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Like, this is a LOT of people.

A young woman in an Instagram reel speaks to the camera in front of an apparent text message which begins: "You know Eric Swalwell has slept with many of his interns and makes them all sign NDAs so they don't speak up, right?" The account, @cheyenne.l.hunt, captioned the post [sic]: "This message I recieved about Eric Swalwell is not an anomaly. While many folks may be afraid of speaking out, it is crucial that we bring these allegations to light and grapple with them."

Welp. There are a whole bunch of posts from the past week-plus that have been noting the Swalwell news. People knew this was coming. www.instagram.com/reel/DWjgJEA...

I really regret not buying this at an Asian grocery yesterday.

How Black voters lifted Georgia Democrats to Senate runoff victories Huge turnout – fueled by in large part by Stacey Abrams and LaTosha Brown – was key for Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff

FWIW, in early March, Ossoff was at ~77% among Black voters against each of the main GOP candidates, according to Emerson. emersoncollegepolling.com/georgia-2026... I don't know how to contextualize that, but according to this piece, he got 92% of Black voters in the 2021 runoff:

At least the Swalwell ads will probably stop, now!

a man in a suit and tie is standing in a living room holding his jacket . ALT: a man in a suit and tie is standing in a living room holding his jacket .

Me, trying to figure out which gubernatorial candidate might actually excite me...

well that would appear to be that

Also, relatedly...

This reads — as always with him — like he's bullshitting to give the interlocutor the answer he thinks that person wants.

Important

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

It's Friday, April 10. That means summer is around the corner. You will want a summer vacation book. Why not mine? I'll give you the e-book for free!

Whose what now? 🎁 link defector.com/new-york-rad...

This looks like a dictionary illustration of "sciatica".

The Venn diagram of people who have seen this commercial and watched Aussie rules on ESPN is one circle.

*touches earpiece* We now go to our Lutheran correspondent...

Longer quote of that section available here, for the curious...

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They’d want to see our eclipse. They’d want to look through the Earth’s atmosphere with their own eyes and see the moon fit over the sun, watch the light fade down to almost nothing, listen to the animals nearby fall silent and feel with their own skins the sudden chill in the air that comes with totality. Even if they can’t survive in our atmosphere, even if they need a spacesuit to keep them alive, they’d still want to get as close as they possibly could to seeing it in the raw, in as close to natural conditions as it’s possible to arrange. They’d want to be here, amongst us, when the shadow passes. “So that’s where you look for aliens. In the course of an eclipse totality track. When everybody else is looking awestruck at the sky, you need to be looking round for anybody who looks weird or overdressed, or who isn’t coming out of their RV or their moored yacht with the heavily smoked glass."

Thanks to David Banks at the other place, who first alerted me to Ian Banks' reference to this face in his novel Transition, in which a character posits that if aliens exist on Earth, we'd find them watching an eclipse.

TETHER... YOUR... PHONE

Reading that was very "Uncut Gems" for me in that I HATED every second of feeling like "all you have to do is..." while at the same time trying to be compassionate about cognitive fatigue etc while at the same time feeling like "WHY AND HOW HAVE YOU STRUCTURED YOUR LIFE THIS WAY?!?!?!" and so on

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*nodding while frowning*

*whispering* It's using the high school program as a lure to get parents to pay to be part of private club travel teams.

Same. Have a relative who's in high school who saw something I posted about AI and was moved to comment that they would be mortified to use AI for any schoolwork precisely because they know they didn't actually do anything.

Same. We visited colleges in California, and I still applied to east coast schools I hadn't visited, but that was mainly a function of our family not putting a huge premium on spending the money/time to travel like that. Lots of kids were visiting schools across the country in the early 2000s.

Super confident I know which comes first because the video is seared into my brain from how it was the only thing VH1 played in a six-month span.

I Am The God Of Your Children. I Am The Final Parent. Hi, friends! Today, I’d like to talk to the grown-ups. I know it’s not easy raising children. Looking after little ones is a lot of work, and sometimes you just need a moment to breathe. So you plop your kids on the couch and turn on a Ms. Rachel video, giving yourself time to cook […]

best Onion piece I've seen in awhile theonion.com/i-am-the-god...

Nothing I've seen recently has moved me off this thought.