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“Fear of being left behind works only if you haven’t already been left behind. Women can see through the smoke and mirrors. They know that only an almost-trillionaire can afford the future.” @tressiemcphd.bsky.social bringing her usual 🔥 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/o...

Death. Taxes. Cars slowing down in the Squirrel Hill Tunnels.

this is 🔥 Ohio gerrymandering set the stage for this shameful travesty and betrayal across America ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/05/15/o...

THAT'S RIGHT, MOTHERFUCKERS, I WON A WEBBY AWARD. Here's my 5-word speech. #webbys

Economists say Ohio's heavy data center subsidies are a bad idea. But they say banning construction of large new centers is also a bad idea. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/05/11/e...

I think a very small number of dimwits get magnified into seeming like some larger movement or portion of a movement when usually it’s just like, the same couple of doofuses.

Just had Canvas stop working as I was typing comments on a student paper. I now can’t access anyone’s work or grades. Strangely, this never happened back when I used a grade book and had students email me their papers, a system no shareholders extracted money from.

a question re newsletter metrics: I pay to subscribe to lots of indie journalists' newsletters because I a) love to read good work and b) want to support the ecosystem. If I don't read every issue, thereby lowering the open rate, does that affect their ability to make money/support their reporting?

my kid is graduating college tomorrow and Colman Domingo is the commencement keynote speaker, will try to report back on any lewks but thinking it may not be an event that allows for a lot of outfit changes

A detail I didn’t know: “The Herald entered the Epstein series for a Pulitzer Prize that year, but it was not a finalist. Alan Dershowitz … who helped broker Epstein’s original deal, wrote a letter to the Pulitzer committee that year, urging them not to honor Brown’s work.” share.inquirer.com/THMiUZ

I love Star Wars as much as the next guy, but if you grew up in Northeast Ohio, May 4 is a somber anniversary. Here's a piece I wrote for @smithsonianmag.bsky.social on the 50th anniversary of the Kent State shootings. www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fift...

A Pulitzer for Julie K. Brown. Richly deserved, and overdue!

this sucks www.wesa.fm/politics-gov...

embarrass

Pour one out for the Hilton staff who are working perhaps the worst shift in food service history rn.

lets go Pens (for the love of god pls)

Health clinics are closed, delaying time-sensitive health care appointments, and my bus isn’t coming at all during the draft. People are unable to go grocery shopping, even.

motion to continue to call him "Sid the Kid" even after he 100 years old and retired (probably) "Sid the Kid’s Penguins have also won three of the previous four playoff series he’s been a part of vs. Philly and have hoisted three Stanley Cups since 2009." share.inquirer.com/YAIPLD

these are the best (this is not an ad I am just a girl who likes sleeping very much)

The Pirates are winning, the Pens are in the playoffs, the Post-Gazette is saved, City Paper is back, and the Blocks are now completely out of Pittsburgh. I think we need to have one of our cute little group hugs 🖤💛

1. So what happens to the Guild contract? 2. Thank the gods they didn’t sell to Alden www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/b...

:::sighs in Gen X:::

Sunday scaries much more intense tonight

This rules (via r/InternetIsBeautiful/) weather.com/retro/

Travel writer Rick Steves on Washington's newly signed "Millionaires Tax"

Gonna chip into as many of these as I can today. Fellow cis pals, join me? Helping people who need it is a good way to at least temporarily fend off despair!

“I told the lady it was going to be OK, and I wasn’t going to leave her.” share.inquirer.com/1Zcu62

NYT I just wanted to give my brain a little treat and do the wordle and spelling bee but you moved the games tab in the app so I was tricked into playing a podcast (I realize there are more pressing issues but it’s these little things that keep me from going over the edge)

what is supplemental soy sauce

Can the Penguins decline the shootout is that a thing (I know it is not)

The full @publicsource.org story: www.publicsource.org/beaver-count...

“But now people are looking at them, like, ‘Wow, these kids really got some game.’” share.inquirer.com/v8Bncm

"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men." Just saying it right out loud now. newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent. www.wired.com/story/gramma...

News: Allegheny County Council voted to restrict county employees from cooperating ICE. An amendment to sunset it in 3 years failed. www.publicsource.org/allegheny-co...

I know Shrinking is not everyone’s cup of tea (and that’s ok!) but Ted McGinley is so great on this show and I mean the cast includes fricking Harrison Ford! (who is also great, obv) www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/a...

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Polymarkets seem bad but also the ultimate version of rampant encouragement to arbitrage everything. Find something neat on someone's stoop or at a thrift store? You should resell it online for more! Score tickets to a hot show? Resell them online! Figured out how to do something? Sell a course!

why do the players have to do the work here? Go to Vegas with Flav and have a good time

Olympic gold medal-winning hockey player Jake Guentzel has declined Trump's invite to the White House and the State of the Union.

Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

“I am scared,” he said, “that we will get used to this [ICE enforcement], that it will be so normalized that people stop helping one another.” A quiet hero helping his neighbors share.inquirer.com/NzYh09

the best thing in Olympic figure skating is when the audience claps along to the music like wholesome dorks, I love it so much

when replying on bluesky, remember that any word in the original post can be used as a springboard for incoherent free association

lol I just read the most ridiculous take on the PG shutting down and I’m not linking to it because it’s a barely relevant publication and doesn’t deserve the eyeballs but it’s almost astonishing in its arrogant wrongness

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich