On the one jillionth watch, I believe episode five of Heated Rivalry could easily be another 30 minutes longer. So many beautiful moments go by a teeny bit too quickly.

#heatedrivalry

Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking the bad guy at the end of a mystery, in two frames. First frame: Left side: a tied up man in a white featureless mask with eye holes. The caption over him in impact font reads, "SOMETHING I USED TO LOVE SUCKS NOW" Right side of frame, Fred has his hand on the mask, about to pull it off. The caption on him reads, "LET'S SEE WHO'S BEHIND THIS." Second frame: The unmasked bad guy has a pencil thin curling mustache, a pointy nose, and dark hair, with a widow's peak. The caption on him reads, "PRIVATE EQUITY"

Evergreen

Sen. Warren: "Did Donald Trump lose the 2020 election?"
Handsome Kevin: "ummm... errr... "

His response raises real questions about whether Warsh is independent of the President and if he has the courage to tell hard truths.

Exactly.
Came to say that the US Census once defined middle class households as supported-by-one-worker AND employing-the-equivalent-of-one-worker.

While DC journos all rush to WHCD, @philinvestigates.com just keeps reporting on the far right in TN.

Be like Phil!

We cannot address what we fail to measure.

We're not measuring this with any kind of accuracy. Ninety percent of my students and their families have no earthly idea how many times they've had COVID19.

Most, even the ones in our Home Hospital program, seem bored by the question.

Tell me this was a real assassination attempt again

Iinished up attending a state preparedness conference this last week. The keynote speaker who has a PhD in '#AI in #EmergencyManagement'. What that entailed was a nearly two hour-long ad for ai and robots. The what now feels old shtick of 'if you don't hop onto the planet-burning bandwagon […]

Two months later…

I missed this whole thing. Pfft. Oh well.

Irish Sean had the most thoughtful responses anyway.

Why do I have to switch off my work email’s Copilot every single fucking day?

If the bot is so smart, shouldn’t it remember for more than 24 hours?

There must be a book or essay out there about the verbs used to describe sex in other languages.
My uninformed guess is that English is weird.

Chafing so for real-ish time responses and discussion, I binged almost all the Empty Netters’ recaps yesterday.

My sister thinks I’m working out a boatload of our Closeted-Gay-Father & AIDs-in-my-1980s-Dance-Community psych effects.
(My undergrad degree is in dance, 1984.) 🤷🏻‍♀️🤔🤷🏻‍♀️

Altho’ I have made an evangelizing nuisance of myself, only 5 of the 9 or so people I’m strong arming have watched. None felt what we’re feeling. “It was good,” they say.
One old friend, a dude, I threatened to tie up in front of my laptop.
What is wrong with these people?
Seriously.
1/2

Those horses really, really deserve cake.

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

Very serious point here — media vastly overreport what Trump says rather than clarifying for the reader the actual strategic situation.

A mother’s response to the proposed automatic military draft scheme:

Those kids have been failed so hard by everybody.

By the school that hired abusive coaches, continues to employ them, and still pretends they’re providing a safe environment for students.

By all of the adults in the room that allowed this to happen in the moment.

By society as a whole.

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new toon!
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I would love it if those of you who do not have library cards will apply for one at your local branch during #NationalLibraryWeek. Then let me know about it. 😇

This is an embarrassing but not shocking indictment of legacy news media in the U.S.

Domestic violence organizations turn away thousands each day. Julia was one of them. An already underfunded system is under even more stress, as cases have gotten more complex and the Trump administration has sown confusion.

Hope you'll spend some time w/ this incredible piece by @jazzmyth.bsky.social. It reveals how the underfunded system set up to protect domestic violence survivors is unraveling under immense strain. Expertly done & w/ a lot of heart, told through the eyes of a survivor.

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I’ve begun to see my small circle, sister, neighbors, horse-y pals, old friends & feed store homies divided into HR savvy or not.

Incredibly grateful for those IRL who take it seriously.

One of the shining lights at the 55-horse ranch is our gay farrier, Ricky. His appreciation has had real sway.

Exactly.

Our pastoral delusions have outsized power.

It seems common for a man to hate his children’s mother so much that he will do the one thing he knows will destroy her.

Of course, he often kills her too and sometimes himself.

Pretty sure this happens nearly every day in the USA.

Her observation that Williams and Storrie out of character border on unrecognizable rang true for me.
It’s more testament to their skill set, Tierney’s too.

Also, if you have a BA in English but you wind up writing partisan propaganda that is based in the past, that does not make you a "historian"

We historians actually spend a good bit of time actually learning how to do this stuff, and it saves us from making these kinds of whoppers in our work.

A Texas-sized humanities gaff:

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Guessing you’re already up on Nina King’s analysis.
She loves this scene to distraction and tears it to lively and painful smithereens.