Ukraine is contemplating giving the Donbas a rebrand as Donnyland and it’s so perfectly idiotic or, as the times puts it, a nod to “global reality.”

Man Charged in Lego Theft Scheme of Replacing Pieces With Pasta, Police Say www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u... I’m gonna need this as a podcast.

I don’t see why everyone is feeling so good. Could you point me in the direction of feeling good?

has science proven that allergy sneezes are more forceful?

Is the eduroam outage all over UVA Grounds or am I just lucky?

Chaz Nuttycomb is a trigger

Yeah fuck those bikers alleviating congestion just flatten em. Bonus points for squishing a tiny commie on the back at morning dropoff.

Great picture

Can anyone recommend a history of " the candy striper"? A memoir would also be great. The wiki footnotes are failing me. @nursingclio.bsky.social

"Dear Abby, put the bitch in her place ;-)"

I hate to brag but my 4yo is cleaning our kitchen baseboards and announcing “I’m baseboarding!!!!!”

If you are as infuriated as you read this as I am, know that Congress not only has the power to fix the abuse of the Shadow Docket but also that the legislation is already drafted. We just need to get it to the floor. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Any podcast recommendations? I’m looking for a serialized episodes of offbeat history or high class true crime. Other than the obvious ones from serial/nyt, I’ve liked Hysterical, Winds of Change, and the nerdy one about the Boston lottery.

You mean UVAs 2026 Jefferson Foundation Medal in Law recipient !?!?????!!!!????

Greenwashing or Genewashing?

This is a personal record for the dormancy of a return due date.

I’m listening to David Rakoff’s Half Empty and have arrived at the diagnosis chapter and I don’t know if I can keep going.

This is so awful. Deranged and those kids.

Charlottesville—what day off camps are happening Tuesday?

Not to be That Guy, but on this EOY podcast episode I named More and More More as the 2025 book I most hoped listeners read

Fressoz More and More and More is good.

reading the word "content" in student essays to refer to text/image is really depressing.

Can't unsee.

Charlottesville—I have the opposite of a green thumb but my kid is very keen on getting a tomato plant. Where should I go?

She had a PhD in literature? The real deal and it kinda shows with the word stiff word (letter) play.

Wow so like reading things talking about them and creating a civic culture along the way? At a public university????????

It’s hard to listen to Ronen Bergman and not come away with the impression that he is absolutely enamored of Israeli military power and what it has wrought.

I have seen one good example of this plate

there is an inverse relationship between the number of times I say things in class and the softness of my tone on email. students might well find this both nagging and sharp without understanding why.

It’s about damn time.

🤮

Are these ClaimsHero emails about the Anthropic lawsuit spam?

Feeling bad about ever having used “nuked” as a glib verb.

Tune in for genocide and/or nuclear apocalypse at 8pm eastern/5pm pacific!

NEW: University of Michigan Chinese researcher dies after allegedly "hostile questioning" by federal agents www.detroitnews.com/story/news/l...

New ally alert!

Anyone else get this spam: "yours really stands out in this space" and "would you be open to that?" sound like the AI language of a young man.

Sick burn by Union Carbide's medical director after a NIOSH meeting on vinyl chloride.

How am I only just now realizing that actor Wallace Shawn is the son of famed longtime New Yorker editor William Shawn? Did you already know this?

Has anyone else gotten an AI-sounding email from an organization called the “Boxall Reading Challenge”?

I love him but has John McPhee ever profiled a woman and embedded her in her offbeat profession and nature and times?

I’ve been on hold 15 minutes for the pediatrician. This is an urgent no -emergency. Not really ok.

Got a new credit card and almost certainly Trump will expire before it does.

Must be April fools. Not including a link because I no longer subscribe and have none to gift.

George Will quoted my book today. Please clap.

flex

Sauer and RFK should form a maha men's chorus

I think Justice Jackson read Masur and Jones.