“I never thought leopards would eat the faces we serve all day, every day, here at Faces Bar & Grill,” says maître d' of restaurant located across the street from Leopards Eating People’s Faces Party Headquarters. “Nummy nummy faces! Try our weekend brunch specials!”

hey friends! this is a common question but a good, warm-fuzzy one: who are your ride or die, auto-buy authors? who have you read everything by, who's new releases do you get really excited for?

JD Vance telling Babe Ruth that's not how you swing a bat.

Oh yeah, sure, I'll read that article about Clavicular as soon as I finish this article on Mr. Beast *throws laptop into the sea*

This is more than legislation. This work is personal to me. theonion.com/illinois-bec...

Multiple severe thunderstorms, a hailstorm, and a tornado warning in Madison/Dane County over the last few hours. How’s your Tuesday? #wiwx

#NWS #tornado Tornado Warning for Dane, WI #WIwx At 655 PM CDT, a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado was located over Cross Plains, or near Mount Horeb, moving east at 25 mph. HAZARD...Tornado and two inch hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated rotation […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

30 years ago today, Principal Skinner purchased fast food to disguise as his own cooking at an unforgettable luncheon with Superintendent Chalmers. #TheSimpsons episode “22 Short Films About Springfield” first aired April 14, 1996.

Tornado warning in Dane County. Chilling out in basement with dog and Robert Moses. #wiwx #powerbroker

My version of "I could hit a serve off Serena Williams" is "I could get GRRM to finish A Song of Ice and Fire."

Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?

The next Democratic president needs to go all-in on creating a North American Schengen Area. Abolish border control and encourage free travel between Canada, US, and Mexico. Maybe start laying the groundwork for a European-American Union. Just go nuts on open borders.

Coming afoul of that old man has a sort of turned me wrong side out.

O what can ail thee, Donald Trump, Alone and bronzely loitering? The burger’s withered in the bun, And no Cats sing.

LGBTQ kids, including transgender and gender nonconforming kids, deserve our love, respect, and support just like any other kid. I will always be proud to stand with them. www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/04/demo...

While Putin’s stooges worked their charms, And right-wing forces did their best, None could overcome the harm Of JD Vance’s kiss of death.

So, happy 241st anniversary, everyone, of the publication of Thomas Rowlandson’s The Wonderful Pig – marking the arrival in London of a prodigious porker who could apparently read, write, tell the time, and do maths 🧵

ME: hi honey, rough day at work? WIFE: someone cited the deep magics to me today ME: oh my god WIFE: right? ME: but you were there when- WIFE: when they were written, i know ME: ...you didn't *say* that, did you? WIFE: got a zoom call with HR on monday

"If you were in charge of Star Trek what would you do?" Anthology series, 3-4 episodes per story, following different ships and crews in different times, all new settings, no return characters from previous shows. Most well-received stories get their own series spinoff.

Welcome home, Artemis. As the poet said, “Oh! dream of joy! is this indeed The light-house top I see? Is this the hill? is this the kirk? Is this mine own countree!” 🥹

Hey @theredshoes.bsky.social, I know what we should read after the Moses book.

One year after our original essay appeared, @astra.bsky.social and I are thrilled to reveal the North American cover of our forthcoming book END TIMES FASCISM - and the Fight for the Living World. On bookshelves Sept 15th and now available for pre-order. Canada: is.gd/RNravu US: is.gd/U3nR3H

“In her letters [Virginia Woolf] often lets her friends know she loves them, and begs for communication. ‘Do, for Gods sake, in memory of old times...write to me. Write fully, about everything.” —Hermione Lee

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

Thousands of Wisconsinites volunteered their hearts out in 2024, re-elected Tammy Baldwin, but were crushed to fall short in the presidential contest. They got back up and helped Susan Crawford beat the world's richest man in 2025. And they never stopped. Tonight is Chris Taylor's win—and theirs.

Its April 2023 and Democrats have won a Wisconsin Supreme Court race Its April 2025 and Democrats have won a Wisconsin Supreme Court race Its April 2026 and Democrats have won a Wisconsin Supreme Court race Its April 2027 and Democrats have won a Wisconsin Supreme Court race

Correction: With *tonight’s* win for liberals, conservatives can’t win back the WI Supreme Court before 2030. If liberals win next year too, that date gets pushed to 2033.

Reminder that there's *another* conservative-held open seat on the WI Supreme Court that's up just a year from now. After tonight's win, liberals have a 5-2 majority. They could boost that to 6-1 — and ensure conservatives can't win back a majority any sooner than 2030.

Huzzah!

I signed up to be a poll worker back in 2020 because I decided doing something useful on Election Day would be more productive than ducking into the back room at my other job every five minutes to check the news. It helps, a bit.

Election Day in Wisconsin! Working the polls and trying to pretend everything is normal.

Show me two books you’ve had on your shelves for some time and plan on reading this year:

Do you have a plan to vote tomorrow? 🗳 Eligible voters can register to vote at your polling place! Just bring a proof of residence document like a lease agreement or utility bill. Polls are open 7 am to 8 pm, so grab your photo ID and find your polling place at myvote.wi.gov.

The reason Moby Dick is the most American novel ever written is because it is about a violent white man enacting a confusing revenge fantasy against a cheap source of oil.

Well, this was only last year, but I hadn't heard of Father John Misty before I checked out his latest album on a whim from the library, and I definitely wasn't expecting this to be the first track.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

[The Apollo 11 plaque] reads: "We came in peace for all Mankind." As the United States was dropping 7 ½ megatons of conventional explosives on small nations in Southeast Asia, we congratulated ourselves on our humanity. We would harm no one on a lifeless rock. - Carl Sagan

Recent bookstore find: Labor Secretary Frances Perkins’ biography/memoir of her life and work with FDR.

That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives...every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. -Carl Sagan

Wake up nerds, gorgeous new image of Earth, our home, from Artemis II 🥹 📸: NASA/Reid Wiseman

I'm a simple man. I see photos from Artemis II, I cry at the wonders of the universe and the accomplishments of our species.

Spiritual successor.

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA