I just found my 15 y/o budget laptop. No battery, bad HDD, but powers up. Stuck an 80GB drive in, installing lubuntu now. 1.1 GHz dual core CPU, 3 GB RAM. Not even sure what I'd use it for. Guess I'll see how it actually runs. Screen's janky af, probably have to use an external 🫤

American schools are so bad Americans think the Colonial Coup was about what was being done and not who it was being done to.

Frustrated former high school bullies? That's just cops. ICE took the cops' rejects, the army's 4Fs/section 8s, and America's creepy uncles.

"We can fix him" pitcher for the Yankees ✅

It's just gonna be him and Pete Hegseth comparing notes on their SA/harassment techniques, isn't it.

Bronx River, which at the time was mountain dew green and glowed in the dark.

lol you'll need at least 8 more to account for the Democrats who caucus with the Republicans

"...severe risks to Americans, including wrongful detention, torture in detention, terrorism, kidnapping, arbitrary enforcement of local laws, crime, civil unrest, and poor health infrastructure." Wait is this telling Americans why they should leave Venezuela or what awaits them back home?

Amazing job of predicting hockey players a century before the invention of the sport.

Apparently happening now?

I'm not really paying attention so I don't know who's in net for the Bruins but he let the Rangers score 2 so he's totally washed or severely injured. Send him up to that nice farm upstate where all the old dogs go.

It's nice that it seems like #nyr fans are finally realizing that Chris Drury is the problem. Annoyed it took this long. Annoyed it'll take Dolan at least another 3 years to get there. Those of you who remember the late 90s and early 2000s know what we're in for. Good time to take up a new hobby.

Xbox missed out on 20+ years of monthly payments from me because I played one(1) game online in 2005 and never went back.

A banner year for the Constitution. Yeah, because they retired it and hung it in the rafters.

Thanos was the shark. They already jumped it in a super-hyped 2-parter. Nothing left but Very Special Episodes and This Week's Guest Star. The appearances are the only selling point left.

"Heil Hilton" doesn't sound like it'll sell a lot of rooms, but who knows

The great game of sports themed Would You Rather I'm currently playing is: 1. The Knicks 2. The Rangers 3. The Yankees off-season So I'll watch old TV instead

I'm going to spend some time meditating* *watching the documentary series about the best rock band of the 60s

This is just what JD looks like before his hair and makeup team goes to work.

Being a Yankees fan during the off-season is just a neverending stream of old guys getting minor league deals, "we can fix him" pitchers, and a massive overpay for a guy who just had the best (by far) season of his career. The only big question is which 2 months of the season they'll play good ball.

None of these whippersnappers even know how to hunt mammoths and ground sloths. Pshaw!

The thing that brought me back to rock music was the discovery that there are bands that use musicality and complexity as part of good rock music. There aren't many bands I'd want to hear instrumentals from, but this band has a whole string of them.

Re-upping this as part of my new year's mantra.

Celebrating Thursday by watching the greatest musical ever made.

My new year's resolution will be 480x360.

The hilarity is that just being in Good Night and Good Luck makes Clooney more qualified than Weiss to run a news organization.

I agree with this in all other sports. However, "whoever scores more goals wins the game" is a closely guarded secret only known to 1 in 10 Hockey Men™️. The other 9 think it's HITS! and face-off win %.

Just over 6:00 minutes of actual playtime. Head echoes last between 2 hours and 2 days.

I said ebikes should be speed limited in pedestrian spaces like mixed use paths.

I caught this when it dropped but just heard it with ear buds with decent bass and almost walked into a wall. Their new bass player is a baby shredder, and she got loose on this one. I'm not used to bands getting better after a decade, but I'm not complaining.

Nothing like a classical Italian dinner of Pasta With Stuff I Found In The Fridge and Pantry.

To the past me who cooked off, portioned, and froze sliced chicken thighs, and who remembered to buy boil in bag rice, I just want to say good job dude.

This is how we ended up with ET the video game and Windows Me.

Having Ruocco narrate is a hate crime.

I think one of the coolest sports crossovers is how the Knicks play on Rickey Henderson's birthday every year.

Quick reminder that when the Rays let somebody walk it's either because they're getting expensive or about to be totally washed. 1 year will tell everybody which it is.

The New York Rangers are the first group in history to create slapstick tragedy as a form of entertainment. Like what if every time Cassandra tried to warn someone about a future danger she got hit in the face with a banana cream pie, and whoever she was trying to warn died?

This is only partially true. Bari Weiss is Joe Rogan with a *wig* and glasses.

The White Sox!?

This week on the Munsters, Grandpa coaches Eddie's ice hockey team when Herman gets the flu.

I know this makes me an old man, and I'm okay with it. There's nothing more fun than watching Mitch bang in the paint for a put back. #nba

She's a genocidal white supremacist. That's the definition of a good Catholic. Read a history book ffs.

Rewatching because I had to. The artistry is incredible. The script is like if you asked chatgpt to make a post-apocalyptic movie like it was written by Miyazaki. The voice acting sounds like they recorded a table read instead of letting them cook. Ming-Na Wen, Keith David, Donald Sutherland.

Funny enough because the movie was so bad, but I sat there staring at the whole of Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within because the animation and CGI was so amazing and still one of the best animated works ever made. The hawk flying at the end is unreal. Still stays with me. Theater was empty.

A co-op digital newsstand with articles running 25¢ to $3.00 each depending on outlet and importance would make a ton of money, and all these starving newspapers would make bank. Sports trade rumors from local columnists? 25¢ Blockbuster investigative piece on a super rich guy? $3.00

Nobody actually wants to know anything about Nutsy fucking Mum-Ra and being the worst prose writer in the history of the English language. The only outlet that should be giving her name air time would be something with Jerry Springer.

Huh. Which part of that is explicitly against racism, misogyny, or homophobia/transphobia? Those are the only immutable tenets of conservatism. Everything else is for sale.

This ad has lived rent free in my head for decades. The American dream is a monkey trap, and not a single stupid motherfucker will let go of the banana to live. It's as beautiful as it is inevitable.

Jessica Berman looked at MLS, saw how it's nothing more than a launchpad for wannabes and a last hurrah for has-beens, an absolute pinnacle of mediocrity, and said, "Yes, that's the future my employers crave."

The thing that really bothers me about the NWSL killing Trinity's contract and the WNBA doubling down on screwing the players is that somebody in both of those leagues looked at the revenue/popularity trajectory of the NHL from 1990-2007 and went, "I want that so bad."