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“You may be asking yourself: What kind of sociopath complains about ice cream sundaes? I am wondering about this, too. I just know that when I see one, I am almost never as excited as the servers seem to think I ought to be… But enough about the barren, echoing tundra that passes for my soul. Let’s talk about the future of New York restaurants.”
Pete Wells writes in The New York Times about how “The Ice Cream Sundae Must Be Stopped[!]”
posted by Going To Maine at 10:27 PM PST - 73 comments

Trans Navajo badass, Stephanie Yellowhair, has passed away at 41 (her obituary is the forth one down).
”Her refusal to back down, to be anything other than who she was, helped turn her into a defiant role model for many still trying to understand who they were and what it means to be different.”
She gained viral fame for her sass and relisience in the face of an asshole police officer in an episode of Cops, a video that is both a heartache and a joy to watch, for it's full of transphobia, but also gloriously quotable one-liners..
posted by Grandysaur at 8:14 PM PST - 41 comments

Taken cumulatively, there’s a surreal, Lynchian quality to the images.
posted by So You're Saying These Are Pants? at 8:06 PM PST - 18 comments

Lynne Murphy (previously), blogger and print author, has a new book, The Prodigal Tongue: The Love-Hate Relationship Between American and British English. Amanda Holpuch reviews it for the Guardian and offers a brief quiz: These words came into English after 1776. Do you know whether they are American, British or neither?
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 6:02 PM PST - 36 comments

On Monday the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) warned that the use of live fire by Israeli soldiers against Palestinian protesters in the occupied Gaza Strip could “constitute crimes under the Rome Statute.
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posted by adamvasco at 5:33 PM PST - 112 comments

Maile Pearl Bowlsbey, ninth-generation American, was born on April 9th. This fact, by itself, is not noteworthy; a baby is born in the US every eight seconds. But baby Maile is different in one very interesting way: her mother, Tammy Duckworth, is a United States Senator, the first ever to give birth while in office.
posted by kevinbelt at 2:43 PM PST - 21 comments

When even the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has something to say about the way you love things—describing “highly restricted, fixated interests that are abnormal in intensity or focus (e.g, strong attachment to or preoccupation with unusual objects, excessively circumscribed or perseverative interest)”—it’s not easy to figure out how you should handle your obsessions in polite conversation.
posted by ellieBOA at 9:55 AM PST - 91 comments

No time to binge watch? Too busy to catch single episode? No problem! Just take in a compilation/montage/supercut/marathon video and be on your merry way! Not to be confused with the hair salon, thanks winterhill. Start with: Parks and Recreation: Ron Swanson's Best Moments (Supercut) [more inside]
posted by Juso No Thankyou at 9:16 AM PST - 30 comments

A Field Guide to The Musical Leitmotifs of Star Wars.
Frank Lehman has complied a Complete Catalogue of Star Wars Letimotifs[PDF] from Episodes I-VIII. [more inside]
posted by the man of twists and turns at 9:03 AM PST - 10 comments

Seth Meyers and his wife Alexi Ashe welcome their second child into the world in dramatic fashion. (SLYT)
posted by lauranesson at 8:18 AM PST - 26 comments

FIRST This report shows that a pivot toward the “center” is poison with the Democratic primary electorate, using historical data to show the increasing liberalism of Democratic voters on core progressive values. SECOND This report shows that marginal voters and nonvoters support key progressive policies and could form a durable base for the Democratic Party. FINALLY This report shows that many Democratic incumbents are failing their constituents by opposing progressive policies with broad-based support. Future Of The Party.
posted by The Whelk at 7:19 AM PST - 113 comments

"Only the americanos order it," he told me. "They devour it."
posted by PussKillian at 7:07 AM PST - 84 comments

Field Notes on John Carpenter’s First Fifteen Years (Jeff Firmin, Bright Lights Film Journal).
posted by sapagan at 4:37 AM PST - 8 comments

The Meg.... based on the novel about a giant prehistoric shark. The Statham loving Den of Geek having been waiting for this for a long long time.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 3:14 AM PST - 41 comments