This tell you everything you need to know about all of these men.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Isn't "land-based flight" the thing United Airlines recent gotten (justifiably) reamed for? Nobody wants to take your bus from Cincinnati to Toledo, even if you sold it to them as one leg of a flight. Not even if it's a supersonic bus.

Journalists with integrity should accept the invitation and just not turn up on the night. No apologies,no notice. That orange clown will be so embarrassed by a half empty room.

If you purchased an auto in the last year, you paid thousands more for that vehicle in the USA because of tariffs. Even if it was made in the USA. Those auto companies passed those taxes onto you. You paid as much as 10% more. Now they are going to get 10% back in their pockets. WTH! NOT YOU!

The wonder of that one is steeped in its time, I think. We are so used to seamless/CGI special effects that the flying monkeys aren't terrifying, the switch from b/w to color doesn't amaze, &c. (I saw it for the 1st time in decades w/my then-6yo & was disappointed its lustre was lost even on him.)

The first three Thin Man movies, watched in order. And if that's cheating, then I would choose the first one, please. Their banter is just such a delight, and the clothes! Swoon!

This is a very fine question. It's almost as if they don't WANT consumers to do any better. (Nice that this all coincides with kicking tons of people off SNAP, and skyrocketing gas prices, among many other things that are making people's lives hard.)

TRUST TEACHERS. Two words that, if people actually widely believed them, would utterly reform education in this country.

Suspicions? *Dame Edith Evans voice* SUSPICIONS?

I did not have Church Leaders I Eagerly Agree With on my 2026 bingo card, but here we are with them everywhere.

Unlike even the last place finisher, however, another of the humanoid robots tripped on some tape at the race start and smashed into pieces in the road. So, you know, maybe all things with two legs don't actually belong in the same race?

You are so kind! I've done a massive rewrite, and I am pitching agents again, so here's fingers crossed that this version works, and I get to do this worldwide book tour for real sometime.

A 1925 Ford ad shows the car with mountains and trees in the background; a couple stands outside it, and a woman is in the driver's seat. The headline says "The trail in the wilderness," and the body copy promises that the Ford can get you "off the main highway, from from beaten roads" and "close to nature."

Writing is asking the internet whether Model T Fords had shock absorbers—no, except for aftermarket additions—& learning that the suspension was hypermobile to cope w/terrible roads. (Related AI lie: "Tin Lizzie" referenced not the car but the required resilience of passengers in jouncy vehicles.)

When mine were little, snow suits were two piece, and the pants were just pull on, but had a high bib with suspenders that clipped– much too hard for little hands. Your version sounds much easier. At 22 and 20, my "littles" do now dress themselves 😂

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

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I shouldn't laugh, but I'm suddenly imagining Adam and Stan as the perfect frenemies, whose parents bought them matching bicycles and didn't understand why the two were thrilled.

This was one of Biden’s critical failures. He was from the school of letting your actions speak for you.

These days someone needs to point people at your actions

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

I'm so old that I remember when it was perfectly reasonable to grouse, "a few of my students are irritated that I don't check email regularly and get back to them, but if they have a question, they can just come to my office hours and ask me, like everyone else does."

a blurry picture of people raising their hands in the sky ALT: a blurry picture of people raising their hands in the sky

It's open, but only if you know the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow

Schrödinger's Strait

The biggest problem is often that once you get on snowpants, scarf, hat, coat, mittens, and boots, they have to pee. Urgently. And cannot undress themselves. So you spend approximately a million hours in the on-off-on-off game with winter gear.

It's proof preschool teachers are miracle workers.

Or a toddler into a snowsuit. Imagine a resistant starfish, but with boots.

Me: "okay, I'll open the door again but you don't want to go out there"
Dog: looks at me, looks out the door, sniffs appreciatively, and goes out
M:
D: stands on back deck in pouring rain
M:
D: turns around after five seconds, shakes hard, walks right back in the house, and looks at me in disgust

This made me laugh OUT LOUD.

Dogs can be really smart, but they still don't understand weather. Thunder and torrential rain when they look out the door. Okayfine, but they'll ring the bell to go out five minutes later because what if the storm is over now? How about now? What about now? Is it over yet? How about now?

because CD players, walkmans, and VCRs usually fucking worked and did precisely what was asked of them without relogging in and syncing and re-entering passwords and getting confirmation codes and doing 2FA with out TV and phone and clicking a fake "remember me" box that's fucking why

When your father is a professor and your mom directed Salaam Bombay

If there was one change I could make to American politics it would be to clearly delineate who is well off and has enough money to go on nice vacations from who has enough money that they’re actively using it to fuck you over