This is Stanley. He just helped solve a 160-year-old murder by digging up a bottle of poison in his backyard. Just two doors down in 1865, Mary Ann Ashford poisoned her husband's tea to be with her younger lover. Since his discovery, Stanley has stopped digging. 15/10

Aesop: I TOLD YOU

A consequence of my upbringing for sure but I enjoy Chaka's work with Rufus the most. Nobody was composing like them, sorry. And the way she makes her voice her own horn section, my word

Many come to try to tear away your heart Never carin' for you from the very start Still you wonder if this time could be real Tryin' to figure out if they came just to steal

THEE ♈

The proliferation of this quote is so interesting to me. It's often posted by right wing chuds who use it to defend conventional aesthetic ideas — such as the importance of having a lean, athletic body — but they don't really understand Owens's work. Let's talk about it. 🧵

UPDATE:

An extremely urgent edition of: to keep functioning, society must discourage baldface lying, especially by authorities

We started a Never Yield Prequel Manga as a part of our Patreon. Making a Page every week. www.patreon.com/cw/AerialKni...

I don’t know what to say anymore. Tearful this morning after reading what the U.S. has done to the sick and ill in Cuba: “Late last night, a report came in that patients on ventilators at the Hermanos Ameijeiras Hospital have died.” Trump is running an imperialist necropolitical regime.

A group stood in Grand Circus Park in Detroit to raise awareness for the situation in Cuba and advocate for the U.S. fuel blockade to end.

It’s time for the UN to formally recognise the transatlantic slavery trade as a crime against humanity | John Dramani Mahama

Remember: Octavia Butler wrote we should save seeds to plant, pick up skills like sewing and carpentry, learn how to shoot guns, practice how to fight, and create the futures we need, even as we look to the stars.

It is quite telling that since the horrific story of Cesar Chavez re: sexual abuse broke earlier this week and calls to change the names of schools and other public spaces named in his honor, not one conservative voice has stepped forward to object that this would be tantamount to erasing history.

the media is now telling people to work from home to save on gasoline, immediately after their years-long crusade to tell us why returning to office is best for everyone. this isn't a gotcha, it's an example of how contradicting demands allow the ruling class to blame us no matter what we do

It’s the last night for food spots keeping overnight Ramadan hours, my fellow night owls! Sesame House in Dearborn is donating all proceeds to Lebanon from 10pm-1am tonight if you want some mind blowing Lebanese stuffed sesame bread (kaake, so good)

🥧and ☕for breakfast. If I start smoking 🚬, my transition to my grandmother will be complete

Someone patched GIMP to look and feel exactly like Adobe Photoshop. Same keyboard shortcuts. Same tool layout. Same everything. It's called PhotoGIMP and it's free.

I read the NYT piece, and I am holding onto the words of a woman who fended off inappropriate advances from a 60-year-old Cesar Chavez at the age of 19. “It makes you rethink in history all those heroes,” Esmeralda Lopez said. “The movement — that’s the hero.”

We're calling out for abolition, Senator

Aww man boo 👎🏾

Is the end near for RealT? Here are the facts: It stopped weekly payouts to investors. It owes millions of dollars in unpaid taxes, bills and tickets. And many of its Detroit properties could be pushed into tax foreclosure. So what happens now? @amondry.bsky.social's latest:

Lebanon war leaves a classroom of children hurt or dead every day, UN says reut.rs/4bw0kAp

Working at a place that is affected by rising fuel prices on a number of levels but not hearing anyone discussing it because of how the overwhelming majority of them pulled the lever

#OtD 16 Mar 1968 the Mỹ Lai massacre took place in Vietnam, in which around 500 unarmed villagers were murdered by US troops and others raped. One US helicopter crew saw and landed to stop the killing and reported it, but the army retaliated against them workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e14-...

Also your attention, just like your privacy and labor, makes money for a lot of companies. Withhold it/ give wisely and see how quickly things will turn around.

When Ryan spent $100 million telling us that we need to gatekeep better he meant don’t let this happen. www.instagram.com/reel/DV07yaf...

Just ordered my Skinny Mixes syrups for Drunk Auntie Summer

Black immigrants are about 5% of the people in ICE detention but this year they represent nearly one in five deaths. The gap raises serious questions about the treatment of Black migrants- make it make sense @velshi.com @urbanviewradio.bsky.social @haitianbridge.bsky.social @keithboykin.bsky.social

It's so windy that my 10x20 gazebo, that was anchored by pins and cinder blocks, has flipped over

The people who have been illegally detained and/or murdered are also these things. They are also parts of a family.

You ever think about Toots Thielemans? Even just a little bit?

Fighting for my life to resist ordering T Bell

In a message to members, temple officials said all 140 students in the Susan and Harold Loss Early Childhood Center were accounted for.

Stevie's chords

Sorry I didn’t know you could say something as outrageous as “where are the student protests now” when you crushed and derided the students for protesting and fighting to prevent catastrophic, apocalyptic violence against civilians, because they knew what this would unleash. They were so brave.

The amount of these bozos who insist on keeping notes on a criminal conspiracy won't cease to astound me

I want a man that mean everything he say And not a boy full of play Pulling rabbits outta his hat every day...

There is a constant fantasy of adding white working class voters to the Democratic coalition without any offsetting consequences. It's a byproduct of thinking of Black voters as fixed objects and not humans with agency. And no one ever learns.

its all good to send John James packing BUT THIS IS THE PROBLEM Republican megadonors are also giving significant financial support for Duggan, a former Democrat who has positioned himself further to the right on the political spectrum during his gubernatorial run.

Recently, Ta-Nehisi Coates said, “Well, they’re killing people in the streets. I don’t like to say I told you so, but I saw this coming years ago, and they said I was being too alarmist. But it’s consistent with what the United States is as a country.“

We talking about architecture today gang: www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrVb...

In which I talk about the paperback edition of Ring Shout that came out last October, and answer some of those questions that often come my way: "Where did you come up with this idea? Will there be a sequel? Is there a movie happening? Have you seen Sinners?" I had some time...

Hear Thundercat and WILLOW team up on “ThunderWave”

I appreciate Octavia E. Butler rejecting the label of prophet. And how it wasn’t just humility but a reminder that prophecy suggests some truth forecast by a higher being that can lend itself to doomerism. As she said, she wanted things to be different and believed we can and should change things.

Mayor Mary Sheffield has many new initiatives in her first budget: an office for older Detroiters, another one for youth and education affairs, and a department focused on human and homelessness service. A breakdown from @brianarice.bsky.social:

Human Rights Watch says that Israel has been illegally using white phosphorus in Lebanon reut.rs/4dbIDsa

If the FO3 remaster releases this year and Bethesda's hope is to compete with GTA for GOTY, well, considering the FO4 anniversary release, that'd be...hubristic (if they did the work in-house and didn't outsource to Virtuos or a similar studio)