Let's go for anchovy canapes, leg of lamb, and German apple cake

staying in a fancy hotel for a few days is nice but nothing hits like returning to your shitty little apartment where all your garbage ass crap is

lololol - Bluesky managed to put an "adult content" label on an image which YOU CANNOT ACTUALLY SEE

Woman hit, killed by driver while sitting on bench in NYC BRONX, N.Y. (PIX11) — A woman was fatally struck by a driver Tuesday while sitting on a bench, police said. It happened around 1:32 p.m. near the Co-op City complex, according to the NYPD. Police s…

Sitting on a bench.
Waiting at a bus stop.
Crossing the street.
Enjoying a Fourth of July party.

These are the things people were doing in NYC when drivers killed them.

Just wait. They’ll blame “medical episode”.

Thirteen U.S. troops died trying to get these people to safety — Afghan interpreters, soldiers, and the families of our service members. Veterans spent sleepless nights during the chaotic withdrawal fighting to keep them alive. Now our own government is going to abandon them.

Travel and learn languages. And then after the year was up I might write something about it…

The first epidemic of the 1918 flu in the United States occurred at the military’s Camp Funston, Kansas (later Fort Riley).

Infected soldiers headed to WWI battlefields carried the flu to Europe. Millions died

It’s not *vaccination* that weakens force readiness.

Puns are the best! #ACES2026 #ACESPunSlam

I regret to say that I will be participating again.

Conservatives think the state should protect them from the traumatizing experience of encountering people unlike them. For some reason this never came up in the heyday of “snowflake,” “trigger warning” or “safe space” discourse bsky.app/profile/kiss...

Thanks!

from the AP Lit FB group, this kind of thing happens across states—

Los Colorados - Du Hast (Official Rammstein Cover) YouTube video by LosColoradosBand

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I am not gifted at being early to many things but waiting for a flight? You mean liminal space where no one can reach you and all you have to do is sit back and read? Preferably with a newspaper from a country you don't usually get them from? Can't think of a better use of time honestly.

The only times I've at all regretted leaving ample time for the airport have been times when for one reason or another I couldn't park my ass in a bar inside security for as long as I needed to. Whereas I have on a few occasions been supremely grateful for allowing extra time, due to… surprises.

The people who tell you to get to the airport at the last possible minute are 1. Wrong and 2. A lot more comfortable with losing serious money on missed flights than I’ll ever be tbh

I know: "Soon enough this sonofabitch found" --> "Fast enough the fuckhead found"

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Everytime Gardiner talks about being silenced this is the clip i think of. #yyjpoli

One more time, for the Monday evening crowd: my translation of the fight between Wolf-boy (Beowulf) and Grinder (Grendel). I may revise it. I think I didn't ever use "fuckhead" as a description of Grinder, and it does belong somewhere.

Today's winner of the Internet. Congratulations!

We both know that Wittgenstein could have written the "I will face heaven and walk backward into hell" tweet

Wittgenstein would have been like dril but serious

It’s not a loss. It’s the cost of a service. Unless you’re doing headlines on hue much roads and police and fire departments “lose,” you have no basis for framing it that way here. Try not being stenographers for reactionary talking points, eh?

bring back shame

video games taught me that you know you're headed in the right direction when you encounter more & stronger enemies, and get better loot by defeating them

The currently escalating tech backlash must be put in the context of:

“people have been listening to the most insufferable techbros in the world gleefully threaten everyone else with mass unemployment for over 6 years, and they’re sick of their shit”

I’m now in Rorschach in time for happy hour. The bar is dark concrete, the taps are arrayed on what might be bronze, and above them is a chalkboard menu.

Office crawl

I’m in Black Lab Brewing at Eastern and Leslie, a dog-themed place in concrete, wood, and metal, with a pint, because Tango Palace was completely full.

Non-traditional office

The Columbine massacre was on this date in 1999. Instead of energizing our country to get gun violence under control, it kicked off a new normal. One of the best explanations ever of journalism's destructive impact on mass shootings came from Roger Ebert in his review of Gus Van Sant’s “Elephant.”