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Is the Half Marathon the Tougher Race?

Classic Betteridge's law but also they asked exactly one person???? This guy does run a lot (I looked him up results.nyrr.org/runner/50516...) but... there are 30,000 people (including me) running this race.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/13/n...

a man in a suit and pink shirt is sitting at a table and says i think it 's a good idea ALT: a man in a suit and pink shirt is sitting at a table and says i think it 's a good idea

Lucid and Tesla definitely did not write down this guy’s suggestions in the focus group

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Cards Against Humanity gets a lot of shit for being Reddit Humor and I'm not going to defend that aspect of it but between this and suing Musk over his land grab bullshit I think the people in charge get some things very right.

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I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years

In praise of the tuna melt, the ultimate NYC sandwich Warm fish is so hot right now.

I am a tuna melt connoisseur and S&P Lunch is the best in Manhattan but still is not as good as Tom’s Restaurant’s in Brooklyn. Also, open-faced tuna melts are always inferior.

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SCTV - Lola's Love Spirit YouTube video by The Second City

RIP to one of the best who ever did it. youtu.be/990OaFr8EYw?...

I can't believe the winner of the FIFA Peace Prize would do this.

Reviews of New Food: Williams Sonoma’s The Grinch™ Hot Chocolate Bomb I am somewhat of a hot chocolate maven. I normally consume this winter-wonderful drink through powdered packages and hot water, and I know my way a...

“I essentially had to milkboard the Grinch by holding his head under the liquid until he started to dissolve.”
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Inside Oklo’s audacious plan to turn leftover weapons-grade plutonium into a nuclear bridge fuel “There’s enough energy in nuclear waste to power the country for 150 years, and every year we produce enough for another four years,” the CEO...

this @alexckaufman.bsky.social story is super cool

Inside Oklo’s audacious plan to turn leftover weapons-grade plutonium into a nuclear bridge fuel
sherwood.news/tech/inside-...

The 2025 Hater’s Guide To The Williams-Sonoma Catalog | Defector [Opens front door while holding a toy corgi in one arm] Merry Christmas! Oh my God, you made it! I thought you might be stuck at the airport for weeks! Well, because it’s such madness out there. Piper...

Some people get excited for best of 2025 lists... as for me, I squeal with delight when this hits my inbox every year:
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BONUS: I have published all of the docs I received from my public records request from the Louisiana Dept. of Revenue. Included are the agreements for tax rebates, PILOT lease docs, terms and conditions, and various maps and diagrams. You can find them here: www.documentcloud.org/documents/?q...

Read @jonkeegan.com on Hyperion:

Tax “breaks afforded to Meta on just the sales tax of GPUs would come out to more than $3.3B”

Equal to:
-33 new high schools
-public teacher salaries for > 1Y
-more than 7 years of the Louisiana State Police budget

sherwood.news/tech/hyperion/

MAGAZINER: How many veterans have you deported?

NOEM: We haven't deported veterans

MAGAZINER: We are now joined on Zoom by a combat veteran you deported to Korea

Hands down the weirdest mayor of my lifetime and it's not even close.

What's important to the missus is that the Joneses have 2 rooms just for sinks so...

I got a massage just now and realized the guy in the room across the hall was on a work zoom call during his massage. Truly American Psycho level behavior.

thinking of her today

The 100 Best Comedy Movies of All Time Variety's list of the 100 best comedy movies of all time includes 'Annie Hall,' 'Pretty Woman,' 'Waiting for Guffman' and 'Young Frankenstein.'

Fargo is one of my absolute favorite movies but naming it the 8th best COMEDY movie of all time while The Big Lebowski is 72nd is put-you-in-the-woodchipper level punishable. variety.com/lists/best-c...

also it will never not be funny every time the president calls groceries an old fashioned word.

This seems to have gone even better for Mamdani than I believed it would when asked last night at my book club for a prediction.

We set out to find the real reason pickleball noise is so annoying The racket from some 70,000 pickleball courts across the United States has generated bitter fights. If we understand the sound, can we learn to ignore it?

I live across from a park with basketball courts, a skatepark, handball courts, and now pickleball courts and only the noise of pickleball makes me want to rage across the street and do violence (I would never, but the kerplink-kerplunk at 6 am...)

www.washingtonpost.com/science/inte...

Two days after seeing Waiting for Godot on Broadway @aboutmattlaw.bsky.social saw Keanu Reeves getting out of his car and told him how much we enjoyed him in the play. I love NYC.

My first thought: Well, at least there's a doctor right there.

My second thought: Unfortunately, it's Dr. Oz.

Even with me at the poker tables in September???

It turns out Tesla’s Cybercab might need to have a steering wheel and pedals after all Tesla’s Cybercab was supposed to be a steering-wheel-less alternative to its affordable mass market car....

A great steering wheel that doesn’t whiff out the window while I’m driving. That is a good idea! Write it down!

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Also someone needs to explain to, not just Rappoport (who is an idiot), but a lot of other people too, that the premise of democratic socialism is not that everyone is poor but that everyone can have nice things and afford an occasional date night out

quotes from cybertruck owners

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

Seriously what is this supposed to say.