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They’re Chicago-style, like the new pope!

Sad the conclave finished so quickly? David Swanson wrote up some epic conclaves of centuries past.

Speaking of the new pope, he’s a White Sox fan: I don’t need to know this man’s papal qualifications. He has the patience of a saint. The loyalty of the unhinged. He communes with the downtrodden. He has compassion for masochists who can’t get out of their own way.

A Grand Comeback for a Grand Seaside Hotel, by Danielle Pergament.

A girl in a blue dress smiles at the camera. She’s in the lower-left of the shot, and is standing on a path. On the other side of the path, behind a simple fence, a deer grazes. — EJ in Nara, March 2025

Donald Trump is not a regular president, and the courts must stop treating him like one. He is an aspiring autocrat who weaponizes the legal process to undermine the rule of law. Through his words and conduct, he and his administration have forfeited the right to be believed or trusted.

— Marc Elias, in The Courts Must Stop Presuming Donald Trump is a Regular President

Via Kottke, the Words Scholars Should No Longer Use to Describe Slavery and the Civil War include Union (say United States instead), plantations (which were forced labor camps), slave owners (they were enslavers).

CSS snippets, by Jeremy.

Add wide gamut P3 and alpha transparency to your color picker in HTML, by Anne and Jen.

A close-up of some text on a chalkboard. The text reads “mi amor”. The dot of the lower case “i” is heart shaped.

TERF Island: the embarassing truth about Britain's Trans Panic, by Laurie Penny.

Noone, C., Southgate, A., Ashman, A. et al. Critically appraising the cass report: methodological flaws and unsupported claims. BMC Med Res Methodol 25, 128 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12874-025-02581-7

Trans lives aren’t black and white, our conversations about them shouldn’t be either, by Carol Ballantine, via Natasha_Jay@tech.lgbt.

Eventually you can't help but figure out that, while gender is a construct, so is a traffic light, and if you ignore either of them, you get hit by cars. Which, also, are constructs.

— Nevada, by Imogen Binnie

The Bureaucratic Nightmares of Being Trans Under Trump, by Grace Byron.

Pennsylvania: Five Democratic Senators Defect for Anti-Trans Sports Ban, by s. baum.

Roundup: Experts Condemn Trump Pseudoscientific Anti-Trans “Report”, by Mira Lazine.

Ohio Republican Author Of Anti-Trans Law Compares Trans People To “Lucifer”, by Erin Reed.

A Visual Celebration of Miyazaki’s Weird Little Guys, by Kottke. Is there anything better than a bunch of weird little guys?