Pen Paxton youtu.be/gKX1Y5NwZZM

If you don't know about the pen, you need to know about the pen

I like the Thunder's uniforms but I don't like that they have to wear a gas station logo so prominently that's a bummer

yeah the Rockets were never going to beat one of these teams

"We also know that fair compensation goes hand in hand with inclusion. Reasonable pay ensures that writers & translators from communities that have long faced barriers to entry can join the field (&) that the literary canon includes the diverse range of voices and perspectives that readers deserve."

As @ruthjoffre.bsky.social wisely noted this is a ranked choice NBA situation

Your horrifyingly regular reminder that the existence of a death penalty is fundamentally incompatible with a civilised society.

Sparkling enmity

Look, I don’t like continuing to fight for Texas only to have my soul repeatedly smashed to bits either, but what else are we going to do?

Regarding the State of Texas, which couldn’t break my heart as much as it does if I didn’t love it as much as I do:

Sparkling enmity

Also the next somebody says reparations for black people is a ridiculous idea, remind them that we have a reparations program for trying to overthrow the government

Well yeah I mean there is this

Look, I don’t like continuing to fight for Texas only to have my soul repeatedly smashed to bits either, but what else are we going to do?

If Blexas happens it basically rewrites American politics. It'd be the equivalent of the Blue Wall falling in 2016. It's why you can't look away even if it seems impossible, as the Clinton campaign thought the Blue Wall falling was.

Hahaha you could’ve gone out with some dignity intact Big John but nooooo

Cornyn proposed naming a highway after Trump like a week ago, just the most milquetoast, embarrassing garbage possible, he’s too weak to do the kind of energetic sycophancy and crimes needed to earn an endorsement

president ocasio cortez is going to have to send in a hazmat team to forcibly remove the entire family from the bunker

Ugh I am so tired of voting

But what if I *am* radicals, ever think of that? Huh? HUH???

If the games gonna be like this put the coaches back in suits so they look properly disheveled in the post game conferences.

Anyway

Update I commandeered it Mondo can wait

Dangit I should’ve commandeered the TV from my kid who’s watching the Mondo season of Project Runway

Dealing with shitshows on multiple fronts, nothing for it but Tom Petty Radio

I miss basketball so I’m a Spurs fan for the duration

On May 18, 1980, Richard Lasher got up early to get some photos at Spirit Lake. Instead, he was forced to stop because of the massive, explosive Mount St. Helens eruption and captured this photo with his own red Ford Pinto on the road. 🧪⚒️ #OTD www.hemmings.com/stories/mt-s...

Superlative bookmail from @deepvellum.bsky.social

Is the credibility in the room with us right now.

‘Go after his sons’ music to my ears

Incredible

Rising Houston progressive star alert

My first three are a little syllabus-y but whatever I stand by them The Great Gatsby Beloved Underworld

I was going to get the best photo of my kid throwing his hat in the air after graduation but they shot off a cannon which startled me and I jumped so here enjoy these cute photos of some random Colorado State grads at their big moment

I’m obsessed

News is psychotically bleak today y’all

UPDATE 🚨🚨🚨

Six genders: a real hit on Jesus (penguin random house, 2027)

There’s a guy at Hobby airport wearing a t-shirt that says YOU WILL DO BETTER IN TOLEDO and when I read that I was legitimately for a second like “ooh…really?”

Good morning. #BOTD #filmsky #moviesky

I used to cover the Elections Committee for the House Research Organization in the 90s and this thread is making me sentimental (which wow maybe I need to get out more). Would’ve been cool/wild to have social media in those days.

Playing mah jongg and listening to beastie boys with the family, as one does

All the people having *feelings* about this are my people

I'm not sure how much the rest of America knows or understands about the MOVE bombing in Philly, but it was probably the single worst instance of police brutality in American history. I think of it every 5/13 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1985_MO...

Incredibly important PSA

Look at this pal that was on our power line yesterday and today! Internet says Mississippi Kite:

Ritchie Valens would have been 85 today. It's wild to realize that he was younger than John Lennon! & near the exact same age as Dylan---he could've been making records well into the 21st century. From the 1959 movie "Go Johnny Go" with Chuck Berry and Alan Freed. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImP7...

Here to help

This will probably be the most niche post I’ll ever make in my life, but I’m still upset about Caroline Winkler’s team not reserving her a seat at the webby awards so she didn’t get to go after she bought a train ticket to New York and everything. And she was going to wear the cat dress. Devastating

No one: Absolutely no one whatsoever: The city of Houston: