I had a rule that I could only buy a book after I’d finished two on my shelf. I have been much better about buying books now that I don’t live a block away from a bookstore, but I still struggle to stick to the rule.

These new details from last summer's confrontation between Rob Manfred and Bryce Harper are absolutely insane. MLB officials threatening players will "end up in a ditch" for disrespecting Manfred is outrageous behavior. www.newsweek.com/sports/mlb/p...

There’s an episode of Babylon 5 where Garibaldi takes great measures to secure the ingredients for bagna cauda, which is a hot anchovy and garlic dipping sauce. He talks about it like it’s a rare delicacy, but the recipe seems very easy. Anyone out there make this? Good for holiday variety?

Lauren Theisen on how to watch hockey: defector.com/how-to-watch...

lol why put it this way

There is so much wrong her (the uncanny face, for one) but what gets me is the vibe of 'this impossible thing, having a woman say she'll love you forever and mean it,' - a thing very many, if not most straight men achieve in ceremonies performed in front of all of their friends and family.

I can't think of a better deterrent for me personally going into a Target. Don't look at me, don't fucking talk to me

Next up on the reading list, Paul Cartledge’s history of Thebes.

I need to find time to get back into sub and flight sims. For years, they were a huge part of my gaming diet.

A project that started with a DiGRA23 workshop is finally, nearly out in the world! Coming May 2026 from Bloomsbury’s Writing History series, Writing Games Histories is a collection of essays on historical game studies methods&approaches. Find the ToC here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/writing-g...

what do we call a government with a permanently suspended or frozen parliament that is currently being ruled by decree through a singular executive and his unelected court

I don't know what fool is being quoted but that is a *staggering* misunderstanding of what Scipio Africanus did. Scipio Africanus was one of the major architects of a *two century* long Roman military commitment in Spain and also set down permanent security commitments in North Africa.

There are few things as good for the soul as a walk in a fall night rain. Neighborhood does need better lighting.

I will never forget the Toronto Blue Jays relief pitchers sharpie-ing Vesia’s number on their caps during games 6 and 7 of the World Series for as long as I live. Just a simple act of love and solidarity and sportsmanship so desperately needed in these awful times. Class organization.

Surprised that Cherry (who hasn’t been on TV in years), Gretzky (who went maga) and Harper (who people didn’t like even when he was PM) are polling strong positive numbers.

HELP WANTED: We need a producer on my program --- Canada's most watched national newscast -- GLOBAL NATIONAL. Job posting: jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/coruse... #media

Not sure this is for me but I know many of you would kill it in this role

Rosalind Franklin died at 37 of ovarian cancer attributed to radiation exposure from the methods she & her assistant used to photograph a cross-section of the DNA double helix. Meanwhile, Watson won a Nobel off that work & survived to the ripe old age of 97 by simply: stealing those notes!

new @fangraphs.com: with all due respect to Donnie Baseball and his long battle over sideburns, I'm a bit weary of seeing him on Hall of Fame ballots. The numbers just aren't there.

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Went out to a favorite restaurant to celebrate a successful week and I may have eaten too much escargot and steak and bread. It was all excellent, but food coma imminent.

I wish this were the end of the ostrich story, but the convoy crowd are going to turn this into a cause celebre with merch.

We are taking pitches for the end of 2026 onwards and we'd love to see your indie games! We have a history of success in the Simulation / Management / Strategy genres, so games like this are always of interest, but ultimately are open to seeing games from other similar genres.

Every year we get closer to this happening on the news

Asked to briefly summarize "that heritage foundation shit" and the best I could do was a meme: Heritage Staffer 1: "We are declaring war on anyone who sells Nazis to the community." Heritage Staffer 2: "But Heritage Staffer, I sell Nazis to the community!"

www.videogameschronicle.com/news/square-... I imagined trying to get through bug reports written by an LLM and immediately got an honest to god headache. What do you mean I can’t even go back to the person who wrote it and ask for more details because there isn’t one, but it can still make shit up?

Some on the far right want to repeal the 19th amendment. Many more share a coercive, patriarchal view of women. I wrote about this and how the far right sees subjugating women as key to building the sort of electorate they need to win. @liberalcurrents.com www.liberalcurrents.com/women-should...

Waiting for the long term study of the health of these Youtube chefs who add a cup of heavy cream and three tablespoons of butter to all their pasta dishes.

There is so much ink spilled about what Dems must do to win back young men. Meanwhile, no one seems to have any opinions on why Republicans "shut up and get back into the kitchen" campaign isn't working with young women.

Ok, just wow. If the content of this article is right, this is depressing. We're slowly reaching the point where ~100% of what I was taught in Social Psych was either innocently wrong or plainly frauded onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Trying to reserve an item online for pickup, but now that they have a second store I have to specify pickup location and it won't let me do that. I may have to physically walk into a store to make a reserve order. I bet it was like this in the Dark Ages.

lol

Me: This writer would like a headshot. Do you have one? Colleague: Here is a photo of me shining before a castle. Canada needs more castles.

hey y'all! my questionnaire on player experience in historical videogames is now LIVE! if you play videogames about the past, we want to hear from you! edu.nl/7w3yn

After a major release, my brain just stops being fully functional for a while. Every day feels like Friday, I want to stay in bed, I want to eat nothing but garbage. The year is not over, and I have to write reports, but for now, I am a vegetable.

Welcome to the world's easiest game show, "circle on this map of midtown Toronto the only area that's zoned to allow for any kind of density!"

Zohran Mamdani polled +40% on men under 30. So we wasted all that time on all those think pieces about how we need a Joe Rogan for the left, when what we actually needed were *policies* for the left.

Standing around wondering why it’s taking so long for the water to boil, and I didn’t turn on the stove. In case you were wondering how my brain was doing today.

The one thing I think you can actually apply to other campaigns is that we live in a fractured media environment and you've got to find creative ways to *sincerely* communicate with people where they are. You can't just throw boring videos on TikTok and be like "That's our youth outreach."

Oh hell, this is right! I forgot that Celine has done Eurovision! She was 20 years old, and she won for Switzerland. I can't believe I forgot this. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurovis...

The solution to the male loneliness epidemic is attending a local Democratic Party canvassing event.

This is decades too late, because Celine would have cleaned up.

So thrilled to share my work as Character Artist on Europa Universalis V - it has been a blast to collaborate with such a passionate team! www.artstation.com/artwork/wro02O

one time pitcher john denny knocked reggie jackson down with a brushback pitch. next time up reggie blasted a moonshot home run off him. denny kept chirping at him as he rounded the bases and wouldn't stop, so reggie stepped on home, charged the mound and beat his ass. andrew cuomo is john denny

we needed all of this. it’s why i rail on doomers and tell them doing that shit is literal voter suppression. defeatism begets defeatism. momentum fucking matters to keep people engaged.

We now know that the power of friendship is worth about 50% off. this rules

I should not have to know who this man is.

Have turned it over to @jenncutter.bsky.social for preliminary editing, and we're mostly finding things I could add if I had 1000 more words. (But also some good edits.)