7 dollar gas. Well, I guess I'll buy an electric car. Oh those are 60 thousand dollars? Well at least electricity is cheap. Oh the government won't build solar panels because it's "Too transgender"? Well at least wages are going up. Oh the idea of jobs is fake now? Well at least everyone is happ

Yep. This is why when places end cash bail, the conviction rate goes down. Because a lot of those convictions were just innocent Black folk taking plea deals for crimes that they 100% did not do, to avoid a life destroying year in jail. Like this.

So, friends: I promised I'd tell the story. Now I shall. Let a (former) psych nurse tell you the true (gods help us) story of a night in a big-time NYC emergency room: and the arrival of The Man With The Bloomingdales Bag. (1/n)

He's not wrong, but also, tell me you haven't interacted much with University Admin without telling me.

“The Constitution explicitly places the courts almost entirely under the statutory authority of Congress.”

What's your "He actually broke his toe here" thing? The factoid you can't help but share whenever it comes up. For me, it's how the punk on the bus in Star Trek IV actually wrote and recorded the song that he's playing because he was annoyed the original song they had didn't sound punk at all.

a) We fucking called this before Roe fell ffs LISTEN TO US b) if they win this will set our whole society back to the 1950s or earlier. Workplace equality? Sexual freedom? What??? THIS MUST BE TAKEN SERIOUSLY AS AN ALL HANDS ON DECK ISSUE c) (see next skeet)

Sorry, but if you’re mad that the Southern Poverty Law Center paid informants to infiltrate Nazi groups to expose them, then you are a Nazi.

It's today, today!

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter: I was going to joke about how Yumi is clearly Rapunzel from Tangled, in how she‘s thinking about going to a festival she’s never been to before, but then it turns out she is forbidden from cutting her hair, and it’s not a joke any more.

Hey so the President is out of his mind, and is still President, so that’s bad. A system is what it does, so this system? Bad. Bad system. Just doing reality check, feeling a little gaslit this morning.

"You need to start using AI right now, Number One. Innovate or be left behind. Your competitors aren't sleeping, Number One. Everything will use AI in the future. Start learning how to use AI, or everyone will be leaps and bounds ahead of you, Number One."

"it's the efficient markets hypothesis applied to everything, not just stock prices" www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0ns...

When John Roberts agrees with a Republican policy he will "conclude ... as a matter of law" he has "a solemn obligation to preserve it." If he doesn't like (most likely a Democratic) policy he will "conclude ... as a matter of law" that he needs to "stuff it in the garbage." He pitches & hits.

This piece is incredibly important. Read the whole thing.

I wish we had an easier way to do a vote of no confidence than impeachment.

Okay, I know the fandom is aging old because the four random people at this Magic: the Gathering table all just started comparing our CPAPS.

Another data point in “originalism is a fraud.” So much for the law is the law we can’t think about the impact. They rail against “results oriented judging” in public but when their corporate clients make requests they know exactly what to do. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Today's unlikeliest vaguepost: (eyeroll) I have done many unusual things in my life, some of them not great, but *I have NEVER washed my underwear in a hotel coffeemaker.* FFS WASH IT IN THE BATHROOM SINK & HANG IT ON THE TOWEL RAIL LIKE A NORMAL PERSON! ...And then dry it with the hair dryer! 😅

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The Robert Johnson recording in question. It’s so clear I feel like I time-traveled.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try." Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

You would get so many more amazing books if you had Universal Basic Income. Not even the most dream-scenario AI could compete with the creativity of a world of authors no longer afraid of affording rent.

It's time to put grampa Clarence out to pasture. If there's a first step towards fixing our government it's to do away with lifetime appointments, set term limits, and upper age limit on our top government position.

I have to take a training in GenAI for work and it's making me nauseous. Don't get me wrong, machine learning has a lot of potential scientific applications, but some of this slop is especially awful.

Amazing things happening over on Threads.

Nothing says “we value our customers” like using automated systems to treat everyone who enters like a criminal because you’re too greedy to pay employees to run registers or offer basic customer service.

The destruction of all search engines is the tech story of the last decade imo

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

To wit, the Dishonorable Brett Kavanaugh.

Better graphics are no longer a selling point in video games and it's completely broken AAA development and consoles and they have no fucking idea how to fix it.

I once had some Zoomer tell me that I didn't understand memes and I asked them what generation they thought invented the internet meme.

we live in an endless downward spiral wherein the world’s worst people learn regulation is Good Actually right after the irreparable harm

“It should be illegal to blame us if the thing we make hurts people” is the kind of opinion that would’ve doomed the airline industry and currently props up the businesses of guns, cars, and oil.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

Mrs. Alito would make *such* a flag about this if it happened!

*talking to teenage militant atheist self* current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one

“For any society in which this much wealth gets concentrated in so few hands, and is then so easily parlayed into political clout, the question becomes one not just of economics but of basic civic standing. At some point soon, we are no longer sharing in self-government.”

They axed medieval history departments *precisely* because tyrants beefing with the pope was a lil’ too relevant.

Folks, if you want to save the USPS, you have to use it. Don't prove the point for them. Protect your packages. Insure them. Adapt to the sabotage effects. But. Have patience with the workers. Keep using them. Please.

US democracy is a bit rubbish if you can't bin your President when it becomes obvious that they are a liability who's gone against almost everything they campaigned upon. But I suppose that depends upon their Party having ethics.

This is a fun and informative thread, but I can't resist adding that of course Jesus wasn't a zombie. His faculties were still intact. He was non compost mentis. Zombies by definition are compost mentis. 🙂👉🕶️😎

Reminder: including alt-text on your images is helpful in many ways! It increases accessibility, can add context/detail, makes search more effective, & can improve your reach (a lot of us won’t re-share images without alt-text). If you set it as required in accessibility settings, you can’t forget!

I actually enjoy the writing aspect of it, which is something I'm surprised to hear myself say. But I already struggle with the formulaic nature of so much of writing and even more with how coauthors and editors push back when you try to deviate from that. Letting an LLM into that mix? No thanks.

Oh hey, it #TransDayofVisibility today. Reminder that I'm non-binary. If you only really interact with me on here that's probably easier to remember. I do wish I was more comfortable being more gender non-conforming and open public.

Determined to be as visible as my lil autistic brain (affectionate) will let me. Which means all you have to do is look at my art

Remember when everyone was up in arms about Clinton's supposed insider trading? Image is a from financial times. A picture of Hegseth looking smug under a headline about how his Morgan-Stanley broker tried to buy defense funds just before the attack on Iran.