So, a quick story. I have been at @comicpalooza.bsky.social, been swamped with long lines almost the entire weekend so far, and there was this very nice gentleman named Jin (not sure of the spelling). He came the first day and said he was bringing books the next day to get signed. 1/

Love is: Your partner, not a dancer, gracefully and lovingly acquiescing after you, the hopeless romantic, ask him to dance with you in the living room 🥹 youtu.be/iP0tHmoc1rs?...

Is that butter? No it's ghee. Oh thanks for clarifying

Every day, a new reason to love Tatiana Maslany. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

Imagine being stressed out about life and the state of the world and then you walk outside to clear your head and see this

The NAACP is urging Black athletes and fans to “withhold athletic and financial support” from public universities in states that “have moved to limit, weaken or erase Black voting representation”

OK OK I will share my Sources with you ladies who really need decent clothes and are, like me, really annoyed by this. A thread. 🧵

a lot of us learned the hard way that BLUESKY DOES NOT REMOVE YOU FROM THEIR FOLLOWERS IF YOU BLOCK SOMEONE YOU WERE FOLLOWING, it's a two-step process and if you're used to Twitter's soft-block you may not always remember

Today I learned: Shawn Levy directed some of my fave movies and I had no idea

I've decided it's a good vibes only day: refuse to accept anything negative and manifest the positive. Be a force for good in the world because heaven knows we need more of it right now.

sorry gang i wasn’t expecting this to get reposted at butt o’clock in the morning here’s alt text

This week in 1812 Spencer Perceval became the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated. Its the least interesting thing about him. Working with hedonistic lawyer James Stephen, the devout Christian engineered one of the first slavery bans in British territory WITHOUT Parliament's approval. /1

Great thread here. I just read an NPR article about this paper and was very excited about the media reporting. Had to take a moment, look at the actual source, and temper my feelings.

Good job everyone for holding him accountable!

We have a lot of fun out here, but this is what it's all about. Smoke and CO alarms have expiration dates. Replace them every 10 years.

25 years later: Legally Blonde somehow still holds up while also being an early-2000s time capsule (derogatory). Or maybe I'm just being nostalgic.

what’s extra fun about this is that everyone forgets Zendaya’s performance of 24K Magic right before it and it was stunning! would easily have won most episodes of the show and then Tom came out and did… that

happy 9th anniversary to the day we watched Zendaya fall madly in love with Tom Holland in real-time

it's nice to have a red carpet where he isn't particularly unusual

::plunks down soapbox:: ::climbs my 5'10" ass on top to be even taller:: the costume institute at the met is, in my opinion, a feminist museum. almost every piece of clothing that has ever been made was made by a human being the vast majority of people who have ever made garments have been women

I ran a marathon today, but my cat is sleeping harder than me right now

Anne Hathaway, you will ALWAYS be that girl. 💙💛

Burn the Sea by @monatewari.com is featured on the blog today! lavenderbookreviewsblog.wordpress.com/2026/04/29/n...

Going through some stuff and the world is on fire, so I'm trying to actively practice gratitude. Finding a daily Good Thing to avoid despair. Today it's the massive support from friends. In a different timeline, tonight would be a much harder night. Immense gratitude. Thank you 💗 From me and Maple

a feature-length documentary on Wishbone, TV's greatest Jack Russell terrier (siddown, Eddie from Frasier) is coming soon

Adding: clinical definitions of obesity, overweight, normal weight, etc. are based on BMI. BMI is a problematic (garbage) measure that doesn't reflect someone's actual health or risks. 5'4", 150lbs with 10% body fat is different from 5'4", 150lbs with 30% body fat. I will die on this hill.

OMG. 🇰🇪 Sabastian Sawe becomes the first man ever to break 2 hours in a marathon (legal conditions) in 1:59:30 at the London Marathon! Yomif Kejelcha 🇪🇹 runs 1:59:41 in his DEBUT. Jacob Kiplimo 🇺🇬 takes third in 2:00:28 All under the previous WR.

My soundbar has blocked the TV's sensor for the last 11 months. I kept making plans to raise the TV a few inches to expose the sensor but couldn't decide what to do. Engineer BF comes over. Moves the soundbar over a few inches. Problem solved. Didn't even occur to me to try that 🤦

You mean the Bishop of Rome, Vicar of Jesus Christ, Successor of the Prince of the Apostles, Supreme Pontiff of the Universal Church, Servant of the servants of God? The most Catholic person who Catholics? *Sovereign* of Vatican City? That pope?

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

IT ABSOLUTELY THE FUCK IS NOT

me with the time machine, to my 1996 self: the year is 2026. the Pope is the only world leader you respect. you believe unironically that the cultural mores and sexual behavior of San Francisco are destroying America. computers were a mistake

I’m thrilled to announce the launch of Literature & Government, or L&G with the LG, a lecture series engaging campuses across Virginia in thoughtful dialogue on democracy, leadership, and public life. Coming to a campus near you!

Friendly reminder that we can just…ban these. Just like we can ban abusive AI, data centers and mass surveillance. This stuff isn’t inevitable, we can decide we simply don’t want things that are antisocial as part of civil society.

"If you can't solve the smallest task in someone's life, why would they ever trust you to solve the biggest one?" Mamdani's revival of early 20th century "sewer socialism" here is the inverse of Guiliani's "broken windows" approach. Starting small to do big things, but this time, they're good.

Experts found that the White House budget request for the upcoming fiscal year could defund 54 NASA science missions, including a spacecraft currently studying Jupiter and two planned Venus missions: www.scientificamerican.com/article/whit...

The airport wants to charge me $75-90 to park for less than 36 hours. That's RIDICULOUS. I'll order a car, it'll be cheaper. SMH.

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Erm, they're called palaeontologists, actually.

✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA) 🔗 www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour... @exploration.esa.int l

Can I just say, mad props to whomever is writing the detailed captions (which have been used as alt text) for the #ArtemisII images on NASA's website. It's wonderful and exciting to understand what I'm actually looking at.

Project Hail Mary was a masterpiece of a movie. I cried, I laughed, I cried some more. EXCELLENT movie, 10/10 would recommend without hesitation

Me post-run and shower: *sobbing in the car about how I feel like a burden and need to find a job ASAP* Therapist voice: did you eat yet? Did you hydrate? Let this be a reminder to everyone: When the darkness creeps in, take a moment to eat and hydrate.

This is so, so well-articulated.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

😮 Awesome views from Day 2 of #Artemis II this morning. @exploration.esa.int @esaearth.esa.int

I don't know if I'll ever get tired of the little thrill that comes from using something I learned in grad school, even when the context is different. In this case: understanding a model/technique because it was the basis of my dissertation analyses.