one of the many lines from WOLF HALL that stuck with me is Cromwell summing up the various commanders under whom he served as “not very good at the basic business of thinking.” any time you are in danger of engaging with Will Stancil, you should put your device aside and go read some of WOLF HALL

Hey folks! I'm going to have a little medical downtime in early September (cataract surgery) so I'm taking advantage of that enforced rest to offer 4 writing mentoring sessions at $750/each.

on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...

have to remember this is my default reading mode when recommending books to other people

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"

“Guy who broke the Barry Bonds opening day LF curse traded to Yankees for ok return” and “Guy who broke the Barry Bonds 30 HR curse seems likely to be on every Worst Contracts In MLB list” are a pretty good summary of the giants’ whole deal

INSPIRING: this loser baseball franchise is still finding yet another NEW way to be losers!

Marisa Ingemi@mingemi.bsky.social · 2d ago

Maybe I missed it but didn’t see ANY acknowledgement from the Giants on socials about the Firebells opener yesterday?

“I always get asked, ‘Why do you turn around?’ And I always answer, ‘So you don’t have to.’” With HADESTOWN a box-office smash, I asked three of its original Broadway principals—Reeve Carney, Eva Noblezada and Amber Gray—to discuss their experiences filming it, for @letterboxd.social: boxd.it/3hW

Way Down: Reeve Carney, Amber Gray and Eva Noblezada on Hadestown: The Musical’s theatrical triumph • Journal • A Letterboxd Magazine

As Hadestown becomes a summer box-office sensation, original Broadway principals Reeve Carney, Amber Gray and Eva Noblezada discuss the filming of its live capture, their intertwined love stories and ...

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i think the party of sick freaks who want to inspect kid's private parts should be branded as such

Gillian Branstetter@gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 2d ago

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

let’s go firebells, the best professional baseball team from San Francisco

This may sound radical but "games are shit" is actually the median opinion of every Gamer.

Welcome to STC Sunday Morning! This week, I interviewed Fabien Frankel, House of the Dragon's Ser Criston Cole, about playing Westeros's most hated man.

‘House of the Dragon’: Fabien Frankel on One of Ser Criston’s Happiest Moments (Gift Article)

This week’s episode was a pivotal moment in the Kingmaker’s long and tortured journey. According to the actor who plays him, it was also a highlight.

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if there's a cat in your house you gotta go bother 'em. hurry

This is because domestic violence is a plank in the far-right platform—not a coincidence, not a correlation, but the result of a concerted effort to live and govern such that it is easier for men to beat their wives and children, a goal the far right believes in and strives for

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 4d ago

Should the congressman who is credibly accused of beating and throwing scalding water at your own daughter run for re-election? “I don’t know,” says GOP Senator Bernie Moreno www.notus.org/ohio/bernie-...

the cool thing about sports is you don’t have to take a comprehensive, even-handed view of all the underlying issues and contexts. you can just hate the fucking dodgers. I promise you can do that

If the other 29 owners actually cared about competitive balance, they’d block Andrew Friedman’s number instead of giving him the best players on their rosters once a year.

let's take a moment also to celebrate the first absolute meatball down the middle getting fucking crushed. the first woman in pro baseball league history to get her shit rocked

Rodger Sherman@rodger.bsky.social · 4d ago

and Denae Benites hits the first home run in Women's Pro Baseball League history!

the people doing it here were backed by very rich hedge fund owner and his pac, who did it to push his slate of ballot initiatives (and that includes the teenagers they put courtside). none of this is organic

The Athletic@theathletic.com · 4d ago

Speaking for the first time since ralliers began assembling in support of her stance against transgender participation in women’s sports, Indiana Fever guard Sophie Cunningham said this was an opportunity for the WNBA to uphold its values of diversity and inclusion. nyti.ms/4fHr4Qn

“You don’t understand, it was a different time” is only valid about hair styles

Fanzine. Moxism was always the right way@fanzine.bsky.social · 5d ago

Match probably going to be relevant soon youtu.be/LVybhFq6al0?...

I can’t think of a bigger waste of time than trying to persuade farmers to vote blue.

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 6d ago

A very serious Rural Politico once told me "Dems have to go to farmer meetings! We gotta be where the people are!" I was in fact in a farmer meeting at that very moment! So I live-texted him the meeting. They were complaining that they want indentured workers that they don't have to pay or feed.

listen up, boyo: i am not transforming into a corncob. that ain't it, chief. let me be very clear, brosephine: i ain't mad. i'm normal. i'm not a corncob rapidly disintegrating into a furious buzzing cloud of atoms. homie don't play that

@thejrocktv.bsky.social · 6d ago

She knows she’s losing so she said let’s just go mask off.

shit went OVER the scoreboard. the Giants’ rowdy teenage boys are rampaging all over Rancho Cucamonga www.mlb.com/gameday/8211...

Highlight: Giants at Quakes (07/30/2026) | MLB Gameday

Follow MLB results with FREE live box scores, pitch-by-pitch strikezone info, and Statcast data for Giants vs. Quakes at Morongo Field

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McCovey Chronicles@mccoveychronicles.bsky.social · 6d ago

Josuar González just hit an absolute no-doubt home run off of a rehabbing Yusei Kikuchi

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

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this team fucking rocks, man. they should be collectively sealed in a time capsule so future alien explorers can understand how stupid this species truly was

Danielle Blake SUPPORTER OF ARSENAL FC, CHAMPIONS@abradacabla.bsky.social · 6d ago

So, Harrison Bader having a “scooter accident” with an already injured foot easily met the clown threshold, the details make it a five ring circus.

I’d do pretty good at the union troublemaking but I’m real fuckin bad at chemistry

Revan@revan.eurosky.social · 7d ago

Enough “what would you do on the commune questions” If you got sent back 100 years and were given your grandparent’s job, what are you doing?

you know those sentences where you read them once and immediately get like, 2-3% more understanding of how ted kaczynski got to where he ended up

Sean T. Collins@seantcollins.com · 7d ago

The Celebrimbor/Annatar material is very, very strong, I thought. And <deep breath>the ex-Scientologist who they hired to be Tom Cruise's new woman before settling on Katie Holmes turned Iranian regime change advocate<sigh> who played the Elf's Human love interest is off the show, which is good.

let’s just bunker down and wait for the 2030 San Francisco Giants, and hopefully a whole lot of this