People like Haidt, and by extension his fellow travelers at the Times and Atlantic, don't want freedom of speech, they want a right to monologue without criticism. It's effectively "how dare those little brats complain about being forced to listen to me at their graduation."

Few things scare me like hearing my cat throw up and being unable to locate it. There are limited possibilities and I guess she might have opened a portal to somewhere else and sent the vomit there but now I have to worry we've pissed off something else. Cat parent life.

The cycle of a gamer continues.

One of the many reasons I resent that Romance novels get shit on—if dudes would read a wide cross-section, they might notice a distinct lack of comments about the size of a hero’s scrotum. If you can’t bring yourself to ASK A WOMAN, maybe consume the media they consume and take notes?

We're spending Mother's Day in our jammies, playing board games and eating pizza. I love this kid so much I can't even express it. 🥰

Watching David Attenborough get highly deserved praised for his century is reminding me: There is no crisis of masculinity, as such. We have plenty of positive male role models in our society. They just aren’t being pushed into young men’s feeds by nihilistic ad networks and social platforms.

My teen voluntarily went to bed at 10pm last night. Pod person? 🤔

May 8, 2026

if the stereotype is "dolls playing bass" then by god im going to look the part

Again, how we talk about an issue shapes how we respond to it. If we erase the fact that one member of the family murdered everyone else in that family, how will we ever stop domestic violence homicides? How will we stop women and children being murdered in their own homes? How?? 5/

I have seen a bunch of media outlets level the playing field with this DV murder suicide. Four people found dead | four people lost | four people died. What did you say? How about three people were murdered and one person did the murdering. Why aren’t they naming that? 3/

Trevor Project released its annual LGBTQ youth mental health report. The results are shocking. 40% of trans youth seriously considered attempting suicide in the past year. Trans youth who wanted hormones but couldn’t access them were nearly twice as likely to attempt suicide than those who could.

I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of - new account fatigue - new app fatigue - useless upgrade fatigue - terms of service fatigue

No one is better at keeping hope alive than Rebecca Solnit, the historian and essayist whose *Hope in the Dark* got me through the first Trump administration and whose *A Paradise Built In Hell* inspired my novel *Walkaway*: www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/301070... 1/

My Threads feed is full of Black folks absolutely gutted and despairing over today’s Voting Rights Act ruling. I love Bluesky for so much, but today is one of those historical moments where it is stark that we really live in two different Americas.

My teen brought home some kind of ick from high school that dropped me in 3 hrs from healthy to "omgwtf?!?!" Sore throat, fever, aches, stuffy. Now prying cats off our warm, feverish, bodies. They are loving this turn of events. Especially if the food is flowing. 🙄 😷

My teen and I loved these!

About last night’s scrambling from gun fire at White House reporters dinner .. Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) makes a critical point on CNN: “This is happening in schools across the country.. the kids have no resources to process their trauma”

Why do I try to breathe while drinking coffee, this isn't the multitasking I was looking for this am.

My disco dance party at 6:45am did not motivate my teen out of bed as I planned. Instead, they got up, joined me in a song and then left for school. Winning? Also, this teen who won't wear a jacket if it's under 50 degrees... insists on wearing one if it's over 70 degrees. 🤔

I’m looking at yarn again when I‘ve got perfectly sexy yarn at home. This never goes well.

We translated each part of Palantir's 22-point manifesto because public service is our passion www.theverge.com/policy/91523...

There are some important things to remember in terms of Awards-shortlist day etiquette. A short thread. Even folks I really like and respect make some blunders on this stuff. 1) Allow people to enjoy the shortlist. Avoid dismissing the finalists (whomever they are) for at least a month.

I don’t think we talk nearly enough about the fact that corporations like Amazon, don’t pay a single cent to maintain the roads they use, the transportation system they use, the courts they use, they pay nothing for the infrastructure that is absolutely critical to their business. WE Pay for

My latest. I’ve been watching the media coverage of the murders of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer. One way media can fight back against male violence: If you kill your wife, you don’t get to be called a “husband” any more. You’re her killer. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Happy #Caturday This is my chonky boi, made of fluff and sweetness. We call him Shadow because he follows me everywhere. He's sweet, dumb and uses brute force to open doors. He trills when purring and is super soft. He will cuddle all day if you want. 🥰

This.

