Gotta love our small government minarchist "abolish taxes and legalize raw milk" governor threatening to veto legislation to limit state surveillance coloradonewsline.com/2026/04/29/c...

Funny how after every SCOTUS ruling striking down some protection from government abuse, the officials those protections restrained — cops, prosecutors, Republican state electeds — immediately start acting in the precise manner SCOTUS assured us they no longer do.

It is kind shocking that non vegetarian/vegan adults choose cheese pizza when there are other options available

Medical imaging files are the bane of my existence

Reading

Never forget

People who believe anthropogenic climate change is real but not a significant problem are so annoying

Obviously whatever gets people to eat less meat is good but I do find it kinda funny when I come across vegan versions of the most unappetizing meat goo ever made

Want to see how far right the Republican Party has gone? Watch George H. W. Bush and Ronald Reagan answer a question about illegal immigration during a 1980 debate. They wouldn’t even be allowed in today’s Republican Party.

Best: The Sacred Canopy, by Peter Berger Worst: What is Eugenics? by Leonard Darwin

Hulu is so much less functional than the other streaming platforms that it's almost comical

ChatGPT told me today that the Bible is a 2018 reference work by DK Publishing

I'm becoming a board game person god help me

Starting estrogen/spiro has ~instantly cured my acne so I appreciate that

I did not realize the mainstream right-wing position on Rachel Carson is that she's responsible for millions of deaths

Someone should invent a set of institutions and norms that are impervious to the rise of fascism

My Instagram reels feed is giving me an AI generated ad where a lawyer-ish looking guy tells me he can help me easily become a Canadian citizen

Reading about the history of the tobacco industry's to obfuscate the science around lung cancer and

No politics here either, just balls and strikes 🙄

have it yuri way

I have decided that the "previously on" bits are in fact part of the show, and you are not allowed to skip them

Bugonia is very good. Strange, off-putting, darkly funny. Really clever stuff. Everything you expect from Lanthimos at this point

Oh no

You really gotta hate it when putting in more effort gives you better results

It is pretty depressing that Trump is doing worse on inflation than civil rights/democracy

So if one party enthusiastically supports racial discrimination, and this leads a racial minority to overwhelmingly vote for a different party, then that racial discrimination stops being intolerable racial discrimination and starts being tolerable partisan politics

Michelle you are in fact dumb as a bag of rocks

Reminder that poor people are more likely to be vegetarians, contrary to the whole "you have to be a millionaire to be vegan" nonsense that goes around

Well done sir, they're calling it your best interview yet

There's a bit where Habermas said something like "translation is the method of a nondestructive secularization," and I think that's true but also sometimes when I read old theologians, I will admit the translation to secular-ese is tricky

Oh I am serious. And I think "Of course I'm too sophisticated to actually believe the dumb thing, but here's how I can kinda rhetorically position myself as on its side anyway" is a bad instinct that ultimately drives one's own political coalition off a cliff as is driven by its stupidest members.

Listening to my parents, who homeschooled me and did not give me a shop class, complain about how public schools don't have enough shop classes, sure is something!!!

Tremendously successful

BOOK FAIR

Pretty wild this wouldn't occur to them until after publishing the article

The latest episode of The Boys is, unsurprisingly, quite bad. Completionism is a kind of masochism

There's no other way to say it: This AP-NORC poll is atrocious for Trump. – Overall: 33-67 – Immigration: 40-59 – Iran: 32-67 – Economy: 30-70 – Cost of living: 23(!)-76 37% of Republicans disapprove of his handling of the economy, 47% disapprove on cost of living. apnorc.org/projects/few...

I'm excited to share that we've made a collection of historic Supreme Court Records and Briefs available via @archive.org I've written a blog post where I go into detail about the importance of this collection. blog.archive.org/2026/04/20/u...

Reading through Lochner, and I am shocked that arguments like "if a legislature can legitimately enforce a 10 hour workday, then it must be able to legitimately enact any legislation it wants" and "legislatures may only regulate the most unhealthy occupations" didn't stand the test of time

I'm writing a thing attempting to explain what I think does and doesn't count as "eugenics," and the conclusion I am somewhat reluctantly pushing myself towards is basically "nothing is eugenics, except transhumanism"

More like laissez unfaire if you ask me

In this house, we believe: gas should be more expensive parking should be more expensive plastic should be more expensive hamburgers should be more expensive kindness is everything

Should I subject myself to Evangelical writing about homosexuality

"The idiosyncracy of perceivers' capacities to discern patterns is striking"

“When someone says “culture explains X,” they’re gesturing at a black box the size of human civilization and calling the gesture a theory.”

Interesting table on nazi electoral support

Spoilers for The Boys season 5. This kinda thing annoys me. People wildly overrated how much "anyone could die" helps make a show more intense. 1) You can have tons of legit tension without any risk of death. That is just not even required. 2) characters shouldn't die in the middle of their arcs

You don't have to apologize that your dog wants to be friends with me. I'm very cool. If I were a dog I'd also want to be friends with me