Necessary viewing

“No children are dying on my watch.” - U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio "Starving children screaming for food as US aid cuts unleash devastation and death across Myanmar." apnews.com/article/myan...

Healing

Whew. Breathe. www.wsmv.com/2025/10/08/i...

The Stephen Hawking Phenomenon is absolutely anti-science cultural 🔥 starting. (This is what happens when folx w/o love for the ppl steward the culture. The best artists love their audiences. The worst arsonists? Not so much.)

My First Record Player

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To the undergrad who walked up to 3 people, 2 of whom were partners at a law firm, Proceeded to introduce herself, Describe her academic interests, cold pitch us on an internship. Let me say this: Train your friends. That was bold and awesome. I’m hand carrying your ask to the Houston office.

This is Eeyore. He led a sheriff's deputy to his grandma after she fell during their walk. We are awarding him the incredibly rare 15/10 (FB: OkaloosaSheriff)

Tron gives an inaccurate impression of how many guys live in your computer. It makes it seem like thousands of guys are in there. In reality only about 10 guys live in your computer and less than half of them ride motorcycles

I love a good explainer. Here's one about the US Insurrection Act. www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

google wants to introduce errors into my spreadsheets and attribute them to me

😭 IG newberlinlibrary

We're firmly into autumn in the Northern Hemisphere, so it's once again time to share one of my favourite chemistry infographics on the kaleidoscope of chemical colours found in autumn leaves! 🍂 www.compoundchem.com/2014/09/11/a... #ChemSky 🧪

If you are reading this, you are a sentient hooman and fellow heir to this magnificently generous/patient planet and the magical nourishment that is community. You are loved. You belong. And you have gifts buried inside you that this nation, this world so desperately need. Pls, pls #SparkleOn 👁️💖u

This week’s cover of The Economist.

Sometimes you turn on your car radio and a song is playing and you know right away it’s the EXACT right one you want to hear, like this one that played for me just now youtu.be/EzRRQxcVXlc

The other half don’t shop for food

You don’t hear protest songs on the radio much anymore. But from Nina Simone to Rage Against the Machine, these 14 tracks remind us music can still shake the world. zurl.co/WpmCm

Dear college and non-NPR community radio programmers: Pin down your licenses and pin down your administrators. Yesterday. The fire sale is upon us and those airwaves belong to the people.

Dear fellow food-insecure Muricans: “F#!K YOU!”

The top 1% in the US have now a record $52 trillion in wealth. The bottom 50% have about $4 trillion.

Groups including Progressive, State Farm and Travelers are pushing through changes that cut the size of payouts to policyholders on.ft.com/3WqLXpH

Framed a pic of my grandparents taken just after WWII ended. (Ancestors close n’all.) GP gave his all doing his (likely insignificant) job at Los Alamos + he kept his trap shut until he died @ 93. That man + his colleagues raced against a fierce clock to fight the real f-werd. We owe them better.

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I cannot meaningfully express how very important it is for all of us to find then liberate our inner creative selves. In times of great darkness such as these, yr voice, yr instrument, yr pastels, yr clay, yr fabric, yr inner weeeeeoooooh are the highest form of resistance. TAP IN.

🤯🇺🇸 Elon Musk achieved yet another major milestone Wednesday, becoming the first ever person worth $500 billion, - Forbes

In these times of deep uncertainty + high anxiety, my recommendation is music/song. May I suggest starting w/Sam + Dave. Literally anything. “Wrap it Up” and “Soul Man”are great starts. The magic we need to hang a U-ie lies within each + every one of us. Be yr sparkly self @ 11. Counting on u, sibs.

SIMBA IS MISSING IN BROOKLYN: last seen at Avenue D and 42nd St, he's 42 pounds and chipped: 985113010311373. If you've seen or found him please call 888-466-3242 and PLEASE RT SIMBA!

