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Kieron Gillen uses Buttondown to share his comics, musings, and life experiences.

Is There Still a Return on Being Reasonable?

Watching Edge of Tomorrow. Love this movie. We put it on randomly sometimes, have seen it dozens of times. Still holding out hope for a sequel. 🍿

I didn’t know about subway surfing. Tragic. From a story in The New Yorker:

We blame the digital platforms, and deride these kids as idiot stuntmen, addicts—even as the savviest adults among us exhibit a similar dependence on platforms to tell them who to be.

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Don Van Natta Jr. and Adam Schefter, reporting for ESPN: President Donald Trump wants the Washington Commanders to name their planned $3.7 billion stadium after him, multiple sources with knowledge of the situation told ESPN. A senior White House source said there have ...

Working on video improvements ahead of tomorrow’s launch. One thing I like about the automatic cross-posting is that for videos less than 3 minutes, Micro.blog copies them natively to Bluesky, reassembling from HLS to a single file. You can see this in this Bluesky post.

Lily Allen’s West End Girl feels like a complete album, meant to be listened to in track order. Really good. (Not safe for work!) Queued it up this morning on my walk to find coffee and wi-fi. 🎶

You know the deal with Gus Johnson. He’s the play-by-play guy who cried miracle, the man for whom no third down conversion is insignificant. Tell Gus Johnson that your happy hour special includes dollar oysters and you’d better not be standing next to a windowpane.

There’s great danger in being such an excitable play-by-play guy, because what happens when you ARE calling something remarkable, perhaps even historic? Well, if you’re Gus Johnson, you experience what I can only describe as a kind of late-stage puberty. Listen for yourself:

It wasn't so long ago that the Washington Commanders were named after a racial slur. Thanks to Donald Trump, that slur might end up being the second-most offensive moniker to be associated with the team.

According to ESPN, Trump wants the Commanders to name their new stadium, which will be built on the site of the old RFK Stadium, after him. ESPN's report describes "back-channel communications" between the White House and members of the Commanders ownership group during which Trump's wishes were communicated to the team.

You picked a bad weekend to fly. Over 1,500 flights in the US were cancelled yesterday, and over 1,200 over them have already been cancelled this morning. One of those may have been yours. You’re stuck at airport right now, staring up at the Departures board and seeing nothi...

As someone who grew up as a Hoosier, seeing a Linux distribution named OpenIndiana warms my heart. Of course, is

The post Unix: OpenSolaris Lives on in This OpenIndiana Fork appeared first on The New Stack.

“The support from the Python community in response has been overwhelming,” Seth Larson told me last week. As the Python

The post PSF Gets a Donor Surge After Rejecting Anti-DEI Federal Grant appeared first on The New Stack.

Adobe Firefly is a deceptively powerful AI playground to generate images, videos, and more. Here’s how to make the most of it.

WordLand is one of the few products that works hard to make sure that it has effective competition. My goal is Working Together. That means, here, laying out a welcome mat for WordLand's competitors.

Merino is one of the best fabrics you can wear. We explain the different blends, what “gsm” means, and how to care for your clothes.

The story of how this extraordinary situation in the Lehigh Valley came to light — because it almost didn’t. In the summer of 2023, reporter Dyan Neary received a tip about a problematic doctor in Pennsylvania. Families were claiming that when they sought medical care for th...

A guide to using your 'everything account' on the AT protocol as your own personal CMS

The math behind even the simplest ocean waves is notoriously uncooperative. A team of Italian mathematicians has made major advances toward understanding it.