yeah, i guess you could say i have "daddy issues". my dad is a really really great guy so i grew up with the misapprehension that most men were like that

oh no republicans not your petard, no dont hoist no stop not your own petard bros

The number of Republicans crashing out about getting nakedly gerrymandered is, unironically, a sign that we need to do more of it. You guys are correct! This shit sucks! Welcome to the party, pals! We can all stop doing it any time you like!

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

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Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

“What I didn’t know was that measles can cause long-term complications. A child can seem fine while the virus slowly replicates in her brain… Because both Britain and the United States are confronting outbreaks, I am sharing my story. Parents should know just how dangerous this disease is.”

Stolen Letters That John Keats Sent to His Beloved Are Found

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/a...

This is Fitz and June. Fitz just got here and thinks this place is pretty great. June was here first and thinks it's time to return Fitz. 13/10 for both (TT: muester)

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing.

(image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

In honor of Earth Day: a thread of environmental wins

I have been online and arguing about politics for nearly twenty five years and not once have I ever seen anyone respond to vote scolding with anything but "fuck you"

if you want to be mad at people for not voting, sure, knock yourself out

if you want them to vote next time, try a different tactic

Critics of new bill say Ohio women would be banned from sports bras, bikinis in public 'The peak of fear mongering.'

Media needs to stop with "critics say" and just quote the actual language of the bill.

HB 249 creates a new category of "seminudity" which can be used to arrest women who aren't nude, but are wearing clothing — leggings, t-shirts without bras — that religious groups feel is too provocative.

This Isn't Trading. It's Theft from Your Retirement. Someone keeps making perfectly-timed bets right before the President speaks. The victims are your pension, your 401(k), and the country I took an oath to defend.

Fifteen minutes before the President announced he was pausing strikes on Iran, somebody moved $500 million in oil futures. Somebody knew. Somebody told them. Or somebody is them.
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open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

The autistic experience of hearing "hard work will take you far in life" as a kid and earnestly believing it, only to later learn that everyone making money is running some sort of grift

A vaccine for Lyme disease could be on the horizon The vaccine candidate is the furthest any shot has gotten since the last one was pulled in 2002. Scientists are testing other ways to block infection.

www.sciencenews.org/article/lyme...

A photo of the Porta Nigra, a massive Roman city gate in Trier. Constructed of sandstone blocks, featuring two large cylindrical towers with multiple arched windows and passageways. The weathered structure stands prominently in a modern urban setting, surrounded by buildings. Sunlight casts shadows on the stone facade, highlighting its intricate details and imposing presence.

The Porta Nigra in Trier is the best preserved Roman city gate North of the Alps. It was built around 170 AD and converted into a church in the Middle Ages.
The Porta Nigra was restored to its original state in 1804 at Napoleon's behest.

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"Henry Tudor died at Richmond today," said Old Fox conversationally over breakfast, as though it had happened that very morning. "How sad, had he been ill?" replied Babcia. She wasn't really listening, as she was engrossed in a newspaper article about The Flying Duchess, who was at that very moment heading home in her little plane from Cape Town. "Consumption, and terrible trouble with his eyes. Constantly dropping in Celandine juice, which just made it all the worse." said Old Fox. "You know, his son didn't realise until days later, everyone had to creep around with smiling grimaces to pretend he was still alive. Very odd times. I think everyone was still hoping that dear Arthur would return to life." And with that he went to make some more tea and toast another round of crumpets.

Oh no

Photograph featuring the top five storeys of a tall white apartment block with blue balconies on each flooe, against a grey blue sky

'Hidden Beauty', 2016 by photographer Sandra Jordan depicts buildings that often go unnoticed #WomensArt

Medieval floor tile from Gloucester Cathedral. 📸 My own. #TilesOnTuesday #GloucesterCathedral

Wild violets on a bed of dried grass with a dandelion in the corner and the green leaf of a daffodil wound into a spiral shape.

I don’t see them, but I know they’ve been around. The little clover patch bent at the stem from tiny landings. The dew from dandelions drank up. The green of the daffodil curled into a sign post that only they can read. It is Spring and there’s wonder afoot.

Wow that's crazy

fallout-lou-begas wordle in 1: joyless. it is statistically inevitable that your go-to starting word will be the solution one day, and this is no more of an accomplishment than running a random number generator once a day until it gives you "1" wordle in 2: misleading. you may think that this is the highest achievement, but it suffers from the same disappointment of a lucky guess that wordle in 1 causes. your second guess is a strategic choice, but ending the game this early just isn't interesting wordle in 3: the peak. your starting word gave you some information and then your second guess contextualized that information into a solvable position. your sharp intuition and restraint is what truly separates you as above average. wordle in 4: statistically average, par for the course, the baseline against which all other wordles are compared. wordle in 5: you're sweating. you made a mistake at some point, or your starting word was effectively useless, and it took an extra guess above average to close things out. wordle in 5 comes as a relief. wordle in 6: crushing humiliation. you have technically succeeded but at what cost. your thirty square grid will stare back at you like barrels of a firing squad. a failure in all but name. wordle failure: never your fault. what kind of stupid word even was that like come on #wordle

Majel Barrett and John Hoyt in "The Cage".

To the "Trekkies" complaining that Star Trek has gotten too woke and insults the memory of Gene Roddenberry:

The first pilot had a strong female character in a position of authority -- second in command -- and was respected by the crew.

Star Trek has been woke since literally day 1. Fuck off.

This is my surprised face

The picture shows a pair of Egyptian sandals made of woven reed and palm leaves, the sole with bound edges and pointed toe. One sandal is completely preserved with ankle strap and toe strap.

#Egyptian flip flops: a pair of sandals made of woven reed and palm leaves. Dating around 1500-1400BC

On display at Museum of the University of Tübingen

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VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Closer inspection of 'black objects bobbing up and down in the water' revealed them to be a mass of corpses. Among the victims was the body of a woman with a life preserver strapped to her waist and the bodies of two little children clasped in her arms. #Titanic

Falling fertility, debt and AI: is the US headed toward a population crisis? Americans having fewer kids plus an ageing population could be a recipe for disaster that further erodes social stability

I’m old so I get to say this

Declining fertility

… sucks for old people who can’t hire cheap labor or sell their homes high

… benefits the smaller, next generation that gets capital at a fire sale + wage hikes driven by labor scarcity

See the Black Death

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

i am a pretty basic straight man so i do get things wrong when it comes to feminism and listening to women generally, like a lot of men do, but this concerted effort to make women seem like they're too angry over nothing when there are clear and present dangers all over society is just insane really