Chaz

this business model should be flatly illegal

taking on a bunch of debt to buy a company and then burning the company to the ground to service that debt while paying yourselves huge fees is a purely destructive practice that has never once had a positive outcome

ban it completely

This is my regular reminder to everyone that jstor is open to the general public now; a free account there will give you access to 100 papers a year.

Picture of small notebook the cover of which says “Things the Supreme Court has done to piss me off.”

Got this journal as a birthday present from one of my best friends.

What can I say? He gets me.

Regular reminder to flip or rotate your mattress for more even wear & longer life. Rotate day for me.

Share your favorite black-and-white film.

Best WWI overview: A World Undone by GJ Meyer

Best memoir: Poilu by Louis Barthas, a frontline account from a socialist French baker

Best insane substory: The White War, by Mark Thompson, about the Italian front and the insane personalities involved in Alpine warfare

a woman in a blue dress is reaching for a book on a ladder Alt: Belle from Beauty and the Beast singing about her love of books in the library

books galore 😍 📚📚📚📚

Black comedy about a CIA operative who misreads “strategic hamlet” and attempts to teach the Vietnamese Shakespeare

Welcome to Jurassic Pork 🦕🥟🦖
#Delicious #Dinosaur #Dumplings

doc: that's right, it's a time machine, you can witness any historical event you choose

me: send me to the 1977 party where Chevy Chase was being an asshole, so John Candy put him in a headlock for 2 hours while mingling and drinking with friends

doc: well obviously that's our first stop

this is actually true for those who don't know: systematic breeding has made brussel sprouts taste far less bitter.

This is your regular reminder to flip or rotate your mattress for more even wear & longer life. Flip day for me.

Have you read any of Terry Pratchett's Discworld series?

There's actually an extremely large scholarly literature about this. With some regularity, dictators order their troops to shoot protestors, the troops are like "wtf no," and then the dictator falls. I'll dig ho and dump some cites below in a second

Regular reminder to flip or rotate your mattress for more even wear & longer life. Rotate day for me.

You look at the numbers they're bringing in and frankly it couldn't not be destroying families.

Myles Garrett did nothing wrong

My 1st time in Japan, long ago, we saw this guy driving a tiny lil custom truck, singing a phrase through a loudspeaker. The melody was gentle, spiritual. We asked our translator “What’s he singing?” She said “He’s saying ‘baaaaked potaaatoooo.’ It is baked potato truck.” I think about that a lot.

Scene from Simpsons episode where Krusty is a Seinfeld-style Comic, Homer telling Lenny that he hopes Krusty goes on a rant against pants, then yells to the stage "Don't you hate pants?!"

Brava, Ms. Swift.

My favorite line about AI-written books is "Why should I bother to read something nobody could be bothered to write?"

Happy Mother's Day, JJ

Happy Mother's Day to you or yours

Lined yellow legal pad with handwriting on it: The Empire is like America ten years from now; after: Nixonian gangsters assassinated the emperor and were elected to power in a rigged election; created civil disorder by instigating race riots. Aiding rebel groups. And allowing the crime rate to rise to the point where a “total control” police state was welcomed by the people. then the people were exploited with high taxes, utility and transport costs, gangsters, a cartel made up of power companies, transport companies + crime organizations. Other companies had to pay bribes to stay in business. they increase the crime rate by slowing down the system of justice and punishment.

George Lucas’ handwritten notes before starting the rough draft of Star Wars in 1974. Alt text provided. From The Making of Star Wars by JW Rinzler.

“Chicago pope” already feels like a 30 Rock bit that only happened in one episode but has nonetheless rattled around in your head for 15 years

Pope Pesci

Will never be picked, as there's a prophecy that Peter will be the name of the last pope

Ignatius IV (Nachos)

Inventing the Renaissance - Ada Palmer In Inventing the Renaissance, acclaimed historian Ada Palmer provides a fresh perspective on what makes this epoch so captivating.

ALSO: You can read more about the class (and the time period it covers, and why it's so captivating to historians) in professor @adapalmer.bsky.social's "Inventing the Renaissance": www.adapalmer.com/publication/...

Getting sick of dramatic escalations. Everyone please try to relax. And let’s get at least a few precedented events happening, for once