Ivan Plis

I just gave ivanplis.com some much-needed spring cleaning — after all, the @acesediting.bsky.social conference is coming! Take a look:

goths you have GOT to stop putting activated charcoal in these lattes and pastries!!! you're on wellbutrin!!

DC is structurally disempowered and legally disenfranchised but they do find ways to stick it to their overlords lol

not the biggest thing but I wish we had a Secretary of State who spelled “discreet” correctly

91 - Travelers Inn * A man who stays the night in a strange place is still a member of the human community, and still needs company. There is no reason why he should creep into a hole, and watch TV alone, the way he does in a roadside motel.

There is no other pool

Whale-balls for breakfast—don’t forget.

I can walk (or take a short bus ride) to the only Leonardo in the Western Hemisphere. (I also know how to bake cookies, assemble burritos, fry chicken, and do the other things.)

He is of course once again going to win the Eastern Shore by like a 40-point margin

Perfect matching of subject to reporter

11 - Local Transport Areas ** Cars give people wonderful freedom and increase their opportunities. But they also destroy the environment, to an extent so drastic that they kill all social life.

YOU NEED MORE POTATOES THIS WEATHER — Claude Atkinson (for the British Potato Marketing Board), 1930s

Having grown up in Wales, I can testify that if you are actually worried about your culture and history being under threat, the thing to do is write poetry and songs, perform plays, tell stories and organise festivals, not just sit around whining.

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I don’t think I know anybody who does this internet gambling stuff.

Black Books (BBC, 2000–04)

Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo put her vision for the city like this: "A city where you can get let go of your child's hand"

It’s also not even a motto but just a snooty little classicist pun used in sports cheers!! We have the worst alums

God, grant me the courage to change the things I can and incredible new powers to change the things I can't.

FYI if you were looking for a reason to get rid of the ubiquitous (and creepily intrusive) “YouVersion” Bible app, the recent update to Catena blows it out of the water.

champion recipe www.seriouseats.com/butternut-sq...

QI *and* WILTY… dudes rock

Finally: I can play music, build playlists, save songs, find podcasts and more.

Two fighter jet flyovers scheduled over the White House this week - one at 5pm today and another at noon tomorrow. These are incredibly loud and, if you aren't expecting them, frightening.

the first Protestant:

@metrorailinfo.bsky.social Any chance I can ask lost & found to look out for this baby shoe’s twin, likeliest on an eastbound B/O/S passing Potomac Ave around 12:28, less likely inside L’Enfant?

DC is a great city of common, collective, shared public places, and we intend to keep it that way. Save your isolation bubble for the suburban car commute.

@metrobusinfo.bsky.social Tried to notify in MetroPulse but reached an uncomprehending chatbot. D10 stops are all appearing offline post-reroute.

Remember when working fact-checkers were able to use google.com to do their job?

12th-century Psalter written in five different languages and scripts; Ge’ez, Syriac, Coptic, Arabic, and Armenian. www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/ancient-af...

does my iPhone fear God

what if Mitch McConnell is in hiding because he got a reverse Fetterman, the brain injury that makes you woke

Today D.C. CFO Glen Lee spoke to the D.C. Chamber of Commerce about the state's the city's economy, and, well, he said "economic and revenue signals are flashing red." More than 36,000 jobs lost since last year, unemployment higher than nation, home price growth down.

“Elon Musk destroyed USAID as a mechanism for killing off as many of the global poor and non-white as he can before they kill him first (as he, insanely, believes)” is not a conspiracy theory. In truth, it’s very hard to conclude anything else.

autistic-on-autistic violence (praiseworthy)

DC is 📈 (notwithstanding the military occupation)

Vasyl Dovhoshyia, Hare, 1920s

150 - A Place to Wait * The process of waiting has inherent conflicts in it.

I was just admiring this lil guy on Sunday.