Shattered Sword

A. Chill@atchill.bsky.social · 17h ago

What book would you take the oath on? WRONG ANSWERS. ONLY.

Love that my BCBS health insurance doesn’t actually cover a Covid vaccine ($200+ out of pocket!), but since I tried to get it at both a Walgreens and a CVS I now get texts from both horrible places touting the benefits of getting a Covid vaccine. Very helpful, thank you companies

They named an aircraft carrier after the guy, if others want to do history on the horrible people important ships are named after, I’m game. Rare that such an awful guy is that prominent, sure.

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2d ago

a funny thing i’ve learned while doing research for my column is that john c. stennis, mississippi senator from 1947 to 1989, kept sponsoring national school desegregation bills in the 70s because he was pissed that the south was under court-ordered desegregation and most of the north wasn’t.

Lotta rocks rolling around in my head, but it seems like that in this attention economy, it’s important to make one’s mark at a new institution rather than doing little things to keep the place humming.

BWJones@bwjones.bsky.social · 3d ago

There have been entire business school doctoral dissertations written about how business as a culture views short term gains without taking into account longer term perspectives, or even caring to understand the culture of what makes places work before rushing in to make their mark.

Was at Croton Dam at the crack of dawn today. Hey, that’s my drinking water!

went to grand central to get pics of the sun through the big window once a year, for a few days, the sun aligns with the grand central main window in the morning, and it looks real pretty Minolta A7, Minolta 50mm f/1.4 & 100mm f/2.8 Macro, Kodak Vision3 500T #filmphotography #believeinfilm

My life? No, my life’s a disaster zone.

Fun airplane paint job tale i stumbled across while looking for something else

One of my fondest cybertruck memories was for Mardi Gras when one of them was in a parade and when it passed everyone booed and started throwing shit at it and it was just so constant and ubiquitous the cops had to let it go because they couldn’t just arrest everyone

70,000 sold, 60,000 of which are in my damn neighborhood

Malcontent News@malcontentnews.bsky.social · 5d ago

Tesla is ending production of the Cybertruck. Elon Musk predicted that 250,000 would be sold per year. Since its introduction in late 2023 as a 2024 model, Tesla has sold fewer than 70,000 Cybertrucks, with thousands shipped to SpaceX due to a lack of buyers.

Dad made it back to Chicago in, well, not *one* piece

Truman Show-ass weather in New York the last few weeks

It’s so fucking fun being a die hard White Sox fan and a super casual Bears fan in New York City these days.

I love baseball, of course, but I’m finding rhythms of football can be good for settling the brain.

I am once again calling for all personal cars to be banned south of 60th St

Do not do this, folks, even as a joke!

ACARS Drama@acarsdrama.bsky.social · last wk.

Air to Ground Message: DELAY REASON...PAX ACCUSED PILOTS OF INTOXICATION. DELAYED FOR PILOT EVAL. Area: Jacksonville, FL, USA Type: Boeing 717-200 A: #a78e52de659 F: #f920448a2b3

If by some chance you haven't seen it, Patrick Stewart plays an extremely menacing neo-nazi in Green Room, one of my favorite movies.

Classic.

brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · 2w ago

Anyway, I think people in HOAs will make bad insurgents.

I don’t miss my dad, per se, but this is the first time in the 12 days since he died where I read something and thought “I wish I could talk to him about this.”

Jim Margalus@soxmachine.com · 2w ago

John Schriffen probably wasn't ever going to be the right call for an MLB team broadcasting gig, but joining the White Sox just in time for a 121-loss season made the awkwardness immediately apparent.

This is some “don’t move around Yankee Stadium during God Bless America” bullshit. No wonder they never show my “hopefully some cops” sign on TV

🪩 Kiri 🪩@kirio.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've heard people wonder about the process for making sure everyone in attendance has a Stand Up To Cancer card and that it's filled in, so here's the answer: the cards are pre-filled in and placed in the cup holders at every seat before the game.

Fold the Rays

Pretty glad, right now, that the Illinois Legislature broke the law in favor a powerful rich guy in 1986. We would *not* have wanted a Brewers/White Sox World Series. Assuming only that one small historical tweak

Rays batters challenging strike calls

I fucking love Milwaukee. Been to tons of Brewers games, including a heartbreaking playoff loss to the Cardinals many years ago. Goddamned, this feels good.

There is a disgusting (laudatory) amount of cheering for the Brewers in St Pete

Waymo hitting NYC adspace really hard. I already have no problem standing in front of errant human drivers. Won’t hesitate with a cowardly robot.

I want to see Reacher on Baywatch.

YOU can see everything. You can see EVERYTHING. You can SEE everything. You CAN see everything.

STAT@statnews.com · 2w ago

“'You Can See Everything' is a hilarious, thrilling, fascinating, beautiful piece of art. What it certainly is not is a documentary, and it’s dangerous to pretend that it is,” writes Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz. https://bit.ly/4Bk2nDJ

This is pretty closely related to the concern that rule-following is increasingly perceived as a suckers' game, and playing fast and loose with rule followers' trust is the best (only?) way to get ahead.