billionaires simply should not exist, and you cannot change my mind.

we aren't serious right now www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

This image shows Yellow-Red-Blue, a famous masterwork by the Russian abstract art pioneer Wassily Kandinsky, painted in 1925.

a little Friday treat: www.thesmallbow.com/p/consider-t...

White people disgusted by this racist display are making pithy jokes in the replies. I want acknowledgment that it’s physically painful to think about our black elders, in particular, enduring the consequences of a Supreme Court decision that augurs a return to the Jim Crow era.

It’s relatively common for artists to use real people as references, but this is different — it’s using a real Indigenous actress to create an imaginary Indigenous character, coloring her blue, turning her into IP, and building a franchise around her without ever hiring or paying that actress.

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

It's bad when the leaders of news organizations lie. That's what Venetoulis Institute (@post-gazette.com & @thebaltimorebanner.com) CEO Bob Cohn did here. He cut 50% of the staff. He canned 80% of strikers. Of the scabs he kept, 80% had publicly disavowed the union. www.cjr.org/feature/vene...

From the News Guild. Deep cuts over at the Post-Gazette yesterday, including some 80% of strikers:

That makes one of us, bitch

This is interesting because it challenges two widely held political assumptions: 1) that people love it when everything at the supermarket is at least $8.99 and 2) that the easiest way to win voters over is to go on TV every day and say that you need to build a big event space or you'll die.

"In those final moments, his illness again transformed him into everyone he had ever been, almost simultaneously—the frail man on the cusp of relief, yes, but also my vibrant, maddening dad, whom I had loved and missed, and would love and miss, again and again." www.theatlantic.com/family/2026/...

"The structure whose supports our elites are steadily kicking down is also the one that props up their own personal safety from disaster and political invulnerability to accountability. And all of this can go away." me in @bostonreview.bsky.social www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-y...

truth coming out of her cup noodles to shame mankind

what did I ever do to deserve the NFL draft coming to Pittsburgh. what did I do.

Well, we cleared 1,000 🙂

bless Scaachi embedded.substack.com/p/my-interne...

if you’ve never heard of a popular band, France makes a statue out of bronze and gives it to you as a gift

I don't deny that dogs can sometimes be quite lovely but what I will say is I don't trust their opinions. If a cat recommended me an album it had bought, I'd totally check it out. If a dog did the same, I'd promise to listen to the album, out of politeness, with no intention of actually doing so

CAMERON!!!

Here is what the union Post Gazette WORKERS have to say: newsguild.org/post-gazette...

but also:

Again: for any big liberal donor who wants to funnel millions into fixing this country's politics, the ROI on buying any struggling paper and simply tasking it with doing real reporting on local news is vastly higher than the same $$ given to some group that does mass ad buys every election year.

Just to give a sense of the insane scale of billions of dollars…MacKenzie Scott got about $38 billion after divorcing Bezos in 2019. She has become the world’s most generous philanthropist, giving away over $19 billion…and she’s currently wealthier than she started. Just. Tax. Them.

I find something I want to text my dad about roughly three times a day, and it's infuriating that I can't.

"Footloose" is a demented choice for pharmacy hold music if you're waiting to find out whether your SSRIs were refilled. by definition I do not have the energy, Kenny Loggins!

The world not screeching to a halt when the US killed more than 100 little school girls on the very first day of this "liberating war" led us exactly to this moment

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

everything we are seeing now is the consequence of having a political environment in which indifference to the deaths and suffering of other people - even by the state whose supposed responsibility is to safeguard their welfare - is a superpower rather than a political liability

in talks with a24 about rebranding april 1st to be more about Elevated Pranks and Allegorical Humor

SUPERVILLAIN AFFIRMATIONS: -I prioritize achieving my goals. -I have a good sense of humor. -Armies obey me, men fear me, and I am working on reëstablishing a good relationship to women. -Whenever I meet another villain they smell bad. I smell fine. -I am fair to my goons.

I turned 35 yesterday, and I celebrated by having one (1) glass of wine and falling asleep on the couch. this age bracket rules.

SCOTUS dropping this on trans visibility day oof

SCOTUS has ruled that bans on conversion therapy "violate free speech." Happy Trans Day of Getting Notifications About Human Rights Violations On Your Phone! www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

achievement unlocked: my mother-in-law told me I am her favorite daughter-in-law (her son is an only child, but still)

okay, maybe I didn't miss the Pirates THAT much

i don't much like platner for the same reason i have rapidly come to dislike annie andrews and the same reason i don't like newsom — values matter, and throwing out homophobic or misogynistic or transphobic "jokes" display contempt for the values the overwhelming majority of party voters live by

hey gang: have any of you ever reissued an out-of-print chapbook, whether independently or through a press? tell me about it, please!

it's Mr. Rogers' birthday, and I would love to say I like you just the way you are, but some of you need to reconsider a few things real quick.

I'll never get to make a Walker, Texas Ranger joke about a centenarian Chuck Norris needing mobility aids :(((

Fetterman was the deciding vote on advancing Mullin’s DHS Secretary nomination. With the GOP committee chair Rand Paul voting no, Fetterman could have single-handedly thrown sand in the gears of the agency of ICE, mass deportation, rights violations, and concentration camps. He chose the opposite.

CITY PAPER LIVES www.wesa.fm/identity-com...

one of the few consensus opinions we've ever had across the entire political spectrum is that women's bodies are an acceptable sacrifice in the name of progress.

Just devastating. Absolutely devastating. And historical investigations matter, because what's hidden today -- or in plain sight but willfully ignored -- will be reckoned with in the future.

Impossible to overestimate the damage this guy caused. His book was based on a laughably false premise and the movement he inspired led immigration crackdowns and forcible sterilization campaigns. Glad the population got one Ehrlich smaller today.

Yeah, uhh, the ides of march is great if you're just getting into ides, I guess. I celebrate better, less commercialized ides, though. You've probably never heard of them.

Anyone else’s thermostat come with this “Wretched of the Earth” setting

There is no fixing an agency that's main focus is to disappear and murder people based on racism and xenophobia. ABOLISH ICE NOW!

anytime I see someone I haven't run into for six months or more, we have some version of the exact same moment ("congratulations on your wedding! sorry about your dad"), and I have yet to figure out how to arrange my face. considering the ol' :/ as a stopgap.