Chuck Schumer is either allowing eight of his colleagues to be the sin eaters who take the blame for passing this shutdown deal, or he’s genuinely powerless to hold his conference together. Either way, he should be out of leadership tomorrow morning.

I’m in Tokyo (!) and just spotted Zohran Mamdani on the Shinjuku giant cat billboard. Good job to folks back home!

Freyja Stokes, a real-life #Pratchett scholar, looks at Mrs Palm and the historical connections between sex work and witchcraft... come for the history, stay for some amazing puns. Read for free: www.speculativeinsight.com Please share widely!

Office policies at my last place of work: Theft: You may steal up to $3/week. More than that, you have to tell someone before you take it. Dress Code: During business hours, you must wear a shirt. Conduct: No having sex in the Boss’ office. Not fucking kidding.

And international leaders keep talking about a ceasefire being in effect.

POV: The new singer of the Reading Rainbow theme song and the new host of Reading Rainbow meet for the first time in Canada 🥹📚🌈 Video Description: Mychal and Bukola meet for the first time! They joyfully dance to the Reading Rainbow theme song, sung by Bukola ✨ youtube.com/@kidzuko?feature=shared

“I’m mostly tired of expecting the world to end this,” Malek texts me from his tent encampment in Khan Younis. “I need to sleep. I have to wake up early to go look for food.” mondoweiss.net/2025/08/star...

Share your favorite covers as a timeline cleanse. (Any excuse to share Bloodywood.)

Street art edition

I couldn’t decide which was funnier tonight, a grasshopper jump scaring me or catching a couple in the act, but I was just picking arugula leaves in the near dark when a raccoon came around the corner and we were almost face to face before it took off. I’m not sure which of us was more startled! 🌱

Another Flint mural. This is by Kevin Burdick/Scraps Design and is in the alley next to the Capitol Theatre, one of my very favorite places.

Set up for Dragon Con 2025 Booth 2802. Woohoo! We are ready for you to visit, peruse and chat as is your wont. Can’t wait to see you all!

My kitchen has become endless ever-changing piles of drying herbs and flowers, especially for salts and teas. Cookie sheets in the stove, cutting boards layered on pans, half-filled jars everywhere. It smells wonderful. 🌱🍜

The Wright Flyer was a sucky airplane too

They should have called this Save vs. Death. #GenCon

Last day of Gen Con 2025. I got to meet and talk with so many cool people. So much fun. Thanks all so much! If you have the energy and time, stop by the Gamer Concepts booth 1317. We may have something you might like.

“keep politics out of kids movies” disney in 1973:

Getting crafty at Scrapfest in Lansing’s Old Town! The Makerspace booth has diy patches based on an artwork made by members.

Remember tonight: reactormag.com/read-a-new-m...

We've launched a GoFundMe campaign so we can defend our property in the Diamond bankruptcy case. The full story is at the link but basically, Diamond is trying to take consignment inventory that they don't own and sell it to pay big creditors. TY for help and shares! www.gofundme.com/f/support-gr...

The only political split that matters - feed everyone on the off chance one person is hungry, or feed no one on the off chance someone undeserving might get fed

This. Watching a bunch of pre-teens getting into the circle pit during Baby Metal gave me pause…and hope.

Bloodywood was so much fun tonight! Apologies in advance for talking about them all week, but they’re bringing a lot of joy in a dark time.

Fun fact: On this day in 1953, my great-grandpa (Tony Kleiber) drove the first Corvette off the line. Funny fact: I worked at a Corvette repro parts shop right out of college and didn’t know about this until long after I had moved on.

Instagram channel @Art_DailyDose Jo Hobbs, is a UK needle-felting artist known for crafting realistic miniature animal figures from wool Artist: @jurlyjocreation #art #needlefelting #dog #sculpture #animals #UnitedKingdom #UK #artist

One week until the world’s most adorable metal band plays in Ann Arbor! (Seriously, who else sings about their mom’s cooking?)

Last day of Origins 2025 at the Gamer Concepts booth (#1227). Hope everyone had so much fun! We did as well and met lots of wonderful people. Thank you! #originsgamefair

Maybe I should’ve said Booth #1227 AT Origins Game Fair. Yeesh.

The Gamer Concepts booth is set up and looking…okayish. In the morning it’ll get a final polish. Come see us at booth #1227 and say hi. We love that. We could even have something you may want.

At a festival in Tasmania, dancing under the stars with @macie.bsky.social. A man was near us the whole night. Awesome dancer. Lots of energy. Bounding around. Just delightful. I thanked him at the end for making our evening better. Weeks later we figure out it was Peter Garrett of Midnight Oil.

“But they’re burning Los Angeles!” They’re not, but even if they were: federal law enforcement can’t hide their identities, they need warrants, everyone should have due process and protesting is protected. If you’re arguing for this response, you are a horrible unfinished person and I pity you.

If you have a chance, visit the Mackintosh House at the Hunterian in Glasgow. Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh created the most beautiful home.

Great moments in Pride history: Isaac Newton invents being gay, 1666.

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I guess we can keep doing this.

An LLM does not "help you write your books". An LLM prevents you from writing*your* books, while you are helping the LLM generate its books.

My lilacs have come and gone, but I’ll be making a hard boiled egg to mark the 25th of May.

We celebrate the Glorious 25th of May this year with bacon (of course), soft-boiled eggs for younger Sam and hard boiled for old Vimes. We miss you Sir Terry. #Glorious25th #Discworld

Please read. We hoped that one of the many members of the Bluesky community from Gaza could be first to share this letter, but we were worried that their account would get taken down if they did. This letter is for @moderation.bsky.app, Bluesky leadership, and the wider community here. Thanks!

The Joe Rogan of the left has died the day after his selection. He was a mere 106 years old and will be missed

Enjoyable evening at the library listening to the brilliant Dr. Ibram X. Kendi talk about his new book Malcolm Lives!

Tea, cupcakes and Murderbot. Yep, she loves me.

I made a silent puppet film about Godzilla vs. Paul Bunyan. (thank you to @iamchubbybunny.bsky.social for Japanese translations and @okaywolf.ink for clanky piano!!)

Damn.

if you know a lot of stuff i think it is your moral duty to be kind and excited when people learn stuff for the first time. the world is full of stuff we don't know about, don't be mean

Lots of fired up teachers at today’s People for Public Education Rally in Lansing.