Glassholes were driven from polite society. It could happen again.

"Faculty grew too powerful" <-- Statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

ChatGPT cuts the crusts off my peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. I'm a big business boy.

Whew, mixed traffic? This is gonna be messy at first

Prediction markets being folded into mainstream news outlets lends them a legitimacy they absolutely have not earned, I know we're all in the business of handwringing over the future of journalism but this should absolutely concern everyone www.businessinsider.com/kalshi-cnbc-...

Strip District could get long-awaited grocery store as part of a 464-unit mixed use development on Railroad Street www.axios.com/local/pittsb...

With the end of the strike, I've updated this to include the PG reporters and editors on Bluesky.

Today at 10 a.m., our own @colinbwilliams.com will be on City Cast for a fun holiday quiz! pittsburgh.citycast.fm

NEW: While Pitt has now hosted NCAA Volleyball's Sweet 16 several times, it has previously come with a mid-Thursday-afternoon start time. Not this year -- the Pitt Panthers are headed to primetime. Get your friend on the Pitt Volleyball bandwagon in-person by forwarding them this post!

I don't personal post on here much, but my partner and I just celebrated 10 years at a big karaoke party, and that ruled.

I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being. Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.

I’ve found it’s more visually appealing to just paste in his head at the inflection points

Today is the 70th anniversary of the start of the Montgomery bus boycott.

This year, Mares of Thrace, @lusthag.bsky.social, Yellow Eyes, Agriculture. Meanwhile, I've had this gorgeous Oct. 2024 LP on heavy rotation:

The USPS posting a NINE BILLION DOLLAR LOSS!!! sounds terrible. Certainly worse than if you said "USPS costs thirty dollars per person per year" even though that means the same thing and more accurately describes a government service

It may sound radical, but if one guy has so much wealth and power that he can use the large newspaper he owns to publicly threaten to ruin a service we all rely on, presumably as a bargaining tactic to get lower rates, we probably need to tax that guy until he can't do that anymore.

Feels like most banner ads are AI slop now (not that they were good before)

The RABM tag on Bandcamp gave us Lucerne Hammer, The Blood Mountain Black Metal Choir, and Corpse Bird.

Are food delivery prices driving you away? I'm Haley Daugherty with @triblive.bsky.social, writing a story about rising cost of DoorDash, Uber Eats & restaurant delivery. I want to hear from: Customers – Is it still worth it? Drivers – Is it paying off? DM me or email [email protected]

Pittsburgh’s People of Year 2025 — Visual Art: Harrison Apple

Same here. They were conversing with one another like pre-COVID and making new acquaintances. And no one used LLMS for creative work, and several told me verbally they liked the handwritten journal assignment!

Freedom means not having to have a car Average auto debt is over $24k Auto debt is the second largest category of debt - and is for a depreciating asset Lack of safe and accessible non-car transportation options force Americans into debt in order to participate in society

I have mixed feelings about autonomous vehicles, but Waymo says their cars are safer for non-motorists. We'll certainly see!

A student today legit said "thanks for helping me become a better writer." This is why we do it, folks.

I bet $5 they won't succeed

Fascinating article about Pittsburgh’s black theaters.

"We need regulation of e-bikes!!!" people scream as SUVs and trucks get larger and deadlier and people speed and drive distracted with impunity. I'm happy to talk about e-bike regulation as long as folks agree that the *most urgent* problem is cars.

‘We now have confirmation, with the OECD saying in a new report that, without AI capex, U.S. economic growth declined in the first half of 2025. People keep wondering why the employment market is weak, but the economy somehow chugs along. This is why.’ paulkedrosky.com/ex-ai-capex-...

I’ve played a lot of simcity but I didn’t know you could go pro

Thanks, man who cannot stay awake, for controlling the weather

What if we kissed in the Donald Judd minimalist daybed

My son joined for today's calls

I 🤍 snow

Good morning. No they’re not plowed, the salt truck tracker is down, and there are accidents everywhere.

If you need me, I'll be listening to new(ish) Tortoise

A good societal rule is that if someone doesn't answer the door within one minute, or allows a phone call to go to voicemail, that means "not right now, thanks"

I named my fists "Virginia" and "Woolf" because they're gonna put you in a room of one's own in the ICU

i wish there was something i could do to make sure that Kevin Hart, Melissa McCarthy, Ryan Reynolds, and Shane Gillis got more advertisement work. But sadly, as an individual, I just feel powerless. We need to work together to make sure we see even more of these guys somehow.

Their faces are 100 percent a copy-paste situation

Trash Panda Disc Golf promotes this holiday gift exchange, and I just got four gorgeous discs with a thoughtful note about each from someone in NC. Awesome initiative; thanks, Ethan! Hope my person likes theirs.

Ruffling the feathers of the old school 'digital creators.'

The Stranger Things and TMNT floats had no business going that hard

"I’m grateful every day for the vital work student journalists are doing in this country. It’s needed desperately; if this story is anything to go by, we can’t expect much from the adults."

Amazing what happens when you yank out a freeway: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

Writing this in red pen on a student’s paper just to feel something

An underdiscussed linguistic aspect of Pittsburgh English is the Kyle = cow merger (/kaw/)

Forgot to promote this yesterday. Bypass the Bypass!

This is the type of hater energy that will fuel us in the years ahead.

BREAKING: UPMC asks court to delay any required production of patient records while a motion to quash the subpoena is pending. Their filing confirms that no records have yet been handed over.