Wow, MLS calendar change to fall-spring. Bullish for warm weather teams
November 13, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Wow, MLS calendar change to fall-spring. Bullish for warm weather teams
“A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you’re not enough without the medal, you’ll never be enough with it” - Irv Blitzer, “Cool Runnings”
It’s pretty normal to think “well, if I had what they had, *I’d* be happy and at peace”. But anyone who’s hung around rich and powerful people knows that like 80% of them are in existential pain/misery about something.
November 13, 2025 at 8:56 PM
“A gold medal is a wonderful thing, but if you’re not enough without the medal, you’ll never be enough with it” - Irv Blitzer, “Cool Runnings”
Reading “Raising Steam“ and man, I dunno
November 13, 2025 at 6:56 PM
Reading “Raising Steam“ and man, I dunno
Clear and Present Danger on Netflix
November 13, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Clear and Present Danger on Netflix
Moulin Rouge is CANCELLED
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Moulin Rouge is CANCELLED
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do not repeat this insight
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 PM
do not repeat this insight
I am begging elon to read a sci-fi series besides The Culture
in a long life filled with saying stupid shit this is may be the stupidest shit he's ever said
November 11, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I am begging elon to read a sci-fi series besides The Culture
fun fact: pre-K report cards are not written in some kind of woke code, theyll just say “Tim has trouble with sharing“ or whatever
I think the belief by the powerful that "people will put up with many things if you are excellent at math" is incredibly revealing in terms of understanding How We Got Here
November 11, 2025 at 9:19 PM
fun fact: pre-K report cards are not written in some kind of woke code, theyll just say “Tim has trouble with sharing“ or whatever
There’s so much lambda in books about functional programming
November 11, 2025 at 3:09 AM
There’s so much lambda in books about functional programming
I got a Dominion set for my birthday, just putting it out there
as the husband of a mahjong addict, dudes need to identify an activity that can be done relatively easily in groups with minimal financial commitment so they can get out of the house for 2-3 hours on a school night, have two beers, and shoot the shit with their buddies.
It won't be mahjong tho.
It won't be mahjong tho.
This is excellent, and great fun to read. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...
November 10, 2025 at 10:40 PM
I got a Dominion set for my birthday, just putting it out there
i don’t like Galloway especially, but the idea that we don’t need any particular cultural voice addressing boys or young men just leads to the space being entirely ceded to people who don’t care what the New Yorker thinks about anything
November 10, 2025 at 5:43 PM
i don’t like Galloway especially, but the idea that we don’t need any particular cultural voice addressing boys or young men just leads to the space being entirely ceded to people who don’t care what the New Yorker thinks about anything
expertise in one area does not guarantee expertise in all areas, even areas that seem like they’d go together (medicine vs health insurance)
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:20 PM
expertise in one area does not guarantee expertise in all areas, even areas that seem like they’d go together (medicine vs health insurance)
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Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools
On the other hand, ambition for men is a triangular prism. no, I will not elaborate
‘Ambition is a punishing sphere for women’: author Maggie Nelson on why Taylor Swift is the Sylvia Plath of her generation
‘Ambition is a punishing sphere for women’: author Maggie Nelson on why Taylor Swift is the Sylvia Plath of her generation
What do Swift and Plath have in common, and should Kamala Harris have spoken out about her political ambitions? The Argonauts author turns her lens on poetry, pop and patriarchy
www.theguardian.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:16 PM
On the other hand, ambition for men is a triangular prism. no, I will not elaborate
the stories about city misery during the industrial revolution highlight not just that awfulness, but that it was better than life out in the country
It is genuinely hard for most people to grasp how poor the past was.
November 9, 2025 at 7:49 PM
the stories about city misery during the industrial revolution highlight not just that awfulness, but that it was better than life out in the country
They probably will, though
November 9, 2025 at 3:33 AM
They probably will, though
no idea what to do at kids birthday parties where they say “you can just drop the kids off, it’s fine”. feels rude to leave, feels awkward to stay
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 AM
no idea what to do at kids birthday parties where they say “you can just drop the kids off, it’s fine”. feels rude to leave, feels awkward to stay
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Meta itself estimates that it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the United States lol
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 AM
Meta itself estimates that it's involved in 1/3 of all successful scams in the United States lol
“To be fair”
November 7, 2025 at 3:15 PM
“To be fair”
Next up? That’s right, track 3 from Sufjan‘s Illinois album
Ellis begins by quoting from Carl Sandburg's "Chicago": www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...
Chicago
Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation.
www.poetryfoundation.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Next up? That’s right, track 3 from Sufjan‘s Illinois album
If you think “wow that person is just saying something to get a rise out of people on here”, you can just block them, it’s fine
November 6, 2025 at 4:33 AM
If you think “wow that person is just saying something to get a rise out of people on here”, you can just block them, it’s fine
