John B. Cole

Received a truly vile, transphobic series of pro-Tom Tiffany texts today in Wisconsin from something called the American Principles Project. Disgusting stuff. I've already voted for David Crowley, those assholes can fuck right off.

I know I'm often late to things, but I'm really enjoying "Nostra Vita" even if I'm not entirely sure why.

It was a shark.

Y'all, "Wildwood" is an amazing feat of stop-motion animation. Go see it!

Even the cat is sick of listening to me try and learn the Steve Harris three-finger gallop.

Still covering Elon Musk as a business mogul and not foregrounding his murderous white nationalist politics is like doing a piece on only the clown career of John Wayne Gacy.

Tom the Dancing Bug nails it.

This might be the thing that starts turning sports fans against AI.

I want to create a reboot of Scooby Doo, where at the end of the episode the ghost or the mummy or the space alien turns out to just be Elon Musk doing fraud. It's Elon Musk every time. Week after week, the episode ending just turns out to be Elon Musk committing fraud.

Reminds me of my 5-year-old arguing with a docent at the Maryland Science Center about the size of Argentinosaurus versus Giganotosaurus. I think the docent was correct, but the boy wouldn't given an inch.

More like Colossal Assholes.

The Iron Maiden documentary "Burning Ambition" is an excellent airplane film, so long as you don't rock along with it too hard.

Now I'm angry on a plane.

Jesus Christ, United, another Airbus? Are you trying to tell me something?

Every restaurant at an airport now blasts music at a painful volume, I assume so you won't linger. It's terrible.

is there any greater betral than leaving your phone/device/computer plugged in all night, only to discover something in the chain failed and you wake up with no power?

A grown-ass man just got on my flight with an "I gave her the [Disney-style] D" t-shirt on. We have fallen so far from God's light.

Seems to me that's just a fancy way of saying, "If you want to talk to the Senator, it's going to cost you." It may be "normal practice", but it's also clearly corrupt. I guess that doesn't mean it's illegal per se, but it should be. Money in politics is corrosive.

to be clear, the supreme court justice says he decides cases by imagining himself hosting the 1776 version of fox news diner segments

I'd be a bold choice, just saying. ;-)

Man, I don't know. I've watched "There Will Be Blood" at least three times, and I feel real dumb because I don't understand why it's so revered. I'm not trying to say it's a bad movie, actually, or anything, just that I don't get it.

If Gavin Newsom runs for president in 2028, remember whose side he was on in the fight to rein in the wealth and power of billionaires in California. With @wkamaubell.bsky.social

The credulity people are placing in the new "flying car" announcement has killed what little faith I had left in humanity.

I have deleted the emails that were in my inbox and which you were probably sending for reasons Forgive me they were annoying so many and so long

There are already too many teams in the College Football Playoff. Expanding from 12 to 24 will probably make a lot of people a lot of money, but football isn't basketball and we shouldn't pretend like it is.

Very @wtyppod.bsky.social headline.

Of fucking course, IAFF.

Look at the shabby state and increasingly authoritarian trajectory of the country and ask yourself if we can endure 2 more years of a lawless Trump administration wreaking havoc with no check from Congress, then vote accordingly. This is not the time for a protest vote or purity politics.

New traitor just dropped.

I think scientists have a responsibility to not have press releases issued for random papers. Most research isn't meant or ready for general audiences. We should give science enough time to accumulate evidence before we make our problems the society's problems.

Ruin a book by adding a word: Are You There God? It's Me, Margaret Thatcher

I wonder if university athletic directors are ever going to insist that these absurd coaches' salaries become more performance-based. (The answer is no, they never will, who cares, is not their money.)

The officiating in the LSU-Kentucky game is so bad I'm mad about that PP7 interception all over again.

I agree with Jacob Hester. If you can't get 1 yard on 4th down you don't deserve to win.

I literally LOLed.

I saw this post when I came over here to comment that I've been asked to provide updated letters of support for grant applications because "AI" is no longer acceptable to the raging idiots running our government.

ICYMI: Crowley calls for constitutional amendment on abortion rights buff.ly/v2PQJT6