Oh, if only there had ever been any silence, ever, to break.

Damn the man! Save the Empire! Why 'Empire Records' Was the Perfect Coming-of-Age Movie 30 Years Ago share.google/XNLT2GyRoO0S...

The Osage Nation has successfully reacquired Sugarloaf Mound, the last intact mound site in Saint Louis. www.osagenation-nsn.gov/news-events/...

To quote Moneyball "How can you not be romantic about baseball?" www.mlb.com/news/mike-tr...

In the opening scene of Sneakers, during a slick robbery Redford tries to slide over a counter and totally bites it. It's a wonderful bit of humanizing. Also easily the best of the Marvel "can you believe so and so is in a Marvel movie" stunt casting. www.avclub.com/robert-redfo...

If someone’s not mourning the death of Robert Redford in a manner that’s consistent with your views, make sure you set up a database, call their employer, and get them fired.

donald trump and the white nationalists that run his government want you to think that slavery was just fine www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Amazing work of art, but that is bleak way to start each morning.

I've lived in Houston for more than a decade. Feeding cash into the Musk Self Promotion machine would be worse than doing nothing. Taxpayers would be out billions better spent on other flood control options. www.propublica.org/article/fact...

@seeingredpod.bsky.social is it me or has Gorman regressed at third base?

If Samwise had a union he wouldn't have had to wait for his boss to go to the Undying Lands to be properly compensated for tasks outside his normal job description. share.google/e7ppGlXSkvTP...

The only thing better than beer, is beer with elephants.

NBA reporter fired after accurately describing Charlie Kirk's beliefs: defector.com/nba-reporter...

Full disclosure, I've watched The Last Witch Hunter multiple times. Primarily after midnight when I don't want to go to bed but know I can't invest heavily. It's worth it for the flashback wig and facial hair.

Michael Caine coming out of retirement, to star in a Vin Diesel film, a sequel to 2015's The Last Witch Hunter. We live in such strange times. gizmodo.com/michael-cain...

A&M was an afterthought university for most of its existence and a sizeable portion of its alumni & wish they were alumni yearn for those days of an all male and all white institution (except maybe for athletes).

Editor: You get that illustration of the box of Grape Nuts and the gentleman? Illustrator: Sure did boss, real fuckin sexy just like you asked. Editor: what.

"This weakness underscores the fact that modern far-right propaganda is still using the Riefenstahl playbook: attack, deny, brag, and gloat." www.avclub.com/riefenstahl-...

@fieldofschemes.bsky.social @jcbradbury.bsky.social thought you would enjoy this bit of "journalism" from the September 19, 1930 edition of the Houston Chronicle. They wanted city park land, it failed because the original sale specified the lands return if used for anything other than as a park.

Historically speaking the armed forces of a nation REALLY don't like being deployed against fellow citizens (it's one of the reasons dictators favor police over the military). www.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...

dolly 🌻

The MLB "concussion protocol" is a joke. White Sox catcher and pitcher just smashed heads (catcher's helmet knocked off in the collision and was dry heaving after) and they both stayed in the game. Straight up player safety negligence.

At my funeral I want the Masterpiece Mystery theme to randomly play so that everyone momentarily thinks it might have been murder.

I'm so fucking tired. Germany got Riefenstahl. A shitty Nazi but with at least with a touch of talent. The best we can get are the fucking lazy toads at Prager U. gizmodo.com/trumps-new-h...

We took the paywall down on this one. defector.com/how-the-fuck...

Cows are very rarely a serious problem but this is a good reminder to be situationally aware when working in cow pastures. Elderly hiker dies after being trampled by cows in Austrian Alps | The Independent share.google/e6oHZm3HB45a...

Honestly I hope Cornyn goes down in flames in the primary. At least Ken Paxton doesn't pretend to be anything other than the degenerate, corrupt, fascist that he is.

Archaeology job in Michigan. As I understand it, this is a remote position and you can be based out of anywhere in the state (the Midwest Regional Office is in Indianapolis). 🏺 www.graypape.com/job/archaeol...

Remember when a core Republican talking point was Obama creating "death panels"? Turns out they just didn't want humans deciding who lives or dies. Handing those decisions over to a machine that can't reliably tell you how many "i's" are in Mississippi is totally fine! gizmodo.com/trump-medica...

The numbers are in. It wasn't a hot summer in Houston, right? Wrong. It was the 6th hottest summer on record. Why? Nighttime lows. We averaged 77 degrees in Houston officially. We just trailed 2023's record of 77.4 degrees. Each of the last 10 summers has finished in the top 30 of warmest nighttimes

@seeingredpod.bsky.social We're going to have to talk about Sonny Gray aren't we?

Trying to manifest fall weather by ordering a stout.

Drowning prevention program comes to a halt at the CDC : Shots - Health News : NPR | It is the official position of the US government that more Americans should drown.

@seeingredpod.bsky.social @bmiklasz.bsky.social If nothing else Hot Pages August has been fun.

@seeingredpod.bsky.social future show topic. Who do we bring in to make this team less awful on the bases? I don't need them to be the 87 Cards, but it'd be nice if they didn't constantly shoot themselves in the foot.

The Houston flood tunnels project was always going to be a poor investment. Musk's involvement virtually guarantees a boondoggle and that funds will be siphoned away from other projects.

“Some people want to say ‘Get over it, it happened in the past,’” she said. “Why revisit something that makes America look bad?” For Ng, the answer is simple. “It seems like we don’t learn from history,” Ng said. 🏺 wyofile.com/a-wyoming-to...

The Texas Historical Commission is hiring an archaeology reviewer. 🏺 capps.taleo.net/careersectio...

What a shame. "WGBH … has laid off the 13 people who worked on the history series 'American Experience' and announced that no new documentaries will be produced for the show until further notice." (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/a...

Got a notification that an old skeet making fun of trump's inauguration lineup had randomly been reposted. The account that reposted it is a fake Jason Aldean account that appears to do nothing but repost skeets making fun of Jason Aldean. Social media is weird.

Just bookmarking this for later. No reason.

@seeingredpod.bsky.social so anyway I'm jumping on the Toronto bandwagon for the playoffs.

My day has been EXTRA Monday. www.click2houston.com/news/local/2...

Virtually all historians and legal scholars of the event has stopped referring to it as a "riot". "Incident" and "outrage" are the preferred descriptors.

*i* think that the issue isn’t the words, it is the substantive positions. no amount of language self policing will satisfy someone who just disagrees with, say, legal protection from gender discrimination

tom buchanan ass sentence

FWIW in the US laws can vary state to state and enforcement is also uneven.

@seeingredpod.bsky.social literally anyone would be better for however many starts Mikolas has left this season.