Constant Velocity

@malaclypse.bsky.social: It’s that unsurprising number again.

Big Gerard Depardieu fans?

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done

- started a war in the middle east
- completely destroyed the economy

I think we used to call this “corporate rock.” A successful rebranding.

Every time I hear Pete Hegseth is squabbling with Anthropic, I think they’re talk about Anthropologie, and I wonder if that wispy peasant dress he bought to go see Sara McLachlan didn’t hold up after three washings and they keep telling him the label clearly says “ dry clean only”

Redemption for the best hoopty I ever owned. 🫡

Some bullet points that I post from time to time. My answer to a reader who asked me: what could our journalists do NOW to break with some of their more corrosive habits.

And if you don’t wear glasses, put a pair on.

In our last house there was a workman’s bathroom in the basement and RULE ONE of basement bathroom is to take off your glasses before entering. That could work in this case too.

I’m not really a White Sox fan anymore, but this fun, historical hat has been off the menu for 10 years now

Go, already. Just... go.

Jesus. That’s felony level speeding in some jurisdictions.

The fun thing is that this works, at least on your coworkers, whether the camera exists or not. 🥷

Denzel Valentine is languishing in Italy, Sixers. Go get him!

Yeah, it was nuts.

Commensurate with my interest in the teams, which is zero.

My father-in-law’s hot water heater just gave out. The date on it was 1965. Rubber Soul era hot water. It was probably 90% sediment.

It's not a new observation at this point but that wild Noem/Lewandowski story in WSJ really brings home the extent to which all the Trump 2 cabinet-level goblins see their jobs as flying private, doing short-form video, and screaming at underlings. They all hate each other and none of them can read.

Pritzker/Grendel 2028

*once had

I’m ready to step up and reassert the stigma gambling one had. That shit is 💯 for total losers. Go crack a book instead and redeem the balance of the life you’ve been gifted by an indifferent universe.

Vincent D’onofrio vibes.

Riding around with something that cost more than my house would stress me out.

Julian Alaphilippe is racing in a US$120,500 watch, because why not

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I’ve said something like this here before, but it bears repeating today: Pam Bondi is a contemporary from my region, same college, etc., so I’ve watched her rise for decades. I assure you a more contemptible, grasping, power-mad wretch never emerged from these sunny shores.

Hah! I love it. When I tell my students that music isn’t really all that complex just very big, this is what I mean. All the parts of your process are clear, but there’s a lot of parts!

Pretty sure I don’t want one of those telephone style cables, but I always like seeing them. I could change my mind.

Regardless of what you think of Trump's policies, "Panican" is absolutely elite political communication on the merits. Of course everyone instantly grasps what it means and it just looks so good on the page, but furthermore it's also very easy to imagine how someone would say it aloud.

Nathan Thurm!