A helpful piece on Michigan's permitting of large renewable energy projects, & the new law designed to speed things up, + help local communities be at the table too. MI has an ambitious climate action plan, & recent flood events are one good reason. www.interlochenpublicradio.org/ipr-news/202...

Getting inundated with texts, all the same: a three-word question.

There is an amazing children’s book about this called Whale Fall that describes how impactful whale deaths are to the ecosystem melissa-stewart.com/books/whale-... 🧪

This is one of my favorite stories in the internet, ever, (about one of my favorite shows, ever). If you don’t like it you can suck chowder, musclehead!

There's just no way BlueSky is really going to catch on for NBA people if it can't fix this video side of it. I'm DYING for an alternative to X but not only do I have to stay there for business purposes, I might have no choice but to subscribe again to reach a bigger audience.

Made a google doc of different storage containers that we could purchase for our shed and created a spreadsheet so that we remember what stuff goes in which box 💪

One of the best threads of the year.

Best beverage known to humankind

Was looking forward to this one today and Zills does not disappoint, especially regarding the, ahem, special guest in attendance

I’ll root for the Knicks in this series if their fans react the way they should tonight.

Yes, and I will be wide awake at 4 a.m., convinced I was late and unable to fall back asleep. Yes, and the meeting will be held in the only classroom in the school without windows. Yes, and it will start fifteen minutes late.

And also you should listen to my talk with Whitney Mann about this Kickin song and the long journey getting there. It’s worth it tastethemusic.org/episode/whit...

When someone in your town subreddit posts the exact thought you are having in that exact moment (There is a tornado alert and everyone’s a little jumpy over here since the baseball sized hail a month ago)

It’s #bandcampfriday meaning you should listen to this new tune by Whitney Mann whitneymann.bandcamp.com/track/electr...

Nite Owl Cafe L'Anse, MI

Celtics only www.82-0.com/share?id=CDI...

One of my strongest takeaways from the Bee this week is that it was a showcase for why critical thinking matters more than ever. So much of what the kids do up there isn’t rote memorization—it’s using their insane prep to solve words like puzzles (using etymology, patterns) in real time.

80% of Wisconsinites polled by Marquette Law said the Legislature should have passed the budget deal. But a Legislative Fiscal Bureau analysis found it would have stuck the state with a nearly $3 billion deficit. @bspears.bsky.social reports on why math is hard. buff.ly/EqNSeZ2

"As soon as you arrive, could you immediately take his leash off and then, after the fact, ask us if we’re cool with it?"

Kevin Hart is the first guy to get addicted to being in commercials for gambling.

Vote for your life! It makes sense though, doesn’t it, that people emotionally invested in an outcome might reap benefits of said outcome? 🧪

7-year-old neighbor who’s learning face painting was excited to have such a vast canvas to work on.

Wisconsinites are 80% in favor of a bill to fund schools & tax rebates that failed to pass the WI Senate a few weeks ago. A remarkable number given unanimous opposition of elected officials on one side of the aisle, including 2 gubernatorial candidates #WIpolitics today.marquette.edu/2026/05/marq...

New report by @evergreenaction.bsky.social and 5 Lakes Energy shows that repealing #Michigan's clean energy policies would raise prices by >$1,300 per household in the next 15 years. Clean energy is just cheaper: www.evergreenaction.com/policy-hub/r... 🧪 #climate #CleanEnergy #RenewableEnergy

This is truly captivating.

has there ever been a league-wide crashout after one playoff game that compares to what's rippling through the nba right now?

A study establishes that "social ties" — a fancy way of saying being nice to other, even those you don't know — has benefits. A teacher asked her students to test the thesis in real life.

"I have made you a book with a bunch of tidbits on the oddities of the universe," @chanda.blacksky.app said. "The universe is stranger and more queer and more wonderful and more full of possibility than whatever limitations you might be experiencing." www.nytimes.com/2026/05/13/s...

The land between stuff in our bodies might connect all of our pieces together, showing how treatments like acupuncture might work. www.nytimes.com/interactive/... 🧪 #scicomm #sciart

“Rodighiero & her team already have their suspicions about how the red & blue monsters can coexist in the early universe….‘We think that they are connected by the same evolutionary story,’ she says.’It’s just that we catch galaxies in different periods, & it’s much easier to detect a blue monster.”🧪

Killer analogy from @jennaahart.bsky.social in this story: “seeing such a big, dusty galaxy less than a half-billion years into the universe’s 13.8-billion-year history is a bit like finding a redwood tree towering over saplings in a recently plowed field” 🧪

There are red monsters where there should not be red monsters! 🧪 www.scientificamerican.com/article/jwst... @jennaahart.bsky.social

Everything about our current political climate can be traced to Buckley v. Valeo, the landmark 1976 campaign finance case that allowed for dark money. Everything. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/u...

There are only two pieces of questionable provenance here

Whoopsie 🧪

Solo is the best star wars movie.

DESERV-ED www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Nice reporting by Erik on some consternation for D's in a district with about +9 or 10 point baked in advantage for R's due to district lines.

This piece does a really good job of weaving in the issue of renewable energy with data centers since 1) power is an issue here anyway; and 2) Americans are really attached to their landscapes.

I feel like I can relatively easily recognize LLM-generated writing, but it may also be a toupee fallacy... en.wiktionary.org/wiki/toupee_...

“Freedom peptide makers”

Poll: If we rebrand "mRNA vaccines" as "DIY peptide makers", will more people accept them?

Wellbeing quiz: guess what things help you stay well? I think it's easy to wishcast a little bit here with the answers but it's a fun exercise (no pun!) and honestly my answers were more optimistic than I thought they'd be (where are all my GAD-7 heads at?!!) 🧪 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Rachel Carson mention autoreskeet:

"We are ready to set an environmental goal for ourselves that both defers responsibility to some cyber-schmuck in the distant future and also might look impressive if you scroll quickly past a sponsored headline in your Facebook feed. We love trees."

Whoever came up with the Devil Wears Prada 2 branded Diet Coke cans shattered the backboard on that slam dunk.

If Wile E Coyote was a super genius he'd just go vegan

Liza Weil is a GOAT. Pete and Pete antagonist, goes on to almost end Leo McGarry's career, then gleefully torments Rory for years.