Predict that adults start buying these for themselves and they slowly get withdrawn from market

Our Tax System Should Make You Furious Podcast Episode · The Ezra Klein Show · 17 April · 1hr 6min

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t... genuinely good on tax

Opening the lid of AI and it’s just Sam Altman crouched in there typing really fast to everyone. He seems stressed.

This section of the @washingtonpost.com really captures why women are enraged right now and how the system keeps allowing women to die and be assaulted. I’m HOT today so here’s a thread explaining why.

"The rise of extreme wealth is one of the clearest signs of this imbalance. In 1987, billionaires held wealth equal to 3% of global GDP. Today this tiny elite, just 0.0001% of the world population, owns the equivalent of *16%* of world GDP in wealth."

This is the least of the reasons why Trump and Netenyahu are absolute pieces of shit but my god, they really are absolute pieces of shit. We really did seem to be getting somewhere.

sick of these catholic converts showing up and saying "well I have a different interpretation of the scripture" no you don't. that's protestantism and a heresy. don't like it there's the (incredibly beautiful and heavily ornamented with precious metals) door

You’d think two guys involved in historical international child sexual abuse rings would get along better

With every failure, JD’s features shrink further into his face, as the curse on this globe-trotting fart demands.

It's not just that Orbán losing inspires hope in other competitive-autocratic countries ruled by right-wing nationalist authoritarians. It's that his loss materially changes things in those other countries, because he's been operating as a headquarters and funding source...

So embarrassing to vote for a strong man, like ooh I need a big strong man to do things, like you’re in a seventies disco song, damning.

The Strait of Hormuz even sounds like a cool as hell card. Like it’s got a dark wiggly river on and it means ‘power’.

Playing a game with an in-game social media feed that I need to check and I think it’s given me depression

‘The Christophers’ Review: Fine Art, Frayed Artists

If THE CHRISTOPHERS isn't on my best-of-the-year list at the end of the year, then it will have been a very good year indeed:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/09/m...

Chris Fleming the only stand up special I’ve seen that’s of this century, a giddy neon scroll of charm and vitriol, references you half get, chumming you to a gradual sense of numb exhaustion.

Right now, we are witnessing a preview of what could happen in the USA this November. Hungary's opposition party, Tisza, is so far ahead in the polls that they are on track to win a supermajority in the parliament, spelling the end of Orban.

The only way Orban can remain is to subvert the election.

Some people are just big landlord fans jim

Elder millennials very much in the phase of opening google then thinking ‘what did I come in here for again?’

These guys are doing proper reporting it’s so refreshing

What the hell has happened to Microsoft word?? Why can’t I just save my documents like normal? And send and attach to things, what is this hell and how do I escape it?

What the BBC describes as a ‘moderate breeze’ is basically the first five minutes of The Wizard of Oz.

And here's a secret of the past decade: a lot of the crucial organizing/resistance work is done by women who look like nice mom-type ladies, often suburban variety, sometimes through nice organizations like churches. Sorry if anyone needs it to look like Che Guevara.

Side note- ‘Wine moms’ also a rather contemptuous way of acknowledging we made child-rearing so disconnected and peripheral and under-valued as a capitalist society that the primary caregivers drug themselves constantly.

Can ‘The Christophers’ win Ian McKellen his 1st Oscar? Ed Solomon says that writing a lion in winter star turn for the Lord of the Rings star was a "career high."

www.goldderby.com/film/2026/th...

AI got the blame for the Iran school bombing. The truth is far more worrying LLMs-gone-rogue dominated coverage, but had nothing to do with the targeting. Instead, it was choices made by human beings, over many years, that gave us this atrocity

This is it
www.theguardian.com/news/2026/ma...

This is good

Nonverbal 5-year-old who met Ms. Rachel over Zoom is released from ICE detention His parents, asylum-seekers from Colombia, said their son’s physical and emotional health deteriorated during the weeks they were held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center in South Texas.

the amount of good ms. rachel puts out into the world is immeasurable. she is so much closer to something divine than many men who claim to be holy.

It’s absolutely bonkers to me that we don’t talk constantly about the decades of lead poisoning that probably caused huge rises in violent crime for half a century. Like, we don’t even use it as a narrative touchstone for environmental policy, it’s just dissolved into past.

every time some tech psycho giddily says unemployment could hit 30% soon I'm like ok man and then what. what happens after that usually. how about I give you fifteen minutes to skim wikipedia and then you can get back to me. its fine i'll wait