Of note: "For the first five years, all services provided through the Detransition Clinic will be funded by Texas Children’s and be free of charge to patients." www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/release...

Wow: Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, one of the biggest children's hospitals in the nation, will be forced to create the nation's first ever "detransition clinic" as part of a $10 million settlement with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.

The Sandhill Crane colts are growing up but still mastering foraging skills with help from the parents... #photography #naturephotography #wildlifephotography #thelittlethings

I’m sorry, could you repeat that?

Unearthed reports reveal that RFK Jr. fired every full-time CDC cruise ship sanitation inspector ahead of the Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak. www.cbsnews.com/news/cdc-cru...

I still hope the mean girls from my high school have bad skin, fecal incontinence, and live in a trailer.

This is exactly why language matters: “women were given the vote” frames equality as a gift from men, instead of hard won political power extracted through organized resistance. Nobody gave women anything. Women fought, marched, strategized, endured violence, went to prison and died for it.

I'm done trying to guess the future on bare shelf moments, but it never hurts to have a solid basement/pantry stock of canned, dry, jarred, and frozen food to at least cushion you through a moment of "holy shit, [ingredient] costs WHAT now?" at least until you can find alternatives.

There was frost on the grass and on mama Sandhill Crane's feathers, but the colt looked quite cozy under her wings.

One drawback of remote work is sometimes my husband will have jumped on a work call without me realising and I’m in the background singing a song to my bird that goes “ooooh he’s a crusty boy yes he is”

They spent at least $50 BILLION over 2 months to bomb people in Iran. I don't want to hear a single thing about what can and cannot be funded in this country. Ever. The End.

My melancholy has been temporarily beaten into submission by a friend’s company, Mexican food, and several rounds of margaritas this Cinco de Mayo. I expect to sleep like a hibernating bear tonight.

This is on a bus stop outside #MetGala 🤣 "Democracy is SO last season". "Dress Code: Willful Ignorance"

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

My buddy Guthrie came to visit again today.

Karla Saenz came to the U.S. seeking asylum from guerrilla violence. She ended up in a men’s facility where she says she was subjected to violence.

The approach shifts power to survivors, allowing them to seek damages long after the harm occurred, after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the state's ban on the discredited practice.

A male Pileated Woodpecker figuring out what would be a good tree to fly to next.

I'm Frankesteining a collection of the AREA 88 manga from whatever is on sale in Suruga-Ya. This time it was a volume of the teeny tiny bunko reprint. Mostly because I couldn't say no to that bomb ass Draken cover.

Shin from Area 88 Inks, Gouache, and Colored pencils on Paper

Beauty in motion

Happy #mushroommonday afternoon Bluesky 🦋 #fungifriends. Morel mushrooms under a dead elm.

The mushroom posting will continue until morale improves

Chlorociboria aeruginascens seen earlier today at Lake Chabot on some well rotten California Bay Laurel. It’s a mushroom I don’t see much of because it often fruits in the warmer weather, outside our normal mushroom season. #mushroom #Chlorociboria #oakland #citynaturechallenge

BREAKING: Both President Trump and Vice President JD Vance are uninjured after an incident at the correspondents' annual dinner, AP source says.

Anti-trans "detrans" rhetoric weaponizes a small contingent of trans people's experiences to malign #GenderAffirmingCare & LGBTQ+-affirming public spaces. #Hatewatch's analysis assesses the exploitation of detransition narratives at events like the "Detrans Awareness Day" 🔗: https://bit.ly/4901lA2

After the killing of Charlie Kirk, militias and members of the minutemen network called for more organizing & training, and contributed to the larger network of extremist voices online promoting violence against their perceived enemies. Read #Hatewatch's latest: https://bit.ly/4tne8EV

Gunshots fired at the White House Correspondents Dinner. Trump evacuated. Shooter in custody.

"We've built a rapid response network to stop ICE detention centers before they start. Receive immediate alerts if a facility is planned for your community and help lead the local fight to stop it..." gtfoice.org

And you will benefit from it too! I was so disgusted the last time I went to NYC to realize that Penn Station had virtually no benches. Nowhere to sit down. It’s hideously inaccessible to disabled people, and it’s hostile to everyone who might be tired or need to set their stuff down a moment

Cave of Nacre macro photograph of an abalone shell #4 taken 5:57 pm #art #photography #abstractphotography

Red-Wing Blackbird from this morning, Rock River: #birds #nature #wildlife

berke breathed lived in iowa city in the 80s, this is a print of his farewell drawing that ran in a local paper. the thing that made me feel real fucking old is the early-40s publisher of my paper there didn't know 3/4 of these references. also that fountain they're sitting on is long gone.

Please, for the love of Christ, let Dan and Jordan from @knowledgefight.bsky.social host the official Info Wars podcast. I'm not asking much. Just give them a paycheck, let them use the name, and let good people giggle as they take over.

SCOOP with Elizabeth Williamson: The Onion has a new plan to take over Infowars. It has entered into an agreement to license the Infowars brand and plans to operate it as a comedy site. A Texas judge must approve the deal. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/b...

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

Today is a victory for gay frogs everywhere

Once Honey disappeared, and when we started frantically searching for him, Pompom alerted us (by flying to the fridge and making Honey sounds) that Honey had fallen behind the fridge. Pompom is the bestest of budgies. (Our fridge is barricaded like a fortress now.)

The appropriately named Wood Ear mushroom. I love the forest all year but Spring is amazing! #fungifriends

A Great Blue Heron flares his tail feathers as he lands in the woods to hunt down sticks for the nest.

Also telling that with each revelation of rape group chats of tens of thousands, or rape sites with millions, we're met with handwringing about women's "misandry" & "extremist" views & centering some alleged harm women are doing to deflect from the piling receipts of men's abuse.

And every time men Not All Men, Not A Real Man, Women too, acktually the numbers are small(er), it reinforces that they do not care. They will never care. The system is working exactly as they desire. Which is why it's them too.

Every attempt to talk about what women have to survive because of patriarchy's rape culture is met with attempts to exhaust & preserve men's comfort (& class as noble, virtuous, & heroic). We can't ever talk about the systemic nature of this violence for quibbling over numbers.

When we talk about the pervasiveness of sexual violence perpetrated by men, we're constantly shouted down that it's not a problem, everyone knows rape is wrong, it's just a few Not Real Men with frequent flyer miles. When there are receipts, we must center precision to excuse men.

Hoover and Carlyle are revealing new layers to their personalities. Inside the cage, Hoover is the bold one, the first to inspect a new object or toy. Outside of the cage, he’s fairly sedate. He’s content to sit on my finger and receive gentle head rubs.

Hungary's election is a reminder that no matter how much a dictator rigs the system, there's no defense against nearly 80% of voters showing up… Remember that.

CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS: "We need more religion in politics." [Pope uses religion to criticize Trump.] CHRISTIAN NATIONALISTS: "Keep your religion out of our politics!!!"