This is pretty incredible
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lol, it was on my workout playlist in 2024

Terrific commentary on the dreams of the young Right.

I feel fairly certain that Musk started work on day one with a signed pre-emptive presidential pardon already in hand

Outstanding to have this resource for all of the Home Movies lines that have entered everyday parlance in my household.

A sort of a banner that, at first glance, appears to be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States. But on inspection, it says "TID STATES OF MERI," "250o Years," and "17.20-726-2026." Basically every detail is wrong.

Please admire this absolute slop, printed on a small banner hanging outside of a restaurant in Wytheville, VA this evening. Somebody bought this, looked at it, thought "this is good," and hung it on the front of their establishment.

Brandis: Steffany, you smiled really big when he said 126 [new ADU] applications just recently.

Steffany: It means that we're going to have more Chicagoans.

I love Chicago. I think it's the greatest city in the world, and I want there to be more of us.

this is a lesson i thought we all learned from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer - that little jerk with the giant red schnozzle up and decided to become proud of that shit, so now we gotta make fun of his dumb fucking name and the stupid way he walks

i don't think an insult necessary implies that the speaker believes anyone necessarily /should/ be ashamed of something, but the speaker of an insult certainly does hope that the target of the insult /is/ ashamed of it, otherwise it's not an insult, it's more like a denouncement or an accusation

i think this is interestingly wrong about insults. the point of an insult is to be hurtful. if you want to make someone feel bad, you pick at their insecurities and things they are ashamed of, whether or not they're wrong. pointing out evil things that they're proud of having done isn't insulting.

in the end, i might be the sort of person who "enjoys" an infuriatingly vague or impossible multiple choice question, so maybe it's moot

unfortunately, writing good multiple choice questions is not easy for clankers, since "write one correct thing and three plausible-sounding but wrong things" is the sort of thing everyone else is trying to get them to stop doing

currently fiddling with a little app that uses a LLM to make little reading quizzes. it keeps track of when you ask for hints with the vocab (readings/meanings), so it knows which words you sort of know, and uses that to generate passages using vocab that's about 80% familiar

Chicago's immigrant population from 1910 to 1940

why am i so hungry for t shirts right now

Eccentrics And eccentricities – Fiction | New Orleans

that's a whole wing of some libraries

building out my "fashion inspiration" pinterest but it's just Peter Norton book covers

good catches! we were missing some GCW/JCW shows, and I've added ISPW

the swag in this video is unreal

fans seem mad about the wrong thing: "The team went 23-61 during Reese’s two seasons here, and last year the Sky had the second-worst record in the league."

and the enslavers wrote a national suicide pact and called it a constitution

I went to a pro wrestling show in St. Paul and thought about the meaning of participation, among other things

these "her savage passion could only be satisfied by Title of Book" covers always sound like Beastie Boys lyrics to me

Editor: No Truman—she can’t do it
Beastie Boys: IN COLD BLOOD
Editor: Her shameless lust won her a
Beastie Boys: WEIRD O STUD

i would suggest that there's a circle around the bad acts which don't represent a lapse of judgement or a loss of composure, but that we've decided are instead a revelation of someone's true self - there's no mere "redemption" available, you have to *transform*

This is an *excellent* post about the need for structural reform of the American constitutional order.

Easiest important point to miss: the task is not just dreaming up reforms to fix systemic problems but rather "figur[ing] out how to create the conditions under which these problems can be fixed."

I’m at a comedy show?

currently at a stage in my Japanese learning where it seems like practicing reading katakana would help... not for learning the words but just for doing "phonics". anyway, i cobbled together an app to practice just that: see the katakana, type the katakana. tewhalen.github.io/katakana-quiz/

nancy sluggo olivia jaimes and caroline cash holding hands and skipping in front of a banner that reads "how life is when you don't read the comments"

newest Nancy ends with one of the most important panels ever, what a gift from @cashbrowns.bsky.social

Neil Young and Crazy Horse - Down By the River (Live at Farm Aid 1994) YouTube video by Farm Aid

does this rule, or am I just at that age? www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiX8...

every time I listen to Neil Young, I'm like, "Guys, I think might be entering my Neil Young era"