This is a reprint Murderbot short story, from 2021. #booksky

If I won the lottery I wouldn’t tell anyone

But there’d be signs

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

YouTube video by Apple TV Murderbot — An Inside Look | Apple TV+

attn please, here is some further Murderbot footage to enjoy incl the definitely best little moment in All Systems Red

Buckle up me hearties

Ketchup also is not the exact same, keep that Hunts shit away from me. Heinz is rock solid but Whataburger released a ketchup in stores that’s brighter and fruitier and that’s before we get to the real fancy stuff

I think the criticism started off in a good place where it was like “don’t just slather ketchup on everything, there are other good options” but the anti ketchup partisans have taken it way too far and insulted this noble creation

People in America are too judgmental about ketchup, oh don’t put it on hotdogs, oh don’t put it on that food you’ll ruin it blah blah blah GO TO HELL, ketchup is a great condiment, hits every flavor note, sweet salty sour, meshes well in the background of other sauces and cuisines

Sam Reich’s 'Game Changer' Is the Boldest Comedy Show You’re Not Watching (Yet) In this interview with the CEO of Dropout, we go behind the scenes of the internet’s most inventive and unpredictable comedy series.

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No better feeling than when a dog or a cat picks you out of a group of people to hang out with, and their owner's always like "awww he likes you" and you play it cool but inside you're just absolutely screaming OF COURSE HE LIKES ME I AM THE CHOSEN ONE

Have you watched this yet? If you can, make some time to watch it -- you'll be glad you did.

LAWFUL GOOD: Phillies - KYLE’S CUTLETS: Chicken cutlet sandwich with burrata cheese, fried pepperoni, and arugula, with a sweet and spicy hot honey sauce NEUTRAL GOOD: Pirates - POLISH CANNONBALLS CHAOTIC GOOD: Royals - SLUGGERRR DOG tempura battered chorizo in Doritos cool ranch crust LAWFUL NEUTRAL: Diamondbacks - THE GRAND SLAMWICH gigantic Italian sandwich on a baguette TRUE NEUTRAL - Giants - Popcorn bat - a plastic bat filled with popcorn CHAOTIC NEUTRAL: Astros - Chicken waffle sandwich with bacon jam LAWFUL EVIL: Rockies - Dessert nachos NEUTRAL EVIL: Mariners - neon turquoise corndog CHAOTIC EVIL: Blue Jays - cotton candy poutine with blue goop on fries

Alignment Chart of new signature MLB concession items for 2025

This is a wildly dangerous sign — the idea that there are only five SCOTUS votes for paying congressionally mandated invoices for work *already* done!? This should be as basic a test of Article I as you can get. And that does not bode well for decisions to come.

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

DOGE’s Chaos Reaches Antarctica Daily life at US-run Antarctic stations has already been disrupted. Scientists worry that the long-term impacts could upend not only important research but the continent’s delicate geopolitics.

DOGE has reached Antarctica.

Science will suffer—but so will global power dynamics.

www.wired.com/story/doge-a...

Since Facebook doesn’t seem to value moderating their content responsibly, we thought some of you might want to make your accounts less valuable to them as well: Visit johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com to learn more.

Second US company recalls pet food as bird flu spreads to cats through tainted meat Cats in two states tested positive after eating raw food from Wild Coast Raw, which issued voluntary recall

She wanted the best for her cats. She didn’t know the raw meat would kill them. My latest on how pet owners are navigating a terrifying new risk: H5N1. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

H5N1 Illness in Cats: A Heartbreaking Story of 11 Cats in Oregon - Purrs of Wisdom with Ingrid King Information, awareness and rapid response may be the keys for cats to survive H5N1 illness after infection.

Please share & repost. Cat people really need to know what is happening. Thanks to Kiki for sharing with me.

H5N1 Illness in Cats: A Heartbreaking Story of 11 Cats in Oregon ingridking.com/2025/02/27/h...

Currently in training for multiple egg hunts, not messing around this year gonna sell those bad boys on eBay

FRIEND: I need some advice

ME: [stepping out of my blanket fort with a cat in one hand and a vodka-cran capri sun in the other] boy have you come to the right place

A split screen of a woman and a man talking. The top is the woman, saying “What a week, huh?”. The bottom is the man replying “Lemon, it’s Wednesday.”

My toxic trait? Believing that one good night of sleep will fix me.

[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]

Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality

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There is a group of older ladies that picnic at the dog park every week or so and I want nothing more than to be friends with them, but I fear I am 30 years too young. Guess I’ll have to settle for life goals when I am their age instead.

It’s exhausting to spend every day waiting to be fired.

AirBaynBay has ruined everything.

First look at the Murderbot TV adaptation shows Alexander Skarsgård, in the title role, mask on and off Apple describes the upcoming 10-episode series as a “comedic thriller.”

First-look Murderbot TV images feature Alexander Skarsgård, helmet on and off

You do NOT measure garlic when you’re cooking. You treat it like air conditioning in a Vegas hotel room.