oh god Steve what is ∇⋅ B again? oh shit oh thank god you have it in your pocket.

I went to this bookstore and someone called it an overpriced tourist trap. We are in Columbus, Ohio. You know...the Paris of the Midwest.

what is alternative? forcing folks to enjoy the art of those who hurt them? THEY DONT LIKE IT. someone saying 'your choices harm me so i dont like your creations and i dont like you' is not offensive, it is the most basic use of human autonomy and it is SO bizarre when folks argue otherwise

Read this if you want to hear me praise ACOG for their unwavering support for COVID vaccines, take a shot at Robert Malone, and point out some advantages of a single payer health system. And I have to thank @tarahaelle.bsky.social for organizing my quotes in a way to make me seem coherent.

when a baby makes things different find a way to make things fun!

>10,000 STEM PhDs have left federal service over the past year (including 30% of the federal colleagues with whom I’ve worked closely). Those still left are holding federal science together with duct tape. What an extraordinary act of sabotage against the American people.

just found out that thing where robert downey jr was going to be in the avengers again wasn't a joke. they are actually just doing more avengers. that's literally happening.

the thing about newsom is that he chronically sells out low salience liberal causes to the chagrin of the base for almost no political benefit. starmerism, basically. a guy who would have no friends or allies left 15 minutes into his presidency.

Is the LARB always this good or is it just because this is an anniversary issue?

psst the things this man is saying are completely unfeasible on this timeline if you think about it for two seconds. this is a grift to get money to contractor friends and lie until Trump kicks the bucket. but I know people will fall for it.

Look, sometimes when people say they hate “liberals,” they mean “women.”

Non-tenure-track contract faculty at NYU went on strike this morning after over a year of bargaining (capped by a 24-hour+ marathon session). Big crowd of @uaw.org members and supporters, incl lots of students. They’re picketing over pay, workload, AI, a voice in faculty governance, & more.

cathode ray socks from the good store

Why are you targeting your outreach at your actual target audience instead of talking just to me, the main character of the universe?

this is how you get 3 hour YouTube videos. if I dont mention mechanical turks I will get 1000 comments about how I must not know what a mechanical turk is. everyone knows what a mechanical turk is.

I am playing this game called Winter Burrow and I'm a little knitting mouse who drinks tea. I saw a review that complained it only had 10 hours of play time but I am like 9 hours in and I would estimate ~8% way through the story. I have to make the stone table. And the winter hat. And the blueberr

I have been waiting for this! I am so consistently impressed with Nilay Patel. I cannot believe this guy showed up for the podcast...in the early days of the lawsuit...to say 'yeah I can steal your face it's not the same as stealing your face. shareholders. value. ai ai ai ai ai'

Really bears repeating that Republicans are spineless oathbreakers who created this entire situation by letting a TV idiot run for president and they sustain it by refusing to remove the guy, which they could do today

Um… this is terrifying. A GOP sheriff running for CA gov has seized 500K ballots cast in a Nov. special election. He says he’s going to count them himself and compare to the official results. He’s calling it “a fact-finding mission”. I call it pretty damn scary. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/03/22/n...

“Folklore says I get to live in your house” is an indecent position and people should be ashamed to defend it

So, destroying civilian infrastructure and disconnecting southern Lebanon from the rest of the country. Israel gonna do the same thing they did to Gaza, aren't they. Terrifying.

“Sunsetting”, “reimagining”… Don’t let hand-wavy bullshit language distract you. This is the elimination of fields of academic study because the admins are afraid of the weakest and most disorganized president in modern history. Do not forget who the cowards were. dailyorange.com/2026/03/suns...

going to support the team but i'm betting on march madness being over today

“Young women are languishing in mental torture for months in private detention centers, even when, coerced by the conditions of their imprisonment, they beg to be deported … People are dying in El Paso’s Camp East Montana immigrant detention center.”

