Last week a single pint glass from an eight year-old set cracked. Until that moment, we always had plenty of glasses. Hardly ever ran low unless people were visiting. And now? There is never a glass when you need one. The household economy of tumblers apparently depended on that one glass.
2026 MN State Fair Crop Art entry "Witness" based on pStar Tribune photograph by Leila Navi with MPR reporter Sam Stroiza.
one thing you can't stop seeing once you notice it is how the pundits the mainstream media platform actively punish any dem who lands on effective messaging
Salome@salome-gongadze.bsky.social · 5d agowhat is it with ex obama people and misreading the room lol? this whole thing sparked a news cycle and endless earned media, feels like a slam dunk to me
As I lay down to sleep I am struck by a vision of blinding radiance: Foyle’s Star War
It's not by any means the worst thing about the switch from DVDs to streaming as the way most people consume media, but the loss of director's commentary tracks is, selfishly, the one I mourn the most. Let those sweaty little nerds yammer in a sound booth for 3 hours about their process!
"okay but even if the vaccines are no longer 'recommended', people can still get them!" yeah so lemme tell you which vaccines american insurance will pay for. recommended ones
Rahm Emanuel putting in a presidential bid and thinking he's got a ton of support because he misunderstood the endless stream of messages he gets advising him to "start running."
The TDF Femmes was the best racing I have seen all year. Open wheel, endurance, cycling… that was the best. The sport is truly blessed with closely matched riders with distinctive styles and strengths.
Everyone stunned when I solve healthcare by making Trupanion the adminstrator for single payer, then place MassVet in charge of the nation’s hospitals. People quoting Rob’s Red Reader to each other. “The citizen is the beloved pet of the state. The state is the treat dispenser of the citizen.”
The Heart-Breaking Horniness of the Cricket Trapped in My Garage
Dinner cooked PERFECTLY in the length of time it took to listen to Trio (1987, Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris, Linda Ronstadt) & now…time for the iwtv finale
airbnb I’m staying at unintentionally created the toughest punk album cover of 2027
drunk girl trying to tell her friends that she thinks they are “weekend at Bernie’s” with McConnell, but she has got completely the wrong movie and keeps calling it “doing a Fish Called Wanda” with him and I’m dying
Absolute first no, but I think I was ~6 when we were watching Four Weddings & a Funeral (which I’d seen before) at a sleepover when it suddenly occurred to my parents to check w/my friend’s parents. (Fwiw violent gore in movies was a Big problem for them, but sex & swearing they didn’t care.)
Patrick Klepek@patrickklepek.bsky.social · last mo.Do you remember what *your* first R-rated movie was? I finally asked my mom (I couldn't remember), and she told me it was The Lost Boys when I was roughly the same age as my daughter (about 9). The movie traumatized her more than it did me, apparently
It is incredibly hard to relax when the radar is clear, there are no warnings or alerts, and yet your Midwestern brain cannot stop looking outside at an eerily still and sickly-hued overcast day and thinking, “Tornado weather.”
To be a historian is to speak ill of the dead and the rest of you should take more history classes and join us.
The Vampire Lestat, Episode Six, “Montreal,” in texts to Gay Movie Night Group Chat and my fiancée:
there’s a difference between celebrating someone’s death and celebrating that they are no longer in a position to do great and immeasurable harm to people around the world because they are dead you can do both tho I ain’t gonna judge
NOTE: the duty to hound him out of his comeback attempts does NOT carry with it a duty to engage w/ and thus elevate whatever policies he's shilling at any given pt (policies he'll never, ever have the power to implement) You get to just make fun of him being an inept loser clown who does bad stuff
Stephanie Kollmann@slkollmann.bsky.social · 2y agoI will mute other politicians but never Rahm Emanuel bc we have a civic duty to band together and hound him out of his every comeback attempt and I take it very seriously 🫡
One of my favorite things about the Tour de France is the fact there is a “most aggressive” rider award. They literally give you something that says, “We don’t know if that was smart or even good but we like the way you did whatever that was.”
the problem with the games industry is that it makes money in a sustainable way by creating stuff that people want to pay for this is in contrast to how big capital would prefer to make money, by trying to scale fake numbers to infinity using gambler brained investors lured in by impossible claims
The beauty of sports is you can just decide at any point “I give a shit about this now. Against all reason.” Ten minutes later you hate one of the teams more than life and it’s all downhill from there.
"Altitude is all in your mind" is one of the funniest things a sports announcer could say.
My wife had a peeping Tom during her bath. Just sitting there. Watching like a perv
Piping plovers and killdeers chasing each other around at Montrose Beach this morning. Both species had chicks nearby.
Timely heat wave reminder that if you have a car, is not expensive to get a 24 pack of supermarket brand bottled water and keep it in your trunk and pull over to offer it to people who look like they are having a hard fucking time. Helping also makes you feel a little less helpless
my husband is doing fantasy baseball for the first time. he does not follow baseball. his team is run entirely by our 10yo neighbor, who gets a split of his winnings if she helps my husband defeat the rest of the league. they’re in 1st place! but now, a problem: today she left for sleepaway camp
