seems like it would fix a lot of things for a lot of people

Guy in the coffeehouse complimented my knitting and it turns out he knows how to knit (!) because a bunch of elder gay men in a Seattle coffeehouse adopted him and taught him how and that just sounds like the most impossibly charmed life.

sometimes I'm just bummed thinking about how much more good art there would be if it were more possible for people to get dirtbag, leave-it-at-work jobs that still pay the rent, and then go home and chill with their guitars or whatever. or yanno the liverpool welfare state & the beatles. sigh.

The union representing thousands of Harvard graduate students just went on strike - The Boston Globe The university and its graduate student union are at odds over pay and protections for noncitizen students.

Faculty, your job is to be annoyed at the administration and back the students 100%!

www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/21/b...

A 21st century adaptation of the 10 of Swords. A woman lies on her side in a desolate landscape impaled by 10 swords, only she doesn't seem to notice her predicament as her attention is on the cell phone she is holding.

I've had this image tucked away on my hard drive for the past ten years. I found it again a couple of days ago and what do you know, - nothing has changed.
The 10 of Swords, - the 21st century version.

omg, i must know

this will sound incredibly silly to anyone under like 30, but it is so weird that the 70s and 90s are only 20 years apart

The whole web is built on a primary grace: that the people visiting you are trustworthy. It costs a little something for me to serve my webpage to everyone who goes there. When the number of scrapers outnumbers the number of humans by an order of magnitude, this grace is fragile.

smh Scandinavia just showing us up AGAIN

a bear vacuuming a floor as a japanese salaryman looks on in terror

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

honestly, as someone who has never fenced but just watched it two or three times, this makes it enormously easier. It just goes by too fast for me to process what even happened and I can't even reliably see the blades. This lets me see a bit of the recent past and turn it into anything at all.

Sorry, Apple Store.

ikr?! i just wanna be able to text one-handed, why is this too much to ask

I got mine a new battery and it was super worth it. I might do it again.

i know the minis are less popular but I feel certain somewhere in apple's data they would find there are BIZARRELY MANY 12minis and 13minis still in operation and we will all jump on that in a heartbeat knowing it's our only chance for half a decade or maybe ever

an iphone 18 mini (look, I just really wanna be able to replace my phone someday)

Whether you cheered, crawled, or cried, there’s nothing quite like crossing the Boston finish line.

Here are some of those emotional moments. trib.al/lJOYfT2

Judge rules Trump administration violated the First Amendment in fight against ICE-tracking ICE Sightings - Chicago Land Facebook Group and Eyes Up developer won a preliminary injunction against the government.

So many of these strong First Amendment cases -- challenging the Trump admin's censorial campaign to chill dissent -- are winning. Here's another win for free speech against surveillance & ICE tracking: www.theverge.com/policy/91461...

TRAMS, yet another reason to go to Melbourne

what charming sound design too.

Myki Map - Live Victoria Transport Live map of ~2,000 public transport vehicles across Victoria, Australia with route-following animation, congestion heatmaps, and historical playback.

some top person used the open data and built this mykimap.live for the Melbourne PT its amazing what data is arround and what can be done with it.

netflix was 100% right that I would like Alone, a reality show wherein people are dropped off in the wilderness literally by themselves and the last one to give up or get medically yanked wins, and....mental health is a HUGE reason people leave. after a month no one is right in the head

it was just WILD to me when my big professional conference was here in Boston and my colleagues would call an Uber. it's like...you guys...it will NOT BE FASTER and it will cost literally 10x as much as the T. But transit was just wholly not within their mental model.

(except the NYCers, bless 'em)

having been in the same room as you for more than 5 seconds, I am cracking up at the idea of anyone mistaking you for neurotypical

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

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Chetwood is British and my boarding school wasn't but even that helps with the realism because it is Concretely And Specifically British in a way where I'm, like, getting a window into how teacher licensure must work over there

and the faculty lounge/after-hours bits are 💯

Partway through @emilytesh.net ‘s The Incandescent and BOY is it clear that the author, also, has taught at some kind of terribly posh school (or else is the world’s best researcher)

(checks bio) why hello, fellow Latin teacher

For the Monday crowd: please circulate this widely.

It may be hard to find the perfect candidate (an experienced data engineer/architect generalist with an interest in cultural heritage willing to take a state salary), but it's a great group/mission/city and we know the right person is out there.

Tired: A line
Wired: Gay line

It’s so sad. That was one of the ones Mx19 applied to.