lebron the chosen one sports illustrated cover

this was 24 years ago btw

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

there is only one hope for humanity- the synthesizer

Found a payphone that someone repaired and forwarded to their personal google voice number so you can pick it up and talk to Some Guy

i do not think democrats' focus should be on helping rural areas in red states and i will not be accepting "so you're just abandoning people!!" as a lifelong resident of los angeles in 2026. democratic policies will of course help rural people. it's not either/or. but first things first

the governor of the most populous state in the country could not get a meeting with any relevant person in the white house to talk about an aid package for unprecedented fires. funds have broadly been withheld from blue areas. when democrats take power again the table isn't simply cleared and reset

Vanity plate that says “SAPPHO” on a Subaru

it’s what makes a subaru a subaru

I kept thinking "Well I guess the one good thing we got from Covid was mRNA technology" and now we're not being allowed that

Steve Schirripa with a sub sandwich and Weiner dog

Important Italian-American update

Sarah Isgur QTing the NYT shadow docket story: In 2014 and 2015, the Court used the “shadow docket” to stop Texas’ anti-abortion restrictions from going into effect while the case was pending. The left was thrilled with the shadow docket at that point—years before this case even existed…

Isgur is such a fucking hack. the case she’s referring to is one where the 5th Circuit entered a stay and it was appealed to SCOTUS. the case in the Times story involved the Court intervening to stay an EPA rule while a lower court was still adjudicating the issue.

Dave Mathews in a keffiyeh holding up signs that say STOP THE GENOCIDE and STOP KILLING CHILDREN at a concert

This is not a knock on DMB but if you had told me twenty years ago that Dave Mathews would be this outspoken on an issue that Radiohead completely shat the bed on, well... I would've been surprised!

YOU don’t want Garth Brooks.

SOME of us know that it’s the broncs and the blood and the steers and the mud, and they call the thing a rodeo.

dude they love these random dog toys so much lol

“Mike Patton makes his debut at the Grand Ole Opry” feels like some collapsing timelines shit

RIKI-OH: THE STORY OF RICKY (Lam, 1991)

ICYMI, I get royalties for this, if you want to help out a freelancing writer in the heat death of online promo.

this is a great book. highly recommended.

This is hetero-optimism and we love to see it

Over just five days, the justices had decided the issue. Even as they debated the Obama plan’s possible burden on the power industry, in the entire chain of correspondence obtained by The Times, not a single justice, conservative or liberal, mentioned the dangers of a warming planet as one of the possible harms the court should consider.

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

“Frustration with modern dating” feels like an awfully charitable phrasing for what’s motivating these guys

On Hachette's Internal Use of AI On March 19th Hachette Book Group made headlines for terminating a book contract with author Mia Ballard over her alleged use of AI in her novel Shy Girl; meanwhile, Hachette has negotiated

Hachette dropped author Mia Ballard's book "Shy Girl" over AI allegations the same month they contracted with Alighieria to provide AI-editing software. Cool, cool.

Fuck AI.

www.realclearbooks.com/2026/04/16/o...

More like MadonNO

Tell the truth and get fired.

not coincidentally, right wing uncles and university leaders are the two groups most likely to ask why the hell you’re doing a humanities degree

I remember an old comic that was maybe in Dragon magazine? where some adventurers were standing there with a genie that had come out a lamp, and the genie was saying to them, "So, your wish is for me to RAZE your ability scores?" and anyway I am 100% convinced that's what coding with AI is like.

Yes the strait is open if you can transport a Fox a chicken and a bag of feed across. But there’s only room for one of them on your boat and you can’t leave the Fox alone with the chicken or the chicken alone with the feed.

long-winded shaggy-dog joke about how despite the Scooby Doo Crew unmasking and demystifying supposed supernatural phenomena when at the end of the day they travel in the company of a talking dog

the crisis of modernity

Iran is performing medical miracles. Praise Allah

Centrism isn't change -- not even incremental change. It is *control*. Over yourself and the world. Exercise it.