again stevens losing with $60 million in ad spend suggests to me that she might actually have been a very weak general candidate
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 13h agoUnfathomable
Walter Hickey
@walthickey.bsky.social
Executive Editor @sherwood.news, book whatyou.watch, writer numlock.com. Previously FiveThirtyEight and Business Insider. Pulitzer Prize winner.
#StupidSuez@diplomatofnight.com · 13h ago
"trying to remove the reigning World Cup winners as co-host of the tournament in which they will defend their title" is absolutely WILD
George Pearkes@peark.es · 3h agooh it's getting real *INFANTINO OFFERS MOROCCO WORLD CUP FINAL FOR SUPPORT: TIMES
![An image of The Villeneuve Scale of Air Pollution (aka the Milleneuve)
Arrival
< 100 milleneuves
(normal particulate levels)
Prisoners
200 milleneuves
(chimney smoke and rage)
Sicario
300 milleneuves
(gunsmoke and drugs maybe?)
Enemy
600 milleneuves
(C'mon, Toronto, you used to be cool)
Dune
750 milleneuves
(stillsuits are a must!)
Blade Runner 2049
900 milleneuves
(omg why are you even outside, Ryan Gosling??)
[each entry has a still from the film showing the sky color, from clear to deep orange]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:e3adzvtg56lfn3wpdlfjwnoc/bafkreifderpx4gkosjxomcme5gtboehesquihk5usfuv75aq7naejsitie)
Hyperscalers are the LA Dodgers, and the only way to really stop them is with a lockout. This AM’s EntryPoint:
Well, here's an exciting thing ... I have a new short essay live today on @lukeoneil47.bsky.social's excellent Welcome to Hell World: www.welcometohellworld.com/who-goes-tra...
Who goes transphobe?
by Sandy Ernest Allen It is an interesting and somewhat macabre parlor game to play at a large gathering of one’s acquaintances: to speculate who in a showdown would go transphobe. By now, I think I ...
welcometohellworld.com
key division in the 2026 D primaries is that mainstream dems appear to have not read all the way to the end here
The idea that social media users aren't pronounced enough about being pathetic whining losers runs so contrary to all of my lived experience online that I think this counts as gaslighting
New York Magazine@nymag.com · yesterdayOn social media, a broad consensus is that you can’t admit to struggle — at least not while you’re struggling. Doing so represents a failure so profound it’s almost existential. How did it become mandatory to demonstrate perpetual growth and progress online?
do not hire the mountain goats guy to lead your guided meditation unless you have very particular and frankly weird meditative goals
the Mountain Goats@themountaingoats.bsky.social · 23h agoimagine debasing yourself before one of the most ridiculous figures ever to occupy the global stage, imagine doing that with your life
"When the birds first started attacking us we all thought it was pretty funny and made Hitchcock jokes, but we're not laughing now because our laughter excites the birds sexually." www.science.org/content/arti...
Antimalaria pesticide may have backfired, helping mosquitoes find love
Poison appears to have caused mutation that helps insects home in on mates in noisy cities
science.org
"Are you working?" "Yes." "Is it on your work?" "...no." "Is it 2000 words on your first skim through indie-TTRPG darling Stonetop?" "Leave me alone." #ttrpg #indiettrpg
The Skim: Stonetop - Old Men Running The World
It is this organ’s firm and unyielding belief that one cannot review an RPG from reading it. You can review a manual, certainly, but you’re not reviewing the
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I don't even know what to say. This is real, this is true, so, like, thank you all, from the bottom of my heart. This took over 25 years to happen so if there's any lesson here it's either "keep at it, who knows" or "many people are divorced"
And maybe not Howl’s Moving Castle, either. Those who had actually heard of Studio Ghibli in their lives before Spirited Away won the Oscar found Howl’s an incoherent, self-indulgent mess. 😖
Ray Harryhausen's stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts are amazing even now. He animated the sequence by himself for more than four months -- without computers or even an easy way to check his work. We're looking into how he did it: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/how-ray-ha...
Love it or hate it publishing anything every day since 1998 is some sort of accomplishment
BoneQuest@bonequest.com · 2d ago"10K" https://bonequest.com/10000
Reading Wodehouse got me my job on Frasier. I wrote a Wodehousian novel, rabid Wodehouse fan David Lloyd read it (because a critic compared it to Wodehouse). David gave it to the Charles brothers who hired me for a pilot, which won me an offer from Frasier. None of it would've happened without PGW.
but if you've followed the extended drama around Sony, Marvel, Spider-Man, the X-Men, and all the rights to various Marvel characters, it's a somewhat ironic third-act twist that Spider-Man still winds up being the most prized property. the arc of history is long but it bends toward Spidey
She can stay up all night doing rails with Bruno Mars and then write a review of the Odyssey that pisses off the Internet all while somehow getting a million people to buy a book she didn’t even write That’s ain’t you buddy you try to keep EW’s pace you’ll end up in a burrito restaurant’s mural
Worried that Emily Wilson is establishing a rockstar standard for translators that will kill future generations of classicists like Keith Richards’ tolerance killed a generation of succeeding rock stars
two posts that explain everything: the Pareene one linked below and this, from Kyle Wagner, in 2014
Asawin Suebsaeng@swin24.bsky.social · 4d agoThe funniest part of this to me is Pareene says in the pod that Madison Cawthorne was his see, “I was right” moment but with just a few years later that example feels so quaint compared to all the vindication to the thesis that came shortly after that Here’s the post: www.jezebel.com/charlottesvi...
"I think we’ve ended up in a different kind of dead internet. One populated almost entirely by human beings who are also businesses that don’t want us to immediately clock that they’re businesses." www.garbageday.email/p/the-gender...
The genderslop of the new gilded age
Read to the end for a good sociopolitical breakdown of various backyard animals
garbageday.email
Which vehicles most endanger the drivers of other cars? Giant pickup trucks — and the Dodge Charger Source: www.iihs.org/news/detail/...
I have seen the Maine attack ads about Troy Jackson marrying his second cousin and they reminded me of my favorite part of the FDR museum: Teddy’s amusement upon learning Eleanor Roosevelt would not have to change her name when she got married
I actually heard exactly this from an MTA employee, that the free pass they get is not the best idea because it detaches them from experiencing the agency’s main product bsky.app/profile/thel...
The LIRR Today@thelirrtoday.com · 5d agoA major reason OMNY went off the rails is that nobody at the MTA actually pays fares! So they are almost completely disconnected from the reality of how those of us who do pay our fares go about it (and how it influences travel habits) and their too aloof to put themselves in riders' shoes
The MTA made up the "day laborer who can't afford a weekly/monthly." People get paid biweekly, rent and utilities are due monthly, and the unbanked know how to budget. They raised fares on the most loyal riders and made fare evasion a lot worse, and they're trying to deflect with Woke 1.0 bullshit.
@elayamakan.bsky.social · 5d agowww.amny.com/news/mta-omn... Lieber also pushed back on reports that some riders are lamenting the MTA’s elimination of the 30day unlmtd MetroCard. Lieber insisted that while some riders may be “nostalgic” for the old system, it was not fair to those who could not afford to pay large sums upfront.“
HUGE: science has pushed back the first known spiritual ancestor of a nerd painting minifigures back 40,000 years www.numlock.com/p/numlock-ne...
insane to me that Apple, a $5 trillion company, is not aware that New York City has a subway
