In retrospect it’s pretty fucking terrible for my mental health that the sun starts setting at 4 pm every year right when the baseball season ends.

Miguel Rojas is the most YOU GOTTA BE FUCKING KIDDING ME home run of all time

civilization vi leader two turns before you destroy his lone attacking trebuchet unit with a missile cruiser

Swiped left on someone on a dating app because they used a comma splice in their bio #justenglishmajorthings

Traveling out of state and dying from the humidity. Can't wait to bust out the California classic "but it's a dry heat" to the first person who sees me sweating and asks where I'm from

For someone who has spent his entire career so far writing about engineering research, it's kind of incredible how often I can't properly type the words "engineeing" and "research"

Imagine the fundraising email Villanova is sending out today

🔔BREAKING🔔

The NSF has frozen all research grant awards—cutting off life-saving science midstream and demanding ideological screenings for future funding.

This is censorship disguised as oversight.

Here’s how you can help us spread the word ➡️🧵(1/3):
www.nature.com/articles/d41...

i am 100% certain that they are weekend at bernie-ing trump and just handing him papers to sign, the content of which is determined by whoever happens to want something to happen

i try not to complain about joke thieves but i’ve spent years cultivating a shtick of posting dispensable bullshit that’s of use to nobody and it sucks to see people stealing it

Yes, this administration is dangerous and cruel, but they are also shockingly dim and incompetent.

Opportunities are everywhere.

Make everything as hard as possible. Resist every demand. Refuse entry without a warrant. Don’t take the buyout. Their problem solving skills are 📉

For those of you who want to help, here are some local Altadena organizations who were impacted.

These are all groups I have worked with personally and can vouch for the good work they do.

Thread. #EatonFire

Something I wish I was seeing some more coverage/awareness of: these maps show the density of Black owner-occupied households in LA. In the first one Altadena is in the upper right. The second map overlays the Eaton Fire perimeter, showing how it devastated much of this historic community.

Two stages of writing:

1) This shouldn't take too long
2) Oh no

Both Campaigns Release Ads Showcasing Trump’s Most Racist Comments

 usually the only New York institution that can rack up 34 losses before June 1 is the Mets

Every two weeks a judge in a different state bangs a gavel, announces "it is the finding of this court that the accused, Donald Trump, is an absolute turbo shithead" and then fines him an amount roughly equal to a MLB team's entire payroll. This is expected to continue for months.

Blockbuster story from AP – prison labor powers the biggest brands in the U.S. food business and fast food chains. Target, Walmart, Aldi, Burger King are involved and many more. Two years of reporting by the Pulitzer-winning team of Robin McDowell and Margie Mason.