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why is Trent Crimm strutting down the hall with his hands in his pockets to the tune of “Well-Respected Man” the sexiest thing a man has ever done on television this man was engineered in a lab to be catnip for lesbians istg

Please stop reposting the advertisement from Men's Health about a certain kind of male performance supplement featuring King Babies and two blonde women.

phenomenally well-expressed

Fascists try to force their victims to look like the criminals they imagine them to be. This is such sick, disgusting humiliation. I think people who have never been around ankle monitors don't realize how painful they are, how difficult they render daily life

“At Taylor Farms, we think food inspection is for pussies”

I guess we're indeed playing this one. Have at it.

Good night, ladies, good night. Sweet ladies, good night, good night.

it is the Boss Sauce from MACHEEZMO MOUSE, it is not close, and I still think about it constantly

Crash has never let the circumstances of his birth, or his lack of a last name, bother him. So, he certainly won't let that stop him from falling hard for Daisy. /jb Amazon: www.amazon.com/Her-E... Apple: itunes.apple.com/us/... Nook: http://www.barnesand...

Mary Ruefle on The Odyssey.

The dog is sleeping peacefully even in the too-hot weather, because he doesn’t know that in the morning he has to go to the vet. (Routine maintenance.)

Hoo, this book is not for the faint of heart (complimentary). www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/588860...

well i dunno what's going on but ten minutes after turning in my novel today, i wound up writing a lot of a story set in a surreal place unconnected to any of my other fiction, based on a dream i had the other night.

Here's Abbe Lane, whose death back in April was reported only a few days ago, in Oh Captain! ❤️

“Maybe if we infect them with salmonella they’ll forget about the cyclospora outbreak! Genius!”

Okay, so @maris.bsky.social and I have re-started Sugar from the beginning knowing the twist (we previously stopped before learning it) and it's already more fun/interesting just KNOWING!

your moment of calm: a bee on the stokes' aster

Things Found While Looking for Other Things: three views of the "Paris Original" number in How to Succeed etc. etc. (1961)

My current biggest worry in baseball is that Derek Hill’s toothpick is inevitably going to go into his cheek, his soft palate, his eyeball, or someone else’s eyeball. Or else it’s going to go directly down his throat. Someone make him stop. Please.

No one in particular in mind right now—trust me, when I'm up again, you'll know—but just a reminder that a great way to show love for an author is to preorder their book or buy it the very first week it's on sale. (Hounding your local library to stock it is also aces.)

I cannot imagine thinking “I will not let this cartoon standee of myself as a wrestler go to my head,” let alone saying it out loud. (“Even in jest?” ESPECIALLY in jest, because it reveals both that you find your cartoon standee flattering and that this is somehow your sense of humor.)

For the record I haven’t seen a single democrat call the ceasefire humiliating. I’ve seen them call *losing a war* humiliating but not having a ceasefire doesn’t un-lose the war

Doesn’t look like I’m going to get around to caring about Hasan Piker one way or another today. Tomorrow also not looking good

Okay but what if the message was “oh, enough”

I’ve just learned that there’s a thing called Doxy-Pep and what it’s for, and I can’t stop laughing.

Well, I'm looking forward to the Midwest senate elections. @julianastratton.bsky.social for IL @peggyflanagan.bsky.social for MN @abdulelsayed.bsky.social for MI Time for @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social back for OH and we could throw in @joshturek4iowa.bsky.social for funsies, no? Yes? Good.

The frantic scream-whining for everything phase stops eventually, right? Right??

Absolutely true. One has done grievous harm to our way of life by coddling extremists and the other is a twitch streamer

Update: it turns out that most of the really bad ballot measures this year bought their way onto the ballot because of one dark money group called "Advance Colorado."

And this guy.

Moreau, too!

Just completed an insane heat check on my sense of spatial reasoning by freehanding a seven-piece gallery wall with no idea what was going to go up next after I hung each piece at all. Didn’t even check what kind of art or what size frames we had in the closet ahead of time. No one can tell me shit.

My sister organized a party for a bunch of cousins and their children yesterday. The parents of the cousins kept asking if they could come, and my sister said, "no, the party is for the cousins in the family." It really reminded me of how many people don't want to do the work of organizing stuff.

Cornbread Rice Then pasta

If you ever needed a concrete example of social currency here it is.

are there more songs whose underlying theme is "I am kinda badass because I sleep during the daytime" besides "Magic" by Pilot and "Sleeping My Day Away" by D.A.D.

This is a messier and more complicated issue than can probably be discussed here on Bluesky without it devolving into a shouting match, but it's interesting in terms of gay history and NYC history, so...giftlink! www.nytimes.com/2026/08/08/n...

Yeah I don’t even put stickers on my laptop, putting stickers on my car would be an even bigger step.

We’re living in the era of big cornballs and the harm these cornballs commit cannot be separated from their sweaty cornball ways.

I hope not because I once had a blunt that was dipped in codeine and it was amazing.

We visited art.

Tonight !! Chida House Comedy at Casa Chida in Silverlake, 7pm. Cameron Esposito, Nate Craig, Ellory Smith, Allyson Vastano & Ari Mostow. Free, no cover, $10 margaritas. RSVP on Eventbrite: chidahouse.eventbrite.com

“The very same right-wing outlet calls for further punishment to send a message. Idiots compare it to a crime and declare the league is in crisis because the black player fouled the white player.”

I’d ask her what she thinks she’s accomplishing but she’d probably just call me Slaveman Shacklebolt and drink a whole glass of red wine.

Saw them come back from 30 against the Mavs pre-3pt era, I was ready to fight the world.

Really wild feeling not to be working on a book or a paper or thinking about working on a book or a paper or feeling bad for not working on a deadline every day for the first time in what feels like forever. And of course, no, I’m not caught up. But wow.

