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.

"I estimate a range that covers over an order of magnitude. Another estimate falls within the lower end of this range. Therefore [the high end] of this range is still plausible."

Good luck getting through it. A better problem to have than full flare but still a problem.

god, pressing against the "learned helplessness or remaining limit" during the recovery period is such a head trip. still not through it really.

with the water issues IT’S THE FARMER’S FAULT BLAME THE FUCKING FARMERS is like Newtonian physics: it won’t get every single particular right, but for practical purposes it’s all the information you need most of the time

It’s exceptionally obvious this is coming and the time to pick a side was yesterday

Mamdani is not working harder or smiling better than the average Democratic politician. But celebrities like Hank Green feel there is a permission structure where they are allowed to speak positively about him in a way they didn't about Biden, because they view him as a fellow celebrity.

If you're complaining about the price of beef you never, not for one moment, cared about climate change.

she asserts that thune has confirmed to her that gallego's being investigated by the senate, gallego has said his office hasn't been notified of any investigation, so one of them is probably not telling the truth about this. genuinely could be either one of them.

GOP Rep. Luna accuses Sen. Ruben Gallego of misconduct; Gallego calls allegations "conspiracy theories" GOP Rep. Anna Paulina Luna told CBS News that Democratic Sen. Ruben Gallego was the previously unnamed senator whom she accused of "very disturbing" conduct. Gallego has denied all wrongdoing.

two things that cause me cognitive difficulty: i am fully willing to believe allegations about gallego could be true, and i have an extremely difficult time giving allegations from anna paulina luna credibility. we'll have to wait for more and better reporting on this.

not to be all "the left left me," but, well....

My hot take on this is that it will only drive a renaissance for authenticity if people are willing and unafraid to be authentic.

one of the biggest technological revolutions in history and it has nothing to do with crypto, AI, metaverse or any of the things the media relentlessly hypes

Genuinely insane that Platner supporters are out here saying "yeah I like him because he's MAGA but left-coded, which is a good thing"

you know, credit where credit is due, good for Disability Rights Maine for being really the only big rights org to actually stand up and say "no this isn't okay" women's groups, LGBT groups, Jewish groups, black groups have all awkwardly avoided eye contact with this race.

screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -

POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad

VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??

POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

Oh my gosh, what a little sweetheart. So happy for you and I hope you & he are navigating the health complications well.

If we can actually get this done that would be phenomenal, Becerra deserves it and if we actually elected people based on merit he would have had it in the bag from day one.

Postpartum??? CONGRATULATIONS!!!

There was literally a pangolin that flew combat sorties with the CIA in a dirty war in Laos that then died after drinking too much gin, so there’s at least one pangolin whose record is morally ambiguous

Also, if the vibecession is real, then deliverism fails absolutely; people want Bidenism to have failed not because deliverism is flawed, but because he wasn’t the same kind of communist.

Because they feel bad and they don’t like hearing that they are feeling bad for bad reasons.

For all those still feeling the moon joy—Artemis II was brought to you by public schools and publicly funded science. Copy that! 👩‍🚀🚀💕

*All four astronauts went to public schools!

UK households to be urged to use more power this summer as renewables soar Incentives to absorb surplus wind and solar energy could help balance the grid and lower bills

It's easy to forget that most people don't know that power will be free (or even sometimes negatively priced) when it's very sunny.

I have also been arguing with the China team about what a power market even means.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

What the hell growth-hacking AI nonsense is this.

I think there’s a lot to this. 10 million subscriptions to everything feels like nickel and diming. Burrito taxi discourse is tired *but* whether it should be a routine expense or not it “feels” like it ought to be as routine as a delivery pizza or Chinese in the 90s

I would be extremely interested in assessments that incorporate cognitive/psychological costs, because I do think a huge part of it is just how extractive and intrusive commerce has become, so the economy is more psychologically expensive (and also feels scammy-er in a way that registers as "bad")

The statisticians spend a lot of time and do a lot of work in trying to keep the numbers relevant in a changing society and I respect them greatly for that but ... What if they're not succeeding? What if things have changed so that they can't succeed without big structural and methodological change?

genuinely think that "it's now very easy to see how rich people live every single day of your life by just being on your phone" feels so boring as an answer to the below that no one really wants to acknowledge it but also: what if that's just what it is