The USMNT and Knicks being really good except for the precise moment when Trump involves himself is really funny

You EXCOMMUNICATE Miette like the heretic? Oh! Oh! Jail for Mother Church! Jail for Ten Thousand Years!

Pope Leo, picking up baseball bat: oh, go nail it to a door

The entire fuckin point of the national mall is loitering

‪R: COVID-19 was a Democrat hoax and the vaccines were Deep State poison and Biden stole the 2020 election and the woke mob is flooding the country with migrants and transing your kids‬ ‪TRUMP: Oh, woe! Vandals ruined the reflecting pool! Who would do such a thing?‬ ‪R: Oh, COME ON‬

Strange man lying about ponds is no basis for a system of government.

“yeah i can tell it was AI generated. how? just vibes, yeah. it has that certain gen-AI sais quoi”

Your city doesn't owe you a speedy commute, it owes you a safe commute. Every speedy commute your city built for people in cars is a deadly commute for people outside of them. #WindshieldBias

I guess all those people who said they were leaving New York if Mamdani was elected were responsible for a lot of crime on the city.

Wasn’t the Saint Louis ship of refugees forced away from America in early June of 1939? I expect Hegseth to praise the Coast Guard for their brave work in helping send hundreds of civilians to be murdered by Nazis

It is sort of darkly funny that the guys chanting "Talarico's a vegan!" into the microphone just kneecapped the Texas beef industry

Ah yes, the "Thdpsssps"

Look, plantar fascitis sucks but I think this guy has bigger issues going on

Do the new green line trolleys have steeper steps than the old ones? Or are my knees complaining for no reason? #mbta

WTAIF!

Today’s Observer correction, a classic, doesn’t do justice to the context of the typo.

Good demonstration of an important truth about AI, which is that the tech goblins are not doing it because it’s cheaper, they’re doing it because they are ideologically opposed to the whole concept of paid labor

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

You’ve got to be carefully taught

It happens. My parents got a border collie once. He grew to be a hundred and thirty five pounds. Of border collie.

Pushing through a crowd of new graduates in academic robes to get to the door of the trolley. “Excuse me, congratulations, lemme sneak right past you, congratulations…”

If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur Would they have passed the Béchamel test?

Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

Headcannon accepted!

“Do you believe in elves?” “No, of course not.” “So we can pave over the elf hill?” “Are you INSANE”

Imminence is never a strait path?

I strongly recommend clicker training for elected officials. You aren't trying to make them good people; you are trying to make them do good things. Reward them when they do what you like, yell at them when they don't.

Not to victim blame but this balloon does feel like it's asking for trouble

What’s with the new boxes mounted to the wall of green line trolleys? #mbta It’s bolted shut (ie, not a cabinet) and the vents are too small for it to be a useful air conditioner.

We’ve been boycotting Target for quite a while now. Does anyone know if it’s accomplishing anything? Sure, they have smaller profits…but are they stopping any of their objectionable behavior? Or even slight rolling back of the worst policies?

My favorite art history genre is "Judith beheading Holofernes"

The Access of Evil

This is just fractally wrong. Being related to an evildoer is not, should not be, a crime. It turns out they weren’t even related to this specific guy; but if a person is liable for a cousin’s guilt why not prosecute one for anything the whole ethnic group did? On the theory ethnicity=distant kin?

The thing to remember about being a token for a hateful regime is that TOKENS GET SPENT.

Does anyone know if these prohibitions apply to the whole route, or just the crowd at the finish line? If the whole route, does anyone know how far from Beacon Street we will be allowed to carry a shopping bag? Is the edge of the store parking lot ok?

Hey, @charlesschumer.bsky.social and the rest of the senate! We are not even asking you to take a life-threatening head injury for the sake of liberty, but could you please remember that some things are more important than collegiality?

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

Is it a new marketing strategy to (even notionally) pitch surveillance systems to people who will be surveilled? Rather than to those who want to do the stalking? I can’t imagine an ad, “Ladies! Is your husband paranoid? Our detectives will follow you everywhere and reassure him of your fidelity.”

Heard through the ceiling of my apartment tonight: (cat wailing) Person: No!! (cat wails some more) Person: You do not want that! Spit it out! (even louder wailing) Person: That is a potato! You are an obligate carnivore!! #ahcats #lifeinapartments

Nice to see somebody making sensible suggestions for the US government

Is there some kind of shortage of dried apricots in the world this year, or is it the tariff and trucking situation keeping them out of local stores?

Love this!

They made bee vitamins!

Oh my god, the alt text is a gift. 😹

Images of women getting punched are disturbing for a lot of feminists. But we’re talking about boxing, here.

That was an easy parallel for me to understand, because I also deal with chronic pain, and I regularly injure myself because I have so much “noise” pain that I don’t notice “signal” pain. That’s the physical version, distress tolerance is sort of the emotional equivalent.

Celebrating Pi Day with a deviled egg pie from The Enchanted Broccoli Forest. I’m not sure the white sauce was perfectly successful, but the pie smells good.

Somehow in all this plain language and clarity, the notion that all “Muslims” are “Islamists” suddenly goes without saying. I almost missed that palmed card