another one of my brain’s “close enough” attempts at recall, was puzzled briefly that Howard Jones’ Greatest Hits didn’t include “While You See a Chance” before Steve Winwood reëmerged from the mists (cf. previous Travis-Keane confusion)

when I see polisci/policy types trying to use norms like Senate comity to sniff at angry hoi polloi reax it makes me wonder 1) why they don’t realize that norms can compete with each other but also 2) how have you missed that this is downstream of much more critical norms failing?

it’s weird to me how Mitch McConnell has been talking to just about everyone but his comms staff

i know you’re looking for it. here she is, girls. here she is, world

just thinking about all the artichoke tortilla breakfasts I could have had by now if this had played out properly

I was seriously thinking that with the money in sports betting these days this has to be in progress

just did a quick search to confirm and “eked out” is perilously close to losing its place to “eeked out”

that's osprey-tainment Moira voice: un bébé! really seemed like it was going to be a nothing walk, a few killdeer, sun behind hazy clouds, but then... #camanoisland #osprey 🪶

Police officer: “now sir, we can hold you for up to 36 hours before we have to charge you or let you go” Me: “but someone WILL hold me, right?”

I forgot the gag in ‘The Wagner Method’ (orig. ‘César Wagner’) (PBS) is what if the Imaginary Invalid was a police detective. This ep he’s got a new health monitoring watch, asthma, and cervical arthritis.

this is marvelous

now THAT’S the Viking row

apart from everything else, this is just terrible pedagogical practice

Leeds lewk Leeds lurk pt.2

🧐 think my weather app is coming on to me

any cinephile worth their salt knows they’re simply waiting for the new McConnell’s plastic surgery to heal

Last night, after a long battle with heart disease and without regaining consciousness, Konstantin Chernenko was appointed General Secretary of the Communist Party.

I don’t do a lot of political analysis on here but today I was at the gas pump next to a Silverado with Idaho plates whose owner was complaining loudly about the “gangsters” running things and Trump paying himself “trillions” (pause) “not that the Dem bitch was better”

A landmark entry for the #medievalism scholars

The North remembers

Please fund my new startup, which sells magnetised disposable coffee cups so that you can put one on top of a car at the traffic lights and everyone will point, wave and gesticulate at the driver. It builds real world social engagement. Personalisation and advertising options available.

“Resolution Condemning Genocide and Apartheid in Palestine and Calling for Arms Embargo on Israel” (added alt text to @wadems.org original post)

In the pre-cell phone times, my friends and I rode our bikes to the neighborhood hardware store and bought a bunch of 8 ft long wood dowels and then put on old hockey equipment and used the wood dowels to joust on our bikes in a public park

hey uh trying to sleep over here

just a note to the doubters that my little jar of orphan screws & misc came in very handy just now!

as was written in the scriptures…

I'm so thankful to Becky and her mom for their trust, generosity, and strength in front of the Supreme Court. No matter what the Court says, Becky is a hero for standing up for herself and trans girls like her. Doing what's right, even when the odds are against you, is the definition of courage.

speculative but you know how the fortress wall-front end of pickup trucks & SUVs is more dangerous for pedestrians? you wouldn’t believe the number of dead birds I see biking around a little island where the top speed is 45mph just saw a (dead) deer hit so hard I can’t describe the result

Matt Levine just kinda casually dropping in his newsletter in a deadpan sure-everybody-knows-this way that the datacenter AND buy-now-pay-later booms are funded by exactly the same money--same firms! same people!--that have been driving private equity is such a pro move.

People don’t understand real wealth is a deep freezer full of reduced priced meat

good afternoon

The Sheep Detectives (2026)

Incidentally, the first female English poet we know about was named Leoba. We only know about her because she wrote a poem in Latin in a manuscript that survived for entirely unrelated reasons. www.medievalists.net/2026/03/leob...

Gentrification without displacement is called minority investment…

And here's a round little #Borb for Rob's main #BirdOfTheDay of #Rotund. Saw this little burrowing owl during a trip to the zoo with my mom in Fort Worth and thought it was adorable. 🦉😃 #Photography #Birds #Owls

Trying to watch The Sheep Detectives but repeatedly thrown out of the story because the junior reporter/obit kid is shooting with a Leica?

People on the organ transplant list:

*Ecotopia intensifies*

I try to time all my online arguments for when the other person, suffering from mild heat stroke, is barely conscious and on their last nerve, so very pleased to see this cheat code catching on

Seattle folks: Kosman Takes (in) a 9th at Benaroya

Alt text: a gif where Conan O’Brien throws a football at Andy Richter, who swats it right back at Conan’s head

where is the respect of government for its citizens? this behavior is so corrosive to the civil compact which was already incredibly strained by people having to demand MURDERS BE INVESTIGATED

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

For perspective, this is equivalent to what I earned as an assistant professor fresh out of grad school 25 years ago in a rust belt city where large houses in nice neighborhoods near the university cost $150k.

Over the past 13 years police in the United States have killed approximately 16,000 people. Over the same period in the UK, the figure is 34

Native rough fish story by @lollardfish.bsky.social in today’s Star Tribune! Like our favorite living fossils, PRINT media is persistent and probably even more relevant in these AI times 📰👍

The reason the British punditocracy cannot discuss how Starmer's support has vanished due to the way he's treated the marginalised, is because doing so would require said-punditocracy to confront the ways in which they themselves have bedded with fascists and contributed to that minoritisation.