IT IS A GIFT TO THE WORLD NOT TO HAVE BABIES

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

Making a complicated design based on vibes and bringing it to a stakeholder to ask "hey what do you think?" is the behavior of a junior UX designer, and wastes everyone's time until they are trained out of it. With the power of generative AI, now everyone in your company can be that junior designer

I mean this in a way I have never meant it before: nightmare blunt rotation

Ever relevant, this poem by Mary Oliver, especially today.

When DHS dared to call its anti-immigrant racial profiling weekend in Charlotte, North Carolina, “Operation Charlotte’s Web,” I knew I was going to have to write about it. Tonight, at Law Dork, here it is: www.lawdork.com/p/gregory-bo...

when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet

RIP big dog

A Texas sheriff used 83,000+ license plate reader cameras to track a woman “suspected of having an abortion.” The reason listed in the record: “had an abortion, search for female.”

Happy May 1st. The value of your labor belongs to you and the actions of the state are best understood as as a coordinated effort to distract you from this. The state fears an organized and unified proletariat like it fears death and rightly so. Power to the workers and power to the people

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made. -FS Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby, published 4/10/1925.

It's wild how much the people hyped on chat or voice interfaces forget how much other people enjoy browsing. Having to roll up with a totally specific request for every single interaction is both limiting and exhausting.

Five ambulances, a fire truck and a UN vehicle were struck one by one. The bodies of the first responders were then ditched in a mass grave. A war crime. Without anything close to the appropriate level of global outrage.

A beautiful peace of writing.

You guys want to read something WILD? decaturish.com/2025/03/the-...

New on The Athletic: Let’s tackle the question you’ve probably been seeking an answer to since news of the Geno Smith trade. What are the Seahawks doing? www.nytimes.com/athletic/618...

You should know that a big part of 18F's work was to make sure multi-million to multi-*hundreds*-of-millions dollar contracts at fed *and* state level didn't go to shitty enterprise IT consultancies that *repeatedly* delivered tech that didn't work, was late, or didn't even do what it needed to

I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F. 18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it. We made this website to tell our story: 18f.org

Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

funniest highlights of the philly police scanner, a thread

My heart is broken for Cecile’s family - and for all of us. I wrote something over at the newsletter, but I don’t know that words can capture what a loss this is.

This is the greatest use of this meme I have ever laid eyes on

YOU MUST KNOW WHERE YOU STOP AND THE WORLD BEGINS