Friday beer cheers like old times at Growler Grlz Southern Village

Viral photo from some years back of a man nonchalantly mowing his yard with a tornado on the horizon .

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

This is real

i feel like a lot of people are dissociating and not reacting to the threat of nuclear war with an appropriate level of alarm?

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

How many ways can you say “We used ChatGPT” without actually saying “We used ChatGPT”?

one page rpg:

winston churchill vs one otter

you are winston churchill at 90 years of age, and you have been confronted by a single otter. you have four moves: alcohol, genocide by starvation, speeches, and being mean to guests at dinner. the otter has one move, which is to bite you in the ass

In 2003 I had a vintage Yamaha motorcycle. It was a 79 XS 1100. I had exp with small engines, but nothing quite like Japanese four-cylinder motorcycle engine engines. I discovered a whole community online and I thought we were in an age of mechanical Renaissance because of findable communities.

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Life in an echo chamber is frictionless and fun.

"getting a croissant at Paris Baguette in downtown Nashville not working on a cattle ranch" is exactly why my dude needs that truck so desparately

Oh so it’s gonna be real bad

Just wait until FF is 2% under Warsh. We'll have 30 years at 7%!

Sewerdle

haven’t heard back from HR about whether playing this counts as professional development, but i also havent heard back that playing this *doesn’t* count as professional development so

sewerdle.neorsd.org

It's naive to think Trump would lock up his kith and kin.

Dave Matthews and Tim Reynolds playing CSNY’s “Ohio” with a little “Killing in the Name Of” thrown in.

💪

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

Charles Yang of Time for Three absolutely slaying me. I would lose my mind if I heard this live. Even crappy phone speakers made me scream and cry.

I know people keep saying this but it’s hard to communicate the depth of active resistance here. Like, I’m on random cafes and people are checking in for observation shifts. Signs everywhere. Folks in visibility vests on the corners. It’s wild. Absolutely wild.

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Mamdani: For too long, those fluent in the good grammar of civility have deployed decorum to mask agendas of cruelty

Parsability of a thread is good: multiple convos, like reader footnotes, plus ability to reshare specific insights.

I make this point all the time. As historians, we know nothing lasts forever. It’s a bit disorienting to live through the decline + fall of the American public research university (and it’s maddening that said decline has the causes it does) but history is about change—in all domains and directions

It was Joe Biden.

Was base language English? I'd assume more words would be needed in other languages to approximate base's nuances.

So deeply perverse that Miller expresses exactly the racism that some Americans expressed towards his great grandparents in 1924.

Just finished American Psycho last night, and it's worth remarking that when Ellis imagined who the idol of a murderous, soulless, psychopath might be, he picked Donald Trump.

As I think @calliope5431.bsky.social pointed out, Bateman is obsessed with Trump. His name prob comes up 50 times.

I was wondering why he was standing and then I got to the end and... I really like this dude.

Our photographer Alex Kormann captured the exact moment the presses stopped for the last time in Minneapolis, ending a 158 history of locally printed newspapers.