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The rich people of today only have two ideas: 1. Let’s kill everyone 2. I need a bunker so after we kill everyone I can emerge from underground, spread my wings like a peacock, and continue to be rich

Today is Brian’s unofficial and probably fictional birthday! He is nine years old. He is an *extremely* good boy.

People should consider that a consensus around treating diversity as “bullshit” contributed to an environment in which the court is comfortable doing this politically. Maybe.

people all over the world starting to understand how it is possible to bankrupt a casino

Great credit is due to the Bard College community of undergraduate anti-rape activists—organizing as “Take Back Bard”—who insisted on Bostein’s resignation even in the face of widespread indifference from the faculty and sneering mockery of their efforts in the New York Times. I admire them.

My favorite sentence in this article is “catfish, which is safe to eat,”

Meta AI stays asking the tough questions everyone had on their mind

You never have to defend politicians. You really do not. When you feel the urge bubbling up, drink water and keep it moving.

TECH BRUNCHLORDS: we believe AI has successfully achieved human-level cognition NEUROLOGISTS: okay so your brain is like, imagine if there was a kind of pudding that sang two bars from Semi-Charmed Life whenever somebody nearby was baking cookies, right? we don’t know why it does that

unironically: i think these guys should just do Brazilian jujitsu. mad at the world, vaguely insecure about your masculinity, need a hug? turns out we have an App for That

Here are some nice mushrooms

Leon Botstein, longtime friend of pedophile sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, has resigned as president of @bardcollege.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/u...

Saw someone say the South hasn’t improved with time and that’s not true a lot of thriving communities and culture has grown over the decades it’s just that white people are still racist.

I see we’re doing 90% of men have a Nazi phase again, but even if that was true, which it isn’t (non-white men exist), I have a lovely garbage can that’s for them, it’s named the 90% of men garbage can, the men fucking love it

Politician X was "handed a terrible situation." Comrades, THEY KNEW THIS WHEN THEY RAN. It's actually their JOB to figure out how to address the terrible situation.

Bluesky users are basically the inkblot test of the USA-everyone sees only whatever they went looking for

Pretty much repeating Buckley’s defense of Jim Crow in his debate with Baldwin, without even realizing it, because this thinking is endemic in the culture.

Happy May Day, my friends. Remember, we deserve more than a bite of the pie or a seat at the table. We deserve the world.

very good stuff happening here. West Virginia’s new guy fled violence in El Salvador and was smuggled into the US in the trunk of a car. Washington’s - who is MY AGE (???) and therefore the youngest US bishop - is from Louisiana, the first new Black bishop in a decade, and graduated from Harvard Law

John Roberts thinks this is what anti-white racism looks like 🙃

if nothing else the SCOTUS decision should reassure you that even John Roberts thinks they don'thave enough goons to take over polling stations

The guy appointed by the Hurricane Katrina President declaring racism over and done with is really grotesque when you think about it.

The president of the United States, folks.

those Karen Crashes Out Over a Sandwich videos that are everywhere all the time feel like a sort of alarm system about how angry and frustrated the population is all the time, there's no way this many people are actually this mad over ketchup

I keep thinking about the fact that prior to the 1930s there were almost no student protests on college campuses. The 30s changed all of that and University administrators LOST THEIR SHIT. They were sending names of students by the 10s of thousands to the FBI. They launched off campus surveillance.

Happy May Day! Our office is closed today; we’ll see you in the streets!

we may as well make bonfires on May Day

reminds me of a thing my granddad once said while we were watching Olympics "the best marksman in India is probably some dhobi's delivery boy throwing stones at pillars who will never go to Olympics camp and none of us will ever hear of"

Hello. I am your president. I saw a drawing of a giraffe and I said that's a giraffe. My ballroom will be very big. They are building an arch for me. My face will be on money. Only I know how do percentages. I did a war and sometimes it is over but sometimes not. I am alive. Daisy....daisy....

Nobody in the world is more committed to keeping the "Donald Trump has dementia" story alive than Donald Trump.

It’s been a major frustration that Battlestar Galactica hasn’t been on a major streamer, but it’s BACK! BSG hit Paramount+ & Pluto TV today, praise the lords of Kobol! Why you should watch (or rewatch) & PLUS !! a lil excerpt from my upcoming book on Battlestar: www.moryan.com/praise-the-l...

Timeline cleanse

It takes a special kind of gall to assume that what a desperate world needs is your particular spin on giving up. It takes an extra dash of something loathsome when that take is just "smoke if you got 'em" stretched across a 1700-word New York magazine essay.

