Steve Evans

As the Bard once wrote

New sexual position: the camelbak

A backyard pool. The neighbors have a gigantic bouncy house.

Summertime.

Most of the internet used to be like this. This is actually the default, it took companies enclosing the internet and adding weird, soul-killing incentives to make people behave the way they do now. In a way, there is truly nothing special about Wikipedia except that it survived longer.

This looks amazing

It is fucking insane that we had a decade of people complaining about the dangers of cancel culture, and now literally hundreds of thousands of people are being purged from government jobs for ideological reasons, but that is not cancel culture.

When you strip away humanity

Of all the hot takes you post EVERY DAMN DAY this takes the cake

WU-TANG FOREVER 👐🏽

A parade walker getting hit with a foam cannon

A bmx rider doing a flip

Three jeeps doing a stunt where the ride over each other's tires

People watching a parade with a huge dog

Summertime parade

A parade walker getting hit with a foam cannon

A bmx rider doing a flip

Three jeeps doing a stunt where the ride over each other's tires

People watching a parade with a huge dog

Summertime parade

The worst

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, mea...

The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use

‘Tremendous uncertainty’ for cancer research as US officials target mRNA vaccines Amid Trump cuts and state-level backlash, experts worry that progress in messenger RNA vaccines could stall

Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals.

What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research.

Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out.


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This is truly unhinged. RWD = really wonky data???

Bonne Fete Nationale

Nous vous souhaitons à toutes et tous un beau et joyeux #14Juillet ! 🇫🇷 🇫🇷 🇫🇷
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🎨 Dessin anonyme du fonds Gustave Eiffel

New York Times headline: "Is it Time to Stop Snubbing Your Right-Wing Family?" Above the headline a photo of the vampires from Sinners, asking to be let in. The photo has been modified with a downward-facing word balloon to create the effect that the vampires are speaking the headline.

A bit on the nose

Teen Vogue doing what others wouldn’t dare, again

a couple of cartoon characters are running from a flock of birds . Alt: a couple of cartoon characters are running from a flock of birds .

Me ordering your book

10000%

Child of Omelas? That’s thinking too small. What if like eight billion people suffered so a few dozen guys could live lives so insane they convinced themselves it’s more likely they’re inside a computer simulation

I said this on Threads but maybe worth repeating here bc I see a lot of hot takes about the Texas floods: When it comes to climate change, we all have it coming. The moment calls for the deepest empathy, because we will someday soon depend upon the empathy of others.

If you're pissed off at the NYT, here's your chance to put my money where your mouth is.

This long weekend, I will donate $0.50 to @thecity.nyc for each of:
- every new Bluesky follower I get
- every new Bluesky follower THEY get
- everyone who reposts this post

If you see this, post your comfort characters

“The New York Times collaborated with a white nationalist eugenicist hacker and agreed to keep his identity a secret to publish a Zohran Mamdani hit piece” is a way bigger story than “18 year old Zohran Mamdani ticked ‘African American’ on his Columbia application because he was a citizen of Uganda”

Happy 4th of July everyone- this is the most American thing I’ve read today - please read every word: Goodbye to All That www.lawfaremedia.org/article/good...

so let me get this straight—the NYT accepted hacked information given to them by a substack white supremacist to be used against a mayoral candidate?