This was weird as hell. First time in history one of these “talk about” questions has ever yielded an interesting answer; just not sure why.

Did they get rid of goaltending too?

Still

I think it's great that my eyes have been tearing for a week because of pollen and now it's going to rain for the whole holiday weekend.

This is how the pipes on my sink work, actually. I asked for it that way.

If u know u know

Pacers, haven't heard much about them lately, too bad.

Not gonna read an English best-music listicle. Saw The Tindersticks and bailed. Come on; don’t know what that is.

She suuuuucks

I don’t approve of modern day basketball but it’s pretty funny to see Wemby pick the ball up outside the three point line, take like five eight-foot steps and then dunk it.

Man fuck Oklahoma City. These people look dumb in their matching outfits.

I mean they’re not wrong about b. Americans disgraced themselves by electing the guy twice and proved themselves terminally untrustworthy. It’s bad!

So. Does anyone in Charlottesville have an air conditioning repair recommendation?

I’ve always felt ambivalent about Robert Hunter’s reluctance to explain his Grateful Dead lyrics. But now, having accidentally learned that Franklin’s Tower is about the fucking U.S. bicentennial, I am strongly in favor of not knowing any more.

The 24 team CFB playoff idea is bad, but with that being said, conference title games are stupid and so are conferences.

The new Neurosis record

Man this was hot stuff! Band was great and Charlottesville represented.

I had this idea that one of my kids would be “the neat one.” What the hell happened

Those Washington Post podcast people are just extremely dire looking.

I don’t think it’s really necessary to try to find defenses for Spanberger on the veto thing. Occam’s razor is just she sucks a little.

Did a little neighborhood forum tonight and we have a lot of UVa people, and I have to say folks are *pissed* about this.

hope you like the hot stove, we are gonna spend the rest of this term — and some time after — cooking our own asses on it because the president and every single person he has appointed has not bought their own groceries since the clinton administration

Louder for the “left” NIMBYs in the back “This shift is driven by a surge in supply. More inventory is still on the way, with peak units expected to deliver by the end of (the second quarter).”

Honestly this weekend, for the first time in a while, I was kinda shocked at how much we spent on groceries. Wasn't anything real crazy in there, either.

Being fiscally responsible so I’m not gonna buy this shirt but man it’s tough.

I'm really really betting it all on mamdani being successful in new york bc a lot of the stuff I think is most important policy-wise re dense transit centered development is so fucking despised across the political spectrum

It feels undignified and insulting to even point out the hypocrisy, because they revel in it, but the fact that these ghouls rolled out two contradictory definitions of “when is an election” within a week really gives the whole thing away.

VA *voters* voted for the referendum. and our SC overturning the will of the voters should be sufficient to enact any and all pro-democracy measures. not doing so makes you *what*, dems?

These people are content to present themselves to the world as such chumps and losers, and I just don’t know what to say about it anymore.

Hey cool thanks for wasting all of our time for a few months there.

It was late and I was listening to the Grateful Dead so I did not write this clearly, but I found an example of an AI hallucination that confidently gave me wrong information in the wild.

really not hard to differentiate developers and landlords! developers mostly do not want to be in the landlord business, the capital structures you want for those businesses are totally different and mostly in conflict

If you're the kind of person this means anything to ... Dave's Picks 58 is excellent.

One especially infuriating part of this ruling is that past GOP gerrymandering may have enabled it. Democrats narrowly lost Virginia’s House in 2021 using the prior GOP-drawn map. That gave the GOP the power to appoint two justices under Gov. Glenn Youngkin—one of whom was in the 4-3 majority here

"the voters will have their say in the election" is an uninspiring and demoralizing response to a court overturning the result of an election

Oh

She is completely useless.

that the virginia supreme court allowed the referendum to go forward - they could have stopped it - and then ruled this way really gives up the game the only difference between now and then is that the we know the result and they didn't like it

yes. change the statute on which this decision turned and redistrict according to the legitimacy conferred by the people of the state

Virginia Gov @abigailspanberger.com and Democratic legislature should pass immediate legislation to redistrict anyway. If the old confederate states can do it post Callais - so can Dems in Virginia if they care about saving our democracy.

The problem—which both the GOP and the milquetoast institutionalists seem to not be grappling with here—is that the more you close off avenues of political change through the democratic process, the more you push people to see extra-institutional mechanisms as their only option

I think a lot of people are underestimating just how politically radicalizing this stuff is, when you see what the right is getting away with, including with the blessing of the Supreme Court majority

I would say we need Spanberger to show some courage and creativity here that I’m not convinced she is capable of showing.

Some things need to happen

I don’t really have a dog in the Flaming Lips fight but jeez Wayne Coyne pretty consistently comes across as a huge POS.

Andor bluray when?

I’ll believe more in the promise of AI when my phone’s autocorrect can figure out what I mean when I type “Tge”

Bought an expensive winter coat for 50% off and I believe I’m hereby fixed.

Gonna watch The Terminator

When my wife loads the dishwasher it looks like one of those spiderwebs where they gave the spider LSD.