NEATO (h/t Ysabet) Meteorite found in Sahara desert may be 1st evidence of lost solar system world

Another way that the shift in how reading is taught since No Child Left Behind has actually…ruined reading for pleasure. Some GenXers turned into avid readers reading shit we weren’t “supposed” to. You skim over what you don’t “get” and you look shit up, but hey, you’re reading Not Kid Stuff!

The Trump administration's executive orders have meant that college administrators are questioning what art can — and can't — be seen on campus. That includes the "I.C.E." pops created in Texas.

Erling Haaland and the rest of the Norwegian men's team are paid the same as the women's team. In 2017, they took a voluntary pay cut to allow the women's pay to be increased. The move came from the players' union, not management.

Recently for Reasons I found myself compelled to knit a tiny seed with a secret message inside. I am so enamored of this thing.

OH MY GOD EVERYBODY I just learned about reciprocard.com , which lets you enter your public library and find out all the places you can get a card on Libby. I had not known my Minuteman card actually gave me *every network in the state*, including the flawlessly-named CLAMS?!?!

It's actually just this simple: Your values aren't your values unless they apply to everybody. Otherwise they're just a favor you do for people that you like.

If you look at those sharp little points and think “surely they don’t stick that *into* your cervix without anesthesia,” you are in for a rude shock.

Mainstream Respectable opinion is that people joking about a bad person's death represents a culture of cruelty, but really it represents a culture of impunity. It's a coping mechanism for watching someone do evil their whole life and never seeing consequences

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I am going to enjoy thinking about eepy moon in moon house all day

THE SCOTTISH BOY has now finally been republished by Wilton Square/Eye Books, and if you want a queer action thriller that can best be described as “Heated Chivalry” you should buy it. bookshop.org/a/23067/9781... There’s also a great audiobook & thousands of amazon and goodreads reviews

Indeed. We are not forcing upon Graham the memory of him being a villain, a coward, and a malignant presence in the country; that was the legacy he chose again and again. He earned our contempt, as has everyone else on his path.

two percent of united states senators are currently dead. check on your senator today!

Dems increase your online engagement 20x with this One Weird Trick (donors hate this!)

@writerjencrow.bsky.social This reminds me of so many of our conversations

Granted that I'm having a weird few days, this genuinely made me cry. Everyone has to be somewhere--fish and humans

I'm not even joking when I say that, as a former writing teacher, I think even the act of bullshitting through a 10-page paper on a book you only skimmed is also incredibly valuable learning.

We also talked about preserving art, even when times are terrible. “If you lose culture in your society, the society dies. If you lose your art museums and your galleries, all you have is thugs and fighting and people being mean. In times of trouble, art gives us the backbone to keep fighting.”

I love the phrase "writers and poets" because it suggests poets aren't writing but instead doing something far more sinister

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The thing is, doing sports like Norway (focused on fun, companionship, team spirit) rather than the US (focused on intensity, suffering, competition, which individual is "best") isn't just healthier & more pro-social, it produces *better athletes*.

“They killed the wrong person.” Or, hear me out, there is no RIGHT person.

My record as a brilliant farmer remains unbroken.

The Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Texas: “[Lorenzo Salgado Araujo] was shot, dead at Ben Taub Hospital [in Houston] by sunrise. . . . His sons are American citizens. Lorenzo brought them through college on the wages of his early mornings. Now they sit in grief.

ICE claims that Araujo drove into one of their SUVs with his van and then tried to run over an agent. There were no marks on the van and KHOU11's Jeremy Rogalski found surveillance footage showing ICE chasing Araujo and cutting him off. Renee Good all over again.

Now ICE is apparently trying to disappear the witnesses to the killing of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo

Does anyone want to buy a forge? I want to upgrade so I'm trying to sell my older one. NC Whisper Daddy, the four burner model. Just redid the lining and floor last year.

It's good to see the news of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo's murder by ICE yesterday in Houston making the rounds on here, but what I really need people to do, speaking as a social media manager for politicians, is to go do this on Facebook. Because your relatives are over there posting total garbage.

DAWG WE'RE DOING STATE-RUN GAS PRICES AT PRICE CONTROLLED RATES DESPITE INCREASING SHORTAGES TO PACIFY THE PEOPLE AND THEY'RE SCREAMING ABOUT HOW THEIR OPPONENTS WANT COMMUNISM I AM GOING TO LOSE MY ENTIRE GODDAMN MIND

ever since I learned about it during a random wikipedia trawl I've never been able to stop thinking about how not only did George Everest object to the mountain being named after him but his name isn't even pronounced that way

you know it had never really occured to me that the only real use for gas station crypto ATMs was for scamming 70 year olds but it makes sense in hindsight: www.texastribune.org/2026/07/08/t...

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Found him

move through the world like you deserve to be there ✨

speaking of candidate vetting, trump picked a doozy in texas

Having a dead guy in the senate feels like a metaphor for the whole institution

this isn't exactly directly applicable but it's also not not applicable and i think you could stand to hear it

One idea that needed to die last century is that it's worth supporting someone who lacks moral integrity because you think they'll help you get the policies and outcomes you want. If a person lacks integrity, they're going to betray you on policy, too, my dudes.

One thing I would love is if, when a straight white guy “sees the light” and joins the left, he would volunteer for a community group and like knock doors for someone who’d been on the left for ages instead of immediately wanting to be the candidate. It’d be like a litmus test for if they’re serious

I listened to a child very casually tell another child he had been shot in the head in church and a third kid pipe up, loyally and fiercely and also somehow still sweetly and innocently, “he saved all our friends; he is a hero“ and this country is so, so, so, so broken

I don't think it should be legal to hide whether an elected official is conscious and or alive.

Great thread, up and down

seconded

Just believe women. It's not that fuckin hard. Genuinely not sure why everyone isn't immediately believing "blackwater mercenary with Nazi tattoo is abusive to women"

Their next statement: “whether he’s alive or dead, Senator McConnell looks forward to continuing his efforts to kill Americans”