I always considered that job security

large vertical pipe labeled “mixed liquor”

ladies and gentlemen, the weekend.

Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social I'm an epidemiologist. Sewage systems are sexy. Dosco Jones @doscojones.bsky.social I'm an engineer. Sewage systems are sexy.

I’m a sewage system. I also have a great personality.

Because the smartest financial minds are often very dumb. They want to keep the party going and will grasp for any sign of hope. The best coverage I’ve seen is at Bloomberg — sign up for their newsletters and you’ll see a daily road map of looming disaster.

Suspicious of the guy wearing a raincoat on a sunny day

At Hawk’s Nest, hundreds of sickened workers died, then were hidden and forgotten; it wasn’t an accident - Pittsburgh Union Progress Sam Ward spent the first few minutes of Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1933, trying to suck enough air into his lungs to keep himself alive. Most likely he was lying on a bed in a crudely built shack near a smal...

Not every horror is modern! Amazing untold story in the Pittsburgh Union Progress by @stevemellon412.bsky.social about the hundreds of workers, mostly Black, who died building a West Virginia tunnel and were buried in unmarked graves almost a century ago. www.unionprogress.com/2025/08/28/a...

If you visit downtown Tupelo, there’s a store with a sign telling the story about how a young Elvis walked in hoping to get a rifle and got sold a guitar instead, and in all seriousness there should be a national grassroots initiative to do that all the time everywhere.

Screenshot of the original post by @LOLGOP followed by a post from the Moby Dick bot: “And heaved and heaved, still increasingly heaved the black sea”

Quite a timeline here:

Nice post but the lead image on a Frank Lloyd Wright thread shouldn’t be vertical …

Still image from the Blues Brothers movie captioned with Jake (John Belushi) saying “I hate Illinois Nazis.”

YouTube video by Nike WHY DO IT? | NIKE

Just heard Zbigniew Preisner’s “Song for the Unification of Europe” from the other room and almost cried — Kieslowski’s greatest work reimagined as a Nike ad: youtu.be/Bcpu-jqAL6w?...

Overheard at the dry cleaners: “Yeah I have the recovery retreat tomorrow. A bunch of Buddhist addicts.”

My 10-year-old son at bedtime: “Dogs were put on earth to show people that you can express love without using words.”

Me: Can you comment on this?

Public Affairs: Can we go off the record?

Me: Ok

PA: Off the record, no comment.

what's the difference... Cancel what's the difference between alzheimer's and dementia what's the difference between medicare and medicaid • what's the difference between gelato and ice cream what's the difference between an alligator and a crocodile what's the difference between catholic and christian what's the difference between jam and jelly what's the difference between a crow and a raven what's the difference between a bison and a buffalo what's the difference between vegan and vegetarian

I get almost as many food ones as you do.

Screenshot of Google search’s suggestions when I started typing “what’s the difference between” …

This is what Google thinks I’m most likely wondering about. What’s yours?

for a hot minute I thought you meant Marc Smith because it would also work

Screenshot of tweet from Pope Leo XIV: “Humility is really freedom from ourselves. Those who exalt themselves think that nothing is more interesting than themselves. Yet, those who know they are precious in God’s eyes have greater things of which to boast, and a dignity that shines on its own. #GospelOfTheDay (Lk 14:1,7-14)”

There goes the Pope subtweeting again …

Oh lady. You have so much to learn.

Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?

Today I’ve had meetings on Google Meet, Microsoft Teams, Zoom and even FaceTime. So devastatingly productive.

Bought it thanks to your recommendation, and now I recommend it to everyone. Astonishing research in here.

The Venn diagram of “people who support bike/walk/family/transit-friendly street policy” and “people who dig awesome cars” has a big fat sweet spot in the middle and making it an EV is just icing on the cake

The Dodge Charger is an awesome family sedan wrapped in a muscle T. Was the first car we got after having a kid. I still miss it.

My wife to our 10-year-old son: “I saw a blog you might like.”
Son: “What’s a blog?”
Us: …
Wife: “It’s like a stream of content …”
Me: “It’s like a web page but they keep putting new stuff on top.”
Son: “Oh, so it’s like ChatGPT?”

clicking on this to read later

Hello dum dum

Today’s mood.

Alaska is just a very different place.

you persist in telling me the most mystifying and exasperating stories

“Let’s call this what it was: an act of terrorism against Black joy, Black success and queer liberation. It was a warning shot to people like me that our place in this city — our sound, our style, our celebrations — would never be safe once we gained even a hint of mainstream visibility”