Once you see it, you can't unsee it. What are we going to do about it?

I LOVE BOOSTERS is a hilarious, bonkers, sexy-as-fuck masterpiece. You HAVE to see it in a theater just to hear an audience react to *that* scene. Leave the kids at home. WOWWWWW.

💯💯💯 #RELEASETHEEPSTEINFILES

WHAT THE FCC? "the FCC is asking Americans to submit comments about whether the TV Oversight Management Board (TVOMB) should create new TV ratings to alert viewers to 'transgender and gender non-binary programming' and 'the discussion or promotion of gender identity themes.'" glaad.org/fcc

greenland 2: greenerland

There is this belief that tech companies prey upon destitute areas besieged by poverty. Fayetteville is actually a very beautiful and desirable area. It's just black.

further tributes www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

It's blurry, I know, but I was delighted to catch this zoomed-in photo of a Lazuli Bunting on yesterday's hike up Tom McCall Point in the Columbia Gorge. Even better was hearing bunting birdsong at several points along the trail.

It is nearly impossible to write a history of the very recent past. Jill Lepore reflects on her attempts to document the age of Trump. www.newyorker.com/news/america...

This is really fucking bad

To the tune of Good Vibrations: Bird Migrations

“Any system that systematically violates the rights of nature will not hesitate to do the same to its own kind” open.substack.com/pub/georgets...

Had convos w/ multiple people in the past 4 days who DID NOT KNOW that 1. AI doesn't "think" or know anything; it's a probability machine 2. It was created using massive amounts of work stolen from actual people including me 3. The environmental costs are astronomical Spread the word, every time!

Your occasional reminder that "AI" is shit: Every assertion in this "AI Overview" of the question "What coffee does John Scalzi drink" is wrong. I don't regularly drink coffee (and never black) I've never had black sesame jasmine cream tea, and I don't hang in coffee shops. Don't trust "AI" ever!

A hopeful thread from someone who has documented the mess we're in.

People ask why I’m optimistic with how bad things are and it’s the miraculousness of human nature Common people have been toppling authoritarians for centuries. People who have no idea what’s going on are instinctively preparing for crisis and growing softer and kinder as revolutionary energy grows

What we did in Virginia needs to be done in every other state with a blue trifecta. We have to counteract the fascism of the GOP. And the very, *very* blatant racism.

Plants do the hard part, I just show up to see them doing it! 🌿 They live in challenging conditions every day while I’m just passing through. The world does them no favors yet they bless us all the same with beauty and bounty. 🤗 Always grateful ☺️ Desert Lily

Just donated to the Southern Poverty Law Center because fuck this corrupt and racist Department of "Justice" and fuck Fidelity while we're at it www.splcenter.org

This is my home -- and we've been watchdogging for years. Great reporting by @insideclimatenews.org! insideclimatenews.org/news/2904202...

We can't afford to _increase_ e-waste. It was already unsustainable by orders of magnitude. #aifraud

One thing that made me very happy in this interview was Ramsey casually noting that some of his work has been criticism of creeping fascism and religious fundamentalism

"Tell me what it's like to live without curiosity, without awe." Letter to the Person who Carved His Initials into the Oldest Living Longleaf Pine in North America by Matthew Olzmann via @mayacpopa.bsky.social

Happy 🌎 #EarthDay. Fighting as hard as I can to protect 1) Lower San Pedro River, 2) Galiuro Sky Islands 3) Copper Creek 4) #AravaipaCanyon from numerous industrial threats: #copper #mining, 💧guzzling energy projects ... Aerial 📸 of Aravaipa from EcoFlight.

Earth says Happy Earth Day with fireworks! Watched episode 45 of Kilauea eruption last night from 3:30 to 5:30 am from the closest viewpoint. I have never felt such awe.

#Caturday part 2. Xanthe decided to look at the camera for a change.

#Caturday Xanthe is having a walk on the hillside behind our house

Did you know a species can be endangered and also invasive? Before 2016, no ocelot had been detected on the island of Cozumel, Mexico. In 2016, one ocelot was recorded on the island, meaning a second could lead to a breeding population.

A pal sends over this charming WSJ interview with the guy who runs a 150-year-old soy-sauce-making firm on a remote Japanese island (gift link). I, for one, would like to see much more soy-sauce-making content in my legacy media.

This is unfortunate.

Jay McInerney, still with the knack for the unfortunate utterance. Never change, J.M., never change. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/16/s...

Well, good for Montana.

Today is #BullKelpDay, which provides an opportunity to showcase the importance of this threatened oceanic species — and what people can do to help — as warming oceans and a wasting disease throw ecosystems out of whack. https://therevelator.org/save-this-species-bull-kelp/

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

Pretty sure this guy is a Deep One. Somebody check for gills.

So far, new Berkeley economic study says, CA's new $20 hourly minimum wage has not reduced employment and has had smaller-than-predicted effects on prices (with the size of the pass-thru apparently governed by monopsony effects, so would likely be smaller in more competitive situations).

In light of Orban's loss in Hungary, it is SO vital to go listen to this @naomiaklein.bsky.social interview with @themaybe.org / @alixdunn.com. Don't mistake the muscularity of anger for real, sustained power. Fascists of all kinds are showing how scared they are every single day.

A doctor? Not only is that response disingenuous, it is as insultingly absurd as portraying himself as Jesus. www.cnn.com/2026/04/13/p...

i will vote for any candidate who offers up this slogan

Well done, Hungary!! Let's keep it going, fellow Americans.

@rebeccasolnit.bsky.social is right again. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Good luck, Hungary. We're rooting for you out here today.

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

I never expected to wake up at 4 am and seethe with rage for two hours about the gutting of the US Forest Service, but here we are.

Finally some good news.

Yikes.

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Guys, I love so many of you. Today of all days, I suggest you take Agent Dale Cooper’s advice - advice that sounds suspiciously like it came from the lips of David Lynch himself. Give yourself a present today. After all, tomorrow could be even less normal than today. Love y’all.

Fascinating piece about something that deserves more study.

You'll know that he's gone not when there are Walter Reed rumors, but when Mayor McCheese orders all the flags at McDonald's flown at half mast