One thing that's fun to do in nice weather is go for a leisurely drive with the windows open while very visibly drinking a bottle of NA beer.

autism announcement: we’re removing the top sheet from every bedding package. just the fitted sheet from now on. fuck the top sheet. you’re welcome

I feel like a lot of people are about to learn things about their doctors.

Imagine being intimidated by a guy like this deadline.com/2025/09/jimm...

Some people who hadn't thought about Jimmy Kimmel in years before last Thursday are so mad about this lol

i don't like the thought of oboists being able to walk amongst us undetected

OK is everyone else getting their job back

I'm losin it at the crow definitely knowing when it won, too, throwing its head back with a smile and struttin like aaaayy das right!

Trump's numbers are collapsing across the board and yet these guys are racing to tell us who we need to throw overboard to win white independents

As the nation breathes a collective sigh of relief that we won't have to continue pretending to love Jimmy Kimmel

The description here by @jamellebouie.net of Trump administration propaganda as 'real life AI slop' is a remarkably on-point way to describe something I have been trying to put into words about the MAGA pagentry, cosplay, of authoritarianism in the absence of actually consolidating control.

Somebody got the memo that every single rural hospital was going to have to shut down

dudes rock

"In NH, Secretary of State David Scanlan has twice refused the Justice Department. Scanlan first declined to provide the state’s voter list in July; after the agency pressed him again, he sent a four-paragraph letter reiterating his position." From @jonshorman.bsky.social via @stateline.org

The thing it reminded me of was the 2016 GOP Convention, back when no one could believe how tacky and stupid Trump had made everything and we still assumed he'd get blown out.

I’m always telling people that Baruch Spinoza “canceled his cancelers where it really mattered: in his own mind”

*casually strolling into work on Wednesday* oh yah the big man decided it was better if he didn't rapture all of us, wanted to leave his best guys to fix the mess down here, totally sucks but sometimes you just gotta step up

Do they… make you uglier?

“[The Drug Enforcement Administration] has not even been invited to any of the task force meetings,” one former senior official said. “It is mind-boggling. They’re just getting orders saying, ‘This is what Stephen Miller wants and you’ve got to give it to us.’” (Published July)

I'm at a weird place with this whole illegally-murdering-people-at-sea-with-missiles story where I find almost any explanation of what our government is doing and why they're doing it to be plausible.

Televisionhead

Only 1 person in the whole study went from identifying as trans to not identifying as trans. The 1/5 number came from youth going between the binary and non-binary spectrum. This headline and post are misleading on purpose to fit the economist's editorial bent on the political issue.

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

Imagine cooking on this level

I do wonder a little bit who the musicians were who agreed to play Charlie Kirk's memorial service.

What movie do you consider perfect?

Decided to bring the furréd beasts over for the last few hours of Pride duty. In related news, the bike dog trailer I bought from @johnmaddening.bsky.social a few months before leaving Minneapolis works great!

I can’t see the drag queen co-hosting this Pride celebration from my booth down the block, but her voice is a dead ringer for Matt from Las Culturistas and it is sending me

If you happen to be in the Monadnock Region, I’ll be at Keene Pride all day today, staffing Apple Hill’s booth on Main St just south of Central Square - come say hi, grab a free button and pick up an Apple Hill CD or t-shirt!

What's astonishing isn't that he doesn't know what Cambodia and Armenia are, it's that he consistently thinks he has ended wars without ever doing anything or speaking to anyone about them. He thinks his mere presence in the world causes entire populations to lay down arms in reverence to Him.

Every single criticism of BlueSky is valid except somehow the one the pundits stumbled upon, which is roughly equivalent to kicking down the door of a KFC and incredulously asking everyone if they are aware they are eating fried chicken.

People of Yaaaarkshire! I'm dead excited to be coming to Sheffield on October 10th to play out with fantastic music outfit Ensemble 360 at the Crucible and present our Incomplete Guide to Chamber Music. Incredible bangers for noobs and lifers alike. Join us! musicintheround.co.uk/events/chris...

In addition to regular polling I think we should start a stress index where every few months a giant random sample of Americans get their cortisol levels checked

*opens TikTok one week from now* “Did you know Black people have an extra muscle for crime?!””

Tried a variation on my go-to wild rice bread: added shredded coconut and subbed coconut milk for the usual buttermilk, so we'll see how successful that was tomorrow morning.

Me working in the orchestra business for 27 years:

it is very mean when you say using gestapo tactics makes them comparable to the gestapo

I realize that I'm one of like six people left on the planet to not really give a shit about spoilers, but do people remember that until, like, 20 years ago, movie reviews used to tell you basically the entire plot?

Things were better when computer was in room. Now everywhere is computer. This is bad. Computer should never have escaped room.

Finally, the novelization we’ve been waiting for

L: tuning into the Phillies game to listen to my old pals McCarthy & Kruk R: tuning into the Phillies game and it's Franzke & Amaro

Philly omelette is chopped roasted eagle breast with sharp provolone and a side of fuck you

Yo-Yo Ma, and it's not close.

Made a new friend at work today

“We cannot accommodate requests from students or parents for names that suggest a different biological sex.” Hmmm somehow I don’t think this would be enforced on cis girls that go by Alex or Sam.

Yeah this is a shitshow. Produce rotting in the fields with no labor to pick it and no buyers to purchase it.

The debate around what is or isn’t “cancel culture” really just obscures a simple truth that it’s BAD to be massively racist/sexist/homophobic/transphobic and it’s GOOD to speak out against injustice. Some things are good and some things are bad and it’s okay to say which you think are which.

Talking about what I really wasn’t looking forward to talking about with my guy @bryancurtis.bsky.social for @thepressbox.bsky.social.

According to French daily Le Figaro, President Emmanuel Macron and his government are considering closing the Israeli consulate in Paris, expelling members of Israel's intelligence services from France, and opening up a French embassy in Ramallah in response to any Israeli action against France.

Ah.