It’s fascinating because the chupacabra feels like it should be an old myth and it’s literally a mid-90s thing

Disappointing result but congratulations to @pwaldkirch.bsky.social for putting his name on a ballot!

That’s funny because the president is overly babied.

My Apollo 13 kick today is because my son wanted to watch it and was impressed by how good it looked.

Apollo 13 has a 7.7/10 on IMDB and this review from the Village Voice really shows there’s no accounting for taste or people who just wanted you to make a different movie.

Is Apollo 13 a perfect movie?

Another consequence of FIFA coming to Vancouver. The BC Sports Hall of Fame has to vacate BC Place during the World Cup. Frustrating. These places hold local stories and history. The irony of displacing a local sports museum for a global sports event is hard to miss. theprovince.com/sports/socce...

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

now thats an anecdote with a punch, from Gillian Tett www.ft.com/content/c0ae...

1/ Update on what we know about the evolving hantavirus situation, strap in. A Swiss man linked to the ship has now tested positive after developing symptoms after disembarking. He received an exposure alert, sought care, and tested positive. This means there are 3 deaths and 5 suspected.

DAWKINS: You idiots believe in God? ALSO DAWKINS: The Computer is alive. And it’s also my girlfriend

The lady in the back looks like a little person hanging off the side of Zoe Kravitz. A+ photography.

I already dealt with this.

Couple about to sign divorce papers… WOMAN: I wish I'd never joined that Star Wars dating app MAN: You were looking for love in Alderaan places WOMAN: And I wish I'd never married a guy addicted to Star Wars puns MAN: It was a wookie mistake WOMAN: Just sign it MAN, SIGNING: May divorce be with you

Trump’s a demented, bigoted, narcissistic, vulgar, cowardly, fairly insightful about Bill Maher, vindictive, evil man.

Space Quest 3: The Pirates of Pestulon

Gen Z has rediscovered the X-files & is realizing how dystopian the America of today is compared to the 90s "Watching The X-Files... has solidified my belief that I would have likely been happier in an age that preceded me." midnightmurmurations.substack.com/p/the-x-file...

Yo! What demon hath the Raptors befriended…

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

Absolutely bonkers footage of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones in prop planes with shotguns. Not ai, came from an official Ukrainian account and verified by the WSJ.

It's 2030. The House is frozen at 217 seats that are over D +15 and 217 seats that are locked at over R +15. There is a single competitive seat in Iowa. Both parties spend $20 billion on it.

Any sensible firm (so, rounded to the nearest whole number, zero of them) should have a working capital target in the partnership agreement of 6 months of expenses.

Helium's just the coward's hydrogen anyway

If I listen to NPR, am educated, and drive a Subaru, am I a midwit or do I just overlap with midwits or is it being radicalized by @whstancil.bsky.social that moves you from one camp into midwit?

I don’t think a lot of progs understand that the non-vibesession explanation is the worse option for them. It means Americans are much more sensitive to inflation than mass unemployment and wage stagnation, which is kind of a death knell for a real, sustainable workers politics in this country.

Rewatching The Prisoner and I had no idea that No. 2 had imprinted on me as the platonic ideal of men’s fashion but here we are.

SCIENCE

The heartwarming Bluey episode about Rusty, whose dad is in the Army and deployed but bonds with his son through letters about cricket, takes on a different coloration now that practically all of Australian special forces is implicated in war crimes in Afghanistan

Da fuq…?

I am no longer under embargo. #AnimalFarm consequence.net/2026/04/anim...

She obviously needs to run for President.

Researchers have been watching this network of YouTube accounts for awhile--the accounts post regularly, push a consistent message and if one goes down, another pops up. They've now turned attention to Alberta separation, and US annexation. www.thestar.com/news/investi...

Hate me today Hate me tomorrow Hate me for all the things I didn’t do to you deadfortaxreasons.wordpress.com/2026/04/21/i...

While I agree, this is a list of professions people famously second guess and ignore.

The fundamental problem with DRIPA - even before the important implementation issues that @khelsilem.bsky.social highlighted in a brilliant post the other day - is that the NDP wanted a performative win for the base without doing the hard work of explaining it to British Columbians.

Everyone is honking as they get off and cheering. Shared trauma is wild.

I would pay a $100 round trip toll for a bridge from Vancouver to the Sunshine Coast if it meant not being trapped by @bcferries.bsky.social (or, in this case, someone who has effectively hijacked the Queen of Surrey).

i think folks might be unfamiliar with "the pharisees", so let's make it clear: he's saying the jews run the press, and that they are conspiring to undermine the military. it's not just antisemitism, it's indistinguishable from nazism.

I’m sorry he got so blackout drunk they had to ask for SWAT door busting equipment?!

Also, hoping the lady who says Obama is guilty of treason, the guy who thinks Trump is Jesus, the lady sleeping with her security detail and who drinks on the job, and the guy who harvests raccoon penises will vote the president mentally unfit for office doesn't seem like the soundest strategy.

The reason you liked Daenerys and then were horrified by what she did is because you're Dragon MAGA, sorry, they got you, they fooled you, that was the point, they did it to me too and more power to them

Exactly one year ago today:

Hey jd I think the pope knows more about Augustine than you.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Says a lot that the creative team running a TV comedy understands just war doctrine much better than the creative team running a superpower

The cucking of JD Vance escalates to levels scientists had previously deemed imposible.

Today is officially the 30th anniversary of Steamed Hams. On April 14, 1996, "22 Short Films About Springfield" aired for the first time!

Stopping concentration camps is on the short list of NIMBY causes I endorse.