did Dropkick Murphy just produce a music video where they chase down members of Patriot Front and fuck them up? "Retribution won't be pretty, so shut the fuck up and take a seat." WATCH: www.youtube.com/watch?v=9A0Z...

Of course literally the day after that, in a world-class attempt at boredom-prevention, "Rock Around the Clock" was recorded.

"the crew is in excellent shape" in fact, one of them is... STRONGER than EVER. and another... seems to be INCREDIBLY FLEXIBLE... and another...

If 60,000 people donate the price of a coffee to Helen Dewitt that's a no-strings-attached Windham-Campbell Prize ko-fi.com/dewitt

Yet another example of why, when inevitably a statue is made of me to celebrate my many accomplishments and contributions to the Human Endeavor, you must not make it out of bronze. I've never seen evidence that anyone currently making bronze statues knows how to make them not look like shit.

this is so obviously the west wing of modern america, with 00s liberal end of history imperialism replaced with trump era faux-authentic white billionaire conservatism, and as such has a similar moral place in culture but like. bro your aaron sorkin is taylor sheridan i feel bad for you

Years and years of "what is a woman" discourse only to settle on a definition that includes 15-year-olds.

to me the pitt is a love letter to new york city – a town it lovingly accepts, warts and all. in a sense, new york is almost the show's main character

do you want "Catholicism but american" we invented that, it's called Episcopalianism and it's even more woke. all the priests are lesbians. good luck

This Media-based record shop’s releasing a ‘love letter’ to Delco on vinyl with 90-plus tracks. It's called "The Sounds of Delco: Vol. 1" and I have all the details plus a hilarious preview track for ya: share.inquirer.com/pL5viU

On and on. Apr 10 2018

Every one of these guys

For those of us who never used all of our Bluesky invite codes before they went away, they should be turned into uninvite codes where we can delete accounts of our choice

"keeping teenagers off social media": fine enough in theory "mandating that everybody provide proof of legal identity to random tech companies in order to use internet services": bad shit!

To all who celebrate

I feel a lot better after this deep dive than I did from all the superficial reassurances during briefings.

I don’t think this is good for our brains

Looking through a folder of Alex Raymond clippings I received as a gift from a teacher a long time ago, and damn it must’ve been mind blowing to be 10 years old in 1935 and open up a Sunday newspaper and see a whole page of this.

This is possibly the most incredible tracking video of a rocket launch that I have ever seen, and Shuttle had some really incredible videos too! Just look at those gorgeous flame dynamics and then the booster separation... 🔭🧪 #Artemis

The Artemis II mission reminds me of these 1960s photos of NASA astronauts training in Iceland because they felt the terrain would be similar to what they'd encounter on the moon. The outfits are so great, even some 60 years later.

It's always fun to place a couple of headlines side by side.

The agenda set by "asking questions" exists, whether editors and owners of platforms cop to that or not. Otherwise one would expect to see a much greater diversity of questions — rather than repeated rote complaints about 'wokeness,' trans people, political correctness on campus, etc.

I once worked in a role where I keyed million dollar manufacturing orders into SAP, information that directly fed into factory specs for a manufacturing facility based in another country. Our small office fed into a massive, global electrical ... https://flotisserie.micro.blog/2026/04/08/173724.html

"i could probably pilot a ship through the straight of hormuz" -next big thing 80% of men secretly believe about themselves

I get that "defund the police" may not be a viable political goal in the US, but letting private equity have their way with the police seems like a reasonable compromise

every single day in the United States now has that vibe of when you're in a corporate job and first thing in the morning they announce an all-hands meeting for the end of the day and you just get to dread whatever that might mean all day

oh yeah it's on

Naginata-nother Teen Movie

I genuinely do not understand management's refusal to agree to basic protections, like that they won't replace us with AI. It's baffling. Makes no sense. We're on strike to show management how serious we are about this, and how eager we are to get a contract done!

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

Remind me how Reagan did it in Nicaragua again...

You must learn to hate the aristocracy as much as it hates you. It changes shape, tosses aside old husks like "divine right of kings" and "bloodlines" and slides right into slick new shells like "meritocracy".

We gotta bring back the productive kind of national shame. Not the throwing up your hands and going “what can you do, we suck” kind but the “I’ll be GODDAMNED if I let the fucking FRENCH have better TRAINS” kind

I love the term so much that I still have that screenshot saved in my favorites folders.

RIP Margaret Thatcher, you'd have loved maintaining a suicide pact with the global hegemon run by a senile TV star, keeping everyone in a perpetual state of terror of cascading international strategic nuclear exchange.

Clowns Giorgio, who has 10,000 depressions a day, is an outlier and

so wild that the dark side of the moon is as far as humans have ever travelled into space and every other tech bro thinks moving humans to the Moon or Mars is a more reasonable path than you know, saving this planet. the lack of humility that capitalism breeds...

Hope y’all are ready to get real good at football

Is there a better car singing song than My Own Worst Enemy and why is the answer no Cleo 💜s Lit

Gonna pronounce it this way from now on, not least because I bet it would frustrate exactly the sort of person I'd take pleasure in frustrating.

esports are sports but in spanish

Looked at the moon in the sky when I was walking to the bus and did a double take when I remembered there are people up there. It felt nice. Felt hopeful. It was a relief to feel that for even a moment.

The Republican platform is simple: they want to sexually abuse children, and they want you to pay for it.

Rules and norms about war crimes are a global public good. If you or anyone in your family is between 16 & 60, male, & walks, you have a direct personal interest in it not being legitimate for them to be assinated for walking within any undeclared 3km radius around any combatant.

"Not on my watch," says Patches about the Sunday Scaries.

Magic is kind of always a metaphor, and the way it seemed when he won the nomination the first time was that the Republicans had called up something they weren't going to be able to put down.

random close-of-weekend thoughts