Two Minnesota teams win playoff series and the Twins win all in the same day? This is a foul portent.

It's like 10,000 spoons When all you need is a knife It's like meeting the man of your dreams Then meeting his miniature wife

Two words

Finding it hard to give a shit about the lives of strangers? try this

Peter laughing out “academia is so easy if you’re a piece of shit” got me

The thought of Judd Apatow somewhere wandering around still afraid of being slapped makes me happy

Yeah the rotisserie chicken amendment is neat! Unfortunately it was attached to the Farm Bill which locked in $187 billion in cuts to SNAP. So, yes, now SNAP can be used for rotisserie chickens but more importantly, this bill means red tape, cuts & tons of people losing access to food completely.

The myth that men hunted and women gathered or stayed at home is SO pervasive and it is simply not reality! aeon.co/essays/why-m...

Wemby: “I refuse to carry the burden of having to hide my emotions.” This is amazing.

The North Dakota State College of Science culinary department is no joke, y’all.

We all realize Ohtani's incredible but I think we take for granted *how* incredible he is. IMO, no one has ever been better at a sport than Shohei Ohtani is at baseball.

Since joining the Dodgers, Shohei Ohtani has a 182 OPS+ and a 205 ERA+. The pitching sample is still small, but these numbers are notable because they are also the career marks of... Barry Bonds and Mariano Rivera.

“Emma and I got stopped because . . . I got her birthday wrong. . . .The woman says, ‘Don’t worry, every member of Fox screwed up their paperwork.’ I get in and I see Bret and he says, ‘Yeah, I put my wife’s birthday wrong too.’ Then I go see Greg and he goes, ‘Yeah, I spelled my wife’s name wrong.”

I am in Wahpeton, North Dakota (not by choice). I have already seen a dog grooming business called Clippendale’s and a massage therapy business called Touched by an Angel.

One of the best skeets ever

. @aoc.bsky.social responds to this trend: "BOOOOO" "This race to try to see who can be exempt from participating in society is not a conversation that I'm interested in," she tells me, calling it an uninspiring message. "I'm a Great Society Democrat, and I believe in building that together."

heavy is the head that wears the heavy hat 😢

Just makin' it clear for your asses. Erasing the voices of black and brown people is not "agree to disagree" territory.

This is coming from a place of warmth and acceptance… -It’s ‘sleight of hand’ -It’s ‘bated breath’ -It’s ‘lo and behold’ -It’s ‘one fell swoop’ -It’s ‘brass tacks’ -It’s ‘free rein’

The court has simply recreated the pre-Brown world in allowing racial discrimination across a broad number fields as long as it is “facially neutral,” gutting the Reconstruction Amendments in the process.

None of us take pleasure in being right: But we are in the Second Nadir. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/27/m...

And to be clear, in case it’s not, democracy cannot and will not exist without these protections. We already see a South so heavily gerrymandered that numerical majorities cannot win elections and where a minority holds supermajorities in state legislatures.

Folks will try to parse language around this, using words such as “limits” the VRA or “diminishes” the VRA, but the acts most potent tools for ensuring Black representation or that Black people can pick their representation have been eliminated.

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

teddy ruxpin should have killed us all long ago

I often think of the chodes with Let’s Go Brandon truck decals. How do they explain that to any normal person?

This feels like too many, and I assume the change is for gambling purposes.

I don’t know what happened, but yes. Always.

My favorite Sam Neil fact will always be that he designed a future Australian flag that replaces the union jack with the aboriginal flag for Event Horizon and insisted the film use it.

The number one leading cause of death of pregnant women…

The other two know what they did.

Just me? Fair enough!

If you’re Comey, do you even spend money on an attorney or do you just file the motion to dismiss on your own?

I did not expect fascism to involve this much Kid Rock

The reason the Rudin section is 1st chapter in BID (after intro) is because I wanted everyone to understand the "norms" of Rudin's operation were not just tolerated by those in power, they were *celebrated* & copied by many. The Rudin style was not treated as a cautionary tale but as a *template*

Happy Birthday to Dr. @dodgerbluetoyou.bsky.social, Ph.baDdie

More video games should have spin-offs where their characters race go-karts

Does the thought of Finn Bálor’s abs ever just pop into your mind? Like, how are they possible? That’s too many abs.

I remember a whole thing back when voice interfaces like Siri and Alexa were new that went into how they have fem names and voices because men get weird and upset when personal assistants have masculine presentations

I feel so sad for all the people who like licking boots for regular sex reasons. Y'all don't deserve to be lumped in with sickos like this

I’m hopeful that the DSM VI will finally address a longstanding diagnostic gap: podcasters.

arguably the most triggering image for the right in over 250 years of american history

that building is condos now

yes, sometimes the truth makes people feel bad. For 13 years, every day I walked through the beautiful lobby of the Chicago Tribune, where this quote was carved into the wall: "The truth does not change according to your ability to stomach it."

This fall there's going to be a huge, expensive, meticulously planned PR campaign for a very expensive show that will benefit a transphobic nightmare person. Every bit of spin you will read should be translated -- honestly -- as "I wanted this job so I took the job & don't care about anything else"

Each time someone powerful comes back (if they were ever away), think about 2 groups: 1 Companies & execs etc who decided to go into business w & enable that person 2 Those harmed by the person & what amends (if any) offered. Both groups should field a lot of questions. This is called "journalism"

When doing research for Burn It Down, my book on patterns of exploitation & abuse in entertainment, it was sobering--no, demoralizing--to read, every few years (for *decades*) a "Scott Rudin in a changed man" feature. Relying on Rudin & people who wanted to do business with him for that narrative.

Mike “Red Dog” Redmond. Although that may have just been his nickname in my household.

To the degree that bluesky has a book culture, it’s largely because of this guy. Show some gratitude!