Sleep well, friends, and dream of large lily pads.

Love bomb them over the next few weeks, as they don’t close until June 6.

If you're in line for the AI Is Fucking Over Party STAY IN LINE

lmao i remember posting this wild times

Lebanese journalist Amal Khalil found dead after being trapped in rubble following Israeli strike, obstruction of rescue: cpj.org?p=583367

I was like “wait hasn’t that class action lawsuit been out there for a while now” and then I realized no it’s a whole new lawsuit from a different person So that seems very not great

Hostile architecture includes removing benches.

And you will benefit from it too! I was so disgusted the last time I went to NYC to realize that Penn Station had virtually no benches. Nowhere to sit down. It’s hideously inaccessible to disabled people, and it’s hostile to everyone who might be tired or need to set their stuff down a moment

Mortal Kombat.

Do you ever look at the stories around folks (Meghan, Chappell, KPorter, Blake) and wonder how the Powers That Be would get the press to spin you being a horrible unfit person if they decided you were too dangerous or just in their way?

From the start I have been saying that the bitch narrative was too cheap and easy to be taken at face value. Both stories which she has openly admitted to involved someone who just kept screwing up in major ways, including one who exposed her whole family to Covid. In that case I'd be a bitch too.

We watched the first episode of Zach Galifianakis’ This Is Ä Gardening Show, all about apples. It’s funniest when kids are just clowning him. An enjoyable diversion.

By the way here is some data on trans people's performance in sports bjsm.bmj.com/content/58/1... And here are some interesting articles on sex categories in sports journals.library.wustl.edu/lawreview/ar... www.researchgate.net/publication/... Spoilers: there are no good reasons to segregate

The existence of women's sports is a historical one that was reinforced at regular intervals by patriarchal assumptions that women are more fragile and need to be "protected" It doesn't reflect any statistical truth (1/2)

Fun fact: Women's sports are segregated not to protect women, but to protect *men* from losing *to* a woman. Don't believe me? Look up Jackie Mitchell. Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Then suddenly women were unfit to play baseball.

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

Felt like I needed to add a sense of mystery and adventure to my life. Then I remembered we live in a world where I can order something called a "volcano dipper" from a pizza place and now my husband and I are waiting for this abomination to get delivered.

1) creamy garlic sauce is in the middle 2) a metal tin elevates the creamy garlic volcano underneath the pizza crust (like a cupcake tin) 3) the pizza slices rip out of the sides and the creamy garlic volcano remains whole until the end 4) it was delicious

when you regret having done something you said you wouldn’t do again: the french call it déjà rue

Why is it even that high?

HUGE scandal if true. Laura Loomer got Marco Rubio to throw two Iranian women with green cards in ICE jail to be stripped of status and deported, claiming they were related to Qasem Soleimani. Official documents provided to @dropsitenews.com appear to show they are NOT related; they're innocent.

They paused Oversight Committee hearings the minute we started getting answers about the Epstein files. Now it’s “roundtables”: no rules, no oaths, no subpoenas. You do the math. Because the moment accountability shows up, they shut it down. The survivors deserve better.

it is devastating to notice how few benches there are in the world and how some benches have been replaced by weird "leaning" things. the world is incredibly cruel to disabled, elderly, poor, pregnant, tired, homeless, and all people. there should be benches fucking everywhere for everyone

Rattlesnake but instead of a rattle it's a theremin and it makes sci-fi sounds at you.

THIS IS SO WELL DONE. ⭐️ Have a listen. Also: content creation is making all of us slowly lose our minds.

and Ben Bradlee had to fight hard for them to keep it! as soon as it became something that looked like something, the White House reporters wanted to take it over and use it to burnish their access credentials, but Bradlee and Graham cared more about getting the story right

The government side of PBS and NPR is gone since the Corporation for Public Broadcasting no longer exists (that gov't funding is gutted completely) and PBS/NPR is now largely supported by private donors. They aren't owned by the government but rather the member stations.

she's found a reliable car for $1800, can we help her raise it? #UrgentNeed

That’s telling.

benches, buses, and bathrooms. they should be everywhere

The bank I worked at for a few years had gotten rid of that. Just give them what’s in your drawer. (Also wait until after to hit the panic button because small town cops can’t be trusted not to make it a hostage situation.)

Anyway, I am a museum enthusiast and stealing from public institutions then selling those historic works of art to evil, rich people who will stash them away where no one can see them makes me very angry

I do not want to be on guard when I read manuscripts. I do not want to be on guard when I read slush. I do not want to be on guard when I listen to music, when I look at visual art, when I WATCH A FUCKING COMMERCIAL. I hate Altman so much I burn with it. He and his kind have stolen the WONDER.

fuck sam altman forever for taking away the last places where we could engage in good faith: the creative arts, which should be a testament to human ingenuity. i am so mad that everything i read or listen to or admire is now tainted with doubt. do you understand? he is a thief of joy and i HATE HIM

Ai companies are trying to buy credibility through Hollywood endorsements but all I see are artists permanently branding themselves as scabs

“This was not a disease that was killing healthy people. It was killing sick people”. RFK Jr. lying about the COVID19 pandemic.

Is there not one, goddam normal motherfucker in this entire Administration?

We should celebrate every Earth Day by announcing bus lanes

I just relaunched my doula services page. I'll be filling it out more thoroughly this week. But the link is active, as is my screening form. www.sayheylenee.com/work-with-le...

“The number one [takeaway] would be that just because the AI is saying, very convincingly, that it is seeing something, it doesn’t mean that it is actually seeing that.” Holy fucking shit, just use humans.

Before people throw the baby out with the bath water, I feel like HR is necessary (as somebody who has been harassed at her job). That doesn’t mean every HR is good, but neither are they axiomatically awful. I do think unions and oversight organizations could also come into play here though.

Another consequence of people believing in so-called “body language experts” on social media, many of whom grow their followings by “analyzing” abuse victims like Amber Heard to declare them liars

I'm not Muslim but have a disability and illbess which, amongst other things, has caused a lot of scarring. I've often thought that if I'm ever well enough to return to swimming, I would be grateful for the option of that sort of costume.

This is Islamaphobic AND ableist. Many people cannot tolerate full sun on extremities. And also loads of surfing rashers are long sleeved.

Now that we have Mamdani in office for a hundred days, I would like to say that we want more action from him on trans rights and more action on library funding. I’m not a pundit, this is not a politics blog!

This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it, my example showing that the regret may be the same either way and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.”

Ben Franklin, on why you should get your kids vaccinated: “In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation.

Lunch: toasted garlic mini-naans with truffled goat cheese.

zaslav tried to take this from us but he COULDNT it is too powerful