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you can hardly regard any creatures of the deep with the same feelings that you do those of the shore

One thing I wonder about with umpires (who are human after all): In the ninth last night with the Marlins batting, Stowers and the manager both got tossed for swearing up a storm at the umpire over balls and strikes when they were flat wrong. (And out of challenges, which … been there!) (1/3)

This is good intel — people who use Deezer say good things about it.

the first between Tidal, Apple, and Spotify to ban AI songs will get a windfall of new subs and the other two will get crumbs

“The Israeli reservist shot 14-year-old Aws al-Naasan in the head just outside the western gate of the Mughayyir boys’ secondary school, where he was studying in ninth grade.”

Terrible! Where are these shops, exactly, and what are their operating hours

Lebron James leading a team to a second round series against SGA and the Thunder is bananas.

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an Ohio honey-hunter, who seeking honey in the crotch of a hollow tree, found such exceeding store of it, that leaning too far over, it sucked him in, so that he died embalmed

In this ways and lots of others, our built environment is just not made for the amount of package delivery we suddenly started doing ~15 years ago

the charmed, churned circle of the hunted sperm whale

Butchers we are, that is true.

My only addition to this ideal Farscape pitch is that there are extremely mean glam rock lizard aliens also (plus one of the most meaningful relationships in the show is between an astronaut & the figment of a villain in his imagination who is dressed head to toe in bondage gear obv)

Always an enthusiastic member of both Spartacus & Claudia Black hives www.whatsalanwatching.com/review-spart...

Hollywood has developed a collective eating disorder based around a particular set of medications that almost no one in Hollywood needs, and the result is that a lot of beautiful people now look like they're dying, and culturally, this is going to be so phenomenally destructive, esp for young ppl.

floating in the lovely sunset sea and sky, sun and whale both stilly died together

While you were doomscrolling, we were studying the blade.

Absolutely true story, I am currently re-watching both Farscape and DS9 and will soon rewatch all of BSG again. for um “work” No, seriously if you’re like, “what is a Farscape“ — I got you www.ign.com/articles/201...

I found a 30GB iPod (5th generation) earlier today, charged it, and it still works. Full of music, some of which I am not interested in at all, but if the audio jack works I am going to start using it again and sourcing a dock or speaker for it.

Yeah. So basically, scurvy is severe vitamin C deficiency. Humans are one of a handful of species that doesn’t create our own vitamin C. It’s like us primates, guinea pigs, and fruit bats. Vitamin C is needed for collagen production. Collagen is what holds scars together

I know! Outstanding résumé all around. I interviewed him for both books! I’m not saying I write books to have an excuse to talk about nerd trivia with Naren Shankar, but I’m not *not* saying that either.

I think the most wild thing about healed injuries to me is that if you get scurvy even your decades old scars can open back up into wounds and you have to do it all over again

Back in my day, we became delusional from too much computer the old fashioned way: roleplaying too much in AOL chat rooms and forums

Fun fact: when Ron Moore arrived at Cornell, very quickly, he became close friends w Naren Shankar. They both went on to write for Star Trek TNG, and RDM obv was ep on BSG & Naren (who worked w Ron for a bit on For All Mankind) was EP of the Expanse. Me with my space nerd showrunner chart

recession indicator: frozen yogurt is becoming trendy again

Due to circumstances beyond my control, I'm watching, for the first time since 1991, the Redgraves' remake of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? I'll keep you apprised.

Good night everyone. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.

Austin Reaves looks like Ben Stiller in a romcom

Years in the making, congratulations to the young people who made this happen. Can easily be replicated in cities across the country including NYC - thetriibe.com/reshape/chic...

If you have never seen that sight, then suspend your decision about the propriety of devil-worship

Somebody pointed out in my replies that B’s leg looks like a churro and I can’t unsee it.

PHILLIES I never doubted it for a minute (man that was very very very ugly)

It’s been a major frustration that Battlestar Galactica hasn’t been on a major streamer, but it’s BACK! BSG hit Paramount+ & Pluto TV today, praise the lords of Kobol! Why you should watch (or rewatch) & PLUS !! a lil excerpt from my upcoming book on Battlestar: www.moryan.com/praise-the-l...

I will say arguing balls and strikes seems particularly ridiculous when you’d be able to challenge them if you didn’t waste your challenges.

We’re going to lose this game, despite everybody doing what they need to do except the bullpen, which I guess is an improvement over losing games where nobody was doing what they needed to do. #phillies

pls let this be the end of this site’s obsession with him

I have been pretty confident the offense, the fielding and the starters would come around. But I don’t know what we’re gonna do about the bullpen. #phillies

how are there only 2000 people watching this. get with the program America

My family managed to do a rapid trip to Costco tonight in 15 minutes before they closed. We bought four out of five items on our list, two impulse purchases of stuff on sale, and my sister got her ice cream twist. The parking lot was fuller than I expected.

Meanwhile Candace Owens is exponentially growing her audience including among people I know [which is terrifying].

Leon Botstein resigns as Bard College president - www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley... [gift link] - looks like Bard students won.

Hello. I am your president. I saw a drawing of a giraffe and I said that's a giraffe. My ballroom will be very big. They are building an arch for me. My face will be on money. Only I know how do percentages. I did a war and sometimes it is over but sometimes not. I am alive. Daisy....daisy....

Speaking about the U.S.

I keep thinking about the fact that prior to the 1930s there were almost no student protests on college campuses. The 30s changed all of that and University administrators LOST THEIR SHIT. They were sending names of students by the 10s of thousands to the FBI. They launched off campus surveillance.

