They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

People have forgotten but in 2022 after a Houthi attack near the circuit, the Saudi government kind of took the entire F1 series hostage bsky.app/profile/nkal...

seeing Train Dreams in a non-sold out theater is a very different experience, you can make out the sounds of individual parties crying when the credits roll

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On the one-year anniversary of his detention by federal authorities, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and First Lady Rama Duwaji welcomed Mahmoud Khalil, his wife Noor, and their baby boy, Deen, to Gracie Mansion to break the fast together.

me paying $30 in gas to buy imported things that have been hit with tariffs bc joe rogan is learning about politics at age 58

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A lot of these Great Britain WBC baseball players seems to have been born in the US, which is totally fine BUT I think they should be required to speak with a thick comical British accent any time they do TV interviews.

Hadn't seen this before but it's kind of genius

we take human advancement for granted. a gun would kill a medieval peasant

It doesn’t look funny to begin with, but the basic premise of the Nate Bargatze movie, “Shark Tank would turn down a woman’s business that they all agree is amazing because her husband sucks and she wouldn’t get another offer after the episode aired” really really irritates me

For those who don’t know, Chiang is a mystical Chinese conservative warrior Marco Rubio calls on when things are difficult. He has Chiang’s sword, which was given to him by Jeb Bush bsky.app/profile/eric...

not now Neel

Me: Do you seriously think I'd explain my master-stroke if there remained the slightest chance of you affecting its outcome? I did it t— My phone: 1 PENDING TASK — Do the evil plan (35 minutes overdue)

Jayapals cheers were almost as big as Hilary Knights lmao

Probably setting a record tonight

Thinking about that Paul Schrader Jacob Elordi movie that’s artfully filmed in such a way that Elordi does almost no acting

It finally happened: someone else with my same name and initial had a pickup order at the same restaurant as me at the exact same time

Means is another example of the trust trap.

I feel like it's underdiscussed that BasedMikeLee was originally presented as like, a teenager who pretended to be Mike Lee online bc he thought Mike Lee was sooooooooo cool, and then it was revealed to be actually Mike Lee and now he just like, threatens the Japanese government etc. on it

Dunk is kind of like if a Bluesky poster was a Game of Thrones protagonist (complimentary)

alysa liu!!!

Watched an old Japanese movie about a family grocery getting run out of business by a supermarket and while the film was incredible I couldn’t get over the reveal 15 minutes in that the family grocer had a like 25-40% profit margin

@kevinbaker.bsky.social if you’re ever in Vancouver, the wolf and hound pub on broadway has a spice bag on the menu (didn’t try it tho so can’t speak to quality)

Vancouver is so cool

All of Us Strangers or The Front Room bsky.app/profile/yeli...

Saw civilian vehicles filling at a Pacific Pride because society is coming apart

The impact of Frederick Wiseman on nonfiction filmmaking was seismic beyond measure and beyond compare. Like how do you even begin to consider his influence on documentary technique or his decades of insight into how institutions (and artistic spaces) operate? What a treasure. R.I.P.

Incredible things are happening in downtown Seattle

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multiple ad agencies independently coming up with the idea for a "white celebrity learns Spanish" Super Bowl commercial

god I love The Recorder Exam/House of Hummingbird bsky.app/profile/seun...

incredible work to redact the sender initially but then not when his email is included in the forward bsky.app/profile/notr...

ProPublica has identified Alex Pretti’s killers www.propublica.org/article/alex...

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Airtags really saved my skin today after I lost my wallet on a bus

People at taken to Whipple are released into the cold in whatever they were wearing without their phones and IDs. Volunteers meet them at release (or find them left in parks and the woods) get them a burner, warm clothes, food, a ride home, etc (GFM in next post) www.instagram.com/reel/DTzJde9...

General guide on how to help from outside Minnesota: naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h... Places to donate: www.standwithminnesota.com

Cannot see the end of it.

A coworker has been negatively polarized against me somehow

holy shittttt

Guy loudly remonstrated someone for having their phone out during a film I was just at, which was nice to see

Anti-semitism is very consistent

admittedly I don't have anything to measure them against except my gut feeling but the apprehension numbers in those Ken Klippenstein leaks seem incredibly low relative to the manpower involved?

we don't talk enough about the influence of the Jason Katims show Parenthood on modern American cinema