But for real, I'm incredibly moved that a woman is finally going higher, further, faster. Katherine Johnson did the math that got us to the moon, and it's taken this long for another woman to make this next small step.

Y'all, they threw Pam Bondi's official DOJ portrait in the trash, then LEAKED a photo to the media. There is literally no upside to being a MAGA bootlicker. www.ms.now/news/pam-bon...

I think we have undeniable proof that NOTHING can stand in the way of a Black person intent on staying moisturized. 😊 Captain Victor Glover pilot of Artemis II moisturizing in MFKG space made my day y'all. I need to up my dedication to my skin care routine. #Goals

For anyone who doesn't know what the current discourse re: books and perspective is about I offer you a lovely flashbang of information And also some bog standard misogyny to go with the inability to understand that 1st person is a character telling YOU what happened, not you self-inserting

In case you were wondering why Tesla self-driving is so dangerous, this is a senior member of the team developing it. He claims he has no idea how to handle approaching a road that's completely obfuscated by smoke. Hint: the answer is to slow down and proceed with caution, which this Tesla didn't.

Tyler Mahle struggled while the bats went quiet. @alexpavlovic.bsky.social delivers the takeaways from the Giants' blowout loss to the Mets ⬇️

Recovered, and delivered back to mama who didn't even notice it was missing.

So far this Holy Week I have: Given a sermon about how I'd do exactly the same thing Judas did. Made my Spiritual Director watch the trailer for Heated Rivalry (also the shower scene from ep 1) Silently scranned the Holy Sacrament while hiding hunched over behind a pillar. And it's only Friday

friday night spaghetti heist

Los Angeles Bluesky, I need your help. I just learned that on Saturday at the protest at the downtown Metropolitan Detention Center, a friend’s 18-year-old son was shot in the eye with a pepper ball by DHS, permanently blinding him. He needs justice. If you were there and saw anything, please… 1/5

One of my favorite “history fun facts” I often share in class is that Notre Dame is called “the fighting Irish” because in 1924, UND students beat the shit out of a local Klan that tried to harass them for being Catholic. stories.nd.edu/stories/a-cl...

Got bored and wanted to just draw without thinking too hard

Bye bye archaeology funding

New: I wrote about how the SPLC let union breaking and fear of MAGA drive it away from its own civil rights principles. After I spoke up about Gaza, the SPLC disciplined me and terminated my employment—leading to a discrimination settlement: substack.com/home/post/p-...

Pope Leo when he hears JD Vance is writing a book about the Catholic faith

American Protestantism is really something else. The Pope is like “God doesn’t want us to invoke his name when we kill people” and Franklin Graham is like “God loves it when our powerful leaders hulk smash the evildoers you woke fool.”

Great photo of the whole Earth taken from NASA's Artemis II spacecraft. "There are two auroras (top right and bottom left) and zodiacal light (bottom right) is visible as the Earth eclipses the Sun." Wow. [kottke.org]

Aymeric looking princely #ffxiv #Aymeric #SerAymeric

justice. law — truth — consequence #gposers #aymeric #elvashade

Added these two to my INPRNT shop! There's a 35% off sale this weekend: www.inprnt.com/gallery/jell...

Of course we can all be glad that young master #Vance has found an outlet for his boyish high spirits, but I am not sure that “Donald Trump’s fraud czar” is a title I’d like to be known by.

Amazing how quickly the “party of small government” has morphed into the party of “imperiously all up in everyone’s shit all the time.”

Gameday: Sorry! Something has gone wrong. Me: *looks at the box score* No fucking shit!

nothing screams anti capitalism like a bunch of people in matching tracksuits sitting in a line pontificating about the comic they didn't write illustrate or colour

i just think Watering Flowers While Black should not be an arrestable offense nor do i think this should be controversial ballsandstrikes.org/law-politics...

