In Praise Of Cafe du Monde And Tourist Trap Eateries Everywhere | Defector I went to New Orleans for a wedding last weekend. I used to go there pretty often, for work conventions and lots of Jazzfests, but hadn’t been back since Katrina. I was happy at how much the city, in…

In praise of Cafe du Monde and tourist trap eateries everywhere:

Congratulations! Hope yall get support and a chance to rest in the days to come

The american urbanist cannot conceive of Italy

I wonder what the ‘protest’ in Protestant is in reference to

Religious Shitpost Bluesky can officially close up shop. Nothing we post will ever top this.

Blacksky started with a community feed + moderation, found out what the community needed as it grew, then grew into exactly what it needed to be (and continues to do so).

What excites me most about this is that it enables others to start the same way. Force amplification at it's finest.

C.D.C. Cancels Publication of Study Showing Benefits of Covid Vaccines

The acting head of the CDC has canceled the publication of a study that found that the Covid vaccine sharply cut the odds of hospitalizations and emergency visits last winter

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/22/u...

Your community deserves its own platform.

acorn.blacksky.community

The whole situation is very funny

This whole debacle really showcases the structural problems with Bluesky as a platform.

Rather than develop good infrastructure detached from users - like flexibility of seeing feeds, strong moderation options, etc. - it is all attached to individual accounts and users.

A dog stands on a table, posing next a basted peak lapel sport coat. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.

A dog sitting on the floor, posting next to a basted blue tweed sport coat with notch lapels. The jacket is being displayed on a dress form.

A dog sitting on the floor, posing in front of a wall where three tailored jackets are hanging.

A dog poses on a table. He's surrounded by a tailor's measuring tape.

Every time this tailor posts a photo of their workspace, it looks like their dog is a tailor and he's showing off the garments he made.

IG z.o.e.y.a.t.e.s

The issue with someone admitting they use ChatGPT to write interpersonal messages is that now I have zero way to know if 2% or 99% of it is actually their own thoughts and words. It just destroys trust in a way autocorrect or spellcheck doesn’t.

Everyone loves the poetry of Pablo Naruto. Believe it.

Ivysaur vs Machop from Pokemon PureGreen

Doduo vs Pidgeotto from Pokemon PureGreen

I love these green version sprites. All the Pokemon are such weird little freaks

The last time this many labor unions in NYS publicly backed taxing the rich to a significant degree—and thereby knowingly courted the ire of the governor—was 2009, when NY WFP first passed the "millionaire's tax" (still in effect today). Now, NYC-DSA + Zohran are also helping pull labor to the left.

"we're gonna make some shit up and put your name on it"

ai is made of consent violations

The part about Mamdani not being always correct is important. Because he's gonna fuck up and make mistakes (like with the library budget thing) and we rightfully need to hold his feet to the fire for that.

But like. This is socialism. We want this for everyone.

Let's call this policy what this is.

It's socialism. It's Leftism. And it's curing actual ills. Righting institutional wrongs.

It's not coming from someone who is infallible, or someone who is always correct.

It's coming from someone who promised to help and is trying to keep those promises.

Screenshot of Gudtrip that has a hero section that says "The first agentic cannabis device"

lmfao

FUCK IT, WE'LL DO IT DEAD

Ppl cite serial, but the true crime bug is just a variant of the criminal minds, law and order svu obsessions

the penne opticon

it is legitimately unfathomable how the US squandered its significant EV early lead primarily through entirely backwards short-sighted policy decisions in support of the oil industry which likely has already set the stages of the US auto industry's demise. a death in slow motion.

I missed a whole Ibeyi record??

JUST BE HAPPY Suffering, Swedenborg, and the hells we choose

I wrote about the possibility that we live in hell and what it means to "choose happiness" johnpaulbrammer.substack.com/p/just-be-ha...

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

I will say ‘i told you so’. I am NOT the bigger person. I AM petty.

"Americans prefer large trucks and SUVs."

The reality:

Im the only person who could be cold and sweaty at the same time