The best time to get rid of your doorbell camera was as soon as you bought it, the second best time is right now.

“And I’m like, what do you mean, you ‘do your own research’? You running a double-blind study in your living room, dawg?” - A guy walking ahead of me with his friends on a NYC sidewalk in 2021, also my favorite overheard dialogue of the entire pandemic

Reminder! People are being sent to countries where they have never lived! There are a few different phrases one might use.

Walton Goggins clogging with his mom

In no way should a U.S. Citizen be detained, anywhere, because of their protected speech (and neither should a non-citizen, to be clear). To do so is to violate an oath to the Constitution and the rule of law. www.usermag.co/p/hasan-pike... ( @taylorlorenz.bsky.social )

"Please pray for insurance approval and that we can get started ASAP." On Bailey Koch's last post the day before her husband took out their whole fam. Impressed with her parents for talking through their grief about lack of access to mental health care in the US.

once there was a Sheet Daddy

"Why do faceless politicians have the power to strip human beings of their divine moments?" www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Jane Schoenbrun will begin shooting their I Saw the TV Glow follow-up Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma this summer. See new details:

Lmaooo "Bill Belichick’s family is extraordinarily concerned by what has transpired. One Belichick family source told me, ‘There is deep worry for how detrimental Jordon can be for not just North Carolina but Bill’s legacy, reputation — everything he has built and worked for over decades.'”

i have never - not once - cared about sports, but this Bill Belichick situation has me 👀

I'm going to let Kiandria tell you in her own words but the payment processor is Block/Square. They have policies that block their platform from profiting off of racism and hate speech. So she's targeting them... heavily. www.tiktok.com/@kiandriaisb...

You know that racist white lady who has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars after calling a 5 year old boy the n word? She's using a Christian fundraising platform that's fine with her racism. That didn't sit right with Kiendria a web developer. /1

If you haven’t already pre-ordered your copy of THE PEOPLE’S PROJECT, we’re working on copy edits and the table of contents ALONE will have you shooketh. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Relatable: pope signed up for Google+ but had no idea what to do with it web.archive.org/web/20190309...

The new pope signed up for Twitter in 2011 with a Hotmail email address that he also used for a lot of other stuff, which is how I know that he's probably the first pope on Zynga and almost certainly the first pope on Tumblr

3/ Since February 2025, US embassies around the world have been sending letters to local contractors making similar demands. This seems to be the first time that it's been reported that a similar letter has been sent to a foreign government organisation. bsky.app/profile/chri...

Some personal news

Ok you guys let's see who it is so I can go back to being a lapsed Catholic.

just eat the bay leaf. nothing matters.

one thing about neglectful parents is now they can just invoke jOnaTHaN HaIDt and no one argues! it's terrible!

Breaking: federal district court orders North Carolina to certify state supreme court election for Democrat Allison Riggs & rejects Republican attempt to overturn election and throw out thousands of votes. Huge victory for democracy & fair elections www.courtlistener.com/docket/69489...

i fear it is impossible for tracee ellis ross to miss. #metgala2025

"“It would tell him everything he said was beautiful, cosmic, groundbreaking,”" www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...

how much of the draw of chatgpt is the pseudo-relationality of: "Good question — and it’s a really interesting one...!" (copy pasted AI answers are all over the facebook groups i'm in right now)

immediacy epistemology

being a different little weirdo on each and every platform

A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here

6yo needs to be surrounded by large stuffies to sleep, and now the large stuffies each need to be surrounded by smaller stuffies to sleep, and that is how I ended up explaining fractals to my 6yo at bedtime

still thinking about AI bots flooding community college classes, and that community colleges are one of the truly great things we still have, and they should be protected at all costs voiceofsandiego.org/2025/04/14/a...

I went to El Salvador hoping to meet with Kilmar and check on his well-being, and I had the chance to do that last night. Our courts have been clear: this was an ILLEGAL abduction. I’m speaking now about my meeting with Kilmar and our work to bring him home:

increasingly really do believe most things can be explained by nature.com/articles/s41...

tfw you know something's gonna take up space in your brain for the rest of your life, unfortunately (new wh webpage just dropped 😭)

okay. okay. okay. putting aside the catastrophic harms here. and knowing the answer to “why is trump walking out of it like a michael bay explosion” is “because he’s a vainglorious oaf who has never known love.” why is the image autographed by covid-19 like an old baseball card??

I think of what Solnit calls lightning as a "tornado theory of change" & my belief in it is what keeps me here. Highly recommend this way of thinking if you have a hard time holding on to hope, it relies more on the humility of "I can't predict the tornado, but I can keep feeding the storm."

white house twitter edit of that nyt article about Van Hollen meeting with Abrego Garcia is flat out terrifying

Great Rustin quote. 👍🏾

worth reading Wilkinson's opinion on the return of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

mom in a fb group invoking jonathan haidt to drop her 10.5yo daughter off at the mall for half a day with no way to get ahold of her other than "ask store employees for a phone" because she needed to work on a school holiday. lol no mama

The linked article is about cops using AI bots to chat people up to collect evidence to use against them.

Today @vanhollen.senate.gov was denied entry to the same prison.

They are doing this to people here legally and will absolutely start doing this to citizens too.

"ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’" Important reporting from the Border Security Expo at the Phoenix Convention Center, especially considering the supreme court ruling on the alien enemies act azmirror.com/2025/04/08/i...

One of the most clarifying things I've seen in the past few weeks is "de-escalate all conflict that is not with the enemy."