misidentified Netflix descriptor screen: text says "tidying up with Marie Kondo" and photo is a person with an assault rifle in the desert

seriously, get rid of your crap

PM folks: Do I know any librarians at New York Public Library? Please DM me. I've got a question!

Just sobbed hardest I have since my mom died in 2020.

She missed these trials by a few months.

One of most ruthless cancers. Hard to fathom that maybe she'd still be here.

I feel such a hole inside.

In case you're wondering if we should fund mRNA research instead of another stupid war ... yes.

Pregnancy vaccine reduces baby hospital admissions for RSV by 80% A study confirms the vaccine gives excellent protection for babies against life-threatening chest infections.

Vaccines are humanity’s greatest scientific achievement.

Does anybody remember when teen pregnancy was a huge boogeyman of the right? They had all these purity dances and whatnot?

Pepperidge Farms remembers.

Trying to explain St Augustine to the pope, the former head of the Augustinian order, who wrote his doctoral thesis on Augustine, on his way back from celebrating mass at the Basilica of St Augustine in Annaba, Algeria, overlooking the site where Augustine lived is peak Adult Catholic Convert.

Is there any good articles/essays analyzing For All Mankind season 4's depiction of strikes and labor movements? I'm working on a piece and want to see other folks writing on that topic.

She was granted withholding of removal from India *decades* ago, and had been living and working legally (including for the U.S. government!) ever since.

But with third country removals now a real option, TSA shared her data with ICE and they arrested her at the airport on her way to a job.

rip to all the people excommunicated by the pope for their heresy but im different. and better. maybe even better than the pope

I am going to make a bot that just posts this in all the "what's up with Gen X" discussions.

This is Sadie. She was finally reunited with her human, astronaut Christina Koch, after her mom’s voyage around the moon took her the furthest any human has ever been from their dog. She can't wait to hear all about the universe. 14/10 (IG: astro_christina)

This is one of the reasons DOGE was so profoundly offensive. Knowing at first hand the hard work and expertise that goes into preparing and evaluating grant and program applications, and seeing how lazily and dishonestly they were destroyed.

There is a lot to say here, and I would draw some comparisons to Bridgerton and the way several characters slated to leave or die young ended up being the people of color. Did it make sense individually? Maybe. Does it look good when you zoom out? Hell no.

"The right’s characterization of higher education is a fiction. Students across the ideological spectrum feel free to express themselves, think their education is worth the cost and don’t think their views are silenced." Only 3% of Republican students feel out of place on campus for their views.

Everyone spectates and uses Republicans as a shield.

And yes it’s why I’m spicy with certain of your favorite white professors

They are watching this happen to their colleagues and have been for years

"The conservative caricature of college campuses as liberal indoctrination camps persists because it is useful cover... American higher education is facing down a process of authoritarian capture that threatens the long-term viability of our system of higher education."

One of the comments to this is like “of all the things to be mad about, not being able to get a credit card is low down the list” and y’all being able to leave shitty men is so important and cannot be done without money.

This is a great question; how would the historians on my feed answer this? And what good, readable, synthetic accounts of US history, or US social movements, would you suggest? (To inform with the right amount of detail without being overwhelming/boring?)

No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this.

You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.

I've said it before but white dudes really need to understand the weight of a good direct "dude that's fucked up, what the hell is wrong with you?"

Photograph from Artemis II of Earth setting behind the Moon.

Now that the most delightful crew this side of Star Trek is safely home & getting its Earth legs again, let’s take a moment to appreciate this sublime photo of Earthset that NASA posted on its Flickr page a couple of hours ago. www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2... #ArtemisII

If you’re not describing the job categories with the growth, you’re obscuring something. And the most likely factor worth hiding? That the growth is low-pay, low-respect service industries like childcare, elder care, low skill health & cleaning. Desperation jobs, taken because her kids must be fed.

Absolutely the fuck not.

Woman with three deadly diseases has ‘remarkable’ recovery after cell therapy Treatment reset wayward immune system of patient with life-threatening conditions, say scientists, in a world first

A woman who lived with three life-threatening autoimmune diseases for more than a decade has returned to a near-normal life after a cell therapy reset her wayward immune system.

#ShareGoodNewsToo

www.theguardian.com/science/2026/apr/09/auto...

AI is a labor problem.

Maybe the thing with AI is that blaming coders for underspecified needs wasn’t working, but we don’t want to actually have to explain ourselves to the coders, so we get a proxy we can’t usefully blame.

So like maybe what we needed were unions.

We lose again: Windham-Campbell Prize manqué Was going to post this on Substack, but they don't let you indent blocks of text.     Today’s insanely long installmen...

Helen DeWitt on turning down a $175k Windham-Campbell Prize because she wasn't able to handle the prize's mandatory publicity requirements. Imo a moving, deeply relatable, and darkly funny story about money, obligation, mental health, & executive dysfunction
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The ebook covers for Deal with the Devil, The Devil you Know, and Dance with the Devil. All three are on sale for $2.99 each in april

Once upon a time @totallydonna.kitrocha.com & I wrote a trilogy about book nerds in a dystopian future who just wanted to build a library but the tech bros wouldn't stop being evil so they did community organizing & crimes.

They are ON SALE this month for $2.99!

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RESULT: The right took over the Francis Howell school board, a large MO district in the St. Louis suburbs, earlier this decade; followed book bans & restrictive policies on LGBTQ students.

Tonight, the slate endorsed by the teacher's slate swept, and the last remaining conservative was ousted.