Yes, thank goodness we are represented by a president who begins his big trip to negotiate with a foreign power by posting a fake photo of his political opponents bathing in sewer, followed by racist videos of black people stealing fried chicken.

🇧🇷Bico-reto-azul 🌎Heliomaster furcifer Conservação: Pouco Preocupante O bico-reto-azul é uma ave da ordem Apodiformes da família Trochilidae. 📷 Ademilson Anjos

I hate to keep asking because I don’t want to know the answer but where is Bobby getting all this semen from minors to enumerate all this sperm?

Trump describes the White House as a "shit house" when he moved in and then adds, "the big thing is we're building a ballroom in the back"

You cannot rewoke once you've unwoked. Do not make the fatal first mistake.

Oh hey, guess what else real scientists (as opposed to Man Scientists who tried to block this research because menstrual blood is too “messy and hard to collect”) discovered (thread): - 84 unique proteins that only show up in menstrual fluid which can: - reduce inflammation - repair cells

Pygmy falcons 🪶

A more accurate title would be "Kennedy is wasting taxpayer dollars on a confirmation bias-fueled witch hunt in an attempt to drive the return of vaccine-preventable diseases."

I feel like this should be hitting more radars.

So, uh. Sometimes, when a remora gets scared... It hides inside a manta ray's butt. Science 🧪 by @emilyyeager9.bsky.social @drcatmac.bsky.social, with a healthy HT to @whysharksmatter.bsky.social! www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/s...

Reuters: VIRGINIA DEMOCRATS ASK U.S. SUPREME COURT TO INTERVENE AFTER STATE SUPREME COURT INVALIDATED PRO-DEMOCRATIC U.S. HOUSE MAP AHEAD OF NOVEMBER ELECTIONS

Just a semi-annual reminder that the reason I closed my RedBubble was they allowed my storefront art to be scraped by LAION & ignored every email I sent to them about it. Since LAION says “we use links to images, not images themselves”, I nuked my store. If you have RB, you have been scraped by AI.

Who are these ghouls talking to?

Everyone please appreciate the heroic scientific struggle to talk about the cloaca with the public, which is not a “butt” “butthole” or “anus” by any reasonable definition—but also that’s the best broadly comprehensible descriptor. Hence: manta butts. 🤷‍♀️

UPDATE: The Supreme Court extended its pause of a nationwide restriction on mifepristone for 3 more days, until May 14. This safe & effective medication remains available by mail and at pharmacies as the case continues.

Another extension, more waiting... But while we wait, let's make sure everyone knows the facts: Mifepristone is SAFE, EFFECTIVE, and ESSENTIAL! 📣

Incredible community note.

Here’s a look at the Nashville warbler showing off those sharp, white spectacles. #🪶 #birds #birdsofbluesky #nature #animals #springmigration

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

Trump hired a company that had previously worked on his private golf club for this job repainting the Reflecting Pool in DC. The company was given a no-bid contract that, according to documents reviewed by the New York Times, included a 20 percent profit margin Remember DOGE?

RELEASE: Hantavirus risk in Maryland remains very low, monitoring in place for two Maryland residents who were on a flight that briefly included a M/V Hondius cruise ship passenger infected with hantavirus. Learn more: https://bit.ly/4wpP7eh

Picky by Helen Zoe Veit will hurt people. Food aversion has proven neurobiological factors and ARFID doesn’t typically respond to exposure therapy. There are social elements and some kids are “just” selective in their eating, but putting it all under one tent will kill kids.

Just in: Full access to the abortion pill mifepristone, including through telemedicine and the mail, will continue for at least three more days, the high court said on Monday.

Gonna wear a badge that says “Proud contributor to the declining birth rate.”

Rod Stewart to King Charles on his visit with Trump: “Hello, sir. May I say well done in the Americas. You were superb. Absolutely superb. You put that little rat bag in his place.”

NEW: A passenger returning to the U.S. from that Dutch cruise ship where the hantavirus outbreak occurred has tested positive for the virus, according to HHS. A second is showing mild symptoms.

In the absolute middle of nowhere in Colorado 3 years ago, some dude came to me, gave me this Pokémon card, said "Dusclops for these trying times?," and then left. The storm I was chasing planted multiple tornadoes just minutes later. The card has been with me on every single chase since then.

Overnight, the first US case of Andes hantavirus linked to the MV Hondius cruise ship was confirmed. Here’s what we know, what we don’t, and the questions that matter next. open.substack.com/pub/insideme...

Cassidy's legacy: tiny coffins I don't know how he sleeps at night

DRAGON LORD (1991)
Acrylic on Watercolor Board - 32" x 20"

What goes into a compelling cover? Obviously the majestic portrait of hero and dragon would be enough to intrigue any fan. 1/5

With less than one month until Pride begins, here's how libraries can prepare and how library users can support LGBTQ+ library services: bookriot.com/how-to-prepa...

Respectfully, this virus has extremely low epidemic or pandemic potential What I would say is: when there’s a NEW pandemic—there WILL be one—the men running & ruining the US health system (RFK Jr & Drs Bhattacharya, Makary, Oz) have decimated US pandemic preparedness & response. THAT worries me.

🇧🇷Topetinho-verde 🌎Lophornis chalybeus Conservação: Quase Ameaçada O topetinho-verde é uma ave apodiforme da família Trochilidae. 📷 Daniel Mello

The important lesson to take away from this is not that we are all going to die of Hantavirus. We aren’t. It’s that the United States has zero pandemic prevention capacity at the present because of deliberate sabotage by the president and his appointed lackeys.

🇧🇷Saíra-de-cabeça-azul 🌎Stilpnia cyanicollis Conservação: Pouco Preocupante A Saíra-de-cabeça-azul é um Passeriforme da família Thraupidae. 📷 Celuta Machado

that’s my arm, hair, and name tag in this photo. And I have to say that the vast majority of people were cool about our masks required policy. The best was how many people came in already wearing masks! I have friends who are chronically ill — some by Covid — and events like this make a difference!

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

"a big glass of stuff" *Most vaccines are 0.5ml (1/8 of a teaspoon)

One of the many reasons I resent that Romance novels get shit on—if dudes would read a wide cross-section, they might notice a distinct lack of comments about the size of a hero’s scrotum. If you can’t bring yourself to ASK A WOMAN, maybe consume the media they consume and take notes?

Two days ago they were supposedly “begging for a deal” again for the 29th time in 9 weeks.

Was briefly hesitant to add this to the pile, but credit where it’s due: This is how you write a headline

Looking for Professor of rare moths to complete set, have ants and beetles.

You’re not violating a "reading rule" if you opt not to finish a book that's not resonating with you. Life is finite and we thus have a finite number of books to read. Reading shouldn’t be a chore, and you needn’t feel guilty for ensuring that your time reading is spent reading things that you love.

Pride Month in US Libraries: How to Prepare and Help Track Targeted Attacks in 2026 bookriot.com/how-to-prepa...

Sorry guys, we have more important things to focus on, like food dyes and ending women’s bodily autonomy.

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🇧🇷Caboclinho-de-barriga-vermelha 🌎Sporophila hypoxantha Conservação: Pouco Preocupante O caboclinho-de-barriga-vermelha é uma ave passeriforme da família Thraupidae. Também conhecido por caboclinho-rosa. 📷 Dario Sanches

Pastor Robert Jeffress: "It looks like President Trump has a better understanding of what the Bible teaches than the Pope"