From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

🎶this is how legends are made🎶

I Played 'The Boys Are Back in Town' on a Bar Jukebox Until I Got Kicked Out The boys were back in town, but I was out of the bar, because they asked me to leave.

on the 50th anniversary of the release of The Boys Are Back in Town I'm morally obligated to share my favorite story of all time

Eastman was not disbarred for making bad constitutional arguments, nor because he represented Trump, nor because he challenged the results of an election, all of which are allowed. Eastman was disbarred because he knowingly lied to the courts with deliberately false factual representations.

In the beginning the universe was created. This has made many people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Exactly one year ago today:

What a believable basketball game.

Robert Plant singing in Black Dog voice:

Thank you @sanders.senate.gov for your leadership in bringing forward this resolution. It’s clear — Leader Chuck Schumer is out of step with the Democratic Party. While Trump drags us into an endless war, voters are demanding we fight for peace. Primaries matter — I’m a NO on Schumer.

Realizing I have watched zero Charlotte Hornets basketball this season, because I did not realize that his name is pronounced Ka-Nipple.

it would be neat if one of these surveys alternated between asking these questions and providing the answers

Watching Baseball @jonbois.bsky.social

Remember the flashing chyron in the South Park scientology episode that said, "this is what scientologists actually believe"?

Now they're healthy for the playoffs, and can make it all the way to the conference finals before this post is relevant: bsky.app/profile/like...

NUGGETS at 76ERS | FULL GAME HIGHLIGHTS | January 5, 2026 YouTube video by NBA

Without the close wins that the Nuggets gutted out in January to hang around .500 without Jokic, they don't make the 3 seed. This game, in which they beat the full-strength 76ers in Philly without all 5 starters + 2 rotation bench players, was particularly absurd. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxXD...

I am absolutely not reading all those words about the Pope.

Longtime disdain for everything about UFC continually and thunderously vindicated

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

i firmly believe that kennedy wants preventable diseases to rip through american communities since, in his warped mind, those who survive without vaccines will have proven themselves “healthy.”

Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.

Incredible that human beings figured out how to do this. How cool. What if we only did cool stuff

I suspect a lot of this is Claude pulling away from the rest of the pack, rather than an indicator of how AI labs are doing across the board.

Nonetheless, the adoption is real.

This sort of reinforces the Discovery Institute analogy I made last week. You dredge up half a dozen dissenters from an overwhelming scholarly consensus, not because their arguments are particularly compelling, but to establish that the issue is “controversial”. This creates a permission structure…

This isn't a dismissive strawman description. It's a buzzword-laden hype slogan.

“I never thought Elon would muffle *my* legitimate news sources” says guy who uses the “Elon muffles legitimate news sources” app.

praising the wrong god in order to boost the engagement on a social media post threatening war crimes, like you do. pretty sure this was in the art of war somewhere

Worst leader of any kind in the history of human civilization.

Aaron Gordon.

It's so delightful how every single NBA game has disputed officiating.

Experts Are Just Jealous.