Kelsey Atherton

Okkervil River (again) Decades from now, your kid will borrow "They play music of your choice when they cut you open," singing it over acoustics with friends, and while you're long past your circle pit days you'll feel the blood rush. This world is worth fighting for. bsky.app/profile/butt...

"Young mayor gets caught using police gym for pickup basketball" is the plot of a kids movie where the mayor is the hero

the official apparel partner of ignoring your disgusting kids as they terrorize everyone else at the brewery while your wife sits in the xc-90 outside googling divorce lawyers

it is perfectly fine and good to run on putting money back in people's pockets and then do that by banning and breaking industries which are entirely scams (crypto, phone gambling, please please please pretty please donate $1 right now)

HUGE, GOOD NEWS: In total reversal from Friday’s stonewalling, perjury-flirting “status report,” ICE now says it has secured a one-way travel document so Ahmed Soliman can return to the US via a commercial flight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

It genuinely does suck and is *bad* that it feels like there’s almost nowhere to go for people who 1. Want to work on robotics (like drones) and 2. Don’t want to build weapons.

Shameless plug for my book, featuring all original photos by yours truly including the cover - admitted, "git gud and take your own photos and get your own embed opportunities" isn't exactly practical advice for all bsky.app/profile/timd...

it really couldn't be anything except the Sad Dad Bands thread for me

this week, we talk about the race for the next secretary general as the P5 start really throwing around their weight; below the fold, we do a deep dive on Lana Nusseibeh’s candidacy, & Mark talks to scholar Diego Salama about his book on UN peacekeeping in the Middle East & the end of UNIFIL

for context, in 2020 silicon valley companies had about 23 pages of risk factors on average, per one analysis of 150 public firms. i guess it's possible the totals are higher for startups just making their debut, but to me 94 pages is just bananas www.thecorporatecounsel.net/blog/2021/08...

“Lula faces a very different political environment from the one that existed when he first took office, during the pink tide. Back then, he had several regional allies and could play both sides to Brazil’s advantage,” I tell @cnn.com

I am devastated to learn that Eric Bauza has died. I just spoke with him a couple months ago and I cannot express how joyous it was to have *the Looney Tunes* speaking to *me* and I also cannot express how much it was clear doing the voices brought Bauza joy. www.vulture.com/article/eric...

JG: I think that’s all our time. Thank you for speaking with me. EB: [Does the Porky voice] “Th-th-that’s all, folks!” JG: Wow. Do you do that for every interview? EB: No, just you. www.vulture.com/article/eric...

“‘For the first time in my adult life, I’m seeing a change of government. After so many years under the same leadership, I’m happy that I’ll finally get to live in a free, normal country,’ said Milos Milutinovic, 24, an engineering student.”

The war in Iran is driving diesel costs through the roof for families across Alaska. And Dan Sullivan has now voted 14 times to extend it.

Waiting for election returns in Brazil? Read our Q&A with @mpaarlberg.bsky.social on the return on Bolsonarismo and the hurdles before Lula despite material improvements in Brazilian lives internationalpolicy.org/publications...

Such an incredible cultural moment en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clear_C...

It's not the economy, stupid: some comments on the Brazil election from my interview with @perrybaconjr.bsky.social for @newrepublic.com

Nathan Fielder: Do you understand why the joke was funny Elizabeth Holmes: Steamed hams is a funny thing to call a hamburger

[THIRD WAY CONSULTANT CHARGING $500/hour] Here's the list of constituents whose rights you can walk back for up to an increase of 0.25% in the polls [MEDIAN DRIVER] I will kill for whoever promises to bring back the gas prices we had during Woke 1.0

if ANYONE in the world should understand that the only worthwhile art is made when you run your soul through the rock tumbler of the fucking PROCESS it should be a guy that’s been cartooning (the most The-Process-ass thing ever devised by the devil himself) for like 50 years. and yet!!!!!

Another tribal community in New Mexico told to evacuate due to flooding

When the Space Marines are too woke for you I just feel like you gotta go home, man. There's gotta be a point where you chill.

The plane that expelled these people flew within 200 miles of Equatorial Guinea at about 10pm Arizona time last night. At that point, there were only crew, ICE agents and GEO Group guards onboard, nothing stopping them from going to EG to get Ahmed Soliman. ICE continues to defy court order.

Dozens of employees at Boston Dynamics have petitioned the company to stop the sale of its robot dogs to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

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