"and that made Trump the lesser of two evils in 2024 even though we knew he would be more evil in the end." Were you dropped on your head as a child?

This plus the laws making it potentially harder for trans people to obtain firearms makes clear that (regrettable as it may be) who gets to legally own and use a firearm in this country is actually about who gets to call themselves a citizen.

There's an anti-trans panel at the Redwood City main library this afternoon - in violation of the library's policies. Most of me says go & protest, but after looking these sad little freaks up, I almost don't want to give them any oxygen. They're mostly regional nobodies.

"Call me old-fashioned, but..." You aren't old-fashioned, you're just a reactionary asshole.

(almost went with this) m.youtube.com/watch?v=WPL8...

Give me the most 80s song you can think of. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1U1...

Growing up I walked around with this huge secret that I could feel wanting to burst out of my chest. That’s why this Pride Month I’m partnering with the good folks at Weyland-Yutani to -

some interesting thoughts from Thomas Paine on mass social panic www.ushistory.org/Paine/crisis...

my kid just sent this to the family chat

Speaking to fellow millennials for a moment - come on guys. We know better. Been through LOTS of shit that could’ve been avoided with better people in government. Lots of people are probably just procrastinating, but now’s the time to fill that sucker out and make sure boomers aren’t STILL in charge

Friends, I am telling you now: if you get a reel or TikTok of seeming handmade goods (supposedly) and there’s a hard luck story attached? Go to the channel and watch 20 reels in a row and then check the Berry Bowl reels and the autism blanket reels & see the pattern. These are drop shippers.

I know there is a lot going on, and not all of this is new, but numerous aspects of this OMB proposal are highly alarming and would, if enacted, effectively force American scientists receiving federal funding (which is...most of them in some capacity or another) to stop engaging with the public.

If you suspect your child might be neurodivergent or has a behavioral disorder or anything like that, get the ball rolling on diagnosis and treatment as soon as you can. It’s not gonna get easier if you wait, and (in the US anyway) getting those 504 plans/IEPs in place early will help your child

💯 at the time everyone still capable of rubbing 2 rational thoughts together was like "uh, that sounds awfully Fascist from the jump" and every center-right pundit & politician screamed in our faces "NO IT'S NOT, WHERE ARE YOU GETTING THIS, YOU TERRORIST SUPPORTING PEACENIK" 🤬

In recent months, Facebook has been flooded with U.S. state-themed AI-generated images posted by suspiciously similar accounts with names such as "Life in Nevada" and "Utah Life". Despite the theme, the accounts in question appear to be run from Bangladesh. www.conspirator0.com/p/life-in-us...

of all the things that I don't expect to be woken by at 3AM, gunfire is definitely on the list

my wife helped prove that you can sustainably treat PTSD in low-income, low-resource settings (DRC) using paraprofessionals with the equivalent of an 8th-grade educational level, funded by USAID.

If someone wants to leak me a copy of this app (either .apk or .ipa), please reach out on Signal — my username is zackwhittaker.1337 — and I would be keen to run this app through Burp Suite to see how it works. Happy to grant anonymity.

it is worth pointing out that the attorney who led the Broadview 6 case and was responsible for almost all of the misconduct is a Democrat and now a Durbin staffer

It's exciting to live in a time of category errors at scale

At Honeycomb.io o11y_con, watching this guy who works in a regulated industry getting progressively more agitated over what this panel is saying about the evolution of the SDLC.

Perfectly predictable. Reminder that the casual use of "globalist" by so many folks in academia & policy & journalism, when they really mean something about "globalization" is incredibly offensive to we, the very tired Jews of the world, because it has been & remains barely-veiled anti-semitic code.

Islamophobia and antisemitism are intertwined, and we need to fight them together. www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/alleged-...

I’m not sure why this isn’t being mentioned more, but: IRS policy for 50 years has been that the sitting president & VP get audited every year, in an effort to reassure the public they’re not corruptly abusing the office to enrich themselves.

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This looks interesting; just ordered a copy. The digital edition is Open Access. www.routledge.com/Trust-Safety...

Rep. Ogles: "Muslims don’t belong in American society," Rep. Fine on "mainstream Muslims": "I think you should destroy them first" Sen. Tuberville: "The enemy is inside the gates". Rep. Roy posted "No more Muslims" on his social media. None of them censured by Democrats. No penalty.

product placement is getting really weird, yo.

...and the Zoom link was a crypto/wallet stealer.

My first interview request in months for a role that I'd be perfect in, and my Spidey Sense is tingling that it's some kind of scam. 🙃

"under-babied" wtf

yesss

Can you respect IP rights while using generative AI? An experiment in collaborating with, crediting, and compensating artists while using generative AI: m.youtube.com/shorts/LrU9O...

my favorite "we live here" photos are when I'm scrolling through the gallery and all of a sudden there's a massive gun safe in the middle of the living room.

It's not that controversial, in pretty mainstream circles, to say that American democracy began in 1965 This would seem to have: Implications

For we know this about May Day , it is the day when all the cut back horns of the old gods grow back. - #CLNolan #MayDay #Beltane

I will be speaking at the UC Irvine Research Forum on Developer Experience on May 15, 2026 and it looks like there will be a zoom option! Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... LI post from organizer Tom Zimmerman here for more details and speakers: www.linkedin.com/posts/tomzim...

Media Fact Check: No, the Budget for California High-Speed Rail Didn’t Just Grow by $100 Billion If you're wondering where they get these crazy numbers, we figured it out. cal.streetsblog.org/2026/04/29/m...

I absolutely miss smoking. The ritual, the nicotine rush, the focus afterwards, the impossible-to-ignore reminders to step away from my desk; I miss chatting with other smokers, many of whom I wouldn't have met otherwise. Doesn't mean I'll start again. But it is entirely possible to miss.

anyone who buys this has never left the United States, and they never will

geez, Digital Ocean, all I want is to send one (1) spoofed email, is that too much to ask

My grandmother's house abutted a large-by-New-England-standards corn field, and when I would stay with her during the summer, my alarm clock was the cacophony of hundreds of red-wing blackbirds in that field. Impossible to sleep through.

I think ChatGPT Images 2.0 deciding to add a "WHY ARE YOU LIKE THIS" sign to the background of this image is the first time I've felt a glimpse of AGI simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/25/...

"I now have a diagnostic quantity of rubber ducks." my son, earlier today.

my synagogue's knitting group is selling a bunch of beautiful donated yarn on ravelry to benefit our upcoming 2026 warm clothing drive! ALL proceeds will be set aside for this year's wishlist!! deets: www.ravelry.com/discuss/yarn... the yarn: www.ravelry.com/people/mater...

About half of all Americans lack a passport. Also, this could directly lead to the unbanking of trans people.

very uncool

fuck outta here, doughy incel loser