the world needs more guinea pig cartographers

and we thought John Cornyn was pathetic because of his dry brisket

The Neverending Story is actually a pretty good analogy for aspects of fascism: a violent emptiness seeking the erasure of imagination and fomenting despair.

The USPS ran a contest and had people vote on 25 previously issued postage stamps, and whichever one won would be reissued. Mister Rogers won. I'mna cry.

What We Are Seeking by Cameron Reed, which is wildly inventive in its world-building. I'm not sure about the story so far (<30% through), but I really enjoy what it has to say about food as part of human cultures

I had a taco for breakfast, built a raised bed, planted 3 kinds of peppers and some mint (it's in a quarantine pot, don't worry), had a taco for lunch, read all afternoon, and ate lemon pepper chicken wings for dinner. Highly recommended.

Trump's ever-expanding list of taxpayer grifts: -$1.8B slush fund for political allies -$1B for ballroom "security" -$1B for Qatar jet refurbishments -$230M in DOJ "compensation" -$100M+ for golf outings When he says he "doesn't think about Americans' financial situation," I believe him.

back in my day, when we didnt like a movie, we'd write fix-it fics instead of making it everyone else's problem. mfs need to go open a notepad more often

Over on Reddit, Minnesota has taken over the entire nation www.reddit.com/r/geographym...

Our inability to do this easily in the US is a travesty

Your daily reminder that this is all John Roberts' fault.

How climate change, corporate greed, and GOP policy are converging on Texas.

Oscar Isaac has received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from The Juilliard School. #OscarIsaac #Juilliard

Very cool unseen-japan.com/japan-zine-b...

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Spicy chicken

Today's historical reminder that rights are taken, not given. Freedom was not granted. It was declared.

one thing that pisses me off most about the 21st century is that, especially now, is that the system could easily be set up to where most of us just have all the taxes we owe taken out automatically, and everyone else just gets a letter telling them what they owe. this matters more than you'd think

This is freaking amazing

primary runoff voting reward: burrito

"The French government had introduced the minimum three euro ($3.50) fee in October 2023 to help local independent bookstores counter competition from Amazon, which had until then charged a euro cent on book deliveries in France."

i support billionaires being used as flight test dummies because it reflects my belief that the road to a better world will be built on their bones

It takes a pen this pretty to make me buy a new one - Monteverde MP1 in Mermaid. I like the omniflex nib so much; it plays with my handwriting almost as nicely as the Lamy cursive nib.

Every day I contemplate the fact that we still don't know what causes left-handedness. Ages ago we as a society decided it was totally normal and stopped punishing and ostracizing kids for it. Today the thought of being anti-left-handedness is bonkers to us. This is a post about trans kids.

Ezra Klein and the abundance people annoyed me so greatly because one of their core themes was that Dems just "love bureaucracy for bureaucracy's sake" and "don't dream big" when the real reason we don't have nice things is just rank corruption dressed up as serious adult policy

Happy World Goth Day!

A Hopi perspective on water: "Treat water like family, not profit." www.hcn.org/articles/tre...

Good thread.

It's crazy how much time dying empires spend thinking about the sanctity of toilets

YOU GUYS!! We live on a planet where the perfect combination of chemistry, atmospheric temperature and pressure, and geometry means that this ridiculously beautiful thing just HAPPENS sometimes!!! Earth is so damn neat! We have the best planet!

My family always listened to CBS World News Roundup at 6pm in the 1970s. Then I was a reporter for CBS Ithaca affiliate WHCU in 1985-87. Pay and status were below print and TV, but radio was cool, and CBS was the most serious network. Tonight CBS radio ends service (to 700 stations) after 99 years.

"A permanent fighting retreat is still a permanent retreat. The effect has been a ratchet that only spins in one direction: a people who are poor, broken, and subjugated by the rich." www.liberalcurrents.com/we-owe-each-...

The world is shit because the far right got a chance to be heard. Thats it

I read about this today: seems both amazing and possibly a really horrible idea. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maratho...

for those of you who've been following the Wisconsin story of a Watertown school board censoring a school band's instrumental tribute to Marsha P. Johnson, the students are now playing it at multiple sold-out events around WI, one conducted by the piece's literal composer:

Very cool thread!

So relatable

Michigan just permanently protected 73,000 acres of land in the Upper Peninsula and opened it to the public. The deal, which was 5 years in the making, protects the land from habitat fragmentation and oil and gas exploration www.mlive.com/environment/...

Close it down www.houstonchronicle.com/news/houston... (gift article)

It feels like a tell for how theatrical and hollow conflict in business and politics in the U.S. has become. They are used to fights with people who go out to dinner with them afterward, and they do not understand what it means to make enemies.

The Woz said I will not be booed lol I also love the lull of the crowd as they’re trying to figure out where he’s going hahaha (Via: www.instagram.com/reel/DYfgIwo...)

"Delivery" is free at most retailers! Matilda Graves finds sapphic adventure with an ambulance driver in the WWI French countryside. 💙📚 🌈📚 #romancelandia #sapphic #historical books2read.com/deliverywwi

Trump did not reach a settlement with the government. There was no case to settle. He has not created a slush fund. He has colluded with Todd Blanche to steal money from the US Treasury. This is not a “deal.” This is a crime for which Trump & Blanche must be prosecuted. It ia a crime.

I don't know what they're like for rural areas, but the League of Women Voters puts tremendous work into VERY thorough nonpartisan voting guides

Folks are not asking for enough on any level. To me, we should be demanding 2500 NEW well-funded public libraries across the country by 2050. We need to be making ACTUAL demands for MORE.

Just throwing it out there that the lane is wiiiiiiiiide open for a tech company to get insanely rich by just replicating the 2010 version of big websites like Google while explicitly stating that they hate AI.

Has anyone done significant work on Northern women spies during the Civil War?

yeah this is the recipe for Blexas - a bunch of Texas Rs don’t switch their votes but they look at Paxton and go ugh I’m not dragging my ass to the voting booth for THAT guy