Given that CNN report about the "rape academy" website, I'm just leaving this here for anyone who needs it. This is Illinois, but many states have similar laws. Dissemination of images or videos like this is a felony. www.ilga.gov/documents/le...

I don't know anything about the economy but one thing I do know is that even if you get a little bit of money together, lately, there's nothing cool to spend it on. Electronics are cheaply made and break quickly. Clothing, same deal. Very few things feel like an investment or luxury!

"If he were really doing that, I would have noticed." No you wouldn't have. You say that because you think it protects you, it shows you are aware, it allows you to feel like you would have stopped it. If abusers abused in public like they do in private, your coffee order would come with a slap.

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

Nothing says "America is Back Baby!" like "Allbirds became an AI hardware middleman because they wanted to pump their stock instead of going into bankruptcy, so they said they will find some computer chips somewhere, but can no longer sell shoes."

How is it possible for 3 animals to shed this much hair and not be bald?? My sofa is so hairy it looks like someone skinned Snorky from the Banana Splits to make it. Spring shedding season SUCKS.

Just watched the local murder chase off a massive hawk (Red-Tailed). Nothing like morning crow drama! I wish "Gomez and Morticia" still nested on my street, miss them and their helper crows but at least they are still close by and observable.

Yes! It's also not "Why doesn't she just leave him?" but "Why does he think it's ok to abuse her?" It's not "his future might be ruined!" - it's "Why did he think it was ok to climb on top of an unconscious woman?" We have to reframe where the shame and blame really belong.

Convincing women to go on the record by name when they’ve seen that it results in no change — and a lot of people won’t believe them — can take years. One of the named sources in a 2024 story of mine declined to participate in 2017. Eventually, her life and job enabled it. And he’s still in office.

even if he’s not a literal sexual predator, look twice at an Industry Guy who surrounds himself with younger women and otherwise Diverse talent only while he can Champion them — yet his coworkers and peers are all just people like himself

"If you can't solve the smallest task in someone's life, why would they ever trust you to solve the biggest one?" Mamdani's revival of early 20th century "sewer socialism" here is the inverse of Guiliani's "broken windows" approach. Starting small to do big things, but this time, they're good.

Squeeeeee!

we don’t owe the “why didn’t she report it” crowd a single response

"sex doesn't belong in YA books" Listen, I learned more about birth control, menstruation, and how to get and give consent to different acts from Tamora Pierce books than I did from my school. There's a huge difference between smut and showing teens what healthy sexuality is.

Hey, right now, text or call your kid and tell them you have noticed their improvement on ________ and you just wanted to mention that them. Hell, tell your partner too. You’ll feel great, they’ll feel great. And your animals. Everyone wins.

Reminder that in this house we do not trash other genres of books to support the genre we like the most. One, come on, we're grown ups. Two, the bottom line is people reading and loving books. Three, every writer you know has friends working other genres, don't trash their friends, thanks.

“Why aren’t college students protesting” stories are almost always wrong (they are protesting), omit crucial context (they were brutally punished for protesting before), and somehow suggest that 19 yr olds have more moral responsibility than elected officials three times their age

Hey you, yes, YOU, the victim of abuse by an intimate partner or a parent. Right now is so much and so familiar. It sets us off into patterns and we've worked so hard to overcome things. We also feel like Cassandra in these times. You are not alone. Sadly, we are universal but we are not alone. ❤️‍🩹

33 yrs ago, working solid waste management, had a Teamster truck driver named "Fang" who responded to discipline actions by dropping his pants and showing me the "Fuck You" tattooed across his ass cheeks. "But men are lonely" "Butt men are lonely?" 🤷🏽‍♀️

When you feel the despair, look at art. All art, any art, natural art… soak in the beauty and breathe.