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lots of places around baltimore do not allow young people to hang out with each other without an adult around. one particularly absurd one excludes *16-year-olds*. i’m only in my late 30s but i remember being dropped off at the mall to see a movie etc all the time as a kid.
it’s the guy who was throwing stuff at sheila dixon while she was doing a media hit on zoom
would have been nice to see tiafoe in this match but that’s how it goes. first time seeing a pro tennis match in person!
so when i saw townsend was going to be playing krejcikova i thought “well that will be a good one, K is really tough” and that hunch has not disappointed
grade school ages 11-17 lowkey a minimum security prison where most of the people are mean to you
tasty sauce though
FAA up a set 2-1 on zverev 👀
obviously the driver is at fault here, but i wouldn't want a camera pointed in my face because i was renting a 2013 nissan leaf (or any car)
what car rental has a dashcam filming the driver?
he’s not the only match if you can get the other courts
he’s pretty good in Young Adult
rewatched “raiders” then wiki walked to the mixed/negative pauline kael review. one thing she mentions is, why doesn’t belloq have a change of heart about how working for nazis is bad? it’s interesting that the film shows him slightly regretting his choices but in the end he’s made his peace with it
the last time i tried to have something signed i was in my early 20s at the us open (golf) and stewart cink walked up and signed stuff for kids standing on either side of me and looked through me like i wasn’t there and kept moving. i thought, yeah, this is a little degrading for an adult
“should my son who i tried to send to gay conversion camp still come home every christmas so i can berate him some more about his poor life choices” polling 95%+ among missourians
stayed at a house in delaware with no trash pickup, collected the week’s trash into one large bag and drove it to the county collection “dump” on the way home. this only cost $1 per bag but still seemed like a very stupid task to have smelly garbage in the car. i guess some people do this weekly?
all the edible ads are like “stay in your house forever but take this to be able to stand it”
part two of an ongoing series
Many people are noting that under normal circumstances, prosecutors have no difficultly getting an indictment that has no basis. Fewer are noting that this means you should have zero faith in the conclusions of the criminal punishment system.
trying on my abe simpson voice: i can’t understand why things have to be videos of a closeup of this guy’s face yelling in my direction instead of, like, a blog post
There are few if any real barriers left to Donald Trump using the military to seize full political control of an American city and I think that is likely to happen. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/thinking-a...
glad both places exist but i’ve had better success lately with red emma’s book swaps
used to be you could get an indictment against a ham sandwich. now you can't even indict a guy who throws a ham sandwich. folks, www.nytimes.com/2025/08/27/u...
saw there was a guy running against torres and got excited for 0.5 seconds but his bio had this weird remark about being a larouche guy, which i first thought “surely this is an off-putting, out of context joke”, but apparently it is not.
combination of democrats and the media in this analogy are the announcers saying “you don’t need a 3 here” when pretty much you do need a 3 there
great detail that the war started and he wrote a letter to the army asking if they needed his help and they didn’t answer, then he tried and failed to meet mcclellan
Be sure to also check out Seattle’s “Police Jobs Suck” billboard and poster campaign for some ideas/inspiration: www.police-jobs-suck.com
really glum tuning into the US Open and becoming aware i'm going to hear the 'lil boo thang' song in commercials for two straight weeks
so near the end there she (or the annoying post generator bot) expresses a desire to keep living with her parents and two dogs one of whom is not well socialized, seems like plenty of stuff to keep busy without a 40 year old boyfriend
this is why i get the laphams 'the rest is history' weekly newsletter. gotta know that the guy who was on fire on the 'wish you were here' cover finally died from complications of the burn wounds 50 years later
if you didnt see it yet i wont give the story away but if millers crossing is plotted like a steel trap, this one i guess is intended to be an homage to b movies or wc fields where a bunch of shit just happens at random
The president plans to invade Chicago this week. Now to schedule the vet appointment and get the kids’ backpacks ready for school!
this one should have been a buddy movie
not one of my fave archers but unbeatable opening scenes
very American, the whole thing.
weird shit on the maryland state fair program: some tiktok 15 year old kid and “grateful dead and phish for kids”
yeah this is my mom’s first floor bathroom with this exact shaped faucet and the soap we werent supposed to touch
hogan seems unlikely but i think she loses in 2020 to somebody.
“You can’t simply proscribe Sally Rooney and be done with it. You can’t reach into the London Underground and pull her books out of the hands of commuters who want to live vicariously and cathartically through her throuples and hunks on the verge of tears.” This week’s Surrealing.
“everything that rises must converge”? i think this idea lacks visual-spatial clarity
me in ninth grade in 2002 being asked which celebrity i thought was hottest:
Finally, I said years ago, and folks who have followed me for a long time know this is true, that defunding the police was a moderate demand that is actually the basement in terms of what's needed. I said that liberals will be deeply sorry that they turned that demand into some kind of bogeyman.
One of the panels at Socialism 2025 featured a long-time brilliant organizer and comrade Paula Rojas who said at one point: "Some of us in this room will be imprisoned or killed in the next few years." It was a room full of activists and organizers & it seemed to quiet the room.
maybe it's too bad that court analysis, once a serious subject of scholars and commentators, is now "They're Just Going to Do What the Evil Guy Wants." But in terms of How to Save America, we need a Babysitter Rosalyn, who can see that there are no rules and use her powers for good.
(Lithwick / Stern / Serwer / Cooper all employing the same metaphor in 2019-2022) slate.com/news-and-pol... slate.com/news-and-pol... www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv... theweek.com/roe-v-wade/1...
