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As a longtime jiu-jitsu hobbyist, I resent Zuckerberg channeling his mid-life malaise into our ounce obscure and humble art. This is a really good story tho that def transcends grappling. Shows how white belt (beginner) energy can be harnessed for destructive ends. www.ft.com/content/a86f...

Snapped this photo of the Bellwether Sessions in Church Hill last night. Right before I caught The News™️. Pretty idyllic!

The sexual predators have unionized

Truly baffled at this mind-numbing, replacement-level post by a “special correspondent” fluffing deregulation that @richmond.com is running the top story in its app today. Anybody know what the hell this is?

I was thinking that maybe, more than 20 years after the start of the Iraq war, media coverage would be more skeptical and less sycophantic No such luck

hey panera can we have the lemonade that kills us again

[rafiki voice] it is time

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If I were the CEO of Cracker Barrel I simply would not taunt fate in this particular manner.

"Brokers joke about a stock having risen far enough that it is safe for investors to have an opinion. Big Tobacco can make for some uncomfortable musings."

"Romero and his co-schemers were accused of relabeling bottles of 5-Hour Energy that were only meant to be sold in Mexico. The group replaced Spanish labels with English ones and sold them for 15 percent less than the authentic bottles in the U.S., federal prosecutors had alleged."

"We do our best to lock all our vineyard gates behind us when we go in, just to make sure no one can show up unannounced [...] We maintain a constant line of communication in our work group chat – any suspected sightings are shared immediately so we can verify or debunk them quickly."

"The SEC described The3rdBevco as a penny stock issuer that was formed in 2019 [...] The company's website states its brands include a 'fitness drink' called LAID, a non-alcoholic sparkling wine-style beverage called Bougie, and a content creator-themed energy drink called Engage."

"Key among the report’s findings is that the average winery sells 70% of its production directly to consumers while the wholesale channel has shrunk to about 28% of sales."

LVMH's troubled high-end booze portfolio was basically a non-factor in its profit mix last year. Hennessy was the only one of the conglomerate's ~25 primo bev-alc labels to contribute a meaningful chunk. Hard to imagine LVMH *wouldn't* be entertaining spinoff strategies at this point.

had already forgotten that @petebuttigieg.bsky.social endorsed @levarstoney.bsky.social for virginia lieutenant governor. lol, lmao

Elon saying he’s going to reprogram his chatbot’s view of history is a perfect example of why these kinds of AI products aren’t the neutral “tools” people always defend them as. They’re little political projects reflecting the ideologies of their creators

Jake Tapper was ready to fabricate quotes by Tlaib in order to smear her for a week straight but seems to have no interest in Randy Fine's anti-Muslim, anti-Arab, anti-Iranian rhetoric which he puts out day after day after day after day after day. I wonder what that's all about.

Vendors like Flock have been successful in part by "creating this false sense of security that a individual police department’s use policy is going to be enough to govern whether or not a city’s ALPR data gets out,” EFF’s @tsnvaa.bsky.social told Times of San Diego.

Rare win for Catholic Guilt

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that private equity companies have gotten involved in the daycare business and now we have people calling it socialist daycare if there's any government funding for it.

NYT’s opinion editor tells me the Times was “imprecise” when it announced its ban on endorsements in local elections last year. And they now “reserve the option to make endorsements in the future.” Plus: Musk’s AI and Loomer take on the SF Chronicle— get it wrong. www.cjr.org/laurels-and-...

iiiit's elder millennial abundance humpers vs. boom-boom norms respecters in the battle for the desiccated corpse of american neoliberalism! enjoy this nine-episode podcast debate as you complete your munitions piecework in noem reeducation camp 7 thanks to the generosity of chevron and palantir!

A Virginia guy hunted a Latino man, cornered him, questioned him, and then shot him and his friend, because he assumed the guy was an undocumented immigrant. He was radicalized by Fox News etc. and, of course, Trump. www.wric.com/news/local-n...

Draft beer is not selling well. The most powerful brewers and trade groups in the country can't figure out what to do about it. This week at @vinepair.com, I put forth an idea: a cross-category "Got Milk?"-style blitz pitching the exceptional experience of beer on tap to contemporary drinkers.

Take it from a guy who lived in Clyburn's district as he secretly worked with Republicans to ratfuck Black voters in the state in order to ensure he'd be able to hold onto power for life: he's always been a bum.

many things are American Years of Lead Paint, but nothing is more American Years of Lead Paint than the person who said they planted a bomb in Zohran Mamdani's car despite the fact that Mamdani does not own a car

"I gotta say protect trans youth. I gotta say fuck ICE. And with my whole fucking chest, I gotta say free Palestine. Anybody watching at home, anybody walking by, you wanna know who said it, you tell em it's the mother fucking Wonder Years from Philadelphia." youtu.be/xIj2Ozlp1y8?...

Are you a journalist writing about a current heatwave? The images you choose are critical to the story. The @climateoutreach.bsky.social team have shown some ideas here which help stress the risks rather than the typical ice creams: www.climatevisuals.org/how-do-you-p...

From the "the official Twitter of the U.S. Mission to the EU." Good job to the "Censorship-Industrial Complex" dipshits for helping authoritarians target their critics.