Ta-Nehisi Coates' comment section and its subsequent diaspora.

I’m not going to share the video but I know we are going to get a lot of takes and I’m just preemptively saying that disabled people are people regardless of how their disabilit(ies) manifest and/or affect their lives. The value of life is not a function of productivity.

Debbie out there doing the lord's work. The critically important stuff that sometimes just gets missed for undergrads:

An absolute masterpiece. Guy spent years making this and uploading dozens of videos on how, getting zero to 8 views each. I hope he can rack up more.

Explain your @ I'm a chemist who makes cocktails.

WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.

For Vogue, I talked to Ramell-Correen Frederick, aka Cheeks, who embroidered Knicks gear in the streets of Brooklyn after Game 5. He uses a 104-year-old hand-crank, chainstitch embroidery machine that he named Jessica.

Re the international food wars: the real thing is that we're in a global golden age of food. It has never been easier to obtain or to make amazing food. It's deeply depressing when you get bad food now anywhere, because good food is everywhere

We often use ten-dollar words so our 3yo doesn’t know what we’re talking about in front of her, but the comprehension treadmill results in this tiny toddler running around being like “Mama I need to deaccession my popsicle wrapper”

Who do you think is most outta pocket right now on Sesame Street? I think Bert.

I appreciate that Portland is getting in on the food hall thing so there are also indoor options, but it would be nice if they weren't all downtown.

This was one of the most unsettling books I've read in a while (complementary).

Alaska Sky, please share with anyone you know who might be interested! Previous publishing experience is not required. Looking for a broad range of perspectives from all along the river! 🐟

There's something almost too on-point with the techbro alt-right embrace of stoicism ('broicism'), given stoicism is a formula for living happy in unfreedom, a philosophy for contentedness under tyranny. A philosophy of self-improvement for when social improvement is beyond recall.

This is part of why those of us who live in the North should never go around bashing the South. This shit requires no specific zip code.

there were already many reasons to do this but Elon Musk actively encouraging racist violence in Belfast should be the final straw for every UK government institution to stop doing business - including being on X - with him in any way, and for him to be barred from entry to the country.

I personally think that someone who says “[group]’s humanity being depicted in media inherently supports [ideology they don’t like]” should be considered a hateful bigot who wants to exterminate [group] because that’s obviously what’s going on

I once poured concrete at a dairy that had several thousand head and I've never smelled anything worse in my entire life. The smell clung to me for days. I cannot imagine drinking raw milk and thinking I'm not going to be ingesting literal shit.

Make finance boring again.

we have got to find a way to eliminate dual class shares again, this is unsustainable

Some heroes don't wear capes

Reminds me about an article talking about a Nobel Prize winner that opened with "San Diego mother..."

these periodic emails from folks i’ve never spoken to and have zero connection to the industry really are a highlight of my day when they come

Allegedly the banned-for-life list from the soon to shutter Parkview Tavern.

In April 2023 the question I started asking was: "If your AI writes the email and my AI reads it, what was the *point* of the message? Have we communicated?" But even I (and I'm cynical) didn't expect that, like, all of law and school and everything else would just be fully there quite so fast.

Worth noting that they are clearly “allowed” to be as racist as they want they are just also demanding a right to be liked despite being racist. No sorry people can draw conclusions that you’re a miserable person they don’t want to associate with.

My dog’s daycare just sent me a text about getting aura photos to see his energetic field, and I think that’s the most Portland thing that has happened to me since the woman in the dog supply store in my old neighborhood asked if Obadiah was allergic to yak’s milk.

obsessed with thomas. happy pride 🪿🌈✨

[me looking at basketball Wikipedia because the Knicks are in the finals] “There are so many guys! This is like Pokémon for jocks”

this is approximately one bajillion times better than a tiktok video

In what may be the nerdiest history podcast ever, the estimable Virginia Postrel and I have teamed up to recount the history of things you didn't even know *have* a history--beginning with 3 episodes on brushing your teeth, working out, and cooking dinner. Coming soon: blowing your nose!

Man, gotta go back to the Greek version of this, where the original sin is boats. It's a repeated motif in Greek literature (a *famously* seafaring society) that the invention of the ship was a profane violence against the gods, a sacrilegious rupture of nature.

the weird recurring brand of anti-agriculture claims is just an Eden myth in a faintly new costume. there was a Perfect World in which You Did Not Have to Work and there was No Suffering and then original sin (farming) was commited.

A question inspired by a conversation I had with one of my best friends last night: If you speak any language(s) other than English, does said language have an approximately equivalent idiom to "brain fart," and if so, what is it?

They shouldn’t ever report results until they’re done counting

It’s driving me up the wall that multiple people genuinely believe it’s unfair for someone to be paid for their labor if they find their work rewarding.

You used to go to websites and they would have guestbooks that people would sign like it was a bed and breakfast

“Julio Palma only had three business days to decide whether to uproot his life in order to remain employed by Penn State. Palma, a chemistry professor at the shuttering branch campus in North Union, Fayette County, ultimately took the offer to work at the Harrisburg campus.”

even aside from the misogyny the "hr" thing remains incredibly annoying lol. yes hr departments exist to serve the interests of the company, and one of those interests is "not getting sued for allowing workplace sexual harassment and discrimination"

I like big hydrogen atoms & I can’t lie. You other brothers can’t deny. When a water molecule walks in with oxygen on top & two hydrogens in your face you get sprung.

Portland Police have been on a 6 year work stoppage because they got their feelings hurt in 2020 when they were terrorizing protestors, and nobody in power in the city will say it out loud.

At the bouldering gym and realizing that it has been 30 years since the first time I went climbing.

Huge swaths of Late Antiquity, the fundamental problem is that you could not make media about Rome that doesn't look like the early Imperial period without audiences being terminally confused.

"Working class" in 2026 means a blue haired barista with they/them pronouns, a Asian immigrant nail technician, and an undocumented hotel cleaner. And we are going to keep having the same fights until we let the midcentury illustrator mirage of the white guy in plaid with the lunch pail go.

Let me tell you how bad ass Tiki drinks are. Every real bartender nerd joint they go crazy when they can make the Tiki stuff. The Franklin Mortgage guys in Philly used to have a whole punch section dedicated to this kind of stuff

When I was in college, I went with my then bf to his friend’s birthday party. While I was there, birthday girl’s bf cornered me in an empty room, leaned against the wall behind me, and started telling me about his knife collection. 20 yrs ago and I still remember how I felt.

“refusing to take the L” remains the surest path online to madness

Yeah, and we are a collective memory hole so it goes from "Thing that used to work" to "Nothing works" and we gloss over the specifics of how and why it worked in the first place.

We should all pay more attention to the stuff that used to work really well and now doesn't.