If we're being honest the weather part isn't great either.
04.03.2026 02:50
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If we're being honest the weather part isn't great either.
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Is it, uh, too late for an interested party to get in on this?
Ladies and gentlemen: ants! They bite. It hurts quite badly, and in some extreme circumstances, can send you to the hospital. I wrote a bit about a hiker who had to be airlifted following a run-in with them and my own history with stinging ants on the trail.
Original Robin Hood's favorite activities, in roughly ascending order:
—Robbing the rich
—Giving to the poor
—Refusing to pay his gambling debts
—Praying to the Virgin Mary
—Killing informants
I read some of the original Middle English Robin Hood for the first time a couple weeks ago and Pierre buddy you are not ready for him.
I've seen exactly one piece of media about Tourette's—ever, in my entire life—that felt like the writers had actually talked to someone with TS, and, shockingly, it was the one episode South Park did about it.
What happened at the BAFTAs is going to become history of most people fairly quickly, but I think people with Tourette's are going to be dealing with the fallout from it for a long time. Awareness of TS is so poor, any event like this becomes load-bearing in the public's conception of what it is.
I try to have a good sense of humor about this stuff but I gotta be honest, I'm not sure I like this.
A while ago, our writer Eric J. Wallace pitched on profiling Larry Riddle, a thru-hiker turned hostel owner who first traveled the trail while on the run from his probation officer. He turned in a funny, touching, and fascinating portrait of a real AT character:
This @defector.com story is a good (non-political) example of why it’s not enough to have a bunch of individual reporters with newsletters running around. You need some kind of institution with the resources (and principles) to publish despite legal threats. defector.com/a-complimentar…
I hope they can bring up the next generation of journalists—I do! Because starting your career as an unknown independent journalist is not a viable career path for most people. You need to be able to borrow someone else's platform.
Reader-funded independent publications are great. But the thing is, the writers actually making a living off of those almost invariably made their bones writing for some kind of corporate media and then took that name recognition indie.
Dudes rock
Shit, man, I spent the second half of my twenties in Colorado. I'm pretty sure I've already seen someone do this.
Whoever wrote this has clearly never run a beer mile.
I am going to create a speedball that is so for dads.
Me finishing my Celsius and immediately refilling my bottle with sleepytime magnesium drink mix.
A small thing but I appreciate that they decided to invent a new way of killing someone for that movie that requires you to believe people breathe through their skin.
(My Eduardo Galeano hot take is that the work most Americans know him for, The Open Veins of Latin America, is quite possibly his worst book.)
Once again urging anyone interested in this to read Soccer in Sun and Shadow by Eduardo Galeano, an excellent book about both why soccer is great and why FIFA absolutely sucks.
Being a trans journalist is going to work and having to cover how your life is now illegal in your state but also at the same time make sure someone else writes the story so no one can accuse you of being biased and a "trans activist" and then they do the story and you still get accused of it.
As of tonight, licenses of trans people across Kansas are being invalidated en masse, enabling the overnight criminalization of an entire group of people for going about our lives. It’s often said you never know when you’re living through history, so let me assure you: that’s what’s happening now.
Sometimes an editor is the word equivalent of your friend who shows up at your door to pick you up, looks you up and down, and says "I'm not going out with you dressed like that."
Sometimes an editor's job is to correct your grammar, and other times it's to highlight an entire paragraph and comment "we cannot run this."
I forgot to post this video! Everyone who feels the need to weigh in on the BAFTAs should watch this, by Jhónelle (forgot the accent on first post) first.
But I've seen a lot of ostensibly liberal people say the most dehumanizing things—twisting themselves into knots to blame Davidson, saying we shouldn't be in public, even threatening violence. I'd ask them to pay attention to people's lived experience instead of being confidently wrong.
Hearing one of the most offensive words in the English language—one that's been used to justify the worst kinds of violence—while they were on stage must have been a terrible experience for Lindo and Jordan, not to mention Black viewers. The involuntary nature of it doesn't erase that.
Williams points out that Davidson was there because the biopic made about him, I Swear, was nominated for several awards. And as Bean says, "keep them at home and out of sight" was how we dealt with Tourette's and other neurological disorders in the 1950s, and we cannot go back to that.
One important thing that both said: Removing yourself from a situation is an option—Davidson did end up doing that; maybe he ought to have done it earlier, but he was 40 rows back and may not have known the presenters weren't cued into his condition—but just never going to public events is not.
