Frog, ever the know-it-all, points out all the shortcomings of Toad's housekeeping. It is true, though, that Toad's house is a mighty mess, including a pile of dirty dishes in the sink. From "Tomorrow" In *Days with Frog and Toad*

“Your windows need scrubbing,” said Frog. “Your plants need watering.”

“Tomorrow!” cried Toad. “I will do it all tomorrow!”

With the possible exception of JK Rowling, who missed the point of the Harry Potter books.

I am not interested in prison. Throwing a few creeps in prison until the next fascist pardons them does nothing to destroy their power.

I want the financial and political power of these individuals and corporations to be utterly destroyed.

Take literally all of their money.

critfailmemes on threads (!) "Okay so to keep the poor from rioting you give them bread and circuses" "Got it. However some of them were sneaking into the circus on their friend's login so we stopped that" "No you... you gotta give them the circuses" "We're ending the free bread program, too much of it was going to the poor"

BUT LETS FLIP THE CALENDAR

“It’s a couple of things that work beautifully in concert. First: no music. Audiences are so sophisticated, but what they’re not accustomed to is not being told how to feel,” Wyle says. “You take all that out and it forces a level of engagement where you’re now looking for clues within the frame of the screen, which forces you to look up from your phone. And I think that is extremely engaging, especially to young viewers who aren’t accustomed to being asked to participate in a nonpassive way in the viewing experience.

“Second point, shooting it with almost exclusively 50-millimeter or 65-millimeter lenses, which is the most comparable to the human eye—and only shooting from the point of view of a human being that’s present in this space. There are no cameras on gurney wheels going in the hallway. There’s no cameras on the ceiling looking down from a God point of view. You are limited to the perspective of a participant. You can look away, but you can’t leave, and it becomes an endurance test for you to stay on your feet as long as we’re on our feet. Which [brings me to my] third point: real time. Real time has an aggregate sense of tension that you don’t get in any other form of storytelling. What happened before is happening now, and these two things are going to add up to the next thing. And if we throw more ingredients into this cooker and keep ratcheting it up, it’s going to pop.”

Wyle makes eye contact for his next point, delivering it with a Robby-esque matter-of-factness. “Fourth point: The election went the other way,” he says with a shrug. “We could have been a really good show with a lot of nice things to say in a perfectly normal Kamala Harris universe. And instead we became almost a beacon of hope and humanity in an alternative universe. But in the midst of that, fifth point—this is essentially competence porn. You’re watching really smart, dedicated people do what only they know how to do at a level that you don’t know how to do it, and you’re so fucking glad that they’re there doing it, and compartmentalizing their own stuff to put your broken pieces back together. You’re so reassured by knowing that there are people out there that laugh and joke and have the ability to lock in like that.”

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

When did Amazon's search function get sooo bad? I was looking for a comp title and searched "addiction memoir" and did not recognize any of the books it showed me. There are so many famous addiction memoirs!

Read an article this morning about how Allbirds is pivoting to become an AI company and goddamn if a company turning from eco-friendly shoes to water- and power-guzzling AI doesn't feel like a metaphor for this entire era

This Is How You Lose The Time War (2019)

screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -

POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad

VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??

POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

you shouldn’t learn about bands from shady TikTok manipulation, you should learn about bands by hanging out with a girl you like but are also extremely afraid of

yeah, be deeply suspicious of any romance novel featuring a blond man and brunette woman on the cover (or black haired man, for sneaky Reylo fics)

I can hear this image

Mystics 44-0 season incoming

You know what would also help her afford her husband's cancer treatments? UNIVERSAL FUCKING HEALTH CARE JESUS FUCKING CHRIST HOW IS THIS GODDAMN COUNTRY STILL LIKE THIS MAYBE GRANDMA SHOULDN"T HAVE TO DELIVER FOOD LIKE A TEENAGER IF WE HAD A DECENT FUCKING SOCIETY!!!!!!!!!!

2026 Locus Awards Top Ten Finalists locusmag.com/2026/04...

wet hot medieval summer

It rules that within 24 hours, Trump has impugned the Pope’s credentials and also claimed not to recognize a picture of himself as Jesus. This dude’s brain is fully on shuffle, which is a perfect way for a president’s mind to be.

How streaming platforms reignited the YA boom Diverse storylines, coupled with the global reach of streaming platforms, have reignited an explosion of YA adaptations, and it's a race that isn’t slowing down.

You'd think the @latimes.com would know that Heated Rivalry and Red, White, and Royal Blue were ****NOT**** YA books, but I suppose they, like so many others, assume if it's a romance then it's a teen book.

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Did you know that Min Jin Lee, Marlon James, Deesha Philyaw, and Hernan Diaz ALL HAVE NOVELS COMING OUT THE SAME DAY? September 29, by the way. Fall books on my mind on an April weekend, sigh.

Three National Guardsmen in Chinatown outside the metro.

Periodic reminder: D.C. remains patrolled all over the city by armed members of the National Guard deployed to do so by President Trump.

Seeing Trin and Soph together in the USWNT starting lineup again 😍

Stepping away from the Artemis splashdown livestream to give my cat his insulin shot and god science is amazing

alone ~*toGeTheR**~

Satoshi was also very likely a member of the Cypherpunks, a group of anarchists formed in the early 1990s who wanted to use cryptography, the art of securing communications through code, to free individuals om government surveillance and censorship. The Cypherpunks interacted mostly through something called an internet mailing list. Ancestors of today's message boards, mailing lists were large group emails in old typewriter font that subscribers received in their inbox. To communicate, respondents replied-all.

no please NYT, tell me more of this ancient discovery your digital archeologists have unearthed

(source: www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/b...)

Melina Matsoukas to Direct ‘Parable of the Sower’ for Warner Bros. (EXCLUSIVE) Melina Matsoukas is set to direct and produce the screen adaptation of Octavia E. Butler’s sci-fi odyssey "Parable of the Sower" for Warner Bros.

Melina Matsoukas to direct Octavia E. Butler’s classic “Parable of the Sower” for Warner Bros

We may all die in a nuclear Armageddon but at least there won’t be any more trans people playing sports

Normal Tuesday. Got a few meetings today but not too many. President's threatening to genocide millions of people and there are folks flying around the moon in the fucking sky. Gotta take out the garbage later