There was also the Microsoft Outlook problem they had to troubleshoot earlier. You can always count on Microsoft to do something to mess up your life.

Plus something like subsidized rideshare for places where density doesn't justify buses.

I'd love to see subsidized cab companies, even non-profits, for towns like the one I grew up in (where people too old or vision-impaired to drive still have to drive to get to the store)

…I’m sorry the 5-second rule for dropped surgical implements?!?

Cat in afternoon sunlight on top of a hot-water radiator

Counterpoint: cat in afternoon sunlight on top of a 140-year-old hot water radiator. (But not a kitten, this is an old lady cat so you might still have the kitten record.)

Right. What was banned was *selling* indulgences. These days indulgences can't involve money changing hands.

Ok, what would be good to start with? I've been tempted to check out her work a dozen times, but I go to the library website and see 148 books by her and give up in despair

Extremely useful to guys too, with all the info nobody would ever explain to us. An epoch-defining piece of work.

Ok, that's awesome. "No relics that might attract a following, ever, except as examples of what will happen if you try"

Awesome episode

I'm constantly surprised by how much judges will keep asking questions to find out what a lawyer did, long after it's 100% clear the lawyer is lying about it. Halfway into that hearing I'd be saying "you are no longer credible, this hearing is over"

Billionaires’ % share of federal election spending in:

2008: 0.3%

2024: 19%

@nytimes.com #GildedAge
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/u...

Much shorter tax return, but if you make a mistake you get sold into slavery

Corporate Contributions to Super PACs Have Exploded, with Top Ten Contributions Reaching $178 Million in 2024 (Most from Crypto-Related Companies) #ELB Using data from the indispensable Open Secrets, I have been able to calculate how much corporate contributions to Super PACs have grown. (Such contributions were treated as legal after the D.C. Circui...

Corporate Contributions to Super PACs Have Exploded, with Top Ten Contributions Reaching $178 Million in 2024 (Most from Crypto-Related Companies) electionlawblog.org?p=154802

Man, if only the Irish had thought of that. (The Irish were not cuturally predisposed to start rumors about infidelity, sadly)

I Apologize for My Ties to Jeffrey Epstein As an omniscient being, I should have known better.

open.substack.com/pub/thetweet...

Ahh, I hope everyone does ok going forward.

I will genuinely miss the old crew, you all had a chemistry that was one in a million. I hope the new pod will be as fun and I will absolutely tune in.

SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE

This is not a terribly useful reply but... Diarmaid MacCulloch's "Christianity: The First Three Thousand Years" is a fantastic book on this. I am, very very slowly working my way through it

@terriblemapshq.bsky.social, this yours?

I swear to whatever, I'm going back to Dyophysitism

And the hunter has no firearm? I think there's a Chekhov's-lack-of-gun here that is going to feature later

But Are the Wings Wild? Tariff payers are now suing for refunds, as Trump seeks new avenues to reimpose them; Aileen Cannon wants to bury Jack Smith's documents report; 'boneless wings' are not fraud.

www.serioustrouble.show/p/but-are-th...

I was shocked to find out that buffalo wings aren't from actual winged buffalos

He had every reason to think that. He kept his faculty post even after losing Harvard close to $2 billion in cash in 2008 due to phenomenally bad investment choices that he directed personally

Leeloo from the 5th element gesturing "come here" to someone she's about to kick the butt of

Mmm, even if we're narrowing it to the 5th element I'm putting Mondoshawans 3rd after Leeloo (1st) and the Diva

I feel like devs haven't done that because it could be gamed so easily. A bot can follow you, reply, then unfollow you, no trouble at all.

If they could do it for "people who have followed me for more than 24 hours" that might work but might be harder to code

And, to them, it's even worse because it's on Valentine's day

Play it like the main quest ends with "Open Season". Nothing after that is as fun.

You have to assume that anything that could be damaged by falling ice is already long gone (except people and pets)

I hope you've already learned not to walk too close under eaves and overhangs

As an I/T person supporting infrastructure for techies:

"What are you really trying to do?"

9-shelf bookcase sized for mass-market paperbacks exclusively

Very nice. Much nicer than mine, which desperately needs organizing