This got even funnier when I read it out loud to Mr Beet.

Last week’s Storyteller’s Circle story is now available for free! Please consider stopping by to listen to that, or any of the older stories that are also free to listen. www.patreon.com/posts/157110...

BREAKING: After nearly 3 months on strike, the staff union (WGSU) at the Writer's Guild of America has finally reached a TA with WGA leadership. A ratification vote will happen in the coming days. www.instagram.com/p/DYFoenWD5R...

#BatJobs! 🦇 Want to spend your summer working with bats & gaining hands-on research experience? We’re hiring TWO summer interns through WCS Canada! Get introduced to bat conservation & field research in western Canada. 📅 Applications close May 18 — don’t wait! wcscanada.bamboohr.com/careers/105

ATRM is hiring a FREELANCE VIDEO EDITOR. Per-episode, ongoing, and working on our flagship show with 2M+ downloads, 1.2M+ followers, debut book out in September. For more info or to receive the RFP, drop us a DM or contact us via alltherightmovies.com.

A new report found workers are earning record low wages and other compensation in exchange for their labor. It’s the culmination of a decades-long trend, experts told TPM, and Trump’s policies aren’t helping.

"Print is a rent strike" hell yeah it is. A long read but a good one.

A federal judge on Thursday dropped the controversial conspiracy charge against the four remaining members of the “Broadview Six,” a group of protesters who were charged over a demonstration during the Trump administration’s aggressive deportation push last year.

How refreshing to see mainstream news on these medicines. It seems like not so long ago, planting poppies in your yard with the wrong perceived intent could land you in jail, and yet here we are. Huge props to the scientists that kept the flame alive during the crushing drug enforcement years.

This fucking sucks man. Sorry but we can't outlaw play just because we've created a culture where a handful of people have decided the only impact they can possibly make is one wherein they commit a horrific act of violence. We gotta let kids play. www.chicagotribune.com/2026/05/02/s...

Report: Laurelhurst Residents Blocking Helicopter Landings at Seattle Children’s Ain’t Heard Shit Yet: tinyurl.com/yc3u8ukh

The Dream Foundry Contest for Emerging Artists and Writers is now open!! No submission fees No rights encumbered 1st Place: $1500 (the art contest’s prize money as part of the Monu Bose Memorial Prize) 2nd Place: $750 3rd Place: $400 Submit by June 8, 2026 1/2

Also I've been very "don't joke about Avatar being Pocahontas in Space because Pocahontas was a real person and that's disrespectful and racist af" and what does Jim fucking do? Deep fakes Q'Orianka Kilcher. Who played Pocahontas.

On this day in 1933, Nazis raided the Magnus Hirschfeld library in Berlin. The world’s greatest collection of LGBTQ books and scientific papers were looted and later burned, erasing decades of research into sexuality and gender identity. ‘Where they burn books, in the end they will burn humans too’.

The work of bird conservationists is so very critical & appreciated, and also incredibly funny to me Seabird Sue! The falcon jazz hat! The folks dressed up like a crane, flying an ultralight to guide migration! Stay gold, bird lovers.

we need to talk about what Louisiana Republicans are doing to Calvin Duncan, who deserves so much better than this ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

sorry not sorry fur is far more eco friendly than plastic based nonsense. fur, quills, and feathers for Indigenous art by Indigenous makers is more ethically harvested than any mass produced alternative. do yall know how much we make out of literal roadkill?

We have seen an uptick in whistle requests again and we are still sending them out: linktr.ee/3Dwhistles We have closed our shipping GFM and mostly wound down active fundraising for filament, but if it revs back up again, so will we! 💓

More #buyastrangerabook day magic! @sarahalba.bsky.social is offering to buy someone the paperback of their choice. Not just what's on my website. Anything! So, if there's a particular title you're after, get in touch. UK only

Hey so if you’re a man with an XX partner or child that you care about, I need you to read this thread because shit is not going to change unless cis men start not being okay with this stuff.

