If I had a nickel for every juror #8 fancam I've seen in the past couple days I'd have two nickels. That's not a lot but it's still weird it happened twice.

I wouldn't want to run it, but I would open a lavishly funded translation publishing house. Gorgeous affordable hardbacks, full living wages for translators and editors, translator retreats in the woods...

I’ve been thinking about this for 2 weeks now: at the marine biology talk I went to about bioluminescence, a girl in her 20s stood up to ask, “why study this? Is there a product you can make out of it?” I was irate. You study it because it’s fascinating. You study it to understand our world!

i came away from the vid wondering why the beast man does not simply hire a games master to design his games for him when he clearly has the money to do something like that. but then again this is the guy who was surprised to learn that packaging is actually designed by actual human beings

Insecure men: the cause of, and self-appointed solution to, all of life’s problems

having the opportunity to feign surprise and drop this line would give me a kind of high no drug could reproduce

i cant believe he said this

China, mid-1970s. A school class lined up, red scarves bright against worn jackets. One boy wears a white paper flower a symbol that spread after Zhou Enlai’s death.

A "young faculty stimulator" online game was launched in China in December 2025 and by January 2026, it had attracted 600k players. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Great how on one side we have a party of Dick Tracy villains and on the other we have a party of Knives Out suspects.

wow, those are horrible 😀 These are the Dutch paperbacks from years ago

An interesting thing I'm noticing in the current batch of student papers, which are about questions of influence in 20th-c Chinese painting: Students writing about ink paintings that include inscriptions (such as this Xu Beihong portrait of Li Yinquan, dated 1943) tend to think of the inscription...

Men who use the word vehicle?

Centrists on here will say, "oh you want to firebomb a Walmart? That pales in comparison to my strategy, voting" and then firebomb a Walmart

Something like the "tours for the culturally curious" that advertise in high-brow publications like the London Review of Books, but for places like Nebraska and Wisconsin.

I might be misremembering but isn’t her entire thing “covid isn’t over”? I highly doubt anyone else there was wearing a mask

admittedly a particularly weird one for you today but

can't help but wonder what harsh words the editor-in-chief of mother jones would have for mother jones herself.

unrelenting

I’m sorry for everyone who almost got shot at the orphan crushing factory but what were you doing at the orphan crushing factory

Same energy

sipping my morning coffee with a bit of: "从来如此，便对吗” 鲁迅 "has it always been this way - does that make it right"? Lu Xun

Greetings from Hong Kong Biodiversity Museum, an University collection of various Hong Kong animals 🐍 🪸 🐡

good post significantly improved by the account it’s coming from

I still think about this banger from time to time. Ages like a fine wine.

a little confused about the original, but how about οὐκ ἂν κακῶς ἀποβαίη - it can't end badly.

If I had a nickel for every distant island full of penguins Trump dragged into a geopolitical crisis, I would have two nickels. Which is not a lot, but it’s still weird that it happened twice.

Yeah, no point in agitating for senior retirements when the lines won't be replaced.

Are you more Bouba (The Handerson) or Kiki (Bank of China Tower)?

this guy, Republicans insisted. the party elite propped him up, kept him out of jail, gave him billions. the party rank and file voted for him in lockstep. it has to be this guy bsky.app/profile/atru...

It Mamdani really wants to make NYC great again, he should pull a Hong Kong and put cooked food centers on top of the city owned grocery stores

Revoking kids' visas because their parents criticized Elon Musk.

Internal Pentagon email suggests suspending Spain from Nato and reviewing US support for UK claim on Falklands, over lack of support for Iran War. "Suspending Spain would have a limited effect on US military operations but a significant symbolic impact, the email says"

Bitchmade chads in podcasts have ruined us.

ok I’m too tired so opening this up to other thoughts. συμβαίνω? τελευτάω? optative, subjunctive, or regular future?

Made it to the start of the Tiger Leaping Gorge. Last bit involved a 2km uphill switchback to the Naxi Guesthouse. Will cycle through tomorrow when I’ve rehydrated. #China #cycling

I guess there’s smth comforting about knowing that old guys giving themselves brain worms and lighting their legacies on fire is at least not a new problem Anyway, now to open a history book and read about how Athens quickly bounced back from handing power to a bunch of under-qualified idiots

Bluesky apparently getting all the users that know hard mode exists is extremely on brand

juror #8 fancam

Love how everyone with power has just completely cooked their brains in one or more ways and we’re all just stuck waiting for them to blow the planet up. Very cool.

i think a very big indicator is that everyone has forgotten that it started in late february and its almost may

You do not get to vote on math

I see that once again people are neglecting to mention that Mr. Yglesias has already addressed this issue explicitly, it's just that these particular students, unlike him, aren't important and don't matter.

screenshot because this person is being earnest and I don’t want to encourage a dogpile, but this is exactly the kind of thing that I just increasingly have no fucking tolerance for. snake oil bullshit comes from all cultures, and it’s still snake oil bullshit. I don’t find it funny anymore!

Really don’t want to get involved but the Louvre thing was a bit, not a joke. There’s no craft, just half-remembered references and vague posturing. Saying that shit on an NYT podcast isn’t proof he’s funny. It’s a sign he has terminal irony partition failure.

Just remembered Mystery Men. Comment withdrawn.