Opinion | Measles Took My Daughter. This Is What I Want Everyone to Know.

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

An enamel pin featuring a cartoonish knight in silver armor with a flowing red cape and plume, riding on the back of a roaring T-rex. The dinosaur is tan with dark speckles, and the knight holds a sword upright.

Today's Low Quality Ad is for this Dino Knight Pin. Sorry for posting something so historically inaccurate. Knights were actually barefoot when they rode their trusty T-Rex steeds, because the dinosaurs hated the feeling of metal boots clanking against their sides.
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I feel this.

Opinion | For Kushner and Witkoff, C.E.O. Diplomacy Is No Longer Working

This is zero percent surprising to anyone who's worked with Jared. Even as a businessman, he's a shitty negotiator because he doesn't understand diplomacy there either. In some ways, he's a product of his industry. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/13/o...

Nigerian airstrike hits market, 200 feared dead in northeast Yobe state At least 200 people are feared dead after Nigerian military jets struck a village market while pursuing Islamist militants in the northeast of the country on Saturday night, a councillor for the area ...

Nigerian airstrike hits market, 200 feared dead in northeast Yobe state - Horrific

I really hate when the country is run by idiots.

Being an American is absolutely mortifying. I am so sorry we live in a country of morons, racists, misogynists and bigots who voted for this man. I don’t know what to do. We screamed for a decade about Trump being an unhinged psychopath and they did not listen.

Opinion | I’ve Covered Women in the Workplace for 15 Years. Something Alarming Is Happening.

I’ve Covered Women in the Workplace for 15 Years. Something Alarming Is Happening. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/o...

Riggs knows why NC Republicans—including her own colleagues—tried to steal her elected SCONC seat.

I'm catching up on this today, as France is also in the midst of a wave of anti-Black racism - directed here against the new mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko. Big protest in Saint-Denis in support - and I'm seeing if anyone has posted on here the statement by Dominique de Villepin from X.

Dystopia

Someone sent me this.

The Madonna-Whore Complex is Fracturing On a case of digital rape in Germany

open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

Much to think about as usual from @katemanne.bsky.social . Her argument about the changes brought about by digitalization et al goes way beyond the salacious details of the headline case, of course, & you'll want to follow her link to her other writing about it.

Here’s food for thought, had Ahab time to think; but Ahab never thinks; he only feels, feels, feels

Yet this is life.

The AI Boom Wasn’t Built for the Polycrisis “There are too many ways for it to fail for it not to fail.”

The AI economy looks...really precarious. So @matteowong.bsky.social & I did a bunch of reporting to try to figure out what happens when a potential bubble collides with a war in Iran and a potential resource shortage. The answer is...arguably the most dire stuff i've heard from smart ppl in a while

The excellent @elizlanders.bsky.social with the questions once again. PBS scored with her hire. Good on them...

Well, then all athletes who want to participate in MEN’S events should be required to undergo genetic testing.

"Let us not ask what AI can do for Oberlin students, but what Oberlin students can do ourselves, while we still have the brain capacity to think on our own."

(Wondering if Luddite clubs might spring up at other schools where students are similarly frustrated with administrators' #AI obsession...)

This eyewitness account of the Triangle Shirtwaist fire always brings me to tears
(read the whole thing trianglefire.ilr.cornell.edu/index.html)

Editorial | Penn has an AI problem The Daily Pennsylvanian Editorial Board argues that Penn’s choice to embrace AI is detrimental to the institution of higher education. 

Editorial from our student newspaper:

"In its tireless support for AI, the University has essentially endorsed shortcuts and the outsourcing of academic thinking"

The top back section of a sweater being knitted by hand using a deep green yarn.

#showmeyourknits
It’s kind of hard to tell, but I’m working on the Lakes V-Neck Pullover in a beautiful deep green yarn (Sprout Worsted in Nessie) by FiberSeed.

I have never understood why the Democrats don’t equate clean energy with Doomsday Prepping. You know what I am doing in the Zombie Reckoning: living in my tiny house, with my Victory Garden, my solar electric grid, my incinerating compost toilet, and my rainwater tank. Americans love paranoia.

Enjoy the World Cup, visitors from around the world. I hope you don’t end up in El Salvador.

we are all somehow dreadfully cracked about the head, and sadly need mending.

Big day for me and the six other people alive this was written to appeal to

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Hey everyone, I'm gonna be on a big political event thingy tomorrow (it's on Substack, unfortunately, but it is what it is) at 1pm PST, if that's something that engages your interestglands.

Red flag!

Whoever is injecting MTG with a daily dose of truth serum should expand the mission to include all elected officials.