Emily Wood

Tricolored baby goat with impossibly long ears

I'm going to need you to look at this face

Joke's on you daylight savings I'm totally fine with an hour less of this shitshow

I did not know that Great Britain has a team in the World Baseball Classic, its roster full of players from its former colonies.

(I guess I should have, but I refuse to pay Fox $20/month for their streaming platform, so I can’t watch the games.)

Page of forever stamps with a picture of Alex Trebek and a jeopardy style Answer reading “this naturalized US citizen hosted the quiz show Jeopardy! For 37 seasons”

Spouse who is an immigration lawyer just got the world’s greatest USPS forever stamps for his mail

Alex Trebek Stamps | USPS.com Remember the beloved host of the television quiz show Jeopardy! with the new Alex Trebek stamp from the U.S. Postal Service®

For everyone like me, who wants to purchase these…

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Oh man, I miss Burger Bite!!

Street View image of post office

WALES: 2 MONSON RD, WALES MA 01081-9998

this made me cackle all the way through

A painting of a bird beside the text "thankfully some mediocre fuckin' man is here to tell us all how to live"

In their lawsuit against NEH, ACLS, AHA, MLA, etc., include as an exhibit the AI-produced DOGE spreadsheet that determined if a project was too DEI for Trump. Here is the spreadsheet www.historians.org/wp-content/u...

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

“Our federal government is sending a message that only a narrow definition of humanities can be supported, celebrated and invested in, and that there are only a narrow set of people, culture and experiences that are worth understanding in depth.” -Sarah Weicksel, AHA

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Seeing ppl circulate projects whose NEH grants were canceled by DOGE reaffirms my argument about AI as a permission structure. Some grants were canceled w/o a “no” from the generated summary. DOGE had a mandate to slash humanities funding & AI gave them the veneer of a rationale for their actions.

Trump plans to revoke Biden tax rule that cracked down on big business abuses The Biden administration said large partnerships were illegally avoiding hundreds of billions in taxes. Trump says they shouldn’t have to report the transactions.

The Trump administration signaled a plan to revoke a two-year-old tax rule designed to crack down on an arcane but highly lucrative tax avoidance tactic used by some of the largest and most complicated businesses.

Your 2026 Winter Paralympics Primer The Paralympics are the most mind-blowing sporting event on earth. Let's tune in and saying WOW and WHAT and HOW for the next two weeks!

IT IS TIME FOR THE WINTER PARALYMPICS!!!!

The Paralympics are the most consistently mind-blowing sporting event on the calendar. I promise you simply reading about how various Paralympic events work will make you say WHAT?!? or HOW?!?!? out loud at least once

A man with an axe is sleeping in the woods. The blade of the axe appears to be dangerously close to cutting him. He has blue leggings and a green tunic that has mostly faded away over time. He's resting at the bottom left corner of an image added to a medieval manuscript. Reference: Vie de seint Aedward le Rei, Cambridge, University Library, MS Ee.3.59, fol. 23r (1230s-1240s).

Happy Saturday!

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez:

You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed.

We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.

Sánchez asegura que España no está sola en el 'No a la guerra': 'No estamos solos, somos los primeros' El presidente del Gobierno reivindica la postura de España sobre el conflicto en Oriente Medio y recuerda a la derecha que 'dijeron lo mismo cuando España reconoció al Estado de Palestina'.

Sánchez asegura que España no está sola en el 'No a la guerra': "No estamos solos, somos los primeros"
www.huffingtonpost.es/politica/san...

I requested a bunch of chapters through interlibrary loan this morning. They all just came in some 10 hours after I placed the requests... courtesy of the University of Tasmania's ILL services. Man, I love international research collaboration.

The Postal Service is a vital public good. #SaveTheUSPS

Knockoff version of Bad Bunny’s Tiny Desk baseball sweater when?

(Unless it already exists and you all have just been holding out on me?)

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t George W. Bush may think that a war against Iraq is the solution to our problems, but the reality is, it will only serve to create far more.

This War Will Destabilize The Entire Mideast Region And Set Off A Global Shockwave Of Anti-Americanism vs. No It Won’t

A painting of a bird beside the text "i always wondered what would happen if we put a total fuckin' moron in charge"

Dominic republic team including Juan Soto, Julio Rodriguez, and Manny Machado

Calling all bluesky baseball sickos!! The WBC is here! (All times PT)

*Puerto Rico 🇵🇷 v Colombia 🇨🇴 3 PM on FS1
*Nicaragua 🇳🇮 v Dominican Republic 🇩🇴 at 4 PM on FS2
*USA 🇺🇸 v. Brazil 🇧🇷 at 5 pm on Fox and Fox Deportes
*Taiwan 🇹🇼 v. Czechia🇨🇿 ar 7 pm on FS2

Come chat! open.substack.com/chat/posts/8...

I’m not going go be mad about the extra light in the evening, though.

HOW IS IT ALREADY THIS WEEKEND??

BSO ends maestro Andris Nelsons' contract The Boston Symphony Orchestra's CEO Chad Smith and Board of Trustees said it was "not aligned on future vision" with Nelsons in a statement emailed to WBUR.

The Boston Symphony Orchestra's CEO Chad Smith and Board of Trustees said it was "not aligned on future vision" with Nelsons in a statement emailed to WBUR.

Prosecutors Unable To Attend Live Nation Trial After Scalpers Buy Every Ticket

Prosecutors Unable To Attend Live Nation Trial After Scalpers Buy Every Ticket https://theonion.com/prosecutors-unable-to-attend-live-nation-trial-after-scalpers-buy-every-ticket/

New job:

Vice President for Research and Education

Newberry Library

jobs.h-net.org/jobs/69859

Democrats join legal challenge to Trump’s planned 250-foot arch “This is a straightforward issue of who’s in charge,” Sen. Angus King of Maine told The Post, citing a law that certain monuments must receive Congress’s approval.

New: Democrats asked a federal court to block Trump's 250-ft arch.

Under law, Congress must approve certain monuments in DC.

“This is a straightforward issue of who’s in charge,” @SenAngusKing said.

They also mocked the "vanity" project.

“This is not Pyongyang,” @RepHuffman told me.