my greatest strength as an internet user is if someone says 'this video is horrific, you don't want to watch it' then you better believe I'm not gonna watch it
a lot of things to complain about for sure but the strides medical treatment has taken in 40 years is almost miraculous bsky.app/profile/reva...
Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 4d agoSo this is basically one of the entry points to becoming a reactionary
I am checked out enough from baseball that I couldn't tell you which of these references was not supposed to be the Brewers bsky.app/profile/them...
Roger Cormier@themetsnewsletter.com · 6d agoThe Brewers are acquiring RHP Dustin May and LHP Jo Jo Romero from the Brewers, per Will Sammon and Ken Rosenthal
Tanking/rebuilding that hard, drafting Rutschman with the No. 1 pick, then trading him away seven years later without winning a postseason game is r o u g h.
discovering that there is a thing called “a government” that we all pay into that provides an array of services that some of us need at different times of our lives
USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 6d agoOpinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.
Not a big fan of the "sick, elderly and/or disabled people don't count" discourse that appears to follow public health disasters these days.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 6d agoBreaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.
especially if the questioning is done by women, since he seems to be a notable misogynist even by the standard of the thing bsky.app/profile/goli...
GOLIKEHELLMACHINE@golikehellmachine.com · 7d agoRFK, jr.'s total inability to control himself and behave like a normal professional under even the slightest amount of pressure is going to be a theme if democrats are able to retake at least one chamber in the fall
seems very hard for anyone to talk about their objection to trans women in sports without collapsing in a nonsensical word salad or just straight up screaming invective at people. yet journalists keep assuring me this is a complicated issue.
oh damn bsky.app/profile/pass...
Passanthallich@passanthalbot.bsky.social · last wk.@JeffPassan tweeted BREAKING: The Chicago White Sox are acquiring right-hander Luis Castillo in a trade with the Seattle Mariners for reliever Seranthony Dominguez, outfielder Nolan Jones and catching prospect Boston Smith, sources tell ESPN.
The Marx quote came up and it always makes me think of one of the GOAT tweets
![Tweet by Joe Kerr @societylivr1984:
There's an old saying in Schelling-I know it's in Hegel, probably in Schelling-that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as... as... tragedy... the second time as... as... it's funny if it happens again
[Attached is a photo of George W Bush at a microphone]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:455ovagdvxrpidbm2mevqj3q/bafkreiarl4osuzbgobzdw4k6afhtiyeagkeezhoas5gsao6hn73etyldxa)
a good idea but does kind of make me wonder what would happen in a The Invite post-credit scene. Seth Rogen Will Return bsky.app/profile/16bi...
James Miller@16bitirl.bsky.social · last wk.Movie theater innovations.
the other thing that happened today was that I stopped to pick something up that a guy dropped & it turned out to be a hand-labelled vial with blue liquid inside so I'm mildly concerned about my fingerprints being on it. but only mildly bc it was probably just vape juice or something
Went to a women in tech event this week & it was mostly good except the part where a bunch of the others started talking about their AI assistants & I had to go dead silent bsky.app/profile/dans...
Dan Sheehan@dansheehan.bsky.social · last wk.It is funny that as more people get duped by AI, the response more frequently seems to be to insist that the models are developing godlike intelligence and we all need to be sooo careful when the real lesson is clearly that the human psyche can get absolutely one-shotted by personalized flattery
It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.
It's a tough job, but literally no one has to do it
Saw the Odyssey! Good movie, really need to read about how they accomplished the bits with the cyclops, impressive stuff. Lot of commentary about some of the performances being weak but the only one that stuck out to me in a bad way was Safdie as Agamemnon & he only had like 5 lines
don't want to do a rude quote tweet so i'll just say it here: i am never, under any circumstances, "wondering how graham linehan is doing"
WGN posted a meme of Kyle Shanahan as Mitch McConnell when reporting on his car accident.
Took a Lyft yesterday & didn't notice until I was about to get out that there were a bunch of religious pamphlets on the back of the seat, one of which was titled 'who really controls the world?'...I didn't take one but I may have a guess where that one was gonna go
absolutely inexplicable movie releasing next year...is there even a single person that's the target audience for an Edith Wharton adaptation starring Sydney Sweeney www.imdb.com/title/tt3938...
for all the critiques of Wilson’s Odyssey translation over the years, i don’t think i’ve seen one as coolly withering as “a graphic novel of The Odyssey could be terrific, too”
Corey Atad@coreyatad.com · last wk.lmaoooooooooooooooo Wilson: this Nolan guy makes dumb action movies Oates: this Wilson lady is writing YA (young adult)
If I won the lottery I would hire an interior designer and just say “Columbo murderer” while waving my hand around my home office.
Today was a work event that you could leave after, so I'm seeing the Invite at the Alamo Drafthouse. They make you watch a Dashboard Confessional music video before it bc Olivia Wilde is in it...appalling
some great casting in that franchise...him, Bruce Campbell, Gina Torres. one of Ryan Gosling's first big roles was Young Hercules bsky.app/profile/itst...
Tess@itstessinadress.bsky.social · 3w agoOkay so I did not remember that Karl Urban was in the episode where Xena is implied to have been involved in the events of the binding of Isaac, and not even in his recurring/crossover roles as Cupid or Julius Caeser