Zach Bigalke (he/him/his)

A stainless steel pot with boiling water

I watched the pot.

It still boiled.

Congrats, Israel Katz, you've just parroted the exact same sort of language that Goebbels would've used to obfuscate this situation.

Given the attrition, there's only so much to read into the first race pace stats of 2026. China will give us a clearer picture of how things shake out on different types of circuits.

But if those tiers hold for the rest of the season, we're in for some interesting head-to-head battles.

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Gabriel Bortoleto was best of the rest on race pace, but an extra pit stop relative to Oliver Bearman & Arvid Lindblad resulted in one-third of the potential points haul as he came in ninth rather than seventh.

Those 3 young drivers look like they'll be fighting one another for years to come.

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We're rapidly seeing a five-tier field spread:

TIER 1: Mercedes and Ferrari
TIER 2: Red Bull and McLaren
TIER 3: Audi, Haas, Racing Bulls, and Alpine
TIER 4: Williams
TIER 5: Aston Martin and Cadillac

Tier 3 is likely going to be the place where the biggest storylines are made this year...

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Race pace calculations for the 2026 Australian Grand Prix held on 08 March 2026 The table lists the following average lap times by driver: Andrea Kimi Antonelli (Mercedes) — 83.311s Lewis Hamilton (Ferrari) — 83.403s George Russell (Mercedes) — 83.413s Charles Leclerc (Ferrari) — 83.513s Max Verstappen (Red Bull) — 83.831s Lando Norris (McLaren) — 83.894s Gabriel Bortoleto (Sauber) — 84.805s Oliver Bearman (Haas) — 84.970s Arvid Lindblad (Racing Bulls) — 85.137s Pierre Gasly (Alpine) — 85.414s Liam Lawson (Racing Bulls) — 85.435s Esteban Ocon (Haas) — 85.451s Isack Hadjar (Red Bull) — 85.498s * Alexander Albon (Williams) — 85.683s Carlos Sainz (Williams) — 86.173s Franco Colapinto (Alpine) — 86.419s Fernando Alonso (Aston Martin) — 87.342s # Lance Stroll (Aston Martin) — 87.522s # Sergio Pérez (Cadillac) — 87.982s Valtteri Bottas (Cadillac) — 88.126s ** Oscar Piastri (McLaren) — DNS Nico Hülkenberg (Audi) — DNS * — Isack Hadjar retired with an engine failure on Lap 11 ** — Valtteri Bottas retired from the race on Lap 17 # — Aston Martin ran both cars out of sequence, including long breaks in between stints, due to technical and parts issues Data aggregated from GP Tempo (https://www.gp-tempo.com/app?year=2025) and visualized in Microsoft Excel by Zach Bigalke using Bigalke font on 12 March 2026

I'm a little late to get this done — I've been lazing about on my spring break and I'll make no apologies for it — but at least it's done before Shanghai.

Fascinating to see that Ferrari could potentially have factored more into the podium fight had they strategized better around the VSCs...

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Your linked article was about college sports, which are not professional.

Sports like weightlifting are divided by weight class. I see no reason why two 80kg people can't compete against one another solely because of what is or is not below their lifting belt.

Sport historian here, and it has happened more than you'll ever know.

Unless it pertains to sports, as you've said yourself, in which case you think that trans people should shut up and fuck off to the sideline.

For people like this, free association is conditional.

That's because Nazis are far more receptive to your type of thinking, you sick fuck.

This is really why I didn't go back to school to complete my undergrad as a lapsed sophomore until I turned 30, and also why I did the bulk of my MA and PhD work in my 30s...

This all day every day. There are other options that don’t platform Nazis.

More countries should do this out of solidarity and in reaction to the DHS abuses. Show some backbone and morality, embarrass this administration

It shouldn't fall to trans people to explain to cis people why creating laws that effectively amount to "If you have or ever had a penis, you must behave this way; If you have, or ever had a vagina, you must behave this other way" is horrifically dangerous for everyone's rights.

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

Never trusted them before, and belatedly not doing the fucked-up thing sure as hell isn't what I'd call a trust builder.

Yeah, wouldn't want Republicans to face the political consequences of their actions 🫠🙃😑

Feel more and more vindicated with each passing day that I stopped watching the NFL when they blackballed Kaepernick. Not once have I regretted the decision.

In the real world rather than the Axios land of delusions, Target can still go get fucked.

Either Target paid @axios.com to publish this propaganda, or they employ gullible rubes.

I hope they are the first of many teams to withdraw.

Here is a hot take: We don't need to fund the TSA either.

.. I was 13 when this came out ... Nothings Changed ..

if all the other countries have any conscience they should pull out too

And sure, faculty don't necessarily update their faculty pages regularly or by themselves... but don't fool yourself, either.

If a guy with a grift to hustle and a public profile HAD published something more recent, he'd no doubt be the faculty asshat constantly harassing staff to update his page.

every self respecting athlete should do the same

No one should listen what the European Union preaches about international law and human rights for the EU speaks with a forked tongue.

European Union's respect towards international law & human rights ends at the borders of the 'West'.

I look forward to Kornet speaking out about genocide perpetrated by the US and Israel for example, since his Christian beliefs are so important and he feels he must speak out on what he sees as wrong

I can't wait to read his piece on the players welcomed back after sexual assault charges

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