Josh Parshall

"...mad hymns of ducks and buses, of sharing and sorrow, of big feelings and the bitter tragedy of *someone else* getting to press the elevator button."

done

Being a trans journalist is going to work and having to cover how your life is now illegal in your state but also at the same time make sure someone else writes the story so no one can accuse you of being biased and a "trans activist" and then they do the story and you still get accused of it.

I know the response of 'you're causing irreversible harm to children's bodies!' to trans healthcare for kids comes from transphobia, plain and simple.
But it's wild that the same people are never vocal about MUCH more common things that ACTUALLY cause irreversible harm. Take high school football...

Another absolute classic.

Threw in a couple bucks and forwarded to some Templin 6 guys.

I know, we got people supporting Mizzou in public.

Relatedly, i saw this bumper sticker tonight.

*looks directly into the camera Marxistly*

Would love to build a college syllabus around Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Dispossessed and The Gladlands season of Dimension 20. Better readers than me will have suggestions for the other readings and viewings.

Free to jaywalk: How Kansas City killed the discriminatory law it helped to invent Kansas City, Missouri, became the first major city in the U.S. to repeal its anti-jaywalking ordinance, after research found that tickets were being disproportionately issued to Black men. It’s a full-circle moment, because Kansas City was also the first city to criminalize jaywalking more than a century earlier.

Kansas City, Missouri, became the first major city in the U.S. to repeal its anti-jaywalking ordinance, after research found that tickets were being disproportionately issued to Black men. It’s a full-circle moment, because Kansas City was also the first city to criminalize jaywalking.

You ever think about riding bikes?

Bluebird?
Yes?

Columbia, MO

Eleven riders on a mid-day bus. Imagine if it ran more than every 90 minutes!

The Super Bowl Could Not Compete With Tape-Delayed Olympic Curling | Defector Nobody else in my house likes football, and we are believers in democracy at least as far as concerns the television. And so it was that, Sunday evening, I had the Super Bowl streaming on my li’l lapt...

@defector.com knows what's up.

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No Kings includes Draft Kings

Curling is a top-5 spectator sport.

*skeet

Niche tweet: Yiddishists watching US mixed doubles curling and wondering if he's related to ציליע דראַפּקין.

Saw an ad on the Olympics that starts off by repeating the “one more lane will do it” joke a few times (about highway construction and induced demand). Then it ended up being for an air taxi service serving the 2028 LA Olympics. This is hell.

This has kicked off some terrific discourse in the private chat where I hang out with my idiot friends.

Worst Animorph

Anne Frank wasn’t invoked because she was identical to today’s undocumented immigrants. She was invoked because she was a child destroyed by a regime that transformed paperwork, registries, and enforcement into mechanisms of terror—while insisting, all along, that it was merely following the law. This is why ICE cannot be excluded from the conversation. ICE targets people whose defining feature is their lack of state-recognized papers; people who work, form families, and build communities while living under constant threat of detention and expulsion. The claim isn’t that Minneapolis under ICE occupation is exactly the same as Nazi Germany. The claim is that systems of bureaucratic cruelty justified by legality aren’t historical aberrations. They are recurring political, juridical technologies.

Such an important essay by @joelhs.bsky.social @religiondispatches.org on Tim Walz, the Anne Frank analogy (and broader Holocaust analogies) and ICE terrorizing Minneapolis and elsewhere. religiondispatches.org/2026/02/05/f...

I think that when the days are shorter we should have shorter workdays, for our mental health but, get this -

when the days are longer I think we should have shorter workdays also, for our general wellbeing

Curling is one of the top five spectator sports.

George Washington YouTube video by unvmebad86

I don't know why they need to make short AI films about the American Revolution when the perfect one was created 18 years ago www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbRo...

Prince John: Such an unusual name, “Latrine.” How did your family come by it?

Latrine: We changed it in the 9th century.

Prince John: You mean you changed it TO “Latrine?”

Latrine: Yeah. Used to be “Shithouse.”

I think Umberto Eco had something to say about this in “Ur Fascism”—that fascists always have to exaggerate AND downplay the strength of their opponents, which is always a strategic disadvantage for them.

Nailed it. In my private chat, gems like this get a 🏌️‍♀️ emoji.

I enjoyed watching it!