The first epidemic of the 1918 flu in the United States occurred at the military’s Camp Funston, Kansas (later Fort Riley). Infected soldiers headed to WWI battlefields carried the flu to Europe. Millions died It’s not *vaccination* that weakens force readiness.

I’ve been informed that he’s wearing green pants in this photo. Not sure how anyone can catch a detail like that, but all right

Watch this video if you want to see everything I know about catching a fish with a stick.

We’ve now reached the part of the referendum where everyone lines up, mutters “goodgamegoodgamegoodgamegoodgame“ a bunch of times with a series of low fives - the winning Yes side slightly more enthusiastic about it- and then they bring out baggies of oranges and Capri Suns for the campaign workers.

You guys call leftists purity testers and all this other shit. You call us pinkos and denigrate us and extremists and all this. We want your fucking kids to go to school and eat healthy meals and grow up and be safe and have jobs and not be institutionally murdered by the state. Humble yourselves.

I do not believe so. That being said, this is a dipshit move. My boat was once damm near sidelined by a flu-like that swept through the crew. That was not fun. Serious illnesses and nuclear submarines are not a tasty mix.

First time I got real honest to god The Flu flu, I was 23, in the best shape of my life. I collapsed at a friend's house and couldn't leave for 3 weeks. His girlfriend, an ER doc, said stay where you are the hospitals are overwhelmed. Now imagine that in a bunk you share wih 2 other people.

Assembly member Diana Moreno, "any collusion with ICE is compromising with fascism." Pass NY4AII & Dignity Not Detention.

I love watching them do behaviors! It’s the best 🥰

“We hear you humans are joining the Bird Fan Club. We approve.” (Blue Jay) #birds 🌿

A statue of Jesus received more legal recourse from the Israeli government than tens of thousands of Christian and Muslim Palestinian people.

A Great Blue Heron with bonus Barn Swallow photobombing. A fun shot for #TwosDay #birds 🌿

Alsvid always has my back!!! Donattte!

Alt text tip: imagine you are on the phone with a friend and want to tell them about the picture. You can have fun and you can be subjective about what details are important, but communicate whatever it was that made you want to share the picture.

heat shields are a vital part of atmospheric entry. spacecrafts typically travel between 17,000 and 25,000+ mph. while this is no issue in the vacuum of space, entering a planet's atmosphere at those speeds will cause the craft to experience atmospheric drag and become enveloped in a ball of plasma.

Can we get Noah Fisk trending?

Down to the last $1000 to raise! Help me close it out today and get this money over to the families—they are mindblown that this came together so fast. Maybe this is a new kind of mutual aid…mutually beneficial projects. We get to help two families for the price of one!

We might be about to find out what happens when ICE disregards a judge's order to release an immigrant it's locked in a cell www.universalhub.com/2026/we-migh... #Boston #immigrants #lawsuits

As someone who often needs to sit and rest when out in public, I say "HEAR, HEAR!"

SPLC was indicted before anyone in the Epstein files. The purpose of a system is what it does. The legal system is, you know, a system. This is what it does.

A mummy containing a rare papyrus fragment which included text from Book II of Homer’s Iliad, the famous “Catalog of Ships” which lists the Greek forces that sailed to Troy #classicalreception arkeonews.net/archaeologis...

In the future the only remaining job will be “survivor on derelict spaceship.” People will spend their 9-5 workday battling Fleshwraiths and solving puzzles to hack open doors

Friendly reminder that you can have fun with your alt text and also use it for its intended purpose: describing the photo so people using screen readers can know what you’re posting about!

Darn near killed 'em.

I really hope that every outlet that praises ‘Michael’ as some kind of achievement (you know which ones I’m talking about) are forced to disclose this to their readers. This is a movie that WANTED to lie to us, and the only reason it couldn’t was due to one (1) savvy lawyer.

I feel like not enough reviewers know they had to remake the entire final third of the Michael Jackson movie because it falsely exonerated him, and it turned out the kid’s lawyer foresaw that shit in the 1990s and made sure to include a clause that the estate could never ever do that on film.

This is all so gorgeous, but that little wave at the end is perfection.

This is a great point. Cities will spend years telling you they can't use k-rail to keep bicyclists safe, and then they'll quietly deploy a quarter mile of it to disperse a homeless encampment. bsky.app/profile/left...

If I were in charge, I would seek ways to make these easier to build. I don't know all the barriers to establishing diverter programs, whether it's *all* political, or if it involves traffic engineering reqs (I suspect the latter), but it warrants solving. bsky.app/profile/warr...

City planners know perfectly well that physical infrastructure can change behavior...they're just reluctant to apply that approach to cars. Ever seen the big rocks they put in places they don't want people to camp? Turns out the same thing works with drivers!

alt text is great, even when images are working

Car brains love to say things like, "You know I could kill you" to cyclists and still pretend they're the good guys

NATIVE #MUTUALAID💕💸 Could you please help a Mvskoke/Semvnole woman who is trying hard to hold it together with $125 for room/food/hygiene? I fell asleep and now need $75 in the next hour or I get a $50 late fee. Mvto! CA $fdanger Vnmo/PP @francesdangerMvto. #helpsky #fundsky #settlersaturday

lololol - Bluesky managed to put an "adult content" label on an image which YOU CANNOT ACTUALLY SEE

whimsical forest friends 🍄🌱

Also in my article: How Amos 'n Andy and Sherlock Holmes are linked in a major lawsuit. Why Sherlock Holmes showing emotions remained copyrighted when the character was already in the public domain Why you don't give an author's kid approval of the dailies

Sorry, I should clarify. Instead of saying "homoeroticism," I should have just said "canonically gay." I found some pretty fascinating incidents of Conan Doyle heirs and others trying to stop Sherlock and Watson from being a canonically gay couple. Sorry for the vague earlier post! <3

GodDAMN 🥵

This man is 39, this fuckery can't go on much longer

I'm voting "Literally What Are You People Even Talking About" 2028

Tricking the postcard and spot illustrations I did for my calendars last year.

Ever seen a poll result that is basically telling the pollsters themselves to go touch grass?

Correct.

When I say gamers treat you not buying the entertainment products they like with the exact same degree of pain like you chopped off one of their fingers, this is what I mean.

please?

Hey I won an upgrade to my train ride home and it comes with an itty-bitty toilet and a bed and what wait hang on we got nominated for a what—

the only picture you'll ever need when explaining "sea lions are what happened when bears decided they wanted to play in the ocean as a full time job"

you might be surprised by how often Tesla's data recording systems randomly break, fail to function properly, go missing, or are otherwise mysteriously unable to perform their functions precisely when they are needed most then again, you might not be surprised at all electrek.co/2026/04/13/t...