Steve

In all seriousness, we wandered around DC after dark and took the metro around and at no point did we feel unsafe. The irony of these people who spent years decrying "safe spaces" being too afraid to visit cities is not lost on me.

In March I took my daughter to see the Phillies beat up on the Nats and then wandered down to the cherry blossoms. It was a great time, but this $10 balloon popped shortly after taking this photo and the FBI or National Guard should have been there to intervene!

MFW I've paired cutting edge science with ancient wisdom and therapies

Matt Stafford is going to throw three passes and then instantly liquefy like the senator in the first X-Men movie

Even Aaron Rodgers is like "hmmm I don't know, not a lot of scientific basis here..."

Sean McVay: My "our quarterback is fine, he just needs to spend some time in the wellness device that aims to optimize human performance and promote holistic health through a combination of non-invasive technologies" shirt has people asking a lot of questions already answered by my shirt.

They also lost a generational talent at Edge and the best TE in school history (who was also the team's only competent pass catcher last season). They're certainly one of of the best teams in the country, but "easy number 1" is a stretch, it all depends on Allar.

This does not guarantee anything, but of 42 storms that were near Tropical Storm Erin's current location, only 1 hit the US (a major one, 2017's Hurricane Irma, which had an unusual southwestward heading for a time over the central tropical Atlantic)

14” in a day is easily a 1-in-1000 year event for Milwaukee. It’s insane this far north.
Actually 14” in 10 days meets the 1-in-1000 year criteria. Yes, read that again.
To be clear, this doesn’t mean it only happens once every 1000 years, it means the chance in any one year is .1%
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Alfonseca

google results for a chicago.gov site, a PDF in which the headline font has been transcribed into a mix of upper and lower case letters: SiTE of THE oRiGiN of THE cHicAGO fiRE of 1871 Eight blocks from the mill fire was located the house and barn of the O'Leary family. The exact cause of the great Chicago Fire will probably never be known.

bold decision to let spongebob write the official city page about Chicago’s worst disaster

go sixers

Me on the toilet

Cam Little kicked a SEVENTY (70) yard FG for the Jags (via NFL)

When I've had a few rum and Cokes and hit the wedding dance floor:

did the blair witch ever finish her project

Dan Quayle's political career ended when he misspelled potato. Meanwhile, RFK is out here replacing germ theory with the four humors as federal doctrine.

It's so stupid.

RFK Jr. Recommends Eating Good Cancer To Kill The Bad Cancer

RFK Jr. Recommends Eating Good Cancer To Kill The Bad Cancer theonion.com/rfk-jr-...

Thank you Gregg Murphy for this treasure. Kruk at the end 😆

Houston AFD this morning belongs in the AFD hall of fame.

forecast.weather.gov/product.php?...

Finally some representation! 🥹

Friday TikTok thread go

This is probably what's still keeping Yahoo Mail alive lol

Agree 100%, if there's an article in The Boston Globe that I want to read there's no way in hell I'm paying like $5 a month for a subscription that I'll never use again but I might be willing to pay $0.50 to read the article. Surely that would add up.

ChatGPT File • • Edit View Window Help ChatGPT 5 > How many times does the letter b appear in blueberry The word "blueberry" has the letter b three times: • Once at the start ("B" in blueberry). • Once in the middle ("b" in blue). • Once before the -erry ending ("b" in berry). Total: 3 O92 Show me where the letter b appears in the word please. Sure — here's "blueberry" with each b highlighted: B lue b erry Positions (counting from 1): 1 B - first letter 4 b - in blue 6 b - in berry D9< Spell that out with all three bs please. I mean, just spell the word. Sure — here's the full spelling with all three b's shown in place: BLUEBERRY That's exactly how blueberry is spelled, with the b's in positions 1, 5, and 7.

ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help E ChatGPT 5 > You wrote "BLUEBERRY". There are only two bs there. Ah - I see the mix-up. Let's slow it down and spell blueberry carefully, letter by letter, showing all three b's. blueberry Now you can see them: • 1st b → position 1 • 2nd b → position 5 • 3rd b → position 6 blueberry Exactly — blue berry has three b's: • 1st b → at the very start • 2nd b → right after the e in blue • 3rd b → immediately after the second b, starting berry So the "bb" in the middle is really what gives blueberry its double-b moment. Its double-b moment; I see. Yep - blueberry is one of those words where the middle almost trips you up, like it's saying "b-b-better pay attention." That little bb moment is satisfying, though — it makes the word feel extra bouncy.

 ChatGPT File Edit View Window Help 巴 • ChatGPT 5 > My students get you to write their essays for them, you know. Ah, the old "ChatGPT, do my homework" routine — I'm familiar with that one. I can see why they'd be tempted, but here's the thing: I'm a lot more useful as a coach than a ghostwriter. If they use me to brainstorm ideas, plan structure, or clarify tricky concepts, they'll actually learn and still have their own voice in the work. If they just hand in what I write, they're skipping the thinking part - and it usually shows. I'm good, but I still leave a trail of... telltale ChatGPT-isms. A trail of blueberries, as it were. Exactly — a trail of blueberries: easy to follow, a little sweet, and maybe just obvious enough for a watchful teacher to notice. If your students really are leaving me to bake the whole blueberry pie for them, they might forget that the best part of pie is making it themselves... even if it gets a little messy. "Blueberry" only has two bs. Nope - blueberry really does have three b's. Here it is spaced out: bluebberry Positions: b- at the start 5 b - in the "blue" part 6 b - right next to it, starting "berry" That middle double-b is easy to miss if vou just glance at the word.

I had to try the “blueberry” thing myself with GPT5. I merely report the results.