The Doughnut-ist Heresy: when you go to Mass just for the free donuts in the parish hall.

My favorite of his roles!

"Individual AI use takes less energy/water than a hamburger." It's true, and I should definitely eat less meat. But I confess, sometimes I'm hungry for a hamburger. I'm never hungry for Adobe Acrobat not to work.

Excerpt from Wikipedia page on Toab, Orkney suggesting that people from Toab are called "Toaboggans" (citation needed).

Can anyone from Toab confirm?

The emperor is starting wars and feuding with the Pope. Always a good sign.

I will be taking a social media break during Lent this year in the hopes of rebuilding some neglected connections between my heart/soul and the world around me. See you all after Easter!

Something really needs to be done about the mismatch between high school and college writing. Students come to college with such counter-productive ideas about writing (that you should always avoid repetition, or that passive voice is inherently bad) that have clearly been hammered in as axiomatic.

That's true, but historically they have faced uh consequences

If we spend 2029-2033 using most of our resources prosecuting the prior administration and installing aggressive safeguards to make sure this doesn't ever happen again, it will be well spent.

Lmao I always forget that Leigh Diffey calls luge for nbc

A weird side-effect of the Epstein files release is the realization that many of the most "powerful" and "important" men in the world put like negative effort into composing their emails.

I recently learned that there are now Anglican sedevacantists and that's just. The worst.

I'm not sure I actually want to know what I will find...

Wristwatch showing 2:25.

My watch (cheap battery powered Timex with no kind of Internet connection) has ended up exactly one hour behind the real time. This is freaking me out. Anyone know how this would have happened? Besides some kind of wormhole event?

The Trib's editorial board is a force for the worse in this city and nation and I SO respect you recognizing it for what it is.

Congratulations to Emerson, Lake & Palmer for winning the Grammy for Best Concept Album About An Armadillo Tank for the 54th year in a row

Classic Indycar move, doing something half-assed on short notice that everyone hates

IndyCar taking NASCAR’s spot as the bootlicking clown show of the year (domestic motorsport edition) has to be an all-time upset

they're calling this the indycar century of humiliation

I keep seeing takes that F1 is leaving IndyCar in the dust in America, but IndyCar found a way to embarrassingly link up with an unpopular despot of a country for a street race without even leaving its home market. That's innovation! F1 has to go to other continents to do that!

For a series that wants to attract a wider audience and achieve legitimacy on the world stage, IndyCar is certainly making some... choices

A take that's hot, but still being formulated (a baking take?): Sports boycott discourse needs more nuance. An organized boycott of the Super Bowl would be effective as an economic blow, but those advocating for it are slipping way too easily into "sports are inherently counterrevolutionary"

It's January 30th and I am still hearing the Illinois Lottery Carol of the Bells holiday ad on all my podcasts.

Native American remains return to mainland US in repatriation first | News | The University of Edinburgh Edinburgh has completed what is believed to be the first ever international repatriation of ancestral remains to mainland United States.

"What makes this occasion even more special and meaningful for us is that we had to travel over 4,000 miles and cross an ocean to receive the kind of dignity and decency that we still cannot find here at home."

David Hill
Principal Chief of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation

The Bovine has been turned out to pasture.

Based on my feed, a lot of people want this. But those people are from Seattle and therefore should not be counted.

Holy moly! What a revelation that "No Children" once had a line about not having children! Derrida indeed; much better reminder erasure.

Estamos aquí

The revolution will include *sigh* libertarians

See, when WE tweet "ICE out," we're doing so in part to get the attention of people in power. When YOU tweet it, then, it's kinda like the pilot asking the passengers if anyone knows how to land a plane.