The (normal) high school I taught at, while I was there we had a couple of our boys go to college on a full invite scholarship for basketball. *None* of them went pro. It's just not the same thing.

Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 2d ago

the best HS teams in the country have multiple guys who will be in the NBA in a couple of years. they aren't normal high schools, they're basketball factories. but this literally doesn't matter. the value of women's sports isn't contingent on their performance vis a vis men.

I actually think it’s really a bad sign that straight people have managed to erase themselves from conversations about the roots of homophobia.

Caelan Conrad@caelan.bsky.social · 4w ago

Everywhere Republicans gather, Grindr crashes. Or at least, that's what people have told me about 500 times since my video discussing if homophobia is always rooted in secretly being gay. But is it true? Do republicans constantly crash Grindr whenever they meet? New Video: youtu.be/GHeAJPbx0SI

youtu.be/r5vKilWJNKo?... His NAME is GRUEL???? Get the writers back in here RIGHT NOW I am SO MAD

Cooking REAL FOOD at Affordable Prices | Chef Andrew Gruel

YouTube video by Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

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Not only did they mislabel these countries, the countries as shown by their border outlines do not exist at all.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 6d ago

A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a ⁠global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Every so often, we get a notification that we have to drop our state homeowners' policy and switch onto a private carrier. But because no one in the insurance industry has ever seen a sci-fi movie, this means every couple years we get a letter in the mail addressed from The Depopulation Department

I actually give *most people* the credit of believing that they genuinely mean what they say. But when you genuinely mean bigotry, your honesty is not the issue. The bigotry is the problem.

victoria zeller🫛 (RISEBALL, summer ‘27)@dirtbagqueer.rocks · 6d ago

enough of this shit

Having failed to get plastic straws to step up and take responsibility for their sins, we're now moving the environmental blame to ... chickens.

Nick Harkaway@nickharkaway.com · last wk.

I'm getting dietary fatigue at this point. This is an OLD reality, but the solutions aren't as straightforward as some of the coverage would have you believe. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Insulting my enemies, but with creativity -- one of the cornerstones of human existence

Vituperative Erb@vituperativeerb.bsky.social · last wk.

I do actually believe if you dropped a Bronze Age Mycenaean into the modern day rap music would be one of the more legible things about popular culture

My Spouse is constantly locking our sliding door because he's convinced Yard Raccoon is going to figure out how to open it and wreak havoc in the night. I'm beginning to think he might not be totally wrong.

Katharine Hayhoe@katharinehayhoe.com · last wk.

Overnight, a masked bandit broke into our kitchen. Armed with opposable thumbs, he proceeded to sample everything on offer. I’d just visited the farmers market, so the menu was extensive. I can now share a highly specific peer-reviewed list of what this particular raider did & did not enjoy. 🧵

They say it's too expensive to give lunch to schoolkids.

The Washington Post@washingtonpost.com · last wk.

Some schools in Florida, Georgia and Colorado will be equipped with drones this year that can go through halls, smash windows and pepper-spray active shooters if teachers report a threat. The program follows a wave of high-tech campus security spending. https://wapo.st/4gVNMXn

After at least 1 professional writer and at least 1 professional editor, this still contains: "My throat was dry from too much vodka, and her breasts, spilling from pink pajamas, threatened my ability to." You can't just stop in the middle of a phrase, Ross (/Ross's editor).

The Isaac Who Came In From the Butler@isaacbutler.bsky.social · last wk.

There are enough youngins on here who came of age after the blogging era and thus don’t even know about Ross Douthat and “chunky Reese Witherspoon.” BEHOLD!

But true to exec form, they're going to fail spectacularly to strive, seek, find, or yield anything creative, and we're going to get a 4-hour Tennyson's 'Ulysses'

Jesse Hawken@jessehawken.bsky.social · last wk.

Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now

Do you know how hard it is to create an ad for an event that will be targeted by a terrorist attack, filmed at the site of a recent terrorist attack, using images that will eventually become unsettlingly reminiscent of a third terrorist attack? AT&T knows.

Parker Molloy@parkermolloy.com · last wk.

The AT&T ad from 1994 lives in my head

We just got back from traveling, and I'm not sure if she's happier to be reunited with me or with the suitcase.

CVS already tried to convince me the app would make picking up my prescriptions "easier" and that was a blatant lie so why would I trust it to help me buy shampoo?

Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.

These apps, in my experience, don’t work. I’ve walked away from every purchase but one that has used these because they do not work. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/28/b...

