It's 4/20! Let me remind you why marijuana was criminalized to begin with: "We knew we couldn't make it illegal to be either against the war or blacks, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.” - John Erlichman, senior advisor to Nixon

Happy 4/20 to those who celebrate!

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

Measles is NOT "just like chickenpox". It can kill years later. This woman was so brave for coming forward with her story.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/o...

Praising JK Rowling when asked a question on trans rights is akin to praising Anita Bryant when asked a question gay rights. No money to Stonewall. No Stonewall at Pride. They are already experiencing a funding crisis, and this chairwoman appointment should be their last. Traitors.

It is delicious trash iirc

Ehh I was going to say Age of Unreason but I think the split is 1600s/1700s, I didn't ever get the last book so I'm not sure if they reveal exactly when it was

It's definitely a fantasy series though

ANCIENT GREEK PRO WRESTLING PROMOTER: ok so you're going to be what's known as a "heel"
ACHILLES: fuck you

i love starting with "lots of strange reactions to this game" and following that up with the strangest reaction yet

ok I’m taking the bait today, excuse me for a brief rant:

When people say you must “learn AI”, they don’t mean “learn math” or “learn programming” or ”learn to understand the tech”. They mean “learn to consume the product”. You’re not being asked to learn SHIT but how to shell out your credit card.

Oh it's been like a decade, and it only stung very briefly

I feel like I keep a healthy dose of self awareness with my parasociality. like I'm happy for the creators I like when something nice happens to them etc but I don't put too much stock in them bc that's a set up for psychological distress

I miss how her stuff made me feel before I'd seen too much of it and realized that like, she hates every aspect of me pretty specifically, but I guess I get people who don't feel personally targeted by her rhetoric don't know that it does, in fact, primarily target other marginalized people

She also used that character to mock trans people uninterested in passing and non binary people
There was a Twitter account for the character and it was ... illuminating

I fear media literacy is dead

a poster with a drawing of a person wearing a dress and another wearing pants under a sign that reads "your future" it's an ad for the Uof T library school, the caption reads "you like people you like books be a librarian"

YOU LIKE PEOPLE
YOU LIKE BOOKS

BE A LIBRARIAN

(may 1945)

Yeah this is where I am
He's a bit of an improvement for some people right now and that's not nothing, but that doesn't make him my guy yanno

What is impressive about writing your wizardslop in a café owned by your family as you sit around all day drinking free espresso eating free scones and then going back to an apartment the government pays for that you never clean?

Like it sounds NICE yeah, but not impressive.

youtu.be/NeFUqCrmPC0

Joanne closed her helpline for single parents right around when she announced she'd be donating heavily to anti-trans causes. They closed because of lack of funding.

She's a billionaire.

She doesn't care about "single mums".

www.gingerbread.org.uk/our-work/new...

DNC attendees cover their ears and laugh as names of dead Palestinian children are read out #new YouTube video by The Bird

Liberals reaction to genocide being to do everything in their power to ignore it, to a degree that makes them appear insane isn't a new thing but it's always a bit shocking.

They were doing this crap leading up to the election.

www.youtube.com/shorts/8adPs...

congrats, that's the opposite of what this means

is the bot not technically correct though? it feels like something they wouldn't fuck with

yes it really feels like a white people issue, it's just disappointing to see from other queers, regardless of target

Makes no sense at all, which is why I'm glad it seems pretty rare

There are always people shitting on fundraising though, there's whole groups that think they're "outing fakers" from among the disabled and chronically ill

I don't think they're more susceptible than other white women/white queer people
I think we just notice it more when it happens bc we are in community with them? Like it's just extra disappointing when a marginalized person is also a bigot

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

The entire canon of Western philosophy summarized in one skeet

The Flytrap is having a 20% off sale, so what? Well, if you subscribe, you can get immediate access to hopeful, critical, feminist writing and reporting. You don't get that anywhere else but here. Here's some of out greatest hits so far:

The fun part is: this was loudly denounced as an insane conspiracy theory, right up until those books came out that were filled with McSweeney and Reed bragging about how all of it was true, and they really had suckered the press into repeating all of this awesomely dishonest horseshit.

Here are questions I haven't seen any journalists ask yet:

1) Peter Mandelson was revealed to have been passing on state secrets in 2010. Jeffrey Epstein wasn't the only billionaire he was close with, and he was a member of the house of lords. How do you know this was the last time he did it?

Do you live in Chelsea, West Village, Hell's Kitchen, Hudson Square, Garment District, Flatiron, Greenwich Village, or Times Square?

Today is the first day of Early Voting in the special election for NYC Council District 03. Vote @lindseyboylan.bsky.social.

www.vote.nyc/election/spe...

day 1 today! 11-7! free to the public!

Please don't tell me again how woke and great the Chicago pope is.

There are reasons I have expressly requested to never be taken to a Catholic hospital for any reason whatsoever. This piece touches on some of them.