Listening to “Midnight Train to Georgia” and every time the Pips go “woo woo!” it’s evidence of a level human achievement we currently cannot access but only yearn for

This is why we fund scientists to study things like oyster slobber even if you don’t think it sounds important

It would be awesome if Banshee from the x-men sounded like Michael McDonald. just him going PEGGGGGGG and shearing the head right off of a sentinel

it's gonna suck so bad when new york city permanently floods in a hurricane during the presidency of mr beast

Barbara Marques was detained for allegedly missing a 2019 court date for which she said she was never notified.

Wife brought her 100 year old film camera to that pirates game from a few weeks ago and she got this shot that's just perfect

My dearest Martha, I send you all my love from this war-torn ravaged place, where our hardships surpass comprehension. Yesterday, a barista gave me a whole milk latte when I specifically ordered skim. Later, a young woman with strangely colored hair glanced at me disapprovingly.

When you’re getting spam texts from Peregrin Took

Waiting for Godot: The Hunt for Godot is the recently announced newest installment of the Godotverse. The long awaited sidequel follows Godot's adventures during the events of the original play.

Airports should all have rooms showing Christian Marclay’s The Clock.

Wandering in a Dune-adjacent, prog-LP-cover-ish Bryce.

Hiked the Narrows in Zion this morning. Give the National Park system all the damn money in the world

In Naperville, IL on Wednesday, ICE surrounded a group of documented workers replacing a residential roof. ICE agents reportedly kicked over the ladders and forced the workers to jump. The episode involved a chase with guns drawn.

"President Donald Trump is expected to fire the U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia after his office was unable to find incriminating evidence of mortgage fraud against New York Attorney General Letitia James, according to sources."

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

It should be needless to say, but it is perhaps at this moment worth saying, that transgender individuals have the same right as anyone else to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Political violence disproportionately hurts people with less power, not people with more power. Political violence will disproportionately hurt people of color and women and LGBTQ people. It’s not fair, but that’s the way it works. Celebrating political violence means at best indifference to that.

It’s like that old joke where a bunch of foxes are running out of the USSR. A man asks them why they are running Foxes: “they’re arresting all the camels!” Man: “but you’re not camels!” Foxes: “yes, but you try proving that to them!”

I think that if you are trying to understand the Anthropic book settlement, and you are not doing it in light of the (extremely) failed Google book settlement from 2011, you will never be able to understand what is happening.

RFK Jr’s HHS endorsed religious exemptions for vaccines. We KNOW what will happen. 1991, Philadelphia. 2 fundamentalist churches that reject vaccines & medical care have schools filled with unvaccinated kids. Measles rips through the school & neighborhoods. 1/

Well I’m glad I thought to go up and clean the gutters half an hour ago

Hey hey PW liked my book

"We've secured the chaos emeralds"

Also, even the idea of a single national identity for most European countries is relatively new, despite the claim of these "ancient nations." As of 1794, only 11% of people in France spoke French as a first language, and nearly half didn't speak French or spoke it poorly.

Thinking about the not-entirely-lost art of the album closer— the track that can feel like a culmination, a knitting-together, an emotional climax of an LP. For your consideration: “Walking in the Dark” from Throwing Muses’ “House Tornado” youtu.be/aIxUTAGOOyw?.... Yours?

I’m old enough to remember getting a copy of Chronic Town in high school, though I can’t recall who clued me in. Dancing around like a maniac in my bedroom to “Wolves, Lower” etc.

Me leaving the house every day

It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.

The first time I used the word “chaos” in conversation was also my first exposure to the dilemma of a reading vocabulary

Do you remember how in the 90s you’d go to bed and turn off the light and then you had absolutely no way to read Oscar Peterson’s Wikipedia page.

Here's something I think a lot of folks don't yet understand, but 16 states' worth of CVSes refusing to give out Covid shots *is* actually preventing people from accessing them. They are the biggest pharmacy chain in the country and they own Aetna insurance, often forcing those clients to use CVS.

Seems bad

Nothing inspires confidence about our healthcare future quite like the name and logo of the Seasteading Institute.

Anyone who looks at America in 2025 and thinks, "maybe we can fix this by throwing trans people under the bus" 1) doesn't have the brains to understand what's going on or how we got here 2) doesn't have the stomach for any of the fights ahead and 3) is vice signaling to their MAGA friends.

National Guard soldiers called into service for President Trump's law enforcement surge in D.C. have been assigned to spread mulch at federal monuments. Normally the Park Service does that, but the administration laid off the workers. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

This is the machine that, a few short years after it's increasingly obviously irresponsible release, a big section of our elites wants run our institutions. Complete madness.

I think it's a mistake to think of the firing of Lisa Cook primarily in terms of Central Bank Independence, and its impact on the inflation rate. The most significant issue is also more basic: it's the rule of law.

This is perhaps not what’s meant but there is an episode of the Odd Couple in which Richard Dawson is on local television and tells deprecating stories about his and Felix’s former USO act, so incensing Felix that he goes to the television station and interrupts the broadcast in progress.

incredible that three overpaid consultants in a trench coat can get media play by urging democrats not to use words that literally no one in mainstream politics uses

This sort of admission—the VP is involved in prosecutorial decisions, the "concerns" arise from political actors, and the administration knows they don't have probable cause—would have prompted the Founders to impeach everyone involved.

age 15: Computers are amazing! I'm going to do amazing things with computers! age 45: explaining to the fourth person this week why Chat GPT is not a replacement for google or the library or friends

Chattel slavery was so bad that when we tell you how bad it in fact was most of y'all shut down and tell us we're making it up and pass laws against us ever telling you how bad it was again because your brains literally cannot handle how bad it in fact was.

At the Ren Faire getting compliments about this @nora.zone creation (on loan from one of the youngsters)

Kamchatka, the 52nd state

Today my partner and I have a day off. We’ll go to a museum in the afternoon, meet one of the kids (who will come from her summer job) to shop for costumes for a ren faire. She’ll go to an outdoor concert later. No cars will be involved in any of this.

I wrote about why sitting Supreme Court justices shouldn't be prolific authors. lithub.com/why-the-supr...

🚨 BREAKING 🚨: The Trump administration is planning citywide sweeps of dozens of homeless encampments in DC starting tonight. “Arrests will occur at night, in an effort to avoid news cameras,” Jesse Rabinowitz, communications director at National Homelessness Law Center, said via email.

If you’re wondering what in the world the consumer gets for this (besides creating a few new billionaires to admire) you’ve already arrived at everything you need to know about crypto.

Counterpoint: These lads had it right youtu.be/Lh2FYHCAnBo?...

Wow. The University of Chicago, a world-class institution whose humanities faculty in the past has included Homi Bhabha & Lauren Berlant & Ralph Ellison & Hannah freaking Arendt, is getting rid of basically every graduate department involving the acknowledgment that other cultures & languages exist.