Concept art for Orange Julia's breakup hat from @thatguttershow.bsky.social Ep 9: Welcome to Hell (Mall) w/ @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social!

It's a trivial thing but the fact that neither Edsall nor his editor (if any) bothered to proofread this essay enough to catch "A man can claim an identify as a woman" feels emblematic of the way the NYT seems eager to amplify transphobia as much as they can. "Journalism’s Sacred Duty," indeed.

It didn't occur to me on first listen but the first 9 seconds of @thatguttershow.bsky.social ep 9 ("Welcome to GUTTER! The only podcast that promises to kill you, 100% guaranteed, it's GUTTER. Fuck you! Alright") are a bit reminiscent of that Big Bill Hell's car ad. @gannon.bsky.social: intentional?

sorry to vaguesky but I saw someone whose work has meant quite a bit to me personally sharing that their accomplishments affirm, for them, only their own feeling of uselessness. In empirical fact when we feel useless it is an illusory feeling. we have to Internalize and know this.

So OP is 100% right. Kids need someplace where they can go and be kids, where they can hang with their friends in a safe place, without judgement. It’s really a very simple solution except for the fact that no politician is willing to try it.

If you want to reduce crime rates, don’t invest in policing. Invest in libraries.

In those 6 months, crime in the neighborhoods around those libraries went down. I’ll reiterate that NOTHING changed except that the local library was open until midnight, and crime went down (3/ )

My old boss was the branch manager for one of the libraries with expanded hours. She said once word got out, the place was hopping late at night. People just hanging out. They also offered some nighttime programs. The grant money was enough to keep this going for 6 months (2/ )

I am yet again getting on my soapbox to tell y’all about how my previous job (public library) received a grant once to keep branches in some neighborhoods open until midnight on Fri and Sat. The neighborhoods were picked specifically because of higher crime rates and lack of support services (1/ )

Google has a very funny easter egg if you search for The Odyssey at the moment

If you're gonna read one obit today, make it this one instead. Two guys doing the hard, unglamorous, deeply human work of making their corner of the world a little better and more hopeful. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/11/n...

If you hide who you really are because you’re scared of being hurt, please don’t blame yourself🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈 Your caution shows how precious and beautiful your heart is. Chiitan will continue speaking out until the day comes when everyone can live freely without fear.

“so, Harding,” Garland says through a mouthful of noodles, “are you ready for tomorrow?” “i feel i should be asking you guys that,” she scoffs. “youre all still boys” “thats what im getting at—if the captain orders us into a wall of pink fog, are you ready to take him out when we mutiny?”

pain lances through her hip as her opponents staff connects, sending her lurching to the side with a grimace “too aggressive, Ms Harding,” Jervik chides with a slight grin. “you need to find a balance between aggression and caution instead of swinging from one to the other”

Back in my day, we had little coins called pennies. "Give me five pennies for a nickel," we'd say. On one side was a picture of Abe Lincoln and on the other side was another, smaller, picture of Lincoln.

Fun new puzzle game—highly recommend for fans of So Clover! 🍀

(The answer to grade inflation, btw, isn't "tougher" grading. It's recognizing that grading, especially letter grading--not a very old system--serves employers but not students. It incentivizes cheating & corruption. Other evaluative frameworks are possible.)

he hated capture. as far as he was concerned there was nothing in the world worse than being caged and chained with nothing to do but stew in your own thoughts. its not that he believed thinking was bad, but rather that it needed to be focused. it was idle thought that led down dark paths

The Plague Doctor, the Infamous Raven, the Great & Notorious Doctor Vektor! reborn, reshaped at her own hand—and now imprisoned in a glorified supply closet in her own lair and going on… about nine minutes forty seconds waiting on a glass of water “what marvels will she dream up next?” she sighed

the harsh stink of burned chemicals filled her nostrils. even closed her eyes seared with blinding afterimage. deafening ringing filled her ears, and every attempt she made to stand left her nauseated she couldnt remember what happened. all she knew was an intense fear clawing at her heart

hero trying to stop the villain from launching his doomsday device, but feels weirdly conflicted when the grandstanding villain explains his master plan: release a gene plague that will cause men to spontaneously form a chrysalis, dissolve their bodies, then reform as women

Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito are full of shit in their dissents in the birthright citizenship case. Give me two minutes, and I'll explain why.

