I used to be anti-IPA myself until I lived in Boulder, where they* do them impeccably. But the trendiness of IPAs have made me so mad for so long, because exceedingly mediocre brewers think that all you need to do is throw a shit ton of hops in. *Avery Brewing really gets top marks here

"In 1958, Mao ordered every village in China to produce steel... The steel was useless. The crops rotted. Thirty million people starved. In 2026, every other company is having top down mandate on AI transformation. Same energy." leehanchung.github.io/blogs/2026/0...

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE TAGGING ME IN ON THE VATICAN / PENTAGON BEEF HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

"sorry I can't come to your once-in-250-years party. I'll be busy doing something it would actually make much more logical sense to do four days later. I bumped it up on purpose so I could throw it in your face. eat shit forever, amen" there is no hater on earth like a hater from Chicago

reposting with alt so i can share!

This fucking rules

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

Good god, I love Wisconsin and love this *for* Wisconsin.

You have more in common with the people of Iran than you do with anyone in this administration, any member of the technocracy, anyone who is profiting from this war, or any billionaire. When you see Iranians forming human chains outside key infrastructure sites, you should feel a sense of kinship.

With this single skeet, my perennial clamoring for a long-form investigative podcast about the murder of Fred Hampton has now instead become a demand for a multi-season podcast about the founders and founding of the Black Panther Party.

How it feels doing literally any task right now.

"History will judge-" let me stop you right fucking there, history doesn't do fucking shit, I'm a historian, let's be clear here: elected officials need to do their fucking jobs, right now, before it happens, or future historians will judge THEM. Everyone knows and knew who Trump was.

Happy Leland Melvin day to all who celebrate. 💚

how are so many of y’all 2-steps away from endorsing Woke Eugenics on any given day

[The Apollo 11 plaque] reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock. - Carl Sagan

Someone with the handle @velocity69.bsky.social is sharing a video with the caption: "The highest quality video of the moon was just released… so beautiful * Artemis II" It's gone viral, but it's not from Artemis II. If you've shared it, you might want to un-share.

Someone asked for an app to point your camera at a color and find matches. Cool. Here. BUT ALSO: I'm colorblind and never thought to make this for myself! Save colors ("new paint," "mom's fave"), get colorblind-friendly complements, simulate what you see vs. what others see. Legit using this daily.

[Jesus holds up bread] this is my body [Jesus holds up wine] this is my blood [Jesus holds up a bank] *people shouting* oh no Jesus turned bad

As an amateur editor who has worked on pieces that went on to be in major publications (and a whole damn book!), one of the biggest gifts I can offer to my writer is saying, “Hey, did you realize that you have this theme in here? You should flesh it out/make it explicit/add connections by…”

An additional argument I don’t see nearly enough is that not only is it the right thing to do, IT’S ECONOMICALLY PRUDENT. It was admittedly back in 2010 that I did my research (lit review) on this so my numbers may not be exact, but for every $1 invested in ECE, ~$1.34 of value was realized.

1. Throughout history, leaders have committed acts of civil disobedience to challenge unjust laws. Add Samantha Boucher to that list. Boucher walked into the Kansas Statehouse bathroom in front of police, deliberately violating one of the most extreme anti-trans law in the country.

Tomorrow (April 2nd, International Children's Book Day), I will be in Dilley, Texas, outside the South Texas Family Residential Center, where children and families are being held indefinitely. At 5 pm, I will be reading from my books as part of a poignant vigil. #ReadThemHome #EndFamilyDetention 1/

moby-dick, his eyes enormous: from hell's heart you STAB at moby? for hate's sake you spit your last BREATH at moby? oh! oh! the great shroud of the sea for ahab! the great shroud of the sea rolling on as it rolled five thousand years ago!!!!

There are so many horrific things that have happened - and continue to happen - but this one haunts me so fucking deeply.

the campus this school is moving into was originally meant to be a chicago public schools building, serving downtown and Lakeshore East it's another one of those promises that Mayor Daley broke

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

I know there's a lot going on But what the US is doing to Cuba is unconscionable

Hi, this is your seasonal reminder that many home goods will soon be available due to college and grad students moving out in April and May. If you want to save money and don't mind gently used items like a dresser, lamps, kitchen appliances, computer monitor, or a vacuum, this is the time.

one of the junta's officials, who acquired a child taken from one of the disappeared, had the astonishing gall to say during the trial for his crimes, "There is no precedent in the world, not even in Stalin's Russia, for someone to be tried for raising an orphan." 🥚 www.npr.org/2010/02/27/1...

Trans rights are human rights. You should care about this because you care about other people. But if you can’t reach even that bar and are only driven by self-preservation, you should care about this because they won’t stop with trans rights.

I received this book as a Christmas gift and teared up just reading the jacket cover. I’m tearing up again at this thread. I can’t wait to read it, but damn am I ever going to sob:

alice wong's celebration of life

i think sometimes cis people truly have a hard time understanding that jk rowling is a living person actively using her wealth to fund the international assault on trans lives. she’s not some Complicated Author we can have a spirited debate about separating from the art with!!!!!

If you're in Manhattan today, keep your eyes out for these sidewalk chalk memorials for the 146 victims of the Triangle Factory Fire. The Chalk Project was started by Ruth Sergel in 2004 and is now organized by the Tenement Museum.

This is Minneapolis: We sent home a survey asking about April rent needs yesterday (for neighborhood school families). Today we received $50k+ in requests (& I'm assuming that number will at least double over the next couple days). The economic recovery is a LONG road. Please donate and share.

My latest. "The only place I know how to begin is here: We are at war, and I want it to stop."

"We are at war, and thousands of people are dead. We are at war, and we are complaining about high gas prices and long lines at the airport. We are at war, and running late for our next appointment." organizingmythoughts.org/the-zombie-d...

“We can stumble and weep our way through our routines, or we can cry out as a chorus that what’s happening is grotesque, and must be opposed.” Count me as a voice in that chorus. Powerful and lyrically written:

There are so very many. Top four, in order of publication (links to follow):

there is a lot of talk about how hard it will be to rebuild the DOJ but I bet you could recruit a whole lot of extremely talented lawyers to form a white collar crime task force without much trouble and that would be my first priority after I form a prosecution squad to go after Trump admin crimes

Many people enjoy trying diverse foods from various cultures for variety, but I do it so I can find that one thing I like and then order that thing every time

I hate the framing of “Ms Rachel has found a new cause—“ because no she hasn’t. Advocating for children kidnapped and locked up by ICE is not incompatible with her advocacy of children in Palestine. You just want to make her advocacy sound frivolous and fleeting. She’s being consistent.

This is so heartening, and so very important:

It is being reported on the ground in Cuba that everyone on a ventilator at this hospital died overnight. As a Cuban, I'm devastated.

Sure, the news might be bad, but at least there’s a lot of it.