Was thrilled to help consult for this fantastic John Oliver segment on the tragic plight of U.S. public media and why, if we hope to be a democracy, we still need public media for so many things that commercial media will never provide. Deserves a wide viewership. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yknM...

People support structures that support them. Who in your workplace is the biggest slopAI enthusiast? news.stanford.edu/stories/2025...

Key information from this story: "humans generally have a crash, whether they are at fault or not, every 700,000 miles. Tesla has 7 in probably ~300,000 miles." Tesla robotaxis get in crashes at 16 times the rate of human drivers.

Not a single other reporter said a goddamned thing, either

authors you have the chance to do the funniest thing right now

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This is true of so many small, humane things It’s almost as if we were meant to live in a society

Sharing a practice of reading with children is also a practice of listening to children: “What are you thinking about? What are your questions?“ @lalouverouge.bsky.social

The Leica Freedom Train

The first camera I bought with my own money, I bought used from a man in Brooklyn with a numbered tattoo on his arm. He told me a story of how Leica sent Jews to America with Leica cameras to make them “sales” people. The goal was to rescue them and get them out of Germany. I bought that camera.

Of all my posts, this is the one that I wish would be shared widely. I hope people will donate to Bryan's legal defense, but even if you don't, it's important to be aware of the human rights horrors that are going on around us on a daily basis.

But what is COP30? It is a yearly summit where countries come together to talk about climate change. And today, the ocean is on the agenda. In the absence of U.S. representation, individual states like California, as well as U.S.-based organizations working on climate change, are taking a stand.

Re: Paul Giamatti This movie is fantastic & everyone should watch it

“We owe it to our young people not to lie to them anymore. A democracy whose citizens operate with fundamentally different understandings of the past and its implications cannot sustain itself.”

Access to reading wasn't always as easy as it is today. Photos from the Library's Prints and Photographs Division illustrate how libraries on wheels used to get books to rural readers. https://blogs.loc.gov/picturethis/2025/09/books-on-the-move-bookmobiles-mobile-libraries-and-more/?loclr=blsky

My #SuperlativeCannedGoo tweet from the old place is making rounds again. Support co-op cranberry growers!

UNESCO has launched an impressive Virtual Museum of Stolen Cultural Objects - an immersive digital space that brings together over 240 stolen and missing cultural objects in 2D and 3D from 50+ countries — and the voices of the communities they were taken from. www.linkedin.com/posts/unesco...

And yesterday’s sheep version, in case you missed it: bsky.app/profile/dj-a...

One of the best lions in the history of art. Detail of Saint Jerome Extracting a Thorn from a Lion's Paw by the Master of the Murano Gradual (Italian, active about 1430-1460), Tempera and gold leaf, Ms. 106 (2010.21), recto (J. Paul Getty Museum)

It's a whole sub-genre of cat pictures LOL

Remember that video of the Malinois pulling up his toy with a string and a pulley? That, but wolves and crabs.

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Listening now…leaving this here

“Short bursts indicate an ICE sighting. Long whistles indicate agents making arrests. If you hear the whistle and you’re undocumented, said [Whitney Hu, a community activist and organizer with South Brooklyn Mutual Aid], ‘you hide. And if you’re somebody who’s not, you go to the street.’”

Good news: If you would like to watch Ricky Jay and His 52 Assistants on YouTube I have done a painstaking 4k upscale of this. www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0gW...

I am a fun weirdo who makes cool #zines abt kdramas, NYC, archives, libraries, kaiju monsters, women in STEM, enamel pins, bob's burgers, being kind/worried, homestar runner, internet cats, hobo codes, & molasses floods. How about some weird zines for an end-of-year holiday treat! Etsy.me/3Ya6bXa?

Let's learn abotu the Maned wolf, Chrysocyon brachyurus. They're native to South America, mostly Brazil & are the only species in genus Chrysocyon (Greek for "golden dog"). The 'maned' refers to black tufting around the neck, a regal mane for a TALL prince. (📷: Sarefo, WIkimedia)

I’ve wanted to brag about my Christmas gift last year and here’s my chance. I got the whole family matching magazine subs! Adults got Southern Cultures, OA, Bitter Southerner, The Sun, & New Yorker. Kid got Lux, Oyla, and later we added The Onion. We always have stuff to talk about!

a big runoff last night, in New Orleans: Calvin Duncan was exonerated after spending *28 years* in prison; he tried to get his own case records from the New Orleans city clerk—but the office dragged its feet. So Duncan ran to become city clerk himself, and yesterday ousted the incumbent.

✨ Please join SFWA in celebrating the announcement of our latest Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master Award: N. K. Jemisin. ✨ Learn more here about @nkjemisin.bsky.social, the Grand Master Award, and how the work goes on after the accolades for all we've already done: www.sfwa.org/2025/11/16/p...

those of us laid off from Teen Vogue were really fortunate to complete our fundraising goal — the laid-off staffers at VIBE deserve the same support, as Black media outlets and journalists continue to be targeted and discriminated against in “austerity” measures

this is a good book

Thank goodness for cats.

Sky-gazers worldwide may get the chance to see a celestial display this week as the annual Leonid meteor shower reaches its peak.

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I love this happy, derpy wolf so much 🥰

Trailing bellflower growing as a pavement plant in Cambridge. #WildflowerHour

The pope understands why every movie makes me cry

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.

In 1582, a papal bull introduced the Gregorian calendar, still used today by most of the world. Because it’s 11 days ahead of the Julian calendar, countries introducing it simply skipped a third of October, and if you scroll back far enough in the iPhone calendar app you can see it change

This CAP report goes into depth about the problem, and also notes: “Roughly 1 in 5 Catholic hospitals in the United States do not explicitly disclose their religious affiliation on their websites, and only a small percentage of those disclose how that affiliation might affect patient care.”

Lucid thread on Medicaid expansion (and ACA waivers) — how they work, and why it matters, and who’s affected. If you, like me, are lucky enough never to have wondered how the hell you’d pay for health care even though you have insurance, it’s worth understanding.

Wild (well: cultivated, but...) and beautiful - New Orleans City Park Museum of Art Sculpture Garden, today

WCAX reported on our preview screening of Ken Burns' upcoming series The American Revolution: www.wcax.com/2025/11/14/v...

"There were spaces to meet (and argue), spaces to organize and plan – and spaces to socialize too... Having different groups sharing the same space provided opportunities for people to learn how to organize together." "Yet now, the left is looking at a very different and less vibrant landscape."...

A trip to the beach! 😎 (in November, at 54 degrees north latitude on the edge of the Boreal forest) 🌿

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