The ICE agent charged with shooting a Venezuelan immigrant in north Minneapolis during Operation Metro Surge and lying about the circumstances has been arrested in Texas after Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension agents tracked him there.

Arthur Wesley Dow was a painter, printmaker, teacher, and photographer. However, he's best known for the quote "realism was the death of art." I think about that quote every time y'all put a video game NPC close-up with individual eyelashes or the latest live-action Disney thing in my skyline.

Here's the serious bit for anyone who'd rather skip the 4000 words of jokes

If you read/boost only one thing today, let it be this. Yeah, when have I said that on here. Never.

There is something deeply unsettling (and consistent) to me about how we collectively do not value the natural world enough to care for it but we take such puerile cynical exploitative pleasure in sharing AI generated images of animals for ‘cute’, clicks and/or money.

What happened to the Aral Sea is *terrifying* so it's great to hear that there's even a small amount of hope for it globalvoices.org/2026/05/29/h...

This is the weirdest timeline.

A collaborative story of wild horses in Central Asia, women-led rhino-protection in India, community support to big cats in Russia, a campaign against eating endangered sea species in Venezuela, & more examples of local community involvement making a difference! globalvoices.org/2026/05/28/c...

if you are someone who makes anything, anything at all, with your own real brain and hands, I respect you so so much and am begging you to keep doing it.

200 years ago the handloom weavers of Lancashire and the West Riding of Yorkshire engaged in a 10-day rising, destroying over 1,100 power looms. To learn more check out our interactive StoryMap: storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/9a84... #19thCentury #skystorians @sslh.bsky.social @esriuk.bsky.social

Sounds fucking, great. Oh, you think it’s a bad thing… Fortune magazine.

Topical.

I sold two novels to Dark Horse when it had a prose imprint. One was orphaned when my editor left, in the horrible 2012 economy, to be a full-time freelance writer. I was shocked to hear this and asked why such a risky move. And my editor explained, "Dark Horse pays me $12.50 an hour."

Noodles just jumped up beside me, gave the biggest sigh, and flopped like this. I think the heat is getting to her, too

hey fyi, that thing we keep calling "food noise" was called "food preoccupation" in the research literature for a long time, and though it can come up for other reasons, the most common reason is someone's not eating enough in the first place so ummm, something to consider

on this note, when people get mad at me for saying "we made up science!" I say "that's a good thing!? we can change what sucks if we made it"

“The fundamental question has always been: should the city adapt to the car, or should the car adapt to the city?” Utrecht, Buurkerkhof in 1976 and 2026.

Feeling sassy, made a thing

I've been reading Schlock Mercenary from nearly the beginning of its 20 year run, and Howard and Sandra continue to amaze even years after the original work ended. Back their projects, you won't be disappointed.

Well holy crap. Erin Brockovich (yes, the same one the led the Hinkley, CA toxic groundwater lawsuit in ‘93) launched a website tracking AI data centers across the US and the ecological impacts to the environment and drinking water. MN is riddled with them. www.brockovichdatacenter.com

Libraries also show that it's possible to organize and credit the production of knowledge without reducing credit to ownership. Cataloging, citation, preservation, and circulation all make research more available as a public resource, not more exclusive as private property.

I made this meme some years ago and it just popped up in my phone photo memories and… welp.

RIP Sonny Rollins, a great jazz talent and the last surviving musician in one of the best photos of men in suits during the 20th century

Books are one of the most powerful, lasting tools ever invented. People who love humanity, imagination, and beauty tend to collect them - and people who don't understand that perceive books as a waste, a threat, or both. Or maybe an opportunity. To make us rent things we should be able to hold.

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i have no evidence of this but remain convinced that answering this question with conviction is more appealing to more voters, including those who tell pollsters they disagree, than trying to thread any number of needles to find the maximally acceptable answer

🐺🌠 custom formline commission for an email client!! I also did the planets of the solar system for them to rotate across the sky backdrop- I'll throw a bunch of the pngs together below!! #formline #indigenousart #telekitneticart

Planted cat grass. Apparently it is working?

Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates. Wait for it…

A flash policy to address the pain at the pump would be point of sale rebates for e-bikes and rapid bike lane and infrastructure build out.

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In Seattle, organizers are warning of a growing crisis as more and more trans refugees seek to escape red states. Mutual aid networks of "broke trans people helping broke trans people" are being overwhelmed, and one organizer @evanurquhart.bsky.social spoke with is facing eviction herself.

Frog House (Kamienica Pod Żabami) located in Bielsko-Biała, Poland. Designed by architect Emanuel Rost junior and built in 1903. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frog_Ho...

This is evil collective punishment.

Ya'll. I am shook. In a good way. Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing Slavery

Oh god. OH JESUS CHRIST. I work in I.T. I would not get on an AI-piloted aircraft even if you offered me an original Rembrandt sketch.

Hey all, if you don't know about @romancingthevote.com (or if you DO know and don't know it's about to pop off) now is the time! We're raising money for voting rights because fuck John Roberts, that's why.

This month, @globalvoices.org is putting a spotlight on how people and communities in the Global Majority are taking significant action to protect and improve their environment - stories that don't get enough coverage in the US-focused, rich-people-centered media. Like this story:

Ok y'all, on this lovely day of burning plantation a quick thread about an incredibly important and very deliberately-erased part of this region's history that ain't fascist lost cause lies. Let's talk about the widespread anti-confederate resistance in the South...

Now up at @globalvoices.org: dispatch from Palestine on the conditions of displacement shelters in Gaza globalvoices.org/2026/05/23/w...

Oh, I know it's not cost. We don't have universal healthcare because there would be no legal way to make it white-only. White Americans used to love social programs for welfare, health, job training. Then, courts told them they had to share. Been paring it back ever since, even when it hurts them.

not only am i cooler than pro-AI people? i am hotter (by the metric included in this article). creating art makes us hotter than AI sloppits facts.

If I’m not evolved enough to understand it, then why did they have to steal my writing to train it?

Went to an anti AI datacentre protest march today and a friend of mine got a picture that summed it all up

the fact that israel is straight up raping and torturing flotilla activists from all over the world and it’s not an international crisis it’s not putting a stop to anything, what is going ON