Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent

Evening viewing recommendation? Watch WEST INDIES: THE FUGITIVE SLAVES OF LIBERTY (1979) in our Caribbean Activist Cinema collection!

"In Montreal, most strip club dancers aren’t paid a salary. They rely on tips to earn a living and pay money to cover a bar service fee. They're walking off the job on one of the busiest nights of the year, demanding they be recognized as employees with the same protections as other workers." Good!

life is at least a little beautiful idk

I jerked him now

RALLY FOR NYC'S LIBRARIES Tuesday, May 26th @ 10:30am City Hall See you there? @nycplan.org

You know what really sucks about this? BN regularly pesters human authors to promote its sales, while simultaneously telling us theres no space on the physical shelves for our books if we’re not bestsellers. And now this. I think we should all at least quit with giving them the free marketing.

Past few days have been so nice out; taking advantage of working outside before summer hits

Aujourd'hui, c'est mon anniversaire ! (paraît que je vieillis, encore...) Le plus beau cadeau que vous pourriez me faire serait de partager mon travail. Merci pour vos commandes, votre soutien, vos partages, j'espère continuer encore un peu cette aventure avec vous. 🤞❤️ www.les-bluettes-de-lys.fr

every dead senator gets a thoughtful obituary lauding their “courage” and then if you look it up the courage was filibustering the Give Medicine to Cancer Kids act

Sun Disk above a Path between Shrubs - 1890 https://botfrens.com/collections/46/contents/15332

I spent 15 years fighting for low-income housing in NYC, and if I had a nickel for every time a politician (or a bureaucrat or even a housing activist) told me that a pied-à-terre tax was impossible… I could afford a pied-à-terre.  And Mamdani just... made it happen.

This handsome gentleman is Diego ✨💚🧡✨ . . #softsculpture #fiberart #moth #butterfly #insectart

Experiment a success

Just swimming by to say hello.

Funny how so many folks are defending having AI slop on the bookshelves at B&N but have been silent when queer, BIPOC, debut, and indie authors are pushed out of those same shelves…

if u do not have anything nice to say well sometimes u are not wrong

this is why getting us to stop misusing "psychotic" is so important to me, btw. it has REAL impact on people w/psychosis when the association w/our diagnosis is so negative and false. this is the case even in medical settings! we are treated SO BADLY due to these misconceptions. people DIE sometimes

I don't think I've written more than a single paragraph in a notice of voluntary dismissal before, but ICE deported one of my clients during his habeas case and it feels like I have to leave some record of what happened to this man. Like flowers on the grave of a life in this country.

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows GLAAD has a good writeup on it below TELL ‘EM NO direct link to comment form: www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings...

You switch lanes to feel control. It is temporary we promise.

What corruption in this life, that it will let this man live!

What were some of your favorite WEIRD short stories over the last decade? :)

“rage against AI is white fucking hot, entirely justified, bipartisan, often indiscriminate, and inextricably woven into soaring disgust at the authoritarian-coddling extraction class. And you'll never be able to separate the two regardless of what your fancy new software can or can't do.”

The “AI can tell you if something is AI” thing is just as much of a grift as AI is in the first place, stop doing it!

In the Netherlands, 84% of people have a supermarket, GP and primary school within five minutes of their front door. But new research by Argaleo for Provincie Noord-Brabant also shows that 2.8 million people still have at least one daily service further away. Read more (Dutch): buff.ly/qzCQ0GQ

Now THIS is a good opening hook for a horror story.

I used to do this to exec types in meetings all the time. If you tell them how smart they are for asking the question, they might not notice that you can’t/won’t answer it. Politicians do it all the time. It works!

If you care even an iota about the trans community you don't want to see us stripped of rights that were uncontroversial as recently as 2020. This is not a litmus test or a purity test, it's an honesty test.

The Oxford Comma is the glue that binds the universe together. Without it we will all stumble into darkness, chaos, madness, and anarchy. get on stuff in my #redbubble store www.redbubble.com/sh...

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my buddy had a dream about "newport snows" which where like, spearmint, not menthol so i made it for him in photoshop and got carried away

it bears repeating that AI is a machine for destroying information

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

This looks a little like the photo they might use when on a swingers site looking for a third.

half of all tech news lately is some variation of "the computer company has discontinued their well known product, the computer"

Just having a skeleton face day, I guess. Good evening!

In honor of Andre the Giant’s birthday, 19 May 1946, here’s my favorite picture of him, standing next to a regular size man and regular size horse

Wrestlers Andre the Giant (left) and Jos Le Duc test the structural integrity of two bicycle frames #BicycleBirthday Andre the Giant May 19 (1946-1993)

Write the book you would like to see someone pull from a higgledy piggledy pile in a secondhand shop 63 years after your death and say, "This looks fucking weird. I think I will buy it for Joan

Baffling that many US cities assign responsibility for sidewalks to the adjacent property owner. That’s just not how transportation infrastructure works at all. People walking places don’t teleport past vacant lots. Imagine doing the same thing with roads.

This is a shocking example of one of the big reasons why, right now, there is no way I’d use AI for any of my historical work. If you don’t look at the documents yourself, and if you don’t know how the AI you’re using was coded, you have no idea what it may be leaving out – or adding in.

#OtD 19 May 1925 El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz, aka Malcolm X, was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He became one of the most influential advocates of self-defence for Black people as well as one of the foremost critics of America's institutional racism stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9128...

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

I made an outfit to watch the weather channel in. and a very cute deskmat you can buy them here :v theyetee.com/miski

MACE: “.. These companies are planting massive data centers across our state, driving up energy demand, and leaving families and small businesses to pick up the tab.” @politico.com www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

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Little eel magic for today's #TransArtMay

Good thing I've been trying out several different emails

Oh yeah it's coming together