CHOTINER: So, you maintain that you sell high-quality copper to many customers in Ur EA-NĀȘIR: Yes. You have heard of Nanni? My finest customer. CHOTINER: Well, according to this clay tablet, you provided Nanni substandard ingots, and mistreated both he and his servant. EA-NĀȘIR: …now, look

O Lord, they fight! I will go call the watch.

ever wondered about what ranking officers in the us civil war were like? good news. there's not that many types of them. here you go

Conjuring ZZ Top and the Dead much in the same way that the Minutemen chaneled CCR and Van Halen, the Meat Puppets' weird boogie odyssey ‘Huevos’ is one of the great underappreciated American guitar rock albums. An alternate history of punk where its major deity isn’t Johnny Thunders, it’s JJ Cale.

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Who wore it first- THE Ohio State University Marching Band, or Curtis Sliwa’s guardian angels

The decline of Ancient Rome can, in part, be attributed to a component of their critical infrastructure making them measurably dumber. Anyway, great job today with that content moderation announcement today, Zuck! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

when did american-style tackle football decide "line to gain" was a thing? every damn broadcaster has been on the line to gain train this season. I think i hate it more than the parade of insurance-hawking mascot spokesthings

@hollyanderson.bsky.social @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social I hope you don't mind me tagging you on this of all most holy days but I, via @briancgrubb.bsky.social, bear great tidings from the 9-1-1 cinematic universe briancgrubb.substack.com/p/the-five-s...

would not be surprised if a venn diagram consisting of folks who back their giant SUVs/pickups, poorly, into parking spots vs. folks who don't return shopping carts would be a single monochromatic circle. incidentally, the first cybertruck i ever saw was backed into a handicapped spot, poorly.

Love this story! (Hate the egregious misspelling on the chyron during Mr. Brown's interview)

@briancgrubb.bsky.social …JFK Airport Lounge Cheeseburger Heist?

Cosmopolitan Vegas playing Steely Dan’s “Do It Again” at 10 am on the casino floor is, as they say, on the nose

Someone needs to sit these university admins & PDs down and explain the Streisand Effect to them

@briancgrubb.bsky.social are you watching tracker

I’ve got one question for the creative behind the Bounty “NOOOOOooo” commercials: crowbar or tire iron

So is there is German word for the feeling of initial surprise that the giant Ram diesel pickup in front of you has a Leftover Salmon bumper sticker, but then deflatedly realizing is a lets go Brandon (sic) sticker instead

MCA: Makin' a (all): LIST! Ad-Rock: Checkin' it (all): TWICE! Mike D: Gonna find out who's naughty and ni-yice