On the left is an Onion headline from March. On the right is Reuters, today.

Sigourney Weaver over Grogu: “Geen poppenspelers”

It’s true, which is how I became the throat GOAT that I am today. No off days

“I had a miscarriage, OK? A miscarriage. Why are you guys here over a f**king miscarriage?” Rousseau responded to the deputy. I hope she sues every fucking person involved in this horrific incident. This is outrageous. www.cnn.com/2026/05/16/u...

One really fascinating point here (among many) is that a peril of organic-looking PR is less that people will be tricked into liking a band, and more that some journalists can be suckered into treating people/phenomena as massively influential when they probably are not!

PLRC has released a letter in response to RECOVER-TLC's decision to retain their proposed dosage & titration schedule for LDN. This decision ignores public feedback, including concerns about slower titration approaches for children with #LongCovid. Read: patientresearchcovid19.com/storage/2026...

Crucial reporting from @petrinkae.bsky.social @prismreports.org

If you're looking around the table and every other guy's a fox or a hen then you're the sack of grain

Oh man, this game is so cool. If you’re a fan of weird, wonderful indie games where it’s clear real people poured their hearts & souls into it, this game is going to please you a great deal. I watched Jacob and Julia at @secretsleepoversociety.com play it & they were in love with it immediately.

Days after Mayor Eric Adams took office, his hand-picked correction commissioner ousted the official overseeing thousands of backlogged use-of-force investigations inside the city jail system. Now, Sarena Townsend is returning to the Department of Correction, THE CITY has learned.

Our libraries deserve stable and increased funding. Our library workers deserve stable and funded salaries. We deserve a city with a stable and flourishing library system. This is just the start of how we get that. Talk to the mayor, talk to your City Council rep, demand 0.5% for libraries.

If anyone in or nearby Allen County, IN loves cats, this sweetie is named Dragon, has FeLV, and risks being euthanized. He’s currently living in a garage with no AC which isn’t sustainable as temperatures rise. He needs a foster or no-kill shelter spot stat: www.reddit.com/r/cats/s/Hrr...

Reuters has more details www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...

How is this legal? It's not. Now what?

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

On this day in 1985, the city of Philadelphia went to war against its own citizens. I wrote about it for @teenvogue.com back in 2020: www.teenvogue.com/story/histor...

“The Elder Scrolls” is what they say about you when you’re on your phone!

The Trump administration wants to decrease a mother's allotments for fruits and vegetables from $52 to $13 a month.

This is actually true, imo. And also, COVID reminded people of their own vulnerability, the porosity of their own skins and bodies, their mortality and they HATED it. They still hate it. Thats why they scream about masks, about COVID and any reminder of that vulnerability.

BAN THE PERVERT GLASSES

One famous theme of genre fiction is that having a doppelgänger typically turns out great.

but they were all of them deceived for that body was not too bootylicous for them babe

In case you haven’t heard we are all boycotting REI until they respect the union. Please spread the word.

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

Ugh. As of March Verily has separated from Alphabet which for sure is going to change the financial and technical side of things for the wastewater surveillance they’re supposed to be doing for us. The reason they were able to underbid Biobot was because of Alphabet funding. This is bad.

I understand that people wanna support Mamdani. But he didn’t make good on his promised library budget. And those organizing to rightfully hold him accountable deserve to do so and all benefit from their efforts. Like Mamdani said, “Politics is not something you have, it’s something that you do.”

Chad Johnson is CEO of 'Grain Weevil'. His son did robotics competitions in high school, which inspired this little fella that breaks up hardened surfaces & levels grain to ensure it behaves like a liquid, avoids clumping. This probably saves 10-30 human lives a year. NO BOOTS IN THE GRAIN.

hiyo!!! this thingie is coming up and tickets are still available! Angela Davis is the keynote speaker!!!!

Babe wake up, John Sayles is finally making another movie + it's a WESTERN with Amy Madigan + Chris Cooper 🥹 variety.com/2026/film/gl...

