Your reminder that credit scores in the US date to 1989. For much of their existence, race and gender were factors. They were invented bc it had been made illegal to discriminate by race and gender in the US, so financial institutions wanted a facially neutral way to accomplish the same thing.

Weird thing where people say “no one could have predicted it” when really what they mean is their political commitments and orientation were such that they ignored everyone who was predicting it Sorry but “no one could have“ and you having your head stuck up your ass are two different situations

The first rule of Cassandras Club is you tell everyone about Cassandras Club and they don't believe you.

@alexwest.bsky.social I thought you would appreciate this.

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Definitely Kate Bush's "Cloudbusting." www.youtube.com/watch?v=pllR...

A world of cuisine and Abby Mandel chose violence.

Can you please share I will die in the streets @hperryhorton.bsky.social @holdontoyourbutts.bsky.social @howiecohen.bsky.social @transliberalism.substack.com @joshuaholland.bsky.social @jodiispissed.bsky.social @joelfast.bsky.social @ontariocanadian.bsky.social @stjoanonjonesst.bsky.social

A world of cuisine and Abby Mandel chose violence.

Here’s my policy as President: you show up on our shores, you’re good to go. let’s make something of this life. let’s create something beautiful together. I’m coming over for dinner. I brought a great bottle of wine & some records. Do you like jazz?

Did Jean Valjean write this?

On National Poetry Day, the greatest poem I have ever read

@escapeartists.net Editors!!! Your updating the RSS feed with back episodes is sending out emails for *each* *one*. I have 250 emails in my inbox just from you! Please turn off the email update, please!!

A bus of Bronx middle schoolers pulled up to the Capitol this morning for a long-planned field trip just a few hours after the government shut down. All Capitol tours were cancelled as the guides can’t work in shutdown. So I escorted them in myself and gave them a personal tour. They were great!

Radicchio, squash and goat cheese galette #dinnersky

THEY CLOSED PUBLIC POOLS RATHER THAN SWIM WITH BLACK PEOPLE YOU ARE DEALING WITH THE SAME GROUP OF PEOPLE AS THE FOLKS WHO DID THIS PLEASE WAKE THE FUCK UP

Some amazing gay history. Listen up kids.

Here go James Cameron again all like “wut if fancy Smurfs went to Burning Man”

Change a movie by adding a word: Rosemary's Baby Daddy

Russia violates Poland's airspace. Trump violates Portland's airspace.

Farewell to cherry tomato season! A cherry tomato tarte tatin:

ㅤ — Frank O'Hara, To You ㅤ

Dave Matthews has the opportunity to do the funniest thing.

Engraving two bullets with "this bullet only lies" and "this bullet only tells the truth" to really stump the FBI

gofund.me/8e5750db I have been harassed by the family of my rap*st via court and threats of court. Still in debt from the events + medical bills, and after events if anyone can help it’s greatly appreciated, if you cannot help please re-share. 🩷

Early fall always makes me think of a drive I took my freshman year in college, three of us, exploring the landscape and listening to Claude Bolling/Jean-Pierre Rampal "Suite for Flute and Jazz Piano" www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-_Q...

it's 2007. you're scrolling your favorite rss feeds in google reader. the internet ad market has led to a boom in mid-sized blogs that can employ tens of writers and editors in a relatively niche subject. you don't know it, but this is the last time journalism will be any good.

BREAKING: Florida cop treated for autism after exposure to tylenol during traffic stop

The New American Dream.

Supreme Court rules 6-3 that it's "whatever Trump says"

Already, "Disney is a great American company that royally screwed up. They corrected their error. They deserve to see there is a way back." Y'all doing truth and reconciliation theatre with corporations that would sue you for infringement for a nursery mural but show you fine print for homicide

Only a good guy with autism can defeat a bad guy with autism

I gave my heart and soul to that place. Built entire sections for journalists pushed out of their home countries. When the writer I hired, Jamal Khashoggi was murdered by Saudi Arabia, they paraded me around as a symbol for press freedom. I put MY LIFE on the line to defend journalism and WaPo.

Little hand drawn animation and banjo theme I made. It's been a year since my brother's passing, it's hard to type stuff so l'll just let the video speak for itself. Thank you for watching. Keep going, enjoy the sandwiches.

Listen. "Department of Defense" is the name on its birth certificate, and we all know how Republicans feel about that sort of thing. I'm just calling it what its parents named it.

“The Cheese People of Grand Rapids” sounds like an Arthur Machen story.

Post a horror movie everybody should see

There is never “down time” when there is wood to stack.

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Let's go full dessert mode on Bluesky Best pie: Strawberry rhubarb Best ice cream: espresso Best Donut: cider Best Bar: Brownie Best cake: pumpkin espresso swirl best other: peanut butter cookies runner up: key lime pie

A lighthouse is for sale on Shetland island in Scotland, if anyone wants to stare longingly over the sea while bundled in woolens. search.savills.com/property-det...

#dinnersky dashi, soba, salmon, Yukina savoy cabbage.

ope, got a nastygram from bluesky for… this:

A dream of the fields study

Charlie Kirk spent his life‘s work and all of his energy and time targeting out-groups while arguing for a world in which gun massacres would be easy to enact, plentiful, and inevitable, and he became famous and wealthy doing it, and we’re now not supposed to mention that because it’s not polite.

♫ They shot a man in Utah ♫ ♫ Just to watch him die. ♫

Look, joining the Ranch Gordo Bean Club has brought me great joy (and beans). I think it is the only club I would join.