CAN RELATE

The riverfront park expansion is beautiful and you should take advantage of the most gorgeous day ever to walk along it, #nolasky

We need drone photos of the big hole in the ground at Annunciation Square Stormwater Park project (40,000 sq ft x ~12' deep) @marcorasi.bsky.social

Went by construction around Annunciation Square today, and was able to see inside park as they were not working -- They're digging a giant rectangular basin that will be subsurface storage tank in one of 4 "Stormwater Parks" draining to Pump Station 1 at Broad and MLK

OK, so Goldring Woldenberg Riverfront Park is essentially open! Great new views of downtown and wank. Also, too, one can now bicycle or walk/run safely from Spanish Plaza to Mazant St in deep Bywater - OK, so we CAN have nice things as long as the state keeps out of it. Lots of peeps out in new park

Chilaxing

Everything’s fine 😳 fortune.com/2026/04/10/b...

Just saw Mārama film; Overlook Film Fest. Highly rec'd, intense gothic horror genre film beautifully used to highlight actual horrors of imperialism. Features Māori people and culture of Aotearoa (New Zealand) with amazing performances and production. Will be shown again Sunday at Canal Place, 5:30

Effing Louisiana; we can never have anything good www.wbrz.com/news/louisia...

Overlook (horror) Film Fest this weekend at Prytania Uptown and Canal Place. Films I'm going to see: Marama Chili Finger Hoakum Normal Over Your Dead Body

I noticed today that we are transitioning from pollen season to buckmoth season

And now for something totally different youtu.be/OTOzSV8Mj6g?...

If Trump does give an order to attack civilian targets that have no military value as a means of collectively punishing the Iranian people - and make good his threat to begin a genocide - Marco Rubio should resign and the military must refuse the order. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/u...

25th

Somebody give that bunny a saber

Our Darkest Hour substack.com/@paulkrugman...

Don't think I've ever been as terrified in all the Trump security crises. As @pkrugman.bsky.social said, "It’s the most astonishing, awful thing that I’ve ever seen, and we’ve all seen a lot of awful things." Mainly as cope, and to teach it, I keep asking why. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/paulkrug...

I think I’ll remember today as the day I went from being angry to being scared

Just keep raining until May, please

Meet the artists and musicians keeping a Mardi Gras tradition alive for over a century. It's one that most tourists will never see. 60 Minutes, Sunday. 60Minutes.com

You can really tell America is winning this war when the president panic posts “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” at 5 am on Easter Sunday along with an extension on their deadline

Oh fck me, please invoke the 25th you cowards and lickspittles

So Louisiana is now officially the dumbest state in the Union -- Just got a bill for $60 because my Prius doesn't use enough gasoline

Blooming jasmine on a live oak while rain keeps the pollen at bay

In memory of Chester

So, I don't know, but in '55 my dad bought a house with a purported murder-suicide; a butcher bludgeoned his 2 kids to death in their beds and then his wife who wasn't quite dead yet and bled out while being dragged down the stairs. He then, allegedly, turned on the kitchen gas and "stabbed himself"

Relatively an early adopter for once

Say it with your whole chest 📢 [10 FWY Santa Monica]

Mexico, France, Norway, and whatever this ferkakta place is now

For your relaxation. Bill Evans, a post-modern Satie, 1958's "Peace Piece" www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nv2G...

Trump has insulted and tariffed his European allies, persuaded Denmark to prepare for a US invasion and, by pressuring Ukraine and not Russia, encouraged Putin to keep fighting. All of which he has forgotten. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Tradition defines Pigeon Town Steppers’ Easter second line As the Pigeon Town Steppers second line down the street Easter Sunday, they are carrying on a tradition started by the Young & True Friends Benevolent Association.

1/ Global oil and gas shortages are likely to persist for months, industry insiders are warning. This is due to shut-in, or idled, wells suffering progressive damage that is becoming increasingly severe as the Iran war drags on, leading to long delays in restarting production. ⬇️

Maybe giving this speech was a bad call. (And who wrote this mess?) Trump is clearly lost; admitting it to the rest of the world is a bad idea. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Oopsie

Part of me was worried he was going to announce some kind of ground operation, but it’s just TACO with the usual BS talking points — best (bad) case scenario at this point. Also, bad at reading speech - best option

NO East Michoud; also 6 Flags

It's insane how this isn't being watched by everyone. Humans going further into space than ever before and most just brush it off.

As an American that grew up during Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo, I am amazed of the general lack of interest in Artemis

T-10 minutes!!! 6:35 pm Eastern will be launch

All of the 100s (?) of commands during the launch sequence are autonomous

Final polls for all systems GO for launch! Polling astronauts - all go, copy that. Launch director - "let's go!" Astronauts close visors. 2 hour launch window begins in 1 minute

There are some cut-out times within the launch window when they can not launch due to having to dodge orbiting space debris etc

I think they have 10 minutes to beginning of 2 hour launch (L) window, and then there will be a 10 min countdown to takeoff (T). NASA livestream showing T-10:00 that is not advancing at present

One hour to Artemis II launch window

YouTube is live-streaming NASA Artemis II launch

Free-fall updated: fiftyplusone.news/polls/approv...

Watching Detective Hole for Påskekrim (google it)