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by | Apr 8, 2026 | Daily Links | 116 comments

DeCarlos Brown Jr. found incompetent to proceed in Charlotte light rail killing

“I got that White girl.”

Thing that everyone should have known was going to happen happened. He’ll be “cured” and released in under 10 years. (The federal case will go absolutely nowhere.)


Explaining all the flavors of asexuality with pies. Gibberish, of course. But they are at least consistent in not including “hair pie.”


Hulu’s The Testaments Feels Like The Handmaid’s Tale, Only More YA

The Testaments, the new Hulu adaptation of Atwood’s 2019 follow-up to The Handmaid’s Tale, is just as full of action and adventure as its parent show. For those wary of The Handmaid’s Tale’s YA turn, this sequel presents a new challenge: It’s about actual teenagers. This is a next-generation coming-of-age story—the two central protagonists, Agnes (Chase Infiniti), who grew up in Gilead, and Daisy (Lucy Halliday), who grew up in Canada and enters Gilead as a spy for Mayday, both have ties to major Handmaid’s Tale characters. Agnes and her friends are the Plums, those privileged daughters of Gilead who hope to become eligible for marriage to the ruling class of men, Commanders. Elite-born girls in Gilead wear pink when they’re little, change into purple as tweens, and, if they reach menarche, wear green for a brief time, until they’re married into blue.

Nothing the feminists love more than oppression porn. They may like it more than monster porn. Or they are related, maybe.

But can the show survive the loss of Sour Face?

“Yes, my vagina exploded. No, I don’t want to talk about it.”


Iggy said this song was the closest he could get to capturing the feeling of going to clubbing with David Bowie.

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116 Comments

  1. Drake

    I would support the same cure used for rabid vicious dogs.

    • Not Adahn

      We euthanize dangerous animals because they can’t control themselves. Ergo…

    • kinnath

      There is no solution for people that commit acts of violence because they have no understanding of what they are doing.

      They can’t be responsible, so they can’t be guilty, so they shouldn’t be punished.

      They can’t be allowed to continue to menace innocent people.

      It’s not society’s responsibility to warehouse them in treatment centers to get them away from innocent people.

      Yet banishment to the wilderness to be allowed to starve is just another form of punishment.

      Slavery may be the best of all the bad options.

      • rhywun

        It’s not society’s responsibility to warehouse them in treatment centers to get them away from innocent people.

        This is the best of the available options for me.

      • Tonio

        “It’s not society’s responsibility to warehouse them in treatment centers to get them away from innocent people.”

        I’m okay with warehousing people like Brown in confinement facilities for the rest of their natural lives. No “treatment,” no pathway out. This is for the good of society, not the good of these unfortunate monsters.

      • (((Jarflax

        To be humane we should put a cask of amontillado in the cell before we brick it up.

      • slumbrew

        For the love of God, Jarflex!

    • Threedoor

      You take them out of the gene pool so their violent tendencies do not last another generation.

  2. Grumbletarian

    Not competent to stand trial, more than competent to run around killing people. JFC.

    • rhywun

      I assume this means he will spend the rest of his life in a hospital for the criminally insane?

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Hahahahahahahaha!

        Of course he’ll be “cured” within a few years and released to do it again.

        Some people either deserve to be held away from society, or put down. This dude is some people.

      • EvilSheldon

        That was certainly the intention. If someone cannot understand the nature of their charges, cannot comprehend their role in court proceedings, and cannot help their defense in a “rational and reasonable manner,” then they are more dangerous than a defendant that can.

        Of course, now that the Care Bears are running the judiciary and the psychiatric racket…

        Pack heat, people.

      • rhywun

        I’m glad I didn’t go into criminal justice because my theories are pretty much the opposite of everything that is practiced today.

      • rhywun

        To wit:

        “Rehabilitation, not punishment, is the goal for all individuals found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity (NGRI),” the PSRB said in a statement.

