Meredith Guthrie

Also a good evening to fall into a YouTube rabbit hole of @goingmedieval.bsky.social videos

My kids & I were at a restaurant/sports bar tonight when ABC News broke into the hockey game to talk about Iran. I had to chant “Nope. No. Nope” so I wouldn’t say what I was thinking. I do not want to get shanked in the suburbs surrounded by chicken wings.

It is very, very important that I be told how I can become a judge in a bread baking competition. Immediately.

Had the most delightful talk with my kids today. Youngest is dreaming up a video game with moderation that demands folks speak “in very old timey English” in the chat to avoid abusive language. If you break the rules? You have to use iambic pentameter! Another strike? Middle English for you!

Lost 19th century film by Méliès discovered at the Library | Timeless Library conservators recently made a startling discovery in a batch of decaying film reels -- a long-lost 1897 film by early cinema icon George Méliès. The French magician-turned-filmmaker's

"The 45-second film, made around 1897, was the first appearance on film of what might be called a robot"

HELL. YES.

Yikes. More flammable than an “unsafe at any speed” Pinto?!? 😬

Hahahahahaha!

Amazon Change Means Wishlists Might Expose Your Address Amazon is allowing gift senders to choose items from third-party sellers, which could open recipients up to new privacy risks.

Amazon is opening its wishlists to third-party sellers, which means it can no longer control who has your delivery address. this is a huge privacy risk for sex workers, influencers, and anyone who uses public lists: www.404media.co/amazon-wishl...

My mom (who caught softball for a million years) did this at a Rangers game once where a homer was headed right for my face. I thought she was the Coolest Person Ever (she was!)

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In an Intense Election Year, New Post Office Rules Could Trip Up Voter Registration - Bolts A change in how mail is postmarked could lead some voters to miss key deadlines, including voter registration. Advocates worry the people most affected will be those already facing voting barriers.

NEW: The USPS changed its rules on how it postmarks ballots.

This may affect elections at every stage at which there's a mail deadline.

An underplayed one: VOTER REGISTRATION.

Many voters who send in their registration forms by mail could be postmarked late, missing out without realizing it.

They've been so deviously good about this sort of thing for so long that I almost feel bad drawing attention to it. It feels like the guerilla cable TV hacking of the '70s and '80s

YES

I think there are also some sports where there is almost a fetishizing of letting coaches be assholes to you, letting them run everything, as if your submission to that is key to be great.

I think a role model whose approach is “I’m the athlete, and it’s my body, so I’m the boss” is useful.

Notice how those who wanted to overthrow the government for being asked to carry proof of their covid vaccination, claiming it’s an infringement on their freedoms, are suddenly all in favor of needing multiple proofs of identity just so they can exercise their constitutional right to vote.

For any newcomers to the sport, here is the Spring Training Fan Rulebook:

1. if your team allows a HR: they’re just getting their work in, or trying out a new pitch, it’s fine

2. if your team hits a HR (even against a 19 year old minor leaguer) that guy is in mid season form, he’s lookin’ good.

readers hate this so much, it is a quick way to destroy your career.

The arc of history can bend towards a little justice, as a treat

A view out a window. The day outside is very gray and foggy. There is one leafless tree in the foreground and a very faint view of another tree in the background that you can barely see because of the fog.

It’s just a tiny bit foggy out 😳

They didn’t let me keep my tooth.

😂😂😂😂😂

I made it! …My face feels weird, with a sense of impending (minor) doom.

I’m at the oral surgeon to get a wisdom tooth removed. Wish me luck?

If anyone asks you who won the Crimean War the answer is indisputably “cholera”

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crimean... (scroll to “Casualties and Losses”)

Yes. Our current form of living, highly concentrated urban with constant global mobility, only can happen because of vaccines, antibiotics, running water, and public health efforts like meat inspection. Without all of these, we die and it ends.

Let me tell you a tale of how completely the normies have been mobilized. My 14 year-old niece has done School of Rock for the past 5 years; last summer she was part of their touring band, and the kids loved playing together so much that they decided to keep doing it. (1/?)

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

What a waste of time and talent it is to skip these steps. How can you learn from mistakes if you're not working through them?

And that's even before you get to the fact that so-called gen AI products were trained on our plagiarized works.

Every time I see an em dash now, I'm reminded of that.