so Coke made this low-carb-but-not-"diet" version of Coke with both aspartame and HFCS called Coke C2 for like 2 years in the 2000s and advertised it as "half the carbs, half the calories" and I always thought "I hope so, having fat or protein in Coke would be gross" but they've done it anyway

starting to feel like there's a direct relationship between the growing obsession with lifestyle hygeine (no drinking, no caffeine, no sex, obsessive working out and looksmaxxing) and the inability to meaningful moral stands on issues of actual import

Discussing this (bad bunny flags) with my "I vote dem 24/7 but also I ignore politics because it depresses me" friend who is my normie barometer Her (completely unprompted): "yknow I'm gonna put up an American flag in the front yard, I'm sick of this shit with those assholes, I'm reclaiming it"

The media desperately wanted to give the right a cultural moment and the problem is that they have no culture.

SQUIRREL EYES 👏👏 THEY'RE WATCHING YOU 👏👏 THEY SEE YOUR EVERY MOVE

L O R G E S Q U I R R O L

...if Trump and Miller really are pushing to *deport Cubans back to Cuba*? Florida might actually be in serious play. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

THIS is punk.

no children - the mountain goats (2002)

BLOOOOOOOOKLAHOMA WHERE THE WAVE COMES SWEEPIN DOWN THE PLAIN AND THE WAVIN' WHEAT CAN SURE SMELL SWEET WHEN THE WAVE COMES RIGHT BEHIND THE RAIN

The margin in LA-60 isn't *too* surprising, long history of Dem preference in the district to the point that the guy that left to create the vacancy ran unopposed the last 2 elections. But this?

"If we're talking about Presidents that are close to my height personally, we have to go back to William McKinley...and you know what they did to *him*? You know what they did to him because he was short?"

Without naming your job, tell me something you say over and over again at work. "So this person is definitely pwned and doesn't know it yet"

always has been the dumbest fucking thing Sorry Bay Area friends, people are gonna realize that the Bay rocks, actually

Been having the tilde key sometimes firing over and over until I mash it. Was worried it was dying, this is my fancy magnetic Hall effect switch keyboard. This morning I pick up this pen I moved next to the keyboard - the one with neodymium magnets for the cap. I am very smart and *very* stupid

Look I might be a bit behind on my film scanning, but these still came out pretty great. Love me some B&W, and especially the way these Tri-X shots came out. As for the Acros shots, I've been trying to get a shot of that metal ring thing for a year and I think I finally got one I'm happy with.

Just pulling back on the rubber band more and more There's a lot of pressure building up because of lack of consequences, some of it because of inaction, some of it because action is being blocked. I *really* wish we could get good midterm primary polling.

Man there is some powerful stupid in the political air today, Bessent just out and saying this:

Crazy to watch a political career explode into flames right in front of me Putting a 6-7 reference in the account handle is like getting a tattoo of the black-blue/white-gold dress, it's a meme that's *supposed* to be ephemeral and cringe after 5 minutes in the sun

We used to be a proper country www.cia.gov/stories/stor...

Mistake: while at lunch, I went into a couple posts with a lot of odious replies and blocked *literally hundreds* of accounts that were doing performative alt-left "antizionism with a hard K" posting, which left me sick to my stomach. A stark reminder of how badly composable moderation failed.

Happy Mookie Betts Trade Day to all those who celebrate To many more years of ruining baseball

the old fourth estate is dying. the new fourth estate struggles to be born. now is the time of newsletters I guess

Bad decision juice is here, my posts will become even worse now

He wanted it to publish what he wanted it to publish how he wanted it to publish it, and if it fails as a business doing so he doesn't care, because "be a successful newspaper" isn't why he bought it.

BREAKING: The Supreme Court will not stop the use of California's new congressional maps in this year's midterm elections. The court rejected California Republicans' effort to stop the use of the new maps. There were no noted dissents and no opinion.

It's very funny/infuriating watching the finance industry both promote cryptocurrency as an exciting future while absolutely refusing to buy any of it themselves or even work with it as an advisor or broker

Still enjoy this one

NEW: "The system sucks," or what a federal lawyer's comments really tell us about the Trump admin. Julie Le's comments are shocking, but they are a problem of the Trump admin’s own making. And it goes way beyond one lawyer new to the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office. Overnight, at Law Dork:

Top 5 worst ways to die - asphyxiated from methane/hydrogen sulfide in a manure pit going in after your buddies who also asphyxiated in a manure pit

Yeah this cannot happen for 2029, MLB gotta figure that out

he's gone to the same farm as Manny Margot

About half to 2/3 of the gravy seals"militia" groups are old fast guys trying to remember when they were 23 and for and tell each other bullshit stories about their time in the Green Berets.

y'all seen Weapons?

lol I don't watch a ton of Twitch but what the fuck a fake K-Pop Turbo Tax ad

"Mayor Bass, why do you support ICE by allowing the LAPD completely ignore state law and continue to work with them" (if denial) "Follow up, Mayor - how did you lose control of the LAPD, how long have you not had control, and what do you plan to do to address rank insubordination by the LAPD"

All right, the Donovan trade has me fully on board with making the Mariners my AL team. Liked a lot of their guys for a while, like the story. Any good Mariners social accounts on Bluesky I should follow?

Howard Hughes at least had the decency to be a recluse when he finally went fully around the bend, Musk is dead set on making his slide into mental illness everyone else's problem

Musk has just gotten more and more monomaniacal, and at this point every company he owns doesn't make any actual products, they just fulfill his whims. Duct taping all of these slowly sinking companies together will make them float longer but won't stop them sinking.

"It was interactive—people interplaying with the film."

It is also how companies die when they forget this. Or, more often, hire a management consultant to the culture, the spirit that cares.

One of the subtle reasons why I love baseball is it makes plain the impact of giving a shit about history and honoring the game/players. Caring is a real advantage, the best orgs all do it, and those that view it as an excess cost suffer for it. It's an example business and government should follow.

The Pitt got greenlit for a season 3, out next February, and the announcement has very funny comment from HBO chairman Casey Bloys that’s like “yeah, turns out if you just make a TV show like how we used to make TV shows you can have a 15+ episode season every year 🤷‍♂️”

it tru tho

Not just with pizza, either. Waters and Chez Panisse is probably the biggest reason anyone cares about eating local and farm-to-table.

Getting some culture today, we cultured as fuck

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I wake up at 6am i remove my phone from three layers of Faraday fabric, and check Signal messages using a dedicated burner laptop running Tails OS from a thumb drive I don’t use a mouse; the movement of the cursor could be used for biometric identification