My latest! I promise this story has everything: cannibalism, memory transfers, generational scientific controversy, unbelievable 60s worm cartoons—even the Unabomber makes a brief appearance.

Her Le Monde obituary at least seems to be about her as a person and an artist. How lucky we were that she gave us what she could. www.lemonde.fr/en/obituarie...

My first thought: "gross, bubble gum on a log." My second thought: "weird, some sort of pink fungus." Folks, I was wrong on both counts. These are amoeboid protists, a slime mold also called wolf's milk or groening's slime. And they are weird at every level.

"Wealth inequality Zucks" Banner hung at the dock in front of Zuckerberg's yacht the same day he announced 1,400 layoffs in the Seattle area, about 20% of the workers.

WE USED TO BE A REAL COUNTRY A COUNTRY WHERE A MAN COULD SPEND YEARS OF HIS LIFE AND TWO MILLION DOLLARS AFTER SEEING A GRIMLOCK TOY TO MAKE A REAL LIFE TRANSFORMING DINOSAUR MECH THAT EATS CARS AT MONSTER TRUCK RALLIES AI? WEARABLES? A FOOL'S LEGACY THE PEOPLE YEARN FOR CAR CRUSHING DINOSAURS

Thank you to all the union members who showed out yesterday to say our City should not balance the budget on the backs of workers. To tell City leaders that it always costs less to do something right the first time. To tell City leaders that we have to do things well, not just right.

The dumb-tech revolution is happening. 99% of the CEO class still huffing the AI hype glue off a cliff, but anyone reading the room knows no one wants an AI surveillance fridge and there’s a huge opening right now for offline products that just fucking work (bonus points for chunky physical buttons)

My friend Ahmad has asked me to write a post on his behalf today because he is struggling mentally. He is exhausted from displacement and constant shooting, his parents are very ill, and donations have been slow so he struggles to provide basic needs for his family. Please donate 🙏🇵🇸 bit.ly/4nPlAFg

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The person who originally saw this broadcast and took the pictures of the TV is currently the Icelandic Ambassador to the US.

This is a great piece that I encourage everyone to read, but especially cis allies. 🏳️‍⚧️

One thing I’ve wanted to say aloud: if a bigger newsletter or outlet wants to reprint the Transgender for Everybody, I’m really open to the idea … I just want it to circulate …

Trump is trying to kill the poor. I need HELP! bsky.app/profile/nopo...

My local sex toy shop is still doing a lot of mutual aid work, and you can donate to those efforts at the bottom of their website page. smittenkittenonline.com

You are not alone! Your enough is not embarrassing, your enough is enough, you are enough (one you’ll believe it, hope exists) 💚✨

Jeff says trans rights!!

I hope the delivery driver enjoys my (entirely vegetarian) Taco Bell order he apparently chose to keep instead of deliver. It’s fine, my labs didn’t say I’m suffering from malnutrition & anemia or anything recently…. 🫥

Alright listen up fruit loops. This is @katelynburns.com and I have taken over The Flytrap account tonight for one very important reason: Money. You can read the entire back catalog of Flytrap work right now for literally free at the link below. Sign up at the link and enjoy us free for a month.

One thing we can do in Chicago: demand all-gender public bathrooms in every park and library, so trans kids (and everyone else!) have a safe place to go to the bathroom

Throttlebottom [THROT-uhl-bot-um] (n.) An innocuously inept and futile person in public office. “The gormless voters of Wizzlepick-on-Wye continued re-electing the same throttlebottom because his spectacular incompetence afforded them the rare and comforting sensation of intellectual superiority.”

Do you ever find notes you’ve written to yourself but you have no context

A New Update about Pocket Birds! 🦜 See new art from @nightjargames.bsky.social, @tonytranrpg.bsky.social, and @overshia.bsky.social 🦉 Learn whose making a minigame for Issue 02 🪶 Read a new bird story from the community 🪺 Vote for your favorite bird for Issue 04! www.backerkit.com/c/projects/p...

On top of safety concerns and putting thousands of immigrant workers out of a job, Waymo will make our traffic worse. Who benefits from any of this, besides billionaire tech CEOs?

Happy pride.

It's Pride Month, so once again here's Sappho's Reply, one of the most powerful queer poems ever. Written by Rita Mae Brown at the height of the post-Stonewall struggles, it's the origin of "an army of lovers shall not fail/cannot lose." Y'all, we are going to win.