I noticed this at my doctors and couldnt help wondering if they didn't take 42 days to call in a refill on heart medication whether they could take down the sign

Hollywood has developed a collective eating disorder based around a particular set of medications that almost no one in Hollywood needs, and the result is that a lot of beautiful people now look like they're dying, and culturally, this is going to be so phenomenally destructive, esp for young ppl.

As full of spirit as the month of May

A weird thing to explain to a doctor recently was how a medication I am taking is, in fact, helping, even though I am still doing quite poorly. "It's helping... so you're feeling better?" he asked. "Better" is a relative term. The difference is profound, and the dysfunction is still debilitating.

[with pure journalistic objectivity, not at all because of my own experience in February] someone should look into when Nerds Gummy Clusters were invented

The greatest trick the devil pulled was convincing people they have more in common with the politician who comes around twice a decade asking for votes than the neighbour they live next to every day

Seeing this made me laugh harder than I have in weeks.

I am again forced to tap the raw butthole sign

“They are not all accounted for, the lost seeing stones. We do not know who else may be watching.”

May Day in Chicago.

I think the most wild thing about healed injuries to me is that if you get scurvy even your decades old scars can open back up into wounds and you have to do it all over again

it's really weird to view the environment as something that ceases to exist if your fav party doesn't get direct benefit from acknowledging it exists

Again, this Wednesday’s ruling was enabled by a political and legal culture which portrayed plain truth telling like this as hysterical overreactions from “special interests” etc. we should also remember that when they try to solemnly evoke their respect for the Civil Rights Movement.

just realized that infowars went dark on may day. lol. lmao

today I'll be keeping an eye on the May Day actions across the country and updating this story every couple hours. feel free to reply to this post with what you're seeing!

Everyone keeps saying an LLM did this, but am I wrong for wanting to make "sits peeing down" part of the 2026 lexicon?

“Sorry we accidentally catapulted all our fact checkers into the sea.”

100% of American men have had a shitting their own pants phase. If you exclude them from politics, you're losing every man

my theory is you get better politics done by talking about things that aren't politics than when you make the topic about politics

Thinking about this because there's a lady at the animal hospital accusing the staff of murdering her dog and so they had to bring the dog back out mid treatment to show her because she was hammering on the door to the lab yelling

"A dollar raise is "subversive," and it's "subversive" to want your kids to grow up instead of becoming corpses in Korea."

“scientology speedrun” sounds like a jackass bit the lawyers vetoed

The Fifth Circuit has ordered a halt to the mailing of abortion pills, cutting off the primary way that thousands of women have obtained safe abortions in the years since Dobbs and raising grave public health risks. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/01/w...

it was and remains Fuck John Roberts O'Clock

Thousands of people are dead because the US and Israel killed them including hundreds of little girls. WUT? It's "over" but the navy is blockading the Strait????? Immoral and deeply evil.

Years in the making, congratulations to the young people who made this happen. Can easily be replicated in cities across the country including NYC - thetriibe.com/reshape/chic...

how are there only 2000 people watching this. get with the program America

I’m not awake enough to make a coherent point about this yet but it tracks with recent convos about how the viral clipping game is the real point to so many podcasts/streams, and also the source of many people’s influence. Reg media people—mostly on X—encounter only the clips and don’t understand it

“According to the Baltimore Sun, a 2015 fundraiser planned for the six police officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray was canceled because Berger was going to be the entertainment. It was called “racist and in poor taste.”” Every paragraph of this story is wild.

Even if there’s stuff we disagree on* I really, really value that Pope Leo gets what serving the divine is AND he also goes hard for it in that perfectly Chicago way *like his taste in baseball teams my GOD

Life is short. Why waste it doing things that make you unhappy ON PURPOSE?

Leon Botstein resigns as Bard College president - www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley... [gift link] - looks like Bard students won.

Mary J Blige / Mary J Blige / Mary J Blige

the protesters at the perimeter are holding signs reading WALL STREET IS A JOKE and BILLIONAIRES ARE CLOWNS as one protester is arrested they lead a chant of MAY DAY

Good night everyone. May tomorrow bring us more justice and some peace.

Cocaine / meth / ketamine

Am I but three inches?

When my dog has a perfect walk—no barks, no pulls, nobly ignoring the dog barking wildly at him from somebody’s yard for a *long time*—I wish I knew the dog equivalent of buying him a drink. Obviously I give him treats, but I feel like I need something *better*.

