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Make a band edible: Pasteurized Milk Hotel

@chicagoelection.bsky.social Has Sendhil Revuluri filed the paperwork to officially withdraw his candidacy for School Board President?

"Still, for someone whose stupidest moment involves 18th-century Venetian theater, you’re doing fine." I feel like this parting sentence is best appreciated without additional context.

yo my colorless green ideas woke up so grumpy today

This guy fucking slaps

I think this was an interesting thread in Careless People that was underexplored in the book club discussions and online discussions I saw about it.

Pascal’s Basilisks.

> 1 out of 3 Trump voters who can't name the party in charge of Congress now back Dems for 2026 We should want more constructive venues (parties) for people that actively or passively dislike politics.

Does anyone want two free tickets to the Chicago Stars game in Evanston tonight? Game is at 7.

Preparing myself for The Greatest of all Plucks.

You can cut up a bus, plant any part bigger than a seat in the ground and it will grow into a full bus. They are like potatoes.

Flush away your free time to enjoy today's AMA with Bryant Simon on @askhistorians.bsky.social for his new book For Customers Only: Public Restrooms and the Making of American Inequality, new from @uchicagopress.bsky.social. Come check it out! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

Me when I use my combination shampoo-conditioner-soulwash:

Me when I use my combination shampoo-conditioner-bodywash:

The problem with powerscalers is that they're unimaginative. They talk about "can goku beat superman" and not "could lord vetinari fix gotham"

I’m in favor of a LVT (though not exclusive), but the road even halfway there is long and hard, and people will not like it if it approached directly.

I have a suspicion that the transition to the Georgist single-tax utopia might not be right around the corner.

Next up on Mortified:

What's on the tails side makes this particularly funny.

I usually prefer to see movies at home, but You Can See Everything was probably genuinely improved by seeing it in the theater. Greatly improved by the communal experience.

A reframing that is simultaneously more accurate and less helpful.

the only transportation news today is that the Chicago to Madison train is coming back

Rolling Kansas for tax purposes.

I mean, I can’t really distinguish between self and environment, nor reliably detect and report on internal states. So if that’s what it comes down to…

Can’t wait until Dan convinces Claude that he’s its physical avatar in order to get the first Roko by proxy diagnosis.

FOIA nerds and MuckRock users: We have a regular all-hands and I'd love to invite a few folks who use MuckRock to talk about how they put the service to work. If that's you and you're interested, let me know!

Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse for tax purposes.

Dressing up as Ronald McDongald for pride next year.

[0006945] Demon leaders are cowards

Explaining that the lettering is set in such a way to show panel borders, to show panel composition and character's relative position in space within the 'missing'/'unseen' art was part of the experiment gives me such a buzz. When people notice on the DPS full of noise the outlined character...

Look how ready to rumble Baby Hans is.

I think it is actually a reasonable summary of the primary problem with AI systems as they are currently rolling out that the two sides of this debate have different and defensible definitions of “personal preference”.

Incredible missed opportunity here not interviewing Shinichi Mochizuki.

It’s probably wrong to ascribe meaning or intent to the things Trump says.

Lotta people that said I was “not playing Doom in the bathtub, that’s not how any of this works” owe me an apology.