Asking AI to verify the dictionary is certainly a choice.

Pretty sure this is a black mirror episode.

This is awful. Jesus. These funds have saved people from getting evicted, fired, and losing custody of their kids. (Also, just to be clear, it doesn’t criminalize the funds’ existence, but it makes them subject to federal insurance regulations, which will effectively kill many of them.)

I've been experimenting with different bourbons in my Old Fashioneds. Here are my current favorites: 1: Wild Turkey 101 2: Old Forester 86 Proof 3: Evan Williams Black Label

35-year CIA veteran: “The Chinese have a very dark portrait of the United States as a global hegemon that’s declining in power and becoming more violent as it tries to cling to its primacy.“ wapo.st/4wi8aHz

Spotted on Tumblr…

I quoted the Virginia Constitution and Republicans are losing their minds.🤯 Jonathan Turley suggested I am a "radical" and "Jacobian" for literally quoting the Virginia Constitution's Bill of Rights.😂

People will be like ‘Bluesky is all academics & historians’ & I’ll be like, ‘You mean the people who enthusiastically tell me the coolest shit I ever heard?????’

My wolves and I have been attacked.

BURGUM: When the sun goes down, solar produces zero electricity HUFFMAN: I want to enter into the record this amazing new technology that apparently the secretary is unaware of -- it's a battery

“The biggest story in the country, today and always, is that the president of the United States is mentally unwell.”

Because he very clearly has a progressive neurological disease, his sense of social norms was tenuous at best when he was younger; now those filters are fully off, and he's showing who he's always been.

And a slaycation is where you go nowhere but you’re fabulous all the time.

Ultimately this is the most damning thing about Keir Starmer.

I hate that trump gets to sleep through this shitshow, and we can't.

Exactly, what if we normalize and destigmatize sexual health, and stop saying "clean," which is misleading and stigmatizing, and not an STI status.

A clutch of eggs in a nest built into a wreath on the front porch.

I don't know who needs to hear this, but an economy controlled by a handful of oligarchs isn't a "free market."

the tech world has genuinely not grappled with how many people despise them and what they make

Mass market paperbacks in every grocery store, drug store, and gas station.

Dems sure got a weird "big tent" that covers Marjorie Taylor Green but leaves trans people out in the rain.

Today is Ammie's Birthday/Gotcha Day! She's 10 years old! She's my heart. #dogsky

Happy Mother’s Day to people who believe motherhood should be a choice and not a punishment.

I hope she is sitting in her mold castle having just the worst day because of this

Fascinating story about urban adaptation and the coyotes of Chicago that coexist quietly and mostly unseen in and around rail lines and cemeteries.

Yeah, there really is a book for sale on Amazon called Infinite Jeffs, where they replaced all the words of Infinite Jest with the word "Jeff". It's 25 bucks. www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jef...

Sorry folks, PornHub World's closed. The fleshlight out front shoulda told ya.

a lot of the problems with all of our tech getting worse and worse boil down to somebody needing to do *something* to justify their job, and therefore "improving" stuff that work fine and will you just leave it the fuck alone please

Secretary Roadkill is literally trying to ban Prozac.

When you tap a link on a page in a mobile browser some companies redirect you to the appstore to install their app. Those companies need to be yeeted into the sun.

My grandparents’ rambling house in the country felt built as much from smells as wood or bricks: onions softening in butter, coffee left warming too long, bread cooling somewhere out of sight. The vinyl kitchen floor bloomed in impossible colors beneath heavy 1940s appliances that hummed and rattled

A woman I had a brief and casual relationship with a few years ago recently lost her son to cancer. I can't fathom anything more devastating than that. I reached out, but honestly, no words or actions can truly convey how profoundly tragic it is to lose a child.

Don't forget the flying cars; they fucking believed in us.

The white Sargent at Arms blocks Representative Justin Pearson from entering a committee meeting specifically about redrawing the map for *his* district. Incredible Photo by Nicole Hester at The Tennessean.

The first batch of parsley and dill from my garden. I grew them from seeds. Can't wait for the other herbs to be ready.

This regime cut funding for infectious disease research and staff, including disease detectives. It canceled a Hanta Virus study. His COVID response dismally failed, with over 400,000 deaths. I have zero faith in these people to be able to erect a stop sign, let alone handle ANY health emergency.

Indiana is just so deeply embarrassing.

I'm literally writing about a set of Tennessee segregationists in the 1960s at the moment. I swear to God, they were not *this* comically and overtly racist.

The last of Monday's roast chicken makes a great lunch salad with homemade vinaigrette.

I'd like to believe that Anansi was somehow involved in this.

A huge thing to the credit of Ted Turner: he was widely criticized for his dumb and stupid classic movie colorization scheme and instead of doubling down and crashing out over the negative publicity, he listened to the criticism and launched Turner Classic Movies.

Forget your zodiac sign, what are your Criterion closet picks

"When it comes to poignant or culturally resonant noirs, I wonder if we forget to credit Dorothy Hughes for her defining work, for showing us how to look back at the scary men who objectify us,” writes @alishamgl.bsky.social about IN A LONELY PLACE.

This isn’t conservation versus ranching. It’s the federal government choosing who gets subsidized access to public land and bison have been on these lands for centuries longer than any lease.

Research shows sustainably managed bison are twice as effective as cattle at increasing native plant diversity and make grasslands more resilient to drought. Bison also support birds, wolves, bears, and dozens of other species across the prairie.

A perfect snapshot of the MAGA rancher mentality: we really don't need public lands—it should all be turned over to us—and f*ck the bison, who needs them. Native Americans and environmentalists can go choke on it.

My backyard squirrel, Douglas, is an asshole.