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Listen, I usually can't donate. I have to scroll past desperate people saying "please, please don't scroll past." Every time it makes me feel like shit. But that's not their fucking fault, and the solution sure as hell isn't censoring them so we don't have to feel bad!! Please sign this.

I was happy and honored to sign this. I hope Bluesky will listen!

BLUE PRINCE COSPLAY!

I’m the guy who invents new bathroom faucet designs for every hotel. You might know me from Knob That Goes The Other Way and Joystick That’s Hard To Turn Off. Lately I’ve been lacking inspiration, even thinking about hanging it up. I’ve had a good run, but — wait, never mind: Ball You Turn Diagonal

dont forget!

the two bluesky feeds

Fishing Trawler Sunset Mazatlan Mexico. Unusual layering of clouds this evening as the shrimp trawlers head out for the night. #sunset #mazatlan #mexico #photography #tf_photography #tf_photoscapes #tf_photoescapes

me graduated #mfa #mastersoffinearts #mxstressoffinearts #digitalhumanities #yeah!

this is excellent work & contains call/email templates at the end with callouts for the specific legislative mechanisms democratic senators could use to kill this part of the bill. read the piece. make the calls. there’s no earthly reason any senator’s phone should stop ringing in the near future.

Harvard Crimson editorial board: "If higher education — and the rest of American civil society — doesn’t stand with Harvard’s international students now, they may find themselves alone when Trump comes for them next." www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

I got on a conference call first thing this morning with my boss and he asked me what my shirt said, so I had to explain that it was a cute dog sailor with the text TOTAL INFORMATION COLLAPSE & THE END OF ALL CONSENSUS REALITY, THE DAMAGE CANNOT BE UNDONE

oh thank god i'm not going crazy. that's nice to know

Notepad should be so barebones that it doesn't even have a fucking spellcheck, and I'm not kidding. I want real world financial ruin for the people making these kinds of decisions

DIY HRT: Everything I Can Legally Tell You My guide to do-it-yourself hormone therapy, months in the making, is out now on YouTube. Tell your friends! xoxo youtu.be/o2Ggwe2j0Gc

Also cute stickers and very customizable interface

I'm tracking the far right anti-LGBTIQ activists, Christian Nationalists, White Supremacist, and violent extremist groups targeting LGBTIQ events during Pride Month:

First trailer for "KPop Demon Hunters" movie directed by Maggie Kang & Chris Appelhans (Sony Pictures Animation). Feat. the talented Ami Thompson (art director) & Mingjue Helen Chen (production designer). Coming to Netflix on June 20. www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzCA...

Grateful to everyone who shared their thoughts with me for this piece about the difference between how people imagined they would show up for a moment like this one, and how we're actually showing up—and how we can begin to close the gap between aspiration and action.

Anyway just poping in to note that the budget bill that will kick millions off of their health care and food assistance programs managed to pass the House today by a margin of 215-214. A margin that would have been impossible if three Democrats had chosen to retire instead of dying at their desks.

Sure everything sucks and is shit and bad and stupid and pointless and terrible but can you even *imagine* how happy you'll feel the day it happens to him. How crisp the sensation of joy will be, illuminating every detail in the glow of childlike glee.

Visual development art by Paul Felix for Lilo & Stitch (2002), dir. Chris Sanders and Dean DeBlois

Final -+

"You read books, eh?" A 1949 red scare Herblock cartoon about pressures on teachers that hits hard once again.

falin and marcille are best friends

you can leave a public comment about how you think we should be allowed to defend ourselves against covid www.regulations.gov/document/FDA...

Fascism has always relied on international cooperation to function, but since WWII most of those fascist networks have largely been clandestine (or looked at as something less-than-fascism). It's frightening to watch them be brought to the surface in a global effort to bring colonial terror home.

i was not familiar with your game ken jennings

SCOOP from me: the mass exodus of employees from NOAA is decimating a tiny office that literally keeps our measurements of latitude and longitude accurate — and, former employees tell me, endangers the science of how the US understands global measurements:

For the better part of a week now, severe weather in parts of the South has led to major damage and deaths. As residents begin to dig out, there are questions about the immediate federal response and what states can expect this summer as the Trump administration makes big changes to FEMA.

this is what happens when you fire and lock out every comms staffer without any notice!

Ten-year chart, Target (blue) vs. Costco (yellow) $TGT $COST

Ecco the Dolphin for Sega CD Source: Diehard GameFan 12 (November 1993) Scan Source: Sketch the Cow/Jason Scott (Internet Archive) #retrogaming #sega

“Despair, in its own strange way, is a form of false confidence. It’s a sense that the future has already been decided and there’s nothing we can do about it. In fact, the future is something we make in the present.” @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social

Imagine being Thomas Keller and thinking this was a normal way to behave!!!!!! www.sfchronicle.com/food/restaur...

I confirmed this is real. The same content ran in at least one other paper, so I'm trying to determine the actual source of the insert, since CST isn't part of a newspaper group like Gannett. I'm sure everyone at CST is absolutely pissed at whatever company is the ultimate source of this material.

If you're in the Chicago area and you recognize these tattoos, please shoot us a message. Thanks! đź©·

Playing Cities Skylines. Here’s my police headquarters surrounded by 2 nuclear power plants, a coal power plant, 4 landfills, and a moat of sewage. I built a little neighborhood for the cops (also surrounded by sewage) where everyone is always sick and dying. They have a poop ferry to get around.

Multiple protesters were arrested, including our co-director Alon-Lee Green. This is an emergency , a catastrophic moment that demands we drop everything. In the last days, hundreds of Palestinians have been killed, families wiped out, neighborhoods turned to dust, people starving. (1/2)