while teamsters and UAW get a lot of attention i feel like people miss out that the average working class person in the US today is (1) a woman and (2) working a service job

DC statehood yesterday

A lot of you people who used to complain about the imperial boomerang coming back to America are weirdly silent when a CIA officer engineers an election in the way you like.

Curious.

make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

So funny to see every woman immediately light up when Louis Theroux starts talking, guy looks like a dad at the farmer’s market and he’s mogging roided out dudes

Every interview in the Netflix Manosphere documentary is basically

Manosphere dickhead: I don’t think women should wear shoes

Louis Theroux: 😬

We need a labeler here that lets everyone know.

ACTUALLY WENT TO THE 2026 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER

Trying to make nicotine into a secret health hack is the sign of a weak, soft mind. Do the thing that's bad for you, accept that it feels kind of good for a second because you're a drug addict. Like an adult

Real ones know the most salacious and/or devastating family stories you’d want to save for the future are told to you by your mother in the kitchen at 10pm while loading the dishwasher

people who say this act like if they weren't at the airport they'd be at home curing cancer. what exactly are your big plans for your extra 45 minutes at home you fuckin loser

There’s a kind of person who wasn’t just fine with COVID, but enjoyed it because it gave them the moral high ground to do stay home, which they liked, and judge others for wanting other things. We gave them a pass because it was a crisis and they were helping, but doing it now makes you an asshole.

Here's wishing every single hospital administrator who complied in advance a very wakes up in a cold anxious sweat every day until they a) reverse course and b) apologize.

Not even 10% of humans are cruel

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Mike Nellis @MikeNellis "I'M NO LONGER CATHOLIC!" Hannity ABANDONS HIS FAITH for Trump NELLIS X.com • +*+

Amazing that in the national divorce the libs are getting the NFL, butter and cooking oil, being attracted to adult women, standup comedy, Bud Light, and now also Catholicism

trans women have a biological advantage at being hot now

Guy in the audience at Hamlet from the movie HAMNET (2025):

hey guys - i'm in a pretty dire housing situation right now. i have to move at the end of the month (lease expires) but prior plans w/ people completely fell apart & i'm back to square one. i'm looking for a room in Brooklyn, trans friendly, 1100 a month max, not a temporary sublet. plz let me know.

this morning, mamdani’s team got in touch with me to float a new tax proposal: if your net worth exceeds $5 million and you dress badly, you’ll be hit with a 10% annual levy for “visual pollution.” i would be in charge of deciding if the outfits are bad.

Happy birthday!

Mamdani angers certain journalists and their bosses because he's a well-educated child of privilege like they are, but he's the way he is and they're the way they are and it shames them and they can't deal with it. It's not hard to figure out

If you get mad at THE PITT for not doing what you wanted THE PITT to do, you should try writing your own shit. I mean it! That's an impulse you can put to use instead of just being an entitled fan acting like art exists to meet your desires.

there is a really beautiful essay in here, and no one is talking about it because folks on here are permanently stuck in "discourse about the headline" mode. I would encourage you to not just post a pitchy response to the social copy, and actually read a thing,

Me: [idly looking up info on popes]

Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it.

Me: wut?

Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

I hate to hand it to the boomers but I got my current job by just calling the recruiter number posted online. Now is the Age of People Without Phone Anxiety

Something I still think about a lot, almost 15 years into living in New York, is how it changed my perception of danger. I feel safer on the street with a big group of strangers or when I can hear people outside as I’m going to sleep than when things are very quiet and still!

Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.

www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

LOVE “La Tortura”, I genuinely think she is a genius lyricist