Have you done your 12-minute foundation exercise yet after sitting in a chair in front of a computer all day youtu.be/4BOTvaRaDjI?...

because they'll give me a bit of money if anyone clicks through and signs up: if you want to learn spanish, or another language, the ONLY way that ever worked for me was doing lessons on preply: preply.com/en/?pref=MTQ...

I am obligated to remind folks that @coyotemedia.org is queer as fuck, worker-owned, and published this today.

For those who struggle with the geography, Netanyahu's primary political rival wants to annex the orange

autocorrected "french ship" to friendship is really having me rethink some things

When are we going to have a conversation about how the captain in Master and Commander didn't really have a plan for how his ship was going to beat the much better and stronger friendship that it already kicked his ass once until like five minutes beforehand

an open question: how would people who think the supreme court is essentially an *illegitimate* power grab perpetuated by the federalist society describe what makes that power grab illegitimate, rather than simply "bad people using power legitimately for bad ends"?

Kagan makes sure that Trump’s gutter racism — and the majority hand-waiving it away — gets into the record.

Richard Curtis loved making movies about how Hugh Grant had just a ton of fun, longterm friends that supported him in his life

this is exactly the kind of essay that I have been looking for on these books. Very nicely done.

I takes 19 skeets for this thread to build to this conclusion, but by the time you get to it, it's unavoidable. Much to consider.

do you think mamdani stops smiling and melts into the crowd like keyser soze

Are rumors of a leftist LitRPG genre more than fantasy? Corley Miller read the Dungeon Crawler Carl series to find out: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/dungeon-craw...

people being normal about the NY primary, I see

Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts

people often say "the optics are bad" when what they mean is "if you don't understand what is happening and you go on the most superficial and misleading appearance, this will look bad to you" and yet, peculiarly, the point they often seek to make is "so lets pander to the dumb people's impression"

I'd like to see ol donny wriggle out of this one

oh that's cool, so they're getting extra punishment specifically to advance a broader ideological social agenda the judge has

I stopped doing pictures of my kids online a while back, but I do feel like the arguments for the ways in which doing that would or could harm them always struck me as pretty forced and dependent on a set of really implausible fantasies about evil people out there.

There's a whole thing where people don't want to show their kids faces online so they're trying different ways to obscure the identity of a kid but still have them in the video. Frequently people only show a kid from the back or put an emoji over their face. The latest option is Void Child

Oh oh no

a propose of nothing, I don't actually think "obsolete" is a real thing, aside from a market-driven need to cheapen things and labor into trash for the purposes of profitmaking.

Holst should have done Pluto

A new lawsuit alleges that an AI pricing consultant named Kalibrate is the ringleader of an algorithmic price fixing scheme to raise the price of gas in California. Claims that stations are outsourcing their pricing decisions to Kalibrate, which is pushing prices up.

it's funny because almost all the replies are variations on "he governed like a right wing reactionary and pandered to Reform"

An ORB EXCLUSIVE Sunday Reading, nowhere else can you read things on sunday: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/email/7d8587...

I see Trump is saying words again. Wouldn't recommend them.

This may or may not be true, but I feel like this quote only exists and was produced precisely so that you could read it in this form and be furious at it

sorry but the ents attacking Isengard has always struck a wrong note with me: we’re supposed to cheer the ents destroying jobs and infrastructure in a hissy fit of misguided environmentalist pique?

"We are headed to Provocation Theatre to watch what has been described to us as “a dream birthday production of Shrekquiem for a Dream” that is also “a queer fantasia.” We have no idea what this means." www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/theyre-all-s...

Saw a Nissan Leaf with a bumper sticker that said "I bought this before Elon Musk killed himself"

Man, I sure wonder what Hillary Clinton thinks the Gaza reconstruction plan should be

almost too on the nose that this interview I did with @lydiakiesling.bsky.social is coming out on my kid's last day of school. I was so glad to talk to Lydia all about writing & parenting, inc that her kids also derisively repeat "Mommy has a meeting" when we work www.talkscratch.com/the-scratch-...

after the election, the Supreme Court is going to rule that those gerrymandered maps were actually valid the whole time and recount the votes according to them

"On March 9, 1991, in a Mission District production studio that rented for $10/hour, Mark Kliem looked into the camera and made a proclamation: 'Welcome to ‘Lavender Lounge,’' said the host of the country’s first queer 'American Bandstand'-style dance party TV show. 'We’re making history today.'"

Alex went to burger king and tried both the chicken fries and AI interface.

Great Satan taking huge Ls

current state of the reflecting pool absolutely rules, no notes, love it, keep it this way forever

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

One of my favorite Cabo Verde facts is that it has a genre of music that arose after an abandoned ship washed up in 1968, carrying hundreds of keyboards and synths

Oakland's mid-cycle budget deliberation ended up pitting seniors against OPD overspending, and it was not a good look. Bookmark this Oakland Observer post, you could use it as a cheatsheet in the voting booth when the CMs terms come up

people being normal on nextdoor, I see

Time to reframe how we think and debate taxes. “…taxes have long been framed as a burden weighing on people, not as an investment we’re all making so that the place we’ve chosen to live is as good as it can be.”

Sunday is reading! www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/email/5897ed...

The Sopranos and The Wire engage in an early millennial dialogue over whether Americans (who are cool and smart and fun) are tragically crushed by capitalism, or whether capitalism has made Americans into fat, soft, greedy, cruel idiots

Me, crafting "Wow I sure am glad the team from the financial center of American capitalism defeated the team from the most Mexican city in the United States" in the basement, just to see if I could

The purpose of “Abundance” is to find pro-housing/transit liberals who will never respond to overt conservative propaganda or manufactured NYT doomerism and trap them in political funhouse mirrors that convert every genuine desire for a better world into anti-labor politics in service of oligarchy.

today I discovered this incredible story of a minor league pitcher who is 6'4 wears glasses and a ginger beard who hurt his elbow and went to the doc for Tommy John surgery and was mistaken for a pitcher from a diff team who was also there for TJ surgery on same day anyway heres their pics and names

Bluesky doesn't drive MUCH traffic, but damn, the way Twitter drives NO traffic.