*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

As one reader put it: “are you ok?” Anyway here’s your evening short story. open.substack.com/pub/danielle...

I think this is the most extreme baseball rule change in which I believe with my full chest.

If that happened, it's a complete misunderstanding of how the Catholic church institutionally understands its influence today and why the Avignon papacy was a thing. IOW, yet more evidence that the people in the White House mostly don't have a theory of mind for others.

Fantastic thing about being able to work from home this week is I get to put the Dodgers-Blue Jays game on. 1) Ohtani pitching. 2) Reminder that Dylan Cease now looks like a minor character on Deadwood.

I wonder if I just got lucky with the selections this time being instantly recognizable for me. I didn't realize until the second one that I could REALLY zoom in on location and get pretty close to exact spots.

We don't have Paul Lukas for this anymore, but perhaps this is worthy of the @dieworkwear.bsky.social signal?

This is incredible, if true. I get that $100M buys some pretty excellent sets, costumes, and special effects, BUT to be especially blunt about it: Star Trek is kind of *supposed* to look two steps up from high school theater.

Don't want to bother trying to make sense of it, but the Rockies had Edouard Julien at DH batting leadoff tonight, when mere days ago they had him at DH and batting ninth.

I shudder to think how much they spent on these jerseys. Also, it should just be a combo Mitch Richmond.

Watching the Padres catcher challenge two pitches in the first inning, I keep thinking the learning curve with ABS is going to include adjusting to what the new zone is. Because up/down isn't defined by body parts anymore; it's percentage of officially-measured height.

books: the rectangle that can’t send you push notifications. Try: books.

Inventing beanies from first principles.

This is another way of saying that managers should tap the tops of their hats in the dugout if they want a review. Let's use that as the universal "I want a review" signal.

Lane Thomas just tried to steal second and was called out. To signal that he wanted a replay review, he looked at the dugout and tapped his helmet with the ball/strike review signal. This has been your moment of "that's right, MLB has multiple signals to indicate they want a replay review".

Still thinking about this smh

"We have calculators so we don't need to teach arithmetic." See how bad that sounds? That's what you're doing here. And that's before getting into whether "AI" as proffered in the post is anywhere near as useful as a calculator.

"I'm sorry, sir, but we're out of Horsey Sauce at the moment." Me:

the NCAA women's tournament getting Red Panda and the NCAA men's tournament getting the Chainsmokers is a great example of how toxic masculinity harms men too

This has probably come up before, but Adley Rutschman and Coby Mayo being on the same team is a dangerously high level of George Lucas-ass names in one clubhouse. But Shane Baz, Yennier Cano, and Dietrich Enns also being on the roster suggests purposefully gathering dudes with those names.

It's Phoenix, by a pretty large margin. Sacramento, Wilmington DE, and Charleston WV are boring; Phoenix is boring and actively terrible in ways that aren't charming if you squint, like Las Vegas.

First in line

To make money: Swift, BTS, NSYNC To suit my personal interests: Cake, the resurrected Johnny Cash, and me.

Took a tour of Croke Park in Dublin and was very amused to see these banners in a warmup area. As you can see, there are four "inspirational" quotes, all of which come from Americans.

never forget when the Easter Bunny sent Teddy Roosevelt to the shadow realm

This pic goes so hard

A coworker yesterday mentioned that she only found out we were currently in a war because she googled “why are gas prices getting so high”

Tapping the sign

I have watched the trailer for The Miniature Wife and my main takeaways are that it has very strong stinker vibes, and that I kind of hope it's openly an homage to old comedies: Honey I Shrunk the Kids, Home Alone, Bewitched, The Nutty Professor, etc. (Thought I saw multiple references already...)

Just realized that, at least once, someone has said, with a shit-eating grin: "My fursona is The Easter Bunny".

If you yell at a specific person, you have to say you’re sorry to a specific person.

It is the year 2026 AD. Super hackers have gained illicit backdoor access to the AI Claude through the Chipotle support chat.

MAKE NEW STUFF. MAKE NEW STUFF!!!!! THERE ARE SO MANY OTHER BOOK SERIES TO ADAPT!!!! jesus christ make new stuff. this is exhausting

Just tossing out a couple additional converted Jews I can remember from pop culture: 1) The blonde in Keeping the Faith 2) Cindy in Orange is the New Black

People talking about their experiences with Mastodon reminds me once more of a guide someone shared in a reply to the below post that purported to show using it is simple but really showed how there are caveats and contingencies everywhere because "random guys run instances" is wildly unstable.

So I missed the one year anniversary of this post, but here's a reminder that I wrote a novel and I'm happy to give it to you for free.

Went to the National Museum at Collins Barracks in Dublin and in an exhibition about clothing fashion there was a display that made me feel INCREDIBLY washed.

new Dudes Rock just dropped

"I think 'AI', writ large, is an utter disaster because it discourages actually doing things, a major component of learning and understanding."

I remain unreasonably proud of this silly video I made. Also, watch "The Long Good Friday" if you haven't.

Every man has had these three exact roommates

Oh hey it looks like bsky discourse is people talking about AI again, SOOOO... Here's my piece where I suggest more knowledge workers should ask themselves if they use AI like they use washing machines. Read it.

One of one

By all means--continue. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/go-ahead-a...

Extreme "Roger Clemens saying he thought the broken bat was the ball so that's why he threw it near Mike Piazza" energy

Obviously low on the list of priorities, but we are absolutely going to need to do everything we can to ensure future generations understand when to capitalize words.

I know they crushed TOR today, but COL is a terrible team that somehow is batting their DH ninth. I don't have stathead, so can't look this up, but the biggest DH-batting-ninth season I can find was the 2002 Yankees — a very good team! — who had a lot of Rookie Nick Johnson at 9th/DH.