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As an Eighties Kid, rocket launches will never not terrify and worry me.

The Dark Horse will auction off items online on April 14: www.axios.com/local/boulde...

Donald Trump is a birthright citizen of the U.S. So is Stephen Miller. So are you, if you were born here.

My newest enterprise is to attempt to be as soft as I truly am inside despite a harsh, brutal, morally bankrupt, and exhaustingly cynical world. You could argue that 2026 is a hell of a year to lean into that—or that it's the best possible time to do it. I guess we'll see.

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.

While the Great Man theory theory of history is bunk, the That Fucking Guy theory of history is compelling.

It's been offline for a couple of months due to hosting issues, but the Video Game Soda Machine Project archive is back online again. If you've ever wanted to browse through more than 3,000 screenshots of soda machines from video games dating back as far as 1983, this is the site for you.

A viral video about a man named Solomon Fairfax, who earned the nickname the "Grim Reaper" of Charleston after spending years killing slaveholders, has hundreds of thousands of likes and shares. There’s just one problem: Solomon Fairfax doesn't exist

What's worse than an editor insisting on adding a shitty, clickbaity, or misleading headline on your story? Having the shitty, clickbaity, misleading search engine write its own 🫠

We’re so screwed, part one billion.

Tell me you've never read a book without telling me you've never read a book challenge

Font-de-gaume artwork used datable charcoal, not just manganese. archaeology.org/news/2026/03...

Me as Thursday commits its usual violence against my remaining peace of mind:

Exciting news from the sixteenth century:

TFW you dismantle your entire staff of editors with news sense

My newest Flashback quiz is up! Can you put all eight events in the correct order? www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I am at the dealership having my car serviced and let me tell ya, I’m convinced dealerships are truly the worst and most American of institutions. It is CRAWLING with ambient dudes with a variety of grifts.

One thing that stands out when I look at photos of Epstein and his rich friends is the submissive body language of his male counterparts and friends. They so obviously wanted to impress him, despite and probably because of the blackmail power he wielded.

**BREAKING NEWS** - Marsh Clubmoss refound in Dunbartonshire, at a site where it was last recorded in 1854! Being more-or-less evergreen, clubmosses make great botanical targets all year round. With that in mind, I set out to hunt for Marsh Clubmoss near Inveraran on the shore of Loch Lomond 🧵

Adorable of Haribo to put a ziploc seal thingy on this bag of gummies, as if there were a chance in hell I 'd eat this entire bag of candy slowly instead of immediately and with great vigor.

The cuter a historical story the greater the likelihood it is bullshit

bless the museum sector for this sentence

"The University of Colorado Boulder has found student journalist Ašiihkionkonci Parker not guilty of any student code of conduct charges after it banned Parker from campus in October after covering a pro-Palestine protest, records show."

Each year, February 19th brings us back to a crucial date in 1942. On that day, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, a decision that authorized the forced removal and incarceration of over 125,000 people of Japanese ancestry, most of them U.S. citizens.

I learned this phrase in an "anonymous" program: The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.

Over three years, we recorded interviews with more than 450 officials, organizers, activists, and extraordinary people from all walks of life to put together the most expansive presidential oral history in existence. The Obama Presidency Oral History is now live!! obamaoralhistory.columbia.edu

16 February 1926 | A German Jewish girl Margot Frank, Anne's older sister, was born in Frankfurt. She and her family went into hiding in Amsterdam. After being arrested, they were deported with their parents to #Auschwitz. The sisters perished in Bergen-Belsen.

And another Old Boulder institution fades...

I think the greatest gift college professors in the humanities can give to students right now is a seminar room where, for 80 minutes twice a week, nothing that happens to them is a sales pitch for an AI product.

Braids are such a part of Black women’s life, a researcher said, “it’s just what you do.” Now, in the most comprehensive analysis so far, researchers identified dozens of toxic chemicals, including endocrine disruptors and breast carcinogens, in synthetic and “bio-based” hair extensions.

GET BEHIND ME, destroyer of culture

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Settle down, New York Times. Quit caffeine? In this economy?

I’m outraged about the Don Lemon arrest as a journalist and a citizen. No one should be targeted for exercising their right to free speech, ever, and every step backward further corrodes our democracy.

Based on the bad preview, the bad AI Revolutionary War show takes place in a world that contains only a smattering of anonymous women in the background. So the Bechdel Test also applies in AI world!

We're thrilled for the 9th annual Douglass Day global transcribe-a-thon: a day of collective action for Black history! We'll transcribe records of the Colored Conventions movement—3K docs on deck! 100+ groups are hosting events, including 10 Penn State campus libraries ▶️ douglassday.org/penn-state/

this NYT piece is so moving and important... gift link.

"If you believe in what you can do, nothing is impossible." — Dr. Daddio, a true Denver radio legend and community giant. denverite.com/2026/01/27/d...

In the early 2000s I attended a concert of Philip Glass playing his piano works and began having a coughing fit in the middle of the performance. I ran to the lobby, coughing, and my poor date had to come tell me the entire theater could still hear me and we left and I'm pretty sure I cried.

This really is a bit too on the nose.

Out today: THE CROWN'S SILENCE I'm delighted to share that my new book is officially out! It traces the British monarchy's involvement in the transatlantic slave trade and colonial slavery over hundreds of years. Please buy a copy, tell your library, & spread the word. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

There is probably a thinkpiece about this somewhere, but every Facebook-owned entity now thinks I want to watch 24/7 "sassy AI grandmother" content and W H Y

@karenho.bsky.social Do I need you knit you some Heated Rivalry gear? www.ravelry.com/patterns/lib...

This disgusts and saddens me. During the decade I freelanced for the Post, I was continually awed and amazed by the depth of experience, expertise, and plain old journalistic chops of my colleagues there.

It took me about three waking hours to realize I had on two completely different slippers today, and only because someone pointed it out. I guess that's how I'm doing.

"This is such a strange decision with no clear rationale. None of it really makes sense.”

This has got to be the most embarrassing era ever.