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*yeets a golden apple engraved with "To The Least Problematic" into your group chat*

can this man call me? I have 100 questions defector.com/biathlon-oly...

Duolingo just informed me that one of my friends “came back to learn Spanish after 3 years”… the power of that halftime show…

I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.

The wonderful thing about Tyggers Is Tyggers are burning bright Their tops are made out of rubber In the forest of the night What bouncy, trouncy, flouncy, pouncy, Immortal hand or eye Did frame the most wonderful thing about Tyggers, Their fearful symmetry!

Macbeth: SHIT

what a shot

:guy who has only seen In the Heights: I’m getting In the Heights vibes from this

What's the most you ever lost on a coin toss? Anton Chigurh here for FanDuel,

Guys, guys—I found a Superb Owl that is also a Super Bowl!!!

Went to the Castro Theatre reopening last night to see a movie, and was very surprised to find myself thinking: "Could it be that all my worries were unfounded? What's happening here?!"

All of us during the Olympics:

“If you’d like me to take a look at that, please open a GitHub issue and assign it to me”

this false spring in the Bay Area on Super Bowl week beginning to piss me off. the very nice weather deprives SF tourists a core local experience: frantically buying a $100 low-quality sweatshirt bc the fog rolled in and they are caught in shorts and a t-shirt

Blueskyese and Xian share an obvious common root as both being Twitteric languages, the difference is that after the split Xian became a hybrid Twitteric/Channer-linkedin tongue, while Blueskyese changed less overall but did pick up some tumbleric and redditor loanwords

Oh my god: not only did the pandemic kill my "Cyrano" production at Cutting Ball & then the theater itself, now its website has been taken over by AI gibberish and if you google "Cyrano Cutting Ball" you get THIS: cuttingball.com/play/cyrano-...

There's no easy way to say this: isthmus

lmao wait this happened in LAKE OSWEGO

well, good news, I showed up to Zazie to end my Dry January and get some reading done, and there are 2 customers here chatting away in French. Had to sit far away from them so I’m not tempted to eavesdrop!

Like every artistic director in the American theater, Donald Trump has decided his performing arts organization needs a new building.

when your public moment of vulnerability undergoes memetic semantic degradation

great news, and a great righteously angry piece of legal prose, but they really missed an opportunity to quote "it does not say RSVP on the Statue of Liberty"

people don't expect me to be a Slob, but I totally am

I tried to keep my "👏 concert 👏 movies 👏 are 👏 documentaries" rant in check, but the Swiftie in me cannot allow the the claim that Melania had the biggest documentary opening in 10 years to go unanswered when the Eras Tour movie cleared $130 million in three days

I have GOT to be invited to a winter wedding at some point in my life so I have an excuse to get a rose velveteen suit like Pharrell's

Ruby Dee as Cordelia in the American Shakespeare Festival's production of King Lear, 1965

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

oh we are so back. grab your hats, girls! we going to 2008!

It’s also funny since Orson Welles gave Eartha Kitt her start onstage by casting her as Helen of Troy in a version of Dr Faustus in…1950.

"Nobody knows in America / Puerto Rico's in America" -- Bad Bunny #grammys

feel like they didn't give Lola Young enough time in this New Artist medley but damn if she didn't make the most of it #grammys

When Sabrina Carpenter sings “fuck my life,” it is not a cuss word, it is art, a civilized society would recognize this

There are very few arts people I've found exceedingly difficult to interview but what do you know one of them has 190 hits in the Epstein files.

that little girl has every right to be on the sidewalk of her own damn city. she lives here. i don't want to hear any shit about how she shouldn't have been down there. she is a citizen of portland oregon and she is entitled to use of our public sidewalks at all times

someone posted about art deco computers recently and i havent stopped thinking about them. idk how practical the wood is but i dig it

A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.

We should both be elated that the transit loan was approved AND remember that Newsom should have approved this last year. Not only is the loan smaller, but it took tons of advocacy, a big protest & months of behind the scenes negotiations. All that energy could have instead gone into Nov measure.

You can test new tech ideas using the Seinfeld Test Would the product eliminate the plot of an episode? (Google maps, cell phones, paypal, battery packs) Good tech. Would the product inspire new Seinfeld plots? (NFTs, AI chatbots, crypto currency, blindboxes, metaverse land sales) Bad tech.

the epstein stuff is disturbing not just morally but epistemically. how much of the random stuff that is happening now that seems kind bad is, in fact, the work of one rich pervert I'm going to find out about in 30 years?

James Frey, it's your time to shine!

I did not have students today, and I think almost every teacher at the (small) school I was at took the day off to join. Good for them.

i once bought a new blazer for a schitts creek panel, and when i walked into the green room, catherine o'hara complimented me on it, and also noted that i had forgotten to cut all the threads off the vents. and then she leaned in and said, "it's because you're going to return it, isn't it"

reminds me of a friend who explained why recent years have felt so weird to so many millennials here and it’s because “we went into the pandemic young people and came out of it old”

The new Harriet Powers USPS postage stamps are so moving. Featuring details from formerly enslaved Powers’s “Pictorial Quilt” of 1898, I’m so glad these stamps will bring her work & life story to more people, especially when so much Black history is being erased from the public realm right now 💌

“Have you still got those green pills I gave you?” “We mustn't worry him with technical talk. The worst thing for this sort of case is discussion.” “There’s nothing wrong with you. If you need a prescription, I’ll go so far as to say you ought to be married.” www.thechatner.com/p/signs-your...

The groups and individuals in California that are fighting to block more housing production—many of whom claim to be fighting for progressive values—seem intent on delivering the White House to JD Vance.