my political post for today

Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

FIFA 2026: It is remarkable!! It is incredible!! It is offsides

WAIT FOR IT WAIT. FOR. IT! 🪶 🐣

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

This crisis needs to elevated

MacFarlane: I feel like all of this was doomed to fail at the Great American State Fair the second Milli Vanilli canceled. Only bad things happen when Milli Vanilli cancels on you.

Freeedom!

Regulating monsters. My cartoon in today's @theageaustralia.bsky.social and @sydmorningherald.bsky.social

The Smithsonian Air and Space museum still rocks!

The Titans did a super low-tech schedule release video and people loved it The Cardinals used AI and they’re getting crushed Seems telling!

Results Age xkcd.com/3245/

They gave him an award and called him an environmental activist lmaooo

Firefighters are bracing for a bad wildfire season: "We're dry and we're expecting the pace to pick up significantly here any time," said the recently appointed head of that service, Brian Fennessy, in an interview with NPR's All Things Considered host Emily Feng. www.npr.org/2026/05/09/n...

Could Altuve have hit this Ohtani sweeper, if he used himself as a bat?

This is fantastical and proof that these laws are terrible

a recent New Yorker reject that kinda sums up the general state of things.

A message on the Camden Yards scoreboard: No more fireworks tonight as the Orioles have hit too many home runs.

Order isn't posted online yet, but NOAA probationary employees illegally terminated last year have been granted class status! (Earlier version of this post with the link to a different case was deleted.)

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social Anole Eocene Halon

Counterpoint - do watch with the subtitles on

Cherry trees (and Magnolias) in full bloom at the National Arboretum

A commenter notes that "Trump managed to be both Hitler and Chamberlain in the same negotiation. An unprecedented feat." 😭

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

My resignation letter

National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info

Wild weather today… high 76 at 2am and then a snowy afternoon and low of 33 at 2pm

Good for the MD delegation! But I don’t like the foreshadowing…

Highly recommend the American Visionary Art Museum in Baltimore. Many great exhibits including the Cabaret Mechanical Theatre.

Radiohead is demanding that the Trump administration take down a pro-ICE promotional video featuring a version of its song “Let Down” without permission. Full statement from the band:

Formal invitation to the hockey team sent,,, if any people with connections to the hockey team wanna have them email my team my bio. I’m for real. 👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Great game, Canada! It was an honor/honour to play against such fantastic neighbors/ neighbours.

A few days ago, a friend asked me to make a FB group for our friend circle planning a tea party. I made the group and invited six people. SIX PEOPLE. It's for a tea party, at someone's house. ... wait for it ... (AI slop post 1/ ?)

I just did the dumbest thing of my entire career to prove a much more serious point. I tricked ChatGPT and Google, and made them tell other users I’m a competitive hot-dog-eating world champion People are using this trick on a massive scale to make AI tell you lies. I’ll explain how I did it

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

Maryland House, Senate vote to ban local ICE enforcement agreements

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

Downfall Bovino Edition. You're welcome.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

The name "Popular Science" doesn't mean we shift our coverage depending on public opinion. It means we cover relevant subjects that are rigorously researched, reliable, and grounded in reality. And trans lives are grounded in reality. We see y'all. No matter what. www.popsci.com/science/tran...

As an avid observer of algorithms I think I’ve figured out part of what happened here. FB now explicitly looks for and directs posts you’re opposed to into your feed, to rage-bait engagement. So now my posts are being actively boosted into people’s feeds of who reject climate. Ha! 😄😵‍💫

I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork

For comparison, every robotic mission NASA has ever sent in its history, from the dawn of the Space Age 65 years ago to today, from Mercury to Pluto and beyond, has cost less than $40B. I know which one has done more for humankind and which one should be dismantled.