A baby raccoon
A baby raccoon
Meanwhile
A timeline cleanse:
I went to change my snow tires to summer tires this afternoon...
And discovered I've got a raccoon nursery in my shed.
@vermontgmg.bsky.social dismantles the mythology Hegseth has built around himself as the Iran War’s cheerleader-in-chief. The alternate history he’s selling is dangerous and mirrors the attempt by the Right after Vietnam to explain away our loss.
This piece is excellent.
"The fake news media received their new marching orders to push this trans propaganda story... Who writes the script?" and then it's screenshots of an AP story about a trans athlete.
Over on Twitter, LibsOfTikTok is pretending not to understand that a lot of news outlets publish the AP newswire. apnews.com/article/supr...
I dispute this premise.
This is bleak. Essentially, lecturers as middle managers between students and chatbot.
Do naturalistic emotional facial expressions catch our eye like posed ones? 👀😀😠😐
This was my first, first author paper which was published in Emotion - Kudos have done a wonderful job of helping spread the world to a wider audience! #faces #affectsci 🧵1/ (Pls share!)
link.growkudos.com/1dybshxtam8
A fascinating look at the evolution of Sherlock Holmes (and the rights to tell Holmes stories!) by @charliejane.bsky.social - buttondown.com/charliejane/...
Doofus in the sun
Sunny selfie
Bunny before sunrise
Morning friend.
Casino, gambling, shocked.
Thank you, Bill.
This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
Next he'll say he stopped the war Kamala started.
This is very good
Implicitly, yes. 😉
I'm fairly certain humans have pants regardless.
Can one spell something out implicitly?
Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.
“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”
www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
There’s so much to say about the remarkable reporting from Jodi Kantor & Adam Liptak—and I’ll say a lot of it in Monday’s newsletter.
But the most striking thing about all of it is the role & behavior of Chief Justice Roberts. “Calling balls and strikes” this ain’t:
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
They mocked the field of gender studies as meaningless, but I think they really just knew it was onto them.
They're the softest bunch of insecure little manchildren play-acting what they have been told is manly and macho.
(gift link)
"It is impossible to think of anything at all in the world, or indeed even beyond it, that could be considered good without limitation except a good will."
"You could almost say they are burdened with glorious purpose."
Snip from an article calling me a psychologist
I guess I'm wearing a different hat today. 😂 siliconcanals.com/sc-a-i-used-...
The kind he never plans to leave.
Right?
Ari Melber's show put together a supercut of an 8-minute Trump rant about snakes that raised concerns about his mental wellbeing
Polo!
