pouring out some Iced Dunkies for the blizzard of ‘78 (now no longer the worst Boston blizzard, the one I was born in, my people of origin are not ok lol)

There were trucks full of dead bodies in NYC. They buried the dead in mass graves on Hart Island. We moved my pregnant sister and her family in with my folks for almost a year because NYC was so fucking dangerous.

Is the president mocking the U.S. women’s hockey team on a celebratory call with the men’s team going to attract even an iota of the sustained handwringing that the idea of trans athletes disadvantaging women’s sports has gotten

Ever noticed how starting a word with 'gh' often means it's something creepy or horrible... Ghost Ghoul Ghastly Ghislaine Maxwell

essay by a guy whose entire media career has been built on hippie punching wondering why more people aren't helping the hippies topple the fascists

I wish I loved anything as much as some people love finding excuses to argue that sometimes non-black people just have to use the n-word or else we’ll all die

Need a Dem to run on arresting Elon for murdering 600,000 people as an appetizer then main coursing with arresting Kash Patel for misallocation of taxpayer money, Pam Bondi for lying under oath and JD Vance for looking like he's sweaty without showing visible sweat

Actually knowing how to talk in Atlanta, which is in Georgia, which is in the south, does indeed matter if you are a…checks notes here…democratic politician with national ambitions. And black people are pretty sharp when it comes to the “jive talk” code switch. But okay Saeed said logoff

Do non-Black people know that racism literally kill us? The stress of it is lethal. When my dad turned 80 this summer he remarked that so few Black men of his generation make it to 80. Delroy Lindo is 73. Some consideration for his and MBJ's feelings is warranted here but woefully absent.

BREAKING: A push to name one of Chicago’s snowplows “Abolish ICE,” clearly linking the humorous pun to efforts to oppose President Donald Trump’s mass deportation effort, won the city’s annual snowplow naming contest, officials announced. @wttw.bsky.social

Also: Any time you hear some dude claim he doesn't care what other people think, it is a 100% guarantee that he is ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED with what other people think of him, it's just that he wants them to think he's an independent-minded genius and brave iconoclast e.g.: Elon Musk

One thing we don’t do well, societally or interpersonally, is digest harms when there really isn’t anyone to blame. Being called a n*gger on international television in front of your peers is a harm. Having a disability that creates that harm through no choice of your own is a harm.

I also wanted to add that I don’t think there would’ve been a way for Michael B. Jordan or Delroy Lindo to respond to this situation or show any deal of hurt without them immediately being painted as the unsympathetic hateful ableist villains. And that needs to be talked about more.

Whatever happens, SINNERS (and probably a handful of other Oscar-nominated movies this year, like THE SECRET AGENT) will stand the test of time.

What Michael B. Jordan and Delroy Lindo were subjected to is just the continuing disrespect directed at SINNERS from the moment that idiot wrote about Hollywood being threatened by Ryan Coogler regaining ownership of it. The film will last longer than any of this year's other Oscar contenders.

All serious historical novels are works of speculative fiction, even ones set in the ‘60s and ‘70s. These three are absolutely brilliant.

The tone on this site for the past 48 hours has reached levels of For The Love Of God Go Outside I thought were impossible even here. And while you're out there, can someone please shovel my sidewalk this is a ridiculous amount of snow

Forget post-humanism, we are in the moment of anti-human.

Katie Mack, Hawking Chair in Cosmology and Science Communication at Perimeter Institute, spoke with ScienceNewsExplores about her journey to becoming a cosmologist, misconceptions about her work, and challenges in her field. Read the full interview: www.snexplores.org/article/cosm...

Imagine you’re making out with this thing and the other end of the line is the cable company autopay helpline robot offering you free Starz for a month

*looks directly at camera*

My 7 year old daughter is doing a project for Black history month for school. They were allowed to choose any Black person. Please tell me why she chose Ludacris

#JewSky Say, for the sake of argument, that the holographic doctor from Star Trek Voyager converted to Judaism. Would he need to be powered down on Shabbat?

Black History Month washed. Melanin March save us.

Went to a con this weekend and after waiting for an elevator in a parking garage, the doors opened and 2 furries in complete fursuits walked out. There's still magic in the world.

You do NOT want to become the main character of the day when so many chronically online people are stuck at home because of a damn blizzard. I’ll tell you that much.

imagine running trust and safety on a website with 40 million users and not even documenting your policies or reliably following them. aaron resign bitch

jim davis took all of his pent up sexual fetishes and unleashed this monstrosity on the world. perhaps there is something worse than mondays

Heaven forfend children should be allowed to have fun participating in recreational sports. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

Real question: what is the purpose of a microphone on a smart vacuum?

If you're looking for the source of academia's leaky pipeline--it's not women's lack of commitment, it's the misogyny of men like this.

'Everything about this thread. "Self-defense against the right" often fails because those affected cannot afford to go to court. While every talk show that normalizes talking to Nazis erodes our democracy, every victory in court strengthens the foundations of our democracy. Thanks!'

as ever, the second-best time for us to adopt UBI is now

I’m also really fed up with people saying smugly ‘we’re just going to have to be better teachers’ and ‘design better assignments’. I AM TRYING. It’s not working!

my favorite part of the talmud is when all of the rabbis agreed about everything and no one got mad about it

oh word???? no shit????? for real????????

Great thing to finally decide now that AI is about 1/3rd of the S&P

Black organizers want to see Gov. JB Pritzker prioritize Illinois Future Fund, a cash-assistance program that — if passed — would make Illinois the nation’s first statewide guaranteed income program. thetriibe.com/2026/02/lead...

Hey, so all those rocket launches people love cheering on are probably destroying the upper atmosphere. Repairing the ozone layer in the 90s is one of our all-time great achievements as a global civilization; private rocket men seem intent on reversing that.

honestly this tracks.

EXCLUSIVE: Kristi Noem Repeatedly Claimed ICE Deported a Cannibal. It Was “Completely Made Up.” Law enforcement sources told The Intercept that Noem’s tale about a cannibal was a fabrication. theintercept.com/2026/02/23/k...

That’s right

Extremely predictable (in fact, predicted by basically everyone) but still a little shocking that Team USA had its best Winter Olympics ever and the Trump administration didn’t celebrate any of the winners until the men’s hockey team, which they are celebrating A LOT

6 years ago, Ahmaud Arbery was killed while doing something as simple as going for a run. His life mattered. His memory endures. Today we honor him, hold his family in our hearts, and recommit to the work of building a world where no one has to fear simply existing. Rest in power, Ahmaud. 🕊️

People keep blabbing that Congress is "so divided" but they're never divided when it comes to these three things: 1) Supporting Israel no matter what it does 2) Covering for Jeffrey Epstein and his network 3) Supporting Big Tech, including technofascists, and taking their donations

Yup. Like how both political parties loaded up the impeachment process with Epstein associates! That was revealing indeed.

every ice agent and border patrol officer deserves to be skinned alive