There should be a movie called “all cats are big now” where all cats are suddenly 10 feet tall and hunting their owners and Patrick Wilson is a scientist looking at a screen and it shows a graph of cats being small and then big with an arrow pointing at big and he takes off his glasses dramatically

@runwithskizzers.bsky.social I saw this and immediately thought of a certain villain from a certain middle grade novel series! (Any word on when we might look forward to book 3...? 👀)

Sci Fi Author: in my book I invented The Cure For Cancer as an aspirational tale MedTech Company: At long last, we have created The Cure for Cancer from classic sci-fi novel Please God Someone Create A Cure for Cancer

I’m on the Metro-North and there are two people with long-haired dachshunds in bags 10 feet away from each other and the two dogs are clearly aware of each others presence but the owners are not

This will be great! Doug Jones is iconic.

i petted the cat against the grain and it said woem

suddenly remembering i haven't plugged my newest in a while. i think everyone should buy and read the book SIMPLICITY which i'm just so tremendously proud of the further i get away from it

WHEN are we getting a John Waters biopic and WHO would you cast as John Waters? (Personally I lean towards Steve Buscemi for his whole life Pen15/Lenny Wosniak-style, though I could see having different actors for different periods like in The Crown.)

In case you haven't or in case you have and want to read again: firesidefiction.com/the-secret-l...

That’s Smee in the corner

This is such a good idea. We should do this in NYC. "All Chicago Public Schools students now have access to nearly everything the city’s libraries have to offer — including physical items like books as well as extensive digital resources." blockclubchicago.org/2026/04/08/c...

Tree snail! 🐌 As much as I loved making the i'iwi I think this guy was my fav of the bunch. Making the spiral pattern on the shell was fun. First snail I've ever made! ❤️ #lego

best dog job in the world all you gotta do is retrieve sticks and every time the crowd goes wild

Time to tell the computer to Exit Windows

me: if z is the length of a slice and a is the area of the pie, then pi(zz)=a PhD advisor: this is what you’ve been working on for three and a half years?

theres a very popular vulcan poster on sandwichnet who posts the most fucking incredible looking sandwiches, but he always refuses to elaborate on the ingredients, let alone post the replicator codes and would just say "You may figure it out yourself."

Public comment on Dr Oz's extreme anti-trans rule changes ends TODAY at 11:59 pm EST! PLEASE voice your opposition to these medically unsound proposals! Matthew Cortland has some great talking points on their Patreon! www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Mental health care is essential for all. I’m grateful to our mental health professionals for fighting stigma and providing treatment to millions. I’ll continue to do all I can to support research and expand access to care.

Question of the day: Would you rather be this guy, or the guy who called the judge "honey"?

right now the floor for me is abolish ICE and put every agent on trial and the average elected democrat is like what if we told them to cut it out

I think people should be allowed to vote from prison too

Happy MLK Day!

Just finished @mattielubchansky.com's uproarious, devastating, beautiful BOYS WEEKEND. If you like graphic novels, horror, the heady mix of gender dysphoria & euphoria, or [SPOILER] douchey tech bros, MLM scammers, and cultists getting what's coming to them, HIGHLY recommend. Onward to SIMPLICITY!

This is an almost shockingly wise essay. I'm glad I've finally read it.

This is the same Adrian Vermeule who described conservatives as "The very first group for the camps." He later claimed the tweet was "a sardonic joke to the effect that if and when an extremist left-wing administration came into power," Trumpers and Never-Trumpers alike would be sent to gulags.

Wow! Beautiful and devastating with dark humor and a twist of sci-fi/magical realism. Do yourself a favor and take a few minutes to read this!

CHICAGO! The proposed city budget would cut 89 positions (more than 1 per branch!) from our already understaffed libraries and slash the book budget in HALF. Please take a moment to call your alder, ask them to reject this budget, and demand one that fully funds CPL! www.chicago.gov/city/en/dept...

now this is obvs gonna be v personal and youre ultimately gonna have to find your own shit but here are a select few trinkets from mine to get you started