be weird and fucked up and goofy and kinky and strange and yourself but also be a good person

Thank you, #Baltimore, for the curb cut blitz happening around #PattersonPark. This badly needed upgrade makes our wonderful neighborhoods safer and more #accessible for everyone! Let's keep it going! @mayorbmscott.bsky.social @zekecohen.bsky.social @bmorecitydot.bsky.social #Disability #Advocacy

Oklahoma City just banned AI data center development until the end of the year, caving to community pressure. Nearly half of the AI data centers planned for 2026 in the U.S. have been delayed or canceled. And the outlook isn’t any better for 2027 and beyond. New from @philmandelbaum.bsky.social.

The September 1932 cover of Popular Science magazine featured the German Rudomobil, a bicycle propelled by the arms rather than the legs. 🎨Remington Schuyler

lol Russo

Israel's slaughter is worth any price we might have to pay at home in terms of dismantling our own Constitutional rights. It’s madness. People have gone mad. www.welcometohellworld.com/does-the-con...

It is important for folks to understand that he may or may not face consequences, but it will be a political decision, not a legal one that decides it.

This is treating Trump v. United States as law. It is not law. It is anti-law. It belongs in that category of Supreme Court decisions which were not merely wrong, they were illegitimate and non-binding from the day they were issued. It is owed no more respect than Lincoln gave Dred Scott.

Exhibit A: in a recent antitrust filing, Meta argued it isn't a social media monopoly because it isn't really a social media company anymore. Only 7% of Instagram time and 17% of Facebook time is spent on content from friends or followed accounts. The rest is algorithmic video from strangers.

Journalists who are still attending the WHCD this year don't seem to get just how much things have changed. It isn't 1998. You're not going to pose for cute photos with the West Wing stars at "nerd prom." You're enabling a regime who's assaulting your own profession & you're torching your career.

Just as a raw politics level, Janet Mills' veto of the data center moratorium in Maine suggests that she ultimately has no interest in running for office anymore

Two minutes of Oriole! I believe this is the Oriole I've named Brooks, in honor of the Baltimore Oriole 3rd base legend, Brooks Robinson. He's always first here, I can tell it's him by the black V on his neck. Welcome home, Brooks! I hope you stay longer than June, like last year. #birds

lol this guy

Happy National Library Week! 💙📚

when are people going to start talking about TERFs and tradwives in the same breath. same conservative gender role ideology undergirding them. it’s the same picture!!

I may as well reshare it myself 😇

Here's the follow up on this fraud Retraction Watch The website of the publisher and journal have been taken down retractionwatch.com/2026/04/23/e...

This is a FRAUDULENT paper, AI-generated. My name was used as an author and I had nothing to do with it, never saw it until today e-pubmed.co.uk/journals/dig... The "Editors" Angelo Rossi Mori, David Mensah, and Zarnie Khadjesari and this "Journal" should be reported.

Pullquote: "The anti-gender ideology is one of the dominant strains of fascism in our times. So the TERFs will not be part of the contemporary struggle against fascism." They have been proven 100% indisputably correct.

If Gov. Moore, Sen. Van Hollen and Sen. Alsobrooks cannot protect this woman, they should resign and exit public life forever. www.npr.org/2026/04/23/n...

Actually incredible how much we’re supposed to pay attention to the story of one army guy using classified info to bet on prediction markets when everyday this administration is using classified info to game stock markets and elicit billions in bribes, handing US money to family & RU assets

Well, they've finally struck home. #ICE has detained my former #umich student, Yousif Azizi, a PhD student in public policy at Virginia Tech w/a valid visa. He was arrested while taking his children to school in Maryland. After multiple transfers, he is in a detention center in Arizona.

Hey, #Baltimore folks: the migrating night herons that for some wonderful reason come annually to tiny Thames Street Park near the harbor are back, building nests and hooking up. Baby herons coming soon. Check @thamesstreetnightherons on IG for amazing pics and info about these awesome birds.

I'd read a long review of this book, if anyone has one.

Applies to healthcare companies as well. "their intended policy is an attempt to set real violence against real people into motion by someone else's hands (usually cops but also doctors and landlords etc)..." www.welcometohellworld.com/they-will-ne...

"United decided that if we’re going to deny claims the best people to deny them to are alcoholics, drug addicts and the mentally ill.They’re not real good at following up on their options.The chances of getting an appeal from one of them is close to zero" www.welcometohellworld.com/this-is-the-...