I think it is really important for us to understand just how big of a defeat the We Are All Charlie Kirk thing was, because I don't feel like there has been much writing about the larger meaning of it

"when the briefs are unclear" babe understanding the brief, figuring out how to produce the solution, working toward this goal IS THE ASSIGNMENT

is there a better example of incredibly mismatched talent recieving equal billing than the Judds? You can hear the audio engineers turning Naomi's mic down

Holy shit we might have a cure for sickle cell anemia

I dont think people getting their delusions of grandeur confirmed by "AI" is going to go well. There are thousands of these people.

The Peppa Pig song does the rainbow in the wrong order. It's a rainy, sunny day The rainbow's here to play Rainbow, rainbow Red, and orange, and yellow, and green, and purple, and blue And indigo, too Textually, Peppa knows that indigo is a 'bluey-purple' so she should see the issue.

A Cleveland immigration court judge has again denied bond motions for two brothers arrested by ICE in Athens County, one of whom has Down's syndrome. The two were seeking asylum from violence in Venezuela, but instead will face deportation ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/20/b...

This cruelty is being done in our name. Shame on this administration. Shame. 13,000 third country deportees so far. Many were ordered deported decades or even generations earlier, but no admin previously would have considered something as inhumane as this as a means of carrying out a removal.

Ms. Rachel 2028 bsky.app/profile/igal...

If you were someone pinging critics with ‘it’s just lighting cleanup’ a few days ago, I need you to use this as a jumping off point to thinking about your susceptibility to talking points and marketing rhetoric more generally. It was right there in front of all of our faces.

Gad Saad, the evo psych hack and IDW reject, has published a new evo psych "paper". It is an extended twitter screed that's indistinguishable from standard Nazi talking points. This is apparently what passes as scholarship in the Springer journal 'Theory and Society'

THREAD: Cherise Doyley was in her 12th hour of contractions at the hospital when a tablet was brought to her bedside. On the screen was a Zoom call with a judge and several lawyers and doctors. She was in court, a nurse told her. The reason? For failing to agree to a C-section.

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

I am super into the sea.

devastating

Ppl will denigrate speaking out online saying ‘posting isn’t doing anything’ & also be like ‘4chan started our current Hitlerworld’ & ‘gamer gate farmed Nazis’ & I’m just asking for consistency Any playground where thoughts are exchanged matters that’s why the fascists heavily monitor them all now

An Expert on Concentration Camps Says That's Exactly What the U.S. Is Running at the Border That was the headline of an interview with Andrea Pitzer that AOC retweeted with some commentary about Trump's "border crisis." Tapper, I'm guessing, saw her tweet (super online) and decided to go at her.

In this morning's newsletter: -Republicans introduced a national 'catch kit' bill that mandates women collect and turn in their pregnancy remains -Kansas passed a bill that outlaws the regulation of CPCs -Abortions doubled in Massachusetts -Texas' ban is causing a massive brain drain & more

only Disney Princesses. shafting merida and mulan all the time

i went to the new coffee shop everyone was recommending and it was energy drink sodas. but they called it a coffee shop. i am old old.

mill's dedication: this is a jointly authored work a century & a half of male editors: mill exaggerated out of a sentimental fondness for his wife mill's letters: no, really, most of "my" work was partly by her, i really could not be clearer on this

Israeli forces have killed or wounded the equivalent of a classroom’s worth of children every day in Lebanon in the past two weeks of Israel’s escalation against the country, the UN’s children’s agency has reported.

'I am the future. I am a biohacker. Transhumanism. Get on board or get left behind.' --- person who went to a tattoo shop and had a magnet put under the skin on their index finger.

We really, really don't need to invite deadly childhood plagues back www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

Awful. A teenager, dead by suicide in an ICE detention center. There is now a crisis of suicide inside the detention system; I have never seen anything like it. Suicide has happened before, but they were very rare. This is the third or fourth this year.