Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

I will die on the hill that U.S. culture suffered a grievous and potentially mortal injury when we retired the concept of "selling out"

Red States Thought They Could Stop Abortions. They Ended Up Stopping Only the Lifesaving Ones. Abortion bans are failing.

Abortion rates in red states have not decreased, aside from medically necessary ones. Pregnancy has become much more dangerous. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Pennsylvania's motor-voter system effectively screens non-citizens from voter registration • Pennsylvania Capital-Star The audit also revealed problems with PennDOT’s data security protocols and recommended tighter internal controls.

Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote.

They found one. One.

And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.

“The coming disruption” like it’s a meteor and not something being done consciously & recklessly by a few people so that they can become very rich while everyone else eats shit. I hate these mfers so much. Demented. Genuine enemies of human civilization.

[“Regular-stuf ___ are so puritanical”—Helen Rosner] (5) ✏️

From “The Simpsons” house genius John Swartzwelder, interviewed in The New Yorker by Mike Sacks

I learned this one from Vince Gilligan on the Breaking Bad Insider podcast, and it’s good advice. I use it for UX ideation too — what’s the stupidest way we could solve this problem?

get equipped with rage nighttime

In the era of "we must exclude trans people from playing sport, for Fairness" it's actually quite sickening for various media outlets to be all "check out out, a ROBOT won a marathon!"

Ever blow-dried a labrador?

not the vicar of christ with another absolute banger of a post

this is just a warmed over david duke speech from 1990

Me on streets of NYC next to sign that reads “REX 2.0”

The New Me

Penelope Harper 1d • C Texting with the kid: • •• Today 8:44 PM I'm still confused why the orca are evil Which orca? Because they hunt dolphins? Lol Orcs • You, Marion De Gier Strauss and 10 others 1 12

Drinking at a bar before DEATH OF A SALESMAN and going through our phones looking for pictures of Ella and lol

White mini suv parked in front of restaurant that appears to be called BUTT HEAD SALAD

Pass

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

We have an apparent cure for most people with pancreatic cancer—a profoundly swift, deadly cancer—and the position of the U.S. government is that it should be banned. This is real fall-of-empire stuff.

White mini suv parked in front of restaurant that appears to be called BUTT HEAD SALAD

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We are excited to announce Midis for Minnesota, an upcoming crossword pack by Minnesota constructors. Proceeds will support immigrant families in Minnesota who have been impacted by ICE activity. Pack will be released in late April. A preview puzzle by Zhouqin Burnikel is available now.

Someone who was clearly famous went back at same time as us and I had no idea who he was and still don’t 🤷🏻

The concept of “genius” is pernicious and world-destroying.

Got to go backstage and meet crossword solver Laurie Metcalf (and her dog)! She was so lovely. I was a little stammery and starstruck, but I survived. ❤️ #DeathOfASalesman

"Well... I've decided it's TIME," she wrote in the caption of an Instagram Reel on Wednesday. "The Al revolution has begun, and I need to learn as much as I possibly can about AI and share it with all of you. Also, FYI: the jobs women hold are 3х more likely to be automated by AI, yet women are using Al at a rate 25% lower than men on average. We don't want to be left behind. So ... do you want to learn with me?"

The “FYI” here is head-shakingly stupid. Like “hey ladies you should definitely embrace this specifically anti-feminist thing that is going to make you redundant #GIRLBOSS” what the actual fuck?! Maybe “followers” of Reese Witherspoon deserve what they get but Jesus h

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!!"

lol I know!

PLAYBILL WINTER GARDEN THEATRE Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman

It’s all happening!

And in a freak coincidence, NYTXW constructor Rebecca Goldstein is here tonight too! 😀 @rebecculous.bsky.social

Penelope Harper 1d • C Texting with the kid: • •• Today 8:44 PM I'm still confused why the orca are evil Which orca? Because they hunt dolphins? Lol Orcs • You, Marion De Gier Strauss and 10 others 1 12

Drinking at a bar before DEATH OF A SALESMAN and going through our phones looking for pictures of Ella and lol

Dr brown cream soda

Was melting down in a very hot NYC and then a bagel place appeared before me and I was touched by the hand of god aka Dr Brown. (I almost never drink soda but my god this tastes perfect rn) ❤️

Ngl I slept like an angel 😇

Had the thrilling experience of solving Friday’s puzzle on my phone in my hotel room (not the thrilling part) and not knowing who the constructor was and halfway through thinking “damn this is good, who made this?” and then afterwards finding out it was my ❤️friend❤️ @fabioethics.bsky.social !!!