LOOK AT THE LITTLE SMILE ON HIS FACE

@whoathatswild.bsky.social · 2w ago

🔥Small insect clings onto horned viper

i wrote about the tuna melt and other miracles buttondown.com/theswordandt...

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the most annoying thing about these people is they're demanding that you be half-informed and fairly useless at everything. the way we win is specialization. find your things. get SMART about them. get GOOD at fighting for them. someone else's thing doesn't need you to barge in knowing nothing!

Joseph Brassey@josephbrassey.bsky.social · 2w ago

There’s a cottage industry of online grifters whose whole schtick is getting you to flagellate yourself for not investing yourself equally in every important thing happening in the world, when humans simply have limited time and capacity. You’ve gotta get your head above that stuff.

Is it a good thing if your unproven medical treatment sounds like a strain of tuberculosis that wants to kill John Connor

Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2w ago

“The committee ended the day by voting in favor of injectable TB-500, a peptide that, according to the F.D.A., was initially developed as a veterinary drug to boost performance in horse or greyhound racing.” IT HAS NOT PREVIOUSLY BEEN STUDIED IN HUMANS. THIS IS NOT ACCEPTABLE.

"Take an afternoon nap and go out for dinner and socializing after sunset." There ya go, now pay me for my genius.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2w ago

In September, a French government delegation will travel to Spain to learn how Spanish customs like later dinners and siestas might help France tolerate increasingly frequent heat waves.

the thing is, we HAVE ruled out the possibility that infant vaccines cause autism. so it's just plain wrong. that's how strong the evidence base is.

Waldo Jaquith@waldo.net · 2w ago

The claim “RFK Jr. does not fuck chickens” is not an evidence-based claim because studies have not ruled out the possibility that RFK Jr. fucks chickens.

There's nothing wrong with being a plumber, but that should be an educated choice you make for yourself, not a decision that's made for you before you've grown out of having a bedtime.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w ago

Linda McMahon says some elementary school students should be put on a "pathway" to become plumbers

I was too anxious to let anyone else clip my babies' toenails. But I haven't figured out how to get a major media profile of of it.

Rob Larson@ironicprofessor.bsky.social · 3w ago

Quarter million a year

Jo thinks having PCOS means you're not a woman.

The Newromancer@tehsamantha.bsky.social · 3w ago

This is the context of JK Rowling putting a survivor of rape or sexual assault on blast for having the gall to seek help

Het, athletes? There's nothing wrong with going to college to compete in your sport at a higher level. But you do have to go to class, too.

AxisPHX@lazosferns.bsky.social · 3w ago

Riley: ‘Helen Keller couldn’t have written a book.’ Also Riley: has clearly never opened one. How does dumb keep getting paid?

An awful lot of folks didn’t read the article, and then tried to defend ridiculous positions after that was pointed out to them. So: this guy did nothing unreasonable. He happened to be walking by quite some distance away from the bison. Had no idea of the context. Paused a second to see…

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3w ago

A tourist was seriously injured after being thrown 8 feet into the air by a bull bison in Yellowstone National Park. Professional photographer Mike Macleod filmed the incident.

we await your "bring little girls back from the dead" technology with bated breath, Marco

Hoodlum 🇺🇸@nothoodlum.bsky.social · 4w ago

Marco Rubio says the goal of the war in Iran is now to return everything “back to the way it was” before Trump started the war. So after all that, the mission is apparently to undo the damage.

Except for not covering my hair, what I wear to the beach is indistinguishable from imam-approved "modesty swimwear". But I'm blonde and already had to get one little sunny guy carved out of my skin, so no one cares. Which is how we know the beachwear question is not about "freedom".

∞ Monkeys@somanymonkeys.bsky.social · 4w ago

There is no reason to pass laws about Muslim women going to the beach in burkinis. That's already a big step in rejecting fundamentalist interpretations of Islam.

My (food-sensitive & borderline contamination-phobic) 14yo heard a mention of this on the car radio. I wasnt listening, and didn't catch the topic until the backseat suddenly shrieked "YOU WERENT ALREADY WASHING THE FRUIT?!"

Hail Sagan ™️@hailsagan42069.bsky.social · 4w ago

I have a background in food safety from my old days. Cyclospora is going around, and it'll make you piss out of your ass for days on end. You can avoid this by washing all of your fruits and veggies really, really, really well. Clean your food so you don't shit your ass.

Every time someone is like "prison abolition? but what about RAPISTS" bitch we have basically abolished prison for rapists as it IS, and we aren't even trying anything restorative or whatever