Jackson enshrining the Calvinball metaphor into an actual supreme court opinion is a triumph of many millennials who read those comics and grew up to be 2000s bloggers. well, uh, times could be better.
things are going great in meta algorithm land (IG)
first one of these to make a decent point
extremely smart guy: 2026 will be a good year to change my party registration to republican
i don’t think this guy will get the republican nomination unless nobody else is trying and the consultant types want his money. rich guys just get bored sometimes
love any time a stupid old fossil decides to run for office and it turns out their big idea is “uh, put more kids in jail?” like this is not something maryland already does plenty of. but if you consume local media you could think “not punishing kids enough” is the top issue facing our society
put in the “democrats would rather lose the next generation than have them believe they can be a part of leadership” file
making slow improvements at the jurassic park pinball
they’ve changed it to “shooting a cracker in a barrel”?
i think the richie book had a line about how some critics prefer ozu’s less middle class silent films over the sound ones. surely this is much more rare nowadays and particularly among english language audiences.
What Happened 2: Me
in a neighborhood saga that attracted the interest of the Baltimore Brew, for whom “some neighbors are annoyed at a harmless or even good thing” is always a top story, the gas company scandalously replaced interior basement gas regulators with exterior, which is safer but looks kind of ugly
1436 is the last house on 37th at the bottom of the hill. the blurry one is two houses up that has weird signs in the yard telling BGE not to work on his 75-year-old gas lines. not surprised the same dude did whatever google street view opt-out thing.
this is going to be fun
since i mentioned it today and i have a N+1 sub, i took a walk back through this one. it's interesting to read in the context of having recently read REJECTION, a newer meditation on society's losers, some of whom are "Asian", but by a much better writer. WY keeps wandering off on tangents.
"here on bsky i can talk about my true self and feel fulfilled" @ JerkoffJoe420, secret bsky alias of HSI special agent __, furrows his brow and writes: "suspect __, who wrote that JD Vance should drown in a pool of diarrhea, mentions that his grandma died last april. time to scan the obituaries"
it’s a common occurrence now to see the name of a complete lunatic you hadn’t thought about in a while and learn they’re the head of a federal agency. A year or two ago Pulte was fraternizing with a weird online cult who think there’s a conspiracy against Bed Bath & Beyond stockholders.
“will no one think of the flies” the flies themselves aren’t thinking of the flies
i havent read it in 15+ years so may be mischaracterizing it and surely it has some qualifications in there but his very first notable essay was about identifying with the va tech shooter
@jamellebouie.net nails the problem with the Very Serious Pundits who just make up a (usually black) DC resident as a shield for their own thoughts on crime: (reposting with alt text and gift link) www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/o...
as a person who shares this type of build i have embraced the role of foot stools in making normal chairs comfortable
if you get through all that regained and samson are a nice little dessert
seeing some “apolitical” people on IG posting versions of “im voting for trump because of RFK” in the days before the election is what got it to sink in for me that this might actually happen
i won’t say don’t go but definitely temper your expectations about how much better it might get, or whether if it does, it stays that way, or gets worse again
i think more people are not talking about this movie because the ones who saw it are embarrassed about how awful it was
fraid so
got an example?
at the beginning of the 700-page "slave breeding industry" book it struck me that they made of a point of saying "we have tried to avoid gratuitously subjecting the reader to offensive language and images"
if the shrimp is radioactive what does that mean for the rest of the walmart
saying someone is not representative of an organization, just a random poster, is dismissing them, not giving them the benefit of the doubt
bon iver likes us and not the brewers?
i forget, do other countries have signs in the bathrooms saying “employees here are required to wash their hands”
The people dominating our political landscape, culture, and economy are just so stupid and full of shit it's almost impossible to describe
selling the dropoff site seems totally fine to me, it’s the replacement idea that sucks
lots of people have written about Zohran’s video strategy, but @coreyatad.com actually talked to the people who made them
there should be candidates like this in every democratic primary going after incumbents on immigration and gaza
what Americans seem to want is to be able to buy whatever product they want without government interference but also an ironclad guarantee that all store-sold products are safe, and we just need to recognize that these are contradictory ideas and we're gonna have to make people mad about the former
the reason miller is the rat that stayed on the ship the longest and is now the quasi president of the USA is because he best embodies trump’s lifelong commitments to racism that stayed consistent through his other careers and party affiliations
college republicans do the jehovah’s witnesses thing of seeking alienation to build loyalty. “after we set up a booth on the quad blasting rush limbaugh, girls didn’t like us! this is how deep campus liberal indoctrination goes”
yes right looks better than left. curious about the natural light getting into these apts though.
We don't talk enough about how any contact at all with the criminal punishment system can destroy your life. The arrest, the court dates, missing work and other associated costs etc... People who aren't proximate to this really have no idea.
they seem pointlessly small
what was i trying to remember. roast pork?
being mean about faces while not showing hers smh
seeing people complain online about the new spike lee joint not being in enough theaters … not our problem in baltimore, baby 😎
however pelosi *was* like “this pathetic guy is my chosen successor”
certain IP they have to make it before their rights to it lapse
Whether or not all this fascist spectacle is effective will depend on how hard we fight back. It will prove to have been a pathetic backwards hollow image-first joke, or a rocky start to the building of an authoritarian regime (or some third thing that intervenes history is weird) but it's up to us
status of the slowly decomposing baseball in my backyard: one of the flaps of the cover has popped off
i’ve heard it as “in a knife fight the loser dies in the street and the winner dies in the ambulance”
