Look, man, you can just be Protestant.

The economic tradeoff between America and Europe is that America has much more expensive costs for essentials like health care but much more (relatively) affordable consumer goods. Once that's out the window, whew.

I love it when my LaTeX problem ("why is my multirow cell ragged right instead of justified") can be answered by reading the documentation.

Say hello to a new subway map! 🗺️ Today, the MTA unveiled a new subway diagram that provides riders with essential travel information in an easily readable, bright, and orderly manner.

Gonna start calling golden milk a "spiced babyccino".

Two months after its long-awaited reopening and one month after apparently missing its projected date for returning to full capacity, the Trieste-Opčina tram, now running once every 45 minutes, is a big draw for locals and tourists alike on a mild spring Sunday.

Ron Darling praising Lindor's fundamentals in practice, we're back baby!

The Lorax is all about propaganda of the thneed

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

think it's important everyone understands what is happening on tiktok: right now, people are making increasingly ridiculous lebron-centric covers of songs. it is getting weirder by the day. see here:

For many years until last week I thought Travis Scott was the lead singer of Gym Class Heroes who had gone solo.

Does anyone know anything (or know anyone who would know anything) about the cross-border connections between Ukraine and Romania in Zakarpattya/Maramureș? They were reopened in 2023 (see article) but trains were cancelled a few months later. Will they be back? www.aviation24.be/railways/ukr...

Does anyone know anything (or know anyone who would know anything) about the cross-border connections between Ukraine and Romania in Zakarpattya/Maramureș? They were reopened in 2023 (see article) but trains were cancelled a few months later. Will they be back? www.aviation24.be/railways/ukr...

I published a piece yesterday about the impossibility of teaching Jewish Studies at this moment in history, and in particular how ridiculous it is to try to teach Jewish History amidst bans on DEI: slate.com/life/2025/03...

'sold as slave labor to El Salvador' is I honestly think a fair way of describing it

“This is one reason why conservatives (and fellow travelers like Arnade) hate liberalism so much: free choice disproves their biological essentialism.”

In the 17th century, a village in Zakarpattia changed its name from Fuckville to Nonameville

LOL wow a dude just argued in the EU courts that misgendering is a GDPR violation and he *won*. www.wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refu...

Researching concentration camps, I often saw governments justify atrocities and genocide against a violent opposition by saying "they would do worse to us if they could," without acknowledging that these opponents lacked any real capacity to rival the level of state violence that had been unleashed.

Schumer's whole plan, in his words, is "I am focused on bringing Trump’s numbers down, his popularity down, exposing what he has done to America and what he will do," but when asked about specifics like Columbia & Khalil, he leaps to Trump's defense while admitting he doesn't even know the details.

When Sade says "coast to coast, LA to Chicago", what coasts does she have in mind?

Students were told for years that, actually, hate speech was protected speech and what was needed at universities. They were told that heckling such speech was itself a sign of intolerance.

In awe of our local supermarket chain's upscale house brand, which is currently selling four different regionally protected olive oils.

Excited about the new @jetlagthegame.bsky.social season but pilsners are not named after a place in Germany! 🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿🇨🇿

turns out when you legitimate a taste for bigotry people gravitate to the parties that serve it as an entree rather than as a garnish

The sforim behind her are really bothering me, leave us out of this nonsense.

As a Jewish person it is so uniquely painful to exist in a world where Jews are the ones making lists of people for the government to target.

Switch all your group chats from Meta products to Signal, if you haven't already.

I don’t know what can be done about it, and it’s one of the scariest things I can think of - accounts like LibsOfTikTok that target individuals are now going to be backed by the full force of the Trump administration and anyone who says anything they don’t like is going to be a target.

Put my phone on grayscale in an attempt to slowly fill up all my screen time with NBA highlight videos and nonograms.

Blessing your timeline with the Cardvaark.

My taste buds when I drink an IPA

They wore kippahs with the Only Connect logo for the finals!

Serena Williams is now part-owner of the WNBA team in...Toronto? Is this also a Drake troll?

Konstantin Fedorovich Petrov (1850-1914) wrote a two-volume *Русскій язык* in 1880. Around 1906 it was extended by an extra page with dependency-like trees. Any information about this author or his inspiration for adding graphics is highly appreciated! #linguistics cysouw.github.io/graphicalgra...

bathroom bills were considered a hugely bigoted overreach a decade ago and the backsliding on trans rights is the result of a sustained propaganda campaign by elites the pendulum can swing back the other way if you try, and anyone who is not willing to do so is showcasing their own bigotry

Drinking beer in the USA

idea: we force op-ed writers to place their takes on a quasi-prediction market and whoever gets the most correct gets to write more op-eds

Hungary’s government is banning Pride in Budapest, saying Trump’s election has given them the cover they need to do this.

Thanks to San Remo I learned that the Italian word for "outlaw" is fuorilegge. I thought it was silly that the word means "outside-law", and then I felt silly myself.

just gonna be the thousandth person to remind you all that segregationists start the open bigotry with people they feel they can target most easily but do not end there

A new McCarthy era is upon us. Stupid, depressing, and dangerous as ever. I wonder whose name will carry the dunce cap in the history books. Too many are complicit. I’ll need to find upset and action, but for now I’m feeling grief at the dehumanization inherent to all this.

Helen DeWitt said it best, of course.

Fear of mortality strikes again. The Gates were incredible and moving, they will never happen again. Accept it.

LMAO incredible, the fucking worst

At the Gorizia carnival, one chicken-themed group takes a stand against the controversial proposed Trieste cable car (ovovia, or "flying egg" in Italian). The tram is better!

Deeply embarrassing for the JTA to outsource its Jewish onomastics to a "German research company" and not be able to tell that the company got it wrong.

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