This is the stupidest headline

As cool as he is, he is cooler in Santa Clarita Diet

Let. The duck. In.

Guardian headline about Congress passing 10-day extension of FISA. Meanwhile Mike Johnson is slipping quietly away with his hand tucked inside his suit jacket pocket, as if he's just received a bribe.

Why does every photo of Mike Johnson look like this.

‘He’d gaze at the stars and go: I’m gonna be up there one day’: Prince by those who knew him best, 10 years after his death From lurid pranks and late-night drives, to why playing in the Revolution was like joining the marines – Prince’s friends and collaborators recount their memories of one of the music world’s most maje...

Love this tribute, but my fav thing is George Clinton talking about Prince wanting him to come by late at night and tell stories about the people he'd met, and Prince saying: "I never met nobody." Then Prince ends up being the guy everyone else cherishes meeting.
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"Two talented young writers" just makes me sad

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This seems totally right. I don't think they misjudged the reaction, I think they wanted to gauge it. Most of his crazier posts are trial balloons.

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The well-known medical procedure of the laying on of hands, I see that on The Pitt all the time

Practice!

I also picked up on the bedroom texture, to chat's credit

A "finish your look with" collage of stuff. The high-top beige shoes are fine. The bracelet (I think it's a bracelet) is maybe fine, whatever. But there's also some pretty awful clutch-type thing and then some kind of loafer that may be snakeskin, I don't know. It all just says "you have enough money to be stupid, why not be even stupider?"

When you know you've made poor online choices and the algorithm is probing to see just how poor

This is a correctly stupid post

This Artemis reaction shot of scientist Juliane Gross should be the main thing on my feed in any good version of the universe

the guys walking around in shoes that don’t fit are not gonna do a 25th Amendment

The "What a stupid time to be alive" comic. It's nice. A woman standing by a window looking at a cityscape, arms crossed, lost in thought, saying "What a stupid time to be alive." What nobody talks about is that there are what appear to be faux shutters lining the window *on the inside.* It's distracting but only if you think about it.

What I think every time I go on LinkedIn because I know I should promote my book, and also every other time I go online

Two side-by-side op-ed video links from the NYT, with these headlines: "Trump Says Opening the Strait of Hormuz 'Should Be Easy'. Will it?" and "Did Jesus Rise From the Dead?"

The answer to every headline is always no.

An app that just randomly sends you a breaking news alert that he’s dead just to give you a microburst of joy

no he really looks like that

put an egg in your shoe and beat it made me laugh

I’m team Langdon on the Pitt because I love a fuckup trying to come clean although I appreciate Santos’ sneer.

Typo but he deserves that too

Goodfellas has better music

Didn't need to see this as a Nats fan, but het gets what he deserves being on the Nats right now

Where I disagree with Kruse (who is generally right on this) is the idea that real writers don’t see it as a chore. It’s hard because it’s a chore, it’s tedious, but it’s not a chore you can farm out to someone else. It’s doing the chore that opens the door to what’s cool and beautiful about it.

I’ve had so many days where I wrote nothing. So many days where I wrote junk that I threw away. And I’ve had so many ideas I loved and couldn’t quite turn them into gold. AI isn’t a shortcut, it’s just giving up on the gold.

Many of us hate writing except for the 1% of time when it clicks and it’s the best thing ever. But the 99% of time that it’s brutal wouldn’t get better with AI, it would just make the 1% disappear.

Same is true of other touristy-seeming sites like for the French Open, where you *can* explore in English but you should not. Ticketing pages especially are minefields.

If you don't want it signed that's an option too, no judging