Tired of Ilia Malinin winning competitions by stringing quads together with the most perfunctory gesture at choreography, while skaters like Shun Sato deliver breathtaking performances that balance both the technical and artistic sides of the sport only to lose.

Americans tend to only be aware of the British royal Family. But if you’re a person who loves gawking at celebrity mess and you’re not paying attention to the Norwegians and their slow-motion car crash of a Royal Family you’re missing out.

Is this a republican asking for a safe space? 🤨

If you didn’t know Will was talking about ICE you’d think this was about drug cartels or something.

No more, no more.

Worth noting that Episcopal bishops are elected by the members of their diocese, not appointed by a pope or king. That means that the historically extremely conservative people of the diocese of Dallas deliberately chose Bishop Price to be their leader.

Once again, allow me to invite you to behold the utterly abject poverty of the Very Serious Pundits' & Democratic Senators’ argument that it is <checks notes> The Democrats who are the ones who Talk Funny, are not Moderate™️ enough, & have fallen out of touch with Real Folkz in America.

This is also now more or less the policy of this government in re: the sovereign territory of every other country in the Western Hemisphere. The authoritarianism at home and abroad are of a single piece.

I will happily run a crash course on military history and theory for liberal policy people. It is not hard stuff, but it is important stuff.

Sometimes the cat sits in the hallway staring at me like she’s No Face and it scares me half to death when I look up.

Among the many questions I have about this: did Robin Hood go and steal Genghis Khan’s bow? That is NOT a longbow.

I’m watching the Empty Netters commentary series on Heated Rivalry, and I can’t figure out if Chris Powers is having a latent bisexual awakening?

This is what The Onion would write as a fake Schumer quote. What is this fool doing?! The Senate democrats need new leadership.

I’m sure that destabilizing an already unstable country in Latin America will have no further negative consequences for the people of Venezuela or for the United States.

Watching Anderson Cooper’s career flash before his eyes as Andy Cohen asks Brandi Carlile about Lesbians’ pop culture opinions.

We had to book a hotel room last year on a couple hours notice because a contractor accidentally punched through the main waterline to our house and we had no running water. I cannot imagine how much more stressful it would have been if hotels were actively screening us out for being locals.

Well that, um, explains some things.

There’s something delightful about The Economist celebrating Jane Austen’s 250th birthday by writing an essay about how good at economics she was. They know their brand and they enjoy recognizing game.

Truly begging people to stop using capitalism as a synonym for commerce. Exchange of money for goods and services is not capitalism. Unless you’re going to do a Marxist analysis, you can just say consumerism or commercialism if you want to talk about people buying things.

My wife and I just became perilously close to revealing our Reddit usernames to each other. But the crisis has been averted. The sanctity of Reddit anonymity is intact.

Reading A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutiérrez very slowly because I have to stop every 3 paragraphs to whisper “based” to myself.

Even if you don’t know the difference between the annunciation and the immaculate conception, you should be able to catch that your AI thinks Christmas is in 9 months, not 3 weeks, right?

Thinking about FD Signifier’s aside in his most recent video about how anti-capitalist and anti-establishment musicians and genres, especially those popular with (white) men, have been deliberately minimized and subsumed by the music industry.

Savannah and Honda just gave the volume of the Smoky the Bear balloon in black bears, taking the American refusal to use the metric system to new heights.

Picard should have punched Q.

Semi-related, I had to do a “how to use AI in spreadsheets” class a couple months ago for work. The examples mostly revolved around “the AI can take the data and make a chart.” Um. Guess what Excel and Google Sheets already do? Pretty sure Lotus 123 did that in later editions. The value add of AI/

Our brains rebel at the idea that the past was often much worse than today (which also means that today is relatively fortunate). Nostalgia and "nothing ever changes" are powerful emotions

This is identical to Russia invading Ukraine. Illegally invading a country for their resources and likely killing thousands—if not more—is immoral and should not be supported by anyone with any shred of moral conscience.

Brushing my teeth while listening to my wife in the other room viscerally reacting to the second post. I did warn her.

I’m roughly the demographic for Christy. I go to in-person movies regularly. The only reason I knew about it was there was a poster in the theatre hallway outside the auditorium I saw One Battle After Another in. MASSIVE marketing failure.

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

In the century leading up to 1975, nearly 6000 freighters went down in the Great Lakes. The Edmund Fitzgerald was the last. The last. In 50 years, not a single commercial freighter has been lost in the Great Lakes. Why? It's NOAA. Of course it's NOAA.

The current MSNBC panel is actually vibrant and asking tough questions of guests. If MSNBC were like this all the time, not just Sundays at 10pm I might actually tune in more (no shade @chrislhayes.bsky.social I <3 u)

So what I’m taking away from this specifically is that New Hampshire’s Senators suck.

My family has been without half our income for 40 days. It has been.. very hard. We are willing to feel that pain so people can have health care next year, or to undo these illegal recissions. We are not willing to have been put through this for NOTHING.

I don’t even know what you do in this situation. Pay your rent, pay your healthcare, eat rice and beans, learn to live without electricity?

We’re heading into week two of the cat being completely discombobulated by the time change.

I love that this exists and I love that I will never have to experience it. www.reddit.com/r/DIY/s/Huau...

I’ve changed my mind, Donald Trump needs to annex Canada so that Randy Clarke can run for president. www.reddit.com/r/washington...

Getting really tired of the political side that contemptuously said they were the realists who would “call a spade a spade” for the last thirty or forty years, suddenly becoming the party of “it’s not a tariff it’s a ‘licensing fee’”.

Please for the love of god let this week be the last week any of us have to hear about a Cuomo ever again.

For some reason the Reddit algorithm has started feeding me r/tattooadvice and every one is someone with the gnarliest infection ever asking whether it’s normal or they should see a doctor. If you have to ask Reddit if your tattoo should be oozing green puss, you might deserve to die of sepsis.

Attempting to find even one (1) book on my to read shelf in GoodReads that is actively available through the DC public library system.

Incredible that of all the IP Hollywood keeps rebooting and reviving, we haven’t gotten a second Master and Commander.

So after exhaustive testing we have determined that the cat’s favorite people foods are 1) cheez-its 2) ham 3) ice cream 4) sauce of any variety.

There’s a certain type of woman who doesn’t want to admit (to herself much less anyone else) that she’s actually a reactionary conservative, and boy do they not understand actual left (even center left) women At All.

Me, who has killed exactly one (1) enemy during the Ghost of Yotei tutorial, every time someone in game mentions the Yotei Six: excuse me, it’s the Yotei Five now

Just going to say again that it feels like we’re going through a period uniquely and expressly designed to torture historians.

I continue to be deeply impressed by Hilary Mantel’s dedication to hating Sir Thomas More!

This is how I feel about spelunking.