        No. The goal is to protect the innocent. Everything else is happy horseshit.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        If someone cannot understand the nature of their charges, cannot comprehend their role in court proceedings, and cannot help their defense in a “rational and reasonable manner,” then they are more dangerous than a defendant that can.

        And yet they get released far earlier than the less dangerous kind.

      • EvilSheldon

        But what about their dignity?

        Let me just add ‘other people’s dignity’ to the large stack of things I don’t give a fuck about.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Me neither.

        Dignity is for those capable of being decent.

      • Gustave Lytton

        Release for good behaviormeal planning?

      • Tonio

        The article says he appeared calm, glib even…

      • slumbrew

        What is that on his head?

    • Tonio

      Okay, incompetent to stand trial is different from a McNaughton (not guilty by reason of insanity) defense. Incompetent to stand trial means that things are put on hold (and the statute of limitations suspended, IIRC) until such time as he’s deemed competent enough to stand trial at which time he is tried like a normal person. In the old days that was often a life sentence to the loony bin, but I share Sug’s concerns that in this world gone made there will be shenanigans and that he’ll walk free one day.

      Competent to stand trial means that he understands that he committed a crime, and he has a rudimentary understanding of what is happening (charges, trial, judge, prosecution, defense, jury). Or is at least faking that cognitive state.

      I would have no trouble with giving the courts authority to permanently and irrevocably institutionalize such people. Would also be open to the Drake solution, but as always am wary of giving the state that much power.

      • (((Jarflax

        Just give the State the power to declare him outside the protection of the law, voluntarism will solve this.

  3. Pat

    DeCarlos Brown Jr. found incompetent to proceed in Charlotte light rail killing

    So much for Missing white woman syndrome

  4. The Late P Brooks

    I can’t imagine anything less appealing than going clubbing with David Bowie.

    Unless it involves actual clubs.

    • Rat on a train

      Not my music but I still wouldn’t club Seal.

  5. Pat

    Explaining all the flavors of asexuality with pies.

    These all seem to pretty much be either “frigid” or “addicted to porn.”

    • EvilSheldon

      Asexual – You’re an attention seeker.
      Demisexual – You’re an attention seeker.
      Graysexual – You’re an attention seeker.
      .
      .
      .
      Fictosexual – You’re an attention seeker who’s particularly disconnected from reality.

      • Nephilium

        Fictosexual – You’re an attention seeker who’s particularly disconnected from reality.

        Huh, I figured that was the Quoisexual, “I’m different, but don’t know how.”

    • Tonio

      I, for one, actually celebrate the mainstreaming of asexuality, even if it comes with tedious and mostly unnecessary subcategorization. Think of how much relationship misery has been caused by asexual people not realizing they were atypical.

      • rhywun

        Agree – it is certainly a thing.

        The tedious cubbyholes are just attention-getting assholery.

      • Tonio

        “tedious cubbyholes”

        Heh.

    • creech

      What was Agent Cooper?

    • (((Jarflax

      I have a lefty friend who is in a platonic relationship with an asexual girl. It takes more effort to stop myself from giving him my definition of asexuality than it does to avoid telling him how idiotic his economics are. Asexual means a person who likes being around you, likes the moral and physical support you can provide, but finds you unattractive. Their sexuality will spring back to life at every point when they meet someone who they do find attractive, and yes they will absolutely do all the naughty things you wish they would do with you with that person.

  6. The Late P Brooks

    Sour Face

    Is that Medusa’s less attractive sister? I feel like I should be viewing that picture in a mirror.

  7. The Other Kevin

    Even more sad, whatever city it was painted over the mural of the victim. Because it was too divisive.

    • SugarFree

      Providence. And everyone of her memorial murals have been defaced.

      Eight statues of St. Floyd, all fine.

      • rhywun

        If only the wrong sort of person had murdered her in cold blood we wouldn’t be having this conversation. SMDH.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        Could you imagine if their races were reversed?

        We would have had riots in the streets already, and they’d be starting up again had they come back with an insanity finding. Cities would be burning.

