It takes me a few months to break in a new bookmark, when those corners are too sharp it can be quite dangerous

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is poised to file a civil rights lawsuit against The New York Times, centered on the allegations of a white male employee who did not get a sought-after promotion and argued it was because of his race and gender.

You got a question, you ask the 8-Ball. / S09E12 The Reverse Peephole

The motion for selective or vindictive prosecution is going to be as long as Moby Dick

If the goon squad ever visited me I would just start smashing shit

"The more automation there is, the more people value a human’s touch...Coffee as a commodity led to more demand for coffee as an experience." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/o...

Karg Island really fell out of the news...

Trump hasn't written a good tweet in years

Sadly this is not a real tweet from Variety. It was posted in March on the "Mayo Set Memes" Facebook page

Sometimes I can't help but think that we live in a sort of "Geohell"

Great discussion of "Michael" from @rilaws.bsky.social and @alisonwillmore.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/c...

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It's crazy how many of these I can still hear exactly as the actors delivered them.

AI is going to revolutionize work, cure cancer, and is keeping the entire US economy is afloat but it also keeps referencing "goblins" for reasons no one quite understands. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chat...

If I was Alexander and had just learned that there were no more worlds to conquer, I wouldn't have wept. People are just different I guess.

Fico supported Ukraine's entry into the EU‼️ How interesting. Russian influence in the EU is collapsing after the loss of its main asset: Orban.

Trump take New Jersey diner www.nytimes.com/2026/05/02/n...

Trump to Iran War: "You're fired!"

Absolutely bonkers footage of Ukrainian soldiers shooting down Russian drones in prop planes with shotguns. Not ai, came from an official Ukrainian account and verified by the WSJ.

If I were a cop I bet I'd get annoyed at having to lug around all that crap on my belt

Can't decide which hit show to watch, "Will Trent" or "R.J. Decker"!!!

I don't think this is going to happen because the GOP congressmen from Mississippi would prefer to have one black Democrat from Mississippi plus their safe seats vs. less safe seats with the chance of one fewer black Democrat.

Absolutely extraordinary. The Democrats conceded *nothing* and got everything they demanded. They said no ICE/CBP funding, and that's precisely what happened. In other words, they did not cave. At all. But the GOP did—completely.

Rita Ora’s Agent Scores Singer Another Prime Crossword Puzzle Placement https://theonion.com/rita-oras-agent-scores-singer-another-prime-crossword-puzzle-placement/

Did anyone else feel like this National Poetry Month just hit different??

Free name for the main character of a children's mystery book series: Kit Spookington

I would just start smashing shit

Kudos to Slate's art department for choosing as the "scary" dog an English setter, the sweetest and friendliest dogs on earth. slate.com/advice/2026/...

Bagpipers mainly play that one song.

lol www.wsj.com/business/med...

Former Atlantic staff writer Caitlin Flanagan wrote a piece in October titled "Don’t Bet Against Bari Weiss" and now she is employed by Bari Weiss!

Rare typo on the NYT homepage

Oh those liberals, they just make me so mad... [arthur-fist-clench.gif]

"That's not going to be good for business." "That's not going to be good for anybody."

after a lot of viral jokes last week about this starmer pic, i wrote about the history, and symbolism of, that great british tradition: the unflattering backseat photo of politicians—and why it doesn't exist in the US slate.com/life/2026/04...

On Old Twitter, when a clickbait New York Magazine article would be published, there would be all sorts of japes and tomfoolery; on Bluesky, you see the same thought expressed three dozen times.

The coming 2026 Democratic wave is going to both overwhelm any racial gerrymanders and backfire on the GOP for slicing and dicing in Texas and elsewhere based on the 2024 results.

The perfect cat paw doesn't exi—

Trump is a sui generis figure in many ways, one of which is he spent 40 years equating his name with the idea of "money." The average uninformed American accepted this as the truth and national myths about business success made many people think he had to be smart because he had so much money.

"When there are so many real occasions to frown, it’s exhausting to do the brow-furrowing ritual."

Second (and last) #SCOTUS ruling is the big one, Louisiana v. Callais. For a 6-3 majority (Rs v. Ds), Justice Alito purports to narrow the ability of states to draw majority-minority districts as a remedy for race-based vote dilution, but, per Kagan's dissent, comes pretty close to gutting the VRA:

One of the most striking things about these wacky quotes is the way they give Trump chance after chance after chance and dismiss Harris based on innuendo. If you want to see what racism and sexism looks like in 2026....

BREAKING: A 2nd Circuit court of appeals panel rejects ICE's mandatory detention policy, splitting with the 5th and 8th Circuits and putting the case on a likely trajectory to SCOTUS The 3-0 decision rejects "mass detention w/o bond for millions." www.politico.com/news/2026/04...

My skeets are performing well in the coveted 25-54 demographic.

The two greatest Millennial fiction writers

After the Democratic wave in November, Trump will be basically spent as a political force. However, he can still keep the remaining Republicans in Congress in line through his tacit power to direct thousands of death threats from MAGA maniacs at them.

by my tally we are now spending ~$2B to companies to NOT build more energy infrastructure. in the middle of an energy crisis

Redbuds in bloom

> someone tries to kill you in a very public botched effort > everyone hates you 2% more