hire me so I can do good work for you and you can make these purchases possible

As soon as I have money again I'm gonna get a green macbook neo and some green headphones and finally feel something

my backup vibe check source is asking my dad, who gets his news from the A Closer Look segment of Seth Meyers, Colbert's monologue, Meidas touch, and THE FRONT PAGE of reddit. It's a weirder vibe check.

asking my mom never fails!!

A thought: they should make a Nintendo Switch 2 that's just like the current one, but all the games are free (subsidized by a 90% top effective tax rate)

The games should also come with health insurance and robust public services

I think the thing that is most alarming is watching the snowball in real time from small misunderstanding of how things work to full on conspiracy as you read comments within a few days of each other. It's really unnerving

There's such a level of like folk belief slash conspiracy on TikTok is so bizarre. Coachella copyright strikes stream reuploads every year, but everyone thinks the strokes are being censored.

America Is Anxious About Its 250th Birthday. So Are Historians.

And of course I am the voice of doom in this NYT piece about academic historians and the 250th www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/a...

@cssnyorg.bsky.social found that 1 out of 5 people in NYS do gig work, half of whom do it as their main source of income.

CSS also found that 3 of 4 gig workers want more working-condition regulations.

The action upshot: to pass state laws next year, we must win our Assembly primaries this year.

Matthew Yglesias: The case for more AI in journalism

The most expected thing has happened

memento guy tattoo "close your eyes when denethor is eating a tomato"

I've always thought he looks like if present day paul mccartney was young, but not like young paul mccartney.

what a win!

The Cuomo era of tax breaks in exchange for jobs that never materialize is over!!! We live in the Hochul era of tax breaks for billionaires to build new stadiums with fewer seats and data centers that create one (1) job.

Hey everybody! I am taking the helm of this classic American institution with @theonion.com and want to know what you fine folks would like to see from us.

Just had to ask my mom for the thousandth time to please stop sending me local news reports about changes to student loans because if it's a good thing it doesn't apply to me and if it's a bad thing I already know.

This wouldn’t be a “compromise,” it’s be gutting the climate law, whose only major directive was to the governor to regulate by 2024.

Moving that date kills the subsequent lawsuit.

A new date won’t mean f all b/c Hochul won’t follow law, unless ordered!

These Legislators shouldn’t try to kid us.

and again, none of this is worth bringing up on your test run for president! it's so in the weeds and so irrelevant.

yes, exactly!!! the idea that people who mean well have different opinions on rhetorical choices, often rooted in having slightly different goals and audiences (ie. persuading the general public, mobilization, education, research) despite a shared overarching goal... is just not even considered.

"guy who doesn't vote for Beshear because he said justice-involved person" is just as fake as "guy who doesn't vote for Beshear because he refuses to say justice-involved person"

That's really the only way to put it. They suck and I'm tired of pretending the gloss they put on their complaints makes it worth catering to.

Beshear sure doesn't seem to mind taking the consultant line when it comes to Gaza! somehow that language isn't off-putting to normal people, unlike those (gendered, racialized) advocates!
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and like frankly if you think advocates are sooOooo annoying I would love to know who you are turning to for expertise on the issues you want to campaign on. Or is the problem that you don't want expertise or to have to commit to real positions?

There are a lot of phrases that are common with advocates in my field that I don't use in public comms because I think they don't resonate with how people actually talk about child care. Sometimes people find me annoying for it! I'm not gonna take to New Hampshire to stump about it.

If you think it's annoying, you tell the advocates you're sorry but you're not going to say "justice-involved person" and they say "ok we wish you did" and everybody acts like an adult about it. You don't take it on a road trip across the country. Literally no one cares. It has no bearing on votes.

The thing about stumping for PRESIDENT on the complaint that the language advocates use is off-putting is that the audience is "guys who are in close proximity advocates or have to read their papers." So the Matt Yglesiases and right wing think tank guys and consultants and maybe some donors.

If you think something is not the best external comms as a politician, even if it's common in advocacy spaces, you can explain that to the advocates you have a relationship with and then use whatever you think works better when it comes up!

The reaction that no one has ever said this is pretty much equally useless as Beshear's point imo. People in advocacy spaces use a lot of imprecise/wordy language that sometimes ends up being confusing to the general public, largely to avoid being hurtful. This one isn't even confusing.

Hate seeing proof that the scam texts work