My youngest, to my spouse, on a walk this evening. “I really wish I could marry you. But, two problems. One, you’re a lot older than me. And two, you’re already married.”

The new album by @thehappyfits.bsky.social is terrific -- a blast of sonic sunshine.

@markwarner.bsky.social @kaine.senate.gov You realize how this looks, right? You realize what message this sends? This man is no longer fit to lead. He's not leading at all. He's cringing and waffling and following. And it's time for y'all to say so.

Oh hey I found Winsome Earle-Sears’s latest talking points

Saturday catvassing with this absolute legend.

Don't apologise for your dog showing up during the Zoom, apologise for hiding him all this time

I have no idea what is happening in any of this, but it's AMAZING. Japanese jazz-Goths? How did I not already know the world was this wide and wonderful?

Not today, Satan.

I've never seen a subhead directly refute its own headline before.

@sailorrooscout.bsky.social If you'd be kind enough to share your expertise, please, I'm doing research for a novel: - What are the steps to creating an MRNA vaccine for a specific cancer cell line? - How long would that take? - How difficult would it be? What kind of resources would it require?

A grim reminder: these people will never be satisfied. There’s no point at which they will say “we’ve won, let’s enjoy life.” They will always be looking for someone else to punish, to revile, to dehumanize. They’re empty without that.

I know Gen. Welsh. Longtime friend of my dad’s, and a truly good man and leader. I don’t agree with the final calls he made, based on the limited outside info I have. But trust me, this is a stupid, short-sighted, own-foot-shooting decision on A&M’s part. What a waste.

I got burned, literally, with another recipe from a different source, but this recipe for deep dish Chicago-style pizza turned out great. Best served without ICE. www.kingarthurbaking.com/recipes/chic...

That one weird rich dude who’s trying to stay young forever should probably consult Elon Musk, who seems to still be 12 years old even at age 50whatever.

Oh man, I hope the “MAD-DOG” in question is @tytempleton.bsky.social’s obscure but hilarious Silver Age homage, one of the weirdest tie-in comics Marvel ever published. Would buy a collected edition in a heartbeat.

@karinalongworth.bsky.social's series on the Blacklist makes for outstanding, revelatory listening. The Ronald Reagan episode alone...! And once you're done there, her "Charles Manson's Hollywood" series plays like a great nonfiction novel -- arguably her finest work to date.

I got the boot from a community I valued, full of people I still admire and respect, for reasons I still don't fully get. My response was, "Welp, I probably did SOMEthing wrong, and until I understand what it was, I should probably keep my distance and reflect on that." It's not THAT hard to do!

"Hello! Remember me, the filmmaker who hasn't worked in years, because I married my own much much MUCH younger adopted daughter? Well, I've decided to weigh in on the mayoral race between a sex pest and a guy who isn't a sex pest, and you'll never BELIEVE who I'm voting for!"

I grew up in an Air Force family, and I've seen firsthand the kindness, courage, and dedication of so many who serve.

When this is over, someday, God willing: Never forgive those who did this, unless they work to earn it. Never believe them. Deny them credibility. Call them frauds to their faces. When they cry "free speech" or "states rights" or "rule of law," point and laugh, loudly, and just keep laughing.

Putting profits over everything else creates a topsy-turvy world where morality and ethics don't matter -- indeed, where they're actively bad -- because, oops, sorry, you just HAVE to make money. Them's the rules. You're creating, then citing, your own justification for bad acts. -30-

so many dead canaries and we just keep on mining

Dammit, universe, I can't even be ethically enthused for a Muppet Show revival?

I just ... of all the things you could possibly want the Democratic Party to be, "less liberal" seems baffling. There's already a party with a not-at-all-liberal brand, long- and well-established! No one ever succeeded at conquering a market by being more like the existing competition!

This is my family story, too. My great-grandpa hit an anti-Semitic superior officer in the Tsar's army who'd been bullying him. My great-grandma ran from the pogroms. America gave them a safe home. And their family paid back that debt with interest.

"...every ounce of my energy has been devoted to an active opposition to cruel bigotry, convulsive violence, and the sadistic persecution which has characterised the philosophy and practice of fascism...nothing fruitful or sincere could ever emerge from association between us."

