“Yes, things are getting worse, but we’re doing it on purpose”

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

[AI bubble bursts] billionaire tech bro: the stupid consumer did not understand it

Piranesi, I realized in this, my second read, is my favorite book. Don’t research. Just go read it. It’s short. If you’ve read before, and are considering rereading, I’ll remind you that The Beauty of the House is immeasurable; it’s Kindness infinite.

Hey Now You're a Boxcar Full of Children Solve Crimes

I count 10 cities in 2025 that are on track to have the fewest murders since at least 1970. Newark is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1956 (though only have data through Oct this year) and San Francisco is on pace to have the fewest murders since 1942.

Mr. Beast, all my friends and I were saying how good at boxing you’d be

Joe Orsulak RF-LF Debut: 1983 - Retired: 1997 MON - BAL - NYM - PIT - FLA

November 2020

Broken Eggs, by Jean-Baptiste Greuze, 1756

🎶 Take a look, it's in a book 🎶 🥹 After nearly 20 years... Reading Rainbow is returning to motivate, help, and encourage kids to become avid readers with new episodes, new friends, new projects, and of course... new books! Make sure to follow the rainbow 📚🌈 #FollowTheRainbow

They've lost the 9yos

Just saw what looked like ICE activity on Post Road in Warwick RI. I hope I’m wrong.

asterisk because i think we look at that period of stability deeply red rose-colored glasses. when people think prosperity they don’t think “family of six sharing a 1200 sq ft home living largely on canned goods and hand me downs” but that was the reality

The name’s QINLIANFF. ACCYOD QINLIANFF, British suit, British spy suit two piece, 100% MI6 her majesty’s secret service MACHINE WASHABLE, separates, men’s suit tailor fit two piece classic wedding business sui

Just tossing this out: if @usltactics.com or or anyone else from the @theuslshow.bsky.social wanted to write a few words about the unsigned members of the NCAA class of ‘25 that could be good fits in the USL Championship, I would instantly read it and forward it along to at least a dozen others.

Looking forward to going to a diner and seeing “MP” as the price of scrambled eggs and toast

No way

Devastated to hear about Brian Matusz's death. He was a particular favorite. Forever striking out David Ortiz in my heart now.

Quote skeet with a game that’s nostalgic for you

“the hawk tuah girl has been milkshake ducked by her memecoin” i say as the neurologist schedules me for an emergency MRI

Seattle, Philly, Portland (Maine)

On this day in 1922, Mussolini threatens to censor the Italian press for printing what he says are 'lies' about his fascist party.

Bad news for the other 11 eastern conference teams. RIFC isn’t just running it back, they’re upgrading too.

@rhodeislandfc.bsky.social 👀📣✍️

Shutupandtakemymoney

Highest Contact% on swings over 75 MPH, 2024 min. 50 = Adley Rutschman (98.4%) min. 150 = Ryan O'Hearn (90.4%) min. 250 = Joey Ortiz (88.6%) min. 350 = Anthony Santander (84.9%) min. 450 = Manny Machado (83.1%) min. 550 = Gunnar Henderson (80.9%) In conclusion, the Orioles

The wrong people are rich

If i was the richest guy in the world i would just do stuff like give the decemberists 100 million dollars to write a concept album about the hardy boys

Another test #RIFC

Test numero dos Rhode Island FC

Test skeet RIFC

this will save lives

Imo the people on this website who think there will be no meaningful difference between Trump and Harris on Gaza need to reckon with the fact that Netanyahu and the Israeli right very clearly believe otherwise

The modern state of modern evangelicalism:

Northern Lights in downtown Providence RI!!!

And this is Batman's Aff His Nut by Robert Florence, which, in my opinion, is easily the greatest Scottish poem ever written about Batman...

I wrote a bash script to scrape the per-county power outage data, used CSVKit to convert the JSON to a CSV, took the CSV into Google Sheets and XLOOKUP'ed the FIPS codes into it, and got this map: www.nbcnews.com/news/weather... #Helene

Back is West Philly today. Just overheard someone say “fordy forstree” 10/10, perfect.

Inheritance disputes are not very punk rock

Trump and Musk are attacking Harris for correctly stating the law.

National Dog Day, you say?

Does Bluesky have any functionality for curated lists? I know there are Feeds but they seem to be more automated, I’m trying to do something more specific and intentional