The Tennessee Speaker of the House will remove all Democratic Caucus members from standing committees and subcommittees as punishment for their redistricting protests. Democracy dies in Nashville.

RIP to former NBA player Jason Collins, the first openly Gay, active, male pro athlete. Hard to explain what a big deal it was in 2014 when Collins signed with the Nets. He took number 98 in tribute to Matthew Shepard, the Gay teen murdered in a horrific hate crime. JC was brave and will be missed.

personally i think it is fucked up the president can say he is going to kill trans people or "radical pro-trans" people and everyone just keeps letting him be president. personally i think that is another thing someone with morals could impeach him for. alas! the us gov't doesn't have that.

FYI, my cousin has what looks to be an excellent book coming out soon about racial disparities in Social Security retirement and disability, if that's up your alley! (Available for pre-order) www.cambridge.org/core/books/c...

So, every time I do this I feel guilty because I think it’ll be the last time but price increases have made my bills and my commute a hell of a lot more expensive and I could use a little help until I figure out a new budget for this new reality. Venmo: oniram48 PayPal: [email protected] 💜

Of course, I want to see an end to this wretched illness. I wasn't able to set up official fundraisers this year, but if you reach out with donation receipts to @meactnet.bsky.social, @openmedf.bsky.social, or @solveme.bsky.social I will make sure those are matched in 2026.

Today is #MEAwarenessDay and while I spend every day painfully aware of the limitations this disease imposes on me, perhaps you haven't thought about it. Today is a great day to learn. Anyone can be affected by ME, and I'm one of those #MillionsMissing.

You will see me in the post below and, yes, I am medically frail like millions of pwME. I live between bed and bathroom, fearful that any life event could disrupt my tiny life. If we didn’t laugh a bit, we would have to cry. But after a laugh, make sure that you have signed the letter to HHS below.

Today, May 12, 2026, is #MEAwarenessDay. Like quite a few years, I hadn't done anything for today - until just now, when I went through my photos since the last #MEAwarenessDay...and there were only 29. I put them all into this collage. You'll note that mostly I am in bed, with my kitty nurse Piper.

#millionsmissing There are millions of us so sick we can't leave the house, or those that can can't do much else. Mecfs/long covid is beyond "chronic fatigue". Its deep exhaustion,pain, neurological struggles. The slightest "overdoing it" can make it much worse,sometimes permanently #frailandfurious

Saros feels like popping bubble wrap: aftermath.site/saros-housemar...

Signing & sharing this letter to HHS to help save Medicaid for severely ill folks with ME & Long Covid is one easy way to start being an ally ☺️ #MEAwarenessDay actionnetwork.org/petitions/fr...

It's Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (ME/CFS) day of awareness. For the last 8 years, my wife has been bedbound. She can't bathe, can't watch TV, can't get herself to the bathroom, often can't speak. There are MILLIONS of people with her condition—but you never hear about it.

The thing about ME/CFS patients is that it's definitionally difficult for them to advocate for themselves. They just... vanish from society. Which is why it's up to the rest of us to spread the word. To learn more or donate to research, some good orgs are: www.omf.ngo batemanhornecenter.org

If you’re not affected by ME, I challenge you to look through the hashtags this #MEAwarenessDay & choose one post to share on behalf of the #MillionsMissing. We desperately need healthy allies to get angry for us & advocate for research & social support 💙 #MECFS #WorldMEDay #GreatestMEdicalScandal

I dunno. Maybe because that's a stupid thing to want?

I have never understood people who derisively suggest that organizers are never satisfied, lol. Are you grown? Of course we are never satisfied! Have we achieved all of our goals? NO.

The Sick Times: 'RECOVER’s first round of clinical trials are failing. Will the next phase be better?' Written by Betsy Ladyzhets thesicktimes.org/2026/05/12/r...

The full quote is that #pwME "feel effectively the same every day as an AIDS patient feels two months before death; the only difference is that the symptoms can go on for never-ending decades." Prof. Mark Loveless, Head of the AIDS and ME/CFS Clinic at Oregon Health Sciences University