flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 25/04/2026I keep thinking this when I read @hcrichardson.bsky.social 's newsletters about how many states were added to protect or expand dominance of the Senate. Packing the Supreme Court is amateur hour; real pros pack the Senate. 1203
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 08/03/2026I wanna say it was 2002 when Adidas and Nike somehow both decided to put their professional runners in solid indigo blue tops and black shorts and without looking for the logo on the shoulder there was no way of telling them apart (and in some races they made up 90% of the lead pack) 000
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 22/02/2026This guy so happy he'll no longer be on the first page of search results for the name "Hellebuyck" : www.runnersworld.com/runners-stor...runnersworld.comThe Confessions of Eddy HellebuyckAn American marathon champion, suspended several years ago for doping, finally revealed the truth behind the charges—and why he sought redemption. 000
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 21/02/2026One of the things you learn covering any of these global championships (Olympics, World Championships, various flavors of World Cup) is that unless you are laser-focused on a single team or event, regular sleep is impossible and you need every opportunistic nap. 000
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 07/02/2026I feel like nearly every book which projects a "we solve the climate crisis" future - including several billed as "hopepunk" - glosses over a bunch of off-camera killing. Nick Fuller Googins' "The Great Transition" takes as its central problem whether climate-motivated assassination is required. 000
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 31/01/2026The turnaround time from hearing about the protest to heading out the door with a sign has gone from a few weeks to about an hour in suburban Boston. 020
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 25/01/2026Well, I may have a few copies of Prism somewhere in which some of my first bylined publications appeared. 120
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 13/01/2026I'm pretty sure Fred Brooks wrote something about this back in the previous century 000
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 10/01/2026Oh, cool! I remember there was a stone commemorating the trip near our home when we lived outside Albany - I think once there were markers for each day of progress? 110
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 10/01/2026Am I right that you're responding to and expanding on this? (The "Homeland" branding has always felt excessively nationalist and creepy to me and I am disappointed to find those premonitions were correct.) bsky.app/profile/than... 190
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 25/12/2025The most touching part, honestly, is what this couple *didn't* do (at least as far as the article shows): they didn't try to "fix" him, and they didn't put conditions on their support. They must have been all-star parents, too, on that evidence. 1550
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 16/12/2025I read the Aru Shah series (Roshani Chokshi is the author) to my daughter *three times* - after we finished the first run-through she immediately wanted me to go back to the beginning and start over. (And I was willing to. They're good books.) 020
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 16/12/2025Same author has a trilogy under the title "The Menagerie" which is all mythical creatures. 010
Reposted by @flashesofpanic.comTracy O’Connell Novick @tracynovick.bsky.social · 06/12/2025This joyful celebration of books on the lawn of the Sandwich Library made me think of all of you out there fighting the good fight to keep books in the hands of us all. 192
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 04/12/2025I've got two copies ordered for teenagers on my book list. 020
Reposted by @flashesofpanic.comDoctora Malka Older @older.bsky.social · 04/12/2025rereading Catfishing on Catnet and it's just so good. 6382
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 29/11/2025I stuck to the chocolate cake, myself. I have philosophical differences with the Pennsylvania-rooted apple pie. 020
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 19/11/2025Yes. I think people who learn this "guideline" learn it relatively young, test it on their own age, and don't question it as they get older. `0.5n + 7` - as n gets larger, the 0.5n term becomes more and more significant while the 7 is, well, constant. 020
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 25/10/2025(Their earlier song featuring Virtute - "Plea From A Cat Named Virtute" - is a banger, for people who like this sort of music) theweakerthans.bandcamp.com/track/plea-f...theweakerthans.bandcamp.comPlea from a Cat Named Virtute, by The Weakerthansfrom the album Reconstruction Site 010
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 25/10/2025John Sampson of the Weakerthans has a song about a runaway cat: "Virtute the Cat Explains Her Departure". The refrain is about the cat's name: "The sound you found for me." And at the end, he repeats, "I can't remember the sound that you found for me." 😭 theweakerthans.bandcamp.com/track/virtut...theweakerthans.bandcamp.comVirtute the Cat Explains Her Departure, by The Weakerthansfrom the album Reunion Tour 130
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 19/10/2025Wouldn't be the first time World Cross has been like that. After the 2006 edition in Fukuoka, Steven Downes got World Athletics (then the IAAF) to run a whole article grumbling that "[f]lat, anodyne courses" were ruining the sport. worldathletics.org/news/news/cr...worldathletics.orgCross Country - athletics at its purest | NEWS | World AthleticsAfter this weekend the World Cross Country Championships reverts back to its old one day format. Taking a personal look at past, present and a possible future, British journalist Steven Downes explore... 110
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 20/09/2025Yes, they have courageously and conclusively solved that imaginary problem while harming no one. Good work! Have a cookie. 100
Reposted by @flashesofpanic.comFast Women @fastwomen.bsky.social · 17/09/2025Good for you, @statman-jon.bsky.social! sportsmedialgbt.com/jon-mulkeen-...sportsmedialgbt.comCovering the World Athletics Championships and coming out as gay in later life - Jon Mulkeen Q&AJon Mulkeen has been working in track and field media for nearly 20 years, and is among the LGBTQ editors and journalists out at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo; here, he discusses his... 1162
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 14/09/2025Meet the current Decathlon world record holder and two-time World Champion, from France, Kevin Mayer: worldathletics.org/athletes/fra...worldathletics.orgKevin MAYER | Profile | World AthleticsKevin MAYER, France - Javelin Throw, 60 Metres Hurdles, 110 Metres Hurdles, 60 Metres 000
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 14/09/2025So it takes some very specific circumstances to get a Frenchman and a Swede on the 10,000m podium, but it is absolutely proof that the non-African countries should keep developing and entering athletes instead of just conceding those medals. Because when that door opens, you want to be ready. 000
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 14/09/2025American Olympic medalist Grant Fisher in 8th was just over 2 seconds away from gold, which might as well be a blanket finish in a 25-lap race that lasts 29 minutes. 100
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 14/09/2025The Kenyans and Ethiopians (and occasional Eritreans, Tanzanians, or Mo Farah) have gotten so used to the success of their "burn off everyone else and then sort out the medals in the last lap" strategy that apparently in the hot conditions in Tokyo, they neglected the "burn off everyone else" part. 100
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 14/09/2025Only the second World Champion not born in Africa. (The first, Alberto Cova of Italy, won the first World Championships in 1983, fourteen years before Gressier was born.) Also the fewest Africans on the podium (one) since 1987. 100
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 13/09/2025Chelangat of Uganda is 12th in Alison's post but not in the currently-listed results (approaching 7:45AM JPN time on Sunday) 000
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 04/09/2025* A band I love(d) no longer associated with a hateful person * My teenaged daughter, the rickroll aficionado, suddenly becomes interested in the Smiths It'd be a win-win! 020
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 31/08/2025I feel for those people. Half of what makes the movie work is that Crash is hanging on to baseball by his teeth and fingernails. 020
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 22/08/2025There's this popular series of mid-grade light fantasy books (not going to drop the name, but it features elves) which started out VERY WELL, but now there are almost ten books, all with cliffhangers, and it seems possible it will never end. Competent writing, infuriating plotting. 000
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 03/08/2025Having this dispute with an AI-pilled running group member proposing workouts he got from ChatGPT. I keep coming back with, "Has ChatGPT ever done that workout? Can it explain how it's going to benefit us, or why that's the right workout, or is it just spitting out workout-shaped words?" 130
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 06/07/2025Even if we only got one thing on the list, the $$ for capital improvements to the T would be worth it. 000
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 26/06/2025It's cute how everyone sees "Portland" and thinks "PDX", not "PWM" 010
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 22/06/2025It was an eye-opening moment, reading John McPhee's "Annals of the Former World", when he commented that from a geological perspective, asphalt pavement might as well be sand. 190
Reposted by @flashesofpanic.comRodger Sherman @rodger.bsky.social · 16/05/2025Runners and swimmers will always talk about hitting their personal best even if they don’t finish first in a race. Infuriating for journalists trying to cover a race, but truly a mindset everybody should have. (Especially weirdo politicians trying to bully kids instead of improving people’s lives!) 1019421
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 16/04/2025"Since that fateful day on June 24, 2025..." which hasn't happened yet. (Pay your copyeditors, kids.) 120
flashesofpanic.com @flashesofpanic.com · 05/03/2025This is fantastic. See, back in the early '00s I worked at Sinauer Associates, and as part of my job I was the front-line phone and email support for PAUP. I do *not* know phylogenetic analysis; mostly once I got users to a successful installation, I was done. But that thing was a beast. 110
