making airplane noises as i try to spoon-feed the ball to the umpire in the high chair

BREAKING: A new experiment in Philly shows cash rental assistance slashed homelessness rates by 57–67%.

Until somebody throws a bigger sandwich

Patient, sobbing: But Doctor, I AM Pagliacci! ChatGPT: Apologies. I didn't realise when recommending Pagliacci's epic show to cure your depression that you were the genius himself. I'm impressed! With regards to your initial question, I can recommend seeing the Great Clown Pagliacci.

45 minutes ago, Chicago had “cloudy weather” for the night (<30% chance of rain for Apple). It was actively storming. Now we have a flash flood warning. We are continuously touching the stove with one hand and cranking the heat up with the other.

TNT is correct. I don’t actually want to watch hockey or see the history of the finals. I want to see AI video clips of people milling about.

any business establishment that needs some stuff to put on the tv is more than welcome to fire up youtube and throw some secret base videos on there, we’re honored

@jonbois.bsky.social The Chicago Bagel Authority knows good programming.

A touching pregame tribute on the @Phillies broadcast 🤣

Pedants will destroy the world.

“The US postal service costs each American worker on average about $6 a month so we are going to blow up the entire program.”

Me when I want to watch one more episode of Pretty Good, but I’m just too tired.

What a summary of the anti-trans movement: March 23rd: female fencer competes in mixed-gender event, beating several male competitors, finishing 8th March 30th: same fencer films herself telling trans competitor “I am refusing to fence you, because I am a woman and you are a man,” collects $5000

i want to emphasize how these themes — that government should be a force for good, that huge teams of people working together are necessary to make it work, and that being part of one of those teams is incredibly meaningful — are universal in every conversation i've had for this series.

sheetz fucking slaps

career rushing stats at Alcorn State for this man: six carries for eleven yards

@shutdownfullcast.bsky.social I was having dinner at a Burmese restaurant yesterday and this music video came on. Is there a connection between Burma and the Hawgs that I am unfamiliar with?

new saddest six word story just dropped

man he's a perfect synthesis of patrick bateman and gob bluth, isn't he? so perfect that i don't have to say his name for you to know exactly who i'm talking about