Brian Amos

Who wants to be a millionaire, Ken Jennings and Matt Damon are contestants. With another career path already established, who got his first taste of the entertainment world when he entered a Steve Martin look-alike contest? * A: Dr. Oz • C: Bill Nye • B: Jerry Springer • D: Anthony Bourdain

Bill Nye was a professor-at-large for a semester at my university while I was an undergrad, and he sat in on one of my improv team’s practices. He monologued for like 10 minutes straight about how great Steve Martin is, the guy just loves him.

Oh wow, I can’t believe I never heard of this before, so much useful basic stuff even beyond screen splitting

Are you talking tools built into your OS, or is there software you like for this?

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The cliche Hallmark movie is someone returning to their small hometown and falling in love with an old flame, but they just made one set in my small hometown, so I guess I don’t have to imagine what it’d be like anymore.

My mom is ruling class when she tells me to clean my room, my friend's dad is working class when he orders us a pizza

list of races being held today: Mayor Baxter Springs Kansas City/Wyandotte Topeka City Council/Commission Abilene At-Large Great Bend Ward 2 Lawrence At-Large Lenexa Ward 1 Longton At-Large Junction City At-Large Kansas City/Wyandotte District 1 Kansas City/Wyandotte District 5 Kansas City/Wyandotte District 8 Kansas City/Wyandotte At-Large District 2 Moundridge At-Large Wichita District 1 Topeka District 1 School Board USD 247 (Southeast) Position 5 USD 259 (Wichita) District 1 USD 259 (Wichita) District 5 USD 315 (Colby) At-Large USD 506 (Labette County) District 2 Position 5 USD 506 (Labette County) District 3 Position 6 Other Kansas City/Wyandotte Board of Public Utilities At-Large Position 1 Kansas City/Wyandotte Sheriff Maize (sales tax question)

Good morning, it's primary day in (parts of) Kansas! Off-year elections here are nonpartisan, so primaries only happen when enough candidates file to need them. This year, out of the ~2000 races that are up in November, two dozen will narrow the field today. #ksleg #electionday

Ms. Rachel grew up on Mister Rogers. Now she’s carrying on his legacy. The YouTube star wants her audiences — adults and children alike — to see the humanity of all people.

Ms. Rachel forever

I had to caption my own lectures for an online course one semester during Covid. A great way to become hyper aware of every vocal tic.

“Wine Spectator” is such a funny name for a magazine. That verb I associate most with wine: spectating

It makes you wonder if some politicians who are asking for a left-wing Joe Rogan want it just so they can punch left on them

At the very least, "Coop" is the stressed syllable, so it'd be /ʌ/ instead of /ə/.

Finding the crossover between my linguistics and poli sci degrees here - this sounds like the “put” vowel to me (IPA ʊ), not a schwa.

a map, east erie township is to the west of west erie township for some reason

hey wait

This feels like someone who got into politics because of West Wing, but they were really into Mad Men instead

Seeing the list of directions they give before beginning feels like they’re trying to outsmart a genie that loves ironic wish fulfillment.

That hotbed of linguistic innovation: Norton, Kansas.

A major reason I got into redistricting was assisting on the Florida 2010s litigation, and a big chunk of my dissertation was about it. (I've still got the map analyses I did for it up on my site: brianamos.com/flcongmaps/) Not much of a lasting effect, apparently!

I didn't realize Wichita doesn't fluoridate until our dentist told us we needed to use fluoride toothpaste with our 1-year-old. Different situation, though, since it wasn't a secret: we've rejected fluoridation at the ballot three times! (1964 was 57%-43%, 1978 was 54%-46%, and 2012 was 60%-40%.)

The Monitor - Titus Andronicus
Hello Sadness - Los Campesinos
You Can Do Better - Johnny Foreigner
Illinois - Sufjan
Worry - Jeff Rosenstock
Moon and Antarctica - Modest Mouse
Boys and Girls in America - Hold Steady
American Weekend - Waxahatchee
Emotion - CRJ
Keep it Together - Guster

I made the switch from the United Kansas party to the No Labels Kansas party last year, glad to have made the map

Big update today: along with the July voter file snapshot, we've posted complete 2024 primary results, nearly complete 2024 general results (just missing township results for a handful of counties), and complete 2025 special election results. That's more than 27,000 races! #ksleg

Competitive eating legend Joey Chestnut was once again crowned champion of Nathan's Hot Dog Eating Contest in his triumphant return to the Fourth of July competition after skipping last year due to a sponsorship dispute with a vegan wiener brand. Chestnut, 41, scared down an incredulous 70.5 hot dogs in front of a raucous crowd in Coney Island on Friday and reclaimed the Mustard Belt for a record 17th time. The feat was close but not close enough to beat his own record of 76 franks he set at the competition in 2021.

[hot dogs on stage] he can’t eat us all, can he?

Hey, that’s our questionable sports team name, back off

If you want to see the exact opposite, this was the 2024 presidential primary in Kansas.

For all the talk about the bluesky bubble, we have mainstream dems who have shown themselves to exist in a social world that has either led them to falsely believe Mamdani has called for violence, or at the very least to believe there will be no consequences for lying about it.

All the 2024 primary data entry is done (23,328 races)

Coming soon to the @ike-lab.com website

One of the things that went along with being student body president at my HS was being the person in charge of organizing reunions. Which is a crazy lifetime duty and I'm sure some ignored it as soon as they graduated, but ours was the one putting together the Facebook group at 10 and 20 years.

I think even books in series need standalone narrative arcs to work right. You get people complaining about middle books in long series being weak sometimes exactly for that reason, the author gets lost in developing the series-long plotlines at the expense of the individual book.

photo of judge kim cudney

[blanking on the name] he did day n nite? kids see ghosts with kanye?

If you prefer one over the other and expect them to be top two, it makes a lot of sense to rank one.