John Flatness

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more girls are joining the gamer ranks

Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.

they're calling it one of the most secure scaffolds anyone's ever seen. we're doing very well with scaffold

describing hitstop in the New York Times

Reminder: Troops are still deployed in the nation’s capital under the Trump administration’s direction. As they have been since August.

Legal experts have said there is no law against pointing out what the law says.

I’m currently at the Washington Monument:

Here's Looking at 2, Kid

once again I'd like to apologize to the people of Spain

i need a jeevacation from my jeevacation

baseball.

another day volunteering at the w.b. yeats museum. everyone keeps asking me if they can hear the falconer. buddy, they won't even let me hear it

@brettbobley.bsky.social‬ Omeka grew up with ODH! Remember the "radical" idea of crowdsourced transcription? So much of what we do can be traced to the communities you've fostered & we couldn't be more grateful. Congratulations on your retirement from the whole Omeka Team! #ThanksBrett

why does it have curtains

so-called "friends" when they see how many tabs i have open

Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (1991)

The decision that Roberts essentially promised Trump in public when he "rebuked" him: no need to rock the boat, we've got your back

It’s not an exaggeration to say that there would be no #DH as we know it without NEH and IMLS

erasure in progress at the dentist office

chuck schumer is already hard at work scheduling tweets about higher st. patrick's day corned beef prices

Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Unification II," 1991.

is it a good sign when everyone talking about your big NBA trade has to say "(this is real)" multiple times?

Sickening portrait of our greatest enemies

The first Senators to actually do anything about the Trump admin

"The Chiefs dynasty is more annoying than the Patriots ever were" is crazy talk for several reasons, one of them being that the Patriots dynasty forced regular people to think about Boston

wow that Apple ad with the weightlifter is terrible

I Read These Ikea Instructions, Then Immediately Built This Dresser

"We are strong and brave and innocent and unafraid. We are better than we think, and not quite what we want to be." Nikki Giovanni speaking the day after the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007 www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cSu...

Virginia Tech professor and poet, Nikki Giovanni, has died at the age of 81.

The 2018 Nationals had six players whose next long-term contracts would combine for $2.015 billion: Soto ($765M), Harper ($330M), Turner ($300M), Rendon ($245M), Strasburg ($245M) and Scherzer ($130M).

the doink off the upright going in anyway, just the chiefs whole season in micro

the absolute offensive juggernaut of former nats now on other nl east teams grows...

Looks like Santa came early this year

Shorter Thomas Goldstein in the NYT: "no man is above the law" may be a pithy turn of phrase, but it says nothing about Very Special Boys

people will just watch anything, huh

Fios is down so hard even their website that tells you if there's an outage is down

thanks, "Pamela," for giving my phone number to some political operation years ago so I can enjoy this forever