April 19, 2022
If you’d lost your arm in a car accident, I would have understood
Apparently not posted here before, resurrected on Twitter today is this 2012 confessional in The Guardian by a mother about her son's tattoo. Prepare yourself.
1 + 1 = GAY!
Following on the boot heels of his Don't Say Gay legislation (MeFi post), Florida Governor Ron DeSantis rejected school textbooks for being too "woke" and teaching critical race theory including all but one math textbook publisher for children from kindergarten to fifth grade. [more inside]
They’re all classified. Sorry.
‘I Have 100 Percent, and I Intend to Keep It That Way’: Kamala Harris Breaks Down Her Daily Wordle Habit [The Ringer]
The Dome Should Have Been Better and Bigger, Okay?
A former Foxconn executive tries to explain what went wrong in Wisconsin. If you don’t quite remember, the Foxconn project in Wisconsin was announced in 2017 as a massive deal to build the first “Generation 10.5” LCD factory in North America. It was also one of the first big moments in the Trump presidency, complete with President Trump holding a golden shovel at a lavish groundbreaking ceremony where he said the factory would be “the eighth wonder of the world.” [more inside]
The glory and freedom of Ukraine has not yet perished
Ukraine has stood against the Russian invasion for 55 days. In Mariupol the Azovstal Iron and Steelworks remains as one final stronghold against Russian conquest. Ukraine has sunk the flagship of Russia's Black Sea Fleet, the missile cruiser Moskva. Russian President Putin has appointed General Aleksandr Dvornikov to try to turn things around. On Monday Russian forces launched a new offensive on a 300 mile long front in eastern Ukraine. The battle of Donbas is underway. [more inside]
When Entendres Go Viral
On the Zillow Goes Wild Twitter feed, one Wisconsin listing popped up for a homespun sign with a decidedly atypical (if fitting) message in the master bedroom. MEL Magazine has an interview with the homeowner about the sign and her surprise 15 minutes of fame.
Each day I try to put the stones in order
Luigi Lineri collects stones. “...walking across the river Adige in an ordinary afternoon it may happen to you that your eyes don’t stop at the sunset or the water flowing or your emotions but, half serious half humourous, your eyes low and mingle with that silent stone-bed in a strange dialogue between man and stone, past and present...”
The final action
In “Russian Doll,” Natasha Lyonne Barrels Into the Past
How the actress turned showrunner took on inherited trauma through time travel. [Spoilers for season 1 of Russian Doll] [New Yorker / Archive]
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