[Enter Petruchio, Kate, Bianca]

A podcast I was listening to used “the turn of the century” to mean the time period in which I was a young adult, and I need us all to contact our members of congress to put a stop to this

Not hard for me not to shop today and I took the day off work. #solidairty with others doing the same or doing what they can.

I found a 30GB iPod (5th generation) earlier today, charged it, and it still works. Full of music, some of which I am not interested in at all, but if the audio jack works I am going to start using it again and sourcing a dock or speaker for it.

my wife: I need 3 of every garden tool ever invented Also my wife: Yes this includes a machine to make holes for fence posts even though we do not need to build a fence Also my wife: Why do cheese scrapers exist

We're past 5000 letters to the City Council demanding that they support benchmarking the public library budgets at 0.5% of the city expense budget. We're on to 5500 letters. It's making a difference as we now have 11 members on record supporting this. actionnetwork.org/letters/city...

this conclusion by @espinsegall.bsky.social and @davedaley.bsky.social is spot on one of many things that infuriated me as I read Callais is how much it's just repeating all the same racist and indefensible shit that we already rejected as racist and indefensible www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

I love when a movie is like: "Want to see a legendary musician's greatest hits...but worse?"

I can't say this enough times. If you are not getting actual enjoyment from making zines, you should NOT make them. I'm in some zinemaking FB groups and new makers just seem to be the most DOUR and no fun people on the planet. Please don't come to zinemaking with that attitude.

A young person told me that they weren't going to attend Black Zine Fair because they are broke. I told them that was a shame because you don't need money to attend the zine fair. They can register at no cost, they can browse zines at no cost, they can attend workshops at no cost,+

A) At least two Americas B) people say this stuff and then react with shock when people say the targets of Nazis should move with this knowledge in mind.

Name your top 15 TV shows ever, gut instincts only— Kids in the Hall Gilmore Girls Golden Girls Justified Last Week Tonight Parks & Rec Gravity Falls Breaking Bad The Wire Schitt’s Creek The Good Place Aqua Teen Hunger Force Andor Avatar the Last Airbender Warrior

As someone who has just started playing pickleball(3-4X a week) the way pickleball players talk about the sport is hilarious "Ben Johns invented the corkscrew drive in 2021" ok but thats just a topspin and people have been hitting it in every racket sport for 100 years, what is this insecurity

everyone should have an ambition they are wholly incapable of fulfilling but not so thoroughly that they just give up on it instead of lying to themselves for years, and mine is to one day write a childrens book

when India super reluctantly signed onto the no smoking indoors in restaurants ban, places in Delhi created smoking sections and non smoking sections and for like the first yr or two, the non smoking section was 1 table & 1 chair placed far away like you were in detention and everyone stared at you

“We’re going to launch a populist class revolution but we can’t do that in states with large Black populations.”

Had to cancel a virtual event today because I’m having the worst chronic pain flare that I’ve had in almost 15 years and I guess I am just grateful my body waited until the travel-intensive part of the book tour was over to have an utter meltdown Anyway, please consider reading my book. 🙏🏽

Somebody pointed out in my replies that B’s leg looks like a churro and I can’t unsee it.

Very few people in this story come off well at all, and it’s all over a movie I didn’t like at all based on a book that has … a lot of weird things to say. Great job, everybody.

This is one of the things I think about when people insist that making things worse will inevitably cause people to push for radical change.

This is also why I have to remember a lot of people are that much younger than me when we talk about the moral positioning of the US because we kind of did this whole dance with W. too

Long live the first of May

If your theory of political life assumes Black people are obvious dupes you may want to rethink it.

We went long on Botstein’s connections to Jeffrey Epstein and the minimization—and even romanticization—of sexual violence that he cultivated at @bardcollege.bsky.social on @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social: pod.link/1696774612/e...

So this morning I was googling at what stage of puppy development you should start training your dog in the command that means “if you get your butt back here RIGHT NOW you will be smothered in treats and affection the likes of which your puppy heart can only dream.”

reviewing the section of The Originalism Trap about the Voting Rights Act and...i'm mad all over again (this is somewhat facetious insofar as I never stopped being mad to begin with) www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/735353...

While you were doomscrolling, we were studying the blade.

Astrology needs to come up with a reason why the planets influence on us basically ends at Pluto and what Charon did wrong not to get any powers

can't think of a better dramatization of the opposition between conservatism and progress