John Saward

Flaming Hydra is a coop. All you can do with your share is sell it back to the coop (for $1), and nobody can have more than one.

You have to be ready for growth to take a long time. Journalism is a public trust that should be accountable to readers alone, and that means readers alone pay for it.

Old white pickup truck parked on a wet street covered in orange leaves at night. Behind it is a house and trees and bushes

This rocks

Thank you as always to the great and wise @mariabustillos.com for her sharp eye

Caravaggio, Sam Altman, and Me I was wandering around a humid church in Rome, vibrating on no sleep, and there was a murder going down on the wall. It can feel sometimes in these kind of places like you are hallucinating, the smell...

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Western view of Washington Park Beach and the inlet to Michigan City Harbor in Michigan City with Lake Michigan beyond. // Image captured at: 2025-10-23 22:36:16 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Michigan City: 50.91 F | 10.51 C // Precip: scattered clouds // Wind: NNW at 1.990 mph | 3.20 kph // Humidity: 55%

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Thanks very much. It had rained a little earlier and that gave a nice shine to everything.

blue truck

Building covered in vines

Maybe nothing in sports as close to hard drugs as watching a bullpen rollicking in and out of jams, wet hair and strange jewelry, spitting and cursing, having entire conversations with themselves. A ship of filthy pirates drunk on the high seas.

Holy cow. Premium shot here

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View looking north over Grand Haven beach and its iconic lighthouse and pier jutting into Lake Michigan. // Image captured at: 2025-09-11 05:06:36 UTC (about 1 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Grand Haven: 60.29 F | 15.72 C // Precip: broken clouds // Wind: N at 0 mph | 0 kph // Humidity: 83%

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Thanks man. The guy in the bucket was doing a little show with the whole thing by the end of it, they were having a great time.

Cut down tree

When he had to cut the trunk itself down the guy was doing this like medieval infantry kind of combat to it with the chainsaw and shoving it with his other arm, and during the minute of drama watching it slowly snap apart the kids were lined against the playground fence shouting cut! the! tree!

There's an ancient-looking tree on the corner between us and the elementary school and some city guys came by to take it down. They sent one of them up into the air in the little bucket with a chainsaw, and every time he cut a branch off the schoolkids all went nuts like there was a walk-off homer.

Great thread here

Backup catcher Joey Bart tells the sideline reporter "this says a lot about our guys" and I wonder if we just might find a way out of all this.

Drinking the last half of a beer as Dennis Santana gets Ohtani swinging and deciding the 63-77 Pirates will make the playoffs

Edge of a mass of clouds at sunset turning peach in color

This is really great

"Whoa whoa whoa. Take a look at this. Now if you're the confederacy, you like that they've put you in this position. Look at this action here by the Union, trying to cross the Rappahannock under the rebel guns. This is as foolish as anything you will see in the league"

"Okay, we have a significant numerical advantage on the left flank. What we want to do is attack that flank, turn it, and roll the Confederates on back to Richmond. But McClellan doesn't see that clearly. He hesitates. And now Lincoln's gotta think about 'can I trust my commanding general here?'"

Re-watching the Ken Burns Civil War doc and doing Hubie Brown Voice as we scan across another battlefield McClellan has let get away from him.

Seek And Destroy | Defector Steven Soderbergh made The Limey for $10 million in 1998, and by his own account had an absolutely miserable time doing it. Or, more specifically, he made it briskly and seemingly happily, then…

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Wide view of Lake Michigan from Michigan City East Lighthouse. // Image captured at: 2025-08-21 18:33:01 UTC (about 4 min. prior to this post) // Current Temp in Michigan City: 71.13 F | 21.74 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: N at 12.616 mph | 20.30 kph // Humidity: 76%

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There's a lot to be repulsed by in The Argument -- the tone of haughty "We Finally Figured It Out" that permeates the entire project; the flaccid mediocrity of all the people involved, blundering pedants like Yglesias & slimy zeros like Derek Thompson. This was a really sharp, thoughtful discussion.

Maroon armchair in a lush parking strip on a rainy evening

A real humdinger

My guess after a little detective work is a ‘75 Oldsmobile 98 Regency but don’t hold me to that