Announcing: Platypus Economics — a Substack, YouTube channel, and podcast built around one idea: Economics is one of the most useful, surprising, and weirdly beautiful subjects in the world. It belongs to everyone — not just the people who happened to take it in college. 🧵

New reporting exposes the Trump airport grift in Palm Beach. According to the Miami Herald, the deal to rename Palm Beach International Airport after Donald Trump is packed with perks for Trump’s business. Under the tentative agreement, airport stores would be forced to buy branded merchandise only

Post art, people! Timeline cleanse! ➜➜➜ flowers, rainbows, happy, reboot, reset, please {ps. critiques or spam follows = instant block}

My hottest “I have no data to back this up” take is that phones aren’t making young people less happy. What’s making them less happy is living in a world where everyone is having their reality defined by recommendation algorithms that can only care about whether something keeps you watching.

This is such incredible bullshit. I am alive, thriving, and writing books on health policy/politics thanks to antidepressants. Antidepressants aren't for everyone, but they can be literal lifesavers. Attacking their prescribing & use is stigmatizing and dangerous. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/04/s...

It’s the weekend so I guess the Strait of Hormuz is closed, the markets will dip on Monday and miraculously rise from the dead on TACO Tuesday. International diplomacy or stock market manipulation? I guess we’ll never know. 🤷🏾‍♂️

In competitive authoritarianism, leaders abuse state power to tilt the electoral playing field in their favor, manipulate the media environment and minimize opposition voices, maybe even steal close elections by lying about fraud. But they usually can't overcome a large majority voting against them.

Join now: DIY Postcard Swap spring 2026 It is time to join iHanna’s DIY Postcard Swap spring 2026! You can sign up today and start creating your handmade postcards along with me this month. It'll be so nice to do this again. You have from today and about one month forward to create ten handmade…

The City of Pittsburgh just passed legislation banning cooperation with ICE. The vote was unanimous. 🎉🎉🎉

The round watercolor brush is superior to the filbert on alternate Thursdays.

Post art, people! Timeline cleanse! ➜➜➜ flowers, rainbows, happy, reboot, reset, please {ps. critiques or spam follows = instant block}

$2 million per ship — to cross a Strait that was free six weeks ago. @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/w...

Vice President J.D. Vance has a moral, ethical, and constitutional obligation to invoke Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment by securing the support from a majority of the cabinet to “immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President.”

If I were in Trump's Cabinet, I would spend Easter calling constitutional lawyers about the 25th Amendment. This is completely, utterly unhinged. He's already killed thousands. He's going to kill thousands more.

More context on this #Artemis II image: * This is the night side, lit by moonlight. You can see city lights in Spain & Portugal, & a sliver of day at lower right * The Sun is entirely behind Earth, which makes it a kind of solar eclipse, but w/ Earth doing the eclipsing instead of the Moon: ☀️🌍🚀🌕

We need your help. The Trump administration is dismantling the U.S. Forest Service. 193 million acres of public land (bigger than Texas) is being handed over to political operatives and industry insiders.

No Kings in Utqiaġvik (Barrow) Alaska!

A fan of creating art within a grid? Me too! Grids as a muse by Tammy @tammy999.bsky.social daisyyellowart.com/vividlife/gr... #ihannalinklove #creativity #Blogging #art #mixedmedia #patterns

So quiet you can hear a hidden feeling break, its broken parts curl inwards and reorganise themselves like flowers to float on the rippling expanse of your surface feelings.

Targeting power plants violates the Principle of Distinction if they serve civilians. Under the Geneva Conventions (Art. 51/52), "obliterating" infrastructure is a war crime if the civilian suffering is disproportionate to the military gain or if the attack strikes nuclear facilities (Art. 56).

The interaction flow is starting to feel really solid. It gives color selection something tactile! WDYT? pickypalette.color.pizza

Did you know there is an over the counter birth control pill (Opill) you can get without a prescription? ✔️Prevents pregnancy 🚫Not for emergency contraception ☎️Talk to your provider first if you are on other medications or have health conditions Learn more here: www.acog.org/womens-healt...

What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?

Can any reporter ask any Republican member of the Senate or House on camera what constitutes an impeachable offense under their understanding of the Constitution? Genuinely want to understand what crime, apparently yet to be committed, is the line.

Keep creating 🩶

Oh the cuteness 🩶🩶🩶

Philipp Otto Runge, 1810

Bluesky should not get into this idea that blocking you is a problem. You can be blocked for any reason. You can be blocked because your pfp is annoying. You can be blocked because your vibe sucks. If you take this personally I think that’s also a reason you can be blocked.

We report upon finding the sun in the rain: it makes no rainbow behind our back, but we forgive it easily for that. Later, when it is gone, we miss it, and even later, when it comes back, we are grateful. All throughout, it keeps on raining all the kinds of rain we know.

Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming

Reupping this because a colonoscopy is no big deal and anyone over 40 should be talking to their doctor about getting one. Take care of yourselves, people.

Been very tired recently but still wanted to try and make some #CrepuscularRays for @pixeldailies.bsky.social #pixelart #pixelartist #ドット絵 #aseprite #pixel_dailies

The choice is impeachment and removal or calamity for the United States. I don't see how anybody watching Trump's speech in Davos can draw any other conclusion. He's a senile madman.

Absolute comment gold 🏆

Here are the art challenges creators and hosts that I know of. Everything is in the alt text.

Your Dec 8–14 art challenge cheat sheet is here! HELP NEEDED! Have a few $ to help a challenge host in need? See post in comments #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt

two isometric #tiles for #pixel_dailies! one is an island and the other is a forest! 32x32 tiles, aap-radiantplus palette! #ドット絵 #pixelart @pixeldailies.bsky.social

Beautiful 🤍

the two types of organizations: spreadsheets and cults

it was a summer filled with collage; here's № 90/125 3x5" stitched collage, 2025 #blueskyartshow #bright #analogcollage #abstractcollage

I can’t stop making these tiny pixel paintings now #pixelart #painting #art

A baroque art gallery for today’s @pixeldailies.bsky.social I found this one especially fun. 9 colours on a 64x32 canvas. #pixelart #art #pixel_dailies #art

a little side-view #room for #pixel_dailies! 1 hour of work, aap-64 palette, 64x64 room size! super fun to make, hope you like! #ドット絵 #pixelart @pixeldailies.bsky.social

incredible photo that's definitely worth at least 1,000 words from Andrew Harnik of Getty

Here's the art challenge cheat sheet for October 20-26! Enjoy! The host list and posts from hosts are in the comments. #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt

Here's the art challenge cheat sheet for October 13-19! Enjoy! The host list and posts from hosts are in the comments. #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #dailyart #art #traditionalart #painting #drawing #onlybeautifulthings #artchallenge #artprompt

Art challenges for Sep 29–Oct 31 NEW: #ImageAndVerse (Sunday), #Spooktober (daily), #31DaysOfHalloween (daily), #BirdOfTheDay See comments for host list + info from hosts #ArtChallenges #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #art #painting #drawing #ArtPrompt

Bridgeception It took a lot of knowledge to design these bridges. #UrbanGaze #AlphabetChallenge #WeekLforLines #SensoryArt #knowledge #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #ArtYear #MobilePhotography

“The law doesn’t matter anymore” is obeying in advance.