it's important to have family traditions. in our house, we do loaded nachos on NYE. studying previous iterations before beginning prep for tonight's...

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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

i keep reading "it's giving tuesday" and reading it the wrong way.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

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reporting for sibling duty to provide a regular reminder about my brother's global magazine store in pdx. the shop's called chess club, and it's an amazing space. print's back, baby

I never understand when ads or spam or something begin with "Did someone say...???" No, no one said "discounted shipping." What a weird thing that would be to just say.

me explaining daylight saving time to the cat

For the 6th year in a row, a player named Will Smith has won the World Series 2020 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers 2021 - Will Smith (RP), Braves 2022 - Will Smith (RP), Astros 2023 - Will Smith (RP), Rangers 2024 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers 2025 - Will Smith (C), Dodgers

Fwiw, it’s nice to have a place to chat during a live event. That was one of the things that Twitter was great for. Before the dark times. Before the empire.

sometimes there are 18 of them

guy on the left: how I thought my night was gonna go guy on the right: this game

trying to imagine if you’d lost a World Series because your center fielder trucked the left fielder and the ball dropped in the outfield

we have an extra hour, it’s fine

The Blue Jays have an inherent advantage in hockey-style brawls in game 7 of the World Series for obvious reasons 🇨🇦

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Saying “Bo Bichette” with the same cadence as “Boba Fett” just to be a pain in the ass

Looking at the trending data, 2035 is going to see a 22 inning Game 3

oh my god, The Tweet is exactly ten years old tonight

Still the greatest endorsement of all time

baseball is the best preparation for death because it does not come with a clock that tells you when your suffering will end one way or the other

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oops @sarambsimon.bsky.social

"ai is as accurate as a Bears/Browns/Jets quarterback" is going to save a certain type of guy a lot of grief if deployed correctly

This is a great catalogue of Who Goes MAGA. I propose an additional category, possibly a subcategory of the Contrarian Intellectual: The Bring Back Meritocracy Guy. He succeeded in his field thanks to his first wife's uncredited editing & other help (1/n) www.techdirt.com/2025/07/08/w...

Microsoft will no longer allow Israel to use its cloud services to enable its mass surveillance of occupied Palestinians – "the first known case of a US technology company withdrawing services provided to the Israeli military since the beginning of its war on Gaza"

anti-anti-fascist feels like it should have a one-word synonym

Hope the Etsy witches who got hired by Jezebel to curse Charlie Kirk have called their lawyers.

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

a few months ago, i saw a turtle in a nearby park. my husband wasn't with me to bear witness to said turtle but nonetheless joins me now in calling the park "turtle park." this to me is true love

two pottery updates in one week, because desperate times call for more intentional joy: here's a latte that @mike.tig.as made this morning in my new favorite little cup

#NICAR25 was amazing, but it’s good to be home

oh heck yeah, someone made a custom bsky feed for #NICAR #NICAR25 — bsky.app/profile/did:... (kudos to @loganfinney.com!)

This is the link to the #NICAR25 Tech Regulators session slide deck btw: bit.ly/nicar25-tech...

news nerd friends, i’m at #NICAR25 — come say hi! and in classic fashion, i’m a last-minute add to a session:

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Every review of AI is like: This isn’t very useful and it makes it harder to do simple tasks than if I just did it myself. Riddled with errors. Can’t see anyone using this. I feel stupider having tried this. That said I believe it will soon make human cognition redundant and eradicate us all.

I was led to believe by R.E.M. that I would feel a lot better about this.

I love every review of a high end camera that's like "I tried the $9000 Leica M11 for a week and I was BLOWN AWAY by the results!" and then the article is full of the most absolute dogshit photos you've ever witnessed

Blue sky is awesome because a bunch of people who like to make jokes and a bunch of people who are incapable of identifying a joke are forced to share space

it's gotta be weird if you aren't into football at all but follow people who do. you're just minding your own business, enjoying yourself on social media, and all of a sudden everybody says DOINK at the same time and doesn't bother to explain why