JD Vance has me pulling out liberation theology books I have not looked at since I was a grad student traveling to Nicaragua for a course on intercultural communication just so I can keep stepping on that man's neck.

if deltron is rapping, it's matt chapman who is batting if vegemite is mentioned, casey schmitt gets attention

Looking forward to the next time the associate dean tells our department to "get grants"

guys, bluesky is dying. if we don't start getting more likes, a greedy developer will bulldoze the site to put up a parking garage. the only thing that can save it is for a ragtag crew of misfits to put on one last big concert at the community center.

A few people have replied to my Artemis posts with links to Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon." Here's a story from Space.com about Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, currently en route to fly around the Moon, and his connection to that piece. www.space.com/space-explor...

Minnesota Kicks Off Legal Battle With Trump Administration To Hold ICE Shooters Accountable This story was originally published by ProPublica. Republished under a CC BY-NC-ND 3.0 license. They asked nicely at first. After an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent shot and killed Renee Good, a…

This is apt and acccurate. Trump started the war without a plan but then panicked snd decided to get out as fast as he could with anything he cld call a “win”. By that time Iran had already taken the US and global economies hostage. He decided the hostage would have to free itself. wapo.st/4sSOkAs

Pleased to announce that @sistergoldenbear.bsky.social will be joining the front page as a writer of our almost 25 year old raggedy ass blog Welcome aboard and I am sorry in advance balloon-juice.com/2026/04/03/f...

discourse on this site every other week

“Just a friendly reminder: There will be a Protestant Service (No Catholic Mass) for Good Friday today at the Pentagon Chapel,” reads a Friday email that went out to employees across the Pentagon. A peeved employee passed it along.

NEW: The Pentagon today invited more than 3,500 employees to attend a Good Friday service at its in-house chapel. Except it’s only for Protestants, not Catholics. www.huffpost.com/entry/news-l...

A TENSE SCIENCE-FICTION THRILLER with the swashbuckle and spice of fine romantasy. A battle-hardened warrior finds herself on a mission with the royal heiress who broke her heart, but bigger things than love are at risk. Gorgeous worldbuilding! B PLUS 💙📚 #bookreviews bookshop.org/p/books/this...

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲 “One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.” www.hatchmag.com/articles/tru...

Academic Aymeric #ffxiv #Aymeric #SerAymeric

Yeah. Even before Musk, Twitter had become the harassment-delivery-feel-bad app. I'd regularly delete posts before going to bed when they were starting to get a lot of likes. For all its flaws, Bluesky and its nuclear block made existing online tolerable again.

U of Minnesota has named a new School of Nursing scholarship after Alex Pretti.

I also grew up watching a ton of Sci-Fi and that was only really possible because of syndication and cable. Modern Trek as we know it only exists because of syndication. No syndication no Star Trek TNG. No Star Trek TNG and nothing that comes down stream of it.

I don’t love that people keep pushing this “Zohran is failing trans people” line about Langone when the reality is that this has already turned into a fight between Tish James and the USDOJ.

sorry, i’ll try to tell my mental illni to be more respectful of bedtimes & timezones or something this week though was a hostile uterus gone rogue fucking my shit up

I find that people don't want polite disagreement as much as they want easily dunk-able disagreement or (more common with academics/writers) someone *important* to have a conversation with publicly

not everyone who uses social media is using it to have challenging intellectual conversations about people with opposing views either; some folks legit just want the echo chamber experience because it comes with fewer slurs & rape threats overall, also people like to joke post with another

I’m completely sick and tired of hearing about HP but this article is excellent. “What you feel in your heart towards the series is almost entirely irrelevant. What matters is what you do, because J. K. Rowling is out there doing a lot of things.” defector.com/its-time-to-...

You don't really want this. So much of TV is changed and discovered in the process. No master plan survives 13 eps of production. Your actors' abilities and chemistry opens up story paths you never imagined. Other ideas sink like a lead balloon. Master plans are overrated.

i’m coming at this in good faith fyi: a lot of it starts with centrist academics/journos/etc coming on here to share their published story about how much we all suck on this site in our echo chambers etc etc; often times when we look at the profile of the author, they barely follow anyone or post

good afternoon from Sutter Health Park, where inexplicably they just started playing Vanessa Carlton's "A Thousand Miles" for some reason before changing it