This passage from Orwell's "The Lion and the Unicorn" comes to mind

Every Today in Tabs newsletter introduces me to at least one cool new internet thing. Tuesday episode gave me Current Rothko, which gives a (real) Rothko painting based on your current weather conditions. It’s so cool! @rusty.todayintabs.com rothko.joonas.wtf?_bhlid=78747...

Obviously there are way too many hateful people doing it on spec but I really don’t think there are as many as it seems. They gotta pay people lots of money to trick lots of people into hating trans people.

i am once again begging the trump administration to end international travel in and out of every major city in the united states and see what happens

🎶 Well, the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man" Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland "Get your education, don't forget from whence you came, and The world's gonna know your name, what's your name, man?"

There are in fact six biological sexes

Trump didn't know what "cisgender" meant when Talarico said it, thought it was "six-gender," and now it's a Republicans shibboleth to claim that Democrats—especially Talarico—believe there are six sexes. As in this clip of Paxton tonight.

Holden Bloodfeast wins primary

La mariée mise à nu par ses célibataires, même

More IVF art @tacobellquarterly.org

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I slept really badly last night, I apologize if this newsletter doesn’t make any sense. www.todayintabs.com/p/the-kind-o...

The New Yorker reviewed Theo Baker’s book:

Monday-ass tuesday

Every claim in the un-highlighted paragraph here is wrong.

settings are goated when adjusting your apps are the vibe

I don’t know why everyone’s being weird about the President getting a normal bi-quarterly physical

when I was doing ketamine therapy for depression I had one session where I was dreaming/hallucinating about Judith Butler rallying an army of Shiba Inus to go to war in Brooklyn and whenever I see the phrase “butlerian jihad” I assume that’s what it means

me trying to explain where the last donut went

Grogu? The stuff they feed hydroponic plants?

Yesterday the radio reminded me that the Red Hot Chili Peppers exist and I’m still mad about it

When the “quiets” pick their boisterous friend

We need trauma informed posting

Much like "who was president in 2020?" "were the Bush years bad or not?" is one of those questions whose answer has been lost to time.

I thought I’d be fair and give this piece a read, but it’s worse than this excerpt makes it sound.

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

White House got Crack House problems

In 1872, the Chicago Evening Post published an absolutely brutal editorial mocking people who objected to sharing public spaces with Black people. Still some dated language but a remarkable piece. “Hire a carriage and you can sit all alone by your own sweet self for $2 an hour.”

Whatever’s wrong today, have you considered that 210 calories worth of Cape Cod original sea salt potato chips would fix it?

“circumstances pertaining to Government” is the most Achewood thing any president has ever said

It's the corruption

Even republican senators can see how insanely corrupt the slush fund is.

Tired: paying my mortgage Wired: gaining valuable equity as junior partner in an exciting new joint housing venture with the bank

Tonight we congratulate our friend Stephen Colbert and his writers, staff and crew for eleven years of excellence. Watch Colbert’s finale tonight, and then never watch CBS again.

A Human Being Living In The World Caused By Zuckerberg Gets Real About What He Thinks Should Happen To The Depressed Shitheads That Are Sad About Maybe Getting Fired From The Myanmar Genocide Factory

Doordash? Some of y’all need to LORD dash. To Jesus.

I would never have guessed what this is referring to

hmm what should we call the as-of-yet unnamed Vox Media 2?

I didn’t win either! But in a way I feel like we ALL didn’t win. Anyway I met Lauren so that was nice.

I’ve done an inexplicable thing.

Our first openly gooning Senator

tired: "english majors are dumb because there's no objective measure of whether something is right." wired: "english majors are smart because there's no objective measure of whether something is right."

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/b...

I call New York “the Hot Apple” like “ayyyy I’m goin to the HOT APPLE baby” and I recently learned that my youngest didn’t clock it as a personal joke and there’s now a group of middle schoolers in Maine that think that’s a real nickname for NY, so in a few more years the Times can cover that too

i have dubbed today Smooth Day - the first day of the spring/summer where you can sing along with the opening line of Santana’s “Smooth” and genuinely mean it

So I keep seeing numbers from the likes of OpenAI like “a billion people use ChatGPT every week” but then only 3% of MS users want copilot. Is adoption extremely tilted toward one or two big chatbots or are the numbers fake?

i will never take a plane if i could take a boat or a train. not for any environmental reasons i just think travel should be slow and laborious and soaked in an introspective melancholia that our current high speed world has robbed from us