Happy Pride to my fellow queers! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ Here's your reminder that Pride is about liberatory organizing, not parades! Queer folks, please reply to this with your need posts. Allies, you know what to do. This is reparative work. Uplift trans people of the global majority in particular!

ANY PERSON this age group can get a card, whether or not they’re experiencing book bans. That’s powerful for queer young folks in small towns with no libraries or libraries with limited hours or collections, too.

The best things to do in Portland this June: - Starlight Parade - Nacho Week - Juneteenth Oregon - Punk Rock Pride - Bike Play XVII: A Bikesmith's Tale - Dragonboat Race - Portland Book Week - Kickstand Comedy in the Park & A LOT more. Full guide ⬇️

If there's one trend I want to see attempted again, it's puppets on 3-camera sitcoms.

I saw the community copy pool was empty, so I topped it up with another 20: montfordtales.itch.io/ashers-ridge (If you're just curious about the game, there's a pretty big preview you can download also :) )

em tempos horríveis, um vídeo desses deixa o coração quentinho

I love this writing that explains what transgender for everybody could really mean. Check it out!

Absolutely shocking how easy this is.

Steller's jay pair visiting the log together. One does "begging wings" at the other so it can have access to the only portion of suet they can reach easily, not being woodpeckers. #Thursjay 🎥🌿🪶

ndconnection.co.uk/blog/autism-... Neurodivergence: Get your lovely fresh research summary here. Our monthly look at some of what's new, what's worthy of discussion, and what's eyebrow-raising.

So much I want to say about the new episode of Paper Trail, "How to Fight a Health Insurance Denial With a Little-Known Tool." 1. It features one of the best healthcare reporters out there, my friend @deldeib.bsky.social. 2. At one point I say, "This could happen to anyone" and I really meant it.

Our entire economy is being artificially propped up by astrology for men: AI, crypto, sports betting, and prediction markets. It's an economy shaped entirely by male insecurity and lack of impulse control, and we'll all pay the price.

I finished reading @keezyyoung.bsky.social's "Hello Sunshine" this morning returned it to the library this afternoon swung by my local comic shop bought my own copy to revisit and share read this story y'all, it's a great one, deftly told

Hair wash day done ☑️ Next: Laundry Oh, no movement, improvement, or concern for a lot of funds (including repayment) due in 2 days that I started raising over a day ago 👌🏾 linktr.ee/hiitsbritt #mutualaid #helpsky #bipocma #fundsky #mutualaidrequest #disabilitycrowdfund #mutualaidvoid

insane to me that @patagonia.com is suing incredibly impactful drag queen and climate activist Pattie Gonia for “harming their brand” is Patagonia not a brand for the LGBTQ+ community or for climate activists? because you’ve spent a lot of time pretending to be both.

I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Dark Horse Workers United Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/da...

We’re excited to welcome over 25 speakers to join us on June 3-4 at PSU for Toxic Roots! We'll hear directly from workers what it’s like on the fab floor, from leaders fighting Big Tech up and down the global supply chain, and more! You won’t want to miss this! 🔥 🎟️ bit.ly/TOXICROOTS

Please bring this to Portland - omggggg

If you're not deeply plugged into #wikipedia culture, it's very likely you haven't seen this, but a union-busting scandal is brewing at the wikimedia foundation! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped... Many volunteer editors are mad about surprise layoffs last week and the seeming relation to #unionization

The City of Hillsboro has denied my request for media access to the executive city council session tonight on the data centers issue. Of note: -I am a credentialed member of the National Writers Union and National Press Photographers Association. -I have bylines in Mother Jones…

"Let's be honest about the broader political moment here. PDX voters approved progressive programs like PCEF & Preschool for All. Almost immediately, powerful institutions start looking for ways to shrink them, redirect the money or to argue that they shouldn't have even existed in the first place."

The fate of mountain biodiversity in a warming world www.nature.com/articles/s44...

A dozen+ cops arresting one teenager in Brighton station. They formed a circle around her to prevent crowds filming. I think she’s injured but they took her in their van before I could see And yes she’s a black person surrounded by largely white cops so great look there for the Sussex police

My life in a nutshell

This is a really good idea I hadn't thought of!