Shame on anyone who thought it wouldn't go this far.

Bring back the ancient knowledge

No time like the present to make some joy out here

Happy May Day!

#OtD 1 May 1903 the first May Day demonstration took place in the Philippines organised by the country's first labour union which formed the previous year. In 1908, the government agreed to designate 1 May as Labour day, an official national holiday shop.workingclasshistory.com/collections/...

if i were a shareholder of an american automaker id want to know why my ceos were so stupid and shortsighted that they not only didnt see this coming but actively fought it

whenever you see the word "clean" it is about to get realllll fucked up

went to a museum and met Woody Guthrie's daughter and granddaughter, which was delightful also student curators who did a fab job despite a university administration that prefers its antifascism confined to museum exhibits

#Recall: 8.2 Million Thermos Stainless King Food Jars and Bottles; If perishable food or beverages are stored in the container for an extended period of time, the stopper can forcefully eject when opened; impact/laceration hazards. Get replacement. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...

For everyone about to start screaming at us in Maine, the answer to the next five questions you have is probably found on the feed or website of @andrealaflamme.bsky.social who is still a viable write in contender for our RANKED CHOICE Primary and could use the time and attention you had for Mills

A year ago today, I chased one of the wildest storms I've ever seen with my friend @zyrax.us near Seymour, TX. The glowing green core contained a rain-wrapped EF3 tornado, 100mph winds, and baseball-softball sized hail. Black and Gray clouds surged low and fast. Neon Pink lightning strikes.

Here’s my piece on the “now-completed demolition” of the Voting Rights Act in @thenation.com The VRA is the most important piece of legislation in American history. It more than anything is what ended American-style apartheid. And now Republicans have killed it.

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the thing is if you start smoking again you cant miss smoking. you can't have that moment where you think, god, a cigarette would be so good right now, and then you sigh wistfully and you get on with your life, and do you want to give THAT up?

Re the Voting Rights Act: I've used this graph a lot to illustrate how the VRA largely ended the historic pattern of blocking and burdening Black voters in the south. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Love them all, but I’ve got to be honest. I am judging those who didn’t go for it.

All you needed was a passing understanding of how Saudi gets its money, plus Bonesaw’s limited attention span to see LIV had a ticking clock from the jump.

This. We have only been a true multiracial democracy for 60 years. It is so new and fragile. The right is strangling it in its crib.

NGC 7635 "Bubble Nebula" in SHO - From Ryan Kinnett (rkinnett.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/2m8E3Qv

This May Day, Chicago Teachers and many others are planning May Day Strong. Their three demands are; tax the rich, no ICE and no war, and expand democracy. Many are going to march, and in multiple cities, refuse business as usual entirely, no work, no school, no shopping.

Timmy!!

He’s worried about stepping on flowers. He loves nature.

A new Supreme Court ruling guts the Voting Rights Act.

The whole set is up on my Instagram, but after the Tampa concerts, I cannot think of anything but #BTS. Any fellow ARMY out there??

I helped lead a group of ARMY to set up fundraisers for food banks serving the US communities where BTS will stop for #BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG! Check out our Carrd to donate to your stop's virtual drive, or join us by including the QR code on your PCs 💜 arirangfoodbankproject.carrd.co

1. Have flight delayed by 90 minutes. 2. Miss connecting flight 3. See there is an eBird hotspot 9 minutes from the airport 4. Have best birding day ever 🪶

“.. After spending recent weeks on life support, LIV Golf has lost the funding of its Saudi backers.” @wsj.com www.wsj.com/sports/golf/...

Pat Bagley, Salt Lake Tribune

Tens of thousands of lawsuits have been filed against Bayer for failing to warn people about the risks of glyphosate exposure. Now, EPA Administrator Zeldin and Trump are pushing for legal immunity to protect Bayer from being sued by Americans getting cancer from their product.

Hey you know what else predicts smoking rates and has for some time, even outside of the US? Poverty. People who have to hustle all damn day to keep their head above water predictably turn to accessible stimulants. You don’t have to eat or sleep as much and you get tiny breaks throughout the day.

i think we should record a video of a few gruff white men in hard hats and greasy carhartts walking around some solar panels and occasionally hitting them with a wrench. we can then use the footage to trick conservatives into thinking green energy is appropriately manly

Kinds of chromosomes people can have: XX, XY, XO, XXY, XYY, XXYY, XXXY, XXXXY, XXX, XXXX, XXXXX, or mosaicism/chimerism (a mix of XX/XY, XY/XYY, XO/XX, etc.) Many chromosomal variations are identified at birth or at some point throughout life. But some people would never know without testing.

When I teach print history, I have a repository of little facts I share to help both demystify very old objects and ask students to resituate the codex as technology. It's ✨️ cute little fact time ✨️ The space between lines is called "leading" in Adobe because metal pieces physically separated text.

This is an important effort to preserve our collective memory of this moment, to capture something that's already fading away, so we can point to it and show what they did and what we did about it. I see these memorial signs around my neighborhood, and they crush me every time z.umn.edu/HereandGone

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i started hating the supreme court nearly 26 years ago and i welcome everyone onboard the train now

this quote has helped me often during these times: "If you feel despair, defeated, if you catch yourself dissociating or focusing on what our oppressors are doing rather than on what you can do yourself—that is territory that the enemy has claimed within you.Stay focused on your agency." [anon]

Seagrass is rebounding off the coast of France. Wastewater treatment and coastal protections in Marseille have enabled the dramatic recovery of Neptune grass (Posidonia oceanica), the Mediterranean’s most important endemic seagrass. Mongabay buff.ly/En27JIm #ShareGoodNewsToo

The Supreme Court is an illegitimate institution. This remains the case.

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It is worth, I think, emphasizing that in trampling congressional attempts to protect the rights of Black people, the Court is basically doing what it has always done, with the exception of a couple decades in the mid-20th century when it often worked with Congress to protect the rights of Black ppl

The Roberts Court has been pursuing the slower, more deliberate version of democratic backsliding. You can see the Supreme Court majority's annoyance with Trump's rapid, reckless version of democratic backsliding. The Roberts version prefers fig leafs and bad faith excuses, not smashing entirely.

fucking hell the Supreme Court really just dropped Callais, killing off even more of the Voting Rights Act, right as the TPS oral arguments are about to start dishing out another serving of racism to go with the heaping pile of racism already on our plates www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

The fact that 21% of adults in the US are functionally illiterate, and 54% read below a 6th-grade level explains a lot about the present political hellscape we're in. Politicians know that uneducated and misinformed minds are highly susceptible to manipulation, control and deceit. They count on it.

John Roberts talks about calling balls and strikes all the time and yet he’s never publicly calling for a strike to his balls? Makes you think

Parents: we hate the tech Teachers: we hate the tech Local admin: we hate the tech Tech companies: here’s lots of tech! Media: whoa so much cool tech Politicians: thanks for the donation let’s get tech in schools!

"irreversible side effects of HRT" all of life is irreversible. i cannot go back a single second in time

Closing today!