A black cat between couch cushions looking at the camera with one eye

When you stare into the abyss and the abyss sort of sleepily stares back

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

Gift article because it’s important to know what can happen www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Zine cover reading: MAY DAY STRONG Friday, May 1, 2026 HERE'S WHAT YOU DO No school, no work, no shopping

Made a #MayDayStrong zine! Here's what we're all doing on Friday, May 1, 2026, friends -- and why! Check out the zine in this thread and check out maydaystrong.org for events near you!

And the thing is!!! With Ossoff actually running right now, it's clear he understands this is a winning message.

A black cat with the book Vagabond by Tim Curry

In honor of Tim Curry’s birthday, here’s a picture of Dante with Tim’s memoir, which is a lot of fun. (And what a great cover photo!)

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

THE HOUSE JUST VOTED TO EXTENDED TPS FOR HAITI!!! Thank you, Rep. Ayanna Pressley for your leadership on this. Proud to help co-lead this effort for our Haitian brothers, sisters, and siblings. What a day.

Hegseth Again Threatens Attacks on Iran’s Civilian Infrastructure

Hegseth is threatening a war crime, and it’s impeachable.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/u...

I'm officially off the other site thanks to being hacked, but I miss people I followed there. If you come across this, all you fellow writers, follow me. Pleaseeeeeee.

Confirmed with 98% reporting: Tisza still has 138 of the 199 seats, a bunch more than the supermajority it needs to amend the constitution.

Take note, U.S. Democrats who would prefer to win elections

even the most tenacious autocrats have a difficult time denying a landslide result against them

historic rejection of JD Vance

The thing we need to remember, amidst all the awful other things, is that the authoritarians, on both sides of the Atlantic, are going to lose in the end.

We really sent the guy who couldn’t pick out donuts.

Wondering why T often leaves out direct objects in his speech. Maybe a cognitive issue, and/or because he doesn’t recognize recipients or consequences of his actions.

Potato-asparagus Soup | Oregonian Recipes Isa Chandra Moskowitz keeps the spices to a minimum in this terrific creamy soup to allow the asparagus flavor to shine, with fresh lemon juice and chopped f...

This is also a very good thing to have on a rainy afternoon recipes.oregonlive.com/recipes/pota...

The Blue Hour: A Novel A Novel

Enjoying this on a rainy afternoon bookshop.org/p/books/the-...

Gray and white clouds with blue sky in between, small human figures below, and green vegetation in the foreground

Weather in Half Moon Bay

Tabby stands on hind legs with one paw outstretched toward a TV displaying a capsule above water.

NASA failed to predict the real splashdown risk.

The JDV Effect

Yes!

Breaking waves with fog and blue sky above and green ice plant in the foreground

Breaking waves with fog and blue sky above and green ice plant in foreground

Ocean with radar installation in the background and wildflowers in the foreground

Beautiful day in Half Moon Bay today

The white flag, aka the official flag of the Confederacy

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

This is catastrophic.

CLAMPDOWN - SPRINGSTEEN & E STREET w. TOM MORELLO - Forum, Los Angeles, CA 2026-04-07 YouTube video by rocknrolsson

Here's the full version of Bruce Springsteen and Tom Morello singing the Clash's "Working for the Clampdown" at Kia Forum in Los Angeles, April 7, 2026

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

Solidarity with the great folks at ProPublica. It’s truly wild how much effort it takes behind every story and video, yet most of my favorite journalists don’t have a fair deal.

Looking, again, for a steelman view of this. Is there ANY plausible argument that we didn’t just kill a bunch of people to no purpose and hand a giant geopolitical victory to an extremist regime after making it more entrenched and more extreme?

Dismissing this pause in fighting as another episode of “TACO Trump” doesn’t acknowledge the deeply dismal moment we face. Our president is deeply unwell, and the Cabinet must invoke the 25th Amendment.

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:

- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal