Jeff Ely

Angel City's Ali Riley used her voice for others while playing. She hopes to do more in retirement

Beautiful article on Ali Riley who has retired after an amazing career in soccer.

(If her last name sounds familiar to you as an economist, then that's no surprise. She's the daughter of UCLA auction theorist John Riley.)
www.nytimes.com/athletic/678...

halloween costume ideas:

milk crate seeping something foul

everyone but you

an old clown mask but just the smell

a half burn catcher’s mitt

a halloween party that you aren’t at

nothingness in the shape of you

halloween itself

santa claus

a literal breeze

I have an unnatural obsession with player name trends, so indulge me for a few graphs about this season's names. First, the incredible wave of Jalens continues to decrease.

a police scanner hooked up to a baby monitor

a social media app that bans you for being kind

a phantom limb petting a dog

a profile picture that ages as you do

a notification that the EMT destined to find your corpse received certification

A genre of film that works only if you suspend disbelief to exactly 73%

trebek: this highly vaunted act is a form of violence toward everything that isn’t its object

contestant: what is love

thank you so much for this! some great new music i never would have known about otherwise.

an app that's just an eye always trying to meet your gaze

Arriving at the poetry reading wearing chain mail made of interlocked mini pretzels, a helmet hollowed out of olive ciabatta, and wielding a rosemary and sea salt encrusted baguette like a legendary sword. Telling the people in attendance to address me as “Sir Bread” or they will be dispatched.

I am delighted to share that Nobel laureates Esther Duflo and Abhijit Banerjee will join our Department of Economics @econ.uzh.ch at the University of Zurich on July 1, 2026, as Lemann Foundation Professors of Economics.

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wings>beatles

Research output after tenure drops off a cliff for business, economics, sociology, and other non-lab fields.

But it remains high post-tenure in lab-based fields such as chemistry, physics, computer science, and engineering.
www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10....

Real-estate novelist????

love making styles:

old country doctor

professional mover

blind palm reader

battlefield medic

salmon

defrocked

contextually bereft

cordoned off

at a loss

loki the god of mischief

industrial park

olfactory hallucinations

astrology is dumb

microblogger

bro do you even discover major savings

the remainder of this paper is structured according to the outline that your pdf viewer will gladly show you after a few clicks here in the year 2025.

spent all morning and i can tell you chatGPT doesn't know shit about the pompitous of love

Ruthful

ok but next we need a tool that tells me how awesome the paper is and which parts are the especially awesome parts

Heather Christle, wrecking me in 16 lines

@heatherchristle.bsky.social
@weslpress.bsky.social

Maroire

I don’t know if anyone actually sees this given that I never post but here it goes. If you see Iranians these days be a bit gentler with them. We are going through something horrific. Our nation is in the hand of a few individuals who don’t seem to care about anything other than having a useless

Gavin Newsom is not who I would have guessed would rise to meet the moment, but very few people in power are doing so and he's showing that it can be done.

20-3 gets you the set of steak knives

sinner won every set except the last three.

A half nuther

Opinion | Glenn Loury on ‘the Barbarians at the Gates’ The economist talks about Trump, self-censorship, falling out with the Manhattan Institute, and retiring after almost 50 years in the classroom.

Glenn Loury is the man

www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

[kneels down to meet your toddler's eye] pain alone makes love possible

I put my pants on like everyone else, w an insatiable ache that has been dogging my family for generations

First names are the new last names