Hillary Kelly on how Tessa Hadley’s fiction chronicles the unpredictable transition between girlhood and womanhood

All these people avoiding m-dashes because “AI uses them” simply means that there’s more for me!

"sir a second Nazi groupchat infodump has hit Politico"

part of why i find the idea that certain tech is inevitable (LMS, AI, etc) to be silly is we're not far removed from the before times. we have it in recent and living memory how we function without these things. i graduated from college in 2013. we had reading packets and printed our assignments

Everything Worse

It’s so funny that for the past week republicans have all been like “the only people out there are gonna be Hamas.” Everyone in this crowd is signed up for Kohl’s rewards points.

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

Move over “Slouching Towards Bethlehem”, there’s a new three word phrase in the zeitgeist

Can’t decide what to buy on Prime Day? Try: absolutely nothing, and then go support indie bookstores instead 📚

Man, @bencollins.bsky.social is right, this country lost its way when it lost jazzy sports intro music

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

this is how you slide the buttfumble down your obit

Solidarity, brothers and sisters

We laugh at this shit -- I mean, how can you not? -- but it's serious: these guys want to infuse reactionary thinking into AI and then infuse AI into every nook & cranny of American life. They can't win the argument so they are trying to blunt-force their views onto us with money & power.

feels like we're living through some kind of cultural gas leak

“I’m strong and I want to have like fifty kids and a farm” of course you do. You’re twelve. “I don’t want to eat vegetables I think steak and French fries is the only meal” hell yeah homie you’re twelve. “Maybe if there’s crime we should just send the army” bless your heart my twelve year old buddy

I'm not a political genius, but I'm pretty sure the party that published a 600-page manifesto on how they want to shut down the federal government are the ones who shut down the federal government.

NEW STUDY: Vouchers are helping wealthy families whose kids are mainly already in (religious) private schools. Imagine that! If only that had been entirely foreseeable. Clearly @GovBillLee’s goal all along. reachcentered.org/publications...

"This technology that is ruining education has incredible potential to save education, if only I could figure out how to use it better to improve my students’ education."

Automatically adding "FW FW FW fw:" to every Trump Truth

Say it often, say it loud: "Overall, research has not supported the common-sense presumption that digital approaches to schooling are better than non-digital alternatives. At the broadest level, widespread computer use in education has been found to be associated with lower student achievement."

as a christian, one thing i love about trump is that he explicitly rejects the teachings of jesus

gd right

I went to the ICE facility Trump claims is "under siege" by antifascists and "other domestic terrorists." There were four protesters there, one a thoughtful young man in a chicken costume www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Sticks and stones may break my bones But words are literal terrorism

this happened here and drove a wave of panic that led to dudes “patrolling” with ar-15s and closing businesses early because they were scared antifa was coming to far flung rural places in wa. it was driven — i shit you not — by a network of pawn shop owners who freaked each other out on facebook

Bookmark this, America

This doesn’t get enough credit as maybe one of the funniest things ever.

"Let’s put a stop to the same old partisan sniping and divisiveness about healthcare, defense, and who’s striking whom with a bulging sock full of US currency."

This pair look like the villains in a movie where the hero is a dog.

aka Meta brings in racism specialist to make the robot more racist

On the National Mall this morning, a new satirical statue is up celebrating Jeffrey Epstein and Trump's "friendship" in honor of National Friendship Month.

every company on earth demanding its underpaid workers use the garbage generator machine for everything and now they're mad that all they're getting is garbage

big part of this is because they sent the health reporters, not the political reporters

Trump: don’t take acepitoemponoene RFK Jr: *moth crawls out of mouth* A nude man is in the background, only referred to as “the colonel” Person watching on tv: well if they say so

like i was saying

“I’m less careful about medical claims than is Robert F. Kennedy Jr.” is quite a flex.

"The Regime will find you if you put your name on a list" motherfucker they couldn't even sack Jimmy Kimmel

Wait that’s his face now!?

This is exactly what a baby trying to convince his doctor not to give him a shot would say.

Throughout this whole thing, so many headlines and comments suggested that he was taken off the air for comments about Kirk, but it was his comments about how soulless Republicans sought to capitalize off of his death that drew the administration's ire. I think it's a pretty significant distinction.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

entire press has gotten bullied into treating charlie kirk as if he was one of the most important americans alive and not a modestly popular podcaster

Seeing the Bill Watterson originals full of pencil lines of stuff that didn’t work, scuffs the eraser didn’t pick up, white out galore and more was something I needed to see to remind myself that nothing is perfect the first go and tweaks need to be made and you’re allowed to try again.

this exists it is called thinking

her name couldn’t really be WILL OBEY