I am SCREAMING

My toddler told me he wants to pee on the dark

Begging people to stop policing how other people cook rice how they want. If you feel superior because you overpaid for a rice cooker, please get a fucking life. I will also block anyone who brings up Nigel Ng’s bit.

"Purdue has since warned faculty against speaking with the media."

The ruckus about tariff refunds is maybe our best shot at teaching America what tariffs are

My view while giving the baby her dinner

A strange and confusing tale from the bowels of (where else) the New York Times. Has the American Medical Association changed position on trans youth care? A New York Times headline says they "endorsed restrictions" on youth surgeries. Other outlets, including NPR, report they did no such thing.

My mom’s boss said something to her back in ‘92 about the nature of American bigots: “They can’t stand to see other people (as in non-whites) living well.” I realized only recently that this is another way of understanding “cruelty is the point.”

I am never going to get over the fact thar so many Americans died that corpses stacked up in nursing homes and hospital morgues, that refrigerator trucks had to be brought in for the overflow, and that the big takeaway from Important Pundits is there should have been *less* mitigation.

Make figure rollerskating a summer Olympics category

Immediately saying “the media can’t be trusted” the moment a subject complains about unfair coverage is a symptom of lacking media literacy, actually.

I forgot that every LLM's logo was a butthole

If the argument is that we need to let people have guns to honor the tradition of going to war against tyranny then the pressing topic becomes “civil war”, and 2A rights honestly wouldn’t matter anymore in that case.

Why women choose bear 🤷🏻‍♀️

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court has come down in favor of money

the glorious constitutional principle of "the president can't fuck with Supreme Court justices' investment portfolios" stands strong

They should never find rest.

Forbes 30 Under 30 remains undefeated

Chaser “It’s coming. It’s already here,” he said, responding to a student’s question about AI. “Don’t deny it. It’s not going to be enough to sit on the sidelines and make the moral plea that, ‘No, this is wrong.’ It’s not gonna last. There’s too much money to be made, and it’s too productive”

LOVE THIS 💗

This really is a great picture:

I love watching both Alyssa Liu and Hudson Williams be so fun and chaotic in their media appearances. I love seeing Asian Americans be like, fuck your rules.

May the gay gods give these girls everything

great job by the photographer to be able to grab focus through the glass, presumably in poor/low light, with a flash angled properly to not fully blow out the windshield with light

well, I enjoyed scaring one up

New Mexico's attorney general has reopened an investigation into allegations of illegal activity at Jeffrey Epstein 's former Zorro Ranch. https://to.pbs.org/3OmZSww

"By using publicly available or proprietary data to simulate human responses to questions and surveys, these new [AI] tools promise to allow marketers to conduct research and experiments without the time, cost, and participant burden of traditional interviews or surveys." lol, lmao even

For whatever reason, I thought of my commercial semiotics consulting work as safe from being killed by AI for some reason, but today I suddenly realized nothing is going to stop clients from just asking ChatGPT to list dominant and emerging codes for such and such product packaging 🤪

Richard Spencer literally has a Substack bestseller badge you tool

"Journalism is better when it's backed by live markets" is a sentence you expect to read in the opening montage of a dystopian film about the end of journalism

“Why do we need to add so much to our children’s bodies?” asks the mother of the unvaccinated child who is currently on countless drips, medications, and soon to be a plasma exchange for what will likely be an irreversible brain injury.

I truly do not understand stuff like this when I see them

I just learned a proposal for a new data center in the next town got struck down in favor of a public park 🥹 Wanted to share the happy news

Ambiguous whether that’s fighting lol

The buried lede here is that the woman he had an affair with committed suicide through self immolation

I’m obsessed with this now. What do you mean I rank #3,507, I need to train.

And after all that, the Pitt/Cruise AI fight scene appears to have been just digital BG and face replacement on multi-angle green screen reference videos of two real live human stuntees fighting. In other words, like most AI hype — it was a con. www.shokunin.studio/blog/2026/2/...

How do people still have the energy to complain about being victimized by masking requirements?

Nothing beats seeing Pacific Rim 2 in theater, in China, after I tracked down some random podunk venue that didn’t show it in 3D (all foreign action movies are shown in 3D), and they fucking killed of MAKO MORI, THE SOUL OF THE FIRST MOVIE IN THE FIRST 25 MINUTES. And then it got even worse.

notorious radical left communist rag says tax the rich

Why does someone who overstayed their visa need to be held in shackles? Does any child belong in a prison camp? Does anybody deserve to be underfed, or brutalized, or denied medical care? presswatchers.org/2026/02/the-...

This local Wolfdog joined an Olympic ski event and triggered the finish-line camera. This is Nazgul. He snuck into a cross-country skiing sprint this morning and raced the homestretch with some competitors before being escorted home. 14/10 someone get him a medal

Somehow I've been celebrating Toni Morrison's birthday for years without realizing that Feb 18th is also Audre Lorde's birthday!! Now I have to know: are there a better set of birthday twins than Toni and Audre?

They found a Gaudí!

This whole infuriating piece is worth a read. Every quote from the FIRE founders remind me of how Substack’s leadership repeatedly insist they are completely blameless in Nazis on their platform making money and spreading hate.

There are a lot of free speech absolutists but not enough human rights absolutists imo

The ppl responding to Randy Fine’s Islamophobia with “I prefer dogs to people” are part of the problem

ProPublica published children's letters and drawings documenting their sadness and suffering at Dilley. And Dilley staff are now retaliating by confiscating kids' letters and drawings. www.sacurrent.com/news/san-ant...

I swear we seem to have magic sci fi technology. They'll be like we cured diabetes and sickle cell in a few people. We have a shot that prevents AIDS. We invented a cancer vaccine. And then people will be like why aren't you excited about a computer lying to you?

This article is hard for me to even continue reading because of the hand-wavey use of “the left” and “the right” as stand-ins for “boring sour puss” and “intrepid explorer”, respectively. It should never be simply technology that excite people, but technology’s material improvements on human lives.