a real all-timer for me. just chortling reading this. tremendous.

someone ask Erik to do this, I want to see the hate flow.

USTA play is the most low stakes stuff in the world. inclusion hurts no one. it’s the sport’s best argument. that anyone is welcome and anyone can play. these dumbasses ruined that. their one job! impossibly stupid.

a few months ago I told @erikhane.bsky.social that we had caught Kevin O’Connell smoking a JJ McCarthy, and it was important that he be forced to smoke the whole pack of JJ McCarthys to learn his lesson. that is more true today than ever.

would watch 1000 hours of a show where Tom helps atrocious football players gracefully transition into a career in municipal service. let’s get JJ McCarthy into GIS mapping. these backup linemen have promising futures as auditors.

Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade might be the perfect distillation of modern American culture. here’s Ciara performing on a giant surfing elephant float brought to you by the Kalahari Water Parks.

this is absolutely true of me. I’ve had so many conversations since moving across the river about this exact topic. yesterday completely violated my sense of who SPPD are. incredibly important to me that Mayor elect Her set this straight real fast.

I am furious and devastated that ICE was once again present in Saint Paul and that federal agents continue to jeopardize the safety and well-being of our residents. The destruction this White House has caused our city in just a matter of days is unconscionable.

one thing I have come to believe, as someone who grew up deeply skeptical of the "authentic expression / sold out" dichotomy is that however true or false it was objectively, the taboo on "selling out" was societally load-bearing

I guess you could say Lizza was … bamboozled

Baby Mark rizzed up Livvy Nuzz

I would love to read an account of this saga that isn’t written in an atrociously purple way but seems like that’s too much to ask of anyone involved

I’ve been incredibly angry for several days now about the story of ICE agents entering a day care in Chicago to detain a teacher. Eventually I wrote that anger down, and got some encouragement to share it. open.substack.com/pub/samtheda...

at my 2 year old’s parent teacher conference just now her teacher said “they say kids aren’t capable of understanding sarcasm until 6 or 7….not your kid! she’s great at it!” so 1. genetics might be real, and 2. I might need to stop saying “that’s so crazy” to my kid so much.

“To be an Arsenal fan - to be a leftist. They are an intertwined experience.” - @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

this post is how I found out there was a playoff game tonight. I am a team season ticket holder. I consume a lot of sports media. really hard to overstate how bad the state of MLS is with new/casual fans right now. pretty convinced the Apple TV deal is mostly to blame.

“like when the queen chooses a knight to fight in her name” is a phrase that could have saved hockey a lot of PR issues.

This is crushing. Decades of cool uniform stuff nobody else covered, gone I remember thinking the internet would be better at preserving work than the pre-digital age, and it feels increasingly clear the opposite is true

Just to be precise, when I say that the leaders who got us to this point cannot be the ones to get us to the next one, I specifically mean this chucklehead. Get the fuck outta here. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

at a much later age than I assumed was possible, I have found myself in a “the boys in the neighborhood are buying cool matching jackets” situation and I really can’t recommend it enough.

might get through the winter by just posting extremely low quality Wolves memes on Bluesky.

I don’t think this is the entire problem obviously, but I do think the moment it became socially acceptable for men to start going on television professionally while dressed like this was a real turning point in the decline of polite society.

left too much time for Phee.

the first-half mccarthy haters from last week have requested a single file apology line like a wedding receiving line

this country really started to go downhill once NFL teams stopped having training camps on college campuses. Travis Kelce needs to get fined for trying to sneak Taylor Swift into a dorm room with two twin beds pushed together to make something he calls MegaBed. then we can begin to heal.

the worst part of the Wolves deal is that the roster situation is such that the two options for the roster are: 1. the brokest most private equity beholden owners in the league decide they will pay the highest tax bill in the league for the next 3-4 years. or 2. we get worse.

dissociating again. thinking things about Chet and Alex Caruso that are unfit for public consumption. reevaluating all of my anti-carceral beliefs.

this series is going to make me go fucking insane. I’m not ok.

I don’t think there is anyone who has improved their stature more in my eyes during the NBA playoffs than Chalemet. that weird little guy flew to Boston to sit courtside alone and talk shit in his Timbs. I won’t watch his Dylan movie or his sand movie but he seems cool.

Wolves playoff win, in a world class dive bar, with your dearest friends retelling old stories, fighting during commercials about whether or not it’s crazy to suggest Peter Warrick was the best college football player of all time.

100% No

Since DAY ONE

Some fans have been clear since day one on this

the EDSBS Charity Bowl is one of my favorite internet things every year. if you have even a passing interest in college football and living up to the promises we’ve made as a country, this will warm your heart. millions raised for new Americans thanks to dumb football rivalry.

Cars 2 is a part of the Fast and Furious cinematic universe.

St. Paul politics are far from perfect, but “the council is getting a little weird, let’s send in the really nice, helpful guy who is always hanging out at the gay soccer bar to help fix it” is the kind of solution that fills me with civic pride.

really niche post, but there’s a real Delta Lounge situation happening with the Minnesota Zoo members hour.

I love Finchy. Seems like an absolutely world class hang. www.startribune.com/chris-finch-...

What is a deposition?

Springboarding off of @prisonculture.bsky.social from earlier … I am sick as SHIT of anybody who’s got the gall right now to pretend that the question of whether trans people “deserve“ rights is ANY kind of debate. It’s humanity across the board or hit the fucking bricks. Up or down. Stop playing!

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in honor of Saint Patrick’s Day, please enjoy the insane Ireland story from Richard Scarry’s Busy Busy World.

Might as well just tattoo this on my forehead

There is a real, genuine 1st Amendment crisis in the United States right now. The government is openly retaliating against anyone with a viewpoint it doesn't like: Pro-Palestinian protesters, law schools teaching Black History, pro-immigration public service loan forgiveness seekers.

the thing about chasing what you think is public opinion is that if and when things turn you will have made a bunch of statements and taken a bunch of stances that you’ll have to disavow. probably a better strategy just to say what you actually believe and stand by it. anyway, this guy sucks.

This x 1,000,000