Josh Wright 🌹🌹🌹🌹

Now I can stop feeling guilty about never liking Regina Spektor.

A book titled "Outdoor Pigs: How to Make them Pay."

those damned outdoor pigs can't keep getting away with this

but henry viii could fight, hunt, speak multiple languages, write on theology, write music, manage a large organization, have sex, and read

It's the breadth of forms and vocabulary.

That's not a terrible strategy, but Homeric Greek is beyond the textbook classical Greek of Plato & Sophocles. It's just *more*. So, so much more. The grammar and syntax are so complex, it's almost vibes based.

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God bless anyone doing a translation of either of those. I no longer feared hell after two semesters of Homeric Greek in grad school.

Denzel McCampbell won the primary! Good news at last.

2026: Laura Loomer is brutally murdered by Bessent, Rubio and MTG. Her body is dumped into the Potomac

2028: the Trump family are executed en-masse by the Cortezsheviks in the wake of the Woke Socialist DEI Revolution.

In the ensuing decades, numerous women emerge, claiming to be Tiffany Trump.

Nearly *three-quarters* of American wine exports to Canada vanished by the end of the second full month of Trump 2.0. Hard to overstate how much damage he's inflicted on what had been a $420M+ annual market for US winemakers. Whether this business ever comes back is an open question.

Hideo Kojima presents Madden 27

C'3PO

True. I think I am good at being succinct, though!

fascinating things are happening on tradwife twitter

the degree to which the anti-trans backlash is a also backlash to the gradual decline in relevance of gender roles is under-discussed i think

Daltrey: Pete & I are the Who. Playing with us for 30 years doesn't mean anything. Also, why is Zak being so mean to us?

"Right now, Big Balls is in a hospital, after getting beaten up by children? Do you think that's funny??"
(everyone starts laughing)
"Well.... I suppose it is a little funny."

Department of Health and Human Services—National Institutes of Health—Application of Impoundment Control Act to Availability of Funds for Grants Congress appropriated amounts to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to carry out various research objectives for fiscal year 2025. In accordance...

BREAKING: Watchdog government agency finds the NIH and the Trump administration have illegally withheld funds in violation of the Impoundment Control Act, and rips into HHS for failing to justify its slow-walking of funds.

www.gao.gov/products/b-3...

believe me i am one hundred times more annoying about ai than vegans are about veganism

1. Shakespeare
2. Stan Lee
3. Jane Austen
4. The Velvet Underground
5. The Simpsons
6. Chaucer
7. Monty Python
8. The Norman Conquest
9. Blackadder, especially 2, and 4
10. Twilight fanfiction

As end-of-empire scenarios go it is so much more dignified to get your capital city sacked by the Visigoths than to have a bunch of illiterate rich people in their 70s doing it through a series of incomprehensible tantrums because their brains were defeated by their phones.

Constellation selling a brand is always good for that brand.

GOP Education Plan
Step 1: Defund schools and fire the teachers
Step 2: Complain about "failed schools"
Step 3: Have your friend open a Charter School and give you kick-backs

This was always the goal.

Is that Steve Bannon and Woody Allen in the photo behind Trump’s??

Here's a taste of Epstein's photo displays. These were on a credenza in his dining room. More in the story, which I wrote with @mattgoldstein26.bsky.social @jsgatnyt.bsky.social et al.

Felonious Monk

tehran is a city of 10 million people, and this article was published one week ago, to give you a sense of the urgency here

Parenting is full of challenges, and I've often been frustrated with my kids, but I've never thought that a good way to deal with a problem was to point a shotgun at a baby.