I like how she had to toss in the thing about illegals lest she actually direct peoples irritation towards the correct source

WaPo reports Louisiana’s governor will announce on Friday that he is suspending the House primaries where people have already started voting and redraw the map; I’d expect them to go for an all-Republican map and eliminate both majority-Black districts, not just one.

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

(Mean Girls gif) So you agree? You think he's orange.

We must understand that the Voting Rights Act was not merely about ensuring Black Americans rights, it was about democratizing America. This ruling is not just a decimation of Black rights and Black Americans’ ability to have representation, it is a fatal blow to multiracial democracy.

I, for one, encourage Gen Z to take up smoking. Happy for them to start aging prematurely while I continue wearing sunscreen every day.

Lovely interview with Heide island about her new book, Romp!, available now. www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/anim...

Happy birthday to Beyond Wellness by Liz Bucar, an incisive look at the deeper religious roots of wellness practices that have become commercialized, from yoga to meditation to ayahuasca. Buy here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/774524...

Happy book birthday to Romp! by otter scientist Heide Island, a delightful dive into everything you ever wanted to know about otters and a perfect gift for any animal lover (or Taylor/Travis fan)! Buy it here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/775730...

First day of working remotely from California while trying to stay on New York time, essentially working from 6 to 2 instead of 9 to 5. I am already very tired.

Excited to share this Popular Science excerpt of ROMP!, an utterly delightful book about otters I edited that comes out tomorrow. www.popsci.com/environment/...

The United States now has the most government restrictions on academic freedom of any high-income country. www.chemistryworld.com/news/academi... Raw data from @vdeminstitute.bsky.social —> academic-freedom-index.net/research/Aca...

if you want to read more about working for a criminal minimum wage in 90s grocery stores, i have a column in @pastemagazine.bsky.social where i do this every month! 🔗: www.pastemagazine.com/music/robyn/...

Person 1 on BART: I have a friend who's 38 and STILL a Hooter girl. Person 2: Is she, like...a mentor?

They've had TEN YEARS to figure out the answer to this question.

Hivemind: Are the TSA wait times still ridiculous? I'm flying tomorrow, but leaving extra early will put me in rush hour traffic, so I don't want to do it if I don't have to.

Once the pope witnesses the pure rush of power we get from terrorizing and subjugating others, I'm confident he'll understand our point of view.

It just defies comprehension that the world's richest man is literally a hitlerian figure, got to illegally commandeer the US govt for months and condemn millions to excruciating death, and then just fucked off to make jokes about "show orphans" on podcasts with zero consequences. The mind recoils

All tech companies do is force stuff that is clearly already illegal on people without asking, say oopsie and use the trillion dollars they made to pay their 100k fine from Congress, an institution that they assume, with considerable evidence, that they can buy, overwhelm, and outlast.

lol I was wondering why I was blocked by @why.bsky.team even though I don't think I've ever criticized Bluesky or its leadership, but it must be because I'm on the "AI Haters" list (where I proudly belong)

As always, bind but not protect, protect but not bind.

My phone buzzed, and, inexplicably, one of my authors had been added to a text convo with my mom and sister. On closer inspection, his number wasn't really added, his name was just displaying as if it was. ~30 seconds later, I got an email from him that included his phone number. I blame AI somehow.

Powerful people are never allowed to be judged by their actions, only by their "heart of hearts," which is unknowable but presumed to be good and pure.

Fun fact: The first vaccine mandate ever was when George Washington required the Continental Army to be inoculated against smallpox, quite possibly allowing Americans to win the Revolutionary War.

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The button is labeled "kill everyone (no negative consequences version)"

Genuine Q: How do you teach yourself to fall asleep with your mouth open? I have a cold, which means I can't breathe through my nose, which means it's 2:30 and I'm still not asleep despite taking melatonin, Trazodone, Unisom, AND NyQuil.

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

Remembering the time I didn't realize it was 4/20 and made the mistake of trying to drive somewhere from my apartment one block away from Golden Gate Park

I'm sorry but we are going to need to reclaim the word "Stonewall" from the British. If you are going to be like this you can't use it, Americans only.

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

Evangelicals convert to Catholicism thinking it will give them authority over their Protestant friends and family, then are shocked to discover it actually gives the pope authority over them.

From the rooftop, shout it out, the answer is "Ready to Go" by Republica.

Record profits are unpaid wages and unpaid taxes.

Why does he sound like an AI that thought "strawberry" was spelled with an X

happy anniversary to all who celebrate

Frantically posting all the banal observations I've stored up before news of the next atrocity hits

I do think it's weird that Bluesky (a) has a dead pet algorithm that's (b) prevalent enough to cause dead pet algorithm discourse.

We're one month out from the publication of Clock In: No-BS Advice for Getting Ahead in Your Career (Without Losing Your Mind)! I wish that the job market wasn't making this book so timely, but it is! Preorder here: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/797902...

Someone in a neighborhood group chat said our local park is getting the new "fancy trash cans." Known outside of New York as "dumpsters."

Calling God "the alpha and the omega" somehow sounds a lot less impressive when you translate it closer to the original intent as "everything from A to Z."

BTS is great

Was going through old chats and found this incredible quote from a pizza guy who saved someone's life with CPR

Why did he take, save, and publicly post a picture of himself being spurned by Mr. Met

Buy this book, it is very good! I am constantly thinking about how the band that you had to be into to prove your masculinity in Niko's hometown was, of all things, Kiss.

the church fathers actually originated this meme to explain "just war" doctrine, which Pope Leo would know if he ever opened a book

do they think that "'just war' doctrine" means "the economy should be 'just war,' nothing else"

Despicable fucking government.

What drives me crazy is these people have perfectly natural questions, but instead of just asking them, their stance is: "I've never studied this, but I already know everything and couldn't possibly have anything to learn. The only explanation is a nonsensical conspiracy."

I heard someone on a history podcast refer to the Taiping Rebellion and parsed it as the "Typing Rebellion."