There's a TV show where the richest of the rich get all their wealth stolen and redistributed to everyone else. The scene doesn't show how much the payment it is, and I'm always fascinated watching reactors going "wow, it *could be* hundreds of dollars!" when it'd be TENS OF THOUSANDS at minimum.

We live in a world in which its entirely possible that Iran negotiations failed because people involved bet the under.

Look, the current US military leadership will strap a combat knife to the front of a roomba if it means the roomba goes to jail instead of them.

The reason you can’t give a single inch on anything be it trans rights or dignity for unhoused people is that they, democrats and republicans alike, will take it and say thanks what else is in your pockets? They won’t say thanks actually.

The US Men's team is like that because ice hockey is a sport with some of the highest equipment/arena costs. So the American game is absolutely tied to the private school system. US hockey players at that level are basically wall street bankers with the concussion history of a heavyweight boxer.

And now Katie Hopkins. I am in hell.

I forgot how marking CA work in the UK will inevitable lead to enduring Piers Morgan.

Enough of the Tkachuks. Let them go fightt Jake Paul or something more in their wheelhouse.

When I’m two weeks behind on my grading.

The Olympics has many problems but the GOOD is SO GOOD.

I was joking, originally, but this is why you spring for Wyatt Russell.

MEGAN KELLER WITH A DIRTY DRAG MOVE AND A GOLD MEDAL WINNING GOAL 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸 🇺🇸

WHAT A GOAL!

The thing about Olympic hockey overtime is I have no horse in this race and still feel like I've lost 12 hours off my life expectancy.

Will it cost USA women's hockey that they cast Wyatt Russell to play their head coach instead of getting an actual head coach? We'll find out in the next 5 minutes.

I understand what people are trying to say but when it comes to the British Royal Family, you do not, under any circumstances, "gotta hand it to them"

This is a great rebuttal to an insane article that reads like a guy going "the left is really missing out by not embracing the Martians from Mars Attacks" right before they zap him into a green pile of bones.

The "animals on the field" collection grows once more

Have you ever once seen the New York Times quote Trump like this?

Sir, a second sporting zapruder film has hit Swedish Olympics coverage

Going to keep saying that LLMs are just the mid-1800s spiritualism craze expanded. The worst evangelists truly think Joan of Arc is giving them cosmic truths from the ether. Tech companies have become impractical Winchester Mansions that must frantically, illogically expand forever or face doom.

Swedish television is being so messy about this curling story. The Canadian women had to burn stone today for touching it and they sent a reporter to interview her afterward and basically be like, "oh you had to burn a stone? Because you committed an infraction? Wow. Is that how it usually works?"

Happy Valentine's Day from your aro/ace friend 💜💚

it's even funnier bc the Canadian 100% did the thing the Swede was accusing him of bsky.app/profile/suss...

CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! CURLING BEEF! (I never post Olympic videos bc the IOC will hunt you down but I am taking that risk so that you can hear the Canadian curling cursing)

Something I loved in my data was instances where outward booing of the referee was followed up with in-section discussions of why the call *was* right. Which absolutely punctures that ridiculous claim that "85-90% of human decisions are irrational, illogical and completely emotionally driven" 1/5

No Google, when I am searching a student's references to make sure they aren't AI hallucinations I would not like to "try it in AI mode".

It's very funny seeing all the American reactions to Isabella Wranaå as a silent assassin ice queen when all the Swedish coverage has been her playing air guitar with her broom and giving goofy tours of the athlete's accommodation.

Sverige!

Age verification? My shoulder hurts from playing Civ VI last night because I was leaning on my armrest weird.

Seeing the clip of Farage calling for the elimination of work-from-home and realising the most prescient Simpsons scene is actually the one where Homer wins over Billionaire Mr. Burns for a (children's) "design your own power plant" competition by just copying the plant that Burns already owns.

This is also me when people don’t celebrate my friends enough #olympics #icedancing

UNH mentioned! Also I had no idea that the NHL's Hughes brothers are Ellen Weinberg-Hughes's sons.

How about some legislation that if a company has a huge data-breach (as Discord recently did) then they can't increase data collection requirements on their users for at least 4 years? Just as any sort of start to slowing this garbage down.

Man, *nothing* spoils an olympic moment quite like mentioning an athlete is engaged to Jake Paul right before she sets a record to win gold.

Concerned about our proximity to Borg Space. (since this is tiny I'll do alt text here: it's a section of the map that has "Conversation Analysis Researchers" and "Progressive Academics & Researchers" near a cluster of American right-wing accounts)

Once CGI got cheap enough that you could have The General and Mucinex globs in every ad the only thing left to throw "Super Bowl" money at was celebrity cameos.

No Kings includes Draft Kings

Curling should add the artistic aspecs of figure skating. Your team should have to do a little skit while throwing a stone.

I didn't think it was possible for mixed-doubles curling to have bad guys, but I finally saw the American team play today.

Fun interaction after Estonia beats Canada in mixed-doubles curling: The Estonians are walking past their supporters, who start cheering and then chanting for the upset victory. One of the Estonians quickly alerts them that the canadians are giving an interview and their fans quiet eachother down.

I'm time delayed, but the Canadian team was just having an awkward strategy discussion that could be best described as "pictionary team getting a bit too tense" and then it cut to the Estonians wishing there was a dog at this party.

ok. does anyone know if it's twice per athlon or every two athlons

Time for that most cherished of Olympic traditions: saying "cool, but nothing will beat Lillehammer"

Oh look, a "my heart goes out to you gesture"! An ACTUAL one!

One of the Swedish commentators called him JC Vance and the other gave such a light correction, like she'd said the wrong item at the drive thru. It really cheered me up.

Not our best coats, but knit hats and jumpers were a very smart choice.

Booing is so generic and Italians have so many culturally distinct ways to tell someone to "fuck off". So this could be the IOC essentially asking the crowd to "buy local" in how they dump on these losers.

At press time, it remained unclear whether adults should be held responsible for their actions.