we exist to delight one another, not to delight ourselves

I'm a professional writer by which I mean I just googled "i.e. meaning"

i think the weirdest thing for me to get behind on TNG is the idea of a spaceship with wall to wall carpet

Hang this in the Louvre

Two brothers from South Texas and their high school mariachi bandmates were recognized by their congresswoman last June for winning a state mariachi competition. Nine months later, the brothers, along with their parents and younger brother, are in ICE detention and facing deportation.

The Paralympics snowboard cross event has been a disaster. Last minute changes had to be made to the course due to a spate of injuries during training sessions. This detail floored me: www.nytimes.com/athletic/709...

Uhm, HOOK EM

HUGE win for Team USA MD curling against the Italians. They’re at 3-3 in round robin play and up against undefeated China tomorrow with hopes of breaking out of the pack of teams all with 3-3 standings. Go Team USA! Here’s a gift link for a profile of the MD team. www.nytimes.com/athletic/709...

Cecile Hernandez at 51 years old has won her FIFTH medal with gold in para snowboard! Cecile, along with Brenna Huckaby had to fight for their inclusion when their classification was eliminated from Paralympic competition. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8Xvsmwm/

Spent some time in Iowa and went long on Iowa State’s Audi Crooks. Despite her dominance, she deals with a lot of negativity, especially about her body. But no matter what is said about her, Audi Crooks wears a smile. www.espn.com/womens-colle...

F1 is going to be a rollercoaster this season.

Sports are doing a lot tonight. This Austin FC match is wild; too much to even try to explain and still a half to go. UT let a 16pt lead become a 2pt lead, but now back up by 8 (Booker with a double double). And there’s still the first Grand Prix of the season to go!

Wrote about that Kansas mess

if the chatbots have a problem with me saying they are “not conscious” and “designed by losers who don’t know how to interact with normal people” then they can find me in person and tell me to my face. otherwise i will not be entertaining “is claude conscious”

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

so apparently Brian McGinnis has been denied access to both his family and legal representation since a sitting senator broke his arm

Boy are you the Aston Martin AMR26? Because you're getting on my nerves and no amount of money is going to save you

Here's my recap of this morning's wheelchair curling action, China looking inevitable right now. paralympicsportsnews.wordpress.com/2026/03/06/c...

For a very fun reason that I hopefully we be able to share soon, I am re-reading part of my dissertation and sometimes when I do this, I am struck all over again that I actually wrote this and finished it and graduated. Maybe I will never truly believe it?

I just watched the last 10 minutes of episode 5 of Heated Rivalry and am CRYING like I hadn’t already seen it 25 times.

The lessons of Jeff Galloway. www.nytimes.com/athletic/708...

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist. He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

this is literally right wing propaganda. cbs news cannot be trusted.

WOW @burnitalldownpod.com surpassed $30K on their Kickstarter 😱😎

OMG they're back! I've missed BIAD so much 🔥 If you are a feminist who loves sports, this show is for you.

One hour left on our Kickstarter and now we're only $116 from $30K. WHAT. HOW. Y'ALL. www.kickstarter.com/projects/bur...

77 minutes to go and we are $331 from reaching $30,000, which @shireenahmed.bsky.social joked that we might reach on the day we launched. (I don't know if it was actually a joke, but I laughed!) Can we make it?????? OMG. 😭

This podcast is one of the greatest things I've ever been a part of. We are committed to bringing you brilliant analysis, witty commentary, and yes, joy. Even as we critique the bad and ugly in sports. @burnitalldownpod.com

WE DID IT! Y’all did it! Holy shit. HOLY SHIT. thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you

We sent 4 records requests to the Education Department — the first more than a year ago — seeking the status of school investigations, findings of discrimination reversed under Trump and more. The agency gave no response except to acknowledge it received them.

Odysseus had his crew lash him to the mast to keep him from doing an interview with Chotiner.

This is BANANAS

Less than $1k to go!!!!! And less than 4 hours to get there!!!

An ICE detainee in Arizona has died of a TOOTH INFECTION after it went untreated for weeks, a local official says. He was a Haitian asylum seeker imprisoned in Florence, Arizona. @emilybregel.bsky.social reports. tucson.com/news/local/b...

*6 hours! *($1506 to go!)

The flames are slowly burning down as our Kickstarter wraps up this evening🔥 Flamethrowers, now’s your final chance to help support BIAD!!! Click here to contribute: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bur...

How to win in November

MAJOR I-35 CLOSURE THIS WEEKEND: The northbound mainlanes of I-35 will be closed from Slaughter Lane to Ben White Boulevard — four miles — on Friday night and Saturday night, lasting from about 11 p.m. till 9 or 10 a.m. This is for construction work on the new elevated lanes.

🗣️THE WINTER PARALYMPICS ARE UNDERWAY We're starting off with doubles curling, Team USA in the very first event of the games

Our @burnitalldownpod.com Kickstarter ends in 10 hours and we are so close to reaching $29K (less than $1900 to go! what???). That number means we can make 7 episodes (maybe more, we’ll know for sure once fees are paid): www.kickstarter.com/projects/bur...

how it started/how it's going

Today is the LAST DAY to support the @burnitalldownpod.com kickstarter! We are trying to get to $29k by the end of the day, which will allow us to make 7 episodes and pay back fees incurred over during the relaunch. We are SO CLOSE to getting there!! Every drop helps. Thank you all for everything.

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

New: At least 14 active measles cases have been reported at a troubled El Paso tent camp holding more than 3,000 immigrants, Democratic U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar said Tuesday. Another 112 people in the facility are being isolated.

This is a county-by-county policy; here in Travis county voters can still vote anywhere. But in adjoining GOP-led Williamson County voters are suddenly stuck in just one precinct, and it's causing problems.

The UT student who died in the shooting here this weekend graduated from my kid’s high school a few years ago and her parent is in the FB group writing about her daughter and thanking the community and it’s so, so sad. To go from using that space to ask mundane questions to memorializing your child.

$25 gets you an invite to our virtual happy hour on March 13 at 5:30pm. Come join us!

(Here's the Kickstarter link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/bur...) And here's the link to our recent Winter Olympics wrap-up and Paralympics preview! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/e...)

Our Kickstarter ends in 2 days—and we want to say thank you again to all the Flamethrowers out there!! We hope to see many of you at the upcoming Virtual Happy Hour. There's still time to be a part of it. Learn more via the Kickstarter link in our bio. See you soon, Flamethrowers! 🔥