I'm not saying that Canada is perfect, I'm saying that the bar is pretty low right now.

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English” my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

" He wrote down that his grounds for contesting [deportation] were that he was married to a US citizen and had a valid work permit." Good reasons!

If you’ve decided to cancel your @washingtonpost.com subscription because of this week’s layoffs, that’s obviously your choice — but it would be great if you’d consider donating the cost of the subscription to the Guild’s fundraiser for laid-off colleagues www.gofundme.com/f/standing-t...

So the thing that's especially scream-worthy about this is that in order to enter any of the inpatient units at Children's, you have to go through the Emergency Room entrance. You have to ride in the same elevator from the garage, stand in the same security check-in line. We were warned specifically

See this is why we'll always need software engineers

I'm mildly annoyed that I got this instantly since at this point in my life I am Margr

I'll be honest I'm just watching for the Gatorade on the coach

A local pizza place screwed up my order while I was pregnant 6 years ago. I still hate them.

I really hope Alyssa Liu's Cheshire cat hair catches on.

Watching the US Olympic figure skating team gold medal ceremony and I'm just reflecting that many of them are children of immigrants. Ilia Malanin, Alyssa Liu, Ellie Kam

HELL YEAH ILLEGAL BACKFLIP!?!

This Italian skater is giving me LIFE!

Claude Code -- but also maybe the combination of peyote, ayahuasca, and cocaine I've taken -- has blown my mind!

"You always demolish my wishes" - First Grader, after not being allowed to buy things at Target

ethics professor here, can confirm

this guy sounds like a real piece of shit

Georgia has such a great figure skating program and no one told me?!

Looks like it’s possible for multiple airlines, not just Delta

All of the below is cannon:

I was a young figure skater. Not good, like playing basketball at the high school level. But people who played basketball in high school have numerous opportunities to watch basketball on bars and yell at the screen, whereas I have no such opportunity.

Acecdotally, when we called him on Thursday as part of a union action, the number was disconnected

Yes it was a ritual! It always made them like you back. See the teen witch movies of the era for details.

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

‘Maria still has vision problems and headaches. The sweet girl who loved her teacher and played with Barbies is now fearful and withdrawn, talking often about her weeks in Texas and the workers who watched over her. Whenever she sees a police officer, she tenses. “It’s the bad men,” she said.’

I will gladly accept a global tax to fund this.

Genuinely love that my BlueSky feed right now is just people booing JD Vance.

"Nobody will keep filing from a war zone even with the looming threat of layoffs because they believe in the yacht so much. Nobody believes in the yacht at all." www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

This woman was Ivy League educated and a member of the upper eschelons of society. I'd spent time in domestic violence shelters and mental institutions. You know what you learn from mingling with the bottom rung of society that you don't learn at an Ivy? There's a lot of talent being missed.

I once got in a Slack debate with the editor-in-chief of a publication, a woman, who believed that for society to benefit from genius men those men's abuse of women might need to be tolerated. I argued that the loss of contributions of the women they abused could easily be worth 10x their own.

The United States has a deeply concerning lack of data privacy which often shows up in online advertising, but on the plus side I was just served an ad for a necklace that says FUCK ICE in Morse code.

Oh, were there other, less racist things, senator?

Oh no, just saw that my 7th grade biology teacher died. I had an autoimmune disease that year that made it very difficult to be in school. This was before the days of IEPs, so I was flailing and teachers didn't have much guidance on what to do with me. Many just got frustrated, but she...

OH MY GOD THE FIFTH GRADERS WERE RIGHT! The Great Meme Reset was real, and 6-7 if over! www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/m...

Really not brought up enough

Something I found when studying international relations - when the leader is trying to bend the rule of law to their whim, you get large numbers attorneys in suits outside protesting. This happens across the world. Lawyers, it turns out, really like laws.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue

I wish I could interview the artist behind this

as i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

Angrily playing the pianoforte while your mother tries to marry you off to a rude plantation owner who has twelve thousand a year, although it appears he is much taken with your sister who does not care for society.

As someone who started a successful small news site, I am happy to talk to anyone who thinks they want to do this. I try to lift up other independent journalists whose values align with mine when I can, and have been repeatedly lifted up by colleagues in turn. Now for the but...

A family of US citizens: Her 7-year-old son shrinks when classmates refer to him as “the boy from the bombing.” The 2-year-old jumps and cries when he hears a loud noise. The baby requires nasal drops to fight the effects of the chemicals that inflamed his sinuses. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...

WaPo layoffs are tragic. This, however, is some excellent shade. 🎁 link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/b...

I felt personally attacked until I realized 100% of my children know who Trogdor the Burninator is. www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/a-d...

what else can you possibly say but

thinking, for no particular reason, about the fevered ramp-up of "has me too gone too far?" in our storied legacy publications

For more than 60 years, newborns in the US have routinely received vitamin K injections to prevent potentially life-threatening bleeding. These aren't vaccines, but they are getting swept up in anti-vaccine sentiment, doctors told me, and more parents are rejecting them.