They have no such commitment, their response to students protesting the war in Palestine was definitive on this but they were silently assenting to the book bans and targeting of Black scholars in the lead up too.

When I was reading through the surveillance policies and practices of MPD I was particularly struck by the attention they spent on vigils of people killed by the police so I’m very excited to read this book.

The other important thing to remember here is that they’re referring to rich people from Nigeria and not their friends from the country club.

David Brooks, noted member of The Voiceless

It’s funny because I literally wrote about debating conservatives in class like ten years ago washingtonmonthly.com/2015/12/15/l...

one of my absolute favorites

if you unironically post "sky daddy" the FBI should rappel through your window and confiscate your modem

Sitting down on a metro seat that’s already warm <

just post cringe rather than slobbering racism, please

I believe he can't fly

had not realized thomson reuters ended casetext. what a fucking disaster AI has been, what a bunch of soulless goblins all its proponents are

baseball be like Team A came into this series on a 97 game losing streak to play againstTeam B who has not lost since June and Team A leads the 4 game series 3-0

Wings hanging tough with the Lynx down a starter, may I hope again?!

“Millennials got sucked in by Donald Trump” sits alongside “well he got a *larger* vote share of Black men” in the “it’s not *all* our fault” pantheon.

Sheila is one of the true pillars of the community. Chip in if you can, or help spread the word? It all adds up!

orange man actually less than ideal

Unsubscribing from emails from a merchant I had otherwise liked until now, and when they ask for a reason, I get to provide: "I don't like getting emails with AI pictures."

remove those earphones—you're blocking out the music of huge manatees

I keep thinking maybe this will be the game that’s not a disaster But they are all disasters now

Yeah at UT in particular they replaced the President and passed a law, thing I’ll take away is the complete abandonment of anyone willing to actually fight for Black people.

Just want to remind everyone that my novel BACK AFTER THIS includes some thoughts I stand by on the weather in DC.

In 2024, when I judged the @sarabandebooks.bsky.social nonfiction prize, I chose Joseph Trinidad's mesmerizing essay collection "Lucky Creatures." Tomorrow evening, I will have a launch conversation with him at @loyaltybooks.bsky.social online. Please join us. loyaltybookstores.com/luckycreatures

There is this, and another trick I learned from Reddit but haven’t had to use yet: you can open the battery compartment and snip the cord that goes to the speaker, and thus leave the lights intact but removing the sounds

Nigeria were good today but not good enough. Cameroon was good enough, especially defensively. pain

My main source of joy these days is moving to a 65% heirloom tomato diet

They got rid of the African and African Diaspora Studies field for this right wing bullshit

Rewatching Curb Your Enthusiasm from the tippity because my girlfriend hadn’t seen it >

Speaking of The Streets of Paris, bonus points to the first person who can name everyone, left to right, from Carmen on. WITHOUT LOOKING IT UP.

The umpire in this game, I must say, is awful.

Schwarber now disgorging the conserved home runs

If there is one piece of advice I can give to expectant parents it is this: do not buy baby furniture new. Cribs, playpens, high chairs, toddler towers, they’re all over Marketplace and Buy Nothing groups. Also, thrift stores have tons of baby clothes and toys in great condition

Given how they treated the q of her graduation it's unlikely there's going to be any accountability for the administration that did this to her. Could you IMAGINE what the media would have done if this innocent jr high student had been white??! Let alone an honor student, "valedictorian track" !?

I think the previous best driving tMG record was probably actually “get lonely” (late night solo drives only) but this seems right to me now

Cameroon (and Benfica's) Michaely been a big problem goalkeeper for Nigeria. very solid performance from her

You’re supposed to be FOR one racist territorial expansion and AGAINST another racist territorial expansion

You know, getting run over by a car really helps reduce your rent

Okoronkwo and Payne coming on. sad to see Gift Monday and Ucheibe go off but something needs to shift

Can anyone solve Joe's riddle?

I didn’t realize tan suit day was on my birthday

Indians Jones and the Great Circle is absolutely incredible. Best use of a AAA budget I’ve ever seen. They scanned the entire Sistine Chapel including the floors.

Oh gosh yes! And there's STILL ANOTHER ONE.

A great second, and it wasn't the one I was thinking of, so there's at least one more! (Hint: It's not yet another Oscar lyric.)

This one, of course, also gets filed under Words Coming Out of People's Mouths Who Don't Know Those Words at All.

First one's out of the way. Let's have another. (I can think of only one other. I'll be delighted if there are more.)

today's musical theater pop quiz parlor game: Stage musical songs that mention roués. Please cite the song title and the show title, and give some lyrical evidence. Yes, we all know one of them. Go.

scoreline tough but very positive end to the half for Nigeria, coming forward and generating chances and maybe most importantly in the last 20 minutes winning the midfield battle. hopefully can turn it around next half

it’s so funny to be packing for Svalbard during a heat wave, like hmm where did I put my parka and base layers and thickest wool socks

Re LRP yeah I’m literally living in a city occupied by the military as we speak.

Reading through potential ballot initiatives in Colorado reminds you of how awful parts of this state are.

When I was a repulsively pretentious teen my favorite novel was The Club Dumas, by Arturo Perez-Reverte. I’m rereading it now, several decades later, and (a) man it’s great, and (b) I was clearly a moron who had absolutely not one single idea what was actually going on in that book

Bluesky needs to add a feature that lets me block out every flavor of "I am sexually attracted to this politician"

Cameroon keeper so cool under pressure. two huge saves already

It's always fascinating how weird our view of dangerous megafauna is, because the hippo is easily in the second tier of most dangerous megafauna (with crocodiles and elephants), well ahead of sharks and bears, who rarely if ever kill people.

“For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind”