Same exact experience for me.

"particularly" is a funny way to spell "exclusively"

“Read the book, not the summary.

Write the piece, not the prompt.

Suffer like the artist you are. It ain’t easy, but if it were easy, it wouldn’t be worth doing.”

I feel like people focus a little too much on Bruce Springsteen having a slightly cringey stage persona singing boomer music and not enough on that boomer music being pretty fuckin good and him genuinely caring about stuff

The “food desert“ line in the sports camp episode had me rolling. And then a call-back the next episode!

picture of large poster ad on DC metro that says: "Kalshi rule #4 we operate under US law"

not sure what is more odd: that it apparently didn't crack the top three, or that it is being advertised on the DC metro

Donald Trump does not understand believing in something. He does not believe in a God above and beyond him. His being is the sum of his own libidinal urges, nothing but feelings and lusts and hates.

5 Calls Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

If you're not in the habit of contacting your congresscritters, the easiest way to start is 5calls.org!

Put in your location. They'll look up your congresscritters and their phone numbers and give you a script.

You can do it!

A Moment Of Innocence (1996) YouTube video by ectoplasmo

Re: my last repost … Mohsen Makmalbaf’s A MOMENT OF INNOCENCE is available in full on YouTube. 75 minutes to change your life. youtu.be/l-WZ2sqlOkM?...

Sure, I spent the '80s watching action movies that were mostly military revenge fantasies about the Middle East. But then I went to college and spent the '90s watching movies mostly about Tehran schoolgirls trying to accomplish various simple tasks. The Iranian New Wave would fix a lot of people.

We absolutely don’t talk enough about how hilarious W. C. Fields was.

I have built load-bearing portions of my personal philosophy and theology on ideas that were in the footnotes of the books I read. You can't assume that the "important stuff" is clearly identifiable, because the meaning of "important" is "important to me, a unique human reader."

this one made me log off for a whole 2 days fam

(me making fun of your crop rotation idea and thereby holding our people back another 5000 years) jeff thinks the beans have to take turns lmao

Loved this episode. Vote Berube!

I'm compiling a list of "don't use AI, here's why" reasons for my incoming students. Any one of them could be (and has been) expanded into essay form). Kudos to @coltranethedog.bsky.social for saying a perfect truth, perfectly.

Break out the hosannas, friends.

My college senior is genuinely upset that Hegel is so relevant to their life.

Tracy Kidder, Author of ‘The Soul of a New Machine,’ Dies at 80

One of the first gifts that @donnadb.bsky.social gave me not long after we started dating was The Soul Of A New Machine, one of her favorite books. It kicked off a love of non-fiction for me that still burns strong. Kidder's brand of reportage was one-of-a-kind. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/b...

"The pink-hat-wearing liberal women who have marched consistently against Trump...are regularly discarded as “wine moms.' But this is wrong. Those marches mattered."

Agree very much with @aselrod.bsky.social here: Wine mom politics is good.

INVENTOR: i have just created the push button

MARKETING GUY: should i do a press release

INVENTOR: that’s how it works, yes

They canceled his citizenship interview and he drove in the winning run to beat the US.
Eugenio Suarez is a gem.

Should this ceremony really be allowed to give an award out for sound?

Italy has an espresso machine in their dugout ☕🇮🇹

📸 Chris Vaccaro on X

Guillermo del Toro: Saying ‘Art Is Not Important’ Is ‘Always the Prelude to Fascism’ Guillermo del Toro says claiming that 'art is not important' is a 'prelude to fascism.'

variety.com/2026/film/ne...

Why does cheating matter? A personal anecdote and an appeal to junior colleagues.

got inspired by some questions from phd students the other day — and also really irritated by senior academics who seem to refuse to get the issues and continue to blame students; hope useful for you! 🩷

olivia.science/cheating

How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers between DC and Baltimore in a matter of minutes. The project was a...

A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found …

“The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.”

washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

Poster for THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD (1938)

Hey all, just noticed that THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD is airing at 6p Eastern today. You know I love this, gonna try to make it ^PG #TCMParty #31DaysOfOscar

Couple things here:

1. What the fuck
2. I am allllllmost more offended by the suggestion that I would give this shitbox edit than having my identity stolen
3. The CEO is scheduled to be on Decoder soon and we will see if they back out!

www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides.

NOT A JOKE