when we're all unable to connect to use the internet, send emails, pay our bills, use our toasters, and god knows what else if AWS goes down, i want you to know now that i blame our lack of antitrust laws far more than i'll blame a foreign missile

I feel we're entering the 'moral crash' stage of the trans moral panic. Legal & cultural attacks on trans people are starting to affect wider society, especially cis women. It won't be long before they move onto different target groups & we'll be left for the next generation to pick up the pieces

Sol 1820: Right Navcam, taken at 11:29:28.257 (local mean solar time)

From Mary Wollstonecraft to Sojourner Truth, the fight for women’s rights emerged alongside—and was fundamentally shaped by—the struggle to abolish slavery and secure universal human rights.

I'm not up to date are we on our bi-monthly "BlueSky is dying and it's the Left's fault because they won't let us accept a little fascism even as a treat?" discourse again?

Forest Service Will Close Research Stations That Study Wildfire Risk www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/c...

My Labour MP knows, he doesn't care. Poverty is a character flaw to him. He was filthy rich before he added his 100k MP salary plus expenses to his wealth. He has never gone hungry or cold or feared homelessness. He doesn't have to budget a thing and never has.

So much of 'Star Wars' is stolen from 'Dune' that one can only assume that behind their goggles they have bright blue eyes.

THIS is how you protest a new sports stadium

I love hearing people's favorite Godzilla movie choices, because it's an equal mix of "It's a tragic metaphor for nuclear destruction that continues to resonate" and "The filmmaking is a lovely blend of tokusatsu action and human drama" and "I like Gigan because he's handsome"

It's a ubiquitous, often overlooked, and deeply horrific feature of ethnic cleansing campaigns: violence and murder towards those members of "protected" communities who try to protect or help their friends and neighbours of targeted communities. (a couple of examples from Bosnia)

Oh so now he was invisible, too?

Iran Imposes New ‘Cash, Grass, Or Ass’ Fee For Strait Of Hormuz

I say this as someone brought up between Catholic and Protestant, and someone who genuinely believes in a higher power and all that. You cannot, by any measure, claim to follow the teachings of Christ and follow anything to do with Donald Trump and his administration.

Anjelica Huston, 1973

Trans women are biological women. Trans men are biological men. Please stop using the phrase “biological” to distinguish cis from trans people. Cis does just fine and you’re also revealing your own ignorance of how biology works, as well as underlying inherent transphobia, even if unintentionally.

Evergreen post about the intersection of rape culture and how the patriarchy denies men any valid emotional range outside of variations on anger and violence.

It is ALWAYS the same thing - corporationd and the 1% trying to wriggle out of any even minimal obligations to serve the society on the back of which their bloated fortunes lie.

They pay $34 for burgers. Should their fire department service be free? Opening a new fire department in one of NYC's richest neighborhoods has some of America's pettiest journalists asking silly questions in headlines again.🤡 The article acknowledges the fire department analogy, then blows past it

3.5 weeks until im homeless again unless I Can Get Help Moving Into A New apartment

i like when elevators have mirrors so you can watch yourself ascend both physically and spiritually

way past time to slap people like this with the most horribly punitive punishments you can think of

Seashells Transform Suburban Bathroom Into Tropical Hideaway https://theonion.com/seashells-transform-suburban-bathroom-into-tropical-hid-1819571584/

"post something random or you'll have an absolutely awful April"? no. you are safe now. Forever Immunity Dog has got you covered.

Holy shit these two photos from Artemis II that were shared just a bit ago.

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The gaslighting in that article from Streeting. "For some, it may feel like support is being taken away, or that doors are closing." BECAUSE IT IS YOU LYING SCUMBAG. BY YOU!

A week or so ago I asked what the point of following Pink News on here was. Nobody had an answer. Today, I'm asking again...

“‘All I’m going to say is that I stand by my decision,’ she said… “Much of the audience at the board meeting broke into cheers and applause after her statement. Chants of ‘shame’ were heard as board members voted to fire her...” www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

Sol 1819: Front Left Hazcam, imaged at 16:08:42.525 (local mean solar time)

I share this everywhere

my soul has left my body

In case you were wondering: Yes, there is a Jonathan the Great Tortoise angle to the Pam Bondi firing news.

this could be the subject of a dissertation

I keep trying to make it clear that what RFK Jr. has done to public health and healthcare will take years before the full weight of the horror becomes visible. We are seeing the canaries in the coal mine with the measles outbreak and the FDA idiocy around vaccine approvals.

Because the industry is actually being fed by dozens of white men SELLING ONLINE COURSES ABOUT HOW TO USE AI to forge books, make broken webapps, and pump out poorly constructed digital products who will never experience the same caliber of pile-on as a Black woman would, and that is TELLING.

I've read some pretty weird things over the years but this is extraordinary. "Every country requires a plan for economic self sufficiency". Really?

Is it still satire if it accurately describes no less than 1/3rd of the population?

Drawn on 17 February 1675: a rose. By Maria Sibylla Merian, whose birthday is today. A human life is like a flower, as she wrote on this page.

It can be so disappointing sometimes to realise you’ve just read a metaphor.

🧵 My 3-part series about Trump's Rededicate 250: the centerpiece of his Freedom 250 Christian nationalist hijack of America's birthday Rededicate 250 is a 10-hour prayer event set for May 17 at the National Mall: 'rededicating our country as One Nation under God' www.impactivize.org/impactivizer...

Easter fact: the name "Good Friday" is derived from the Old English term "Gooed Friday" which was named for the filling in Cadbury Creme Eggs.

Passenger zeppelins are safe if you take the Hindenburg out of the statistics

Israel's new law mandating death by hanging for Palestinians who are convicted of murdering Israelis, which further cements Israel’s apartheid system, is drawing condemnation from rights groups and other countries.

What it means is what has already started, which is countries considering all manner of restrictions on all manner of trade, weakening economies, before at some point they come to understand that weaponisation of supplies is lose-lose. This is the 1930s version of tariff raising.

idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

learning that astronauts have to use microsoft outlook in space is unspeakably depressing. we have set microsoft outlook free from the bounds of earth. polluting the stars with that janky piece of shit

"Ground control to Major Tom, I hope this email finds you well."