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Catch and release at the book sale:

Hated this yarn, made up the pattern as I went along, regretted every decision I made when working on it, can’t even see the cool raised texture in most lighting. Kid loves em though. #knitsky

Slightly diminish a book Moby Duck

I think letting SNAP recipients have hot rotisserie chicken is good, actually.

Our school was a coed independent school with an amazing swim program. In the early years, the 7-8th grade team was coed too, since there were few girls’ teams in the area. Many all-boys schools refused to swim us… and one didnt recognize a pool record one of our girls swam in their pool…

There are many reasons why women’s divisions/teams were created, but this is absolutely one of the reasons. Heck it’s 2026 and an org I’m part of has a group of men trying to walk back our combined men’s/women’s rankings. One of them is a guy who is mad about losing to me, personally.

I wrote about the Olympics’ ban on trans women competing, and the stakes of the new women’s sex-testing regime for female athletes, trans and cis alike. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

putting my old bargaining hat on to say that if you're in a unionized newsroom, this absolutely does NOT fall under status quo and should be prone to bargaining. if you're a freelance journalist, make sure your contract reserves the right to pull your byline. They'll fight, but you have the right.

surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

George Washington wrote this letter to Lt. Col. David Grier on March 12, 1777. In it, Washington instructs Grier to send new soldiers to Philadelphia so they could be inoculated for smallpox... just before this letter was written, Washington created a mandated system of inoculating his soldiers."

Is someone going to tell him that the flu killed more US troops in WWI than any battle did (and that war had chemical weapons so horrific that they were banned afterwards)?

While we’re on the subject of phenomenal issues of old recordings: First read this 12yo Reddit comment/essay on how we ended up with a recording of one of the last castrato singers: www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori... Then…

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

The DVD my husband bought for $5, 15 years ago (when I made fun of him for it) is still ours and requires no subscription fee.

New on the Anthropic settlement from the @authorsguild.org : over 91% (!!) of eligible books were claimed as of the claims deadline (I would not have predicted such a high number!) Looks like the payout will be close to the $3000 originally estimated authorsguild.org/news/anthrop...

Not only do I know what TADC is, I have tickets. I have caught the brainrot from my children. As we were buying the tickets i was joking around and suggested there might be something between Pomni and Jax and my daughter yelled “Funnybunny! It’s a ship! Look it up!!”

I’ve always kind of wanted a harpsichord

Therazinosaurus didn’t even make the list?!?! (And if we’re accepting non dinosaurs where is Dimetrodon?)

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, previously slated to close on May 3, has been acquired by Baltimore-based Venetoulis Institute for Local Journalism and will continue operations. They are investing $30 million over five years. The sale will involve staff cuts. buff.ly/qY3Kuo6

Hello, Bluesky! We, the staff of Scientific American, are pleased to announce we have formed a union with @wgaeast.bsky.social. Just as mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, we are the powerhouse of the publication, and we’re excited to have a new way to contribute to its success.

"He sends one of yours to the hospital, you send him Matthew 5:9. That's the Chicago Pope way."

I missed this from @phineas.bsky.social when it originally came out but it sure feels relevant at the moment. Also, you can buy this as a print from the artist here: www.inprnt.com/gallery/phin...

Why are they called cannibals and not humanitarians

🚨 ON STRIKE 🚨 Unionized staff at ProPublica @propublicaguild.org walked off the job today. Stand with workers: DO NOT cross the picket line. That means no visiting ProPublica's website, social media or engaging with its content today.

At this point “oh god why am I sewing a dress for a doll, isn’t she old enough to sew her own doll clothes” is giving way to “😢 what if this is the last time she asks me to make doll clothes 😭” Anyway here’s an Easter dress and purse I made out of an old baby onesie

The Supreme Court did not strike down conversion therapy bans today. Not nationwide. Not in Colorado. Not anywhere. Here's what actually happened in Chiles v. Salazar—and why the coverage you're seeing serves the conservative legal movement more than it serves you.

My next vintage knitting project: a cute lil art deco vibes summer top. I’m wondering if there might be an audience for a YouTube channel where I walk through vintage patterns and show how I knit them…

Hooray! Worse medicine!!!

Instagram also replaced their search with an “ask ai” box. For months now there has been no way to pull up an account by name without nominally triggering an AI feature.

The very aggressive marketing of “dietary supplements” to healthy people by the supplement industry (an industry that was worth around $200 billion last year) is a scam

Wikipedia now has higher standards than all universities

Might be the greatest opening paragraph of anything ever.

Sporting bodies like the IOC and World Athletics are reacting to public pressure from a small but very vocal group of people who demand the world be simpler than it actually is. It takes time and resources away from real problems in sports, and it harms women more than it helps them.

In light of today's IOC ban of transgender women athletes in the Olympics, reupping this piece I wrote with @nicolanese.bsky.social last month. www.livescience.com/health/there...

I hate all fake product pics on Amazon, but I hate fake product pics of walking pads the most.

If you ever wondered what women’s sweaters looked like in 1897: here you go, you will not be disappointed. Source: archive.org/details/krl0...

Been looking through old knitting patterns again, and my god the 20s and 30s did incredible things with geometry

TIL there was an ear warmer dark ages. We had the technology, we just didn't know how to wear them. Pic from a 1919 knitting manual: archive.org/details/utop...

One of my more exciting and mysterious knitting projects: making this 1940 sweater pattern that nobody online has made, and the old timey instructions leave many unanswered questions. The moment of truth: trying on the front and back panels. It fits!!

Who else out here making #fanart

Finished the divine comedy, had to update the meme

BREAKING: A judge just blocked Kennedy's handpicked vaccine advisers, and all votes they've taken in the past year. They will not meet this week. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A gorgeous classic painting of literal hell (Dante style) and it’s flagged as “adult content” I mean technically yes the babies are all in Limbo

Search your camera roll for hell

The larger the better imo. I could certainly get an elephant out, just widen the door frame if needed and entice it with snacks. One particular mouse? A bedbug? A specific norovirus particle(*)? Hopeless. (*) controversial taxonomy, I know

Ruin a book or band name with one letter: Define Comedy

The Q&A threads on fitness reddits used to be full of people asking dumb questions, hundreds per day. Now I guess they all go to chatgpt because there are like 5 questions/day in the threads. Been thinking about model collapse. What do the LLMs even have to scrape these days?