A compelling, complicated, and ultimately sad portrait. From the excerpts here, the kid seemed decent. Why'd he do something so stupid and awful? What made him take a life? Will we ever really know?

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Attn: John Woo fans who like free streaming but loathe ads! If you get Kanopy with your library card, check the lineup. The newly restored versions of Woo's Hong Kong classics are showing up in my lineup there.

REDFORD: Here at last, huh? You couldn't have paid a visit to a choice few other fellas first? DEATH: Shhh. No politics. Not now. REDFORD: And I bet you think you're funny, coming here looking like that. DEATH: ... I mean, yeah, it's pretty funny, right? REDFORD: ... yeah, all right, I guess.

Really enjoyed this sweet, funny, typically turn-it-on-its-head story from @scalzi.com. I especially love its final vignette.

SNEAKERS is a perfect film, and Robert Redford is the rumpled, charming, can-you-believe-this? diamond at its center. From ALL THE PRESIDENT'S MEN to, yes, THE WINTER SOLDIER, Redford brought the right mix of gravitas and effortless charisma to role after role.

i'm tired of people telling me that the houston texans aren't real. obviously they are not real in the literal sense. i don't think anyone is saying they are. but they impart lessons that have a lot of truth to them. god never intended them to be taken at face value

psst, @reactorsff.bsky.social, typo on your front page!

As someone who spent years reading reams of 10-Qs, this is a thunderously terrible idea. You want the company you're trusting with your money to provide MORE information, not less. Less information only helps people get swindled.

Woof, the ol' Wheel of Immunity gifted me with aches, chills, fever, and insomnia. On the plus side, I broke SO MANY PLOT BEATS for my latest writing project while lying awake. My immune system right now:

I think I need to maybe go to this church? I mean, if I’m invited and they’re ok with it?

I have mixed feelings about this. ICE goons? Mock them all day long. But these folks were ordered to be there. They didn’t ask for this. I wonder whether talking empathetically to this specific group might make for more effective strategy.

Got my flu and COVID shots today, and now I’m rolling through my evening like a podcast on 0.75x speed.

I never understood the anger some people felt at the simple assertion that Black lives matter. Now I do: Those angered want the power to decide whose lives matter, and whose don't. They want to decide whose deaths get mourned, and whose get ignored or celebrated.

They aren’t using words because those words have meaning or reflect beliefs. They don’t care about meaning or beliefs. They’re using words because those words have effects. And when those words no longer have that effect, or they want a different effect, they’ll just move on to some new words.

When I'm using it to do just-in-time research for my writing -- say, needing to know what the back of a British ambulance looked like in the 1980s -- the Internet still feels downright magical.

To the guy on TikTok using AI video creation to fake having built a robot named Nosey, please stop scaring my children, I need them to go to bed already.

The catvassing will continue until meows improve

In the list of "unlikely friendships I'm dying to see a movie about," Albert Einstein + Paul Robeson is right up there with Boris Karloff + James Cagney. (I will graciously accept a story about either duo solving a murder, please and thank you.)

I mean, PUSHING DAISIES forever in my heart, but also TERRIERS, a brilliant shaggy-dog detective show. Veronica Mars's lovable dirtbag uncles solve crimes with help from Lois Lane, River Tam, and the Lone Gunmen.

I wish the times were such that the Internet could go back to losing its mind over wholesome stuff, like the explicit reference to DOCTOR WHO on this week's episode of STAR TREK.

"And then he sings, 'Cause this is THRILL-AAHHHHH, THRILL-AAHH NIGHT,' and he and the backup dancers start moving like this -- look, it was great, you just had to be there."

What, pray tell, is "transgender ideology"? "I should be able to exist"? "Please don't murder me for the content of my pants, which is none of your business anyway"?

I enjoyed this poem -- especially its well-sprung last line -- by @levistahl.bsky.social, from his latest newsletter: The Fool of Spring is a spry Fool, The Fool of Summer replete. The Fool of Autumn's a blithe Fool; The Fool of Winter can't eat.