Having a grilled cheese sandwich. The sun just came out. Listening to jazz on the AirPods. And BOOM, now I have tears in my eyes for no discernible reason. I miss my dad. It's been two months. This is what everyone talks about: grief being a glitter bomb that just goes off, huh.

NARRATOR: George Wallace won Georgia in 1968. OTHER NARRATOR: But Barry Goldwater won it in 1964. The South was not about to put up with equality for Black people.

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

how is this literally happening in real life

But I went and found the video, and it's just him waving. Regular waving. There's enough real stuff people can criticize him for; inventing controversies is unnecessary.

LLMs predict the next token in the same sense that humans predict the next body motion

They told the Pope he doesn’t understand the Bible and then they quoted Pulp Fiction.

I have a complicated relationship with the planet Jupiter, in that I have absolutely no connection at all to it

WOW: Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak have the memos that describe the origins of SCOTUS shadow docket - the 2016 order halting Obama’s Clean Power Plan @jodikantor.bsky.social @adamliptak.bsky.social @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Let's say the CNO is correct. The food on USS Abraham Lincoln and USS Tripoli is fine by Navy standards. Sailors are going out of their way to manufacture false propaganda to undermine the war effort.

re patel. so this quote is famous for a reason. and yet if you know trump’s history - eg his brother’s alcoholism and early death - and his views on alcohol, it’s genuinely weird that he’s fine with having alleged alcoholics as some of his most important lieutenants.

Right out in the open, Donald Trump is suing his own IRS to try to steal $10 BILLION taxpayer dollars. I just introduced a bill that would make this theft ILLEGAL.

Does this make me a Luddite? I don't think so. My normie friends visit my apartment and go "whoa" at my gaming/podcasting/recording PC setup. I'm good with tech that's actually useful.

John Eastman was not disbarred for making "allegedly questionable constitutional arguments," and characterizing the decision that way is risible.

This story is crazy! The Jim Dolan had a Knicks fan obsessively monitored at games just because she was trans.

You see, AI can only succeed if we have _faith_ in it

Cue story about local NZ newspaper article friend of mine sent me years ago. Cops burned a load of seized marijuana on a beach. The smoke blew down the beach over a flock of shorebirds. The headline--- "Police committed to ending the scourge of illicit drugs. Say they will leave no tern unstoned."

I do kinda wonder why I’m in the YA category and not the graphic novel category, but I also find it kinda cool because comic books are just books, and this reinforces that to readers.

you know you've been computering for too long when you can recognise what this is

me and the boys on the USS Abraham Lincoln eating boiled boot leather and sharing stories about the most Realistic Pussy we've ever seen

Here I am, quoting you on that

I'm never sad about killing of characters, indeed I'm generally positively gleeful about it and delight in how angry many of you will be about it. Because I'm a monster, you see.

Yeah, olive oil and cheese and pastries can make you a little fat. Yeah, sunshine gives you wrinkles and wine ruins your liver and spending money on pretty things eats up your savings. But unfortunately, I've decided to enjoy life anyways

I love this fact.

The nepo babies that run the New York Times are suspicious that some other children of the elite have not used their connections to line their own pockets and they think we should all be suspicious too.

I love how everyone is acting like Zohran Mamdani talking in Mario Kart metaphors is somehow unbelievable. He's 34... you know bro has a ride or die favorite Pokemon type and is up to his eyeballs in debt to Timmy and Tommy.

ICE is not broken. It's agents murdering people, taking trophies of victims, using illegal tactics, breaking laws, spreading terror, and leaving death cards are not isolated events, outliers, or accidents. ICE is operating exactly as intended.

The application has remained stable since approximately 9 PM PDT, April 16 despite ongoing Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks. We have not seen any evidence of unauthorized access to private user data. We will provide a further update by end of day.

this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

The richest 10% of Americans own roughly 87% of stocks. The richest 1% alone own roughly half of all stocks. It's worth pointing out once again that the stock market is not the economy.

Holy shit, I have NEVER been more excited for a movie.

Christian Nationalism is a Cult of Convenience

mamdani being a cheerful normal guy that people project absolute insane things on is one of the things that make him very relatable to me, personally

If they settle, I think it's an impeachable offense for both him and the AG.

Three Priority envelopes almost $40 at USPS… meanwhile in 2014 I was shipping all week for that price. Small businesses aren’t failing because of effort, they’re getting crushed by costs that make zero sense anymore. #Momsky #Pinks

just spitballing here but one thing that might turn down the temperature is top CEOs not doing and saying insane and extremely harmful things all the time, such as enthusiastically embracing fascist movements

Seriously question, do you think they're billing $8 for the hamburger patty, $5 for the carrots and $7 for the mystery strip to both groups? Or is it higher for the military because the DoD has a stronger history of overpaying grifters?

Yes, that food tray is exactly the same as food trays in prisons across the US, serviced by these same private corps.

the never-hoped-for merger of Clippy and PACER

The Fifth Circuit's filing system now has an AI assistant that figure out what kind of document you're filing! I'll have to try if it works.

no one will ever throw people under the bus like this guy, the best ever to do it

not bgp, not dns, but a secret third thing (ddos)

Exactly one year ago today:

it's absolutely wild that cishet white men believe that if something happens to interrupt their meteoric rise to the top of *having complete power over other people*, it's an atrocity that justifies murder

nothing terrifies me more than people who can easily afford to pay higher taxes doing just that. Chills me to the bone.

Since Dave is trending, I do wanna reshare this great piece of investigative work by Michael Hobbes, that goes into what actually happened with Daphne Dornan, the trans woman whose suicide Dave explicitly exploited to push hate speech. Dave is such a POS. michaelhobbes.substack.com/p/dave-chapp...

Peeing in public, especially where a lot of children are and might possibly see you) can be arrested as a sex offender.

They demanded to use the bathroom and when they were not let in they just peed on the parking lot flower beds, on the building, etc. True psychos. I’m trying to get the library to turn over video to police.

It was, as I said at the time, a recapitulation of a prior Court’s sociologically obtuse insistence that segregated facilities could be “separate but equal”: A retreat to an abstract ideal that could never survive five minutes of actual experience.