The horse op-ed is an instant classic. I can't tell you how much joy this piece gives me. It should be taught in every introductory writing class in no small part because the horse arguments are so compelling. "I have noticed that human children get to eat cake. But I am bigger than the children."

Pope Leo XIV carried the cross across all fourteen stations for over an hour. The prayers named children who had been “taken away and imprisoned during protests, deported by policies devoid of compassion, shipwrecked on desperate journeys of hope, killed in war zones, and wiped out in death camps.”

had to go see the landback skyscrapers for myself

Great news out of Georgia! ALL of the 15 anti-LGBTQ+ bills have died as the Georgia legislative session comes to a close. This was only possible with intense efforts from local LGBTQ+ activists. Subscribe to support our journalism.

“I will beat Geno’s ass” - Dawn Staley

11yo wanted cash as payment for some task the other day and I was like “what are you even going to DO with cash” and she goes “gambling debts, Mom” and I’m like “haha very funny” and she says, deadass “no, Mom, seriously, I borrowed $3 last week for a claw machine”

JD Vance has me pulling out liberation theology books I have not looked at since I was a grad student traveling to Nicaragua for a course on intercultural communication just so I can keep stepping on that man's neck.

It's why there are so many fights there. It's a site of extreme psychic gravity while retaining normal physical gravity, creating purely mental temporal dilation. Every second in a Waffle House is still only a second in reality, but FEELS like an eternity.

It's just not plausible that someone is teleporting into a waffle house because waffle houses are anchored sites of hyperreality. I don't think tarot even works in them. If he was claiming that he spatially displaced into a denny's that'd be worth investigating

Alanis Morissette is the oldest citation for FRIENDS WITH BENEFITS?! From the song Head Over Feet (1995). Wow. #AmResearching

I try not to objectify passersby as a rule but “Sturdy UPS delivery driver who gives great hugs” look is doing it for me. Carry on my wayward cuddlebugs!

Did All Men™️ in Chicago agree it was Shorts-and-a-Hoodie day aka Hood Thighday/Good Friday? Because I’ve spotted about 12 of you in the wild in the last 2 hours alone.

you, a naive fool: i do believe there are some things the nytimes won’t both sides the nytimes:

Best clothing repair: Porter Square Dry Cleaners. The dry cleaning service is good, but these folks are wizards with their sewing machines. They’ve fixed holes in my fine wool sweaters, replaced linings on several coats, and even re-sized a blazer. Cash or Venmo only. 12/?

My ancestors hunted buffalo while riding bareback, and domesticated corn to feed entire continents. And here I am, losing the travel receipts I need to turn in for reimbursement.

I love the idea of breaking in to a convent to re-install a stairlift under the cover of night www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Knit your own Parisian Haussmann building or colorful Danish townhouses with these designs by Jake Henzler (a.k.a. Boy Knits World) 🧶 www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/04/jake...

YouTube, which is by far the biggest streaming platform, is also reinventing cable. I am going to walk into the sea. (gift link) www.theverge.com/column/90578...

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled last week that it’s unconstitutional to automatically sentence someone to life in prison without the possibility for parole for a killing they didn’t participate in or personally commit.

if the restaurant or the coffee shop or whatever you like in your neighborhood closes in 2026: the Nazis in the Trump admin did it on purpose.

SCANDAL www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

guy whose says "liminal" too much found dead at the end of a normal hallway

In theory this much low hanging fruit simply should not exist - I’m forced to conclude Adams literally refused to take any action if he wasn’t bribed to do it

Spent the last 10 minutes listening to a Mistletoebird singing, a soft tumbling performance of mostly mimicry. Silvereye and Blackbird, Golden Whistler and House Sparrow delightfully mashed up into this little buddy’s personal playlist. Reminder that us bird nerds still don’t know why birds do this.

Can you read English cursive? Ever wanted to volunteer from the comfort of home for a useful cause? Have I got an offer for you... The Newberry Library in Chicago is always in need of transcribers to help decipher historical handwritten documents. If this is you, learn more about it below:

THE TODDLER IS READING LITTLE WITCH CAT TO THE CAT

Boston University’s student paper, The Daily Free Press, reports about the multiplication of pride flags on campus following the administration’s attempted crackdown on free speech.

The Moderna study is not cancelled yet, so if you want to help, visit this link to see if you qualify and if there's a study site near you trials.modernatx.com/study/?id=mR...

Disheartening. Ages 50-64 "very difficult pop. to recruit." More than 80% fail pre-screening (FDA req's participants have 0 chronic conditions). -exec involved in the trial Currently, no COVID-19 vaccines have full FDA approval for healthy ppl 50-64 for which COVID causes an est'd 8k-12k deaths.😷🛟

is being a transporter clone a pre-existing condition

✅ #Artemis II update: nearing end of Flight Day 1, the Orion spacecraft is moving at 10 192 km/h, 38 904 km from Earth and 392 774 km from the Moon. This image was taken by a camera on one of the European Service Module's solar arrays (pic: NASA) and the graphic is from www.nasa.gov/missions/art...

Home Solar xkcd.com/3226/

I need to look at the actual study, but yeah, if you know much abt existing research, that is in fact a p reasonable expectation. “Hostile” & “benevolent” sexism (referring to the latter as “gallantry” certainly being A Choice but not, I suspect, one made by the researchers) are strongly correlated+

Thinking about this tweet

you shouldn’t have to do email if you’re off planet

“This is Ground Control to Major Tom You’ve really made the grade And the papers hope this email finds you well …”

I just hit like on a post that also went into this but the warp stuff is wild. Captain's like "drop out of warp, helmsman". helm igoes "aye aye, cap." They drop out. We are now about 1.8 million km away from where the captain wanted to stop

Does it count if it was a text game? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hit...

this makes it sound like the black dude was the only actual astronaut

"I should say something balanced here, about how AI has its place. But what I really think is that every day we stray further from God’s light, and are doomed." www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Yeah that’s cool

Dosa Divas demo update for Steam Deck compatibility and honk, cook, deliver gameplay. store.steampowered.com/news/app/295...

LMAO THERE COULD BE NO CLEARER INDICATOR THAT BLUESKY IS FOR OLD PEOPLE Remember to take your blood pressure meds today, peepaws and meemaws

This morning I got to watch Trump's birthright citizenship case get carefully torn to shreds, then the Artemis II launch, and now this, and my mood is now much better than it's been in a while

There’s a 10-day livestream with just external camera images from Artemis II with no commentary www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt...

I am bad at plotting. Just doesn't do it for me. I write fanfic, nothing earth shattering, but I am excellent at pastiching voice. What do I do if I need plot? Talk to my friends! Enlist my spouse and then add her to the credits! Collaboration is so awesome and fun. No need to cheat.

The only good April Fools joke was when a library posted a headline saying “Study Shows Literacy Problems BC People Reply To Articles They Didn’t Read” When you clicked the link “lol April Fools there is no article. Tell no one” Then people who had not clicked the link argued about literacy all day.

At Kennedy Space Center astronauts have to take elevators to the top of launch pad towers in order to enter their space capsules before lift off. This is the elevator panel at Pad 39A.

Look, I'm not going to kink shame Kristi Noem's husband, but he should probably stay away from pup play for his own safety.

I miss the late, lamented ThinkGeek regularly using April Fools as a giant focus group to test out ludicrous product ideas which they would then make or not based on how many people tweeted that they wanted them. Began with the infamous Tauntaun Sleeping Bag, IIRC