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Oh, boy. This is just a fantastic response to being told you can’t teach DEI at a private university. – via @mjsdc.bsky.social
If you grew up watching Schoolhouse Rock, you likely need a measles booster.
I am irrationally upset that The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is ending its 54-year run. – via kottke
The Last of Us returns for season 2 on April 13.
I have always loved making paper airplanes.
Some good news: From 2008-2022, cervical precancer rates dropped by a whopping 80% among women aged 20-24. – via YLE
Sex, Drinking and Dementia: 25 Lawmakers Spill on What Congress Is Really Like is nowhere near as wild and crazy as the headline would have you believe. If anything, the whole piece reads more like, “Aw, shucks! These people are just plain old good regular folks like you n’ me!” Don’t bother.
In other news:
- This is how you become a Nazi bar.
- After Georgia banned abortion, its maternal mortality committee detailed the “preventable” deaths of two women, which led to the state… dismissing all thirty-four members.
- Democrats who censured Al Green are as clueless as they are feckless. Right now there’s too much appeasement and not enough fighting.

How does a bill become a law? A lovely infographic from Mike Wirth Art is a swell way to learn the answer… but nothing beats the original (YouTube).
Make your hidden self a little bit cooler with better Facebook default profile images.
“These are their stories.” RIP L&O.
“You know the best way to get the public to respect your brand? Have a respectable brand.” — from an interview with Leroy Stick, the man behind @bpglobalpr
On June 5, 1910 there were only nine mothers of U.S. Senators still alive.
Book owners have smarter kids.
Are you an Asker or a Guesser? (I honestly don’t know which one I am.)
This is the sort of stuff I love: Battleship Island & Other Ruined Urban High-Density Sites. I need the History or Discovery Channel to do a special on this!
Derek thinks he’s finally figured out why everything sucks. And it’s actually kind of awesome.
@sbnation presents an explanation of the recent and confusing NCAA conference realignments.

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