For those of you only now learning that yr access to benefits can/will be cut bc you failed to fill out “DER PAPERS”!!!? Yeah, it’s called administrative burden. Welcome to the crash course. Xoxo, Disabled ppl, poor ppl, Veterans (ICU, TSG), + terrorism survivors

CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1965: 20-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio in 1990: 75-1 CEO-to-worker pay ratio today: 280-to-1 Trickle-down economics was always a sham. Nothing has ever trickled down.

Wherever you are K, I hope you are enjoying a ripper of a Happy Natty Schnauzer Day. 💔🤘🏼🎶

<Phone rings. Caller ID says Blue Cross> Me: Hello? Lady: Hi this is Blue Cross/Blue Shield. Can I get your date of birth to confirm your identity? M: You called me. L: Yes. M: I only have your word that you're Blue Cross. L: It should show up on Caller ID. M: That's not always accurate.

After cutting funds for food assistance programs, the Trump Administration is now stopping USDA from tracking how many people are struggling to get enough to eat. Blocking these reports doesn’t solve food insecurity – it just hides the impacts of reckless cuts to SNAP.

This is Jade. She just met the biggest dogs she's ever seen. But quickly learned they have the biggest hearts too. 13/10 for all (TT: catimtins.pscal)

This is the technology that half the S&P 500 depends on to succeed? That we all keep being told we must integrate into everything?

Education is more than job training.

Unfortunately, I choose love. I often regret this choice, because I feel I would hurt less in this world, that I would speak easier in language understood by this world and the people in it, find faster acceptance among so many people if I chose otherwise. But I can't choose otherwise. Love it is.

This is Annie. She freaking loves fall. 13/10 (FB: James Osborne)

Here are my top 10 fall dogs!

Happy Autumn Equinox! I hope you take time on this first day of Fall to feel the season. 🍁 This is a day of BALANCE —between day and night, darkness and light, inside and outside, action and rest. ⚖️ It’s also a time to express GRATITUDE—for the earth’s bounty and the people who harvest it. 🌽

New: The Trump family is now worth an estimated $10 billion, having nearly doubled its net worth since last year’s election. @danalexander21.bsky.social, @kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com

I’ve started thinking of ego as a stubborn plaque on the channel of the soul that divides us frm G_d. Pipe gets scaled enough and the light of the multiverse/our elders/ourselves/G_d, cannot pass. (Do you/yrs a favor and roto rooter that 💩 out every now/again.)

Being autistic sometimes sends me down thought spirals that are really weird. Like, there's a theory monkeys became humanesque after tripping balls off of shrooms and activating parts of their brains and here's evolution like OKAY AWESOME NOW LET'S MAKE HER HATE SEAMS IN CLOTHES.

Trying to connect with your unhoused neighbors? Here’s supplies we’ve found are always welcome & needed: - socks - bug spray in summer - hand warmers in winter - batteries (AA & AAA always, D or C for fans & radios) - water Pack em in a ziploc, bring a $5 & go meet your neighbors that live outside

Idt they appreciate how many of us have already met in the middle. I have *dear* R fam, friens, and coworkers. NONE of them pulled the lever for him this last time bc they were uniformly appalled by the rhetoric. Even hardcore neighbors have taken down flags/signs. Everyone being ~kind + flying 🇺🇸.

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had to read the article to understand wtf was going on here which is that Meta is literally feeding Instagram pictures parents took of their teenage daughters to middle aged men as ads for Threads

Proud to report my senior chihuahua mix has crossed into Wikipedia territory. He’s not on the list (yet) but he is most definitely between 20-22 yrs old. And he still skips the 3rd patio step every now and again. Gratitude doesn’t even come close to describing it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

I remember when the FCC’s primary gig was taking in complaints frm pearl clutchers over curse words outside safe harbor and issuing fines to the offending stations. I miss the FCC that I joyfully taunted as a young college radio DJ. I miss “the (clearly defined) line” I miss 1A.