why is this headline so charming

a lot of the quote posts of this are in the "don't get your hopes up/don't be delusional" genre which, I think, miss the point.

the GOP is gonna be losing a lot more sleep at night if it's starting to look like they might have to fight to keep Mississippi.

we don't have to win there to fuck 'em up

large orange cat in good health is sleeping soundly with an angelic smile on his cat face

“Jorts is an 18 lb neutered male domestic short hair. Evaluated for extensive evening screaming. In good health; behavioral. Very affectionate. Vet enjoys visiting for fun”

ain’t no way i’m at work on my birthday. i try to make a long weekend out of it, even, when it doesn’t fall on a wednesday like it did this year. the gift of sleeping in and not having to worry about other people’s problems is my true favorite, every year.

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

It’s inaccurate to say Mario is brave and Luigi is cowardly

Luigi is afraid of death, so he runs away from danger. Mario is afraid of living, so he runs towards death. Both brothers are cowards in their own way

wtf is this shit

MY FRIENDS!

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.

the bed it is said, skies of november, &c.

had cause to recall these today and have been having intermittent fits of cackling all evening

screencap of a tweet with a photo at the bottom of JD Vance giving a talk, gesturing smugly with his hands Eric Daugherty • @EricLDaugh • 1h • JD VANCE RESPONDS TO POPE LEO: "When the Pope says that God is never on the side of those who wield the sword - there is more than a THOUSAND year tradition of Just war Theory." "In the same way that it's important for the vice president of the United States to be careful when I talk about matters of public policy, I think it's very, very important for the pope to be careful when he talks about matters of theology." "And I think that one of these issues here is that there has been - if you're going to opine on matters of theology, you've got to be careful, you've got to make sure it's anchored in the truth, and that's one of the things that I try to do, and it's certainly something I would expect from the clergy, whether they're Catholic or Protestant."

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far -

POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad

VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church??

POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

Cosigning all of this, including the part where I've got a story in here too! If queer sword & sorcery sounds like fun to you, maybe consider checking it out!

“This is our year. This is the year we're going to do this,” Bottoms told delegates during his speech. “I'm going to reclaim parenthood and childhood for all Coloradans. Two sexes, no genders. We will reclaim safety and security.”

Colorado GOP gubernatorial candidate *checks notes* Scott Bottoms promises to eliminate gender in the state of Colorado. What a winning message in this year.

... for the deadheads:

- Welch/Rawlings both shows in Nashville, excellent audience tapes
- 3 new to circulation Phil Lesh & Friends SBDs with Steve Kimock from 1999 (two Greek, one Warfield)

Same link as above

Some notes follow

- the Pretenders and VH sets at both upgrades of well known shows

and deleuze and guattari provide a different model than hierarchies and taxonomies to use and/or try to understand structures: rhizomes. fungi, plants — and the noble potato.

the whole deal in a thousand plateaus is about getting away from hierarchies (because hierarchies flatten and enclose — hence treating schizophrenia less like a mental disorder and more like an unwillingness and/or inability to live within the strictures of the hierarchies defining society)

a good call

(some of it is about potatoes)

i regret to state this but i think deleuze is applicable here

description from Huntington library: "A lithograph printed on heavy paper. Satirical "death certificate" issued for the Southern Confederacy. Mourning border, each line in different typeface, with: Died, Near the South-Side Rail Road, / on Sunday, April 9th, 1865, / The Southern Confederacy, / Aged Four Years, / Conceived in Sin, Born in iniquity, Nurtured by Tyranny, Died of / a Chronic Attack of Punch. / Abraham Lincoln, Attending Physician. / U.S. Grant, Undertaker. / Jeff Davis, Chief Mourner. Below in smaller print an epitaph that ends with: And this one line shall grace your grave-- / Your death gave freedom to the slave." https://hdl.huntington.org/digital/collection/p16003coll6/id/5033

to all who celebrate...

The white flag, aka the official flag of the Confederacy

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

an orange cat is sitting alertly in a slightly squashed storage basket. he has a sweet and simple expression

Do you have cat food in the apocalypse kit? If so what kind and what if I stop liking it

Sky pancakes!

Segregationists did memory hole slavery for about 100 years and then integration meant that white students would learn about it honestly in school and they've been trying to memory hole it again ever since.

every time i write about wage theft i do a double take because it's so crazy

corporations steal more than $50 bn from workers' paychecks each year, illegally paying workers less than they earned for their labor

that significantly exceeds the combined losses from larceny, burglary, & vehicle theft

nutella free in space on artemis orion

THE NUTELLA HAS COME LOOSE

Food I Can't Read Food I Can’t Read, it’s the show where I eat food… that I can’t read.

go find the Food I Can’t Read guy and hang out with him youtube.com/@foodicantre...

One day, "It" will happen, by which I mean sudden and unexpected news that you want to celebrate. In such cases, you will want the right outfit. 🧵

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i recommend cinnamon roll babka muffin, fancy incense, and favorite hoodie for nervous system regulation btw