PHILLIES PHILLIES PHILLIES

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You jumped in with “these types” so the claim to particularity is dubious my boy.

Snow in April Winter, you are the worst kind of lover—soon as I hope for good you're gone you return—cold in hand— bringing no flowers Kevin Young

Today's delight: www.instagram.com/reel/DWul6Fr...

people have lots of critiques and almost no viable answers. - a tragic memoir

Heck of adventure to the Bend area and back with @sallyfisherprice.bsky.social. Highly recommend coming back to Portland along the Gorge and sampling the farm stores along 35 before you hang a left at the city Hood River, as we did today.

By the Lord, I must have been dreaming, though—How? how? how?

“Alright just spam the threats and innuendo.”

Nobody in the world is more committed to keeping the "Donald Trump has dementia" story alive than Donald Trump.

Her name is Karen McGillicudy

OK, let's do it. Name your top 15 stage musicals ever, gut instincts only. Ain't Misbehavin' Babes in Toyland Carousel Do I Hear a Waltz? Follies Guys and Dolls Gypsy Lady in the Dark Li'l Abner The Mikado The Most Happy Fella The Music Man Peter Pan (1954) Street Scene The Threepenny Opera

The idea that young Republican staffers are steeping in white supremacist literature it is underestimated how much young Democratic staffers are steeping in the same.

Okay, you tell me what you meant with “certain demographics” since I’m oh so verbose without logic or structure.

we may as well make bonfires on May Day

Thing is people have became obsessed with the idea Black politicians are never criticized or held accountable and they’ve built their entire approach to the world around this false assumption.

This is why all decent people hate militant descriptivists.

“We’re going to launch a populist class revolution but we can’t do that in states with large Black populations.”

Los Angeles folks— LAPD alerts are going off and helicopters are buzzing overhead.. what is going on ???

Happy May Day, my friends. Remember, we deserve more than a bite of the pie or a seat at the table. We deserve the world.

It’s the “well Black people are naturally conservative because they attend church” stereotype repackaged with a “leftist” setup.

Again a lot of people who at least self identify as leftists are eager to suggest Black people are somehow stopping the revolution.

Ehh. I think it can be coherent to discuss inorganic cognition. But LLMs aren’t that.

If your theory of political life assumes Black people are obvious dupes you may want to rethink it.

Yeah no that’s why Herman Cain racked up like gangbusters.

Tell me, does the magnetic virtue of the needles of the compasses of all those ships attract them thither?

A podcast I was listening to used “the turn of the century” to mean the time period in which I was a young adult, and I need us all to contact our members of congress to put a stop to this

Even if there’s stuff we disagree on* I really, really value that Pope Leo gets what serving the divine is AND he also goes hard for it in that perfectly Chicago way *like his taste in baseball teams my GOD

Whole time Donald Trump is the President and there’s such a dearth of lectures about choosing white candidates because of their race.

Even if there’s stuff we disagree on* I really, really value that this religious leader gets what serving the divine is *like his taste in baseball teams my GOD

In every way they can.

“We tolerated your existence before.”

The Fifth Circuit has ordered a halt to the mailing of abortion pills, cutting off the primary way that thousands of women have obtained safe abortions in the years since Dobbs and raising grave public health risks. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/w...

Resisting the urge to send an email to the sexually predatory male professors I knew in college with subject and the single line “you’re next”

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only. ABC Movie of the Week Arrested Development The Carol Burnett Show Elizabeth R Fawlty Towers The Goldbergs (Gertrude Berg et al.) I, Claudius Julia (2022–23) Law & Order 1/

They’re forming a team.

If I have to name a favorite Rodgers and Hart song, and happily I don't, I'm probably going to name that one. 👇🏻

today's musical theater pop quiz parlor game stage musical songs that mention the Garden of Eden, with or without "the Garden" I've got three already in mind, one of them rather painfully obvious. Go.

They’re forming a team.

Am I but three inches?

We went long on Botstein’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein and the minimization—and even romanticization—of sexual violence that he cultivated at @bardcollege.bsky.social on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social: pod.link/1696774612/e...

The “obviously this guy would never criticize a Black politician” move is always funny because you’ve clearly never seen my movies.

I said upholding diversity as a value could’ve swayed the court’s decision and got called everything but a child of God. It is wild out here.

And remember when he says “shitlibs” that includes any Black person willing to vouch for diversity as a value.

Great credit is due to the Bard College community of undergraduate anti-rape activists—organizing as “Take Back Bard”—who insisted on Bostein’s resignation even in the face of widespread indifference from the faculty and sneering mockery of their efforts in the New York Times. I admire them.

For sale: baby, comes with shoes

last day of this sale!!

very good stuff happening here. West Virginia’s new guy fled violence in El Salvador and was smuggled into the US in the trunk of a car. Washington’s - who is MY AGE (???) and therefore the youngest US bishop - is from Louisiana, the first new Black bishop in a decade, and graduated from Harvard Law

Leon Botstein, longtime friend of pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, has resigned as president of @bardcollege.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u...

Here are some nice mushrooms

Feeling sad today because my child was carried off by a giant bird

Oh yes, referring to Platner's "Nazi connections" is definitely me, a Black Jew who is actually directly impacted by Nazis in Northern New England, campaigning for Platner I invite everyone to click on the three little dots in the upper right corner of my profile and search for his name

Fuck helicopters bro

american cheese is the coward’s way to a smooth mac and cheese

Guy who five minutes ago is like “what racism how could you” five minutes later, "you should at least admit its okay I assumed he’s in the “khive””