Scott Barolo

Trust is everything.

We can’t have truly honest relationships if we can’t trust.

We can’t have science without trust.

We can’t have government without trust.

Trust is everything.

Take a drink every time a curling commentator ends a sentence with “…in Cortina”

Region 4, Matchup 14: When Harry Met Sally vs The American President - StrawPoll What is your opinion? Vote now: When Harry Met Sally, The American President

Matchup 14: Can men and women be friends? Find out over the course of 11 years vs A widowed sitting US President falls for a captivating environmental lobbyist strawpoll.com/Qrgewr4rYyp #RomComBracket

Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40.

Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store

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“I’ve reviewed over 50 sticky toffee puddings” is an incredibly powerful way to begin a video

Anthropic AI safety researcher quits with 'world in peril' warning It comes in the same week an OpenAI researcher resigned amid concerns about its decision to start testing ChatGPT ads.

Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Happy birthday to one of my favourite haters, Charles Darwin

Cartoon. Person says to other person „We invented a robot that answers questions.“, adding, „we just have to feed it 10 baby giraffes a day“. The other person asks „But it answers the questions correctly?“ Person responds „Oh my goodness, no. No no no no no.“ By Aram J. French Appropriated due to missing alt text

Please don’t do good-vibes-only racism

A National wildlife federation job post advertises a position opening for “beaver conflict resolution technician”

I need to know everything about job #6 right now

Weird journey, hilarious destination

That’s one cool thing about figure skating though, you have your power people and your grace people. And then there’s that Spanish guy who did a full-on tribute to the Minions

well it worked, you’re aware. ball’s in your court now

I think he just wanted you to be aware of his wifelessness

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

And I mean, it’s not even close

You are brave and not wrong to say that

once again, screaming about curling in the middle of the day

I don't see my own transition as a correction to earlier gender non-conformity, as if I were merely sorted into the wrong box at birth. To me, this idea still has a quality of classifying transness as either a mistake or the correction to a mistake, and I don't think either of those is really true.

And the new NCI Director moves to piss away his scientific credibility.

First, killing cancer cells is a very low bar; many compounds kill cancer cells and are not the least bit useful for treating cancer.

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The Great Tolkien Reread: The Old Forest "Old Man Willow is Tamed" by Ted Nasmith At length they made up their minds to go on again. The path that had brought them to the hill reapp...

The Great Tolkien Reread continues today with "The Old Forest". In which Frodo and the other hobbits encounter evil trees, and I offer my first (but by no means last) defense of Tolkien's nature writing as an inextricable component of his worldbuilding. wrongquestions.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-...

At Nagano, an injured Surya knew she wasn’t in a position to win so did her famous, land on one foot back flip to thumb her nose as the ISU judges, protesting what’s she felt was a history of disrespect, and to give the audience the show they deserved. THAT is why she is so badass.

Oh, and Ilia didn’t bring back the backflip (cmon NBC), Adam Siao Him Fa did. Also a French skater, Adam performed the banned move in high profile competitions like Euros and Worlds, taking the two point deduction, inspired by the rebellious nature of his fellow countryman, Surya Bonaly.

Washington’s Corruption Has Created Another Humanitarian Crisis in Puerto Rico The island’s earthquakes are its latest man-made disaster.

If you didn’t catch the significance of the exploding transformers in Bad Bunny’s halftime show, I gotcha. Here’s one of a bunch of pieces I wrote from/on Puerto Rico about the crisis—and Trump’s role in it. slate.com/news-and-pol...

The end of DOE’s grid work in Puerto Rico The Trump administration has canceled all eight of the remaining awards devoted to distributed energy on the island.

Just a few weeks ago, the administration cancelled all remaining department of energy grid resilience projects in Puerto Rico. All of them. www.latitudemedia.com/news/the-end...

A post on threads from user stephens_bens. It reads 'I'll always remember an interview with Steve Buscemi on Bulleye, Jesse Thorn asked him "As an actor with many decades of varied and outstanding roles across your career, does it ever bother you that one of the things you will most be remembered for is a 3-second gif in which you're wearing a backwards baseball cap and carrying a skateboard?" And without missing a beat, Buscemi replied "I'm carrying *two* skateboards." And you know what? He is.' Below that is a screen cap of Buscemi's famous "fellow kids" moment.

I never noticed this either.

An illustration I did on a cat being a cat version of Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement 1872-1885

Eadweard Muybridge: Animal Locomotion: An Electro-Photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movement 1872-1885

As ever when I see a back flip in skating, pour one out for Surya Bonaly.

I like cooking but I am not a great cook or anything. What I do have is a hobo's sense of adventure