For Woke Week, I make the case for Clive Barker's Nightbreed - a lurid, pulp masterpiece butchered on its release. It knows who its enemies are - the cops, the state, and a straight society that seek to control and manipulate people for being different. Also it's sick. aftermath.site/nightbreed-m...

the historical autopsy of why the New York Times, specifically, decided to try and incite pogroms against a tiny minority in the first quarter of the 21st century will be wild

The Supreme Court is going to strip citizenship from tens of millions of people this year and the main way this has been discussed in legal academia has been outrage that people aren't being deferential enough to the people doing it. Completely useless discipline. Unfit for a free people.

wow he's a giant piece of shit like his brother. go figure.

I don't care about any of the intel obtained. I just need the IRGC to disclose the specific topic they used for the phishing email to get Kash Patel's password.

weird that this seems to be an action game and not a spreadsheet management sim where you have to file the proper paperwork to requisition the prefectural budget committee for a 5% increase in maintenance expenditures

Seeing "trans kids given deadline to segregate themselves" and "trans women banned from yet another part of society" headlines *every single day* while everyone you know and every organization stays breathtakingly silent takes such a damn toll on your heart.

Oh did you want 3300 words from me on today's IOC sex testing rules? An essay on the nature of evidence and why we can't seem to stop getting stuck in the same traps around sex and gender in sports? Wow lucky you!! www.coyotemedia.org/the-olympics...

A friend shared a library with me that had all the drum voices ported off the ROM from a Korg Electribe EMX1, and because I hate having to refer to a spreadsheet, I went through and added the drum voice names to all 207 samples. Hopefully someone else also gets some use out of this

Reminder that you are being lied to about trans people and our healthcare on an unfathomable scale

Platner’s got a real “middling Earl’s third son” vibe. Sent to elite schools, ended up in the army and then the imperial mercenary corps, play acts as a gentleman farmer, picked to run for Parliament from a rotten borough. Jack Aubrey probably slept with his wife.

the Democratic and Republican parties in the rich and swingy Essex County town of North Caldwell (famously the site of the Soprano mansion) have reached yet another no-contested-elections deal to allow the continuation of a bipartisan power-sharing machine government. New Jersey!

People will seriously be like, "Look, sorry, but trans people are too biased to cover issues like this for mainstream news outlets," all the while here's a guy who quite literally helped spark the outrage that he acknowledges led in part to this policy change.

Kind of interesting that this piece published at The Guardian acknowledges that these changes are at least partly a response to the freak out during the 2024 Olympics about Imane Khelif, when the guy writing the piece played a role in fanning those 2024 flames. www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/m...

raleigh friends does anyone have space for sisters 😭

As we’ve reported on sexual misconduct by OB-GYNs, many women told us they didn’t know what was normal. With the help of providers, patients and experts, we created this guide.

if you want to know the history of this kind of policy, I made a podcast two years ago that explained why these tests make no sense, how they were already used and eventually abandoned by the IOC in the 80's and 90's, and the devastating impacts they have on real athletes: www.tested-podcast.com

City's really ramping up the exceedingly normal vibes in advance of our big moment in the public spotlight.

stuff like this really demolishes the argument that they are just what electability looks like in their district

[To the tune of Pretty Woman by Roy Orbison] 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵Walking down the street 🎵Baba Yaga 🎵House with chicken feet 🎵Baba Yaga

If you ever thought minesweeper had too many numbers, SpindleyQ made a version that gives you the Monty Hall problem instead of telling you how many mines are adjacent www.information-superhighway.net/montsweeper/

organizing gets the goods

Suozzi last month: “I failed...I hear the anger from my constituents...I have long been critical of ICE’s unlawful behavior and I must do a better job demonstrating that.” @tomsuozzi.bsky.social today: Federal penalties for doxxing/threatening ICE is what the people want! Still not listening.

“Our findings offer compelling evidence that model weights store copies of © works…undermining a key premise of recent fair use rulings, where courts have conditioned favorable outcomes on the adequacy of measures preventing reproduction of protected expression.” @tuhinchakr.bsky.social & others

I'm really fascinated by this sort of pseudo-journalism corporate America now churns out that pretends to be useful and informative, but generally exists as a sort of simulacrum, comically avoiding central parts of stories that might threaten billionaire or corporate power

An important thing to understand about American capital markets kinda failing is we've gone so long without a proper estate tax that the people with all the money are some of the dumbest MFs to ever walk the planet. This is not Gordon Gecko anymore it Gob Bluth

One of the funniest moments in music history: Billy Corgan getting righteously bullied by Kim Thayil in a Spin magazine profile

Is this an ad for swearing?

www.bbc.com/news/article... Palestinians warn of expanding settler violence

It's been a month since NYU Langone ended care. Letitia James deadline came and went, NYU still has not restarted care. Mamdani refuses to answer questions from trans journos over the real steps he can take, like directing H+H to absorb patients or enforcing human rights law. Important thread.

My favorite photo of the Creature

"ACT-UP's example is a reminder that even institutions like the Catholic Church aren't immune to disruption and public pressure. So get angry and...stop praising the damn papacy. Religious figures are not special. Their bigotry is not less repulsive because it's wrapped up in liturgy and ceremony."

🤷🏿‍♂️ I mean... "Results demonstrated that Black men, Latino men, and women of all ethnoracial groups reported levels of friendship closeness that were similar to one another after statistically controlling for friendship characteristics, communication patterns, and other respondent demographics"

because we tried alcohol prohibition back when and it didn’t work well, and because we had gambling prohibition in recent memory and it did work well

The vast majority of research about diversity from the last 30 years shows, unambiguously, that diverse organizations outperform non-diverse ones. DEI policies are not some weird leftwing social engineering project; they are what happens when you follow the data on organizational performance.

It's Akira Kurosawa's birthday, so in honour of that, as always, here is that picture of him visiting the set of Kindergarten Cop

Carol Kaye is probably the most underrated bass player in history. And probably your favorite bass player that you didn’t realize was your favorite bass player. Do a quick search of every hit that she played on.

hi, cis folks! it’s been a little over a month since the 2 biggest private hospitals in NYC ended trans youth care. some folks thought this was resolved with a judge’s ruling or a letter from the NYAG. care has *not* resumed! there’s a simple ask ⬇️ for you, if you’re willing to fight with us. 🧵

Imagine trust in polling being at an all time low and then doing “polls” where a quarter of respondents are AI agents hallucinating answers based on exit polling.

It's probably a good idea to listen to the people who were saying "abolish ICE" ten years ago and pay attention to what dangers they're pointing out now and maybe get on board with that stuff too

The US Attorney's offices are filing doomed misdemeanor cases because it allows them to keep migrants detained for months, which fills up beds, which makes money for GEO Group and CoreCivic, which gets returned in the form of kickbacks to politicians and lobbyists. Simple as.

yeah a genuinely systemic problem is that Democratic politicians broadly neither understand nor accept that politics is about conflict. consensus is the thing you get when one or more parties to a conflict decides to tap out and offer/accept terms, not the thing you seek as an end goal.

This really is an encapsulation of what being an American is: experiencing something needlessly cruel and profoundly stupid while propaganda you can’t turn off blares about how free and lucky you are

‘There’s no ceasefire’: Gaza paramedic and father of two killed as civilian death toll since October passes 650

This is the core tension in the Democratic Party. Not inter-coalition beef, but do elected officials who say Trump is a threat to democracy actually act like it?

Mullin voted against certifying electoral votes in 2020. Can’t say I’m friends with anyone who did that!