Using “big box” stores for libraries, schools, housing is an important excellent way to reclaim miles of urban blight. So why is Ingles suing to prevent this use in their empty properties? www.citizen-times.com/story/opinio...

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Pure evil.

He’s at the Mean Mister Mustard stage now. How long before he starts yelling obscenities?

Really well done.

Yesterday, we handed out flyers at a @propublica.org panel discussion in Brooklyn. We’re making sure management knows we are not shutting up about a fair contract! Learn more about our fight for a fair contract: www.propublicaguild.org

Alarming news, considering Dear Leader said this on January 22, 2020: “We have it totally under control. It's one person coming in from China, and we have it under control. It's going to be just fine." At least we had the CDC then, not RFK “Carcass Enthusiast” Jr.

Any Italian learners out there who know where I can find a good list of Spanish to Italian cognates? Lists of “false friends” are easier to find. Just trying to learn a bit of travel Italian, but it never hurts to have extra vocabulary in your kit. Right now I’m more “polyslop” than “polyglot.”

I’m sure this is definitely fine Hantavirus Brit, in 60s, found in Italian bar instead of in quarantine | News World | Metro News metro.co.uk/2026/05/13/h...

That is so inspirational.

@armchairclassicist.bsky.social Wondering what on earth the Iliad Catalogue of Ships had to do with admission to the Greek underworld. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/15/s...

I love these gals!

We’re ASSUMING it’s the alcohol….

If only mine were just 14 pounds... #Cats

*scientists frantically calculating the exact speed you need to jog through a museum in order to cheat death*

I feel I should alert Bluesky to the baby foxes in our yard

Truly, dilly-dallying is what I do best and I don’t get enough credit for it.

"For when the people have power over the vote it has power over the political regime." "The Athenian Constitution" is the name given to an analysis of Athenian politics written by members of the school of Aristotle. #classics 📚💙

Happy Birthday to Stevie Wonder! Here he is in 1973, at about 23 years old, on Sesame Street, singing a 1-2-3 song, doing a bit with Grover, and then singing Superstition. www.facebook.com/share/v/1Djz...

“Hi, my name is Milo. I’d like to be eaten by coyotes tonight. Hopefully I can dig my way through this glass and make my escape to certain doom.”

SOUTH CAROLINA — @repjamesclyburn.bsky.social: “Why is it when you have a 75% white district that’s not racial, but you have a 45% Black district that is racial? There’s no way the numbers bear this out… I never thought I’d see the day the Supreme Court would be so openly partisan.”

sorry I seem distracted just have to keep checking my phone to see if one of my freedoms is being arbitrarily taken away

Cleaning kills in public bathrooms? Are they insane? Oh, sorry, I forgot. Yes they are.

My body isn’t the same as yours. My brain chemistry isn’t the same as yours. Antidepressants changed my life. I’m sane, not high. Mr. Kennedy is insane, and very possibly high.

Frightening misogyny by the CEO of a company deeply entrenched in our defense and immigration agencies. Palantir aims to “disrupt” the power of “highly educated, often female voters who vote mostly Democrat” and instead empower “vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters.”

A friend sent me this photo today, commenting that “when we think about cats and boxes, we tend to limit our imagination much more than the cats themselves do.”

"The bottles bear the imprint of the Kentucky distillery Woodford Reserve, and are engraved with the words 'KASH PATEL FBI DIRECTOR,' as well as a rendering of an FBI shield. Surrounding the shield is a band of text … featuring his favored spelling of his first name: KA$H."

ICYMI — After Republicans stripped majority-Black Memphis of representation, this was @brotherjones.bsky.social in the rotunda. Damn. (From NC5)

Might explain the succession of wives.

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social MUEZZIN is not in the word list. NYT, this is your come-to-prayer moment.

From 2015: Chagrin Falls - "A Long Time Ago, Generations Far, Far Away" What happened to my generation (and me)?

Be still my heart.

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Honestly, the only thing to fear about Asheville is the traffic. The homeless and mentally ill are just the visible signs of the tremendous need in this nation. Don’t want them on the streets of our cities? Then stop eliminating aid programs.

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I guess three wasn't enough.

@rejectednytwords.bsky.social HEDDLE is not in the spelling list. C’mon, NYT! Heddle? Thousands of weavers would like to have a word with you.

KIMMEL: “It’s time to make yourself great again, with REZYNE… Ask your conscience if REZYNE is right for you.” Amazing stuff

Seems everything is a damned “emergency” now.

What an asshole.

First President in space! And maybe Musk and Bezos could go with him.

Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Coffee & Cats T-shirt. Americato. Catte. Mocat. Cattucino. There, fixed it. collabs.shop/upiq8j

“Try to control your propensity to use social media to make things worse outside this courtroom...perhaps you've never done that before. This would be a first. Can you agree to that?" --Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to Elon Musk, Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, per CNN's Samantha Delouya