While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

look how fancy the ocellated turkey is. such a fancy lad

A little treat from the Popfest weekend: The peerless Linda Smith performing “I See Your Face” with Blake Douglas and Paul Krolian at @as220.bsky.social. What a weekend. 💫

Okay, one magical moment I feel that I must share: The Softies closing their set with a cover of The Sundays' "Here's Where the Story Ends" ❤️

My complete set of pics of Pylon Reenactment Society fronted by singer Vanessa Briscoe Hay and Perennial at Union Pool @pylongurl.bsky.social @perennialtheband.bsky.social www.flickr.com/photos/42302...

Where I was all weekend. It was fantastic! #ProvidencePopfest

Full on freak-out over a stray piece of kitty litter that followed her out of the litter box and onto the floor.

So many people are at Popfest this weekend. Say hi! I’m going to be wearing a Pere Ubu pin.

Got to meet @pylongurl.bsky.social & see Pylon Reenactment Society close out night 1 of the Providence Popfest! So fantastic. 🌟🎶🌙

Everything is terrible. Almost everything.

personally i plan on being a huge bitch about it until i die. we'll be eating expired kidney beans in the climate-ravaged ruins of a wegmans and i'll be like "well i hope those AI pictures of cats made out of bread were fucking worth it brittney"

New @adriftlab.bsky.social paper in Conservation Biology: we estimate 629,000+ seabirds died during Australia's 2023/24 marine heatwave. Fewer than 5,000 were counted on beaches, less than 1% of total mortality conbio.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... 🧵 📸: SIlke Stuckenbrock

it's absolutely wild how little support there is for community colleges in this country. they do so much more good, and with far fewer resources, than the so-called elite universities that largely function to reproduce/sustain existing hierarchies of wealth and privilege

More flowers! My neighborhood is looking beautiful right now.

"Sir, it is my well-considered opinion, based on many years of military experience, that what these United States need most at this moment in time is a bullet and cannonball-proof ballroom. Gilded. I demand it."

If glyphosate sounds familiar, it might be because President Trump recently invoked the Defense Production Act to boost its production. Bayer, the company behind Roundup, has deep lobbyist ties with the administration. Check out our latest investigation for more:

This Is Just To Say I have turned off the AI features that were in the update and which you were probably hoping to monetize Fuck you they were stupid so unnecessary and so annoying

Made a new friend on my walk.

It's Your Daily Imani+!☀️ Friday, April 24, 2026 Imani and Pippin are confirmed present at Montrose today. 📸: Bob McLennan (Imani, Montrose Beach, April 22, 2026)

I yelped.

'Not only gives [Paul] Thek & [Peter] Hujar back their lives; it gives its readers a new perspective on work that is both effervescent and rigorous' The Wonderful World That Almost Was by @andrew-durbin.bsky.social

Postal services around the world that use birds as logos. One of my favorite poster graphics I've made! 🐦✉️

“This is a dangerous argument they are making. Dangerous not just to the Florida scrub jay, but to a lot of endangered species”. therevelator.org/florida-scru...

His Name Is Alive performs How Ghosts Affect Relationships live at Aarons Record Store, 1990 His first three albums are being reissued on vinyl and CD, available for pre-order now 4ad.ffm.to/hnia_2026rei...

For Earth Day!

Major #EarthDay win 🎉: H.R. 1897, aka the Endangered Species Act Amendments Act was just pulled from house floor consideration following outcry from both Republicans and Democrats who oppose the bill.

arthurrussell.bandcamp.com/album/love-i... Arthur Russell "Love Is Overtaking Me" (Redux) LP 5/21/26. DL + Bandcamp exclusive CS + two previously unreleased tracks

One more Haçienda history clip. Designer Ben Kelly outlines the making of the visual design language he used throughout the club, pulling elements from outside of club design to create something uniquely Manchester: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiRq...

One more Haçienda history clip. Designer Ben Kelly outlines the making of the visual design language he used throughout the club, pulling elements from outside of club design to create something uniquely Manchester: www.youtube.com/watch?v=aiRq...

"The first album we did. It sounds like Manchester looks" bsky.app/profile/visa...

Tonight’s watch, apropos of the recent announcement that New Order and Joy Division will be inducted into the 2026 Rock Hall, a 2024 doc about the origins of the Haçienda: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ybF...

Getting ready for OTC Pill Day? Celebrate, but be vigilant, as the minority patriarchy is working to take this away.

Breathe. Breathe. The world is greater than evil people.

"Those who don’t want sexual predators as lawmakers probably imagine someone else could run for Congress. But the United States has spent centuries developing a leadership pipeline that favors maximal male sliminess."

It’s been a massively stressful week. But yesterday I met this sweet buddy meandering near the train station. I was worried he was alone, but then when I looked back, he was loitering with two BFF geese.

Stand Up for Science is organizing a Virtual & Accessible Earth Day 2026 Rally! Wednesday, April 22, 8PM ET. Hear from lawmakers, scientists, advocates, activists, and diverse intersectional voices as we fight to defend our planet and save our science. Register at zurl.co/PLSj5 #EarthDay

Weak on crime

Apparently the headline has been changed since this iteration, but let’s enjoy this comedy gold while we can:

Profoundly influential and we were there as babies opening for them in the early 80’s, Go4 return with this banger 💪✊👊

This is very true! And as the research on the issue shows and as the Hungarian example confirms, and the Polish one before that, the key to large turnout is long-term, grass-roots organizational labor that helps people understand how their single vote is a dignified part of a larger transformation.

Charles Bullen of This Heat involved here too. As with all their records, the free-ranging insular chaos creates an atmosphere unlike anyone else.

If you’re a fan of Ut, Jacqui Ham, Rob Smith & Dom Weeks (Furious Pig) have a new Dial record, “Watch,” that’s compelling & discomfiting in the best ways. Their Bandcamp has all their excellent past releases, too: dial.bandcamp.com/album/watch

36 (!) years of “Groove Is in the Heart”! Watch Deee-lite premiere the track at Webster Hall, as part of a benefit for art critic Carlo McCormick: www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_hL...

As a primer to @filmforumnyc.bsky.social’s Agnès Varda retrospective: my profile & interview with her on one of her last trips to NYC in 2017. I dug deep on this one. tried to tell the story in English of how exactly she became a filmmaker. www.brightwalldarkroom.com/2017/04/10/t...

Although I missed Arto Lindsay and Melvin Gibbs last night performing as a duo, I met them both today and it was so wonderful. Worth canceling a Dr appt for!

Boom! 💥 youtu.be/q6sa6pWz1NQ

Access to local news archives is vital in seeking #truth in the fuller story, not simply that written by those with #power. This is an important component of #democracy.