Not totally sure that Jasmine Thai stuck the landing on this fortune.

Meet Peggy Flanagan, who’ll be the first Indigenous woman governor in US history!!

c’est thursday

Boston will never be the same

Listening to The Replacements while editing Minnesota State Fair content and reading about Tim Walz at the DNC. Never felt more firmly situated in my geography. Feels bizarrely great.

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Elvis Costello “Pump It Up” This Year’s Model Radar Records (1978) Director: Paul Flattery One of my first favorite songs as a kid. Didn’t bother to learn the actual words until my mid-20s. Life is wild, man.

Belle and Sebastian demand Donald Trump stops using their track ‘Judy and the Dream of Horses’ at his campaign rallies

Happy SLOW HORSES eve to all who celebrate

Chef Peter Thillen at Sanjusan is doing two seatings each Monday of a special 5-course menu, an excellent experience and a good value at $95/person. The menu changes, but this week's may give some sense. (Not listed on it: 3 really good appetizers.) exploretock.com/sanjusan/exper…

A key point missing in a lot of post debate analysis is that Trump’s claim about immigrants eating pets almost perfectly syncs up to the piano in the Peanuts theme song.

A friend of mine asked ChatGPT how much chicken to prepare for a gathering of 15 people (several of whom were kids) and it recommended 10 pounds of chicken. It was too much chicken. The demand for AI that does human work measurably worse than humans is totally bizarre to me.

you ever see a tweet so fire it breaks the language barrier

One of the sharpest, most insightful bits of writing about television that I've read in a long while.

We Ranked 50 Ska Songs by How Good They Go With Eating Mozzarella Sticks thehardtimes.net/rankings/we-ra…

Begging people asking for where the news is on any situation to google the local newspaper for the area. The Citizen Times is Asheville The Charlotte Observer is Charlotte The News & Observer is Raleigh Knox News is Knoxville Support local news

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After many years spent on this wonderful hellsite, I am finally (and with regret) going to decamp for Bluesky. The change to blocks was the last straw. So long, and thanks for all the fish!