This Danville, VA city council candidate made a very dramatic video about sidewalks and public safety, and I love it and him. Worrying about a possible milkshake duck situation, I looked at his FB page, but he seems ok. Juneteenth celebrations, community outreach, Methodists. A solid old gent.

Gotta love a social media thread that starts out with a terrific small town campaign ad and goes all the way to a formative pop culture experience I haven’t thought about in 30 years.

This guy makes a mamdani video better than all the dem consultants who tried after seeing them Ya know why? Because he’s authentic

Agreed. His pants are giving Fred-Mertz-pants energy youtu.be/jtmC2I8K6mo?...

I try to disambiguate “centrist” from “moderate” for this reason. It’s okay if your actual values are moderate, but “centrism” is a posture defined by the perceived postures of others

pretty devastating dunk at the end of this paragraph

Lynda Barry did not squeeze your heart and simultaneously explain the point of all art with the barest of line drawings so you could tell me that AI is "inevitable."

Tech CEOs in 2026: ‘We spent billions to hopefully one day have an ai that can make people feel like it’s portraying real emotions for tv, but we need way more money to do it’ Jim Henson in 1955: ‘yeah so I stuck some ping pong balls to a bit of old felt and called it Kermit’

I hate how people claim places like NYC are the "exception" in America but Montana is considered like "the True America"....one place is arguably MUCH OLDER AND BEEN IN AMERICA LONGER

I wasn't online today so maybe there's some broader context I'm missing, but whenever you say NYC isn't the US satan smiles because it feeds into the conservative talking point that "real america" is rural and white (nevermind that there are rural and POC areas!)

Our research confirms this. Climate change increases the need for air conditioning for people to not die in heat waves. We need clean energy. We need efficient buildings. We need green infrastructure. We need more of this that most folks can imagine. We should start building it all right now.

guy on a bike called out to me ‘you look so beautiful!’ and i was steeling myself for it to get weird but then he called to a guy on a different bike ‘that’s a great bike man!’ and then ‘smoothie looks fire!’ to a third guy who was drinking one. so i guess i found him. Johnny Compliments

Watch this (Genre) Space! The narration is compelling and evocative. The worldbuilding is impeccable. And the protagonists are such an interesting collection of people that I can’t wait to learn more about what brought them here. So excited to see shows like this out here!

Garffeld

Begging news outlets to stop illustrating deadly heat waves with happy beach fun 🏖️😎 and life-saving vaccines with terrifying needle assaults 💉😭. Especially on social media (where many/most people get their news) the photo is the most prominent part of the story; these choices undermine it completely

Yea, that's always bothered me. It always reinforces the association people have of heat with "good weather", which is recon is a significant reason why many Europeans don't see climate change as a threat.

If you read Everett True comics, you realize people have been assholes in the exact same way for a century and change, and people have wanted to wallop them for it that entire time.

New kind of commission now open! ko-fi.com/c/0b00f31c4c #emotes #commission #illustration #streaming

That’s too good for someone like me writing a book about the news culture: “DO NOT PUBLISH UNTIL NEWS IS CONFIRMED A look back at the PM's political career”

We turned around and went back just to get a picture after driving by this.

"The Americans can't get the slime out of their capital's monument pool and will arrest you for touching it," sounds like the sort of lie they'd tell us in the Soviet Union so we'd stop bitching about bread lines.

they are on Threads fighting to the death over whether or not it is ableist for an author to use the word “scrying" (people might not know the definition!). how beautiful. people staring into their phones and getting so emotional over “scrying.” perhaps there really is magic in reflective surfaces!

Your Cherokee words for today. The top word is English followed by how it is written in the Cherokee language followed by how it is spelled in English then how to pronounce it phonetically. Dee-dah-yaw-hee-stee

Oh no, no no no. Bush and Cheney used 9/11 to spearhead making Islamophobia the centerpiece of the Republican Party and tested the waters on authoritarianism. There is no MAGA power surge without “if you’re not with us you’re against us” and the Iraq war.

I made a short film about losing my wallet while legally homeless in the US—& the bureaucratic, Kafka-like terror which followed to prove I existed. This is threat facing millions of USians who are legally homeless and/or unsheltered. (With @propublica.org & @brian-goldstone.bsky.social cameos)

Hey girl, are you the reflecting pool? Because you're not broken but I'm going to try to fix you anyway and then get mad when I can no longer see what I used to see in you.

This re-write of "We Didn't Start The Fire" falls apart at multiple points, both thematically and rhythmically...

More big ducks! More big ducks!

Well THIS sounds like extremely my jam.

western history:

LOUDER FOR THE PEOPLE IN THE BACK Also nb work to turn the the other tide from the grassroots to far beyond:

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In an old city beside a magical sea, three strangers are summoned to a mysterious meeting. Season 4 begins now.

Joe Johnston's concept designs for the Ewoks were all so good!

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Tomorrow!! Our beautiful magical children!

“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment

Me and the eight year old walking down Franklin Ave, cheering along to the honking and the yelling and the singing. After getting a few fist bumps, he turns to me and says of New York, “People really seem to like this place”

Dude I was just in a crowd that was blocking a bus and the girl behind me started chanting “MTA, MTA” and then the crowd parted to let the bus thru 😭 Greatest city in the world baby

We're currently sitting at about -$20 for the month so far, solar is incredible. That's up in Massachusetts, powering a whole-home heat pump for AC

we have solar. i just looked, my bill this month is on track to be about $8. i live in virginia and this includes charging an EV.

A “good” elected official is one who can be pressured into doing the right thing. The best of the best are not going to stick their neck out to do something difficult unless the voters insist on it. Bad ones won’t do the right thing no matter what the voters do.

Guy at the pyramids called after me “sir!” No response “maam!” No response, after a few seconds he tries again “cousin!” I think we’ve cracked it. There is a gender neutral honorific.

To be very precise, on top of being a useless conman, he is one of the biggest mass-murders in history, a genocideer on par with any of history's other monsters.

Gender-affirming care for minors is not a bad thing. It’s been so needlessly demonized and the position has been so thoroughly capitulated to that I think people forget it’s actually a good thing. A Grammy award winning artist had gender affirming surgery at 16. It’s a great thing!

Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital

The place I donate blood gives points that you can exchange for gas cards which means I actually know the current exchange rate of blood for oil. Blood is going for 20.618 times an equivalent amount of oil.

This is my kind of nerdery.