Bit of a personal question, but! What song reminds you the most of what it’s like to have sex? (For me, it’s My Bloody Valentine’s “To Here Knows When”) youtu.be/PpXZAmeQDqY?...

Which ghost of Christmas is JCO

When I was in high school, the last game of our senior year, our coach miscounted the number of timeouts the other team had. So we kneeled the ball down three times thinking it was the end of the game, then punted on fourth down. The other team returned the punt for a touchdown and won.

E-A-G-L-E-S Eagles!

Like Saquon, I can run for about three yards and fall down, except nobody is chasing or grabbing me

didn't realize that faulkner's career was rebooted by a portable version of his works. score another W for middlebrow www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/b...

Talked to Sir Tim Berners-Lee about the future of the web, AI, and how he feels about ~all this~ www.theverge.com/podcast/8145...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court DENIES former county clerk Kim Davis's request for the justices to take up her longshot bid to overturn 2015's Obergefell v. Hodges marriage equality decision. No justice even writes about the request.

Really enjoyed chatting with @kellyfaircloth.bsky.social about all things dirtbag medievalism, and delighted that the article is out now at Nat Geo: www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

Send noods (too soon?)

seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous

COMPLICITY NOT COWARDICE. COMPLICITY.

Someday, it may even allow them to love human beings in return

“The only Hall of Famer Wilkens coached in his prime was Wilkens himself.” www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

This is why this surrender isn't just about this narrow issue but is rather the whole constitutional ballgame: Democrats are affirmatively signaling they do not want political power at the same time Trump is transitioning the political system into an autocratic one wherein they're denied it forever

“We will not support spending legislation advanced by Senate Republicans that fails to extend the Affordable Care Act tax credits,” says @hakeem-jeffries.bsky.social: jeffries.house.gov/2025/11/09/h...

Senate Democrats voting to dismantle the ACA to avoid any problems with their Thanksgiving travel is tragically on brand.

That guy!

I truly don’t know how you look at the past week and THEN decide THIS is an appropriate — let alone the right — response.

I'm legitimately confused about the play here. No person who now is going to go without coverage in the ACA is going to just blame the GOP. They will rightly blame the Democrats too. Dems won't get "points" for "fighting" if they cave. It makes little sense.

Members fly and the donors and people close to them fly a LOT. My first thought when I’d heard they were caving

I don't even like Joyce, but I'm rooting for this tweet. . . and this tweet only lol

Buddy, they won’t even let me

Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...

We all complain about typing on touchscreens and how bad autocorrect is when it messes up but it’s kind of amazing this technology works at all

It’s a very simple idea

A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death. Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written." Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating. 🧪🧬🧫

Report: stuck boat still stuck

Keynote on 'Editing in the Age of AI' at the Red Pencil Conference by @janefriedman.com who reminds us of 'Amara's Law (or the Law of Humility): we tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run'. #EdsGuild2025

Something I have always liked about Jamelle is how he can get so worked up (while still being correct) about the wonkiest stuff (this is not the wonkiest he gets AT ALL)

Listen to Ray: Don’t bang a website

Kudos to the @seattletimes.com for spelling with diacritical marks used in the Hawaiian language, the ʻokina and the kahakō. A few years ago, when I asked the NY Times to spell my affiliation as University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, they refused because it went against their style guide.

One of several local commercials i still have memorized (whoever was doing jingles for car dealerships in 80s Detroit was in their bag) youtu.be/aHUJQAMyoYo?...

Fixing to go to bed before 8pm. Not really mad about it either

Post you from a different era. About eleven years ago. I’m living in Lansing, MI and am nursing a broken shoulder in a sling that matches my t-shirt.

BREAKING: The USDA tells states funds will be made available later today to pay November SNAP benefits in full.

Eighteenth Brumaire relevant every day

It feels so telling to me that our elite institutions are caving just as everyday people are seeing first successes in their push back against the authoritarian onslaught.

I’m waiting for the Zoomers to get really into Billy Ocean. I made a “Get out of my dreams, get into my car” reference at work the other day and only the guy in his sixties laughed

oh yeah. what could be more challenging than being a Catholic conservative white lady at Notre Dame Law?

Feminism is not a vitamin that helps individual women succeed, even if its success at compromising other women’s rights en masse

I am older than gender markers on passports! How do you regulate gender? By making it a form of government ID. It has nothing to do with state security, only regulation

The exact middle of Scorpio season, all-time Scorpio right here

I successfully nerd-sniped myself into making a precinct-level dot-density map of the NYC mayoral election. kieranhealy.org/blog/archive...

Currently my favorite illustration of this is the dishwashing robot. It is incredibly difficult to train an AI to rinse dishes and load and unload a dishwasher with any reliability. We’re years away. However, a current-gen AI can pump out and debug mediocre software code just fine

www.wired.com/story/welcom... good recap from the excellent @awinston.bsky.social of the broader surveillance apparatus of the NYPD and Jessica Tisch's involvement in its development

Having food thrown at you is often not pleasant, but it’s not felony assault