I made this Pride flag using only NASA images and our team thought it would be cool to share on social (I work on the NASA heliophysics communications team), but it's getting all sorts of hate on the bird app and Fbook. Thought y'all might be more appreciative of it here. ☺️🏳️‍🌈💖

Display of a Bohemian waxwing. These are largely found in the northern boreal forests of North America/Eurasia, and are social birds that form large noisy groups-sometimes in the 1000's- as they scour the landscape looking for fruit. 📹 wildsafarisaga on IG

Design Search Code of the Month: 01.15.01 tsdr.uspto.gov#caseNumber=9...

Today's is the effective date of the law creating/funding the Northern Illinois Transit Authority (NITA). The board of the Regional Transportation Authority, now serving as the NITA Board, meets this morning to vote on an increase in the regional transit sales tax. www.rtachicago.org/about-rta/bo...

This book is excellent for readers who aren’t lawyers, and the audiobook is actually Madiba reading it. Highly recommend.

the obliviousness is almost funny “an increasing factor” “often goes unnoticed”

“Somewhere between the graduation speech and the utility bill, the script changed. The Hero’s Journey became the Hero’s Commute.” theshadowedarchive.substack.com/p/being-ordi...

I mean… movies are essentially 90-minute commercials for merch and events nowadays

nonsense really is the antidote to bullshit

happy #Caturday

5/ Our new investigation, “Out of Bounds,” examines EPD’s decision to let the federal agents leave a crash scene and meet outside city limits, and puts into question the response protocols instituted prior. Read @ryaninevanston.bsky.social's full story: apps.dailynorthwestern.com/outofbounds/

did you know… that Chicago and Paris are “sister cities”? www.chicagosistercities.com/chicago-paris-education/

After a Wisconsin town did this, the mayor said: “The fact that they didn’t take the cameras down shows that we are the product. They were never really selling to us in the first place. They're selling to much bigger agencies the ability to spy on a ton of people.” (via boltsmag.org/verona-wisco...)

anti-Anti-Weaponization Fund moves www.californiasun.co/newsletter/n...

I know reporters are not making so much that they consider $40 million a *small* fortune www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/u...

One of the things I love about the Rebel Spirit podcast is the number of times @akilahhughes.com reiterates what absolute losers the members of the confederacy were.

“When [technology] becomes the standard by which everything is judged, it begins to dictate what matters and what can be discarded” Leo signed “Magnifica Humanitas” on the 135th anniversary of “Rerum Novarum,” known in English as “Rights and Duties of Capital and Labor.”

explaining to my client that the deal is "95% done" and the last 5% is the payment, termination, and indemnification clauses.

May is #NationalWalkingMonth 🗺️ We are all about sharing the inspiring ways to explore new places by walking, wheeling, cycling and taking the train 🚉 Discover routes and paths across Britain on our website, recommended by our #CommunityRail partners ⬇️ scenicrailbritain.com/campaigns/tr...

logging on

build it and they will come

happy #Caturday

when did schools stop mostly using buses to get students to/from school

“errors”

logging on (from the computer’s perspectiv)

harsh, but fair

SCOTUS, eventually: ”Eh, it’s fine.”

I bookmarked this to watch when I saw the preview. It's about Confederacy tourism, and it looks genuinely amazing.

anyone else immediately think of Svengoolie’s ‘Ber-wyn!’

all-ages basement punk shows where the band was on some kind of plywood riser maybe 6 inches high

a “wedding-betting app”

///BREAKING/// The Broadview Six trial has been VACATED due to the grand jury developments

It's Global Accessibility Awareness Day. On Bluesky, you might have had someone encourage to use alt text on your images. That's an example of being more accessible for some groups. More resources www.ala.org/accessibilit... accessibility.day #a11y

"The court dismissed the complaint because look at those pictures." Indeed.

it’s incredible to me that a set of business people (the people who own the business and the lawyers) would decide to actually file a lawsuit over a claim this tenuous

Officers who defended Capitol from rioters sue to block payouts from $1.8B ‘anti-weaponization’ fund apnews.com/article/irs-...

quote with a fictional band that is not Spinal Tap

Angels, by Clementine Hunter, 1966, 📸 by @adamhagyphoto

this is why I include a clause that says the publisher can participate in recovery from copyright infringement claims *if* the publisher fulfilled their contractual obligation to apply to register the copyright infringement the work

reminds me of:

Alma’s a good and thoughtful journalist, hit her up if this is you

Free haircuts if you're in Chicago, all summer long. cut.buzz/the-summer-o...

“Shakespeare in the Courts“ where juvenile offenders work with Shakespeare & Company artists to rehearse Shakespeare as an obligation to the court

if u see this post your getaway vehicle

this is the future liberals want (complimentary)

happy #Caturday

pour one out for Schlitz 🍻