"Girls Just Want To Have Fun" - Cyndi Lauper "Black Magic Woman" - Santana "Nothing Compares 2 U" - Sinead O'Connor

A call for writers who are from Antigua and Barbuda or who now call the twin island nation home to submit a story. believeme268.carrd.co #antiguaandbarbuda #antiguabarbuda

Nerd joy is matching a vague description of an antiquity in a museum to a letter in an archive, emailing the curators about it, and then seeing that they added the info to the listing! (In this case, for a wonderful vase showing Danae and the infant Perseus being sealed into a chest).

A. We had a lot of fun at #TheMandalorianandGrogu, which is a >avg SW. B. It's 2026; @maxgladstone.bsky.social's Bee Theory should have been long disproved, not actively supported by Star Warses where everyone in a crime diner is a dude & there are 2 named F chars. maxgladstone.com/2013/10/star...

Absolutely thrilled to share this and so grateful to the incredible @stephengrahamjones.com for taking an auditorium seat for this little cursed film book. Thank you so much, Stephen! THIS MOVIE DOESN'T END THE WAY WE WANT opens September 15th from @titanbooks.bsky.social 📽️

Relieved that we're still discovering adorable little blue creatures and not terrifying giant monsters, though the monsters would, of course, be right on brand for this timeline

Yay! Congrats to Janet Voight at the Field who has described a new species of deep-sea octopus from the Galapagos! Microeledone galapagensis! #molluscmonday www.fieldmuseum.org/about/press/...

I'll never get over how openly horrible people have become post 2020.

Sam Altman: “A kid born today will never be smarter than AI.” They are framing humanity as inferior to AI so they can rewire our society and usher in their AI mass surveillance dystopia. AI is not superior to humanity. It is fake. We are real. We must always put humanity first. Always 💯💯💯💯💯

I just read this & it’s fantastic

ICE agents pepper-sprayed Senator Andy Kim of New Jersey.

Literally every American feel good story is actually a “systemic failure” story

Just started this but it’s interesting so far. #BookSky

what are we reeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaading?

Go read Tia Tashiro’s new short story. It’s great. clarkesworldmagazine.com/tashiro_05_26/

BREAKING: Sally’s Apizza is opening at 30 Thomson Place in Fort Point in November 2026. Confirmed! 🔥 @fpnaboston.bsky.social @marchurboston.bsky.social @universalhub.com

A livestream of a volcano in the Philippines captured a meteor crashing to Earth today. What are the odds? Mayon Volcano, Location: Albay, Luzon, Philippines

"The number of investigations devoted to innocent Palestinians killed by the Israeli army was precisely zero. The omission is so complete that viewers could be forgiven for thinking the Israeli army’s only innocent victims in this war were Israelis."

Another reminder: if there exists *any* class of people who don't have due process rights, then *nobody* actually has due process rights because the government can always just say you're in that class.

Oh, I really enjoyed this review (and the book it's reviewing!).

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.

Pope Leo XIV made a historic apology on Monday for the Holy See's role in legitimizing slavery and for having failed to condemn it for centuries, calling the Vatican's record a "wound in Christian memory." https://to.pbs.org/4tTcBWM

Variety: CBS is "standing down" and has stopped issuing takedown notices on Stephen Colbert's new "Only in Monroe" public access series Public pressure works, kids variety.com/2026/tv/news...

'He's tiny! It's blue!': Scientists find new deep-sea octopus

A PhD student at Stanford noticed her classmates were asking Al to write their breakup texts. So she ran a study. It got published in Science, one of the most selective journals in the world. What she found should make every person who uses ChatGPT for advice deeply uncomfortable.

Honestly, one of the funniest tweets I've ever seen.

Here's an example of a linguistic fact that I think should be straightforward and obvious when pointed out, but which a lot of people seem surprisingly resistant to: Colloquial Latin never died. In fact it's spoken extremely widely across the world. 🧵

Color, with all its attendant theories, is one of the most basic components of art-making. Color charts are behind it all.

"This era demands a new framework for Black politics—fresh strategies, tactics, leaders, and goals. And we should be clear-eyed: even before Callais, the existing models of Black politics were growing stale." newrepublic.com/article/2106...

A privilege to work on this with Perry. Even before Callais, we had challenges—aging CBC that hasn’t cultivated the next gen, a centrist turn of Black mayors, district representation that doesn’t matter under national polarization Callais destroys even that. We need a new inside-outside strategy

The books had to be light and small enough to fit in servicemen's pockets. The motto of the Council on Books in Wartime was: "Books Are Weapons in the War of Ideas." n.pr/4uO1S1f

THE POPE IS QUOTING GANDALF!!!

"As a general principle, you don’t tax the wealthy to build. You tax the wealthy to manage their power. (. . .)For this reason, every dollar over $100 million should fall into a confiscatory tax bracket of 100%. There’s no reason to allow anyone to accrue more wealth than that."

Toshifumi Suzuki, the founder of Seven-Eleven Japan and widely regarded as the father of Japan's convenience store industry, has died. https://cnn.it/4uFBUg7

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BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries.

im an idiot when it comes to foreign policy, i shouldnt be the one that is right about this shit

“Technology in & of itself is not a solution to humanity’s problems just as it is not inherently evil. In practice, however, technology is never neutral, because it takes on the characteristics of those who devise, finance, regulate & use it.” Sounds like the Pope’s been reading Mumford, Ellul etc

David Rosner's work is a reminder that scholars who choose to use their knowledge in service of justice are among the most important people in public life. His research saved lives. His legacy is immense. He was a giant among us. And one of the kindest people I've ever known. Rest in power, David.

In their most recent book, Building the Worlds that Kill Us, Davie and Gerald survey their career of research and argue that what they uncovered was never just about one toxin or one industry. It is about the structures we build and who we are willing to let die inside them.

What made David and Gerald's work so powerful and so threatening to the powerful is that they didn't just write rigorous history. They also leveraged it. Their research supported litigation across the US holding firms accountable in the courts and building archives for others to use for the same.

Lead Wars is a meticulous. devastating account of how lead paint manufacturers fought for decades to protect their products while generations of children, disproportionately Black and poor, paid with their health and their futures. A battle we are still fighting but that David successfully advanced.

Long before "environmental justice" was a common phrase, David and his longtime collaborator Gerald Markowitz were doing painstaking archival work to show how industries knew about the harms they were causing and chose profit over people. Their books Deceit and Denial and Lead Wars are essential.

Thinking about the extraordinary legacy of David Rosner- historian, public health scholar, and one of the most important voices on how corporate power, industrial pollution, and structural inequality shaped American health and lives. 🧵

A day after The Late Show ended, Colbert hosted an episode of public access program Only In Monroe, reviving his 11-year-old gag. How bad is CBS/Paramount taking it? They issued copyright complaints for a show they don't own. 🤣 CBS would hate it if you watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlF...

A rainy day like this one is perfect for assembling the website for a new urban trail; like the upcoming 80 + mile monster that's going to loop around the Boston perimeter and pass through every city and town that touches Boston. Only two more weeks until the new trail launches!

The far right is being racist. Here's why it's the left's fault. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

This is pretty shockingly evil. Wild (if not surprising) that Washington does this while maintaining that Cuba is a threat to the USA.

In normal times, the fact that government officials at HHS blatantly lied to the public and got caught would be a scandal of unusual size. Everyone involved in this disinformation scheme against the people of the United States should be held accountable.