Lol Putin won't have military equipment in Russia's annual victory day parade. Loser

As usual I'm an outlier. I rarely find fiction readable any more. I'd much rather read about the real universe

Baby Great Horned Owl in the backyard! 😭 #binoblast

Bit of a problem how huge swaths of our court system prioritize partisanship over ordinary functions. This is a bankruptcy sale of a business. Happens all the time. The sole cause for years of extraordinary procedure is that the business is part of right-wing extremist media.

Just announced this week: we’re making massive new investments in sport — from the playground to the podium.    We’re going big on sport in Canada, by creating more opportunities for Canadians to get involved, and building new facilities to support our world-class athletes.

"illegals get free health care" sounds like it has no basis in reality until you figure out that it has a kernel of truth - "the poor, citizen or not, are treated in ERs because hospitals can't just let them die but also can't pay" - and a dumb thought instantly becomes a morally grotesque position.

Professional tennis player Emma Raducanu has post-viral syndrome. After going public with her illness, commentators began offering terrible training advice to someone in a vulnerable and uncertain period of a viral illness. bit.ly/4uf4u7l

Speaking as a historian, just wanna add that we are almost certainly going to receive an Era Name that none of us wants or expects

This is utter fucking nonsense. You really think potato chips stop being potatoes on a molecular level just because they went through a machine? "Pre-digested" what in the entire fuck are you talking about

When Rawan and her family were displaced from their home in Al-Bureij Camp, they made sure to bring wheat seeds that they had stored. Farmers in Gaza no longer have access to the seeds they need due to border closures, so they are working with what they have to rebuild. (1/2)

Paraguay’s poverty reduction shows what happens when governments focus not just on growth, but on productivity and jobs. In the last 20 years, poverty has plummeted from over 50% to 16%. buff.ly/MT30WNB #ShareGoodNewsToo

One year ago, Keegan @trxdinosaurs.bsky.social said to me: "wouldn't it be cool to have a mosasaur skeleton swimming from your museum's ceiling at @dinoridge.bsky.social?!" I am so happy that we took him up on his brilliant idea - one year later and she's officially installed!! #colorado #fossils

1/ COVER REVEAL 🧵 I'm thrilled to share the US and UK covers for SLEUTH-HOUND: THE CASE OF THE REAL SHERLOCK HOLMES, the untold story of Dr. Joseph Bell—the Victorian surgeon who inspired Arthur Conan Doyle to create the world's greatest detective. Pre-order here: shorturl.at/fdGnV

Today is Journey To Freedom Day. It commemorates the exodus of Vietnamese refugees after the Fall of Saigon in 1975. It honours the contributions Vietnamese-Canadians. This is the story of when Canada opened its doors to refugees. 📸 Henri Remillard 🧵 1/12

the average modern consumer is so divorced from the source of most manufactured goods that they have probably never seen a teacup in its natural state before it is shaved at the factory

Moose are actually terrifying. I did field work alone in a bog while it was their aggressive season. Hearing them call but never seeing them cause of the trees was a horror movie

Second piece I'll be bringing!! This piece, made from a scrap wood offcut, acrylic markers, and coloured pencils!! This'll be at the Pancakes & Booze show for 80$ CAD! #telekitneticart #formline

They shot Alex Pretti ten times while he was face down in the street.

Oh it was real gross man, and 100% public facing. Guys thought they were being real clever claiming sexual ownership of two sisters in advance of it no longer technically being rape and then wonder why America elected a pedophile.

The unwritten caveat here of course being that they weren't paying taxes anyway, so net loss to the state is $0 and arguably a net positive societal gain

Preservationists are pressing ahead with their lawsuit against President Trump’s planned $400 million White House ballroom, declining a request by the Department of Justice to withdraw the complaint following the shooting at the White House Correspondents’ Dinner.

I followed the MAHA mom rhetoric on this, and I cannot emphasize enough how much this is about their own egos and judgmentalism. They've convinced themselves only sluts and drug users have hep B positive babies. And they resent getting the same treatment. www.washingtonpost.com/health/2026/...

Found my 2026 theme song youtu.be/pqzbVAAonUE?...

Yet he can't get a bond to pay his court ordered $400 Mil....

Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER

WCK-provided potable water is vital for communities across Gaza. Families at a shelter in Khan Younis did not have a reliable and clean way to store their water, so our teams provided a water tank to ensure their access wasn’t disrupted. (1/2)

Manitoba Premier Wab Kinew said we should raise the stakes and tell the US is they want their liquor on our shelves to drop the tarrifs and release the Epstein files. I love that man

Nothing says I'm qualified to be FBI director like cowering under your table when shots are fired. Someone needs to get that pictured framed and sent to FBI headquarters

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz on Iran: “At the moment, I cannot see what strategic exit the Americans are opting for. “The Iranians are negotiating very skilfully. Or rather, very skilfully not negotiating. “An entire nation (the US) is being humiliated.”

Sure, NYT, it’s those dastardly Iranians ushering in an age of ‘slopaganda’, not the guy who posted a video of himself flying a plane across American cities and shitting on his own citizens last year.

No clip has ever captured the essence of born again Christians quite like this

April 25, 1925, birthday of Polish paleontologist Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska. She led fossil expeditions into the Mongolian desert revolutionizing our knowledge of Mesozoic mammals 🐭 www.nature.com/articles/520...

I'll say it again, one of the worst things this rampant push to cram "generative AI" into everything has done is make people suspect bright kids of cheating when they're just nerdy or bookish or neurodivergent, sanding down their unique edges to fit into people's lowered, homogenized expectations.

I also want to point out that the university system’s insistence on him paying for a full 12 credit semester at international rate forced him to try and change visa types to not be hit with ruinous fees. this is a long-standing bullshit issue universities could change but admin doesn’t want to

On a display 🎶 I think I'll sell the big bracelet too since I don't think I'll wear it, it's too big for me. I'll be glad if someone else would want it and it finds a home 🩵

On April 24, 1885, a Metis force led by Gabriel Dumont and heavily outnumbered by the Canadian militia under the command of Major General Frederick Middleton, met at on the Canadian Prairie. This is the story of the Battle of Fish Creek. 🎨 Fred Curzon 🧵 1/8

Our relationship with sadness runs deep because sadness is not a single emotion. It is a convergence of love, memory, limit, and longing. It is the honest response to change in a world we do not fully control. When we approach sadness with respect, it often reveals a quieter strength.

We closed our accounts there in December. Sleeping soundly. Have any $ at Citizens? JOIN US.

And once again I feel the need to say as inconvenient as everyone thinks safety regs are every one of them is written in blood. When you ignore them the result is some real horror movie shit

SpaceX still hasn't made it out of orbit and Reuters writes that it "conquered the stars." That's like watching someone wade into the shallow end of the pool and getting ready to hand them the Olympic gold.

The Child, aged 17, witheringly asks "where did you hear that? ChatGPT?" when I've said something she thinks is stupid.

stop making me cheer for the atlantic

Yes. The pseudoscience never stays in a box, medieval peasant brain is never contained. You can’t let this shit in the tent. We did the ‘well they’re not like *right*, but the people they’re angry at *are* bad, so what’s *really* the harm…” with woo-woo shit and it contributed to HHS Sec. RFK Jr.

Didn't bend, didn't cower, didn't even feel the need to stand next to Trump grinning awkwardly like it was normal. And now he's emerged unscathed with his job and his dignity intact and his reputation even stronger than before. Huh. Seems like this could be a model for others in power.

"'I have no confidence, whatsoever, that my administration will support faculty if academic freedom is under assault,' one [survey response read]...'In the past few weeks, administrators have told faculty to not speak, teach or research certain things.'" www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

Rodney Taylor is a disabled double amputee who’s been held in an ICE camp for over a year. He’s being denied access to his new prosthetic legs. Placed in solitary. His fiancé says he was even denied access to food on April 7 & was disciplined for having a disability Make noise for Rodney:

Here’s something I wrote about how ICE flights are getting longer and the shackling crueler: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

⚡️Human rights activists count 7 torture chambers detaining Ukraine's Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant staff.

Yes, I think the enormity of Elon Musk racking up Pol-Pot levels of mass killing is so hideous to contemplate that many people just….aren’t.