PRIDE after 40

Was ever thus.

This is a really cool piece on how Alan Alda has funded an initiative to help researchers better communicate their findings to the public through learning improv skills.

THIS.

it would probably be better for your physical and mental health if you started a weight training program and took it seriously than if you bent over backwards to defend an upper class edgelord with a trust fund that put on a flannel and suddenly became the tribune of the plebs.

More than half of the publicly identified donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion, according to a report from a government watchdog group.

Look, we’ve all known guys like him. Says a bunch of the right things when teachers/bosses/the press are around but is a real jackhole when he’s with his buddies and he doesn’t think anyone is looking. We all know which one’s the real him, and most of the time we’re right.

Fellow nerds, let’s cheer on this fight against the jocks. (FIFA painted over a beloved whale mural with a World Cup mural). www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

it also helps shape the narrative! florida was so embarrassed by the hanging chad fiasco that they actually did fix their election system and now count quickly in 2018, the blue wave narrative basically didn't happen despite reality because florida swung red and california took forever

they're going to scream about FRAUD regardless of how the votes are counted but honestly there is no good reason why california should take weeks on end to count all our ballots and it should be a priority to fix yes, there's late arriving mail, but even so they could count much faster than they do

Video games are great and I love them, but a huge share of their growth in popularity the last 15 to 20 years is due to the fact that everyone is too fucking poor for other forms of recreation, and that sucks ass.

josh was so fucking Good this episode

Making the vampires eat the garlic.😂

You can read a technical breakdown from one of the external researchers who reproduced our findings here:

We’re sprinting through the timeline.

A photog covering Delaney Hall had to ditch her camera bag with $10K of gear an injury. The bag was gone when a friend went to get it, but an airtag showed the bag was at the house of a sergeant in the Essex County Prosecutors office, prosecutors now say: www.thecityreporter.nyc/2026/06/04/o...

NEW: This church teaches that once an abuser is forgiven, anyone who speaks about the wrongdoing can be accused of having an unforgiving heart. The burden of sin would shift from the person who committed the act to the person who won’t let the matter rest. W/ @startribune.com

Bless his heart www.al.com/news/2026/06...

this is painfully accurate tbh, the lack of true support and writer career investment from publishers is creating author burnout at an unfathomable rate

It needs to be stated over and over - this isn't just a matter of errors: The point is that LLM AI is literally incapable of reviewing or validating research data. It absolutely cannot do that job, at all, ever. But it is very good at generating something that looks like a convincing review.

I am not saying this as a compliment, and it may be hard to accept as true because of how batshit is sounds but: Pam Bondi was as close to a “check” on Trump this term as you’re gonna get with this kind of administration Again: this is not meant as a compliment to anyone

Hey so if you always have irritated sinuses and congestion that just won't go away and you take otc allergy meds... Ask about prescription ones. Oh my god.

THE STUDY GETS DONE BECAUSE THE SCIENTISTS ARE PRETTY SURE YOU’RE RIGHT

because bluesky is only a few years old a shockingly large number of accounts here are actually active - even if your follower account here is smaller it’s much more likely to be made up of real people and most of those people are very angry about what’s happening and want to do something about it

COMIC: Cast Iron

A great thread, and to a large degree this development is due to the sickness now consuming the entire economy - the network’s job went from making profit to driving stock prices up. A mature business will not make your CEO and his pals as rich as a “growth” business.

I want the people doing those hearings to show up with jars full of live screwworm larvae. And give @tkingfisher.com and @seananmcguire.bsky.social grade cheerful fact-recitations on screwflies while C-SPAN runs. "You had several jobs. This was an important one. Resign. Or eat what's in this jar."

the AI rollout has easily the worst messaging of any technology I’ve ever seen it’s not even so much the underlying tech - a lot of people like the chatbots - but the continued promises that it’s going to ruin your life and there’s nothing you can do about it well - you can fight data centers

One of the cool challenges in adapting The Luminous Dead is crafting a space that can fully transform under light and projection. Here you can see a moment at Camp 2 where Gyre's suit's reconstruction of the chamber is incomplete. (Photo by scenic designer Sarah Beth Hall).

someone complaining that Scrivener 3 looks dated compared to other writing apps and like, yes, it does, and that’s great! modern apps are fucking terrible! I love that Scrivener looks like it was designed like twenty years ago! I love little icons and a row of nested menus! it genuinely rules!

The regulatory state is more important to the smooth operation of society to which we’ve become accustomed than anyone in this administration realizes, and in a lot of ways, we’ve already run off the cliff and are just starting to look down

I think people don’t understand how unlivable it is in the summer here. Phoenix endured 122 days in triple-digit heat in 2025. We have hundreds of heat deaths every year. And they’re still building data centers all around the valley because billionaires and GOP politicians do not care if we all die.

Again for the folks in the back: protests work.

An ovarian cancer drug that is kinder on the body & extends lives is now available. Mirvetuximab soravtansine, known as a "biological missile", delivers chemotherapy direct to the cancerous tissue rather than to the whole body - reducing debilitating side-effects. 🧪💊 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Wrote a little thing about why expanding the number of justices is a time honored tradition* that used to facilitate the Supreme Court’s legitimacy for @inquirer.com (gift link!) *not sure about this headline, though—folks often used “court packing” as an epithet even in the 19th c.

This is eye opening and deeply troubling. I needed the reminder that most members of hate groups didn't necessarily start out with the goal of being hateful. It's much more insidious and alarming. #Pinks #ProudBlue open.substack.com/pub/michaelf...

I often think of how more people are employed by art museums than by coal mines now.

"maga leads to flesh eating disease" headlines just write themselves

There have been precisely two security measures that have eliminated airplane hijacking as a feasible target since 9/11. Neither of them involve TSA. They are "reinforced cockpit doors that cannot be breached from outside" and "the elimination of the presumption of cooperation".

"I’ve been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case, I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to choose correspondents for interviews on the broadcast"

Tired: this meeting should have been an email Wired: this video should have been a blog post

As ICE ramps up their bullshit for the summer, a reminder that me and a whole bunch of other folks will get whistles out to you, for free, in quantities of 100 to thousands, to distribute in your communities. Just send a request here linktr.ee/3Dwhistles

...and here's the bit from early last year where Trump and Musk cut funding for screwworm control.

Too many people idealize medieval xtian monastic life and not enough are volunteering to be walled up in tiny rooms off the church.

I've handed over the Apocalypse 5e stuff and no redlines. That means I now have room on my desk for more freelance RPG work. Hit me up for rates, and I love the weird stuff!

"The [giant pride] flag started on top of a bookcase and extended to the adjacent wall. I shelved the few LGBTQ+ books we had in stock ... This section has grown little by little — one title here, one title there. It has been vandalized only once, a victory in such an oppressive environment."

Welp *USDA CONFIRMS DEADLY SCREWWORM IN US CATTLE

It’s fun when you realize the adoption of AI by businesses isn’t just about the elimination of labor costs but the end result of decades of emphasis that products and the experience of producing something is completely unimportant and the only thing that matters is passive income.