Legendary founder of NPR programming Bill Siemering is enjoying Zoom visiting with students so much that he's asked me to put a second call out. No honorarium necessary. Any takers?

Shit I guess the NYT crossword’s edgy lil sex jokes today aren’t as explicit as all that? (That said this is still more wholesome than at least one of them IMO)

Late 1880s mic drop

So uh, NYT crossword today has some pretty questionable clue-answer pairs; I looked up the writer, and there’s someone with the same (relatively common!) name in the Epstein files. The realization that there really was (is?) a sprawling child-rape ring changes how things land for me rn.

Look what oldest kid left for the rest of us this morning ❤️

“Most seductive chatbot” 🤢🤢🤢 We live in hell

For GENERATIONS

One of our finest writers ever. Youngest kid was assigned to read one of his books in school this year and was wonderfully mindblown. “Knew he was good but didn’t know he was THAT good.”

Holeee shit they disintegrated it www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

😍 Up early to drive oldest kid to the airport, so I made halvah baked oats (same base) with my fave tahini and black sesame seeds for the top. Yessss

Happy Valentine's Day! Hey, do you think Valentine's Day is basically just an excuse to sell greeting cards?? Well, you'd be right! And for that you can thank Esther Howland!

LIFE HACKS 💞💖

RFK Jr. snorted cocaine off the toilet seat the right way. by Ezra Klein

“DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law” is excellent framing

get the kid in the brown hoodie a scholarship

This is something the Nazis used to do to Jewish children in the camps. It happened to a man I knew when he was a child in Auschwitz. The camp guards thought it was funny as hell.

Crushing the mRNA industry in the US also probably destroys a bunch of cures for various cancers just as an FYI.

In incredible news, the European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly for "The Full Recognition Of Trans Women As Women." Even the center-right European People's Party voted for the declaration. It will form a foundation for their position at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. Our latest.

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It was shameful and awful, though.

This happened again this last weekend, when I made TWENTY FOUR lepinje (rolls) and SIX POUNDS of ćevapi (little sausages) for my husband’s birthday. We had 11 ppl there, but 6 were teens/young adults. There wasn’t quite enough left for 3 people to have for lunch the next day—everything gone. 😂

Eating the last of the most recent batch of 12 for lunch, stuffed with honey mustard, caramelized onions, seared pork belly, roasted broccolini, and havarti cheese 😍 Have I mentioned how much I love leftovers? ❤️

Even if Brontë wanted to pit herself against Austen. They can still both exist, and you can respect them both, and you can even love both of their oeuvres a lot without “picking a side”

Not tired of winning.🥳

Whoa! Like the Senate Senate??

Also I feel irritated by the weirdness/wrongness of the discussion about why there is so much more gay romance than lesbian. I think a big piece of it is that straight cis women would love to see men being vulnerable and gentle, and to see romance involving men that isn’t gender-role-poisoned, BUT

Ofc this post is attracting weird racist freaks. 💩

This is bonkers and wonderful! A long read, but very worth the time.

The Project 2025 author is using millions of dollars in USAID money for his own security detail. It is estimated that 762,000 people have *already died* as a result of Elon Musk and Russell Vought’s obscene murder of USAID, including more than 500,000 children. Vought is a mass murderer.

In terms of what cures are being lost: - Epstein-Barr virus is perhaps the major trigger for multiple sclerosis - herpes simplex virus causes cold sores, genital herpes, infections in babies, deadly meningitis - shingles virus causes an intensely painful disease

I'd like at add a few things to this. (1) humanists have not been able to convince any political party that curiosity-driven humanities research is a public good that should be funded using tax dollars. Republicans don't believe this, but neither do Democrats.

we kinda tried this. it was called "being cancelled." it was more of an ambition than an actual thing that happened to people. and, in response, the ruling class absolutely lost its shit and decided even this mere glimmer of socially-enforced norms of behavior was jacobinism.

lol babes, it really didn’t. Modern science in particular came from Europe freaking the fuck out over how technologically backward they were compared to China and the Islamic Empire and frantically copying their homework.

It would be real fun to come online or look at news without encountering a bunch of people (((noticing))) things every fucking day. I don’t want to have to mute my whole goddamn religion/culture to avoid this shit 💔

We uh, we already tried this you guys and that’s how we got here 😭

do we really need a second day of discourse about the ku klux clamsman? the man with the nazi tattoo? this one's easy folks. throw him back, keep it moving

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They’re just out there setting records at everything.

mhmm🖤

Personally, I would like both of these fuckers to owe every dime they have to her family. This story has made me incandescent with rage for several years now.

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I will admit this was one that I had to both click through and then search for myself to believe it's real.

This exactly. I have taught many ages of kids as an adult, including when I was in my late teens-20s, and they were clearly *kids*, even when the age difference was only a few years.

This thread is absolutely unbelievable I’m levitating.

A fam favorite. Looking forward to laughing about this moment (in addition to the regular crying).

The denaturalization project, no matter how it is cloaked in law, is inherently a politically targeted abuse of power until they go after the single most prominent case of naturalization fraud in the country: Elon Musk obtaining his citizenship by lying about his prior immigration status violations.

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Cake is healthy now! So are cookies. 😉

I have three friends from high school who I still feel close to, tho I don’t talk to them that often. One visited about 10yrs ago when he was in the area, I read the Decameron with another in a COVID lockdown remote book club, and one visited this summer when she was in town. Lost touch with others.

“Citizens are afraid that if they do or say something the government doesn’t like — even if those things are lawful and protected by the Constitution — they will be a target,” she said. You don’t say. Welp, here we go. Majority of my same-gen family members are immigrants. 🙃