definitely gonna save this "Popeye" panel for future use, @choochoobear.bsky.social

Of course @sethcotlar.bsky.social beat me to this *and* did it better:

The stories & photos from today’s voting rights marches in Alabama deserve to be seen by people who weren’t able to stand there in person. If this piece moves you, please share it widely & help make sure these voices aren’t lost in the noise of a crowded news cycle. open.substack.com/pub/joycevan...

Just in: State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with disabilities in wooden boxes. Parents weren't notified. www.npr.org/2026/05/14/n...

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

Have you ever heard “we should improve society somewhat” used as a conversation stopper? Or as an ironic rejoinder to someone claiming we must be perfect to achieve any change? Have I got a book for you: That One Matt Bors Comic, now on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...

Mesmerizing first trailer for "Wildwood", the new stop motion feature film by LAIKA Studios. Full 4K video >> www.youtube.com/watch?v=POne...

NEW: xAI appears to have added more than 500 MW (!) of unpermitted gas turbines to its Colossus 2 campus in a matter of weeks, according to internal emails between the company and regulators

i have yet to see a single cis person say something about the fact that the government just designated trans people a terrorist group and threatened to kill all of us.

in 2016 I made a comic titled “Mr. Gotcha” that would become most viewed and circulated image I’d create. Now it is the subject of a book by @glennf.com examining its history in online discourse. That One Matt Bors comic is live on Kickstarter—back it here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle...

Morning 😂.

New from @michellepitcher.bsky.social: Attorney General Ken Paxton released nearly 300 press releases in the past year. To understand how he's using his platform to propel his contentious senate campaign, we analyzed every single release with the help of an expert on rhetoric.

Slightly increase a band Phil Lesh & Friends & Tennille

“The process of relocating people from New Orleans should start immediately, as the city has reached a point of no return that will see it surrounded by ocean within decades due to the #ClimateCrisis, a stark new study has concluded.” The consequence of believing we “can’t afford #ClimateAction.”

My latest—A Long Island school district agreed to settle a lawsuit w/ a Muslim former student for $100k. They added 25k to avoid what she really wanted: public acknowledgement that her pro-Palestine art they painted over wasn’t actually antisemitic hate speech. Exclusive report from The Handbasket:

Sean Duffy’s reality series is getting slammed for all of the obvious reasons, but don’t look past the fact that his show is being sponsored by companies his department oversees and regulates. In other words, it’s not just a political mess, it’s also an ethical one. www.ms.now/rachel-maddo...

Buddy during the solar eclipse in Dallas, April 2024.

This 1952 memo from the Pentagon UFO files is superb There is no point preparing for aliens ‘because no one of consequence is going to take this rubbish seriously unless it happens. At that point, our policy will be determined in the traditional manner of grand panic.’ 🤣 www.war.gov/medialink/uf...

if they don't fuck this show up it will be exciting, relatable and hilarious, I cannot recommend the comic highly enough

I had a wonderful, terrible, magnificent idea, and @mattbors.bsky.social was up for it. We launch That One Matt Bors Comic on Kickstarter on May 12. Sign up at Kickstarter for an alert! www.kickstarter.com/projects/gle... (Media, see thatonemattborscomic.com/press.html)

1/ Update on what we know about the evolving hantavirus situation, strap in. A Swiss man linked to the ship has now tested positive after developing symptoms after disembarking. He received an exposure alert, sought care, and tested positive. This means there are 3 deaths and 5 suspected.

this is perfectly expressed like how can a clown show be killing this many people

Ag secretary confirming 1 in 4 US farmers has no fertilizer secured, American Farm Bureau survey says up to 70% can’t afford enough fertilizer for the season under the spiked costs Honestly shocked this isn’t bigger news. 25% of farms are just not planting at all this season. Farm bankruptcy up 46%

Texas Monthly senior editor Aaron Parsley has been awarded the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, for his heartrending, first-person account of his family’s fight for survival during last year’s devastating Central Texas floods.

Fearing repercussions from Texas Governor Greg Abbott, University of North Texas administrators shut down a school gallery art exhibition that criticized ICE. Now, UNT art students are choosing to show their work ... anywhere but on campus. And Dallas-area galleries are stepping up to help.

The Chicago Tribune Ed Board says, of a city experiencing record lows in gun violence: "Between the Cook County chief judge’s office’s poor record of enforcing EM violations and the questionable decision-making of some judges on pretrial release, Chicagoans simply aren’t safe enough right now." +

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We see a lot of Democrats saying they will respond in kind to Republican gerrymandering. But it doesn’t fix the fundamental problem of killing the VRA: Many Black southerners will essentially have no say in the political process going forward.

who’s with me

Alright nerds listen up. In the last ~24 hours this little stand has sold about 40 plants. FORTY. There was a huge spike in traffic after I posted to our neighborhood's cantankerous facebook group. Want people to plant native plants? Make it easy for 'em. Hot damn.

Post your warning sign

East Dallas, The Village, Highland Park

Following months of activism, 1,500 beagles are being released from the Ridglan Farms testing facility to animal rescue groups: the Beagle Freedom Project and Big Dog Ranch Rescue. To all the dogs being released, we wish you many years in loving homes. 14/10 for all

It's 2030. The House is frozen at 217 seats that are over D +15 and 217 seats that are locked at over R +15. There is a single competitive seat in Iowa. Both parties spend $20 billion on it.

Swamp Thing 1989 #1 is an interesting piece of comic history finally in print #comics #comicbooks

2. Degree of processing doesn’t correspond to degree of badness. Hot dogs & twinkies, lousy choices. Whole wheat bread & oat milk, just fine. All are UPFs. Also, French fries & potato chips? Not UPFs. All it takes is ONE counterexample to prove processing does not equal badness. We have tons.

SCALISE: We've delivered. Remember that 2 years ago, we were paying almost $6 a gallon. Right now it's in the $3s KERNEN: When were we paying $6? SCALISE: 2.5 years ago K: That's not right S: We are lowering inflation K: We're actually above where we were then. 2 years ago the average was $3.65

and it's willie's birthday! he gets his roses but when you're the goat hard to give enough www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktOx...

Pennsylvania's auditor general, a Republican, audited 210,000+ new voter registrations under Gov. Shapiro's new motor voter system to see if noncitizens were registering to vote. They found one. One. And that was because a PennDOT staffer erred. It was fixed before the driver left the office.

Another indictment today of a villain in RW narratives, far less well known than Comey. It does make the Biden pre-emptive pardon of Dr. Fauci look prudent.

New from me! Login.gov, the government’s secure login and identity service, is now being run by a DOGE affiliate, Greg Hogan. www.wired.com/story/a-doge...

Texas is set to execute James Broadnax on Thursday. Another man has admitted to the crime.

the regime is trying to silence dissent the first amendment is under direct assault

we all know this classic way

NEW: A rule change pushed by White House officials would slash benefits or end support for as many as 400,000 Supplemental Security Income recipients with Down syndrome, dementia and other disabilities whose parents or relatives receive SNAP benefits.

Omg

Appreciate this detail from CBS News reporter Jennifer Jacobs. It's an important part of the story that seems to be missing from a lot of comments & coverage.

WTAF even is this supposed to be?! Looks more like spoiled whipped cream more than it does anything on Jupiter. As one of the people who actually works on Jupiter imagery, this is just confusing. Who actually thinks this is a good idea when they write the AI prompt? Pure slop.