This thread is a great public service—thank you! Just sent it via screen caps to two friends who are trekking to Tampa for this show. They both really need all this info.

True facts well stated.

Hey Virginia

Get up and go VOTE YES today

Here’s an unpaywalled link through Archive Today: archive.ph/8jVzo

Hahahahahahaha

Easy. The Third Man.

Just rewatched today. Thought well of it the first time, back in 2020, but damn, it is better than I remember. Tight, controlled, with a nice emotional kernel.

(To clarify: whether or not to buy the damn thing now; had already planned to read it soon or late. Now that’ll be soon!)

Had been waffling on this but this post has decided me. 👍🏻

The effective federal corporate income tax rate:

1950: 50%
1990: 25%
2020: 13%

Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate.

That is how we will pay for it.

Pretends toward boldness (the stripes) but too weak to commit (that horrible brown ombré). Nope!

Agreed. I left ‘SC with less than seven grand of debt thanks to Cal & Pell Grants, work study, and various hardship and merit ‘SC scholarships.

From what I see of a friend’s kid’s experience, most of those resources are out of reach. Sometimes feels like real-world manifestation of class warfare.

Is this a San Diego County TV Guide, because the listings and channels track.

Elon Musk didn’t go to the moon.

Jeff Bezos didn’t go to the moon.

NASA went to the moon.

"AI is garbage, bro, it gives you wrong answers like half the time and the other half the time makes you stupid."

Overheard a middle schooler chastising a fellow student for suggesting they use AI. Whole middle school herd started mocking the AI kid.

...We need to let these kids at the tech bros.

👏 👏 👏

More symbolic 🖕 gestures like this, please

Wonderful, as always, to hear the backstory, and equally reliable is the way four-color reproduction dulled the stunning colors of the original work.

This! Got no interest in the new series, or the theme park, or the endless reruns, or the video games, or the comic books, or the symphony showings, or anything else. JKR being who she is killed that franchise for me

Info about an account sharing viral video of the moon saying it’s Artemis 2 but it’s not, and that account is blocking people who point it out

Just in case folks miss this due to the block

Well deserved!

I know this and you know this and we all know this but sometimes you gotta say the obvious thing out loud (so to speak) just so you don’t feel alone or crazy: our president is a deeply unwell and utterly vile man who shouldn’t be in charge of driving a golf cart much less the free world.

They Pay $34 for Burgers. Should Their Child Care Be Free? A free preschool center opening in one of New York City’s wealthiest neighborhoods raises questions about Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s vow to expand universal child care.

yes. they pay more based on income in taxes for the thing that is then “free” for everyone. this is how public services work

Best April Fool’s joke of 2026. 🙌🏻

Okay, will pull the trigger. Was on the fence after Okrent’s Terry Gross interview (lots of good bits, but …).

Something else the Silicon Valley goobers, with their push to eliminate all human interaction, don’t get. It’s fun to walk into an establishment and be greeted by name, to have your regular order handed to you, or a book they think you’ll like brought from the hold shelf. Being a regular is good!

The singular "they" has been around longer than English has had codified grammar, so really, anyone who fumes about it can go fuck themself

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I did, when I was a sprog working with the mighty Jane Yolen. Later, my team published him at Harper.

We was unfailingly kind but usually focused on explanations as to why his books didn’t sell as well in the US.