22 Short Films About Springfield first aired on 14th April 1996, making Steamed Hams thirty years old today.

I suspect the Pope sounds "woke" to many Christian conservatives because the US is steeped in prosperity theology, where the point of worship is to deliver health and wealth to believers. Thus, "feed the hungry" and "show mercy for the poor" sounds needlessly political and "woke."

Can never get over how tawdry the modern Right's view of Western Civilization is; nothing to build, nothing to aspire to, nothing even really to destroy or wage war against, just sullen resentment of their own children and seething hatred of the cities whose economics subsidies their regimes.

I would l to have a president in the mode of NYC’s mayor who celebrates the common good that governance can promote. Clean air, clean water, safe food, healthy & educated kids, support in times of crisis. We deserve to have the government we pay for.

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

I love donuts, I love making things, and I love this post. "Making is an act of sharing, it’s an act of using our joy, our labor, or expertise, in the service of adding to what’s here...We make things so that we can bond with others." buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...

This is an outstanding read. The bit about "Using an AI chatbot to help me write would be like using the kitchen garbage disposal to help me eat dinner" is just incredible.

Definitely teared up watching the return of Artemis II.

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.

As the Integrity crew splashed down TO THE MINUTE of their estimated arrival and hit the BULLSEYE, this is a reminder that Katherine Johnson was an absolute genius. My God. #NASA #ArtemisII

This is right but let's also be clear what is also - and maybe primarily - is, which is a mechanism to direct massive contracts with little oversight and often no competition at all to friends and family of the regime.

My intro to Phil Ochs was a cassette recording of my dad playing "Outside of a Small Circle of Friends" at a neighborhood party. Found my dad's copy of "Chords of Fame" later on and have been a fan ever since. "There But For Fortune" has been on my mind lately.

I am watching minor league baseball and the announcer just said "The bases are loaded with Blue Claws," which is a fantastic out-of-context phrase.

something I am proud of is my friends’ ability to survive but also still have the energy to be kind and to live their values. I think as they get older instead of becoming hollow, money-hoarding gammons, like society told us we would, they have become more determined and more kind

Barry's moon blogs have been so good, and this is the best of those. Really excellent stuff here: defector.com/artemis-moon...

I am fully tired of living in constant exposure to a malignant narcissist. I assume you are too. You and me, we're like the two cousins texting each other at the Thanksgiving table while grandpa gets drunk shouting Rush Limbaugh talking points and gramma cries.

My grandfather was a student at ND in 1924 and claimed he was part of the crowd of students who went after the Klan. He told one of my cousins that he still had the hood he stole from a Klan member, though neither my cousin nor I ever saw it.

"It has never been easier to find a grown man pitching a child-size fit in public than it is at that moment" David Roth always delivers.

I made it my life mission to reference this as many times as I can

Every single person I know and met has an element of their past they're not proud of, or learned or grew from. Everyone I know has thought and/or done something they today regret, or abhor. Anyone who believes otherwise of themselves is dangerously delusional at best, a dangerous liar at worst.

music is not apolitical

wrote 3000 words about why art doesn't work like it did in the 20th century anymore

"Every little thing the reflex does leaves you answered with a question mark"

This is a beautiful piece.

Beer and baseball.

Baseball is back! Appropriate branding on the pitcher's mound is back!

I cannot stress enough how true this thread is. You are never too old to transition, and the rewards far outweigh the challenges. If you want to transition, you can try it for a weekend, a week, a month. And then, if you are not feeling it, you can always quit.

Attention Worldcon community—we just realized that the nominating period is open for this year's Hugo Awards. We have been finalists twice before (2016, 2017) and our 2025 album Dead Channel Sky—a dystopian cyberpunk rap rave—is eligible in the Dramatic Presentation (Short Form) category

She wasn't hired for ratings. She was hired as part of an ongoing fascist ideological project. So she is succeeding.

Ray Ratto, writing about the baseball season about to start and the one that may not start a year from now, sums up so much: "you can't have something you enjoy because some billionaire with the judgment and long-range planning sense of a fruit fly really wants to keep a little more of his money"

Airport bound? ICE is assisting TSA, and border checks are up. Don't wipe your phone—it's a red flag 🚩 1️⃣ Android: Power off, boot up, don't unlock, switch to Guest Mode. 2️⃣ iOS: Disable Face ID to force Passcode (5th Amdt protected). Step-by-step guides attached 👇🏾

I don't normally subscribe to the "German has a word for it" thing because all languages can invent and borrow new words! That said, I can't stop thinking about "hobbyless" as an insult since I saw it a few days ago, so here you go It promotes a growth mindset!! www.tumblr.com/abbiistabbii...

"You could make very unhealthy vegan food." "That's true."

this was very moving.

Our band could be your life

Often explaining "Even and prime are just made up concepts and we could make the rules for them however we want, but it turns out that IF you make the rules include zero you get lots of neat patterns and IF you exclude it you don't" sems to give them an entirely new insight into what maths is.

Happy St. Patrick's Day, New York.

"What have you got against that goddamn potato?" is a thing I just said out loud to one of our cats.

On the surface, this is Sam Miller writing about Russell Carleton "semi-retiring" from baseball writing, but it's really about knowledge & statistical analysis & testing hypotheses & challenging assumptions in order to learn. And baseball. Recommended. pebblehunting.substack.com/p/what-russe...

i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

“some noted they had lost fans and donors. There are some people who like Irish music but think ICE is just here to enforce the law. But Natalie O’Shea, executive director at Celtic Junction, told me, “To believe in laws over belief in people is to be colonized.””

NEW “We’re celebrating a tradition that is at its core about resisting occupation and maintaining community in the face of horrors. You can’t keep politics out of Irish music. No one should try, for two reasons. First, it’s ahistorical. Second, Minnesotans are ready for a big anti-fascist party.”

"You know who else pivoted a table?"

The time of the juncos is over. The age of robin freakouts has begun.

when the internet was new, random Limewire users were sued for 6-7 figures over downloading individual songs today, if you're an AI company, i guess you can just steal entire people's identities with no repercussions

Christ ProPublica does good work.

"Did you give up punk for Lent?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHML...

Everyone is just trying live our lives—watch our little stories, have our little snacks—and these motherfuckers are doing absolutely everything possible to put an end to that.

"Women don’t need “AI training.” Teachers don’t need “AI training.” They need their work -- all their productive and reproductive labor -- recognized and valued. Politically. Culturally. Materially." 2ndbreakfast.audreywatters.com/secret-agent...

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