have been working on a review of JD Vance’s latest literary dropping and just realized I’ve been clenching my teeth all day

Seattle elects a socialist mayor, wins the Super Bowl NYC elects a socialist mayor, wins the NBA finals Win your city a major sports title with this one neat trick

Mandate of heaven, baby

love to get press releases from Lucifer himself

pacing around the living room with my hands behind my back, I am my father

I blame Taylor Swift

did the Spurs hire an Etsy witch

last night I walked past a couple guys selling bootleg Knicks merch in front of a Pentecostal church. take that, Spurs Nuns

I like Brooklyn but I’d like it more if women my age quit bringing their dogs into restaurants

Bari Weiss not beating the bootlicking propagandist allegations here:

how’s that going, sister

I can hear cheering outside my apartment lol

Remember the current NIH director going on about protecting researchers from government censorship? Today his people called the police in to forcibly remove my colleagues from their own society meeting for sharing an editorial published in their flagship journal that was critical of him. Gift link

Today, the American Diabetes Association had security remove from their conference scientists who were handing out an Editorial on the harms caused by the Trump admin. “These attendees were escorted out by our…security because they demonstrated behavior not consistent with this code of conduct”.

I’m trying to find a skirt or two for the summer and I keep seeing ankle-length denim shit, as if I haven’t done my time in the trenches. no more!

Poshmark keeps recommending me a category it calls Eclectic Grandpa, and you know what, the algorithm is right sometimes

inspiring. thank you gentlemen

I’ve had three Libre Freestyle 3 Plus sensors malfunction and stop working within the last month. The last sensor was placed by my endocrinologist’s PA so it doesn’t seem to be user error! It’s extremely dangerous and makes me think there’s about to be another recall

The Park Slope Food Coop vote to boycott Israeli goods PASSES, 67%–31%, with 2% abstaining. 4,551 pro-boycott 2,083 anti-boycott (6,772 total present)

I’ve reached the ‘buying a plush pancreas toy off EBay’ stage of my ~diabetes journey~

We have records of diabetes diagnoses going back 2,500 years. We only developed a reliable treatment (insulin) 100 years ago. Now we might have a cure. What an amazing thing to get to witness.

The Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) with Episcopalians a close second. Apparently!

rip to a real one

"If the tradwife won’t die, it’s because she was never alive. We are boxing with an apparition." @sarahjones.bsky.social is one of the very few people I want to read on this new novel and related phenoms/phantoms.

Really terrific book review by Sarah

an update on the state of the tradwife. spoilers for Yesteryear, which is not a good book nymag.com/intelligence...

I’m going to set you on fire

I have read this FT story by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com and I believe it is "some bullshit." A lot of effort and data work, and an extremely exaggerated causal story, bolstered by Melissa Kearney saying it is "plausible" and Lyman Stone doing whatever he does. www.ft.com/content/fba3... /1

nearly got hit by a driver blasting a sermon from his SUV. would’ve been a poetic way for me to go, to be honest

or you can read my story, because unlike whoever wrote this headline I don’t make things up nymag.com/intelligence...

distantly Quebecois wife vs. Buffalo husband (we are watching hockey quietly)

googling places I can eat, as a type 2 diabetic, the next time I visit my family in southwest VA

NEW: It's 30 years without parole for the child sex-abusing Pentecostal missionary who was hailed by generations of Assemblies of God college pastors as "the holiest man alive." Last year we published an investigation on the denomination's failure to stop him.

One of the nicest people I’ve met that posts on here, this shit is so bad man. Site is not beating the “unable to take a joke” allegations.

diabetic supremacy

1/ No, the New York Times was *not* wrong about birth rates.. There has been some pushback on a recent @upshot.nytimes.com article on US birth rate trends that I think is *mostly* unfair. The original article: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/u... #demography

put her face on the passports. I want her next to Debs

we talk about this a lot on @illconceivedpodcast.com; the big underlying birth rate trend, at least in the usa, is that first-time parents are getting older because it takes longer to get your feet under you materially to the point that raising children is feasible

Wait THIS is the "physically assaulted covering the unite the right rally" she was talking about... holy shit

Of course, lol

i'm not a fan of piker, but the sudden obsession with him is deranged. also pretty rich for the people who brought you "paul ryan is serious about poverty" and "sbf is For Real" to talk about poisonous contributions

this is as good a time as any to drop my favorite Virginia fact, which is that milk is the state drink

sic semper tyrannis, baby

The Teletubby Sun Is All Grown Up! And It Thirsts For Blood

Several people (Maibritt Henkel, Paul Novosad) on other platforms have complained about Claire Cain Miller's most recent NYT article, especially the figure (top) showing percent change, instead of (bottom) raw change in US births by mothers' age. This is misplaced. /1

why are people so fucking weird about The Pitt? unhinged fandoms seem to be a fact of life now, but Jesus