This probably isn't newsworthy, but an enormous rat ran right under the Daiso Japan sign behind home plate in the eighth. Are there normally such... bold rats at Wrigley??

It's been a rough one for the Phillies. 18 walks in less than 8 innings is a stat nobody aspires to.

*8th inning

A VERY well-fed rat ran along the base of the wall between Trea Turner and Kyle Schwarber's at-bats in the sixth inning of the Cubs-Phillies game 🤢

Or for something *gripping* you've got your heist books. The Art Thief and The Spy Who Couldn't Spell are two great ones, and the audiobooks were solid, too.

Putting it Together by James Lapine, an oral history of the making of Sunday in the Park with George (helps if you've seen the musical first). For fiction, The Patron Saint of Second Chances by Christine Simon--a silly romp with a terrific narrator, can't understand why more people haven't read it.

Bad Company by Megan Greenwell!

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

This is just to say
I have let in
the duck
that was on the doorstep

and which
you were probably
hoping
would stay out

Forgive me
he was persuasive
so scary
and so loud.

2026 vibes

Write it in Comic Sans.

There is something about picking a font/size that you Do Not Take Seriously, that you associate with garbage, that communicates--on conscious and subconscious levels--that this doc is not for public consumption because YOU WOULD NEVER, that frees the mind like nothing else.

An incrediblly apt metaphor for AI 🧵

Bluesky doesn't push down links like Meta. You can and should put links in posts!

have the Mets considered getting bangs

Have you noticed how goddamn happy he is lately? He did that interview with MLB and I've never seen him so smiley.

Haute & Freddy - Showgirl At Heart YouTube video by Haute & Freddy

Uhhhh this Cyndi-Lauper-meets-CATS-esque music video was filmed at the same castle as the @samreich.bsky.social abduction/escape room episode of Game Changer 👀

Sandra Bullock too!

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

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"Equal parts prissy and practical, Meryl is our very wearable ode to sartorial indulgence"

I don't even like this top but I kind of want to buy it just for the novelty

Tbh, their anti-Kat ads were really... odd? They didn't mention any of the things that folks around here didn't like about Kat. I'm sure the ads swayed somebody, somewhere, but speaking anecdotally as a local, I think it's incorrect or at least premature to assume causation from this correlation.

Like any good Millennial, my favorite dinosaurs mirror my list of favorite Land Before Time characters. Obviously.

I don't want to get parasocial on main, but the dynamic with that couple on the current season is... not great.

I would say they're worse than Target? I forgot that I got some silk pillowcases from Quince years ago, and the zippers broke in such a way that they're completely unusable now. Target sheets, in my experience, always took at least several years to wear out (though I haven't bought any recently).

Awwww this makes me happy

I can't speak to the furniture, but reddit is fullllll of dissatisfied customers for their sheets. I was researching nicer sheets last year, and read a gazillion posts there about how Quince's are nice out of the package, but die/rip very quickly. I would imagine the furniture is the same.

Better than I thought!

@realfollowers.bsky.social do your worst

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Gil Rodriguez, the Carrie tank.

I used this and it’s almost indistinguishable from the fuckers that charge $ for their “service”.

Less advertising, different fonts.