A friend of mine who was TA’ing for an AmLit course found a copy of Moby Dick a student had left behind. It had only one marginal annotation, around page 100, that simply said “whale is important.”

hey so lots going on i know but this right here is a whole fucking slow motion ongoing tragedy

I have been saying for years that Democrats should run against Republicans on the issue of corruption. Make fighting corruption the centerpiece of their hopefully populist campaigns. Well, if they don’t run on corruption this year, against Trump, then they deserve to lose.

Excellent

I wonder if when they bring out the cake for Bob Dylan they sing "Happy Birthday" in a totally unrecognizable tune?

“Everyone, especially in South Sudan, wanted to know if the US really had cut off aid. It was easier for them to believe that the aid organizations were lying to them than to think that the United States would do this."

if only there were a way to discover if the sources you cite contained the information you assume they contain

So sad...

He always looks like the mug shots of guys who have glitter on their face from huffing paint

between him and Cassidy I am sick and tired of guys who are personally responsible for putting these dudes in their current positions of power whining about them on the television Tillis was the deciding vote for Hegseth, Cassidy for RFK, own your awful choices and apologize for what you did

Who were the Vesuvius victims immortalized at Pompeii in their final poses? Archaeologists discovered that one man had a box containing a slate tablet and a series of small metal instruments—a physician’s surgical kit. archaeology.org/news/2026/05/18/new-details-emerge-about-pompeii-victim/

Revisionist history

Incidentally, the AP laid off journalists last week.

Cute Canadian reporters assessing regional southern beverages is now my favorite media format. Do Sun Drop next!

HELP. Although it's really not like Cherry Coke tho...

I do not want GenAI in fanart. I do not want GenAI in character design. I do not want GenAI in world design. I do not want GenAI in writing. I do not want GenAI in storyboarding. I do not want GenAI in voice acting. I do not want GenAI, period. If any piece of media uses GenAI, I don't want it.

ohio's government passed a bill that let adults take your kids out of school to give them "bible education" and surprise! a number of those adults were actually child rapists

Communities across the U.S. are turning small plots of land into highly dense forests that grow quickly. Turns out these forests have roots to a decades-old planting method that originated in Japan. n.pr/43wxSdT

When @schumer.senate.gov pushes his caucus to vote FOR this corrupt crypto legislation, remember whose side he’s on, and that his “leadership” is to grovel before the crypto lobby rather than fight back.

It's neither, my man. It's a hallucinating toaster that does plagiarism. Attributing human qualities to it is the whole reason you got duped like a tourist playing 3-Card Monte.

Narrator: Tillis voted to confirm Hegseth and Noem.

A marvel of free markets

Drive a stake in Google, plz

So sad!

we used to be a proper country

!!!!

Rockets are supposed to explode, if you were a genius you’d understand this

"who was president from March 2020-January 20, 2021?" is one of the most fiercely contested questions in American politics

Lindsey will have a thermonuclear hissy fit if the war ends for whatever reason. Dude loves war.

1️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣,0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ That's one million pages digitized and counting. The Institute of Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley marks this major milestone in its LoCAL Digitization Project. An archive of California local government history searchable online. Learn more: igs.berkeley.edu/news/one-mil... 🧵 1/5

shocked. i'm totally shocked.

How did I only just discover that Don Jr is marrying the daughter of a prominent Epstein enabler? Her late dad, a banker, wrote Epstein a reference letter calling him "a gentleman of the highest integrity" to help get him tax breaks &… his island. Can’t make this stuff up.

Under A Killing Moon remake Kickstarter is live now! This is a grounds-up remake of the classic 1994 FMV game (and one of my favorites). www.kickstarter.com/...

Joe Rogan now has the favorability distribution of a Fox News host. Remember all the 2024-2025 hot takes lmaoooo via @carlbeijer.bsky.social

This headline is hilarious when you learn that the rocket toppled over in a fiery explosion on landing

THIS. When I was a teenager, some Google reps came to give a talk at my high school about this great new tech they'd come up with for searching the internet. I watched in real-time as Google became a household name over the next few years. And now THIS is happening, and it is just WILD.

This is a deeply unpleasant development. I have no idea why anyone would publish high-quality informational content if Google is going to just slurp it up, rehash it, and maybe give you a link in the end. They've already cratered traffic for so many publishers and this is going to be the final blow.

We all literally, LITERALLY just watched NASA fly four absolute all-stars the farthest any human has ever been from Earth and back flawlessly, and yet we're still continuously forced to pretend Musk's bullshit catastrophe factory is the future of human space exploration

Hero

Such a fun movie that deserved so much better…

Mmm.... cosmos.

My longplay of @juliaminamata.bsky.social's The Crimson Diamond just went up on YouTube. This cozy Canadian EGA text parser mystery is one of the best adventure games I've played on my channel, and I'm already ready to play it again and uncover more secrets. 🔍 Check it out: youtu.be/nI1RGxTqvis

We don't make enough jokes about Nemesis.

At a basic level, party leaders have collectively raised billions of dollars in political spending, the great bulk of which has been directed to ads instead of permanent organizing or media infrastructure. Generational strategic failure regardless of policy preferences and ideology. RIP OFA.