on balance, I would rather social media had not achieved a ubiquity that has destroyed, perhaps permanently, the social contract and the very fabric of human connection, but otoh it’s fun that there are astronauts up in space right now who have almost certainly seen the “moon’s haunted” tweet

lol at being the governor of st helena. you get a call from a reporter on the mainland probably for the first time in months and it's like "hey can you poke your head outside and check if that turtle is still alive?"

forgot the most important of the genre

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

Guys

Have any of my baseball movie friends seen "Spaceman" (2016), a quasi-biopic of Bill Lee? Is it any good? I read Lee's autobiography in high school, and it was great, and he's hung around the game at lower levels for a long time since his alleged blacklisting from the majors.

This descriptive, thoroughly reported and very troubling essay about the separatist movement in Alberta by @marcellodicintio.bsky.social is critical reading for Albertans. Great journalism in the public interest. Among the Separatists via @thetyee.ca thetyee.ca/Analysis/202...

C.B. Bucknor is fucking up all over the place: defector.com/c-b-bucknor-...

Doing a CK3 run and, too confident in my numbers, attacked into the mountains where my forces got annihilated by a army two-thirds its size. I'm the regent of Poland and about to be humiliated. This can't look good to the Boss Baby in the capital.

For stage musical people, this is a fun video. Kerry Butler singing the same song ("Three Bedroom House" from Bat Boy: The Musical), as the mother in a production last year, and as the daughter a quarter century ago in the original off-Broadway cast. I love this song - full of great acting moments.

Just got followed by a sports betting site. Not today, Satan.

It's that time again

It’s come to the point where I see more complaints about April Fools than I do bad jokes, and I’m not sure if people are sharing less often or if there’s been a decline in this sort of online humor. Still appreciate r/askhistorians giving itself over to AITA type history role-play on this day.

New month, same Wednesday energy.

a new form of teen fuck-up emerges

Tubi continues to be the people’s streaming service: the 200+ pre-2008 episodes of Sesame Street that got removed from HBO Max back in 2022 are being made available there now. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/s...

Remarkable result. Bosnia-Herzegovina beat Italy in penalty kicks just now to qualify over them for the World Cup. This means Canada’s first game ever as a host will not be in Toronto in front of a crowd half cheering for Italia. (There are about 600,000 people of Italian decent in this city.)

I have no idea if this is better or worse.

Kudos to whoever wrote this headline:

What are we even doing here?

RIP Stephen Lewis, one of the greats, “In 2003, he co-founded the Stephen Lewis Foundation, which as of last year had raised more than $200 million for grassroots organizations fighting AIDS on the ground in Africa.”

Okay folks I've responded to the data center heat island paper. It is the worst study on AI and the environment I've ever read, by far. Thank you to @beijingpalmer.bsky.social for flagging. blog.andymasley.com/p/data-cente...

On a purely personal level you've got to get some satisfaction that the father lived long enough to see his son's win. RIP.

I have too many game unplayed, but another Roman-ish city builder is calling to me... Are plebs needed?

if you're a gamer you should know that the gaming industry has a disproportionately large number of trans people in it. and not just recently. even in the 80s, we had influential trans game designers. one that's always inspired me is danielle bunten berry. wikipedia: share.google/0lrnn3RqISvL...

to add to @goose.ski's point: the Lost Canadians are a result of the Harper government trying to hurt Lebanese-Canadians during the last Middle East flare-up, primarily because Harper made it sound like they were Canadians of Convenience when Lost Canadians are global

The job market is tight, the cities are expensive, and we also have Nazis, bigots and halfwits. But, I still encourage my eligible American friends to look into this. Canada is great and I will teach you about hockey, poutine and Parliament.

“Canadians do not have to take the world as it is. We do not have to stay silent on violations of international law. We do not have to look away when schoolchildren are bombed. We do not have to rationalize injustice to appease a bully.” thetyee.ca/Analysis/202... @thetyee.ca

Have meals planned for the week, but maybe next week I do this with garlic mashed potatoes?

this account is just incredible content

Blessed are those that reply to emails within ten minutes of receiving them, for they shall be owed three (3) beers in PR heaven.

There is no reason for me to be so tired today. Counting out the rest of my year by holidays and long weekends.

The Toronto Maple Leafs have officially parted ways with general manager Brad Treliving with no immediate replacement announced.

A thing that litigants simply do not understand is that ChatGPT logs are not privileged and are fully discoverable, and until litigants actually realize that LLMs will be a bigger danger to litigants than to attorneys.

this claim originates from a badly written article extrapolating from a paper the author misread. as a result I expect to see the 9C/16F figure bandied about everywhere now.

everyone, please, they say they "don't want politics in media" the same way they say they "don't want to use pronouns." they are not using the word to mean the word. you can try to point out that there's politics in the media they like/make, but they don't mean "politics" they mean "freaks"

Borrowing a thing I saw on Twitter:

I've said it before, but this kind of journalism only made sense in an era where it was important to document what powerful people said because people might not be able to find it any other way Now? If you're not fact-checking or contextualizing comments like this, you are just doing free PR

Like. how to put it. I think it's always fine to criticize a decision you disagree with but the fundamental problem is that once you reach a certain level of celebrity, people - many people - will begin to treat you like a vending machine they bang on when it doesn't output a candy bar.

I learned today that there’s a copy of the script of the episode of The Simpsons where Nelson knocks over the Sunsphere in Knoxville Tennessee in the (still standing) Sunsphere in Knoxville Tennessee.

There are legends about accepting a goat man's invitation.

Thinking I should take up art heists as a retirement hobby.

Also, no one knows how to measure anything "This shelf is 34 inches wide and 68 inches tall". This is not half as wide as it is tall "Each shelf cubicle is 25 inches high" There are six cubicles per side. If they are each 2+ feet tall, this would be over 12 feet. What you do you mean by "high"?

This has been happening for decades - I remember in the 2000s there was an absurd piece of widely held conventional wisdom that NASCAR was the second most popular sport in the country and would soon challenge the NFL for first

Per YouGov Rahm Emanuel is the 78th most popular Democrat, behind everyone from Michael Dukakis to Barney Frank. He is 12 places behind Harry Reid, who died five years ago. To the extent anything's happening here it's *entirely* media-driven. yougov.com/en-us/rating...

Decluttering my desk and finding N95 masks I wore probably only once, but can't remember when, so unsure if I should keep them around.

"Legends of the Round Table" was heavily advertised to me on Reddit, and it definitely has the look of something I would have loved 20 years ago, and maybe still today. I'm a big Arthur guy, so I'm very curious. If anyone has any hands-on experience, let me know how it looks.

Inside Facebook marketplace there are two wolves: "This solid piece of wood furniture is taking up space in my house. You can have it for 25$." and "I got this at IKEA six years ago and it's dented. Plus a door is held on with scotch tape and good wishes. It's yours for $130."