I just broke out crying in my apartment while updating my tracker because I stopped to read this piece by @caseyparks.bsky.social on drag king Elsie Saldaña. This was so beautifully and sensitively told, if you missed it last week read it now. www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2026/...

I really liked two-spirit Mi'kmaq director Brett Hannam's latest film which supernaturally mixes past, present, and future. Steeped in Mi'kmaq culture and history, I appreciate how they don't explain everything to the viewer www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcZ5...

Whoah, The Buffalo Hunter Hunter got a Locus Award! @locusmag.bsky.social

First, they taxed the private jets And I did not speak out. fortune.com/2026/05/16/n...

Hold on let me get my Emergency Gosling Stairs out of my car 😂 ♥️ TT: potterhuahua - Vancouver, BC🇨🇦

The Black Panther Party and American Indian Movement were labeled terrorist organization. Not the Klan tho

Trump on Iran War: Reporter: What extent are Americans’ financial situation motivating you to make a deal? Trump: Not even a little bit. I don't think about Americans’ financial situation

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Bollocks. One, hardcovers are selling great, especially the ones that these days come with sprayed edges and illustrated end pages. Two, ditching hardcovers would absolutely gut author and bookseller incomes. You want to fuck up publishing? Kill the hardcover. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

"Cancelled. The author was killed by russia." Ahead of the Biennale, activists presented the "Invisible Pavilion" in Venice dedicated to Ukrainian artists murdered by russia. Volodymyr Vakulenko will never present his tales for children — he was tortured during the occupation of Kharkiv region.

Rep. @brotherjones.bsky.social burns a confederate flag in the rotunda after the House passed 9-0 maps stripping Memphis of representation… #Memphis #JimCrow @MarshaBlackburn @GovBillLee

WATCH: The racist Republican map stripping Memphis of representation passes the senate 25-5 — with @senatorcharlaneoliver standing on her desk in protest (From WSMV)

my review is up 😭 i still can't believe this book is real, that I got to write it.

Never have 4 people more wished they were still in the deepest, darkest recesses of outer space.

SONY's 2026 Photographer of the Year Awards: 'Citlali Fabián, 37, a photographer and visual artist from a Zapotec Yalalteca community in Oaxaca who now lives in London, won the top professional prize for “Bilha, Stories of My Sisters” — a series that... mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/citl...

How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.

Louis McKenzie from Cumberland House, Saskatchewan, 1948. Photographed by Métis photographer James Brady | ‘Enclosing Some Snapshots.’

she went for the throat, yep. and she usually found it.

It's important to remember that, yes, sometimes good things still happen. www.dailymail.com/news/article...

Off the Reservation is on Netgalley, y’all:

Girl from Weagamow Lake, Ontario, wearing a hare pelt coat. Photographed in 1956 by John Macie, part of ‘People of the Watershed,’ curated by Paul Seesequasis and touring at The Art Gallery of Sudbury from May 07 thru July 4. Details on in person curatorial presentation t/c.

Always cool, talking with Grimdark:

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

ARTEMIS II MISSION REQUIREMENT: 🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦🇺🇸🇨🇦

The Hungarian people wisely refused to listen to these grifting scumbags.

Current status of the Strait of Hormuz dispute

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

"I grew up across the street from a public library, and it was the only place my mom would let me go on my own. It was my second home, and I read everything that I could get." ~ Tracy Chapman Chapman by Nicholas Albrecht #Booksky

Artemis II mission captures first pictures of the far side of the Moon.

Astronaut Jeremy Hansen is taking Indigenous culture past the Moon: his mission patch was designed by Henry Guimond, an Anishinaabe artist, incorporating one Indigenous perspective about the seven sacred laws, which are represented by animals. 🧪 #ArtemisII

Ah, so Andy Weir is like... *dumb* dumb gizmodo.com/andy-weir-st...

On a First Nation in Manitoba, students are eagerly learning Cree. See how teachers believe learning ancestral language could impact lives beyond words, tonight on APTN National News. Watch live: www.youtube.com/@aptnnews

After the White House complained about an unflattering photo of Karoline Leavitt, it was removed from AFP and Getty’s systems. This is the photo in question. Please do not repost it. 👇

The President of the United States is a malignant narcissist.

Maybe it's time to read a new book.

the girl guides in the UK just kicked out all their trans members specifically bc they were threatened with a lawsuit from a rowling-funded group

Gabriel Dumont Chair in Michif Education, U of R: urcareers.uregina.ca/postings/21602

Fascinating new study about men’s friendships. There’s a lot of evidence here that the “male loneliness crisis” is actually a white, wealthy man problem. Other men are building friendships with similar depth to women’s friendships.

I think it's vitally important that everyone know that when baby bear cubs are orphaned and taken to our local wildlife center, they get fed and rehabbed by people masking their scent and wearing costumes like this so they don't get habituated to humans

Well, guess I must be a fossicker, then. Good to know. It’s kind of how I found this term, even.

Why are settlers always surprised that Indigenous peoples did and still do things deliberately? www.science.org/content/arti...

Let’s put an unhinged malignant narcissist sundowning into dementia in control of the most powerful military force in the history of mankind because what could go wrong.

It's interesting how The Daily Wire attacks the idea that gender is a performance when their sets are all about gender performance. Look at the aesthetics here — the cigars and crystal decanter with Japanese whiskey, the black dress shirt, the tight suit with two-toned double monks and tie bar ...

“Chronic hunger” at American concentration camps reported by USA Today. www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...

What To Know About ‘Sinners’ https://theonion.com/what-to-know-about-sinners/

Well said!

I know there are multiple factors, but I do feel the death of mass market paperbacks did its share of damage to literacy. Publishing decided ebooks had replaced MMPBs, but though ebooks are easily accessed, they aren't as affordable, and they aren't showing face in supermarkets, drug stores, etc.

Things are not okay.