well, this latest nonsense of wanting people to rob the louvre was very strange

every time i encounter this "hasan piker" bloke he's saying something detestable

A giant parking garage covered with the trans flag

This is where we park the trans

#gapol fun fact: his brother in law was Hank Aaron

Most Americans: I’m going to die working this job 😞

Members of Congress: I’m going to die working this job! 😃

there was a cybertruck with an italian family restaurant wraparound

Happy 80th to John Waters and his poppers birthday cake

Fun fact: Women's sports are segregated not to protect women, but to protect *men* from losing *to* a woman.

Don't believe me? Look up Jackie Mitchell. Struck out Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig. Then suddenly women were unfit to play baseball.

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.

CDC won’t publish report showing covid shots cut likelihood of hospital visits
The report, which had cleared the agency’s scientific-review process, had been delayed. It now won’t be published at all, people familiar with the decision told The Post.
www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Holy fucking shit, I was NOT ready for how hard I'd laugh at this

Mii of the Dell Dimension 2400 in Tomadachi Life Living the Dream for the Nintendo Switch, with long flowing hair

my girlfriend asked if she could make a Mii for my island and handed this back to me 30 minutes later.

fun fact

the elevated risk of suicide experienced by trans people almost entirely disappears if the trans person in question has supportive gender affirming friends and family.

it is 110% cis peoples' fault we suffer so much and develop so many life destroying mental illnesses.

this is true and bad but part of the problem is that *the market* also seems to be treating this as "distant crisis mostly of interest to nerds that will work itself out" which is a deeply confusing signal that is not entirely the fault of the press in this case

term limits or age limits, pick one. no more holding onto power until you drop dead.

The number of times I said exactly this in my 25 years in the Minnesota Orchestra was a very, very high number. I once produced an exhaustively researched chart showing how many concerts had been slashed out of the schedule since 2001. No one gave a shit. The VP of Marketing said I'd made it up.

Are we so fecking terrified that an unhoused person might (gasp) *sleep on a bench* that we think removing all the benches will make the problem go away? How about we try the Finnish solution... and then put the damn benches back?! housingfirsteurope.eu/country/finl...

WE DON'T LIKE HIM EITHER DUDES POINT THAT SHIT AT X OKAY

“What are you in for?”

“Felony bralessness”

we all know I have no life, so:

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo

This is so heinous, I do not know what to say. This shit devastates me.

Trump Is Said to Be in Talks to Send Afghans Who Aided U.S. Forces to Congo www.nytimes.com/2026/04/21/w...

Colorful tiles, mostly blue and orange, set in a patch of concrete that says "Gayoso, now gayer than ever."

Street art, New Orleans

TIL: i understand french

Estimates show the 1918 flu epidemic killed about 45,000 US soldiers, about 38% of the total US military deaths in WWI. The flu and its secondary illnesses made up the majority of death by disease. Thousands (possibly as many as 36,000) died before making it from basic training to the battlefield.

you get: the astounding power of the supreme court of the united states of america

we get: some vague modicum of ethical behavior

apparently this bargain was a bridge too far, so I propose a new one, which involves impeachment and jail

i've said it before, but louisiana crabs have exactly zero meat on them and make broth taste terrible, contra maryland or california crabs

what

Map depicting which parts of the US say groh-shery (mostly everybody, but particularly the midwest) vs who says groh-sery (mostly major cities, but particularly NYC metro area)

Map depicting who says groh-shery vs groh-sery, which chart showing how groh-shery is becoming the standard, especially in people born after 1995

Groh-shery vs groh-sery, based on region.

Don't you love this stuff? I love this stuff. Do you bitches have the cot-caught merger? Do you bitches have the mary-merry-marry merger even?

Just take 3 mins and 15 seconds to listen to this lady speak.

WHY👏🏾DONT👏🏾WE👏🏾ALL👏🏾KNOW👏🏾ABOUT👏🏾HER??!!!

This genuinely makes me so upset.
She been gone 8 years and I hear her name on a random

youtu.be/RcVo0Laga6s?...

i love when trent has his little tambourine

Opus and one of the bloom county kids talking about what they'll miss in Iowa City and it's a long list of things that have been gone for decades now

berke breathed lived in iowa city in the 80s, this is a print of his farewell drawing that ran in a local paper. the thing that made me feel real fucking old is the early-40s publisher of my paper there didn't know 3/4 of these references. also that fountain they're sitting on is long gone.