This section of Gerald of Wales' The Conquest of Ireland in which he praises his own family is essentially the Theme from Shaft.

Given what’s in the original running man novel (dystopian future where everyone has goofy names, people spend time in Maine for no reason, clearly written on coke) I’m surprised it took so long to figure out Stephen King was Richard Bachmann

The Running Man was really stupid and a lot of fun but also did feel like a two hour version of this meme

SOMEONE: Fuck you! BOVINO: That’s not very nice. THE MOST MOM VOICE YOU’VE EVER HEARD: Well, are you doing nice things?

This is what season 3 of Brockmire feels like bsky.app/profile/jenn...

it would be a fun nightmare exercise in a couple years to build a hypothetical platform out of all the worst ideas trump proposes then abandons (credit card interest caps, 15 year car loans, etc.)

Is it just me or are some of the NFL highlight packages on YouTube this week not in sequence?

Happy Sunday! 🦛 💙 Adorable ancient Egyptian blue faience hippos made by artisans some 4,000 years ago! 📷 by me #Archaeology

Once you announce the team name it’s not really feasible to go by the placeholder but the Seattle/Vancouver PWHL thing where they’re wearing the placeholder jerseys but using the new branding for everything else is such a mess

It’s crazy making to go check twitter and see “here is the exciting heterodox right wing pundit we all love, guy who openly talks about being a pedophile”

The climate pledge arena bag policy gets worse every time I go

Getting some really weird instagram ads today

Jumpscared in the waiting room

Equikrom CEO Dick Garsik has just endorsed Cuomo bsky.app/profile/shar...

These are two poems (both translated by the generally excellent poet Rose Novick) that live rent free in my head, as the kids say.

Spontaneous tiny Bruce Harrell rally in Green Lake?

11th inning

BASEBALL

im bouncing off the walls

bad umpiring increasing the drama i love it

i am crawling out of my skin

An Air Canada flight right now

I remain convinced Trafalgar does no actual polling and just makes up numbers based on what its founder feels is the likely result at a given point in time

we are finally free

EIGHTEEEEEEEEEEEN

both teams have just thrown 9 scoreless innings lmao

don't care, I want a 16th inning bsky.app/profile/sang...

does anyone have a magnetic knife block they especially like/recommend?

The Lottery in Babylon bsky.app/profile/denn...

bsky.app/profile/whst... "Do not addict them To the drug of danger -- The dream of the enemy That has to be crushed, like a herb, Before they can smell freedom."

the umping this series has been godawful

It happened again (a company saw my double barreled name and decided to drop one part of it), dropped a different part than usual this time though

when i say that i yelped in shock at this kid’s sign

Now watching

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I wrote about my five days in Israeli prison for the LRB. Remember with every paragraph that this is the cosseted version of the experience; it is infinitely worse for Palestinians www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/oc...

I increasingly dislike the "consequences" framing, but you do see people think it's a violation of their free speech to form opinions of them based on what they say bsky.app/profile/sheo...

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

Why on earth is Kirby still out there?

Cure The Wailing Ravenous It Follows bsky.app/profile/stri...

@sharonk.bsky.social this might be up your alley www.shortboxcomicsfair.com/shop-sq4wj/p...

the Fox player graphics during their NFL games are very ugly