    • kinnath

      when in the course of human events . . . .

    • Pat

      And no stochastic martyrs to be found, either. Some immigrants are more equal than others.

    • The Other Kevin

      There are pockets of our country that are just like the UK.

      “Good thing we’re not like that.” Hardly.

  8. The Late P Brooks

    He’ll be “cured” and released

    “Cheer up, son. We’ll have you back out there pushing people in front of trains in no time.”

  9. Evan from Evansville

    So I’m non-binary suptiliasexual cupiosexual. That settles that.

    Pie is fun and should be eaten when appropriate. Real Pie is far too exaggerated in its goodness, both in relation to its making-of and dining-upon ‘hastle.’ (Real Pie ain’t hand nor nibblin’ food. Deductions. Pie get’s a pass.
    But not Our Pie. He also gets deductions, NTTAWWT.)

  10. rhywun

    Gibberish, of course

    I went looking for the source of this and landed here.

    It’s either a practical joke or these people are bugfuck nuts. I suspect the latter.

    • kinnath

      People can’t stick to “I like what I like” and “I don’t like what I don’t like”.

  11. Not Adahn

    WTF? OBVIOUSLY a lithosexual is attracted to rocks! Who is teaching tumblrina genderspecials their prefixes?

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Probably university professors who wrote their dissertation on the queerness of geology and how rock naming conventions disproportionately harm they/thems.

      • Gdragon

        Hey, whatever gets your rocks off…

    • EvilSheldon

      I had originally thought that lithosexuals were attracted to planographic printing?

    • Evan from Evansville

      Solid, all y’all.

    • Tonio

      “tumblrina genderspecials” for the WIN!

  12. The Other Kevin

    We’re approaching the point where each of those terms only covers one person. So let’s cut to the chase. I’m declaring myself Kevinsexual.

  13. Not Adahn

    And who is making layer pies? Those are obviosuly slices of cake. I don’t care if they self-identify as transpies, I am a proud gendercrtical patissier!

    • Not Adahn

      (the French makes me more sophistiated)

    • Fourscore

      You’re probably into boulangerie, NTTAWWT

      • Not Adahn

        Hawhawhaw!

      • Gdragon

        Boulangerie is one of my favourite French words, I would try my best to jam it into my responses in class. “(Faire du) bricolage” was another one that I liked saying

      • Ted S.

        I think Brad Delp is a little too dead for a word.

    • Furthest Blue pistoffnick (370HSSV)

      …who is making layer pies?

      Aren’t all pies made of layers?

      Blueberry pie = 1 layer of crust + 1 layer of blueberries
      Apple pie = 1 layer of crust + 1 layer of apples + 1 layer of crust
      Pepperoni pizza pie = 1 layer of crust + 1 layer of sauce + 1 layer of cheese + 1 layer of pepperoni

      The Aegosexual pie would be technically difficult to create with those vertical layers.

  14. The Late P Brooks

    Heretic hootenanny

    EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin embraced a community of climate change contrarians Wednesday in a speech that underscored how scientific outliers have made inroads with the Trump administration.

    Zeldin acknowledged in his opening statements to the Heartland Institute’s conference in Washington that he was the first EPA chief to attend the annual gathering, which has long been shunned by Democratic and Republican administrations alike for advancing a fringe view that greenhouse gas emissions are beneficial.

    ——-

    Greenhouse gases, primarily from burning fossil fuels, have warmed the planet 1.4 degrees Celsius since the Industrial Revolution began, according to the World Meteorological Organization, which has determined that the last 11 years are the hottest in recorded history. Rising temperatures have intensified extreme weather and disasters like floods and wildfires, turbocharged deadly heat waves and imposed costs through death, declining agricultural productivity, health ailments and property damage, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

    Attendees at the Heartland annual conference disagree with most, if not all, of those conclusions. They instead championed the role carbon dioxide plays in promoting plant growth, which they argue has been ignored by mainstream climate science — and past U.S. administrations. The overwhelming body of science shows that the negative consequences of climate pollution far outweigh the possible benefits, researchers say.

