Normalize being a try hard 🫵

“The researchers said they considered 145,000 [family separations] to be their most accurate estimate.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/18/u...

it's going to start playing Indigo Girls when I drive up in my Subaru

It appears Pope Leo’s first encyclical, focused on AI, will drop May 25: www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...

Side note: There are a *many* of arguments on this topic, but some argue evangelicalism — as we understand it today — arguably *wasn't* represented among the signers of the Declaration of Independence, bc it's development happened mostly in the 20th century. (Many evangelicals would dispute that.)

RSV_final_final_FINAL_edited_for_publication2.pdf

Revised Standard New Revised Standard Newer Revised Standard Newest Revised Standard Newest Revisedier Standard Newest Revisediest Standard Newest Revisediest Standarder Newest Revisediest Standardest Even Newer Newest etc etc

They would have called the NRSV-UE the Newer Revised Standard Version if they weren’t cowards.

People on a site called Polymarket shouldn’t be making insider bets with military secrets — they should be making homemade kombucha with one of their three to five partners.

Capricorn: You're becoming more intentional about who you give your time to, which is actually a moot point because no one wants it.

Assuming it’s all vegan and I’m in a good tummy place: Eggs, hashbrowns, sausage, biscuits and tea.

"Fake citations have turned into a nightmare for research librarians, who by some estimates are wasting up to 15 percent of their work hours responding to requests for nonexistent records that ChatGPT or Google Gemini alluded to." open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 2/🧵

Overdid it in the heat today and gave myself a migraine, but I’m in good hands.

You’d think anyone in a position to do this would be better at it.

I try, very falteringly, to model this — when you realize you messed up, immediately apologize, accept full responsibility and try to rectify any harm. I’m far from perfect at it! But I’d even argue doing so is a *more* classically masculine trait (not that that really matters).

[frantically dialing the Dad Joke Hall of Fame]

Tom Brady of Finland. Is this anything?

“You see that video of the jets colliding? Hahaha crazy right? Anyway it got me thinking about how we briefly embraced before crashing and burning.”

My goal for the summer is to start posting worse.

Source after source told 60 Minutes they fear today’s insider trading scandal about military secrets is tomorrow’s national security scandal. If market-watchers can spot irregular trades, surely enemies can, too. And they’ll make their war plans accordingly. cbsn.ws/4uSxuCf

Same for 2/4 and 4/4, if I’m being honest.

I’m convinced there’s an elaborate conspiracy theory among musicians to gaslight laypeople into believing 3/4 and 6/8 are different time signatures.

Latest here: Two jets from the Navy’s EA-18G Growler Demonstration Team collided in mid air during a demonstration at Mountain Home Air Force Base. All crew successfully ejected, the Navy told @taskandpurpose.com . The air show has been canceled. taskandpurpose.com/news/navy-gr...

Need someone to explain to me like I’m five how they intertwined like that instead of just, IDK, exploding? Grateful the crews are safe.

Somehow the technology that promises to make all entry-level knowledge jobs obsolete isn’t popular among people just entering the knowledge job market.

The only good TV shows are murder-of-the-week mysteries with absolutely no overarching plot, and I fall asleep on the couch before learning who the killer is. I love them. I would take a bullet for literally every recurring character.

it's caturday, but i'm making an exception for Her

Oh so now it’s a crime to be emotionally available?

tiny lowrider

We have already answered this question

we used to be a proper country*

In 2023, LGBTQ+ people in Watertown, WI held a family friendly pride in the park event. Acolytes of a local pastor who says gays deserve capital punishment crashed to protest. So did a gang of neo-Nazis who shouted “pedophiles get the rope” around a bunch of queer families and their kids.

*the Tibet Autonomous Region has entered the chat*

China reality check.

"The Trump administration has struck what some see as the final blow to PEPFAR, the vaunted US program that has saved the lives of 26 million people living with HIV. The State Dept now says that as of 30 September, CDC support for PEPFAR will end in most countries." www.science.org/content/arti...

As family homelessness hits record highs, school districts are offering parking lots as safe sites for students and their families to sleep at night

doing #caturday the right way

The WHO Director-General has just declared Ebola Bundibugyo outbreak a Public Health Emergency of International Concern. This is the first time a PHEIC has been declared without an Emergency Committee first. Very surprising procedurally but makes sense for public health given size, spread & WHA

Evita purron and her hallway

NYT confirms — with new details: Last year, Navy SEALs used two boats to escort Kash Patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a 'VIP Snorkel' next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the U.S.S. Arizona. One Navy vet called the swim "horrifying."

A little baffled by this op-ed. The thesis, as far as I can tell, seems to be that Gen Z starts with emotion then moves to facts — unlike prior generstions, who relied on dry, fact-based media. Only makes sense if you slept through the 1990s and early 2000s. www.wired.com/story/book-e...

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have on your phone.

Kids playing yesterday. 🪶

New — I spoke to parents whose kids are former patients of NYU Langone's trans youth health care program about the Texas criminal subpoena for their private health records. "I was furious. I was in disbelief. I was scared for my child's well-being." Read my full report:

Today: this protest against the undoing of the VRA, the seminal legislative achievement of the most famous faith-led protest movement in U.S. history. Tomorrow: Rededicate 250, which aspires to rededicate America to God, but where none of the organizers of the effort below appear to be speaking.

sometimes i’m like portland stereotypes are stupid and then i park next to a chicken at trader joe’s

“And I’d do it again, too!”

LIRR is on strike. Story TK

I must direct your attention to Sally's footsies