it's my bday today and so far my physical therapist, psychiatrist, pharmacist, and gay guy doctor have all sent me automated greetings bc i'm what? an aging gay millennial 🥰

i thought justin trudeau looked hot at coachella

“we should keep religion out of politics, except when we want to.”

only we get to say what christianity is—not you, the head of the catholic church

Vance Says Pope Leo Should Stay Out of U.S. Affairs

The gall of this coming from someone who made his conversion to Catholicism a huge part of his political narrative among a party that has wrapped itself in Christianity for 50 years www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/u...

How The 'Blue-Haired Liberal' Become The Right's Favorite Stereotype It’s become the right wing’s go-to shorthand for woke, urban types. But what do the sapphire-haired among us have to say for themselves?

I wrote about the history of blue hair and how it became MAGA’s favorite insult.

My Cats program

The cast with Andre De Shields in a fantastic big wig

ALW in a blurry photo with a fan and wearing sunglasses

Got to see CATS: THE JELLICLE BALL tonight for a second time (after first seeing in 2024) and it remains the best show I’ve seen in my 12 years in NYC!!!

ALSO THE GUEST JUDGES WERE LIN-MANUEL AND ANDREW!! LLOYD!! WEBER!!!!!!!!!!!

and those of you who traveled anywhere abroad the last 18 months know that they have indeed! i've never had to speak about american politics in my life than on my last trip to sydney over christmas.=

i have cats tickets tomorrow

that cuban missile crisis episode of mad men was spot on huh

discourse??? there’s too much going on here for that

I don’t get it??

americans are finally getting into hot cross buns

"All youse little monstas are welcome in here."

a statute outside a pizzza restaurant of an Italian chef giving.a thumbs up and winking and making a limp wrist with his other hand

why does it look like he’s saying he’s ok with queers 🫳🏼👍🏼

pretty sure the Times has a gif of an octopus glory hole on its front page www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...

St Helena World's oldest tortoise caught in viral crypto death scam

i’m always saying this

now what did i say!!

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$10 he falls asleep during oral arguments

this week has already given us that fainting olaf robot video and mr noem sporting big bazoongas. rule of threes suggests we will be gifted with another year-defining meme by week’s end

Yet anti-LGBTQ+ therapists now enjoy a First Amendment right that is denied to abortion providers. But as Jackson pointed out, the inconsistency runs deeper. After Chiles, parents who seek to “convert” their transgender children have a constitutional right to do so. But thanks to last year’s decision in Skrmetti, parents who seek to affirm their transgender children with medication have no such right. States can ban gender-affirming medication but evidently cannot ban anti-transgender talk therapy. And the majority does not explain why anti-LGBTQ+ speech receives heightened protections when other viewpoints do not. Surely, Jackson wrote, a state can direct doctors to discourage, and not encourage, smoking cigarettes. It can prohibit doctors “from telling an anorexic patient to eat less” while allowing them to recommend eating more. It can stop doctors from encouraging patients to end their lives. These laws, too, censor speech on the basis of the state’s preferred viewpoint—in Gorsuch’s words, they “enforce orthodoxy.” Why is it, then, that nobody seriously argues that they’d violate the First Amendment, too?

The Supreme Court's "conversion therapy" decision today is indefensible on its own terms. A ton of medical regulations restrict speech on the basis of "viewpoint." Nobody thinks they're unconstitutional. This court just subjects pro-LGBTQ protections to special hostility. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Secret double life of Kristi Noem's crossdressing husband Bryon While his wife has operated at the highest echelons of US politics, Bryon Noem, 56, has been dressing up as a busty bimbo and paying adult entertainers to talk dirty.

uh, Daily Mail has an absolutely wild story about Kristi Noem's husband that he essentially confirmed to them in a phone call www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

we are barely a month into this thing that basically no other country in the world got any say in

How the Iran War Has Rippled Across the World Deflated balloons? Pricier sugar? The fighting in the Middle East has played out across the world in sometimes surprising ways.

you do have to wonder how long it’s going to be before we see protests outside US embassies around the world at unprecedented scale

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court, in an 8-1 vote, holds that Colorado's law banning conversion therapy regulates speech based on viewpoint, subjecting it to strict scrutiny and likely rendering it unconstitutional when lower courts apply today's decision.

Gorsuch writes for the court; Jackson dissents.

Are Your Parents Guilty Of The Boomer Hospital Reveal? It's when an aging parent withholds news of an emergency-room visit — often until after they’ve been discharged — because they "didn’t want to worry you."

My favorite part of this article is about halfway through when the reporter interviews Stephanie Coontz, renowned historian of families, presumably for context. And instead ends up with quotes about how she does exactly the same thing to her adult son. www.bustle.com/life/boomer-...

last century or so in the West. For millennia, having children acted as an insurance policy of sorts wherein your offspring could help care for you into old age. But as technology and social safety nets improved in the 20th century, the roles reversed. Children became something to be invested in for the benefit of society — a legacy, of sorts — with the expectation being that care flowed only in the downward direction. As the nuclear family became idealized in the postwar years, many parents felt compelled to step back as much as possible to allow their children to form their own independent families. Gradually, then, elderly parents moved out of the family home and into nursing homes - an industry that began to boom in the 1960s after the passage of Medicare and Medicaid — as a physical manifestation of this drift. "For thousands of years of history, parents gave birth to kids so that they could be a burden. The expectation in

a story about annoying parents but also the evolving family unit!

Are Your Parents Guilty Of The Boomer Hospital Reveal? It's when an aging parent withholds news of an emergency-room visit — often until after they’ve been discharged — because they "didn’t want to worry you."

new from me! this was a fun one

for a story, i’m looking to talk with people who have BLUE HAIR. if that’s you, or you know someone, shoot me a DM! 🔵🔵🔵

new dashcon just dropped