    It’s like some sort of depraved pagan cult.

    Open your heart and let SCIENCE in.

    • Fourscore

      Fortunately AI will answer the question of benefits of carbon dioxide, even if it has to work overtime

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        This. Now that the global elite have gone all-in on AI, they’ll need far more resources than every green technology combined can provide.

      • rhywun

        Except the green crowd is dead-set against AI for that very reason.

        🍿

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        The dudes spending hundreds of billions of dollars will bury those fuckers.

    • Pat

      Greenhouse gases, primarily from burning fossil fuels, have warmed the planet 1.4 degrees Celsius since the Industrial Revolution began

      Are we still doing “he said without evidence?”

      • rhywun

        Yeah, I doubt even the fake numbers they present support that.

        Also that old chestnut about correlation.

      • rhywun

        Rising temperatures have intensified extreme weather and disasters like floods and wildfires, turbocharged deadly heat waves and imposed costs through death, declining agricultural productivity, health ailments and property damage, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

        These are just flat-out lies.

        Here in NY we get a front-row seat to watching the one-Party state squirm with indecision because they know the whole thing is bullshit but they’re constrained by idiot laws they passed and the people are starting to get revolting – crazy utility rates are the talk of the town where I am and you can bet that 95% of them voted for it.

      • Muzzled Woodchipper

        It’s the evil power companies gouging customers. It is in no way related to politics, which seek to help the little people.

      • rhywun

        Yup, all the complaints have been targeted at the power company. The pols are of course going to attempt to punish the utility for charging consumers what it costs to implement the fantasies they put into law.

        Something’s going to break but I have a feeling the pols will make out all right.

  15. The Late P Brooks

    …that changed with Zeldin, who has led the Trump administration’s headlong charge into the long-simmering culture war surrounding climate change.

    “We’re seeing a deference to science — not what pollsters say will resonate with suburban women or whatever voting bloc they’re looking at,” Taylor told the audience. “We even have the top environmental official in the administration — EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin — who is showing support, who is here to talk with us and to speak the truth. How times have changed.”

    Zeldin’s remarks Wednesday amounted to an endorsement of the conference’s thesis that increased industrial emissions would benefit humans and the environment, not harm them. He said that the endangerment finding was based on the most pessimistic projections in a broad range of scenarios for human-driven climate disruption. Elites had elevated the worst-case scenarios to maximize their power, he said.

    There are no benefits whatsoever from modern industrial society. Everybody knows that. The sooner we can turn the clock back to the 1500s the better.

    • The Other Kevin

      If they’re really serious, they should just take away everyone’s phones. That would eliminate the CO2 problem, and at the same time, we wouldn’t need data centers.

      • Tonio

        I want to start a troll campaign to make women give up their cell phones “for the planet.”

      • creech

        “troll campaign ”
        See if you can get college kids to give up their Spring Break vacations. Just think how much CO2 is emitted on those flights to Cancun or long car trips to the Gulf beaches.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      There are no benefits whatsoever from modern industrial society. Everybody knows that. The sooner we can turn the clock back to the 1500s the better.

      It is known.

  16. Sensei

    Just think about the economic stimulus that CATO can calculate here.

    https://www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/courts/2026/04/07/dubliner-sent-to-prison-for-conning-over-100-us-victims-into-forking-out-for-home-repairs/

    O’Brien pleaded guilty to wire fraud amounting to $1.5 million (€1.3 million). Prosecutors told the court O’Brien’s enterprise likely netted him more than $2.5 million over the course of 3½ years, after coming to the United States on a tourist visa in 2021 to seek better opportunities for his family.

    • Pat

      after coming to the United States on a tourist visa in 2021 to seek better opportunities for his family.

      Mission accomplished?

      • Sensei

        And we pay for 5 years of prison and a trial a deport him.

        He will be back when Team Blue is president.

  17. Pat

    So Iran’s civilisation is safe. Now what about the West’s?

