Wow on top of everything else they turned him into Michael Shannon

Hey so if you're in the USA, the FCC is floating the idea of making shows put a warning up if they include or discuss trans people and trans lives. A short paragraph saying this is messed up would help a lot! You gpt less than a week. Submit your comment by May 22: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

🎶 you know the day destroys the night night divides the day tried to run tried to hide BREAK ON THROUGH TO THE

BBC giving immigration the full trans treatment. Anti-trans bias is a cancer on journalistic integrity. You see standards start to slip on trans issues journalism, and then they start to slip more and more in other areas. BBC is just one more example of this.

Thanks to everyone who solved last week’s @francisheaney.bsky.social meta! The AI theme was a prelude to announcing that not only is AVCX not employing a puzzle construction bot, but that in fact we’re giving raises to all features soon. Thanks for supporting the humans who make great puzzles.

He also signed a resolution stating that pi = 4, a move critics say would have a powerful impact on the shape that a circle is, if making shit up had any effect on reality

“Justice involved population” isn’t widely used outside of academia, where it applies to more than just people in prison. But since Andy Beshear hates when euphemisms are used in this area, here’s something for him to work on back home in Kentucky, where deaths in his state prisons have spiked.

Did Edward Gorey draw this

He doesn't know what it is and he's never heard of it but he knows what it is but he's never heard it described It's like he exists in two simultaneous quantum states, both indescribably stupid

Jesse Singal is back on his transphobic bullshit by arguing that the trans rights backlash is self-inflicted and that anyone pointing to coordinated right-wing funding is peddling a "conspiracy theory." It's a masterclass in false dichotomy and victim blaming. archive.ph/ZD74X

"communities with vegetable bans had 30.4 percent fewer Black, 28.5 percent fewer Asians, 7.8 percent fewer Hispanics, and 12.6 percent more white people than the population of their state. Those communities were also richer, with a 73.5 percent higher median income."

"You and everyone you have ever loved being cast into the Cave of Nightmares? It’s hard to hear, but this alone could add as much as $0.25 per gallon."

goddamn is this a breath of fresh air after Allred 2024

I guarantee you that Senator Richard Wayne Gary Wayne is not respected, honest, or competent, and if you claim he is then neither are you

I made a crossword

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist. He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

Why is every headline these days written like a "Jeopardy!" clue

What Fresh Step hell is this

I’ve been talking about Alysa Liu’s story about her quitting skating only to come back and become even better because she did it for herself and this came to me in a dream…

Calling Aileen Cannon, the most "I'm only here to rule in favor of Trump" person on the bench anywhere, just "a federal judge" is journalistic malpractice, not that anyone expects better from WaPo these days

I'm directly between Millennial Women Pop Culture Enthusiasts and Creative Professionals & Nerd Culture, and all that makes sense, but I'm also oddly close to the Formula 1 Community?

Fox News headlines all like "Bad Bunny brings divisive message of unity to Super Bowl"

Oh but AMC couldn't be bothered to show Wake Up Dead Man

I don't know who could watch this video and not be 100% in favor of abolishing ICE

"...we put too much weight in the analysis of academics or elites, and not enough on you." There are so many problems with this but I'm limiting myself to two: a) I don't need to watch the news to find out what *my* analysis is b) What if *I'm* an academic elite???

Someone has finally posted this modern Christmas classic online, which I now share with you; youtu.be/fTa6YiiqWaU?...

Happy collapsing waveform to all who observe

If I see someone wearing one of these, you KNOW I'm gonna be asking them about barnacles

Apropos of nothing: Pet Shop Boys should cover Mose Allison's "Your Molecular Structure"

well worth reading newrepublic.com/article/2047...

Is this happening for everyone? Every single MS NOW video on YouTube seems to be blocked. Probably this is a technical problem and not state censorship but it does make one wonder

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media my latest for @newrepublic.com newrepublic.com/article/2042...

Yo I heard you desired desire so I put desire in your desire so you can desire while you desire

That means he's flipped the board over eight times while playing Risk

What an amazing essay from the former chair of Africana Studies at Bowdoin. I'll share a few sections in the reply but seriously, read the whole thing. It's all insightful and beautifully written. lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...

“Oh, well I just told you about it, so now like all of the rest of us who pay attention to what’s going on, you know all about it. You just heard it, from me, and you know. You’re all caught up. So to repeat: does this concern you?”

The only version of it available was taped off a scrambled cable channel for some reason.

The tracking on my vcr doesn’t work anymore

It reminds me too much of the time several of my co-workers were turned into small cubes and crushed into dust by ancient beings from the Andromeda Galaxy, and I just cannot deal.

It has sequences of flashing lights and I have a seizure disorder

Because the electromagnetic waves that constitute the broadcast are now 59 light years from Earth

Clickbait multiple choice! Why is this episode "hard to watch today"? a) It's not available on streaming b) It's kinda sexist and/or racist c) My eyesight is worse than it used to be d) I can't watch it today because I'm busy but maybe tomorrow? e) It's not as good as I remember

I'm sure the media genealogists will be all over this FALSE CLAIM

Tsk, even when you correct the typo, it's still incorrect -- should have been "pervert", not "perverse"

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.

🎵 His low appeal, he didn't research it / But here's the deal, he's just a piece o' shit 🎶

This seems right in line with other right-wing jurisprudence, such as "even though it's been the norm for years and years with no issues, now that I'm thinking about it the idea of a trans woman using women's bathrooms bothers me, therefore it should be illegal"

This was a really fun conversation. I don’t get too many chance to talk about puzzles as independent media, but I really believe in the point and Phil is a pretty brilliant interlocutor.