they are calling it the perfect summary of the "keep men out of women's sports" movement

It Was on Your Table Every Morning Growing Up. It’s Dying Before Our Eyes. No One Wants to Face It. The powerhouse of American citrus is suffering a brutal decline. Everyone has a theory about why.

Totally off-topic, but did y'all the know the Free State of Florida's citrus industry is basically dead??

This is quite a story:
slate.com/business/202...

we all know I have no life, so:

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

One big political divide is between people who believe germs cause disease and people who believe Those People cause disease. It was pretty evident right away during the pandemic

make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

My most liberal idpol radlib take is that I think it's pretty bad that
right wing forces are actively intervening on behalf of the Klan with the full weight of the state legal apparatus

it’s so funny that the drunk tv host in charge of the military is like “real warriors don’t need vaccines” when all the greatest generals in history would have done anything for a jab that kept their armies safe from disease

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

This is as good as everyone's saying it is. The anti-corruption message is a good one, imo

The people who are spinning out into the deep end chatting with their plagiarism machines for hours a day learning all kinds of interesting things about quantum mechanics and the age of consent, are mainlining a regurgitated slop of science fiction.

18. The ruthless exposure of the private lives of public figures drives far too much talent away from government service. The public arena—and the shallow and petty assaults against those who dare to do something other than enrich themselves—has become so unforgiving that the republic is left with a significant roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within. 19. The caution in public life that we unwittingly encourage is corrosive. Those who say nothing wrong often say nothing much at all.

In the last year many public servants have had their lives ruined. People who knew less than they did pushed them out of work they loved with no real plan. Many were defamed and "put in trauma."
But that is not who Palantir is referring to. It views criticizing the tech bros as intolerable.

Look, for my money the absolute game changer technologies right now are batteries and biosciences, not statistically modeling a mid conversation, but you do you.

You can tell I spend too much time on Tumblr because every time I see a black cat's face pointed upward I say "See Him Face!"

This is a particularly excellent example, with hunting stare and visible fang tips on Him Face.

"Some cultures are dysfunctional and regressive," say the white guys deliberately trying to make ours dysfunctional and regressive.

Oh this song is a "bop" is it? You know what wasn't a bop? The charred wreckage near Clear Lake Iowa on the night of February 3, 1959, where a plane crash killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and the Big Bopper. The song written about it is a bop, though.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

I unironically believe this. If you're in charge of deciding what is THE LAW, and you hold that position for life, you should have to give up all of other pursuits and dedicate yourself fully to doing nothing but that, without anything else to distract you or influence you.

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

COWARDS The War on Women Is the War on Democracy. Pick Up a Weapon.

“Swalwell, Epstein, the men in that Telegram group—they are the visible tips of something that goes all the way down. A system that produces predators reliably, at scale, and then provides them with legal, cultural, and technological infrastructure to operate.”

open.substack.com/pub/lwinner/...

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

3 Southern California residents sentenced in bear suit insurance fraud scheme Three Southern California residents have been sentenced in a bizarre insurance fraud scheme which prosecutors say involved them staging fake bear attacks on high-end cars.

"bear suit insurance fraud"

"Those taxes you just paid? The money is going straight into Trump's pocket" would be good messaging

"the markets" have never truly been about an actual representation of how anything is doing in real life, and the current state of the markets is just the logical endpoint of the wealthy people who dominate the markets all collectively deciding that, whatever else happens, they should remain wealthy

These things are not mutually exclusive.

(There’s a new Atlantic story out about Kash being a paranoid alcoholic dipshit. Apparently at one point his people had to break down the door because he wasn’t responding.)

The head of the FBI isn't supposed to be getting blackout drunk. He's supposed to be cross-dressing

I'm joining the war on cancel culture, on the side of cancel culture

the president of the united states is personally looting the treasury to the tune of literally billions of dollars and that he is not being immediately removed from office and tried for high crimes against this country is a devastating indictment of every part of our political system

Daily Memo: ICE Arrests Plaintiff of Federal Lawsuit Challenging ICE Raids

The full report on lataco.com.

I mean, I’m not saying what we have now is good, but people in preindustrial cities were way more likely to die in sudden and cruel ways. Also, all that poop caused disease.

Families mourned, and some few people tried to change things for the better, but yeah, society at large mostly shrugged.