I was today years old when I learned that D'Artagnan was based on a real person.

For you non-lawyers, this simple directive is probably the scariest thing these lawyers have ever seen professionally.

50 children a day

This is precisely how I feel. I have warm memories of the collective rush to all read the new HP books together the day they came out. But I'd never watch this new show now knowing it directly finances transphobic cruelty.

nymph with a green knife

This is an underrated point in my view. If AI had been just an option out there, people would have found funny or useful things to do with it. Instead, companies started to destroy the 4 systems left we actually liked by forcing us to use not-ready-for-prime-time tech.

A delivery truck driver from Queens created a scale model of New York City. After 10 million views on TikTok, his mini Gotham has moved to a show on Museum Mile. From NYT Real Estate: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/20/r...

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

The question: your version of the metaverse, a consequence-free waste of $77 billion-with-a-b? Answer: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone

I used to have a US constitution joke but John Roberts didn't like the punch line.

oh look at that www.pew.org/en/research-...

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Moronic to say self-reflection began in 1910. But also from people he probably admires: "To say 'I love you' one must first know how say the 'I.'" - Ayn Rand "You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another." - Hemingway

Send in a scrappy team of four that met in a tavern two weeks ago but now act like they're found family. One beefy grunter, one glass cannon, one medic, and one sly mfer.

Very strange night to have seen (and loved) Sinners but not have seen One Battle After Another.

Not sure I've done a red carpet thread here, but I really enjoy them. This look combines two quite standard things and yet I really like it. The contrasted bold and soft colors, the contrasted restricted and flowing looks. It's working more than I would have suspected.

I was afforded the privilege of some behind the scenes access this issue, and I have to say, not only is the creativity joyful and the product super helpful to GMs, the people are lovely and warm and supportive. Support a contributor and get the Explorer's Pack which has soooo much!

As someone whose family remembers what the alternative looks like: The most patriotic thing in the world is telling the government to go fuck itself and then eating an ice cream with zero fear of reprisal.

This Hegseth quote is an all time top 5 stupidest statement ever made by a public official.

I can't even find the words to express how repugnant and despicable this post is. People who spew such Islamophobic bile don't belong in the United States Congress. The job of elected officials is to combat hate, not fan its flames. (1/2)

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i bet this shit sounds magical if you're fucking stupid

You can't tell me there isn't a part of you that's enjoying thinking about all Trump's sycophants hobbling themselves in ill fitting shoes they're too cowardly not to wear. "Ill Fitting Shoes" should be the title of the definitive book a future historian writes of this era of malicious weaklings.

The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.

Every time I open a news app or site and this story isn’t being discussed or featured prominently I feel like I’m losing my mind. Do not look away.

the reverse version of those “evolution of man” drawings

One of the truest things you'll ever read.

This is an excellent example of a logical fallacy that is seductive in its wrongness! Inability to define X does NOT imply inability to identify not-X. Take legumes. Can you define? Probably not. Ok, but does that mean you don't know whether a table is a legume?

I cannot emphasize enough the value of a creative amateur outlet as stress relief and joy creator. I world-build. My wife crochets. It can be dancing, drawing, writing, building, sewing, whittling. Doesn't matter. Has to be for you. Doesn't have to be good.

We have an interactive lookup tool for every state. Why Does Child Care Seem Less Affordable Than Ever? Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/03/05/u...

I am going to start a dating advice service where straight women write in and it automatically responds to all inquiries with: "Break up. Divorce him. Kill him in his sleep." It'd be right 90% of the time.

Excellent 🧵on a technical & important aspect of SCOTUS' decision. Speaking only for myself, it is impossible to see Alito as a judge in any meaningful sense of that word. I find that incredibly sad. Law school and, esp., my first clerkship, instilled a veneration for law that has not survived.

ICYMI over the weekend: My colleagues and I reviewed 15,000 documents to put together a detailed account of how Jeffrey Epstein leveraged medical care to manipulate and control victims, and how some doctors enabled that. Gift link:

Me commissioning something: Of course, that time frame is totally reasonable and I appreciate you fitting it into your schedule. Me, to the calendar thereafter: WHY WON'T YOU MOVE? WHY ARE YOU SO SLOW????

We intentionally bought like 15 identical tiny blue tiger blankies for my eldest, and she nonetheless somehow picked one that is the real Blake and only that one will do.

I follow a lot of TTRPG artists on here and, let me tell you,*no-one* reposts artists more than other artists. To the extent that it can be hard to find their own work on their feeds.

Travel 10 miles, sure. Run? I doubt I could no matter how much I broke it up, but I would try. The tacos are trivial. 24 beers is more alcohol than I have consumed in aggregate in the last 5 years. I would try spreading it out over the day, but genuinely don't know what my body could process.

I know it isn't the point, but I read this and it drove home for me why I hate Ross. He has no personal growth. If anything, he starts as one of the best of them and then goes batshit insane over the course of the show.

Fact that they’ve already bombed Iran and declared that bombing to have totally achieved their objectives really ought to be raised more when they claim they’re going to do it again.

The Conference of Catholic Bishops is... not playing around in this brief. www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25...

I'm so glad I don't live in Maine. Would really test my vote-blue-no-matter-who philosophy. I really hope he loses the primary, although I understand that seems unlikely.

Whatever else you think about this incident: (1) Officers are clearly identifiable. (2) Officers dressed for policing, not war. (3) Officers do not respond with violence. Comparison to ICE is stark and heavily in NYPD's favor.

We're going to win. Broadway show. Set in WW2. Line something like, "if ppl like us do nothing the fascists won't need to fight, they'll just walk through the door." Entire theatre erupts into applause. You know this demo. So establishment. And radicalized. We're going to win.

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This is objectively correct. Rise of Skywalker is by far the worst Star Wars movie. The end, when they reveal what they meant by a Skywalker rising, felt deliberately bad like they were mocking the fans. And not warmly, but with malice.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

I don’t know who needs to hear Jesse Jackson leading the kids on Sesame Street in this beautiful call-and-response reminding them that every child is somebody, but here it is

It's hilarious that this is surprising to people. AIs are prediction machines, not reasoning machines, and once you know that it is obvious they will always have hallucinations because predictions are exercises in statistical uncertainty.

It clearly can't infer from a simple one sentence question that I might need my car to wash my car, because it isn't intelligent, doesn't possess logic, and can't reason. When you ask it anything complex, it's coming across 10s, 100s, or 1000s of points where it has to infer context. 5/?

Absolute king shit here. 100% here for men being deep in their feelings to protect kids.