    […]The frenzy of the past 48 hours, following Trump’s potty-mouthed and threatening social-media posts about Iran, has felt unhinged. The nukes are coming, influencers wailed. Trump must be ‘removed as president’ in order to ‘prevent a catastrophe that our species will never recover from’, said the Guardian’s Owen Jones. Within hours of this giddy apocalypticism, this huddled descent of the chattering classes into the pit of End Times prophesying, Trump had done what many of us expected he would: struck a kind of deal. The great detonation was not of a nuclear bomb but of the common sense of the cultural establishment. That’s the only thing that got vaporised yesterday.
     
    Then there was the sheer cant. It was Trump’s ominous yelp that ‘A whole civilisation will die tonight’ that got leftists and liberals frothing. It’s genocidal lunacy, they said. Let’s leave to one side that the target of his digital ire appeared to be the Islamic Republic, not Persia. ‘Forty-seven years of extortion, corruption and death will finally end’, he said. The more striking thing is the industrial-level gall of a cultural elite that is devoted to the dismantling of Israel, puffing itself up in fury over Trump’s hyperbole on Iran.

  18. Shpip

    I guess I’m not quite as blackpilled about the homicidal maniac in Charlotte, since I’ve seen a few of these before.

    Case in point: back in 2019, a young mom was killed, along with her infant son and her mother, by her own brother. The brother is / was batshit crazy.

    Five years passed, and Virginia finally “cured” the perp enough to enough to bring charges.. They might not ever get a conviction, but the killer will stay behind a fence for decades, if not forever.

    Like most here, I would’ve been happy for someone to put a .38 behind Charlotte guy’s ear years ago and put him out of our misery, but the legal system doesn’t work that way.

  19. Gustave Lytton

    I’m not sure what shoots 26.2mm but it appears to be a popular caliber for anorexic girls and soy boys based on the bumper stickers I see.

    Weather is unfortunately turned nice. Need more rain and gloom for a little while longer. Meat crayons are out in full force. #smeartheroad #dressfortheridenottheslide

    • Pat

      Most of the satisfaction from running a marathon comes from telling every person you meet for the entire rest of your life that you ran a marathon. Apparently.

      • Tonio

        I actually know a person who wears his marathon completion (or whatever, haven’t/won’t ask) medal out to social events. Pathetic.

      • slumbrew

        Jesus, that’s weak.

        It’s only acceptable to wear it the night of the race, while you’re stuffing your face and getting drunk after months of training. Then it goes on the closet doorknob or wherever you keep all the others.

  20. Muzzled Woodchipper

    @shpip

    Has fresh Sheephead for lunch today (I’m currently on the emerald coast). My first time.

    Very bueno.

      • JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

        That’s what they call it in New Zealand anyway.

      • Gdragon

        These jokes are baaaaaaaad…

  21. Aloysious

    Explaining all the flavors of asexuality with pies

    I don’t see veggiesexual anywhere on that list. If my natural and loving attraction to cauliflowers isn’t validated, I’m writing a strongly worded letter to the manager.

    • Muzzled Woodchipper

      Yeah, I was hoping for hogfish, but that’s not what they had fresh today, which was triple tail, amber jack, sheep head, and a couple of others.

      This joint is a local institution with its own fleet. The perfect kind of seafood joint.

  22. DEG

    Explaining all the flavors of asexuality with pies. Gibberish, of course.

    I don’t know how I read the whole thing.

    • rhywun

      That looks crazy-pants.

      • slumbrew

        His squadron is ordered across the Red River into Texas to take part in an assault on the Dalworthington metro area; his mercenaries dance the horah as they wait to cross the river. Encountering only light resistance, they push towards Dallas. Sol leads the column in his tank, the Wrath of Jehovah.

        Sure, sure…

  23. JaimeRoberto (carnitas/spicy salsa)

    Maybe if they weren’t working so hard coming up with that stupid pie chart they’d actually get laid once in a while.

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