Hey, hey, hey, to everyone saying "ultraprocessed food" is a made-up term with no scientific basis in reality whatsoever, CNN has you covered. Apparently "ultraprocessed" means, uh, [squints] "mashed up and cooked".

The children’s singer Raffi says pessimism is arrogance because it makes presume you ability see around every corner and the capacity to analyze every trend and can thereby conclude that everything is shit and going get shittier. Optimism is the humble path that admits you don’t know everything.

ALSO the people who will be most impacted by the state of the world will be the poorest and brownest they will not get the choice to opt out of suffering and we cannot be moral people if we abandon them

i am a depressed lady whose brain is glued together with effexor and vyvanse. hope takes effort but putting in that work is actually my duty. my ancestors did not survive for me to give up on the generations down the road.

I think this article👇 makes excellent points about preparing for the polycrisis. The key is community. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/27/o...

If you’ve been thinking about running for office, this is your sign. RFS endorsement applications for our June class close on May 3. No perfect resume required. Just a reason to care. bit.ly/Apply2RFS

“We're in an upside-down world, one where someone can be obsessed with uncovering Jeffrey Epstein and his pedophile cabal, then vote a member of the Epstein cabal into the highest office in the land, and then happily go see a new Michael Jackson hagiography.” defector.com/michael-is-t...

KEXP is hiring a new co-host for Sounds of Survivance, our weekly show amplifying Indigenous people bound through their shared struggle. If you are Native, have a passion for music, and want to use that passion to promote Native advancement, please apply at kexp.org/jobs

Below is a statement from the unionized workers of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Back when the tariffs were announced, I bought (among other things) two 24-packs of canned San Marzanos at Costco. My partner has been making stressed noises about us having so much "backstock" but now I can send him this screen shot and put a check on the "I was right" side of our white board.

Same thing adults told me when I complained about the boy tormenting me in the third grade. "He just likes you."

My partner (age 50) and I were recently at an event. A person responsible for the event (early 30s?) was attractive in a way I know he finds appealing. Me: "You should go tell X how great the event is, maybe flirt a little." Him: "Yeah, no, they're a CHILD to me." Me: "Good point. I love you."

I have just searched "how soon can I renew my passport" and apparently the answer is that if I want to do it online, I can only do it one year in advance. I have set a reminder for 6/17.

A note I found yesterday while walking in Portland.

I want to emphasize, this was *the story* about citizen agency that I, an American socialized in the 1970s and 80s, internalized. Change was slow, but it can happen. The work is never done, but "the system" can be responsive if citizens, journalists, and politicians play their allotted roles.

I feel like his skills could have been put to better use at that specific point in time

I suffered through an incredibly tedious report on "public support for political violence" on BBC Newshour while driving to Costco. You know how this went: "a shocking number of people in the US support political violence/both sides do it" etc. The question was never asked: violence against WHOM?

This was a GREAT podcast episode about a phenomenon that I was just a bit too young, and definitely too white & Midwestern, to know anything substantial about. Congratulations to @99pi.org !

I only finished my PhD because my dad agreed to pay me $15 an hour to work on my dissertation. I already had three jobs and was barely keeping my head above water. He literally bought me enough time to write the diss (which to my shame I never published). Hardly Einstein but I got the PhD done.

KITTY! 🧵

Film you've watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: no Star Trek, Star Wars, LOTR, Marvel, Disney, or Ghibli.

Psst Penzeys has everything but gift cards, vanilla, and saffron 44% off this weekend 🍽️

The one my BFF and I designed back when we were in a theatre production class 3 decades ago: multi-purpose performance space with proscenium, black box, scene & costume shop, & rehearsal spaces but also bookstore, massage, therapy offices, & LGBTQ+ community org offices & gathering spaces. And ☕ 🍰.

Lagaan.* Or as I like to call it, "the best 4-hour Bollywood musical about cricket and land taxes under colonialism you've never seen." [goes hard at the "Mitwa" dance, pulls a muscle, lays on the floor] *for the value of "no one else" = "white Western people"

I have cooked a pound of @ranchogordo.bsky.social Scarlet Runner beans, and a pound of their cassoulet beans (oven method). My kitchen smells amazing. We shall feast beautifully this week. And our freezer shall be fortified against The Lean Times. 🍽️

DJ Evie Stokes on KEXP asked for pics of people's dinner or pets so I sent her a pic of Gogo chilling on the heating pad with his toes catching the spring breeze via the open window, and he got a DJ shout-out!

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Absolutely not what I expected Way better

#TherapistSky - does your profession have an accredited program at Texas Tech? Mine does! I wrote the accreditor, COAMFTE, to ask that they support the MFT program in fighting this policy as it could cause the program to lose its accreditation.

As we head to the midterms, election deniers are replaying some of their 2020 greatest hits and the GOP is trying to use these rumors to tilt the playing field in their favor. But now that we know the game, maybe we can prevent ourselves from getting played? katestarbird.substack.com/p/here-we-go...

ISTR conservatives making fun of "the new math" for decades.

It's turned chilly again. And the heating pad on the back of the couch has made Gogo come completely unglued.

Thankx to THE BOSS for having Public Enemy perform at Springsteen Center American Music Honors ,, we should all always continue to FIGHT THE POWER

Hey, @seattletimes-rss.bsky.social you literally GOT this story from me. I broke it days ago on Bluesky and then on my own website, PubliCola. THE POST WAS DOWN BY YESTERDAY. I RAN INTO YOUR REPORTER WHO THANKED ME FOR BREAKING THIS NEWS today. Give my independent outlet credit immediately.

I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

1. This weekend, a federal judge permanently blocked funding threats to providers and hospitals that provide trans youth care. The judge also blocked "any similar policy." Hospitals have NO excuse and must return to providing care under many blue state laws. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I agreed to beta-read a book that I did not know involved AI in its creation. It is very challenging for me to decide what to do now. Also, the writing is not compelling. Maybe I am not the audience for it, but... I don't think I'm the problem here.

Submit meaningless data for SCIENCE!

Do you want super babies? Because this is how you get super babies! (Really!)

I very much enjoyed the last of Tom's books I read, "Villager," and at some point I hope to enjoy this one.

"Domestic violence dispute" is a really interesting way to say "some people didn't want to be killed but one guy wanted to kill them"

Rest in Power to a major figure in the AIDS treatment activism in the 1980s, a time when many were indifferent or looking away.

Cut flowers from the yard after a long afternoon of yard work. 🌱

Good things can still happen.

This week I learned that "extra-long heating pads" are now a thing, and I have evidently created cat Nirvana on the back of my couch.

BAFTA pulling a trailer for an autobiographical game about surviving sexual assault only hours before it was said to be a part of a showcase is an exceptionally bad look.

I am manually entering continuing education requirements for my multiple state licenses into an online tracker I am paying for, and the fact that "Pump Up the Jam" is playing on KEXP is failing to make this shitty task noticeably better, so I am apparently clinically dead

it's not a coincidence that one of the first, if not THE first, act of student revolt against a vile speaker, setting off the entire "cancel culture" moral panic, was about Charles Murray

Well, it's hailing.