Don't sweat it. Polymarket will tell us when they expect him to kick

Six hour mandatory Saturday Zoom call with over 300 people. It's going about as well as you might expect.

Huge win for Wisconsin since the Packers live rent-free in Bears' fans heads

It's great fun watching people try to debunk James Talarico's statement that the Biblical God is non-binary without themselves falling into the common heresy of not-quite-Trinitarianism.

Snickers salad.

One other way of looking at AI hype is this: even if it sticks, it will still offer no one any competitive advantage. That can come only from human intelligence. AI can change the nature of the need. It cannot cure the need itself.

Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani

I don't think Chef John is on Bluesky, but here's his Salisbury steak, which is delicious. www.allrecipes.com/recipe/28090...

I just want to promote one of the OG college football websites. Pete Fiutak has been at it so long he even predates Pickin' On The Big Ten. And he's still going strong. Respect.

New Mitchell and Webb? New Mitchell and Webb. youtu.be/tMzJUfZ3lvU?...

After almost 24 years, we're empty nesters. So ... NOW what?

Respighi's Pines of Rome is an absolute banger

Everything you need to know about how seriously the US news media takes politics is summed up by this: every Republican they interview lives in a small town far from every city and every Democrat they interview (if any) either has an Ivy League degree or purple hair.

Slightly increase a band: 312

11cc

Joy Corps.

Slightly increase a band: The Four Tops and a Cute Skirt

Slightly increase a band: 10,147 Maniacs

Everyone is way off, the Gen X song is Break My Stride

[at the last judgment] JESUS: And the baby prisons? EVANGELICALS: to own the libs, right JESUS: And the libs, who are they EVANGELICALS: uh mostly illegal aliens. if we really hate a pretty girl we call her fatherless. some widows JESUS: Alien, fatherless, widow, got it. So you see these millstones

I just asked Gemini to come up with the lyrics to a country song that panders to small-town people and I gotta say, it did a GREAT job

Great example of the longstanding New York Times genre “Common Thing Interesting Because Harvard Does It”

I look down at pablum made by hacks for the sole or primary aim of achieving celebrity or wealth. But if you have a heartfelt pop song in your heart and it strikes gold, that's good for everybody.

Don't look down at popular mainstream things just for being popular and mainstream. Not everyone who aims at a broad target actually *hits* that target.

"Let that sink in" is a clue that you were just told some elegant BS.

"Cos Cob" is a great town name

I've only ever seen the original three movies, haven't even seen those in 30 years, and I have no desire to see or read anything else about Star Wars.

i'm gonna remake ferris bueller but at the end cameron beats the shit out of ferris and leaves him for dead

It was a fine day here in Baja Illinois

I think this just confirms even more that generative AI is to seniors what Facebook was to seniors a decade ago

It was a good night for a cheese steak.

Bold prediction: the NFL will wind up cutting at least one round from the draft.

We got about 10 minutes of small hail to go with an absolute rain dump.

If your show has lots of lore or is part of something you can call a "universe," I ain't watching.

$3.35 selling Christmas trees at Earl May Garden Center in 1989.

If the show goes on, I’m sorry, but I’m not taking this as a serious thing. Real active shooter situations mean clearing the place and taking witness statements, not waiting for Jessica Fletcher to show up the next day to sort things out.

Gen X middle age is discovering that you'd really like to have a Buick LeSabre but they stopped making them 21 years ago and you don't know what the contemporary equivalent is

Vance and Rubio will drag each other under like people pulling at lifeboats.

I worked at a Big Tech Company where they banned taxis and made everyone take Ubers. Saves us millions, they said Then Uber had to start making money and suddenly they were more expensive than taxis Anyway, can't wait for the tech CTOs to learn why AI is so "cheap" right now

The Epstein saga rolls onwards and the people in power who could do things to bring the abusers to justice are refusing to do anything. It's like they think we don't care about kids being hurt. Anyway, enjoy the new Michael Jackson movie.

Everyone needs a country to be obsessed with for no particular reason. Mine is Uruguay. What's yours?

My youngest daughter taught me that pico de gallo on enchiladas is a must. She is correct.

I felt bad for Iowa State so I made a donation to @newap-georgia.bsky.social in their honor. Of course, I made sure it got credited to Iowa.

"Two weeks" has always meant "indefinitely," so.

That's $19.99 for the year Kirk Ferentz took over for Hayden and started making people real mad on the Internet, plus the processing fee, because I work in the not-for-profit sector myself.

There was that good old tweet about seeing a Conor Friedersdorf's byline, saying "Conow FWEEDesdowf" in a Homestar Runner voice, then immediately closing the tab

I can't stop thinking about Elmer Fudd being asked his opinion on Clavicular. "Cwavicuwuh?"

My wife is in Florida, I'm going to be like this all week. I'm terribly sorry. Usually she listens to this stuff so you never have to see it.