If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

9 year old building their first house in The Sims:

THREAD: We just released a tool that allows you to search billions of dollars in wealth, ties to the most powerful companies in the country, and details of the personal finances of President Trump and over 1,500 of his appointees. Here’s how it works 1/

the future is for trans people

Interesting interview in Playboy with transgender adult content creators. People often point to Pornhub stats showing trans content is more popular than ever as a contradiction, as if political and sexual objectification were ever mutually exclusive

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

a public utility does not need to turn a profit. this is intentional.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

correct there is no reason for a single one of them to vote for Mullin (yes, Mr. Fetterman, that means you) and they should make this as embarrassing as possible - which, given Mullin’s extensive track record of putting his foot in his mouth, shouldn’t even be that hard

What they want is access to everyone's internet activity. They want to know what you're watching, reading and whacking to. They want to shame you at will with something like, "Weren't you looking at tentacle porn?" The internet could go from the freest to the most restricted mode of communication.

Martian vista with shadow selfie, captured two days ago by Perseverance #Mars 🧪🔭 📷 areo.info/mars20/ecams... @areoinfo.bsky.social

T-minus three weeks until “why don’t women want to date them?”

"Chadillac Rex" is truly amazing

perfect representation of the vicious asininity of our persecution and the banal mechanisms of its implementation: these regular-ass people, the staff at the dmv, dutifully inflicting whatever absurd degradation they're told, no matter how blatantly, cruelly pointless. would you do that? will you?

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

Minnesota status…👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

I wrote about the first national book banning bill, which effectively seeks to erase trans people. At the end I include a link to let your reps know that you oppose this bill and all it stands for. lithub.com/why-we-must-...

Women: We live in a constant state of vigilance because men pose a constant threat to us, here are literally millions of corroborating stories. Men: What a scary time for men this is.

My hot take is that everyone says schools don't teach you how to do your taxes, but the way you do your taxes is to hang on to important paperwork and then follow the directions on a form while performing arithmetic, which actually is what they spend a fair amount of time teaching.

Aren't rich people amazing? I can imagine one of the labourers who risked their life in the construction of the 49 metre King Alfred's Tower in the 1770s for the banker Henry Hoare asking him "But what is it for?" & Hoare answering "What is it FOR? What it's FOR, my good man, is for me to SHOW OFF."

Hey #alaskasky & #akleg, I've been working to organize this activism training for Alaskans this weekend. It's put on by the Center for Artistic Activism and they do great work in getting folks thinking strategically about their efforts and their impacts. Free registration: c4aa.org/whisper/unle...

A minister who visited sickbeds and deathbeds at the hospital five days a week and an attorney who got to work on ending housing discrimination in the state of Washington. my ancestors are bookish humanitarians. no surprise

livestreaming now: Cascade Point Callout, an alternative public comment event by @seacc.bsky.social: youtube.com/@seaccorg?si... This is on the state's Cascade Point project, a new ferry terminal that 92% of comments oppose. The state's process has been fishy to say the least. #akleg #alaskasky

We laughed at Ellis at the time but little did we realise that the Ellises of the world would end up taking over America & start a war with Iran.

how it started/how it's going

this guy challenged a sitting Democratic lawmaker in yesterday's primary, angered by her pro-ICE vote, and he ousted her 70% to 22%. boltsmag.org/north-caroli...

If you're touting the Mamdani coalition today, please learn from what Mamdani did after he lost the Black vote in the NYC primary. He didn't blame Black voters or discount them. He courted the Black vote, showed up, *apologized when he messed up.* That's a way forward. www.aol.com/articles/nyc...

I know this is very funny but also pretty striking that our government lies about literally everything, including stuff that's easy to prove. Any Dem who ever sits down to make a deal across the aisle with this captured Congress, you're a dope.

9. The message from Democratic voters is not subtle. Abandoning transgender people does not win you new supporters—but it may win you an uphill primary challenge you are likely to lose.

2. Last night, primary elections in North Carolina told a different story: if you abandon trans people, your Dem voters will abandon you. The state's most prominent anti-trans Dem, Nasif Majeed, fell to progressive challenger Veleria Levy, who ran on a pro-LGBTQ+ platform, by more than 40 points.

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there's a lot going on right now but did you know a massive amount of the world's fertilizer flows through the middle east, and did you know that that fertilizer needs to be shipped to the us *right now* for planting season, and uh did you know we are at war with iran

This is the most sophisticated and genial intergenerational takedown of all time

Broadcast climate coverage declined again in 2025, a three-year drop from its 2022 peak. Coverage still rarely connects climate disasters and impacts to fossil fuels or federal policy, which matters as Trump's climate rollbacks continue to advance. www.mediamatters.org/broadcast-ne...

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

it's pretty snowy here #alaskasky

i wrote a new song in less than 24 hours, one of those rare guys that just pours out onto the page. it's in 6/8 of course. i have better luck at that with waltzes. wonder why. i am still working on some of my 4/4 songs that are over 10 years old now.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

TMBG on the cutting edge as always

remember Fark? it's still here and still heckin' useful.

While it is a shame that number drops to 47% among registered voters, it’s still very impressive it went from a fringe opinion to the plurality among voters within two years I would love a state by state breakdown of this one of these days

If AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted, then AI-generated code... this could get interesting

A lot of modern men with power appear to have been desperate and damp for a oracle to tell them what to do, and they are not at ALL interested in if the advice the oracle provides is actually good or accurate or not - that’s not the point.

The most dangerous thing about AI chat bots is how many men with political power treat them *exactly* and unquestioningly like actual Ancient Greek oracles.

Superman realizing he doesn’t have any pockets, shoving his cell phone into the waistband of his red external underwear, resigning to it just sticking halfway out.

Good thread and a reminder that every generation has its own moral panic

this. this is what far too many commentators & analysts don't understand. if you're writing about this war, call Exvangelical speakers, call faith leaders who understand but don't share these beliefs. without sources to tell you what these men believe about Armageddon, you're flying blind.