As we all know, news is bad for you. At least, constantly hearing about about terrible things happening in the world that you can’t do anything about is bad for you.
So here’s some good stuff that’s going on. And yes, I’ve used this image before.
My friend Dora is swimming an absurdly long way to raise money for cancer research. You can find out about it here.
It has previously been reported that women in Texas were dying in childbirth at alarming rates, possibly due to legal restrictions on women’s healthcare. It looks like most of that anomaly was caused by poor user interface in the reporting tools. (Women’s health care in the US and in Texas especially still sucks… but at least it’s not getting any worse!)
These juvenile owls nesting on a window ledge are pretty adorable.
A little perspective on the dangers of social media:
The printing press destabilized western society and contributed to a century of sectarian warfare that lead to death and destruction on a previously unprecedented scale. https://t.co/nfGw3YpTsb
Matthew Yglesias (@mattyglesias) April 11, 2018
A story about love, humility, modernism, and Las Vegas architecture.
The guys who run the show in pro sports aren’t generally known for doing the right thing, especially when it comes to race and social justice. But Patriots owners Robert Kraft is putting his considerable clout behind Meek Mill in his quest for freedom.
This is the kind of dick pic everyone can get behind: Vintage photos of men named Richard.
A Tumblr blog dedicated to submitting the wrong captions for New Yorker cartoons. Many of them are better than you’d find in the New Yorker. Or at least funnier.
Secretly Ironic 