Nature's cardio...

I do not have any "immigration documents" to carry even if I wanted.

And this is on top of 30-40% of people not able to or not driving due to age, disability or income. Our system shuts out so many as status quo, and leaves others trapped. We deserve better. And Duffy at USDOT is fighting tooth and nail against better

this fact is the definitive judgment on kirk's life

Joined a gym 3 months ago, because I needed heavy weights again, not just home dumbbells. 32 sessions of the Stronglifts program in the books.

this is one of the most "cutaway gags but make it real life" videos I've ever seen I've watched it a dozen times and it hasn't stopped killing

I love this piece. Though I quit Spotify probably 12 years ago for different reason, I am very intentional about music. Playlists, bands, listen to albums as cohesive works. I manage a huge library in iTunes, and I own everything. www.avclub.com/quit-streami...

This is so fucking funny dude.

loath to be too precious about this stuff but I want one lesson of defector to be "you can choose to not do stuff that sucks" even if "doing stuff that sucks" is the default

The Heritage Foundation is an authoritarian Christian Nationalist organization. Treat their people accordingly.

Put an offer on a house today, so fingers crossed...

I know we’ve been talking about the 25th Amendment being invoked for years now, but we should probably be talking about it a lot more and a lot more seriously right now.

Jay Kelly Noah Baumbach is a bit hit-and-miss with me, but this is great. Adam Sandler being the emotional core of a movie starring George Clooney is a fun trick. A real stacked cast overall. So many name actors and "that guys" in every role. “Can i go again? I’d like another one.”

"So the moral of the story is, to avoid isolation and depression, move to a big city, pick popular hobbies, and if someone asks you to go caroling this Christmas, go even if you don’t want to, because it will make the experience better for everyone else."

A Man on the Inside season 2. I don't understand the people who think this was a drop-off from season 1. To me, this show does exactly what Mike Schuur shows do: is wrap a deep core theme in a well-acted and well-written sitcom. (cont...)

Forcing all colleges and *high schools* to have chapters of the Right-Wing Teacher Harassment Grift Machine is insane, even by Texas standards

I am a minimal Amazon user. All consumption is evil, but something I truly need, going to the nearest retailer would take 2 hours of my day to buy a single thing (+gas), or it could be on my porch in 2 days, sure. Amazon wins. But when is the class action lawsuit because Prime is no longer Prime?

“Charles Norman Shay, who as a 19-year-old medic on D-Day repeatedly saved soldiers from drowning off Omaha Beach, turning them on their backs, dragging them ashore and binding their wounds, died on Wednesday at his home in Thue et Mue, France, near the site of the Normandy invasion. He was 101.”

a single head of cauliflower at my local grocery store is $8

Charles Portis, The Dog of the South How something written so deadpan/straight can be so incessantly funny is a real achievement. Ray Midge's internal monologue is probably closer to most peoples' than they'd care to admit.

I'm pretty sure this is actually Taika Waititi pretending to be an insane Silicon Valley dipshit. It's a powerful combination of ignorance and arrogance that would probablt be funny if this man weren't insanely rich and influential.

You can take your webp and shove it up your ass...

Bill Kristol has gone so far left he's joined us in chastising Hakeem Jeffries for being a morally bankrupt turd. He's gonna be Che in like a week at this rate

The AEA has banned Larry Summers for life It is very much welcome to see a man who breached the most foundational rules of professional conduct facing serious and actual consequences for his actions #EconSky

I put up an 0'fer

A main focus of the piece is a former pediatrician, Michelle Cretella, whose lack of any active license to practice medicine rarely prevents her being presented as a medical authority in mainstream news.

i hope every single person who still buys harry potter merch or engages with that franchise is happy that they're literally making girl guides cry girl guides uk have been forced very much against their will to exclude trans girls. full statement is here: www.girlguiding.org.uk/information-...

When you're REALLY desperate to get those Amazon affiliate links into your listicle, you push the chaise by noted furniture maker... KHSDJSRUY.

Frankenstein Viktor Frankenstein is a deadbeat dad. Likes to make the babies, can't be bothered to raise them. I need to read the book, just placed it on hold in the library. It's GDT, so of course it's absolutely gorgeous and fantastical. The color palettes, the sets, cinematography, stunning.

Exactly what you'd expect from the Christmas rom-com genre. Perfectly fine for the turkey coma crowd, moms, etc. One laudable thing (that I notice a lot of other reviews mentioning) is actual French people and French being spoken. Subtitles! A bit of authenticity is nice. Minka Kelly... also nice.

It can wipe you out if you are working too. Nobody's safe.

Woke up to a new De La Soul album and a David Byrne Tiny Desk (including "Nothing but Flowers"). All right.

And the tree is mostly done! Still need her decorations from Kym’s house later this week.

Love getting out of PA and hitting small-town liquor stores in upstate NY. All this stuff that the SLA doesn’t bring in, or sells out immediately. If I had a bigger car I would have brought home eight more. Anyway, I’m set for sipping for a while.

I call this The Inimitable, because it would be impossible to make again, I kept making adjustments. Nice Christmas cocktail for trimming the tree, with some Australian Christmas Gin.

It's funny I don't remember this being the take during the Biden presidency

My understanding of climate change & associated risks limited my job search geographically. I was fortunate that it did not foreclose my options altogether...

On the Factor Fexcectorn and autism bicycle AI slop study: I got an answer from Springer Nature this morning that this scientific paper will be retracted! 🧪 Full story: nobreakthroughs.substack.com/p/riding-the...

This autism infographic was obvious slop but it made it through two rounds of peer review at one of the most trusted academic publishers in the world. How did that happen? What else has made it past? Hoping users of generative AI are so sloppy and expecting the public to catch them is not a solution

Oh nothing. Just a major conservative activist, former staffer for Chuck Grassley and a former clerk for Justice Neil Gorsuch calling me a "retarded pussy." Fun stuff on X, the everything site.

Every single congressional Democrat needs to be out there, right now, insisting that Pete Hegseth resign right now and announcing that he will be held accountable for committing war crimes. If you do not demand accountability here and now, they will only become more emboldened.

Effectively there is no *one* person performing the duties of President of the United States right now. We are in an interregnum with an occupied throne.

Not wanting to disappoint you so much that it lies is the last quality I want in a computer.

“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan

JD Vance loves nothing more than telling insane lies about this nation’s history

I can’t buy copy paper because my general accounts are frozen by university mandate, but BK gets 54 million not to work

I was trying to remember a particularly egregious Trump ambassador pick and I started scrolling through all of them and yikes. It really hits you how nuts this administration and its era is.

Not only is food more expensive, it is much more likely to make you sick and harm you, or give your baby botulism