John Merchant

I just saw a person walk by with their guide dog, who selflessly gives every moment of his life in service to another.

We don’t deserve dogs. 🦮

Me: [driving, trying to pick up wife and friends after they did charity half marathon] Wait how am I supposed to get over there

Wayz: cross this street

Me: it’s eight lanes, no stops, and it’s sheer gridlock for blocks

Wayz: cross it bitch

Me: it’s impossible to…

Wayz: DRIVE ACROSS IT

Hatred is a mask that sadness wears.

youre making a mockery of the fifa peace prize

I think Harvard's plan to respond to the every-decade moral panic about grade inflation by capping A's is pedagogically obscene.

Grades should be a measure of learning, not competition.

Grade caps engender competition and anxiety where we should be teaching collaboration and a love of learning.

“MacArthur Park” songwriter Jimmy Webb congratulates Olympic gold medalist Alysia Liu, who skated to Donna Summer’s hit version of the song in her free skate. Laufey and PinkPantheress, whose songs Liu also skated to last week, have congratulated the Olympian as well.

stereogum.com/2489964/alys...

Unless someone like you

Cares a whole awful lot,

Nothing is going to get better.

It’s not.

Fix Your Hearts or Die It's a invitation, not a threat. The path to liberation for lonely men is feminism.

"Fix your hearts or die. Fix your hearts or isolation. Fix your hearts or loneliness.
Or, if you like: Fix your hearts and live."

The latest revelatory masterpiece by @juliusgoat.bsky.social

www.the-reframe.com/fix-your-hea...

…to sussudio
…to die for u
…to beat it

The Gen X urge to take on me.

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

Unfortunately this is likely coming to states with Republican super majorities. Texas, Florida, Indiana…

I hope for my former colleagues that it doesn’t get worse.

The Tennessee State legislature is working to end tenure for public institutions - no new tenure conferred, and the ability to fire faculty with tenure "for financial or curricular reasons." This is a next-level attack on higher education.

wapp.capitol.tn.gov/apps/BillInf...

Lord I miss this president,👇🏽

Sunday reminder.
Thank you, Timberwolves Chaplain.

This game is from the era where games were named for their designers and not for athletes or coaches.

Dino went from making one of the best selling games of the late 80s to making one of the least successful in 2017.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dino_Dini

No. No no no.
Just no.

As best you can, bask in the experience. You’ve already won, and the crowd will be rooting for you. Be in the moment and it’ll be good. 🙌

A better term might be acceptance or sympathy.

Hating the Game The cooperation game, the murder game, and acting in good faith with people you know are acting in bad faith.

Please take a moment to read the latest post by @juliusgoat.bsky.social
…especially if you’re looking for thoughtful, empowering ways to react to current political crises.

www.the-reframe.com/hating-the-g...

Kudos, Jack White 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Foghorn Leghorn

Are you saying you have thyme to kill?

The Runaways - Joan Jett in the centre - in the late 70s

Bands are just not hot like this anymore.

Nope.

“At a certain point of wealth, what is being pursued seems not to be wealth, but the ability to make other people suffer. What's being pursued is immunity from human decency; the ability and even the right to be depraved with impunity.”

🙏

Today Fulton County, Tomorrow??? On Wednesday, the FBI executed a search warrant on the Fulton County, Georgia, Elections Operation Center.

The Fulton County search warrant & its implications for the 2026 & future elections is critically important news & not getting the coverage it merits. Read my most recent piece to get the download & understand why this is such a significant development. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Back to Florida, but not as far south this time.