Our research team estimates that Covid caused 23 million deaths I’m sorry that Dr Bhattacharya felt stressed during the time he pushed for mass infection instead of mass vaccination; a physician friend of mine in Kenya lost 28 patients to Covid IN ONE NIGHT & still has PTSD

literal lol I'm still laughing a day later

One of my fave current cartoonists! The art style is loopy and wonderful and the writing so well done, in everything I've read from @leoofox.bsky.social. This new work sounds like a lot of brilliant fun.

It's not hyperbole in the least to say Musk purchased a six-month shadow presidency for $280 million and used the power of that shadow presidency to 1. Steal the government’s data, 2. Permanently damage the state’s ability to regulate his businesses, and 3, kill non-white people.

Still feel like "Musk and his crew of incels destroyed a bunch of stuff they didn't understand and thereby hastened the deaths of millions of children" did not get the public attention it warranted.

Overnight, this ICE charter left ICE detention hub Alexandria, La.,and has now landed in Liberia. This is the seventh ICE flight to land in Liberia since their government signed a third-country deportation agreement with the Trump administration.

"Wednesday, several workers detained by ICE at an Allston car wash in November filed a formal complaint against federal officials, alleging they were unlawfully detained. Boston-based nonprofit group Lawyers for Civil Rights lodged the federal claim on behalf of seven of the nine workers arrested."

Like... look at this shit. People will reply like, "Yeah, well the voters make the decisions!" What they don't seem to realize is that these octogenarians aren't actually the one doing any of the work at this point: they're being puppeted by unelected staffers. www.politico.com/news/2024/02...

Dying in office because you insisted on clinging to power until the very end instead of letting a new generation of leaders rise should be seen for the shameful, egomaniacal act that it is.

For the record: The Washington Post is run by partisan hacks who think we won't remember that they took the *exact* opposite stance when it was Republicans pushing their own gerrymandering grab in Texas last year -- *without* putting it up for a vote.

My hometown of Nashville -- a blue city which went about two-thirds for Harris-Walz in 2024 -- was gerrymandered by the TN GOP into three different districts all represented by Republicans now, so please get in line to complain about how unfair this all is, Virginia Republicans

Huh. This is the guy?

So the guy who claimed that Monterey, California (median home price $1.2M) had been taken over taken over with by witchcraft now runs the US Navy. Cool. bsky.app/profile/next...

Trump just fired the Secretary of the Navy and replaced him with Undersecretary Hung Cao, one of the biggest idiots Virginia politics has produced this century (really saying something here) in the middle of the Iran war

Cumming seems to generally be fighting the good fight against corruption in Baltimore but damn, she sure makes stupid decisions sometimes.

deep breaths 80 years olds are running for reelection to congress 12 times and croaking mid campaign, but things are fine, the democratic party is fine, everything is going to be okay, this institution is going to be the vehicle by which we defeat fascism

Below is a statement from the unionized workers of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Firm believer that if a company gets a tax write off to never release a movie or animated series it should go into a tax funded free streaming service managed by the library of congres because the tax payers bought the rights.

The implicit media consensus is that urban voters should not be able to overrule rural voters, but that rural voters should be able to overrule urban voters, an assumption so axiomatic and unquestionable that nobody even understands they're making it.

The indictment is arguing that by paying the informants, the SPLC was helping further extremist activity. But as Ryan notes below, the SPLC was sharing its intelligence with law enforcement. Is the Justice Dept suggesting that the FBI was using that intelligence to help these groups? Makes no sense

Filing for the Michigan primaries closed yesterday. Trump-friendly Democratic incumbent Kristen McDonald Rivet (has voted yea for fascist bills 29% of this time this session) will not face a primary opponent. This makes her the 12th Trump-friendly Democrat this year to not face a primary opponent.

there are now hunger strikes in at least two immigrant prisons: North Lake here in MI and Moshannon in PA. folks inside in PA say one of their comrades vomited a nasty green and guards told them it was just a cold. folks in MI are talking about months in prison with no idea what's happening.

Left: How people think Mississippi votes Right: How Mississippi actually votes

okay it is extremely funny that one of the algorithmic feeds this website promotes just runs on one of the devs' accounts so when he blocks a third of the userbase they also get blocked from the feed