African and European Explorers in the 19th century: Competing Narratives of “Discovery.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/african-an...

France confronts enduring legacy of slavery, 25 years on from Taubira Law rfi.my/Ciqd.BS

Israeli fascist and minister of national security, Itamar Ben-Gvir, posted a video of himself on Twitter abusing the illegally kidnaped and detained members of the Global Sumud Flotilla while yelling “Welcome to Israel, we are the owners of the house".

Huge scandal

Wow, reposting w alt text provided by @sorrykb.myatproto.social bc, that's an incredible evolution tbh

Do people mad about the odyssey casting know about bible characters being cast as vegetables

🇧🇷Soldadinho-do-araripe 🌎Antilophia bokermanni Conservação: Em Perigo Crítico Ameaçada de extinção 📷 Ester Ramirez

Mm Donald obvs feeling humiliated

Instead of blaming users for not using these sorts of features and then abandoning the promise of delivery, Meta should start by enabling strong privacy protective features by default. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Fresh new American dystopia headline just dropped www.thegamer.com/grammacracke...

May is turning out to be cold this year brrr

A brown thrasher, one of my favorite birds. #birds #photography #birdsofbluesky

🇧🇷Ariramba-preta 🌎Brachygalba lugubris Conservação: Pouco Preocupante A ariramba-preta é uma ave galbuliforme da família Galbulidae. 📷 Anselmo d`Affonseca

Story time. Got a paper rejected. No big deal. It happens. Except one reviewer explicitly stated they were unfamiliar with our methods and asked a GenAI to explain it. They then used this to trash the paper, oh, and the journal forbids AI use in reviews. Livid is mild to describe my feelings.

“'Sportswashing' is when political leaders use sports to deflect attention from chronic social problems and human rights woes at home...while also setting up opportunities for political and economic gain." fair.org/home/this-is...

Trump’s “weaponization fund” and ban on future IRS audits is his latest impeachable offense—using the machinery of government and billions in taxpayer dollars to reward allies, pay off insurrectionists, and shield himself, his family, and associates from accountability. Impeach now.

#CounterSpin podcast has Janine Jackson interviewing author Jules Boykoff about the World Cup and sportswashing. Boykoff is author of "What Are the Olympics For?" and most recently "Red Card: The 2026 World Cup, Sportswashing and the FIFA Greed Machine". Great discussion.

"Is God Is is a marvel of a movie. Filled to the brim with cultural reflections, amazing character work, a steady directorial hand, and almost untouchable performances." ‘Is God Is’ Review: First You Define a Religion, Then You Worship It blacknerdproblems.com/is-god-is-re...

Dados do SUS revelam invisibilidade de dor menstrual; veja dados de estudo

"Alex quit their virtual assistant job in late 2025, saying they couldn’t handle the 'mind-numbing' workload anymore. 'It’s all AI comments by fake people answered with fake replies by other fake people,'...'It’s so dead internet, like none of this is real.' " restofworld.org/2026/virtual...

So my heart is singing for this 1st generation college graduate! 82 years young! And get this: “she reportedly ended up having to write an essay on Title IX, which she helped get passed in 1972. Imagine being the professor grading that paper.” sports.yahoo.com/tennis/artic...

HEAD OF TEETH

Evening walk while talking with my Dad. Spotted this prettiness. Thank goodness for prettiness.

Honeybees understand the concept of zero, or "null set", putting them in the same cognitive class as parrots, dolphins and primates in that regard. What's more interesting to me is HOW WE CAN KNOW THAT. The experimental design is what I want to focus on:

The largest bee is the Bombus dahlbomii, the only bumblebee native to South America. Called the moscardón or "flying mouse", the queens can be 40 mm (1.6 inches) long. They're also very fuzzy-wuzzy-wuzzy little guys.

When I was a very little kid, I wanted to be a monk when I grew up. Just wearing robes, singing with friends, drawing weird little guys. I was so disappointed when I found out about the whole “must be male” and “religious” aspects of it 😞

Seriously -- wear a robe and draw pictures and do meditative contemplation and sing with buddies and make beer sounds like a seriously great life

TAKE MY MONEY

Iran's 82-day internet blackout has created a multi-tiered system, granting officials and businesses some access while ordinary citizens pay up to 12 times as much for VPNs, Iranians back home told Euronews.

Wut?

Art and garbage came together in New York's Union Square, where officials and artists unveiled five sanitation trucks covered in colorful murals.

I did not know that it was #WorldBeeDay today! Lucky for this little #bumblebee, my learners saw that it may need help getting to food! #Nature #BugSky #Photography #Insects #Bees #CitizenScience #Kindness #VT

Newly declassified CIA and British intelligence files reveal that the KGB systematically used staged same-sex “compromise” operations against Western diplomats, journalists, and scholars during the Cold War. @mitpress.bsky.social direct.mit.edu/jcws/article...

The Ebola emergency shines a light on the urgent need for new vaccines www.newscientist.com/article/2527...

Floatation tanks deployed to combat PTSD after devastating wildfires www.newscientist.com/article/2526...

What is love? Even a meeting on the subject can't find the answer www.newscientist.com/article/2526...

How I used psychology to come back from the worst year of my life www.newscientist.com/article/2526...

Mystery of the ancient giant stone jars of Laos may have been solved www.newscientist.com/article/2527...

The winter tamatoes are doing great. We're up to six tamatoes now. Also more flowers.

I’ve just seen a button: “add as a preferred source on Google”. I’m fascinated by the implications of that. It feels like an acknowledgment by Google that search doesn’t really cut it any more.

Lol

DW (Deutsche Welle) has done a great bit of eucalyptsplaining via some Australian they’ve captured. www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMG3...

Lol oh price controls? ☺️

FBI seeks US-wide access to license plate cameras, wants "data in near real time" arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

#OtD 20 May 1856 French master neo-Impressionist painter and anarchist Henri-Edmond Cross was born: "I want to paint happiness, the happy beings who will become the people in a few centuries when the purest anarchy is realised" stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9300...

Access Now has documented close to 2,000 internet shutdowns between 2016 and 2024, with the number of blackouts rising since 2020. globalvoices.org/2026/05/19/r...

www.pbs.org/wnet/america... Beyond excited for this new documentary on W.E.B. Du Bois! I'm definitely incorporating it into my Spring 2027 course, The Sociology of W.E.B Du Bois!

Also it's an old word which used to have a different meaning: Germans in the 19th Century used Manchesterism to refer to harmful, unregulated greedy industrialisation, and it was highly derogatory. Ironically there's an element of the old Manchesterism to the new Manchesterism

#OtD 20 May 1960 mass demonstrations took place in Japan against the US-Japan (Anpo) treaty which would see American troops permanently based in the country stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9307...