Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.

Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.

Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

It's the only thing we want. The people want blogs. They miss blogs. If necessary, they will gain illicit access to, and employ, industrial grade supercompute to build blogs back better. This is simply a story of nature healing.

Tribes Condemn Trump for Backing Out of Columbia River Deal for Salmon Recovery Tribal leaders and environmental advocates warn that the region's wild salmon will go extinct without remediation efforts.

Tribal leaders and environmental advocates remain committed to remediating dwindling wild salmon populations in the Pacific Northwest after Trump backed out of the historic Resilient Columbia Basin Agreement last June. Read my coverage and learn how you can get involved.

Forest Service plan to close research stations stokes fear as wildfire season approaches • North Dakota Monitor The U.S. Forest Service’s plan to close scores of research stations could threaten the nation’s wildfire readiness, many foresters fear, and erode decades of work to understand timber production,…

The U.S. Forest Service’s plan to close scores of research stations could threaten the nation’s wildfire readiness, many foresters fear, and erode decades of work to understand timber production, soil health, pests and diseases, watersheds and wildlife.

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ok, but the Nazi tattoo is still a Nazi tattoo and I dunno...I just don't think an adult gets one of those on accident, and an adult certainly covers it with a golden retriever or a tiger or something when they decide to run for the U.S. Senate.

"Something Very Bad Is Going to Happen" is Prestige TV, Right? Maybe it is, maybe it isn't

Couldn't help myself (ourselves w/ Tara)...we had to write about Something Very Bad is Going to Happen and really chew on the meaning of "prestige TV" these days

Between the "male loneliness" beat and the "passport bro" beat, there sure is a lot of ink being spent on pieces of shit who can't find friends or dates because they're sentient piles of hot wet trash

The Shocking Secrets of Madison Square Garden's Surveillance Machine Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more.

Famously vengeful Knicks owner Jim Dolan has long spied on people at his iconic arenas. WIRED goes deep inside the operation that allegedly tracked a trans woman, lawyers, protesters, and more. www.wired.com/story/madiso...

These pitchers are not even considering trying really hard at the one thing they've been working on nonstop for their entire lives...?!

Loser behavior full stop, I type as I eat the second Twix bar I saved for myself earlier today at the gas station as a little treat.

Please use median. It’s a far better general indicator than mean, and it’s like 5x less than this $1m number. That’s because of extreme inequality. I’m not an economist, but come on. bsky.app/profile/wash...

Yeah he was trying to bury it inside on lefties, and pretty much did in the last Blue Jays game. I bet the map like this from that game would show that

I’m also sort of a cutter junkie and I think a good one is really cool so maybe it’s just wish casting on a guy I like throwing a pitch l like. We all have our baseball kinks I guess.

I dunno, when he was throwing it against the Blue Jays it was super flat and didn’t really look like a classic breaking ball. Just sorta hovered and then disappeared down or over a bit. I also just like, watch baseball a lot. Not looking at advanced anything. So maybe it’s a slider.

Joe Ryan is doing this, i think. His "slider" is definitely a cutter now most of the time (or sure looks like it on tv), and he throws a regular ole curve ball way more

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

People simply need to understand that Balance & Composure's album "Separation" is an absolute all-timer, has no weaknesses, and is the perfect mix of post-grunge+emo+some nasty licks. Great to be depressed and pounding cigs to, that's for sure.

Everyone said (I also said) the Twins would suck this year and they are 1 game back with just 149 games left. The dream is alive

Can confirm that this happened throughout my childhood and also I had no idea we had such a community.

Having to cite Piss_Pig_69_boner's spot on analysis of tariffs throughout the 20th and 21st centuries makes sharing that spot on analysis somehow more enjoyable for me. "No no, Piss Pig knows their shit about this, they've been teaching at Stanford for years," I say, smartly, confidently.

So weird to frame this reporting as anything other than another act of corruption www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/u...

Sorta related - my kids are (finally) bit older and we watched Alien and Aliens recently and now they have become complete practical effects snobs and I love it. My daughter said, "That looks real," when the xenomorph drops down out of the chains, and I was like IT IS! IT IS REAL.

"What am I?" indeed.

Perfectly demented episode to kick off the new season

Refusing to accept big tech's AI-poisoned 'future of journalism' Humans, however flawed, are

New — I wrote about how journalists proudly using AI to help them write their stories obscures the deeply human process that makes journalism a societal necessity, and one that feeds the soul of those who create it.

Hope you’ll give it a read. I promise I wrote the whole thing.

Not a lot for twins fans to be into these days but I am into Taj a lot. He’s fun to watch.

we're making them here in [deep breath]...Alabama? It might be somewhere else. They tell me we make them and the people making them are some of the happiest people, They told me or told someone that, mr. president, we don't have lithium and I said we have the army and lithium is what we need.

We All Played Popes (with Carl Tart) Podcast Episode · Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists · April 2 · 58m

This is top 5 @aoaoaoapod.bsky.social episode. Come for Carl Tart, stay for the titles and plot lines of the forthcoming “Air Pope” films

We All Played Popes (with Carl Tart) Podcast Episode · Artists on Artists on Artists on Artists · April 2 · 58m

This is top 5 @aoaoaoapod.bsky.social episode. Come for Carl Tart, stay for the titles and plot lines of the forthcoming “Air Pope” films

Trump’s War on Iran is the obliteration of diplomacy Diplomacy was working to keep Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. Trump's disastrous war makes future diplomacy that much harder.

@atherton.bsky.social this piece is really smart. And I haven’t talked to you in quite awhile. Can you DM me? open.substack.com/pub/cippolic...