Bill Tipper

I wanted to look away (I looked anyway). Great work!

The last photo of third-grader Mikaeil Mirdoraghi, waving to his mom before he left for school. He was killed shortly after in the U.S./Israeli strike on a primary school in Minab.

Joe Jackson - Steppin' Out YouTube video by JoeJacksonVEVO

At once impeccably cool and aggressively unfashionable, Joe Jackson’s Steppin’ Out is four minutes of nightmare disco and nightclub jitters which paves the way from ‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’ to the Magnetic Fields. Detours through Motown and Freud. A perfect single. www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJwt...

Kristi Noem will return in Avengers: Doomsday

We have always been at war with
**gestures vaguely**

Psychic parasites will literally drain the vitality from those they encounter rather than go to therapy

My official response to that (very good) piece is the familiar but still applicable YIKES

This is a bombshell: "the Pentagon wanted the company to allow for the collection and analysis of unclassified, commercial bulk data on Americans, such as geolocation and web browsing data"

This kind of agenda echoes the defunded Total Information Awareness effort, post-9/11

Augh. I’m sorry.

Polymarket Iran Bets Hit $529 Million as New Wallets Draw Notice As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in. Almost immediately, blockchain sleuths began hunting for unusual patterns in recent bets.

As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in

“He paid his dues”

This is one of the videos the NYT has verified and links to in their reporting.

NYT: "Video verified by [NYT] showed ... rescuers digging through the rubble with building cranes and shovels, and piles of bloodied, dusty backpacks."

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/28/w...

America’s warfighters need an anthropic subscription. They’re vibe coding a restaurant app called Feest that lets you buy and sell dinner reservations on a secondary investment market

I just want to say that if you thought there was a certain career level at which youve demonstrated your worth enough to be afforded a little dignity, I just got a rejection letter for a pitch that was obviously composed by AI — including a full AI style regurgitation of the content of my pitch

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

This is the good shit

Will delve further!

“We got beets!”

I did not know Guston but, having looked, absolutely.

Love this. Something both uncanny and kind of adorable going on with the rose-colored rocks….

That is, of course, our district’s representative in Congress demonstrating her allegiance behind him

Fled an insanely stinky subway car for another that turned out to have a rat in it. Everyone was shrieking but also laughing? I think on the R train we fundamentally expect things to be a little off.

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

You want me to log into Threads? The stuff that terrorizes the people of Pern??

I think it’s pretty clear that with a snow event like this there is a legal argument for forcing an early drop of remaining episodes of The Pitt.

Among the more memorable fictional gut punches

Rudy outside in a ski mask, hoodie, and parka in the middle of a state of emergency level blizzard

”get a dog” they said

I’ve truly become a late convert to radicchio.

“I was just bio-hacking!” I yell as being pulled from the wreckage of the Tesla I crashed while doing a speedball on the way to the gym.

Cannabis amnesty box at Chicago airport

New heist movie idea