How to cook a pot of beans Beans are awesome. They're cheap, healthy and delicious. I make a pot every week. Most recipes I'll be posting here will start with something like “First, cook a pot of beans.” So, let's get that out ...

Just now realized that I failed to commemorate the first birthday of my bean blog! A year and a few days ago, I made my first post: beantips.com/how-to-cook-... Got some exciting (yes, that seems weird, but really) bean tips coming in year two!

The Nathan Arizona of Oklahoma

Wesley Willis American, 1963-2003, The Dan Ryan Expressway, A work made of blue ballpoint pen and colored felt-tipped markers, on ivory illustration board.

The Dan Ryan Expressway, by Wesley Willis
American, 1963-2003
1986

More info: https://www.artic.edu/artworks/204579

Dianna Russini resigned over Mike Vrabel situation, Bill and Jordon at Savannah Bananas and Michael Malone at UNC, Caleb Williams with Kardashians at Coachella, WNBA free agency — The Sports Gossip Sh... Madeline and Charlotte are back with some updates: After photos leaked of NFL insider Dianna Russini holding hands with Patriots head coach, Mike Vrabel, Russini resigned from The Athletic. The gals t...

Consistently great stuff from @sportsgossipshow.bsky.social on the Vrabel-Russini coverage.

Audible "oh hell yes" when I saw this

Get his ass, Greg

lol I was in a few of those classes

I assume it because she wasn't straightforward with her description of the model or how they operate.

Nilay's description of trade publication verticals is a better description than anything than came from the CEO.

Can Puck’s CEO reinvent the news business for the influencer age? — Decoder with Nilay Patel Sarah Personette is the CEO of Puck, a media company that’s been around for about five years. Puck hires big star reporters who write newsletters as part of a subscription bundle. Those newsletters ar...

Whew. @reckless.bsky.social is fantastic in this frustrating slog.

This is even more bullshit and deflection than I would have expected from the CEO of an outlet that touts being “talent-centric” and employs Dylan Fucking Byers.

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Screenshot from King of the Hill Season 10, Episode 15

People really want one white man on a horse made out of money to save journalism in the same way that Charlie Brown really wanted Lucy to let him kick that football.

Posts like this are exactly why I'm a subscriber and renew each year.

Or 14th.

One cool thing about non-chronological timelines is seeing half-ass April Fool's joke videos on April 15.

Shoutout to decent but not necessarily great neighborhood restaurants.

Achieve Information Independence Via Defector’s Spring Sale | Defector When I survey energy markets—that is, when I gaze through binoculars at the gas station sign I can read from my home as long as there isn’t a big truck in the intersection—I see the disruptive effects...

There is nothing keeping a trial subscriber from reading all five-and-a-half years of Defector during your $1 intro month and then tapping out. But I think the blogs sell themselves, and we're extruding new ones daily: defector.com/achieve-info...

oh that's fucked up

Uptown School Demands Its Own Gym After Years Of Delays: 'Our Bodies Are Meant To Move' McCutcheon Elementary, one of a handful of CPS schools without its own gym, was slated to get one before a lawsuit from neighbors stalled the project. Students, teachers and parents are now renewing c...

Using your status as a homeowner to block a gym for an elementary school is a Capital-A Asshole move.

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Mid-70s solidarity! 😂

A lot of them were always like that. I never trust any Xer born before 1970.

After Former Warlord Chef's Abuse Exposed, An Ex-Employee Speaks Out: 'It Was Assault' Julia Suhr thought she had her dream job as hostess of Chicago’s hottest restaurant — until her boss, Trevor Fleming, sexually assaulted her when she tried to end their relationship, she said.

I spent the last months talking to Julia Suhr, who had one of the most enviable jobs in 2024: hostess at Warlord, the city’s most talked-about dining destination — until Trevor Fleming sexually assaulted her amid a secret sexual relationship, she said. blockclubchi.co/41uuuPW

This store is awesome and I love seeing them catch on.

A menu screen from “Skate or Die” for the NES, but the blue-haired guy at the desk is saying “Orioles win - ain’t the beer cold!”

Friends, I am really excited for what we are cooking up for #Coachella. Follow @latimes.com if you aren’t already!

For those of us who never used all of our Bluesky invite codes before they went away, they should be turned into uninvite codes where we can delete accounts of our choice

The biggest form of political correctness in America is that basically every single conservative commentator is a gutter bigot and it's just universally understood that it's beyond the pale to ever acknowledge that.

watching a video from an account called "travelmaxing" what have i done with my life

yeah but is there an Odenton, Florida

The first clavicular was that guy on mtv true life who got calf implants

I wouldn’t trust any adult man named “Chip” to hold $100 for me.