“We don’t need another Fetterman in the Senate,” says Graham Platner.

Irony just choked to death on a clam strip.

"And Tim Curry, WHO DID NOT DIE"

Ofsteve is her name

Electoral map for anyone who runs on a platform of letting people individually sledgehammer Trump’s arch and ballroom into rubble, Berlin Wall style.

What do these venues have in common?

🏟️Xfinity Center
🎫MGM Music Hall
🎵House of Blues
🎸Leader Bank Pavilion

They're 4 of Massachusetts' most popular venues- and they're all owned by Live Nation.

The court sided with us to declare them a monopoly. Now, let's give consumers and venues real choice.

i don’t say this as someone who is ignorant of court history. i’m probably better read on it than three justices minimum. it’s gone completely to their heads and it needs to stop

the president tried to have congress murdered five years ago, and the republicans on the court made trump king for it. that is the problem, not honest and frank discussion of their absolute bullshit

Let us not forget that it is illegal and everyone involved needs to go to prison.

Parenting keeps you so humble.

Had a great week at work, multiple professional successes. People listening to/reading what I have to say.

Come home, get kid-splained about how “ugh, moooooom. You don’t understaaaaaand.”

I am smart. I am profoundly thick.

I contain multitudes.

Doom is a form of mum game. Any game in which you clean the level meticulously and thoroughly before moving on and then the next time you return its a mess again is a mum game

a phrase that has been coming to mind a lot lately: reality always bats last

It's a national suicide. I don't see any other way of looking at what's happening inside nearly every institution. American exceptionlism—if it ever existed at all—was our ability to create knowledge and culture. And we're destroying that capacity at scale.

I am blown away that anyone could unironically include Pizza Hut & Sizzler in their description of the Platonic ideal society

“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...

Bobby Jr. understands mass culture in a way that most MAGA can't. And this could get to him.

Me: I spoke to the New York Times about the Trump triumphal arch plans today.

Husband: What did you tell them?

Me: That I am the structure’s Arch Nemesis.

Husband: Puns? To the NYT?

Me: It’s a good pun. 10/10 Cicero would support this.

Husband: *exasperated sigh*

He DEFINITELY does not know what a bodega is.

What is the worst ILS and why is it Alma/Primo?

honking at bluesky to make it load faster

data centers: less popular than nazis

look who doesn’t give a shit what the Baileys think all of a sudden

I don't roll on shabbos

Thanks to @steveahlquist.bsky.social for capturing our amazing, insightful, deliberative students' words. I want to live in the future these young people will build, not the one in which their elders make decisions based on fear. Our RIC students inspire me, & their voices deserve to be listened to.

that photo of Young Pope where he does indeed look like he's on a mission from god

How can I be so skinny yet life so phat?

Vengeance is yours; take it

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