Aram Sarkisian

Bah gawd that's @shutdownfullcast.bsky.social's music.

I do find it somewhat entertaining when it turns out something from one of the Sparty outlets, or (DREAD) the Freep ends up being correct, and the board/mods have to pretend they didn't loudly cast doubt on it from the start.

Critical thinking and reading are not taught at UM, no.

She does a lot of her spots with the very limited print of the cover art for Silver Jews-American Water, and if that's not an instant sign of superior taste, I don't know what is.

$300 million mistake

That's the same cost as 25,000 Head Start slots

I don’t care what they say this is a good website

"The Islamists oppose women getting an education," I mutter, as I aim my missile at the girls school

Be loud, work for change from within. That‘s the only way I could reckon it. I was told that my speech at my Eagle COH was too political. Didn’t see it that way in 2001, don’t see it that way now. They need to hear that inclusion is a value Scouting is hard-wired to embrace.

As someone who was finishing my Eagle right when the Dale case happened and was definitely (and vocally) not in step with the prevailing homophobia of the BSA at the time, this is a slap in the face. Back to the dark ages of hatred and right-wing paramilitarism as “values-based“ youth programming.

I really don’t know how else to put it: This is gutting. I always thought I’d find a way back to Scouting if the time came for our family, but not like this. I cannot imagine recommending anyone join an organization that would go this far to pacify the many sad paranoias of a power-hungry tyrant.

I’m an Eagle Scout and former adult leader who was proud of Scouting America for taking many strides to becoming more inclusive and not a right-wing paramilitary organization.

Today’s cowardly capitulation to Pete Hegseth feels like the end of Scoiting having a meaningful place in American life.

I love the confirmation that Ford too owned a Michigan Bad Call Brick, an essential item we all bought in the 90s.

Bad news day for this guy, who I’m sure has to be used to it by now.

Kash Patel and the U.S. Men’s Hockey Team Deserve Each Other These Olympics were joyful and uplifting. Then the FBI director showed up.

Kash Patel got his Make-a-Wish. You paid hundreds of thousands of dollars so he could cosplay as a gold medal winner with his hockey heroes. Dream weekend, very happy he could live out this fantasy @slate.com slate.com/culture/2026...

The Dan writing a song about Owsley Stanley is one of the great Improbable Worlds Colliding moments of our time.

In contrast, their prime time broadcasts have been more or less forgettable schlock. Make that more like Gold Zone.

Holodeck sled? Holodeck sled.

One of the post-pandemic dynamics we haven't reckoned with: It's now perfectly acceptable to take a super-long work call in a coffee shop. There are no rules.

proud to have served as the official sewer/stormwater utility for Cleveland Heights native and *now* Olympic GOLD MEDALIST Laila Edwards.

One of the things that personally drives me crazy in the U.S. is how youth sports/athletic activities went from a part of the public good (municipal leagues and fields! rec centers! public parks!) to a privatized, expensive, highly competitive, highly structured pursuit for wealthy kids’ résumés

Glamour Profession is a close second. For those who love cocaine, basketball, and late-night dumplings.

I will never be productive again, can’t stop.

46.55 / 50 not a bad score but I can do better I bet

Okay this little color recreation game is pretty cool, harder than I thought it would be! I consistently made the color way brighter than it should have been despite landing the hue which is giving me lots of thoughts on color perception dialed.gg

I can't pinpoint it, but it surely occurred at a Michigan basketball game officiated by Eddie Hightower or TV Ted Valentine, c. 2005. Can't say for sure, because my mind left my body.

Also, NBC, what are you thinking sticking with that human interest feature, even after you know what happened in her routine?

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

i learned about how to pilot a bobsled as a child by going to a library and reading a book about it. i did not and do not need "Google AI" to get an answer to such a question and neither does anybody else

I remain fascinated by academic fellowship and mentorship programs that privilege those lucky few who landed on the tenure track or in full-time gigs. In a collapsing academy, we all need to think bigger about who is deserving of support and mentorship, including contingent and alt-ac scholars.

I was in a discussion section with a good chunk of the starters during the Burnett era, and they were effusively unhappy. Pretty sure most of them ended up transferring.

Serious fault might be found with the anatomical details of this whale, but let that pass; since, for the life of me, I could not draw so good a one.

Let him go. I know little more of him, nor does anybody else.