based on my experience, lawyers wouldn’t sign off on a piece if they didn’t think you did enough to try to get a comment from the subject of a story

snagged two new tats during my week in Europe (one in the UK, the other in Germany) and I am really happy to add them to the collection

gahhhh just seeing the Tom Stoppard news. damn. i got a tattoo with a R&G are dead quote a few years back and it’s one of my faves, still.

went on a long ride, chilled with my cat, made some delicious corn casserole and ate sooooo much pie. feeling quite thankful.

some folks in my neighborhood are not happy that the construction on the Wendy’s appears to have stalled (for months at this point)

unless there’s a big shift, Mamdani’s vote margin in the general over Cuomo is going to be bigger than in the primary (after ranked choice)

with turnout so high, Mamdani is going to be the first NYC mayoral candidate to break a million votes since the 60s

i have way less fomo on buying new electronics because it seems like most of the “improvements” revolve around ai and tbh i do not care

the clock on the oven is finally right again, thank goodness

truly if I had to eat only one meal the rest of my life it would be shakshuka

poppy seed bagel, whitefish salad, red onion, capers, lox.

Phillies outscoring the Dodgers in this series and losing 3-1 is kind of a microcosm of the offense this season.

Parlays have become incredibly popular, with many betting apps encouraging these high-stakes multi-leg bets. But as legs are added, the chance of winning drops faster than the growth of the potential payout - which means sportsbooks have the advantage. Explore the math and and try your own bets:

Schuylkill

GO BIRDS

happy 3²/4²/5² to ask those who celebrate

go birds

i’ve said it a million times before: videos should not autoplay by default on any social media site

go birds

turns out you can indict a ham sandwich but not the man who threw it

just want to note that the way you’re supposed to dispose of an american flag is by burning it.

the presidents war on higher education in this country affects a lot more than those who attend the most prestigious institutions. so i set out to figure out who attends college in America by combing through as much data as i could. here’s what i found.

please stop asking a.i. to do basic math

i cannot recommend The Murderbot Diaries highly enough. i read all seven books in the past two weeks and found them terribly difficult to put down.

"please provide the data in a machine-readable data format such as csv" gets 17,000 page pdf anyways

NOVA

i've tried zoom but my ears don't work that way

my 2003 toyota tacoma has a tape player and crank windows and that is about all the technology i want in my vehicle tyvm

the only time i don't feel tired is when i lie down to try to sleep because of course

being able to effectively turn off the fireworks is one of the very few benefits of having lost most of my hearing

this is not an original thought but i'd really love it if when i bought a book that i'd get the e-book for free as well. i just love to read analog books but for traveling they suck.

finally a team in Philly!

cut my life into pieces

today is not my day. booked it to the office. forgot my badge. no worries, i'll show my id and they'll let me in. forgot my wallet. excellent. all that sweat for nothing.

looking for book recos. gimme non-fiction on interesting topics or fiction in the magical realism realm pls and thx

a thing keeping me sane this year has been weekly asl classes, which both have the benefit of being interesting but also have allowed my partner and i to talk shit in front of people without them knowing

my version of chekhov's gun for news stories is when a story puts in parenthesis an acronym for something they just spelled out but that acronym is neither commonly known nor used again in the story

i do not recall posting this at 1 in the morning but i stand by it

my version of minimalism is that i don’t like the idea of one device that does all the things actually what i want is a dozen devices that each do one thing

*comes out of woodshop* *looks at phone* *goes back to woodshop*

i’m bored let’s make something from this hunk of wood

some of my favorite data stories are mythical numbers stories. journalists should ask for the underlying data on statistics way more often.

i fell so far down the blue prince rabbit hole and i think i reached an end but i still have so many questions!

tfw you make your error flag on your ai prompt script "uh oh spaghettios" and the script fails every time

i was so tired last night i forgot to charge my hearing aids so i’m walking around the office with one in that’s lightly charged while the other one charges a little and then switching them. it’s,,,,,, not fun.

to take my mind off things i have been playing blue prince of late. i had a blast. highly recommend.

i’m good, thanks

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Lyme disease robbed me of most of my hearing but sure

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