New: Latest Cop City Indictment Drags Former RICO Defendants into New Legal Battle Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr charged three people for a protest that took place nearly four years ago during the movement to stop Cop City in Atlanta. unicornriot.ninja/2026/latest-...

The project will lead to a climate adaptation plan rooted in data and projections about how climate threats will manifest in Haines.

A proposal to relocate 1,300 homeless individuals to a campus near Salt Lake City has been shelved due to concerns over costs and civil liberties.

Today (5/4), Rapid City High School students marched during school hours to the courthouse to demand Pe' Sla be protected, access to clean water, and the ability to pray on the land where their ancestors have for thousands of years. 📸 Credit: Angel White Eyes

Okay folks, because this happens every year: 1. The Met Gala funds the Costume Institute which does not receive any of the money the Met Museum gets from tickets or money from the general donation pool to the Met.

I'm consistently impressed that Wired and Ars Technica continue to do great tech reporting despite being owned by Conde Naste. The duo's reporting basically killed the tech industry's covert effort to neuter a popular Colorado law making it easier and cheaper to repair your own tech:

I am honored to share the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Best International Reporting with Dake Kang, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Garance Burke for our reporting revealing how Silicon Valley largely designed and built China's surveillance state and enabled human rights abuses.

I know May 4 is for the star War fans but on this day 56 years ago, four Kent State students protesting the war were killed by the Ohio National Guard.

Quell surprise

I dreamed I went through a specific drawer & found a favorite sock that was lost Today, I went through that drawer and... found the sock. I have to belive it is statistically likely that is where it would be & my subconscious knows that, otherwise I am psychic about lost socks, which is just silly

Mood

Update:

Never

Every day is shut the fuck up Friday & see you in the streets

Here are some faves that leap to mind, in no order: Baldwin: a Love Story An Immense World She Has Her Mother's Laugh Packing for Mars A People's History of the United States Honorable mention: the Autobiography of Mother Jones

For my fellow writers and publishing people, I went long on how mad I am about nonfiction authors not getting paperbacks + the NYT moving its nonfiction paperback list from weekly to monthly. www.talkscratch.com/list-full-of...

Here are numbers to call to demand a stop to the drilling at sacred Pe'Sla in the Black Hills.

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“There is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class.” For May Day 2026, Will Bloom, co-chair of Chicago DSA’s Labor Branch reports that more than 140 DSA chapters are planning rallies, political education, strike fund fundraisers, and more. inthesetimes.com/article/demo...

We won! Hundreds of thousands of people who are currently detained and separated from their families in lower-level cases will be released from jail every year. An incredible victory for liberty and public safety. You can read the historic decision here: civilrightscorps.org/wp-content/u...

The May Days: Stories of Courage and Resistance Scenes from a century and a half of strikes, rallies, riots, prison breaks, and direct action in honor of May Day. Know your history! crimethinc.com/maydayhistory

1 May ¡Ya basta!

Or if you’re in the mood for taking down Christopher Columbus and the so-called Founding Fathers ..

Whooo, let's go kiddos

people still want to act like nihilism is cool but it is actually bullshit compliance. humans are not going away. we get to decide if future generations suffer or if they live free. hope is punk as fuck. our oppressors want us to believe we have no power and nothing is possible. it’s not true.

A 242-acre stretch of forested land featuring a rare wetland ecosystem has been conserved as “forever wild” near Maidstone Lake in the Northeast Kingdom.

Everything sucks but at least we can watch this soulless weasel squirm

The answer to so many things

The Voting Rights Act is essentially dead and it’s quite possible that we will, like when a similar SCOTUS gutted civil rights at the fall of Reconstruction, see a disappearance of much of the Black congressional representation, especially in the most heavily Black states, which are in the South.

Does anyone have confirmation on the Stancil honeypot story? I've only seen it from him & repeats of him.