watched someone sing “take me out to the ball game” at bar karaoke. happy new year.

Rest in peace to Mike F, one of the all-time greats

how to blow up a pipeline is a christmas movie

richard thompson would do a great cover of audrey hobert's "thirst trap"

so true !

If you're having trouble watching other versions, here's an Internet Archive link for the 60 Minutes CECOT segment suppressed by Bari Weiss in the U.S.

Posted it

Presenting the 2025 Shams Charania Award For Excellence In Divulging Of Information Through Syntax Comprehended By Many: defector.com/presenting-t...

The atomic ensemble time scale at the NIST Boulder campus has failed.

"Wind broke time" is the perfect way to close out 2025 (no alt text but it's a screenshot of groups.google.com/a/list.nist.... )

catching up for #peoplespop25 with 3 that need little explication (already had them for thetwen2ie5: Lorde - What Was That (NZ) Bad Bunny - BAILE INoLVIDABLE (PR) Amaarae - S.M.O (Ghana/USA)

Massive congratulations are owed to the folks at @tvrr.bsky.social for their work on International Boulevard. It is *unquestionable* that their advocacy has saved multiple lives, something not many people can say. Quick 🧵on their blog post. www.oakrapidresponse.org/posts/intern...

People are like "oh so you're saying you want there to be no food huh" like my brother in Christ they're draining the Colorado River to grow alfalfa to feed to racehorses in Saudi Arabia youtu.be/owieQnPYfT8?...

the full speech is something to see & is one of the reasons it is good to have a trans member of congress youtu.be/5LqVMCW4e0c?...

#peoplespop25 3/7 A JOCK JAM TO CRY TO jim legxacy - ‘06 wayne rooney (from black british music (2025), XL, UK) youtu.be/RhjZgIk9oCs

#peoplespop25 2/7 great song to post from an airport terminal (esp in its perfected form) PinkPantheress - Stateside + Zara Larsson (from Fancy Some More?, Warner, UK/Sweden as helpfully noted within the song) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEQw...

a good and necessary read for many

APT Thai. I hitch a ride on a motif as it swims from nation to nation. koganbot.substack.com/p/apt-thai

#peoplespop25 day 1/7 yves - White Cat (from the Soft Error EP, Paix Per Mil, South Korea) Capybaras mentioned (i think!) www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuBE...

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

no one ever mentions the 2014 drake bachata moment www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8r-...

i should be able to send mail from any library and return any library book at the post office

someone tell the California ACLU who is disproportionately more likely to be killed in traffic accidents including those involving people under the influence

taking my own guys hostage, pointing the gun at *my* head, hostage negotiator's confused, i'm confused, hostages are confused,

god i love sportswriting

actually sampling "Prisencolinensinainciusol" would have been better but interpolating it is still pretty sick www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gwj...

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the only two people remaining on tommy richman island are me and tom breihan

I took on the mythology of the "Kamala is for they/them" ad. Since the morning after the 2024 election, trans people have been scapegoated for Harris' loss, with that infamous ad at the centre of recriminations. But a deeper analysis shows that voters are largely indifferent to trans people.

BREAKING: A federal judge ordered the government to restore Rümeysa Öztürk's SEVIS student record after it was wrongfully terminated in retaliation for exercising her freedom of speech. This allows her to fully engage with the opportunities of her PhD program.

Claude the albino alligator is dead My story with @aidinvaziri.bsky.social Lots of cool facts from biologists I've interviewed. Claude knew his name & briefly had a pit-mate named "Bonnie." Most common question from guests: "Is he real?" RIP to an SF icon 🐊 😢 www.sfchronicle.com/entertainmen...

What it feels like to play Minecraft: War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner. What it feels like to play terraria:

"we found a Type Of Guy who represents a particularly helpful corner of the latent space" is easily my favorite type of positive LLM posting.

I am SO EXCITED to share this Fifth Saturday extra: @annleckie.com and @byzantienne.bsky.social in conversation about questions of empire and imperialism in their respective novels. Read it now: www.speculativeinsight.com/extras/leckie-and-martine

here, some music! my 50 favorite-ish songs of the 2020s so far for #thetwen2ie5 (have some late-breaking contenders from the past month, but those will come later) open.spotify.com/playlist/1B3...

Timeline cleanse: welcoming fall chum salmon home to Piper’s Creek in Seattle, WA.

Now that you've preordered @stewartbrand.bsky.social's new book, read an exclusive excerpt on Ideas, the Long Now blog: longnow.org/ideas/the-es...

#3157 A helpful tutorial

Here’s a thing m.soundcloud.com/cureforbedbu...

i have one follow up question on the newjeans news

A zoomable, fully searchable archive of every single page of every single issue of BYTE magazine from 1975-1998. “I hope seeing everything in single, searchable place offers a unique perspective.” (via @jonudell.bsky.social) [byte.tsundoku.io]

the beths: pretty clearly the best rock band of the decade!

this is the most informative label on Bluesky, mufo-gossipy division

jewishwonk and tenuredradical definitely the two twitter @s that make me laugh the most every time i see them

OC has gone woke, I repeat, OC has gone woke