They'll be sold...eventually...maybe.

Trench foot is a time honored warfighting tradition!

"Our health care system sucks" may be the last thing that Americans across the political spectrum still agree on.

Mayhem’s Legacy: Why MetaBrainz Matters More Than Ever, and Why We’re Looking for Someone to Lead It It has been almost exactly two months since Robert Kaye died. Rob — known online as <mayhem>, a handle that was both a pose of defiance toward corporate interest and, on occasion, an accurate…

@metabrainz.org is looking for a new executive director.

There is a job description but I wanted to write something more about my friend Rob Kaye and what he built. And why who we choose as our new Executive Director will be essential to what comes next.

compassmapandkey.com/2026/04/18/m...

Carney says Canada’s strong economic ties to US are ‘weakness’ to be corrected Prime minister details efforts to attract investment and sign trade deals with other countries in 10-minute video address

“Many of our former strengths, based on our close ties to America, have become weaknesses. Weaknesses that we must correct.”

This self-inflicted wound will still be with us long after Trump has gone.

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

It's from the 70s - was there a difference?

I've always liked that song. Lyrically it's very dated. Of all the names dropped, I think Linda Ronstadt may be the only one still alive!

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Screenshot of theguardian.com website with juxtaposed headlines: "Two US army soldiers injured by brown bear during training exercise in Alaska" followed by "Three people sentenced to jail for bear-suit insurance scam in California"

Well played, Guardian editors, well played.

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RFKjr did say that while harvesting the raccoon penis he was thinking about how weird some of his family turned out. So, y'know, he can still be judgmental with the best of them.

"I just think it was not thought out well." You mean the policy, or your support for people who want to deny your existence?

(from the Gospel according to Woody)

This is where the party ends.

I built the garden of Eden, it was in the year of 2
Joined the apple pickers' union and I always paid my due
I'm the guy that signed the contract to raise the rising sun
And that's about the biggest thing that man has ever done

Or the only guitar you'll never need.

My week is always off to a better start than JD Vance's, for the simple reason that I'm not JD Vance.

Bernie might want to Google "papal states" just for a start.

To explain the incredibly important lesson I think Americans should take from the Orbán defeat, I have to start by telling you about my high school friend Jonah who is the biggest LA Dodgers fan I've ever met. Weird, I know. But deeply relevant. Let me tell you why. 🧵🧵🧵

Hula closer, tiny banjo

What's the name of that small four stringed instrument from Hawaii?

Kalimankou Denkou (The Evening Gathering) YouTube video by Bulgarian State Television Female Choir - Topic

The first time I heard her voice, it didn't make sense, but it hooked me. Yanka Rupkina, (Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares, Trio Bulgarka) has passed away.

If you were one of those weird teens who listened to these records, I tip my hat to you.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lak6...

Move over, Dock Ellis.

Hopes raised around the world that Vance would wear shoes that actually fit.

"They only elected an American pope to deal with my bullshit" is not the flex Trump thinks it is.

Maybe they hope to be the one he doesn't cut out of his will.

Move to expel Democrat Eric Swalwell from Congress gains steam Pressure mounts on Californian, who denies rape claims, and on Texan Tony Gonzales, who had affair with staffer who died by suicide

So Republicans are finally getting on board with expelling Tony Gonzales. Because now they can pair him with Swalwell and not further shrink their majority. Politics over principle yet again.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

J.D. Vance spent more time this week campaigning for Orban than he did negotiating with Iran.