Shitty administration bails out shitty airline.

(Also: this is what socialism actually looks like.)

I wish there was a leech or vacuum cleaner emoji so I could better express my thoughts about the Astros right now…

It would be cool if we could do something like this for the stub of SH 225 west of 610, but first we need new leadership at both the local and state levels.

I wrote about this a couple of years ago. It’s a fun thought experiment, but at the end of the day barrier islands just aren’t ideal places for large cities.

Also, the UFL's decision to start the season in April is just dumb. The XFL correctly realized that the best time to start was right after the Super Bowl, when people still had a taste for football and no competition w/ March Madness, NBA/NFL playoffs, MLB, etc. By April, sports fans have moved on.

Who knew that changing the name from "Roughnecks" to "Gamblers" (nobody remembers the 1980s USFL team anymore) and making a washout like Kevin $cumlin their head coach would cause people to stay away from the games?

JD Vance: “Stopping funding for Ukraine is one of the things I'm proudest we've
done in this administration.”

JD Vance is a piece of shit who deserves to burn in Hell.

In Houston METRO’s case, its because “affordability and accessibility are the agency’s central mission.” I suspect logistically it would be impossible to charge one fare for match attendees and another fare for regular riders (downtown/TMC workers, etc.) on a proof-of-payment system like METRORail.

Having been (peripherally) involved in transportation planning efforts for the World Cup here in Houston, I can confidently say that we’re taking it seriously and not resorting to dumbassery such as this.

Did JD Vance also hang out with Astros' pitching staff recently?

Less than a week ago, there were several prominent voices on here saying that they were sure Orbán was going to cancel Hungary's election. And casting that as a preview of coming horrors here in the States.

Well, Hungary had its vote, Orbán lost in a landslide, and he's conceded.

Australia Rules Football looks like chaos, but is actually a remarkably simple sport.

The Astros and Dynamo both suck so bad that right now a center of low pressure is forming over Texas Avenue.

People have been shocked that an AI company is offering chats with an AI Jesus for $1.99/minute but it's important to remember and respect the fact that a core part of American evangelicalism is being financially defrauded by people who claim to speak for god

Thank you for the explanation.

I can only hope that one day this vile piece of shit actually faces justice for his crimes against humanity.

LOL I had completely forgotten about that incident. Absolutely bonkers!

so happy for my emotional support astronauts

I don’t follow Eric Berger’s space reporting closely; his weather reporting is much more important to me. But somebody’s going to have to explain to me why he’s getting shade for this five-year-old tweet poll.

Okay, this pretty much confirms that Epstein fucked her.

“Fencing is in place onsite, and demolition of the old Annex is underway, with exterior limestone from the building salvaged and repurposed.”

Good. Cordova limestone (the limestone with all the shell imprints in it) is 104 million years old. Nature isn’t manufacturing it anymore!

Dear Trump supporters, you owe the world a fucking apology. Seeing as your leader is using expletives, I've a few of my own

"History will judge none of you kindly. You are now – already – in the same category as the credulous, blinkered, cultish masses who saluted Hitler on the streets of Germany."

A end-times fanatic that looks like Donald Trump is wearing a sign that says “the end is near (like, maybe in two weeks).” A guy looking at him and the sign says “he always says that.”

I will forever regret that I never got to flow on an L-1011.

I flew on several DC-10s and MD-11s, but not the same thing.

The. Rise. Of. Cognitive. Surrender.

Study finds that people who use GenAI chatbots rely on them 80% of the time, and develop almost no capacity to recognize when a chatbot is feeding them faulty information.

papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Fuck the Red Sox. 🧹

Things that keep me awake all night, Volume XIV:

How did that woman in “Anchorman” know what Bigfoot’s dick smelled like?

“Leaves behind a complicated legacy” is Chronicle-ese for “suffered from mental illness but never got the help he needed because the NFL has never cared about the well-being of their athletes.”