Dear Gray Lady, I know your journalistic and editorial standards have largely evaporated, but what exactly are you trying to accomplish here?

This beauty arrived at my home today, all the way from the studio of @roseschmits.bsky.social in the UK. It's really hard to describe how beautiful the colors are and how subtle changes in lighting bring them out. I might post a video orbiting the vessel later.

I don't actually have real hope that Andy Burnham will be any better than Starmer. Labour is pretty craven these days. Nonetheless, it's a good start. A failure to make Streeting cry would have been a bad start indeed.

I started to enter a query asking about evidence that Mitch was likely brain dead. But autocomplete improved on my query*. *This was shortly after I read a skeet postulating that Lindsay Graham died as the result of an occult ritual to extend Mitch McConnell's life.

Dear @bostonglobe.com, do you really expect us to believe that you couldn't find a way to work the phrase "clammers clamoring" into this headline? replies limited to people who can pronounce "Haverhill" properly.

Why is this cat so determined to pin my arm down as she settles in for a nap? A purely rhetorical question. She is demonstrating her dominion over me and my works.

⁨⁨I sent the following question to my spouse and Otto Korrect tried to correct it to be "The Developer Wears Prada". Now I want a show with a high fashion software developer. Probably best titled "The Developer Wears Prada 0.37.1"⁩

The year was 1978 ...

Not all heroes eat crepes

If your company is having its holiday party tonight at the Cal Academy of Science, the DeYoung, the Legion of Honor, or one of several downtown hotels ... it might not be. San Francisco is experiencing a massive power outage, or as I prefer to call it, a massive power outrage.

These screenshots are from the [linked] trailer to the new Wuthering Heights movie coming out in 2026. I sincerely hope nobody actually goes to see this expecting a love story rather than a tale of obsession, abuse, and a deeply destructive folie à deux. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3fLC...

Now do cordyceps, you cowards

@dieworkwear.bsky.social I don't know if you've seen this photo (from The Independent), showing the investigative team for the Louvre jewelry heist. Many of my friends are swooning over the style of the detective on the right and are clamoring for your analysis.

post your favorite black and white movie

One of these things is not like the others

An elegant weapon for a more civilized age

Amazon asks what breed your cat is. Aside from grooming supplies for long hair cats, breed-specific marketing opportunities are limited. Unlike dogs, most cats don't have strong breed-specific personality traits. A thread summarizing the potential marketing opportunities for the handful that do.

1) Tarriffs are apparently the answer to things his ICE thugs can't do 2) Copper has many valuable uses, but is plentiful and easily recovered (why it gets stolen) 3) The value add for mining plentiful raw materials is low and economy distorting. Ask Australia. Something Something Ea-nāṣir

Trump talks about "transgender for everybody" but he forgets that there are way too few of us trans people for everybody to be able to get one.

The DC Army parade route is really short. A little under 7/8 of a mile. For comparison, that's about half as far as the San Francisco #nokings march. But even with such a short parade route, they can't muster a decent crown along the whole route.

"That's my secret, human. I'm always hangry"

Google AI shilling for Thoreau and getting huffy about it

I Saw the Humidifier Glow

My Goblin Debutante regards me from her throne of choice

I need an art-history documentary about this, because I want to trace this association back to its origins. Which artists made the decision to pull from those styles in depicting "dwarven" & "elvish "work? Tolkien's alphabets/art art consistent with the phenomenon, but are there prior influences?

This is embarrassing

Vibe voters who can't be arsed to pay attention to policy. Note the multi-dimensional disonance between supporting a true scion* of Joseph Kennedy Sr and displaying a "Billionaires can't buy Bernie" sticker. *except, of course, for RFK jr's lack of business competence Photo taken in Eugene, OR

The train-wreck film review is an art form in and of itself. This TikToker nailed it, describing Megalopolis as "a film that boldly asks the question 'What if we made a feature-length perfume ad?'" and "a movie where you don't know what happens next because you don't know what just happened now"

Unimpressed by Trump's opening salvo, the Swifites have maneuvered their fleet across his T and commenced their broadsides. Unsurprisingly, Swift's deep catalog of call-out music provided shot perfectly matched to the Harris/Walz "they're weird and definitely not OK" strategy.