It's fitting that a war that started for no good reason on the whim of a fickle idiot ended for no good reason on the whim of a fickle idiot.

"I see. And what do you suppose someone who set out to act like Dietrich Bonhoffer would do in Trump's America?"

Do we have photos of the cleansed Kennedy Center facade yet? Really looking forward to that.

Bet the mad king didn't sleep well. The humiliation of having his name removed from the Kennedy Center will have him grinding his teeth and running slowly in erratic little circles.

It's time for immigrants to stop moving to Northern Ireland and oppressing the native population. by the Ulster Defence Association

I get what they're up to, but no thank you. Checking the history of used words is just using data I could in principle have collected myself. It just removes tedium. This, though, makes the list impart information that I couldn't have collected. It's too close to simply looking up today's answer.

The thing that sucks about Wordle now is that they finally reuse words, but they haven't thrown out the history --there remains a very strong bias toward never-used words. So a player still needs to check history, but that history is less reliable than it had been.

Wait. Code Monkey like "Tab and Mountain Dew?" I've been a code monkey for decades, and have known many more. Lots of them liked Mountain Dew. Never seen one drink Tab. I guess it scans, but wtf. Now I wonder if that's a mondegreen.

I'm not rooting against the Knicks or anything. But I expect the creep was hoping they'd win, and that he could bask in their reflected glory, and so I'm glad the home team lost and he sat there while they did it, looking like a chump and reminding everyone of why they don't like him.

"My great-great grandfather came through here in 1864. Does that count?"

I spent more time on this piece than almost anything else I've written in the last year. Building a better, more decentralized internet is an inherent necessity if you want a functioning democracy. I hope people find it a useful encapsulation of where we're at. www.liberalism.org/p/enshittifi...

So many CA Judge elections, but it's not difficult. I exclude the ones rated less than qualified, and those with a history of egregious misconduct. From those that remain, I pick the one with the fewest badges on their endorsements page.

Tires are amazing now. It's hard to remember that they were garbage in the 80s. Any little thing made them go flat. Anyone operating a car had to know how to change a tire. I used to have to do it at least once a year and often more. Now I literally cannot remember the last time I had to. 2001?

Anyone who was an adult at the time knows this to be false. "Homeland" was a deeply weird choice. That word had never been in wide use to refer to the territory of the US, and had a distinctly fascist vibe. This was widely remarked upon at the time.

The boy in Mateo Falcone.

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

One of the downstream consequences of the US two party system is that if you're an incumbent politician in a solidly blue or red state, your primary threat is going to be within your party rather than outside of it which warps your threat assessment

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a cold one.

Queen vs rook is a pain in the ass.

The constant excoriation of Buttigieg for working an entry-level job at McKinsey right out of college while hand-waving away Platner’s time *as an actual Blackwater mercenary* gives that last part away rather blatantly.

Mind-blowing shot by astrophotographer Andrew McCarthy 😍 He took 1.7 million photos over 6 days just to catch this commercial jet perfectly transiting the sun with solar prominences floating at the exact moment.

Portland bar and club managers talk about "It" happening like medieval Europeans talked about Prester John. Times are bleak now, lads, but one elderly man's failing organs are all that stand between us and 150 million Americans launching a drinking binge.

THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

Seriously out of touch White House economic advisor Kevin Hassett argues people are happy that their credit card spending is "through the roof" Seriously Kevin

Pierre Bourdieu once argued that the question of whether something is art isn't answered by the artist's intention or even the object itself. Instead, the quality of being "art" is conferred by a community — curators, dealers, auction houses, audiences, etc. 🧵

Okay so, shit. What are we doing for CA gov? The lady who says "rigged" with little reason when an election doesn't go her way? The guy who promises to drive insurers out of the state? The billionaire that's promoted by the same people who are pushing Nazi Tattoo guy? This isn't easy.

it’s weird how the WHCD has mutated over Trump’s presidencies from an event honoring the press to an event where the press honors the president, and the attendees just keep clapping like seals and don’t notice the change

I probably spend more than the normal amount of time thinking about the guitar solo in Kid Charlemagne.

Drop something from the '80s.

here come old laptop he come bootin up slowly he got broken touchpad he need one more update he got no space on this pc one thing i can tell you its got no warranty

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different. twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

I have lost the mines that were in the Strait and which you were probably hoping would go away Forgive me there were many so hidden and so deep

not now, orcas

Melania Trump Slams Baseless Reports Linking Her To Wrong Wealthy Pedophile https://theonion.com/melania-trump-slams-baseless-reports-linking-her-to-wrong-wealthy-pedophile/

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

8yo teaching his mother chess begins by explaining that a queen is worth 8 points, a rook 5, knights and bishops 3, and pawns 1. I bite my tongue and let him cook. He's not entirely wrong. Those "point values" are a rough guide that chess players sometimes use to guide their planning.

Happy 17776 Immortality Day! www.sbnation.com/a/17776-foot...

Hope the WHCA has another cutting lapel pin design for attempted genocide

I forget. Is this one of those wars where the belligerents are giving quarter?

He sounds a little bit contemptuous of the way Germans so forthrightly confront their ugly history too.

I don't really care about golf or Tiger, but I will always read whatever Charles Pierce has to say about him. In 2022, he wrote: "Go with god, Tiger. Hire a driver." Just another example of good advice not taken! defector.com/tiger-woods-...

operator: 911, please state the nature of your emergency me: there’s a site i go to a lot that isn’t the best way to follow breaking news operator: is it a news site me: not really operator: why don’t you go to a news site me: i don’t know operator: jesus. ok. how many ambulances do you want me: 75

Ok step one is to make them look less delicious

Crime in the United States has dropped immensely in the last 35 years

CENTCOM told me Iran keeps hitting their high-value assets so I asked how many they have and they said they just go to the Pentagon and get new ones afterwards so I said it sounds like they're just feeding high-value assets to the Iranians and then INDOPACOM started crying

Likewise, I am only really familiar with Jeffrey Dahmer through the narrow lens of his dietary preferences, rather than trying to understand the whole man