Every few years I feel compelled to post about the best hotel hack ever, because every time I post about it, it turns out to be new to lots of folks …

Then the next biggest slice is just “people are having babies later”, although there at least much of the transition in rich countries has already happened and it *does* get mentioned in the public debate.

Speak to a demographer for five minutes and they will tell you that most of the decline in births is just “there used to be a lot of really big families, now 3 or more kids is rare”. This banal and non-alarming fact hardly ever gets mentioned in these “demographic panic” pieces.

I think we should make motherhood cheaper for its own sake but it’s not clear that this will move birthdates all that much! It hasn’t in other countries, anyway. The solution to the birthrates ‘problem’ is mostly just immigration

What do you call camps where people keep disappearing and dying

This game is just painful. This season is terrible #crew96

Now that I watch soccer more than most other sports I’m confused as to why we go to extra innings/time during the regular season. Like why? It seems totally unnecessary. Just let it end it a tie. They go by “points” anyway.

Third day in a row that NOTHING has gone through the Strait of Hormuz.

Look, the Republican Party is pushing white supremacist policies to destroy our ability to change the system through democratic electoral politics. So it's time to stop giving their billionaire benefactors our money. Cancel ONE THING from a billionaire today. You can do it! #CancelParty

One must fully understand that the Virginia Supreme Court ruling is not simply overruling the voters based on a technicality--it is overruling the voters on a technicality THAT THEY LITERALLY JUST INVENTED FOR THIS PURPOSE AND EXISTS NOWHERE ELSE IN VIRGINIA OR FEDERAL LAW

Man navigating health situation with older parents is no fun and exhausting and there are three of us who are pretty competent. I can’t imagine doing this on my own.

Dems need to ignore the ruling on redistricting in Virginia and run with these maps anyways. It's what Republicans have done in other states, including in Ohio, where our districts are still illegal

Hoooooo boy is that not the way it works

Bumping this in case you know anyone who can speak to the science in "The Body Keeps The Score" or works with patients who've experienced trauma. Thanks!

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We’re going to need the strongest get out the vote push we’ve ever had for democrats this November. State legislatures are up for grabs, and we can win a lot more seats and stem the tide of redistricting this year if people show up to the polls One way you can help:

It exists! I interviewed backup dancers, producers, the costume designer, the song’s producers who granted the rights, and so many more who were involved: web.archive.org/web/20240227...

Ditto Ohio (tho idk the percentage). Also our supreme court ruled that our school funding situation was unconstitutional IN 2003 but it hasn't changed

Please do what you can to resist a federal book ban in schools. It will prevent schools from teaching any materials with lgbtq+ characters and severely limit the works kids are able to be taught. authorsguild.org/news/update-...

Every year that I watch this these two have found more and more joy in each other and it is just absolute perfection.

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

This is self-evidently true and virtually nobody of consequence in American politics believes it.

I have said this before and I will say it again, but it is my firm belief that given the blatant and naked corruption exhibited by some members of the Roberts Court, decisions of the Roberts Court should not be treated as precedentially binding on later courts.

Yesterday's 56th anniversary of the Kent State Massacre didn't get much attention, but it should have. The shots fired then were only the beginning of a right-wing crusade to silence college campuses. In a crisis of democracy, 1970's bullets still echo My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...

I take Lexapro. I have taken Lexapro for over two decades. The times that I have discontinued taking Lexapro have ended very badly for me. RFKJ is trying to kill millions of Americans like me. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

Hey so if you’re a man with an XX partner or child that you care about, I need you to read this thread because shit is not going to change unless cis men start not being okay with this stuff.

Hey Ohio Dems, how are we feeling about the AG candidates? I kind of don’t love either? What don’t I know? @senatormeow.bsky.social any insights? 😂

Holy shit (reposting with Alt Text)

In the past year alone, Jeff Bezos's net worth has increased by $75 billion. That’s $205,479,452 per day $8,561,643 per hour $142,694 per minute $2,378 per second The median American’s weekly earnings is $1,235 ($64,220/yr).

Okay folks, because this happens every year: 1. The Met Gala funds the Costume Institute which does not receive any of the money the Met Museum gets from tickets or money from the general donation pool to the Met.

Both mainstream media and especially MAGA media are hyping claims that there's been a big resurgence in religiosity among young American men. But a deeper look at the data shows they don't go to church more than young women. I have answers. www.salon.com/2026/05/04/y...

Lemonade on the Apple IIc. You ran a Lemonade stand and you had to price things based on the weather and the cost of raw ingredients. Also Dr J vs Larry Bird bball game. It just amuses me now that they were basically different colored stick figures.

There was a certain hill outside Athens that if you went beyond that hill you only had dial up or satellite internet (which is $$$$). This is still a thing.

Folks who live in cities and large metro areas just don’t understand how precarious internet access still is in most of the country. There are no lines to the farm I live on so we use a hotspot. The only other option is starlink (which, fuck no). Today I can barely load an email… so can’t grade. 😑

We were sitting on this end of the stadium and it was just a gorgeous goal.

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Also, prices never go down to where you remember them. That’s not the way it works

I want to be clear that I don’t have anything against any of their books. Publish all the books you want, but don’t market them by shitting on other people‘s work. In the midst of an unprecedented national book banning crisis, anyone calling any book unclean is carrying water for censors.

New York Times: If you're gonna crib our headline, you could at least credit Nick Judin and the Mississippi Free Press for first reporting it 2 days earlier. I'm glad this story is getting national attention. But Nick puts a lot of himself in these stories, and deserves credit (just as we'd do).

An emotional connection needs to be mutual. The relationship between fans and US Soccer isn't mutual. The fans have passion, but the entire professional soccer apparatus in the US only sees us as walking bags of money to exploit which, you know, kinda kills the emotion.

🔴PAY ATTENTION: The Governor of Louisiana is declaring an emergency to cancel an ongoing election so that his party can rig the rules moving forward. This is not just about redistricting... www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

The goal is clear: to create a class of people who can be used, abused, bartered, and finally dumped in some other place like trash, who have no right to complain about this status.

It's truly tragic that while the actual peer-reviewed research evidence points to a zoonotic origin, & pandemics are becoming more frequent in part because of increased human-animal contact leading to outbreaks of zoonotic origin (www.gavi.org/vaccineswork...), MAGA/MAHA keeps screaming "LaB LeAk¡!"

The shit you can get away with in nutrition research is egregious. Even 24 hour food recall diaries are notoriously unreliable, but asking people what they ate in *the past year* is a joke. You can't track a 10% drop in UPF consumption if your input data is off by 80%!

It's the 250th anniversary of America's independence, and the King of England made a trip here, addressed our Congress, and lectured them about checks on executive power. Pour one out for historians, satirists, and the founders.

This came early for me so when the dogs woke me up at 3:30 to use the facilities I started reading This is 💯 why I subscribe to The Disrespected; This post. People from Vancouver have no reason to subscribe because Mike covers Columbus But they are Disrespected. #SaveTheCaps

A wholesome story for nerds: On Saturday, I was signing books at a local bookstore for Independent Bookstore Day. The store had a signing-palooza with new authors every hour; toward the end of my hour, a woman came up and asked what my book was about. "Dictionaries," I said, and she lit up. 1/n

I wrote about how MLS killing the Vancouver Whitecaps would be the beginning of MLS' decline. They turned away from the things that made the league great and embraced wealth creation. And this will break the remaining spell that makes MLS games a unique experience open.substack.com/pub/wburdine...