as always i am sympathetic to the fact that male loneliness is a real problem but the solution to male loneliness is robust afterschool and other social programs and shit like accessibility to public parks and the lonely men take industry opposes these things so i don't know what i'm supposed to do

Genuinely, this concern about AI is one of the reasons why I think having friction in video games is good and why it's increasingly important to have games that simply exist instead of catering to our expectations. Reposting this message from Kojima about "pre-digested" art:

“In the space of a few years, the UK has moved from a broadly inclusive status-quo to being the most aggressively anti-trans developed democracy in the world.” www.liberalcurrents.com/the-end-of-t...

Today's Daily Cartoon for @newyorker.com by Kevin Maher and me.

It would be bad enough if this was all she voted for, but the bill literally also has a provision to strip school funding from any school that has books with trans characters, has policies protecting trans students, performs shakespeare’s 12th night, or even has a trans teacher.

BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses the case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia in Tennessee. Opinion: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... Order: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Yes, I agree. Only billionaires should be allowed on this mission. As many of them as possible. We wouldn't want any of them to feel left out! What an exciting opportunity for all of us.

There are days when I miss being an editor. I loved writing headlines. Whoever did this, I hope they took the rest of the day off.

There’s a NYT article where everyone’s puzzled why pre-K enrollment had been flat, when any parent could tell you it’s because you don’t get a full work day of coverage

finding it hard to put into words just quite upsetting I find the idea of Google getting rid of the "ten blue links" format of search entirely, genuinely feels like your landlord announcing he's removing your kitchen and replacing it with a bouncy castle, I need my kitchen, let me keep my kitchen

the way my gay brain sees “Hathaway 2” and keeps thinking they’re talking about Devil Wears Prada

Also the next somebody says reparations for black people is a ridiculous idea, remind them that we have a reparations program for trying to overthrow the government

If you're reading this, my cat and I have boarded a one-way flight out of the United States. The Trump administration wrongfully denied my work permit renewal; after months of demanding that they follow the law, we have run out of legal recourse, and I have no choice but to leave the country. (🧵)

A lotta folks don't want to admit we ain't free. We ain't. Not when Marco Rubio is using the State Department to pulp the First Amendment.

Trump has eviscerated the refugee program and turned it from a program of humanitarianism into instead a piece in an overall white supremacist project. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Dems are polling crazy high based on the flaming catastrophe that is Republican fascist rule, so primarying as many of the bad weak complicit Democrats in favor of good determined angry ones has rarely if ever been more crucial

So you CAN get reparations you just have to be a reactionary white person who tries to overthrow the government because black votes shouldn’t count

Going to think about this every time people say reparations are impossible.

about the "degrowth" label: the rationale I've read about was that the word was chosen for rhetorical reasons, as an attempt to provoke a particular kind of conversation), and probably succeeded at that in particular academic and policy circles for a few years there. but does it still?

I can accept the Muppets being in commercials because they’re showbiz people. I cannot accept the Sesame Street Muppets being in commercials because they’re educators.

goddamn, dude.

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

this is cool but what does it mean to invite an idea

incredible and shameful there isn’t international condemnation of the united states for collective punishment of 10 million people

This is very foolish, especially in current supply-shock conditions: the price will just rise until consumption ends up balanced with supply *anyway.* There is, in fact, no short-term policy solution to a supply shock. You need to restore inputs, replace inputs or destroy demand. 🤷‍♂️

Not for nothing, but I think a lot of people have wrongly settled on “Twitter became a right-wing cesspool because all the cool people left” instead of “All the cool people left because Twitter became a right-wing cesspool.”

okay but you also cut education like crazy so color me unimpressed

remarkable to see this in the New York Times. speaks to the shift in culture that’s happening in public consciousness around Israel’s atrocities.

My reporting finds that sexual violence against Palestinians by Israeli authorities is widespread. I'm grateful to these assault victims for sharing with me the brutality they endured. Whether we're pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian, we should unite in being anti-rape. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...

This is exactly right, with one caveat: the reason "no it'll never fucking happen" is there (I bet) is to try (probably not successfully) to stave off dozens of annoying people replying just that. Except that impossible things become possible all the time, and it starts with saying what should be.

Look up at the sky, at the dark shapes of Coalition airships hanging there. Ask yourself: is there something sinister in moralism? And then answer: no. God is in his heaven. Everything is normal on Earth.

Thinking about this part... "Before the second recess, all four of Louisiana’s Black congressmen, past and present, since the Reconstruction era spoke to the committee..."

Louisiana is 33% Black and has six congressional districts. Yet in the past 149 years, they've just had 4 Black congressmen. All of whom are still alive. And that's too many for Louisiana's white Republican leaders.

Any "leftist" taking MTG's side over AOC's is either an op or the biggest mark at the carnival

virginia voters should call their delegates and senators and demand that they ignore this illegitimate ruling

Black people are giving it these Confederates raw and uncut. This is how it’s gonna be now. You wonder what we’re thinking? It’s this. I believe this is activist Gary Chambers again in Louisiana.

Our babies deserve/d better and the great hell of being a Black adult is knowing that you can't/couldn't protect them the way you wanted to

Jesus. Did that sergeant at arms walk there directly from the Pettus Bridge? The hair, the whole look, everything. Make the photo B&W, and you wouldn't know if it was 2026 or 1965. And the reasons are the same. And the fight's the same. Confederacy and Jim Crow lost before. They'll lose again.

i simply don't understand why this is being treated as some sort of accomplishment in the queer press. this is quite grim!!!!!!!!!

What is especially galling is that this saved zero dollars, since the cruise ships pay for the inspections. And now their industry is less trusted because of perceived health risks. Amazing lose-lose policymaking.

Anime Feminist Recommendations of Winter 2026 Winter gifted us some amazing shojosei, including what’s already one of 2026’s best anime. www.animefeminist.com/anime-femini...

There's really no reason to be talking about this in public, in mainstream spaces. Don't feed targeting data to the fash!

the way this post out of context sounds like it could easily be about Haruki Murakami

People refuse to believe it and most who do believe it usually shrug it off but US prisons and jails are in fact torture chambers. Conditions are HORRIFIC across the board. People are OK with this on the whole.

anything i like no matter how self destructive and antisocial is radical community and anything i dont like is racist. any questions?

Oh my god I just realized this by the same person who wrote that awful Atlantic piece about how quiet is gentrification

Since it's come up, I really do think people have forgotten just how monumentally shitty it was when every square inch of public space smelled like a fucking ashtray

We see a lot of Democrats saying they will respond in kind to Republican gerrymandering. But it doesn’t fix the fundamental problem of killing the VRA: Many Black southerners will essentially have no say in the political process going forward.

we all have our vices and i'm a hypocrite for judging them like this but "bringing back smoking" is an idea periodically floated by the dumbest people alive whose only real belief is edgelordism. i am totally unwilling to hedge on or reconsider this opinion