Actually April is the scientist; the creature is called April's Fool

Why does Family Affair start playing immediately after you read this post

He said cut it out

Many artists are called producers

Extremely fucked up. They should be getting at least two bsky.app/profile/davi...

Daffodils are pick me flowers

This brings me back to the good ol' days when artists, designers and writers worked to tell a story. Kids, the web used to be (more) like this.

He's wrong about not taking shoes off in the house but, otherwise, Pete Holmes is a gem with a new special out.

Finally watching this and every line is memorable

Hero worship ruins people

If you use AI to get to know yourself you're really scraping the bottom of a barrel. Tarot is more fun and usually free

You met me in a very "rare Corelle pattern" time in my life

Let me tell you something. Not in this house

Any engagement with technology that doesn’t acknowledge that all technologies have inherent and inseparable social and political ramifications is completely worthless. We ridicule the idea that “guns don’t kill people” and immediately turn around and say the same thing about GenAI, for example.

Hobbies include getting into wombats

NEW: In the birthright citizenship case, Trump cites an 1884 Supreme Court ruling that denied citizenship to a Native American man. But experts on Native American law tell NBC News that argument is flawed, betraying an ignorance of the subject matter. 👇👇 www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

I think often of a New York Times photo of a little Iraqi girl tending to her parakeets in a bombed house, probably from 20 years ago now. I will think of this man and his sweet dog often now too. People just want to love what they love, care for their little beings, and instead we do this to them

Aretha Franklin every spring: "trees, beautiful trees"

Only 23% of government workers believe they “can report a suspected violation of a law, rule, or regulation without experiencing retaliation.” That's way down form the share the prior year (72%) who said they could report suspected illegal activity without fear www.thebulwark.com/p/two-more-g...

journal-ish

Cholo for Zara 🌹 When can we call en espade en espade www.zara.com/us/en/woman-...

I do love making bar charts that go _way_ up and to the right

At least 1,443 civilians have been killed in Iran since the start of the war, including 217 children.

Images posted to social media show what experts said are U.S. land mines dispersed across a residential area in southern Iran, in what appears to be the first instance in more than two decades of American forces using the weapons.

You can't eliminate a feeling.

How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim… What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”

Trump is trying to incite a pogrom against the Somali American community, and it is disgusting and we need to stand up for our Somali neighbors.

It should be called Basesball

Yup.

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People near Chapel Hill! Wikipedia's doing a country music themed thing tonight, featuring Rissi Palmer, at the Love House. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Event:W...

In this week's AMERICANA, a topic quietly discussed among Dems: What happened to the climate movement? It's still chugging, but the Green New Deal dream has been replaced by "affordability" and anti-AI campaigns, and activists have focused more on AIPAC and ICE www.semafor.com/article/03/2...

In VC-driven markets where businesses are regularly funded without much promise or follow-through of profitability, of what value does business experience without accountability have?

NEW: from @nicolefoy.bsky.social @propublica.org

There are those who never doubted her

New: Pete Hegseth’s pastor and close spiritual advisor says he wants Texas Democratic state Rep. James Talarico to die. “We want him crucified with Christ,” Brooks Potteiger said of Talarico, as the podcast host said he prays “that God kills him.” www.huffpost.com/entry/pete-h...

Do y’all think the router ban extends to the Minion router?

Decline in migratory fish populations prompts fight for protection. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The AHA, @acls1919.bsky.social, and @modernlanguage.bsky.social welcome today’s ruling allowing video footage of depositions to be published online again. The depositions are evidence in our lawsuit to restore the function and funding of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

NOTE: Two Democrats voted to confirm MarKwayne Mullin: Senators John Fetterman and Martin Heinrich www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

Put this in the annals of Women's History Month

i need a DND setting for my phone that explicitly tells people i'm in a movie, what movie i'm watching, and that i'm a better person than they are because i'm patronizing the movies

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My annoying opinion of the day is that we should just eat the things people are trying to make pasta out of.

Someone finally gave Leonard Leo his due, and it's @rusty.todayintabs.com

@joshgondelman.bsky.social @maris.bsky.social heads up!! dunkinrunsonmerch.com

As long as this is written by an actual New Yorker. Never listen to the folks who move to California just to give credence to the secession tech lobby

Lorsque les puissances intermédiaires travaillent ensemble, nous pouvons faire bien davantage que nous protéger et sauvegarder notre souveraineté; nous pouvons bâtir un monde meilleur, plus prospère et plus juste que ce qu’il était auparavant.

Google has utter contempt for its users, there's really no other way to read this. Reducing headlines down to caveman-like phrases as if Search users are too braindead to spend more than a milisecond evaluating the blue links. www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

Welcome to the Spring Equinox