john speranza

I think of it now and then like “this cannot have been real”

Turns out the lights were on because our house was being robbed when the crash happened. The front and back doors were wide open, and our stereo receiver was on the floor of the living room. They had been spooked by the crash and/or the police lights. It was the luckiest car accident I’ve ever had.

So I stayed in place. The guy’s car ricocheted off us and crashed through the front of our neighbor’s house. The neighbor was in the bath and came outside in a towel. The cops showed up right away and while we were standing around I said “hey Dad, it looks like we left the lights on all weekend.”

Pretty much the same thing happened to me when I was about 10, except the guy didn’t get away. We were in the last 10 seconds of an all-day road trip so I had already unbuckled my seatbelt. The impact spun us at least 180° but I was sitting backseat middle right on the axis of rotation. 1/x

I can honestly say it never occurred to me that “Fuckley” might be a heartfelt tribute to the guy

I don’t actually recognize most of these names but if I found out Alex Berenson believed oxygen was essential for metabolism I would critically reevaluate my commitment to breathing

At 9:18, 3rd period of the Finland-Switzerland women's ice hockey QF game, the ice crew came to clean the ice during a pause

What follows is the funniest use of the slo-mo alternate angle tech I've seen them use during these Olympics of one of the crew members falling

Wait till you find out how expansive his definition of communist is!

still waking up and I thought you were describing a new sci-fi novel which I would absolutely drop everything to read

she has come out of seemingly nowhere to become one of the most annoying people of 2026

I got here in 2009 and I’m still waiting for the car in front of me to go

One weird trick for sending your HRV to the moon (develop a benign arrhythmia from running a lot)

Weirdly in the US “Scotch-Irish” is an accepted variant of “Scots-Irish” and is basically an attempt to retrofit a proud ethnic origin onto the know-nothing belligerence of white Southerners

I saw Fargo with a perfect audience that erupted into laughter when the “THIS IS A TRUE STORY” card came up

Baby Peppercorn strikes a pose inspired by Tombili, the legendary Istanbul street cat

Tombili Mode

These people think they are an absolute majority of society and in fact they are the most online 3%

British Prime Minister Under Pressure to Resign Amid Epstein Turmoil

Is anyone in *our* government under any pressure to resign? Could such a pressure even exist in our system anymore?

just once in my life I want to be as pleasantly surprised as she presumably was by the answer

All of this is just is just a distraction from the Access Hollywood tape

This cannot be something a civilian law enforcement agent is allowed to wear in the US — and an agency that has a culture that tolerates this cannot be saved.

A human writer uses a dash to set off a relatively abrupt jump in thought. But the machines are constantly calculating the most predictable next thing to say, plodding around the same area. So the machine dash looks like it's gesturing toward something new, only to always land on something obvious.

Pro tip for filmmakers: when Isaac Chotiner brings up Leni Riefenstahl that’s your cue to get off the phone

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Admittedly my only source for this is a meme in Québécois French so I might have the wrong end of the stick but I was under the impression it could also mean getting killed

It Could Happen Today

Is it because the English mysteriously pronounce it “clark?”

Baby Peppercorn strikes a pose inspired by Tombili, the legendary Istanbul street cat

Tombili Mode

At least it’ll be riddled with spelling mistakes and stray equals signs

STEPHEN MILLER: so you've gone through all of these files and made sure there's nothing incriminatory about Trump or his friends and associates, right

KASH PATEL: *standing in line at berghain dressed like the Ikea monkey* oh yeah definitely

Strange case where the correct spelling of “sneak peek” reads as deeply inauthentic