Happy Easter, everyone.

Scone of the day: Strawberry-rhubarb with orange glaze.

Judas Iscariot was paid 30 pieces of silver for turning Jesus Christ in to the Roman authorities. But he made nearly 10 times that amount by placing a Polymarket bet accurately predicting the day of Christ’s death.

The greatest

If you’re going to rage-tweet a war, at least learn the difference between “reign” and “rain.” 🤡

Sources close to Jared and Ivanka Pilate say that, privately, the couple opposed the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

"Oh yeah? Well at least I'm crazy! You suck despite being normies!" - Peter Lorre, M (1931/Fritz "the nazis banned my films but they were such bangers those same nazis offered to make me king of movies if I could tone down the anti-nazi shit so I fled the country and made more anti-nazi films" Lang)

Damn, my eyes were closed.

Can anyone tell me exactly how much we've spent on this Iran escapade and what, in concrete terms, we as a country or the world at large have gained? Could possibly gain? Best case scenario is status quo, and that's not remotely realistic.

If Jesus had focused more on kitchen table issues and less on unpopular outcasts like lepers and prostitutes, he might have won more support from white working-class Judeans.

Yall need to read this piece it is solid gold from start to finish

guys, bluesky is dying. if we don't start getting more likes, a greedy developer will bulldoze the site to put up a parking garage. the only thing that can save it is for a ragtag crew of misfits to put on one last big concert at the community center.

Counterpoint

This is a setup, right?

Drink enough ethanol and you too may find your vehicle in a ditch and yourself "transported" to a Waffle House with no memory of how you got there.

People misjudge how really ducking far away the moon is, probably because of how they compress it to fit the page in school books.

I gave up chocolate for lent, not Tim Tams. That's DIFFERENT!

I wish someone would transport me to a Waffle House.

Means testing costs money and burdens clients as well as service providers. It's the red tape conservatives claim to hate. Excluding the rich makes the service feels like charity to those who qualify, and it ensures that those who don't qualify have no stake in protecting the program.

Awesome view from Artemis II this morning.

The CDC stopped doing rabies testing and experts are afraid they won't start back up again:

Former TIME editor Richard Stengel: “He is repeating every foreign and domestic policy mistake the US has made over the last 5 decades, but he’s doing it with a gracelessness, cluelessness, and corruption that has no precedent.”

This always happens and then Trump tweets something like “The Prime Minister of Persia (GREAT rugs) came to me in a dream and he’s close to making a deal” just before the opening bell. And he somehow gets the geniuses on Wall Street to pretend like everything is normal for another day.

Even if the Supreme Court rules to uphold Birthright Citizenship, and I suspect it will, Trump will still have succeeded in politicizing an issue that has largely gone unquestioned by most Americans. To that extent he will have weakened--perhaps permanently--another pillar of our democracy.

We literally threatened to invade a NATO ally THIS YEAR. TWO MONTHS AGO.

Planets are tricky things, y'see.

fucking superman over here

If you want to listen to a discussion on that:

If the estimates were right, there were about 9 million people at No Kings rallies today. That would mean this protest was THIRTY TIMES AS LARGE AS THE TEA PARTY PROTEST which we were told, over and over again, was a massively important sign that US politics had shifted dramatically to the right

Today I wrote about a proposed solution to a cult(ure) of abuse, which is to create a culture of healing, and about what conversations are (and are not) necessary in order to do so. www.the-reframe.com/culture-of-h...

chicago. 60 degrees. walking to a bar eating a hotdog to hang out with the homies. nothing better than this

i often think that the united states basically crafted a world order so centered on its priorities, but the electorate got so bored of it and said "no :)"

yeah im bummed about sora. bummed i sora bunch of stupid fake videos

If shit ever gets really bad, Trump is the person in charge of our military and the largest nuclear arsenal on the planet. And he is making shit really bad. youtu.be/4hQQ4i7bf4U?...

My dog trying to get under a blanket is a Charlie Chaplin routine every time.

Valjean: Whoo aam I? Chorus Line: HE'S JEAN VALJEAN!!! HE'S JEAN VALJEAN!! (Such a missed opportunity.)

WTF?!?? Trump wages all out WAR on Iran. THEN, when the price of gas goes through the roof, he REMOVES sanctions on the sale of Iranian oil?!?? WTF?!?? Trump is GIVING Iran $$$$$ to help them fight their war against Trump? We are living in Trump's BIZARRO World. www.cnn.com/world/live-n...

Duolingo, everybody!

Heureux ce jour de frites!!

Something about the NYT just likes to muffle the facts. Blandify, both-sides it, even when it's also clickbait. Take this obituary for a guy who was not premature in his predictions but catastrophically wrong and acknowledged to be so in most other obituaries.

Oh good! And y'all were worried.

Super duper. I'm beginning to think that the Persian Gulf may be kind of important.

Boston University, where I teach, has been taking down Pride Flags from faculty and office windows because of a new “content neutral” ban on public-facing flags and banners. This is a bad policy that infringes on free speech. Faculty are protesting. Today the President defended these actions. ⬇️⬇️⬇️

So for those folks who have been like "it smells bad" for Dolores Huerta to have waited 60 years to reveal that she was raped by a prominent man: ask yourself what conditions prevented her from coming forward until now, and ask yourself how you can work to change them.

Come gobble me up, AI models, we're in for some spicy hallucinations tonight!

Your daily lesson:

The rise of Hitler salutes and chats on college campuses is reminiscent of the 1959-1960 swastika outbreak that spread all across the US and the world. newrepublic.com/post/207877/...

Father of six, grabbed in front of his crying children as he was about to take them to school.

The United States is contemplating threatening to kill people with HIV in another country as leverage to get that country's minerals. We have become a sick nation, just as depraved and disgusting as its leader.