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how long can i talk about ai regulation before they realize i'm talking about his crossover being banned by the nba

found this on my computer. i vaguely remember creating it. no idea when or why. so here

the smartest move here is probably to get some contact. if we've got speed on second, we could tie it.

but is the baby christian christian? has it already accepted jesus to be its savior? or has it only been christened or baptized? and i guess that brings up the question of its denomination.

if it's anywhere near the strike zone, i can't take a pitch with two strikes. even bunting is a risk. imagine i just get a piece of the christian baby and it goes foul. then i've hit a christian baby and gotten out. but even swinging away, i doubt i could get the loft to carry it out of the park

what's the count?

an excellent test of character is simply paying attention to who gets upset when property is damaged and who gets upset when people are hurt

Remember the one where they got the stock tip and it went up and up and for a moment they experience the high life, but then it crashed?

THIS THIS THIS

with as much as shedeur loves gaudy jewelry and talking about God, this is a real opportunity for the Vatican to trade up and give us Pope Shedeur

took less than a hundred days to go from "i can end the war in 24 hours" to "this is too hard, lets just quit"

for a sport that goes back in this country hundreds of years, baseball is still a sport of experimentation. the yankees are trying out this new weird torpedo bat. the pirates are trying out not having a first baseman or closer.

Pirates home opener ⚾🏴‍☠️
Hope springs eternal ❤️🏆

Home opener in Pittsburgh ⚾❤️

yesterday, after watching the last few hours of @booker.senate.gov's 25-hour filibuster, I donated $50

I don't love giving politicians money. I try myself, and recommend to others, to give time to political causes

But in a desperate time when so little is being done, it felt like right thing to do

I think the remarkable thing about Cory Booker's speech is that much of it is *a good speech*. He's not just filling time, he's using time while the spotlights on him.

that new Bach about to drop

we are learning in real time how corrupt something needs to be for a former Scalia clerk to look good taking a principled stance against it

Top liberal lawyer Goldstein wrote an odd NYT op-ed on 11/15 calling upon DOJ to end Trump's criminal cases and criticizing the state cases.

After his arrest in the waning Biden days, it appeared he had written that piece to win leniency from Trump. Today's rearrest suggests it didn't suffice.

i worked in tech for a number of years. for the last seven i've told other tech workers that working in tech will one day be comparable to working for big tobacco

when i started, it was intended to be a little incendiary

today it feels like an understatement

accidentally went to the gym when all the serious people were there. was too embarrassed to take out my fruit snacks. they just crinkled in my pocket :(

the real problem with shrinkflation is that microwave popcorn bags are now 2.9oz, but the popcorn button on the microwave is for 3oz, so you've gotta stop the microwave with like 10 seconds left AND NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT IT

can't believe they threatened that poor 11-year old kid with pirates tickets

they don't even really want to govern. that's boring and takes hard work. they just want the attention and to feel important

Unlike Obama, who hobbled into office with a 7.2% victory in the popular vote, Donald Trump takes office with a clear mandate after a 1.5% victory in the popular vote.

A screenshot of Maggie Smith's "Good Bones" Life is short, though I keep this from my children. Life is short, and I’ve shortened mine in a thousand delicious, ill-advised ways, a thousand deliciously ill-advised ways I’ll keep from my children. The world is at least fifty percent terrible, and that’s a conservative estimate, though I keep this from my children. For every bird there is a stone thrown at a bird. For every loved child, a child broken, bagged, sunk in a lake. Life is short and the world is at least half terrible, and for every kind stranger, there is one who would break you, though I keep this from my children. I am trying to sell them the world. Any decent realtor, walking you through a real shithole, chirps on about good bones: This place could be beautiful, right? You could make this place beautiful.

Poetry Foundation not fucking around with today's poem of the day
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

this sort of naked cynicism is jarring, but you’re going to see more of it because this is how kleptocracy works. it makes groveling and sycophancy the rational choice, because it will very often be rewarded.

your boy is going to symphony tonight and isn't from that life, so he's reading the FAQ

anyways, this is a helluva way to answer "don't"

At the gym listening to Rob Harvilla's podcast on Bitter Sweet Symphony. On the elliptical just waiting for him to get to talking about The Drugs Don't Work. And I'm waiting. Then he just blows by it with a throw away mention. So taken back it must have unlocked it from the deep recesses of my brain

I was about to post something going on about how Bitter Sweet Symphony is a beautiful, transcendent song but The Verve's best track is The Drugs Don't Work. But something deep down feels like I'd be plagiarizing a tweet from like 2013 from @stephenrodrick.bsky.social