Seems like the Strait of Hormuz is only open when the stock market is.

any time another of my former associates is revealed to have been doing unspeakable evil for his entire adult life, it really shows what a discerning judge of character i am. see, i knew darkness lurked within this guy. that's why i stopped talking to him after he was rude to me at that girl auction

[Citizen Kane dying voice] Air Bud

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Reed College’s mowing avoids cutting down these little stands of daisies, making it a nice week for us to talk about Keats “thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers”

Exactly one year ago today:

Ugh, I hate it when someone interrupts my Scholar's Refrain. Which is when I take the flute out of my billowing sleeve and play an original composition to clear my mind...

and it's just him? W. H. Auden and T. S. Eliot both still get periods

I think it's important to share these stories far and wide and try to get them in front of the people in your life who voted for Trump because they claimed he would deport the criminals. This is very much a targeted attempt at harassing a legal resident who helps immigrants navigate the courts.

They sell ANDOR action figures, of course, and of course the audience is 35-50-year-olds, but it's deeply funny to imagine children playing with little Luthen Rael and Saw Gerrera dolls. CHILD 1: I think violence is not only justified, but demanded CHILD 2: I agree, but haste could be our undoing

time to autistically fall asleep in the shape of the number 4

I cannot believe this needs to be said, but do not smash yourself in the face with a hammer. Let me do it.

He says in interviews that he smokes meth to "stay thin" and "achieve hollow cheeks" and I feel like many overlook this fact as likely being the source of the rest of his issues, rather than say, number four or five on the list of weird things about this guy.

Interesting that Sharon Simmons, the Door Dasher from Arkansas at the White House, is also Sharon Simmons from Nevada that testified at a GOP Ways and Means field hearing about trumps ‘big beautiful bill’ in Nevada last year.

we are in a completely pointless war. prices of food and gas are up. every second ad on tv is for gambling. 300,000 people got laid off from the federal government last year. over 700,000 people died due to US AID cuts. every news article is about how you personally are about to get fired.

say it with me children who attend daycare after 12 months of age have better life outcomes than children who don’t

Got the idea for this project when I applied for one of these and couldn't find any research on who wins them. I honestly don't know that I would apply again after collecting this data & having to think hard about what it means to hope you're the exception that allows status to maintain its power.

as me about the prestigious foundation who told me and my dean IN WRITING that "UIC does not meet our standards for an eligible faculty institution"

old fashioned Hollywood bigwigs will tell you the The Pitt should be a show about a hospital for as many seasons as possible. i embrace a new Hollywood mindset that incorporates the teachings of shonen manga. season 3 should have all the same characters but now they're in a high school marching band

This really should not be a surprise to anyone. But then I wrote a post in 2024 listing Hungary's influence op as one of the things NOT being covered bc of the 1000th Joe Biden Old story.

i feel bad for our country but this is tremendous content

This is a great illustration of @larryglickman.bsky.social's point about how "backlash" framing lets the right play the victim.

Average GOP Congressman: We err...uhhh...don't uh need uh...oversight of the DoD because uh...we trust the President to decide what's best Donald Trump: I AM JESUS CHRIST RETURNED TO EARTH THE POPE ISN'T MAGA AND HE'S WEAK ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS I AM GOING TO BUILD A HOTEL ON THE MOON

MY pope leo ain't weak on crime

This is honestly what it feels like watching the US/Iran news on a daily basis.

Saying the Pope is weak on crime is like saying "the pope is weak on crime" (there are no good analogies for how fucking stupid that is; it's a category that contains exactly one example)

so wholesome ❤️ (via samfnch on threads)

Working on a prototype for a knife that shoots bullets

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

Shuffalo, 7m 57s 🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡🟡 www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/04/12

Diane Keaton insisted that the lobster in the Annie Hall scene be released back into the ocean, and since lobsters can live for decades that lobster could still be out there in the Atlantic, probably downplaying its Woody Allen connection after years of bragging about it.

And again … Begging @nytimes.com not to be the worst parody of itself every day

this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built

jd vance negotiating with Iran

In Turkey, an elderly man who earns his living by shining shoes is visited every morning at the same time by a cat that asks to have its fur brushed. The man never turns down this little friend.😍👍💙

It's insane, fucking Jokerifying, that it was revealed that the world is run by pedophile rapists, but then we made no changes to the fact that these same people are the ones steering legislation to "protect the kids" Have we considered that they might be LYING

As a trans engineer who left the space industry in order to feel safe enough to transition: oof.

I truly love Aamon Hawk's animations. They're so unbelievably weird. www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gj3rLR/

our kid when i try to ask my wife a question

My fireplace belongs in a convention center.

The Melania thing could be what it looks like: Trump is extremely unpopular and has violenced his way into a corner; she is only the biggest rat so far to flee the sinking ship and won't be the last or the largest.

David Duchovny played a transgender woman, Denise, on Twin Peaks in 1990 and when greeting Cooper, the show's protagonist, she says, "I prefer Denise, if you don't mind" and Cooper responds with "OK" and her identity is settled within a couple seconds and was a non-issue, 36 years ago.

Honestly don’t want anyone getting in my fucking face again about how Black people don’t understand how awful the New York Times can be

genuinely think people outside of America don't realize how big this place is, how militarized and murderous our police are, how little our politicians care, how disconnected and impoverished we have been intentionally made to be, how we still have slavery just with extra steps. we really suck gang