v dramatic year, if i'm being honest.

Bad news, a-holes. Nature won't quit being magic.

I was walking by a pond yesterday and a baby turtle popped up like she was saying "hi" to me and the sunshine simultaneously. Like... WTF?

And I just counted 6 species of insects on the dandelions in my yard. I'm furious with delight. Gross.

five years ago around this time i was getting my blood pressure taken and YIKES, sent for induction, the beginning of a v dramatic week+!

congratulations

That's nice but I am upset that he has directly ripped off the cover of my debut album with this photo.

cannot believe how quick and miserable

two kids in, and this never happened. kid three is really pushing me over the edge here.

happy monday, i think i'm getting mastitis again?

I find the news very frightening right now, but one thing that helps me is noticing the birds all around me

Do you want a reason to spend 10 minutes a day noticing your local birds? Then join me for this spring’s #TenMinMerlin, using the (free) app Merlin to notice birds. No experience needed!

1/5

Rake your problems like leaves
bengarvey.com/2026/04/06/r...

Oh so now copyright matters.

i do not want to watch a substack video; i do not want to watch a youtube podcast.

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech Meta funneled $2B through nonprofit shells to push age verification laws targeting Apple and Google while exempting its own platforms from surveillance requirements.

"A Reddit researcher just exposed how Meta funneled over *$2 billion* through shadowy nonprofits to push age verification laws that would force Apple and Google to build surveillance infrastructure into every device—while conveniently exempting Meta’s own platforms from the same requirements."

I remember when everything started moving to apps and I was morally offended at the idea of having to download all these little programs to access services when the Internet was right there and you know what, I was right

Header: "British woman without cervic and vagina naturally becomes pregnant after reconstructive surgery", with an error code: "JavaScript must be enabled to use this feature".

Finally, a real use case for JavaScript

GitHub - chadoh/zine-template Contribute to chadoh/zine-template development by creating an account on GitHub.

please enjoy github.com/chadoh/zine-...

go outside. do it right now.

I just want all these senators who are Nuremberg-posting to really understand that you can’t say this stuff and then NOT do Nuremberg. We’ll be watching and we’ll notice if you just skip it

In the '90s, a guy named Frank Perreti made a play at being the Christian Stephen King by writing a novel about a group of townspeople whose sins manifested as oozing rashes as their skin. Eventually, the ooze summoned a big dragon who ate them all. Anyway.

hockey

propublica.org/tips

made myself a syllabus for 2026. it's more fun than it sounds lisayoder.is/2026-a-sylla...

Why by far?

The obvious thing here is that these are addiction behaviors, which makes me wonder about the intermittent reinforcement schedule and the built-in delays (currently conceived of as eventually fixable bugs) as significant factors.

what's everyone's static site generator of choice these days?

where are we getting stickers printed these days?

the way a child can go from being pale and lethargic, clutching a bucket in their bed at 7:30am, to bounding around the house asking for a meal by 10am should be studied

Lloyd Smucker has harmed his reputation all on his own. This is a laughable waste of time and resources. lancasteronline.com/news/local/c...

Contrast this with Shirley Jackson:

“The actual act of taking pen to paper…occurred on snatched time, in common spaces. Jackson’s children recall her writing in the middle of baking, perched on a kitchen stool or wedged at a folding table in the dining room.”

Which takes the greater discipline?

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

laying out a zine in canva just makes me want redo the whole thing in markup and use css