Mike Wood

Because it was hard to build

Good news: I am not feeling anything secondhand, not even imagining if the senior manager is replaying the pithy defence as smoke billows on the horizon

"on-demand talk radio"
That's exactly it! Thank you.

SPOILER ALERT: ... because Doug Ford took a thing that worked (was once the envy of the world!) and broke it.

Did the Coliseum ever feature an act like this? With nobody to root for? Just villains and chaos and overspray in the splashzone?

I will not rest until I've seen every FTSE100 CEO bite into a juicy hamburger

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

Now is the time for LIVE entertainment in small venues.

Thanks. I found it on his blog just now.

I hope they don’t use enough rope and he dangles for a while

Next do tap water in Flint

Incredible. I love it.
Where's that from?!

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The moon going from full moon to a red moon and starting to go back to a normal full moon, then my camera battery door fell off.

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

Got it. I'm sorry for your loss. To clarify: You want a eulogy for your father that's 𝘂𝗻𝗶𝗾𝘂𝗲, sounds 𝘀𝗺𝗮𝗿𝘁, and captures the 𝗹𝗼𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗵𝗶𝗺. I get it. He wasn't just your father — he was your Dad. Here a few options I came up with:

When you click the "beautify slide" AI feature in Google Slides.

NOT A JOKE

Wealthiest nation in history.

What do you get when you cross Wag the Dog with Idiocracy?

Blackmailer: I have compromising photos of you--
Me: OMG, are they cute? Can I see?
Blackmailer: Uh...and I will release them--
Me: Seriously?? When? Can you let me know so I can repost? 11 am is a great window. The dramatic cool filter looks hot on me btw.
Blackmailer: You know what never mind.

unnervingly erotic phrase

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

I think about this Tony Benn speech much more than I used to

"This is representative of our bold new Respond In Advance tactics."

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yes, nothing says "innovation reinvention" like a nepobaby trust fund brat with no meaningful experience being gifted a massive hollywood empire by his technofascist dad, who leveraged his corrupt influence over the country's pudding-headed autocrats to box out competitors (?)

Iran Strikes Expose the Dark Edge Case of Prediction-Market Era Prediction markets have spent the past year courting Wall Street money and Washington legitimacy with an ambitious pitch: markets that let people bet on real-world events can produce better, faster in...

Maybe it's just me, but it kinda feels like enabling people to bet large sums on the outcome of war is bad in many, many ways

Gift link: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

That speech pattern... I can almost pinpoint the intersection in Woodbridge

Could also be "convenient place to meet with others of our kind"

okay, this *specific* part feels like a parody of the actual iraq war

Reading about AI choosing targets for munitions, meanwhile running on a loop in the back of my mind are scenes from the Star Trek episode "A Taste of Armageddon"