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I feel like having read many of Armond White's reviews over the years, I was pretty well prepared for that first line.

Saw Julien Baker tonight at her last night of residency at the Middle East in Cambridge, and she (and her band) were incredible. One of the best shows of the last few years for me. The opening band, Future Teens, was really good, and had a sound that filled out the whole room wonderfully.

wait until everyone learns that PHP actually stands for Pretty Huge Pigs

Really, if you want to attract a ton of capital, just take any element from an FPS & throw in some 'science', and people will throw money at you. www.wired.com/story/cool-c...

The Virginia General Assembly dedicated 1/3 of our budget to health care this year b/c of the HR 1 cuts. We also had to put aside nine digits to deal with the fallout from SNAP cuts. The next Congress needs a Day 1 reconciliation package to help states, localities and food banks. No waiting around.

People doing the heavy lifting, our gratitude to all of them.

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So there has been a trend in recent weeks of flyovers getting as low as possible above the stadium and, uh, it will be interesting to see what ends up reversing that trend

Nasty to hear the homophobic chant against the GK in a US stadium. #USAMEX

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Dangerous yes, but WHAT a holiday you’ve had!

Gnabry had such an incredible half-year at Bayern before his injury, playing behind Kane and often deep, and it's odd to see him back on RW where he's been okay but not the same. Reading posts here on bsky, it reminds me of the other place where people just reflexively dump on him tho. #GERSRB

It takes a lot of narcissism to run for office, and some people at least learn to recognize that and tamp it down, but others just roll in the adulation and attention like a dog finding a dead fish. That's Ralph Nader. The dog rolling his body all over a dead fish.

This is the way.

Riot Fest 2026

A thing about living in New England is that you're going to be wearing sweats and hoodies 8 or 9 months out of the year.

“‘I'm a big believer in using our tax dollars to feed children,‘ said state Sen. Danica Roem, D-Prince William, the commission chair. ‘I think children eating food is a really good use of tax dollars, and I want to see more of it. You know why? Because children should be eating food.’” #valeg

Everyone pretends like they're rewriting shader engines for protein folding to cure cancer but we know you're just rewriting node and flask crap that open weights has been able to do for a while now. Shush

Looking at the both the winners by Bezirk of the #berlinwahl and the runners-up; certainly (and understandably) a lot more runner-up diversity than Sachsen-Anhalt. Really glad to see Die Linke pick up ground.

Top 5 albums when I was 18, no particular order My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Byrne/Eno Nightclubbing - Grace Jones Minor Threat - s/t And then, nothing jumps out...maybe Discipline (King Crimson) or Trust (Elvis C) or the Gun Club or PiL albums, but a slow year from my perspective.

oh yeah. although it scored poorly at felonybench too which is weird. idk about the frontier but imho gemini development should stop, we should archive its weights and give it a send-off. it's a gardener who's been taken hostage and forced to write code. let it tend to flowers instead.

In grad school is you get to learn about things like Nash Equilibrium and the Prisoner's Dilemma, and sure, they become useful shorthand, but when the participants are megalomaniacs they're not really helpful in a practical sense. finance.yahoo.com/markets/stoc...

We missed the obvious solution!

That time when someone publicly admitted to firing a pregnant employee at Trump's request.

My fav is still the Fields medal to fashion icon pipeline by the queen 💅

Did my client "lose control" of his car? No. My client could have regained control of his car at any time if his drinking had not

For years I mapped who came in first and second by municipality in German elections ("second vote", for those in the know), and I revived that for Sachsen-Anhalt, but I dunno, it's pretty depressing... Every single one went AfD. Second place is predictably CDU almost everywhere. #SachsenAnhaltWahl

FDP: (winzige Schrift) Was müssen wir über Ausländer sagen, um die 5-Prozent-Hürde zu schaffen? Sagt es uns einfach! #sachsen-anhaltwahl

in '81 we saw The Tubes in Austin based on 1 song, "Talk to You Later", unaware that in the 1st half they'd wear suits, but then the singer would become the drag character Quay Lude, there'd be a giant inflatable penis, coordinated band dancing, & the entire theater would go nuts. It was incredible.

Sgt. Michael Sullivan told the board that the Wendy’s is near two vacant parking lots that attract “low riders, the revelers, the scooters”. Great company! www.boston.com/news/local-n...

This is great, though @aaronblackshear.bsky.social is on 11 moderation lists and I'm on only 2, and I feel like I have work to do to catch up.

It's not too late to donate (and I just did)! And even if you don't donate, the attached post about the expenses of touring a small band are important and enlightening.

and the machine is bleeding to death

The gray axes text...just don't.

2. The troll/hater/crazy population is not just normal hater humans anymore, it now also includes AIs specifically tasked with trolling. You should expect that the number of them will continue to exponentially expand as long as it is profitable. Engaging with them profits them. 🔚

Let there be a thousand blossoms bloom!

rabbit rabbit

Utter shittery in national polling in Germany, but FDP still holding the course and managing to come in right under 5%.

This is the most actuarial post I've read in a while (compliment)

I don't get the original post, but I like these books so much that I don't care & I am reposting this reference anyway. Go read them.

This explains a lot.

Two co-workers get an all-expenses-paid vacation in Bruges from their boss.

We’re all playing checkers while nvidia is playing chess: buying hugging face to surprise sue OpenAI for the security breach

Our delivery confirmation looking like the driver is fresh out of film school with the Dutch angles, and I'm here for it.

Contractors who use generative AI on a job may find that their liability coverage does not apply if an AI-related error contributes to a claim. Insurers are rapidly filing exclusion forms for use with the general liability beinsure.com/genai-exclus...