Fleury having his last game for the ninth time

My and my boys are going fool mode and cartwheeling about the maidens ball in our motley. The highborn squires are tutting and grumbling but the maidens are entranced by our frolics

the alt-text thing is such a good summary of BlueSky in that it is a) admirable in and of itself b) a perfect opportunity for pathological scolds to chide people for

My music app has informed me that what I want to hear this morning is late 90s trip hop act Sneaker Pimps. And it's right youtu.be/Wi_TijO5XsM?...

It is very frustrating to see all these endless debates over what the Democrats or progressives or whoever need to do and then to remember that Trump won just by catering to the dumbest people on the planet

Time to take a big sip of coffee and look up what state the most famous Civil War battle occurred in

highest esteem i can have for a writer is when i read them and i'm actually mad at how much better they are than me and of all the big names there is no one who makes me madder than Faulkner

at risk of becoming a ginger beer guy

a really fucking exhausting thing about this current moment is that any good faith efforts to reform or acknowledge short comings of knowledge producing and sense making institutions is promptly weaponized by people who want to burn the entire thing down and drown us in avalanche of bullshit

Vance and his ilk aren't actually Catholic, they're evangelicals with a slightly different aesthetic gloss

one of the more annoying things on here is posts grasping at extremely minor fluctuations in stock price as evidence there's some massive economic repercussion for being pro-fascist. there's no indication anything major is actually happening to Disney. Tesla's stock is currently at its 2025 high

well did it work for those empires no, imperialists somehow delude themselves into thinking it might...but it might work for us

if you want to feel like you're shooting down a desert highway in 1974, this song is real good in that vein www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChIw...

The move to video content and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race

you may laugh but in fifteen years it's going to turn out Fallon's been puppeteering this whole thing

At some point are we going to admit cultural factors actually do matter in their own right and we have to win on them

The sheer rage I feel at Cloud Excel's little tut-tut "we're still loading the workbook" message could power cities

All timer, apropos of nothing youtu.be/-IKQkxnHp9U?...

in about six months it's going to be illegal for the Democratic Party to go on television so they might want to do something with their dwindling right to free speech, idk

This energy drink says it's "not a product of Genetic Engineering." Why not? I'm drinking nuclear waste to get through an afternoon meeting, do you think I'm scared to die? Bring me the Mutant Juice

I was so determined not to be one of those Everything Was Better When I Was Young people but then the world just objectively went to shit

Everything I've heard about Miller sounds like he's great for the fiery leadership thing unless the team gets mired in a longer slump, in which case guys grow to resent being screamed at through loss after loss. So, uh, the Rangers better hope Shesterkin is back to Vezina form

they think they've got their Reichstag Fire

This is what David Brooks meant when he said a conservative had texted him that Kirk was their George Floyd. They didn't mean that Kirk was a victim of a profound injustice. In the conservative mind, Floyd was used as a symbolic pretext to reorient society. They want to use Kirk that way.

New pod! @actingthefulemin.bsky.social and I chat about teams from Philadelphia to Winnipeg, wrapping up our offseason recap podcasts! soundcloud.com/back-to-exci...

the statement is literally true in the way that 1,238 + 3 leads to a high number

There's something about these Blue Jays. The way they step up, swing the bat, pitch and field. Every day I'm more certain they're playing baseball

for a lo-fi demo this sure is a gorgeous guitar tone youtu.be/XIROM9aeGNQ?...

Nerd alert but it's pretty unreal that a historian as brilliant as Caro wound up writing a guy as complex as LBJ. Lots of very good writers would not have gotten him like that

Fascinating thing about Carney is while a lot of people (myself and most of Canadian BlueSky included) have hated how he's been, his poll numbers are actually up into majority territory

I love that it's being reported the Leafs "are open to trading Nick Robertson". Oh really? The guy neither of their last two coaches have wanted to play who has virtually no trade value?

Anyway, Arvind and I are recording part three of around the NHL on Monday evening, and we are gonna be discussing some mid-ass teams, so there's that

I love that every post about sports now feels like picking flowers in the LBJ Daisy commercial

Guys I just had a great idea about which top six forward we can get

Wasn't it reported back in 2019 that kawhi and his uncle asked for a bunch of crazy shit? It was assumed it was because he was already set on going to LA (which he probably was) but I recall we heard about this already

The point of "what about Clinton" is not that most progressives want to defend him, it's to convince Trump's base everyone in power is on the same amoral footing and therefore any moral accusation against him is illegitimate. It's been his most effective strategy.

Each time a new Epstein-Trump thing comes out we run into the same question: will this addition to the overwhelming evidence be enough to convince the dumbest people on the planet

Learned today that Hoobastank actually stylized their name as H∞bastank, with the infinity symbol. Taking the week off work

"Why hasn't Connor McDavid signed yet?" I ponder, as the Oilers enter another season with starting goaltender Ronald McDonald

It's fun seeing headlines like "Bruins seek a route out of the darkness". The Bruins are the Antichrist, guys. The darkness is where they belong

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I'm the PR flak who decided our first spin on this would be "Rudy Giuliani was attacked by a misogynistic car for respecting women too much"

Refusing to get my hopes up

I found a bootlegged audiobook of Shelby Foote's Civil War 20 years ago and now any ominous work situation is narrated in my head like a Union commander getting ambushed. "What General Fulemin did NOT know was that a third spreadsheet, undetected by cavalry, was about to strike his left flank."

It's fascinating how Paul McCartney is one of the greatest hook writers in human history and also just a goofball lyricist. He'll write a song with three melodies most artists would kill for and call it Riddly Tiddly's Mildew March

I actually do think McDavid will stay in Edmonton but I do recall that one Isles blogger who made a multi-year saga about how Tavares would never go to the Leafs. If we get that I will laugh for one thousand years

The basic conclusion --it's already gotten pretty dark for democracy in the US and there aren't many offramps left--is true, but as a work of history this is a mess medium.com/@carmitage/i...

The precise moment when and where in recent weeks America crossed that invisible line from democracy into authoritarianism can and will be debated by future historians, but it’s clear that the line itself has been crossed. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/america-ti...

One of my most moral panic style opinions is the use of “NPC” as a slur is a symptom of a societal sociopathy epidemic.

New pod! @actingthefulemin.bsky.social and I go from Edmonton to Ottawa and chat about another 10 teams offseasons. soundcloud.com/back-to-exci...