Jojo the Network Chimp

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Tom Skerritt, Emmy-winning actor with roles in ‘Picket Fences,’ ‘Alien’ and ‘Top Gun,’ dies at 93

This Day in Labor History: October 16, 1859. John Brown and a group of followers invade the federal arsenal at Harpers Ferry, Virginia (today WV) to start a war and end slavery. Let's talk about this key moment in American labor history!

Curse of the Tsars!

someone made this with snoopy

I double-checked this on a couple of Xitter stat sites and it's true. Average views of the main AfD account dropped 90% and average engagement dropped by 60%. This is commercial social media for you: bots, damn bots and Russian bots.

Curse of the Tsars!

UN condemns Coco Gauff abuse and warns: ‘Black female athletes are being targeted’

angel reese made it to the wnba finals before caitlin clark

Angel Reese is the best player on a team going to the WNBA Finals. Also DPOY. Haven't written many pieces that have aged better than this one.

Margaret Hamilton, who led the 100-person team that wrote the onboard software for the Apollo missions, has died.

Step one: be a giant tortoise

Future don't look much better...

Unfortunately, Jeff Pagliocca will remain GM of the Chicago Sky in 2027...

Filed under: things that are not mind-boggling.

It is really hard to tell the players’ perspective of an ongoing story when the players with actual power don’t speak publicly. Players always like to remind us that we in the media ‘aren’t there every day’ but we can’t do anything about that if nobody speaks to us and we can’t attend training

Always a treat to be reminded of an old friend

Cannot. Stop. Laughing.

The last speaker at the 9/11 remembrance ceremony lost his father to the attacks.

am I having a stroke

I guess hockey is for everyone, but the NHL IS not!

Some keep asking for the most likely scenario in which AI kills all humans and destroys civilisation. It’s important to understand that IT IS NOT POSSIBLE to identify it in advance. If we knew the route, we could close and solve it today.

1) PROFIT 2) .... 3) Name 11 players to the starting roster in a professional women's soccer game

the people running the nwsl and its clubs would much rather be on lists created by sports business journal or forbes anyway and well [/car mechanic voice] there's your problem right there

This kinda sums up today's match

Miss Wisconsin in attendance.

1) PROFIT 2) .... 3) Name 11 players to the starting roster in a professional women's soccer game

Chicago Stars FC lose 6-0 to the North Carolina Courage, some thoughts after another ChiStars disaster on the lakefront youtube.com/shorts/MEgMG...

I don't think "gallingly unprofessional" is too strong a descriptive after being subjected to viewing Chicago's defending in the box, which has probably left me scarred for life.

Poor recruitment, poor strategic planning, no cohesive identity, no plus value moves, no stacking of +Ev transactions, no team style even. Doesn’t matter how hard you train with those limitations. Just a brutal run

Officers illegally stopped, detained, and arrested a Navy veteran after he lawfully recorded a traffic stop. Then they tracked him for weeks using Flock Safety cameras. reason.com/2026/09/02/w...

we do not live in a binary world and never have, despite the loud insistence of some

Tuesday will mark the 3-year anniversary of the Ricketts-led ownership group taking over the Stars. They’ve had almost three years to build a team around Mal Swanson, and they’re no closer to a winning solution than they were in 2023. Their identity is a mystery, and the club is suffering for it.

I'll help Laura pack...

Live report from the Minnesota State Fair, located in the heart of American democracy, where there’s an ICE Out adaptation of Picasso’s Guernica made entirely from crops

Rest in peace, a legendary Canadian entertainer. His story on finding the voice for Optimus Prime through his brother is so good.

Known for his arch humor, a putty-like face and gift with voices, Curry earned three Tony nominations — for “Spamalot,” “My Favorite Year” and “Amadeus” — and an Emmy nod in 1994.

Dolly Parton, iconic songwriter, singer and actor, has died at 80.

Here's the official announcement of Parton's passing from her reps, along with the request that in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to be made to Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library at www.imaginationlibrary.com