*Better than I Can sorry sorry couldn’t help it

A brilliantly accurate insight I leaned is that all parents use the Cry It Out method eventually, the only question is when and how intentionally

Zach Weinersmith@zachweinersmith.bsky.social · last wk.

Hey parents of bsky: What are some theories of parenting you were very confident in right up until you had your own kids?

Richard Scarry was way ahead of his time on stagnant labor productivity in homebuilding

The movement to persuade elected officials that many flags fail to meet ostensibly universal flag aesthetic standards—while glossing over the fact that the new “better” flags are also awful—is an excellent case study in the power of persuasion if the persuaders seem authoritative and knowledgeable

My kids’ favorite pastime is simultaneously eating and walking and attempting to remove their shoes

The limonada suiça recipe in the Times is good. It very nearly convinces you it’s not a dessert.

Red or green?

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2w ago

What’s the funniest hyper-specific New Mexico issue that might be become more nationally prominent due to the primary change? Lotta physicists there who are the kind of people who donate and vote in primaries, maybe some esoteric Los Alamos specific thing becomes prominent

I’ve got really bad news about the politics of, like, 98% of male professional athletes

Lebron to Philly shows there should be an intersport salary cap but for fan base smugness where some panel could kill the deal and be like “nope, too smug”

It’s not like I thought highly of RFK Jr. before 2024 but I’m still struck by how much nothingness the past two years have shown that there is to him. Like not even a bad-but-consistent worldview. Just pure self indulgence.

Someone should write something about how the New Yorker, once known for dry self-deprecating humor, now leans into what I heard a comedian call “applause sign humor”

the biggest conspiracy involving Denver International Airport is that it somehow is the 10th busiest in the world

Much as people would like to think the Cybertruck is failing because of its looks, I think it’s pretty clearly because there’s no market for it. All of the EV pickups have flopped and the Cybertruck is not a very good pickup, but it’s also not very good at anything else.

Been reading a lot about the DLC and more generally attempts to reorient Dems in the '80s and '90s and you can (and maybe should) disagree with the policy outcomes but you have to admire the level of coherence about strategy and vision which is not present today in any wing of the party

Emerson has a Dem '28 poll out today that is very different from the consensus

The peculiar inverse of this is academics who think that academic conference travel is a major GHG contributor

William B. Fuckley@opinionhaver.bsky.social · 2w ago

climate change is real. all costs of beating climate change must be born by other people, who produce emissions purely for fun, unlike the emissions I produce, which are all life or death necessities

My position on AI is “pro but only if we pronounce Gemini as if it rhymes with linguine”

ended up being closer to 7 million (from the LA Times, 1997)

I mean I have a general sense of the process

One of my more niche predictions, based on nothing but a general sense of the landscape of higher ed, is that Cornell is going to buy Ithaca College some time within the next 10-20 years.

Glad the NYT‘s restaurant critics are addressing the pressing questions on their beat, like **shuffles notes** is Chez Panisse good www.nytimes.com/2026/07/21/d...

Restaurant Review: Chez Panisse and Bar Panisse in Berkeley

The Bay Area farm-to-table classic changed the American restaurant scene. Now it has opened a dynamic new place right next door.

nytimes.com

The "Heatles" moniker never made sense to me when the proper analogy was obviously a supergroup not an organic musical collaboration. It should've been "Riley, Wade, Bosh, and Bron."

my oldest is very into monorails right now and I'm having trouble explaining that Wuppertal is not a big tourism hotspot

Ice cream has to be the most successfully shrinkflated product in the world. The thing people call a pint hasn't been a pint for years.

FIFA needs to intervene and declare the third place match to have been the real final

Golf is a unique sport in that the winner is the person who plays the least golf

SPECTRE

Defector@defector.com · 3w ago

What's the worst movie you've ever watched in a theater? defector.com/whats-the-wo...

The whining about the FIFA halftime show underscores the paradox that soccer is at once the most popular sport in the world and the most gatekept sport on social media

The England coach getting a lot of flak but if the criticism of the team as being timid and feckless remains across multiple coaches that would seem to be an issue with the team

Saw a lot of these on the road despite it being a pretty meh car. I guess Honda brand loyalty is that strong.

InsideEVs@insideevs.com · 3w ago

Say goodbye to the Honda Prologue. With it and the Acura ZDX both canceled, Honda is left without an electric offering in America.