Had a near-death experience (lost my house keys on the street, miles from my house, but drove back and found them, undisturbed, where I'd previously parked) that has caused me to change my life (replace the long-dead batteries in various crucial AirTags).

Who among us

he looks like he’s about to tell Dave Dombrowski that time is a flat circle

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still among my favorite final shots ever.

"What do you want for Christmas, dad?"

MEDITATIONS by Marcus Aurelius and THE NAKED AND THE DEAD by Norman Mailer

Oh no I really hope Bill Clinton isn’t in the Epstein files, I’ll have to get rid of my Bill Clinton hat and my Bill Clinton sneakers and my Bill Clinton cologne and my Bill Clinton watch and take down my Bill Clinton flag and I’ll have to delete my Bill Clinton nft trading cards

American cities are neat and should be allowed to keep getting neater.

Friday NYT crossword took less than half as long as my average. Easy one today!

everyone gets so mad at the mods here for doing basic mod shit. sometimes you gotta make a little murder joke and eat a three day ban for it. that’s life baby, there’s beauty in that.

ACAB includes timecops

I’m at the Museum of Philadelphia Art Museum for “Surrealism at 100.” I’ve been here five minutes and I’ve already heard five different pronunciations for “de Chirico.”

If I were a sculptor I’d make a statue of the people lined up to get their picture with the Rocky statue.

Say what you will about social media, but there was no other point in history where you got to read thousands of people trying to explain Catholicism directly to the Pope

Enjoying some bird shadows

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison] 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵Walking down the street 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵House with chicken feet 🎵Baba Yaga

Dear Auntie You will be surprised to hear that I am going to prison tomorrow.

One of my best friends on earth, and the producer of some of the albums I love the most, is trying something new and awesome (producing YOUR songs): www.instagram.com/p/DRBVDMhjOnJ/ He's a Canadian socialist & self-promotion is literally his worst nightmare, so I'm boosting.

I hope to someday have the confidence of a small diner that makes their own ketchup.

there should be a button where if enough of your mutuals press it you have to stop posting and go to bed

I’m coming around on the idea that billionaires should be taxed until they aren’t.

Girl: I think I know that song you're singing. Me: Leaving on a Jet Plane. Girl: Yeah, who sings it? Me: John Denver. Girl: Let's keep it that way.

I thought "trans rabbi" was a particularly West Philadelphian phenomenon but apparently not!

Article about this project from a few months ago: www.phillyvoice.com/ministry-of-...

I see they named a street in Vienna after your fella:

What if we cloned Hitler and admitted him to art school, just to see how that goes? Obviously all of the safeguards—frog DNA, electric fences, moats around the art school.

Yeah, this has been bugging me. It's not normal for journalists to have their email monitored by their employer. Even once Thomas was fired by NYT, there wasn't a real reason to go through his email. His ethical lapse was soliciting a donation for a charity from Epstein, and it wasn't contested.

Without having read it, this is different from the Tilly Norwood glaze by Tyler Cowen from a few weeks ago, but it also feels the same in a way I don't want to think about too much.

Sometimes you run across an old quote that stops you cold. From a Jayson Stark article in January 2000:

FL state and federal prosecutors never got access to Epstein's emails? Wouldn't that be pretty standard to have in a conspiracy case?

Just got a chat request from an account claiming to be Bluesky saying my account had been suspended, and to click a sketchy link to "complete the verification process." I don't know if this is happening a lot but be on the lookout.

I'm enjoying this new puzzle game Retto, which can be played as a word game, a logic game similar to sudoku, or a combination of both. (I like it as a pure logic puzzle.) www.rettopuzzle.com

The sound this drill press makes before it breaks through metal is exactly the same sound bread dough makes when it slaps against a mixing bowl I'm honestly ascending rn

Eight years after the Centennial Exhibition, Philadelphia builds more stunning but temporary buildings to draw crowds from around the world.

In my circles in high school, the most-dibbed thing was the front passenger seat in a car, and just saying "dibs" wasn't enough. You needed to touch the roof or door of the car AND be the first to say the full sentence DIBS ON FRONT SEAT YOU SUCK while pointing accusingly with the other hand.

This is nice but the Pope needed six tries to solve GLARE? I’m hoping he plays on hard mode. I’m worried that he plays like he’s on hard mode but does it in easy mode.

A man has been found guilty of writing a stream of consciousness novel. He is about to start a 4 year sentence.

Good line from THE HUMAN CONDITION I (rip Tatsuya Nakadai): “Any more threats and I’ll kick your nuts in!”

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If Shapiro enters the presidential race I might become a Democrat to vote against him.

Changing my personal email addresses to rdgvacation and rdgitunes

Celina Midelfart, the queen of glamour

I think Sesame Place's marketing team should really consider that there's more than one definition of "Furry" these days.

If a vampire attacks, you can kill it with garlic; However, that allium won't hurt a Dalek. It's therefore of tactical value to you If you're Doctor Van Helsing, but not Doctor Who.

We always knew that the only thing that could (but definitely still might not) bring him down would be something he tried to hide. He's maybe the best ever at doing corrupt and terrible things openly and then blithely moving on to the next openly corrupt and terrible thing.

The terrible quality of the writing in the emails I’ve seen made me wonder for the first time if Chuck Grassley ever hung out with Epstein.

I don’t think this is an unreasonable outcome, especially if she was actually told of the reason and the length of the suspension. It’s a little weird to air the laundry publicly, but if someone lies in other forums about not knowing why they were suspended, hang the undies on the clothesline.

Fox News is VERY upset with politicians who make unrealistic promises

If you maintained a file with a key describing the symbols and their meanings, emojis in filenames could actually be really useful, even/especially to an archivist.