#retro 📺+

#HappyBirthday to Tim Curry!
🎂 8️⃣0️⃣ 🥳 -E

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.
New piece ↓
open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Jake the cat at full stretch.

I don't bother chasing mice around
I slink down the alley lookin' for a fight
Howlin' to the moonlight on a hot summer night
Singin' the blues while the lady cats cry
"Wild stray cat, you're a real gone guy"
I wish I could be as carefree and wild

But I got cat class and I got cat style.

Namaste!

As Measles Takes Toll on Kids, Anti-Vaxxers Have Change of Heart Enough parents are quietly embracing the MMR that it’s helping to slow the outbreaks.

Well. It's about time!!! #giftarticle
"The health department in South Carolina saw a nearly 170% increase in MMR immunizations at free clinics in January from the year prior and is close to declaring its outbreak over ... MMR vaccines jumped 15% in Texas last year"
www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Palantir is calling for universal military service for all Americans. YouTube video by Aaron Parnas

youtube.com/shorts/jauwu...

YEP.

So wonderful. #cats

The Mask is Off: Major Anti-Abortion Group Calls for Arrest of Abortion Patients Students for Life says it should be "an easy vote"

It was only a matter of time: the powerful anti-abortion org Students for Life has endorsed legislation to imprison abortion patients.

The move marks the biggest shift in anti-abortion politics in decades. jessica.substack.com/p/the-mask-i...

Simple ways to make meetings work better for employees on the autism spectrum Employees on the autism spectrum and employers that want to embrace neurodiversity can make work environments more welcoming for people who may struggle with job-related social interactions.

Another interesting piece from #AP #neurodivergence I haven't worked inside an office with formal meetings in a long time, so I'm not a good judge of whether this contains useful shite. However, I am neurodivergent. For you, if it helps.
apnews.com/article/auti...

What to know about psychedelic retreats, a booming business with few safety guardrails Surging interest in the purported benefits of psychedelic drugs has given rise to a new industry: psychedelic retreats.

#nojudgment as I did #psychedelics #LSD #mescaline #shrooms many times in my late teens, less often into my twenties. But ... these retreats sound risky and not well supervised. Please take care of yourself.
apnews.com/article/psyc...?

Five Free Movies to Stream Now

Not a bad #giftarticle. Three of the free five are on Tubi, I think, and you can watch the excellent "The Conversation" on YouTube. I've seen it at least twice.
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/17/m...

cartoon Existential Threat: man in beret and black turtleneck with a cigarette telling woman (probably a bank teller), Hand over the money or I'll explain the absurdity of all human activity.

Existential cartoons are the best

Daily Show comment: If you think Florida is overreacting, just wait until they find out that math can be non-binary Original news item, NPR: "Florida officials have blocked 54 math textbooks from its K-12 curriculum, claiming some of them contain "critical race theory"

I'm wondering what some #MAGAt states who oppose #LGBTQ rights think about #nonbinarymath. Do they ban those classes and textbooks that teach it? (From The Daily Show, four years ago.)

@kafkaesque Friday night was a shiteshow here. Sorry I didn't make the movie.

You betcha!

Son of 85-year-old French widow home after 16 days in US immigration custody says she needs rest The son of an 85-year-old French widow who has returned to France after being detained in the U.S. for overstaying her visa says the family's priority is her health and rest.

So f'n shameful and disgusting. If there is a way to bring up the son who ratted her out on charges, I sure hope it happens. Utterly #greedy, and for what? A house worth $175K? I know that's not chump change, but wtf you assholz

They can't wait a few years for her to die?
apnews.com/article/ice-...

Old North Church in Boston with the words, "Let the warning ring forth once more tyranny is at our door"

Today is the day that the #RevolutionaryWar began, with the 1775 battles in Lexington and Concord. It's known as #PatriotsDay in Massachusetts and is a holiday.

I'm celebrating by watching the #BostonMarathon tomorrow and loving this Old North Church (Boston) image

Whatta arseholl.

I never knew he had a hit single with a #Randynewman song. Cool. And I love the keyboard on the "House of the Rising Sun"

Oh, fuck, that's awful. I'm sorry.

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

I'm screaming with laughter.

I had younger sister(s) who watched this show after school every day. I was 16 (almost) and too cool for the show.

Solid gray cat eating a bowl of yogurt from a white bowl on the floor

Mostly white with gray and gray tabby cat, reclining on a beige cat tree, looking content

Pepper II, 2015, feeling better and eating yogurt on the left, and Harvey relaxing on his cat tree from 2020 (pandemic) #myphotos #nofilter #cats #caturday

Lindy Boggs Medical Center with griffiti, notably a large heart and "BE BRAVE" on the building New Orleans

White and red rugosa (wild -ish) roses in narrow space between building and sidewalk New Orleans

Street sign Toulouse Street on a utility pole, along with One Way sign, and a homemade sign MidCity is for Lovers, with a heart New Orleans

#NewOrleans #myphotos #nofilter this day in either 2015 or 2016 while walking the newly-opened (at the time) #LafitteGreenway

The #LindyBoggsMedicalCenter, on the left, destroyed by/during/after Katrina, will be demolished this July after so very many years. 😢

I am pissed off today in case you could not tell.