Tom Scocca

Second Strike Scrutiny Obscures Larger Question About Trump’s Boat Attacks

Times reporters have been well focused on the central issue here from the beginning www.nytimes.com/2025/12/04/u...

Right

Tom Cotton’s endorsement today of the military shooting unarmed airstrike victims floating at sea may shed some light on the debate over what it meant when he called for troops to pacify disorder in U.S. cities in 2020

Never in a hundred lifetimes would I have guessed that the MetLife blimp does not have a dedicated Wikipedia page

“Tabloid” evolves from meaning a usefully compact print newspaper to meaning an unusably bulky website

Love clicking on a New York Post story link and feeling the phone get scorching hot from the strain

It's so easy to imagine that the past is another country and like it's not even different people

Struggling to stay awake in a meeting? Here’s what to do | CNN No matter how dull your meetings, there are ways to keep awake and even pay attention.

Hope this helos someone www.cnn.com/2025/12/03/h...

i'd go even further and say there is a reason even nixon kept this kind of stuff to himself. you would have to go back quite a bit to find a point at which is acceptable for a president to say anything like this *in public*, to say nothing of in the oval office.

Oof. This hurts. So hard fought to eke this one out over far too many years, only to have it slip out of reach again

​​Does scandal sell? Not for Olivia Nuzzi’s book so far | CNN “We ordered a lot and so far, people have not been beating down the door,” said one bookseller.

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Correct!

"This guy" literally invented Generation X, he is Generation X

Taps the sign, wearily, with a lifetime's worth of commingled contempt and futility hmmdaily.com/2019/05/14/g...

Douglas Coupland, with thinning gray hair and a close-cropped gray beard, wearing a bluish-green T-shirt and dark pants, sits on a stool in front of a wood-paneled drop with a crumpled-paper title superimposed on him reading: "GENERATION X: Individuals born between 1964 and 1980* * more or less"

They really went and slapped a "born between 1965 and 1980" banner on top of Douglas Coupland, b. 1961, explaining how he wrote his book defining his generation

Really curious about what editorial decisions led to this piece about an interesting application of machine learning having an apologia for the slop industry wedged into it

Right, I understand by analogy to other aromas what sort of thing beta-ionone must smell like but I’m not demanding to judge any perfume competitions

Helipads for everyone!

Seems strange that someone who recently posted about how he goes through life unable to form images in his mind would hold forth confidently about what metaphors will connect with the public

its horrible. do fans today even realize that "litigate whether the last play actually happened or not after every single game event" is not the default state for how sports broadcasts need to work? It didn't used to be like this! bsky.app/profile/edbu...

Yes, well put. I don't want to say there's no tradeoff - having your favorite team lose because of a blown call really does suck - but the net impact of replay has been negative from the perspective of fans bsky.app/profile/like...

TIRED: turning off the motion smoothing so the TV finally stops looking so weird

WIRED: swapping out the low-CRI, high-temperature bulbs so everything else finally stops looking so weird

comfort the afflicted and afflict those who have wronged me... or have they wronged YOU? find out in 17 posts from now

An immensely bloated olive Kia Telluride, seen from in front of its monstrous bludgeoning grille with a glimpse of the passenger side, double-parked on a street strewn with leaves

“Toyota Corolla or similar”

The Dyson Airblade dB Breaks Wind

HERE IS THE HAND DRYER YOU CONTENT YOU REQUESTED hmmdaily.com/2018/12/28/t...

Ahem

Periodic reminder that Didion just ripped off the Santa Ana bit from Raymond Chandler’s “Red Wind”

See that was my first reaction but then I asked myself what would someone even more cynical than that be doing

Right but my initial reaction to seeing a full-car takeover wasn't "I must fight back," it was "Jeez, AND they bought a common-noun domain name, someone is making a show of setting money on fire here"

All I know for sure is that one of them got "defaced" way out of the way down the platform from the entrance to my relatively lightly trafficked local stop