It's sinkhole time in Pittsburgh! It's at 16th and E. Carson Street, which is on the Marathon route for Sunday so ... this will be interesting.

Focus

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At Mom’s for the next several days

louder for the folks in the back: 📣 pittsburgh needs traffic enforcement that is separate from the bureau of police

My first Transit Talk in four months! This one goes out to the Redditor who called my opinion pieces "insipid."

The Pittsburgh Penguins are ALIVE. They are in a full body cast and machines are doing most of the work but they are ALIVE.

I purposefully didn’t pay attention to Saturday’s game and the Pens won, so I didn’t watch or even look at my phone tonight and they won that too. Therefore, obviously, I can’t follow Game 6 on Wednesday night I’m doing my part dot gif

That’s my captain :’))

Facing down the fact that I am only going to have read two books in April and even though I know it’s silly I still feel sheepish about that Granted one of those books is by Dorothy Dunnett (Niccolò 7); her books always take me extra time A testament to how much Real Life interrupted my reading 🥲

the thing is, actually, i know adult life is hard especially right now but you still all need to moisturize and wear spf. yes you. regardless of your gender. you need to use moisturizer and sunscreen every single day.

With the new Murderbot Diary out a week tomorrow (Platform Decay, released 5th May!): What is your favourite scene in @marthawells.com ’s wonderful series? I know it’s a HARD ASK, so many brilliant bits to choose from.. #murderbot #TMBD #PlatformDecay Mine is almost certainly the one below:

Eligibility. I have to sound it out as I write it every single time

Been thinking a lot about how "history is written by the victors" also implies "the powerful" and likely every era in history was full of people who knew their rulers were full of shit

I guess Anthrocon has been taking place in Pittsburgh since 1905

Lane Hutson with the overtime winner for Montreal. Canadiens lead series 2-1

At least one of my hockey teams remembers how to play

Lane Hutson, the best defenseman in the NHL??

Nobody does playoff crowd pops like Montreal.

AHAHAHA GO HABS GO!!!!!

Listening to the Lightning’s radio broadcast of tonight’s game because the Habs’ app doesn’t have a radio option, and I have to say, these announcers are actually quite nice? They seem to really strive to be fair in calling the game

My guest this week is Claire Trottier, co-owners of Joie de Livres @joiedelivresmtl.bsky.social Montreal's first bilingual bookstore-bar-cafe that specializes in romance and speculative fiction! Bonjour, les voisins! You can find the full episode here: bit.ly/JoiedeLivres

I incredibly hate having to do this, but AL decided Donna owed them $46k (she does not) & our bank froze all of her accounts, & also all of our joint accounts. On a Friday. She's about to start bouncing checks unless I pay everything but my savings is also locked. If you can help:

had a police briefing yesterday that was 99% tedious BUT: if you have an iPhone, if someone gets your unlock code they can lock you out of your Apple account and steal everything on the phone - apple pay, banking app. you can turn on a location-based lock to only let it get changed at your house

Here are over 30 seconds of my awful son being a squirmy worm in the sun. Hope this helps you feel the squirmy worm inside yourself. #cat #caturday

Here’s Fritz demonstrating his spherical bastard idea.

Rolling out the instantly inconvenient and less useful image carousel the same week as a dev team member blocks hundreds of thousands of people for being mean to him about his AI buddy is definitely a Choice huh

Is it race week yet

"Raymond Frogner, the NCTR's head of archives, said the NCTR has received just 96 IAP files from the 38,000 survivors who took part." Most people don't even know that their records are at risk.

Also, what a beautiful outfit. 🙏

I'm not really one for the doom headlines, but this is a big deal.

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”

Yeah…Flyers are winning this series

Not sure if there's been an easier NHL team to playoff bandwagon in my time as a hockey fan than this year's Sabres club. If you have no fan stake in this postseason, how can you not root for them?

Tage Thompson ties it for the Sabres

Mattias Samuelsson gives the Sabres a 3-2 lead

This is incredible. I don’t know how else to explain this but it makes the moon look so real. I get that’s a funny thing to say but the clarity and the closeness of the image taken by an actual person changes the perspective I think.

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

Don’t just let it be terrible, LEAN INTO it being terrible, because no one’s going to see it. I only bring this up because someone mentioned just this week that this trick is useful, but I *still* 30 years in, when stumped, write this on the top of the page.

PK Subban's wearing formal JNCOs

If you have a platform you can use your platform.

WELCOME BACK IT’S THAT TIME OF THE YEAR AGAIN YOU KNOW WHAT FUCKING TIME IT IS #STANLEYCUP

Juraj Slafkovský gets the OT winner on the power play for Montreal

Putting this out there… a fantastic feature on several actors who play patients on season two of The Pitt. Spoilers abound for those uk folks locked into the release schedule there.

HEY did you know that if you have ADHD you can get a free lifetime pass to our national parks?! Just need your psychiatrist to sign off on it. Holy mackerel how has no one told me this before.

wrote about unc, and the way that the internet works as an accelerator of cultural appropriation aftermath.site/unc-aave-afr...

This is amazing and it does make the hair stand up on the back of your neck. We've all heard plenty of dead men's voices but this is *Robert* *Johnson*.

Harrowing, important work by @sarahweinman.com on @flaminghydra.com Free to read: subscribe afterwards, and help support our journalist-owned cooperative!

A new immersive exhibition called "Mind of a Serial Killer" opened today in New York City and runs through the end of June. No one will be surprised that I did not care for it, but somehow it was even worse than I expected. My latest at @flaminghydra.com: