Lyrics for “Little Mermaid” were written by Howard Ashman, a gay man diagnosed with HIV in the midst of production. He also wrote the lyrics for “Beauty and the Beast” and died in 1991 just before its release. His partner accepted his Oscar. “Part of Your World” hits differently knowing this 🏳️‍🌈

Americans Are Starting to Really Hate Data Centers—and It’s Making the Tech Industry Nervous gizmodo.com/americans-ar...

Anyway, here is a good rundown on how we eradicated the new world screwworm from much of Central America for decades, only for the Trump people to (of course) fuck it up

Very bad news. Screwworm appears to have made it to Texas, as was predicted. These parasites eat the living flesh of cattle, cause horrible pain, and can ultimately kill them. Yesterday, USDA Chief Brooke Rollins categorically denied that screwworm was close to the border.

Factual thoughts: Scott Pelley and Henry Schuster were embedded with my Marine infantry unit in 2009—it was incredibly violent in Helmand. They told our story well. Years later, my unit suffered multiple suicides, they came back to cover that too.

This is the reality. Any politics or politician or movement that isn’t saying this plainly is a false god, inviting you to your own destruction. America Broke Something When It Gave Trump a Second Chance www.nytimes.com/2026/06/03/o...

Exciting news!! Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has won the New Mexico Democratic primary for Governor and if elected, she will make history as the nation’s first Native American woman to serve as governor. 

Fewer than 75 Southern Resident orcas remain. Voluntary rules aren't enough. The Canadian government must enforce real, permanent protections now before we lose them forever. #SaveTheOrcas #SalishSea #SRKW bit.ly/49KWxPw

It's inexcusable, and it's remarkable there's not more pushback. Y'know what ETFs like SPY & VOO do when they add a stock? They rebalance by selling all the other stocks in proportion. They are literally changing the rules to take value from shareholders of every S&P 500 company to give it to Musk.

I feel "Marge vs The Monorail" is now an essential parable for our times.

the most surreal thing about this era of open yelling about masculinity is that, if you grew up anything like I did, you were exposed to several sets of standards of masculinity and would be hard pressed to identify which of them the Paxtons and Millers of the world are living up to

This is how Forbes telegraphs that their mission has been accomplished

You guys know that Elysium movie with Matt Damon? The one where all the rich live on a beautiful orbiting space station and leave everyone else rotting on the surface of a collapsing planet Earth? Pretty sure that’s now actively the goal of our ultra-rich and they’ll do anything to achieve it.

This is bad. Bad for researchers. Bad for science. Bad for universities. Bad for professional associations. For example: 1. Every award would be vetted by political appointees, who could overrule peer reviewers and deny the award if it doesn't advance the president's priorities. 1/🧵

Gas is $6, nobody can afford a house, and we just kicked starving people off SNAP so they now have to pay $8 for cereal. Why are we even doing this at all right now?

On May 29th 1830, the US ruling class passed the Indian Removal Act, legalising the ethnic cleansing of Indigenous Americans from their ancestral homelands. Thousands were killed as this crime was carried out. One of the most evil and disgraceful acts in US history.

🚨 “THEY’RE ATTACKING PROTESTERS… FOR NO REASON AT ALL.” 🚨 Pepper spray is now being deployed during chaotic clashes between ICE agents and protesters outside Delaney Hall ICE prison on Day 7 of the hunger/labor strike. @jordanchariton.bsky.social⬇️

ICE is targeting journalists at Delaney Hall. They’re hitting photographers, breaking fingers and smashing off lenses.

Notably, while The NYT, WSJ, WaPo, Guardian, NBC, AP, etc covered Bari Weiss blowing up "60 Minutes" today, one major outlet did not: CNN. The network—on the brink of being taken over by David Ellison—did not mention it once on air or online.

there's a reason LLM heads try to keep you arguing about whether data centers use more water than agriculture: they're belching air pollution like we're back in the gilded age

I’ve followed this story for its absurdity and as an illustration of how police lie and bully the public they are supposed to protect. Only after national media attention do they withdraw a case of accusing a woman of something she can’t possibly have done… cbs12.com/news/local/f...

Canmore, Alberta Canada . 😍

Maybe we will get Some Answers…

By Elise Acosta

Pope Leo XIV called for robust regulation of artificial intelligence and for its developers to work for the common good rather than profit, issuing a sweeping manifesto on safeguarding humankind as the technology impacts everything from work to war.

1. London Underground station flooding has reportedly been reduced by around 90% thanks to a group of engineers: beavers. After conservationists reintroduced a family of beavers into a nearby city park, the animals built dams and restored wetlands that now absorb and slow floodwater naturally.

The times that a trans student has come out to me as a part of their self-discovery are sacred to me at a time when little else is. This is an abominable and unenforceable fascist tactic.

We’re going to be seeing a lot more of this sentiment. Do not trust these people.

One of the best things you can do as an adult is realize that you didn’t actually have to stop drawing, coloring, painting, playing with clay, doing whatever else you loved as a kid. Even if you’re bad at it. Maybe especially if you’re bad at it

“Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this.”

We are so lucky to live in a world that has bobtail squids. 🦑📷 cr1970 (www.inaturalist.ca/observations...)

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

Thank you 😊

VAN HOLLEN: An individual who was pardoned by Trump went on to molest 2 children, & he tried to buy their silence by saying he would give them funds from your slush fund. Can you commit to not making that person eligible for a payout? BLANCHE: You're obviously lying V: I am reporting what he said

"The psychologist and cognitive scientist Iris van Rooij has argued that the emergence of AI “slop” across scholarly resources portends nothing less than “the destruction of knowledge.”" www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult... open access link: archive.ph/qt59c 3/🧵

While we're focused on the Louisiana Senate primary, this isn't getting enough attention. Louisiana's MAGA governor backed these amendments. Democrats opposed all of them. Each failed by double digits, two by more than 50 points. It was a crushing defeat and a message for Republicans in a red state.

This is hard! I think my top 4: Norway Bulgaria UK Greece Romania #eurovision

I want to hear Norway again. That was a blast. #eurovision2026

Not getting it with Italy, sounds like wedding music from the early 80s #eurovision2026

#Eurovision United Kingdom

#eurovision Belgium (correction!)

#Eurovision Bulgaria banger!

So far I think I’m Greece 🇬🇷 and Denmark 🇩🇰 in second

"SpaceX has proposed one of the most aggressive corporate governance regimes in US history, intending to guarantee Elon Musk cannot be fired." As @madisoncondon.bsky.social remarked to me, Musk is transforming US corporate governance. giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

It's time for our annual and very localized guerrilla marketing campaign. Signed copies of Clarkesworld Magazine are now in the Ocean City, NJ boardwalk's little free library.

Settlement considerations reportedly include providing “tax payer funds” & “public benefits” to Trump and “the possibility of the I.R.S. dropping any audits of Mr. Trump, his family members or businesses, according to two of the people.” I am sure there is nothing to see here. (Gift link).

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

this is very clearly and directly genocidal: "Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group" is explicitly listed as a genocidal act in the 1948 convention, and Russia's intent to destroy Ukrainians as a people has been made clear over and over again