Husband is working the polls today and reports that a fellow poll worker has been talking nonstop, mostly about tires. Earlier today it was tire pressure; now, back from lunch, he has launched into an explanation of the Mavis Tires business model.

Took me the longest of times to realize that Ann Baxter in The Other Bennet Sister is played by the same actress who was Cinta in Andor. Love her!

You shouldn’t be able to make cuts if you’re an acting director of any executive branch office, you should have to be Senate-confirmed. Add it to the list of reforms.

I am *never* going to get over the Court holding that targeted student loan forgiveness was a "major question" that Congress needed to weigh in on, but refusing to intervene to stop the dismantling of the entire cabinet agency overseeing the student loan program.

Every "centrist" believes political views are a great big bell curve with the overwhelming majority of people near them, but that's just not true. The number of people truly in "the middle" is vanishingly small—the real middle is "incoherent mixture of views"—and courting them is a guaranteed loser.

Vaccines save lives. This is the FIRST time that ZERO cervical-cancer deaths have been recorded for this age group, and it’s thanks to the introduction of a vaccine against the human papillomavirus (HPV). Yes, you read that correctly. ZERO.

Cape Verde fuck yeah!

Happy Hunt for Red October on the Recliner Day for all those who celebrate.

... the UK's largest what

Obviously frequents the same red sauce joint at Gene Parmesan.

nothing in the US is getting better until we start start treating this kind of thing as what it is: a form of bribery

Is Pochettino wearing a matching casual Friday outfit in technical, moisture-wicking fabric?!

What gets me is how often basic decency gets dismissed as some elite obsession. You don’t have to be rich, educated, religious, or secular to recognize cruelty when you see it. Most ordinary people do it every day.

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

If Waffle House doesn’t make this their new slogan, then capitalism has failed

Oh hey, Uzbekistan!

Name a TV show you're positive no one remembers but you.

"An Entire Civilization Will Die Tonight" is going to be eagerly memoryholed by Trump's enablers in the media and hawks in the Democratic party and I propose: not letting them do that.

Well. My god. #messi

Jello Shots! At the 50+ Hockey Beer League BBQ (Pray we make it out of this alive and upright)

Congrats to the Knicks on underlining the point that Trump can't fuck things up forever

I need a Mariska Hargitay livecam right now

HAPPY PRIDE KNICKS IN FIVE

Scotland!!! Top of Group C! Not pretty, but I'll take it.

Emotional baggage left unattended will be removed and destroyed.

I'm no Luddite or anything but if my toilet ever attempts to talk to me I am going to shoot it with a gun

an obscenity. we live in monstrous times

I love Rogue One to my core so I get huffy when folks who didn't like it say that it's three disjointed stories mashed up into a mess of a film, but having just seen Disclosure Day -- I still think you're wrong about R1, but I *totally* get it now.

I love Rogue One to my core so I get huffy when folks who didn't like it say that it's three disjointed stories mashed up into a mess of a film, but having just seen Disclosure Day -- I still think you're wrong about R1, but I *totally* get it now.

@sampotts.bsky.social in the car this morning, driving me to the bus: Oh, you're wearing your flowy pants today, nice! Me, firmly in my postmenopausal era: They're ALL flowy pants, Sam.

Josh Hart biffs an easy basket and Jalen Brunson takes the world’s most ill-advised three at the end and they still won anyway. That’s some real team of destiny shit

A 40% pay increase, the right to walk off the job if federal agents (i.e. CBP/ICE) pose a threat to them *and* the contract expires in April 2028 so they can demand more ahead of the Olympics. Shoutout Local 11, shoutout unions.

We will never read in an America newspaper "Republicans should be willing to endorse limits on access to guns" or any other issue where they might reasonably be expected to compromise.

The VP has no special statutory or constitutional authority to refer anybody for the prosecution of anything

This is actually the secret chord that David played and it pleased the Lord

this is the way

Watching the game through increasingly gnashed teeth (LGK!) but also wanted to show off the excellent tee I picked up last week in Knoxville.

So many interesting pieces have come out over the course of the playoffs chronicling the intersection of Knicks fandom with the lives and perspectives of New Yorkers. This one is a really good read. #knickssky

Interactive Media catching some strays on this PBS detective show

Folks, we did it. An old man is literally yelling at a cloud.

metaphor alert

I put a bunch of berry plants in the ground in 2025, a study in patience for someone like me, having to wait till year 2 for them to fruit. And lo and behold, my first nascent tayberry (a Scottish raspberry x blackberry hybrid), still a little ways to go, but look at this little guy!

every time I say this, someone didn't know: you can get the NYRB, the New Yorker, the LRB, Paris Review, The Spectator (weirdly not New Statesman), The Week, both French & Italian Vogue & New Scientist among many many other magazines FREE via the Libby app from your local library?

The Feedly x NY Magazine headline and photo glitch continues to generate some great screenshots

Well this is the most charming story! As someone who lives across from a basketball court just north of NYC proper, the sound of the swoosh is second only to the joy of everyone playing ball.

On the effort to eliminate subsidized student loans: I do not think college is for everyone; there are lots of ways to grow and learn, and there should be lots of pathways to an economically secure life, but until the latter are in place, eliminating gateways to college is just destructive.

Christ, you're the governor of the entire state. Shut the building down. It's not sovereign territory like a foreign embassy. Pull the certificate of occupancy. Cut the power. Back it up with state police. Stop coddling fascists and groveling every time they order you around. Act like an American.

All you have to say is “all kids deserve free and fair access to school sports and sporting bodies make the rule for who’s eligible. My opponent would like to have the government inspect your kids bodies personally in a way to help defund your public schools.”

My crankiest old man take is that referring to all art/entertainment/journalism/criticism/comedy/advertising as “content” helped pave the way for broad-ish acceptance of AI slop.

Frankly, I want to divest SCOTUS of jurisdiction to enter *any* orders reversing a lower court without a complete elaboration of the reasons why. They are the least busy judges in America with a self-selected workload. If they can't bother to explain it, they should not do it.