#Recall: Walmart Recalls Mainstays 9-Drawer Fabric Dressers; The dressers violate the mandatory safety standard as required by the STURDY Act. Get refund. www.cpsc.gov/Recalls/2026...

Scoop: NSF has been quietly blocking new funds and grants to four top universities: Duke, Harvard, Princeton, and Yale. Dozens of proposals from PIs at these universities—and their collaborators—have been stuck at the Office of Award Management awaiting finalization for months.

Cutting off New York, LA, San Francisco, Seattle, Chicago, and other major ports of entry/departure from international flights would be the biggest self-inflicted wound to our economy since closing the Strait of Hormuz. The costs would be ridiculous. thehill.com/homenews/adm...

🧵Are you still on Spotify, despite knowing that they've run ICE ads &/or that they pay artists scandalously little? I was too, despite knowing the latter for years, bc I couldn't begin to figure out how & where to move. Then the ads happened & I finally snapped & figured it out. Here's what I did:

A machine cannot experience contrition Therefore a machine cannot receive absolution

Listen in on scientists finding (and falling for) a new species of octopus now called Microeledone galapagensis. Read more here www.scientificamerican.com/article/tiny...

A capitalist take (from this Wharton grad) on "Magnifica Humanitas." Pope Leo XIV’s superb new encyclical is the most cogent Catholic critique of capitalism that I have ever read. www.americamagazine.org/faith-and-re...

Pope Leo has released his first encyclical, on AI.

BREAKING: Pope Leo XIV makes historic apology for Holy See's own role in legitimizing slavery and for failing to condemn it for centuries.

"If the universal translator is accurate, Captain, they are instructing us to attach our warp core to their probe and launch it as far as possible across the galaxy. Then their ship will follow." "And do what?" "It appears... they will bring it back." "And then?" "We are to launch it again."

Tonight’s second dumb napkin cartoon…

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.

Sending out a @romancingthevote.com reminder since I have all these cool comics adjacent people following me now (thank you @gregpak.net lol) We are looking for folks to do joyful/rageful/whatever themed coloring sheets that can be shared as a $1 PDF as part of the auction!

This whole thread but especially this line “ You defeat fascism by putting the vulnerable populations in the center, and forming a circle around them.“

Some thoughtful person provided a link to a non-paywalled version of this article: gcaptain.com/drowning/

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...

To keep people up to date: six people who exercised their first amendment rights had their lives overturned and were forced to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in attorneys fees because of clear prosecutorial misconduct.

You know things are bad when the world's most accomplished both siders are saying it without euphemism.

good lord

Ok. I'm not a certified plumber. But I have done a lot of plumbing. Let's break this down. If you have a pipe entering your sink from the top. You fucked up.

Blizzard's owner died, leaving him homeless. He is 6-7 yrs old, house-trained, lab/Great Pyrenees mix, absolute sweetheart. "He meets other dogs respectfully, and then after his walk will come in and lie by your side while you work." mamasshelter.rescuegroups.org/forms/form?f...

Interesting that the Trump administration is laying down a marker that a military attack on an unarmed craft can be the basis for prosecuting senior government officials who supervised the attack in home countries of the vehicles' occupants.

Former Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms won the Democratic nomination for governor on Tuesday, stunning the field by avoiding the runoff her rivals had hoped would expose lingering doubts about her ability to win in November. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Carvana's furious growth isn't hard to figure out: no-haggle pricing for used cars, online shopping, delivery to your driveway. Now it's applying the same playbook to new cars. The project is small for now, but it has traditional dealers freaking out. (Gift link) www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Three things: 1. As noted downthread, Judge Devin Robinson presided over a woman being forced to give birth in shackles in his courtroom. 2. NYT shows expectant mother was kicked to curb by hospital: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/16/n... 3. Judge Robinson was recently celebrated for community justice.

On Fri night, Brooklyn court staff forced a woman to give birth inside the courtroom. Per public defenders, she gave birth in handcuffs, unable to reposition herself, unable to pick up her infant. The men who’d shackled her looked on. The judge lauded the birth of a ‘beautiful baby’ on the record.

So it turns out if you go cybernetic in Stellaris, then there's a risk that your species will invent the War Thunder forums.

Joe: I am a 73 year-old retired mechanic in Forsberg, Nebraska. My 3 biggest problems are Iran's uranium enrichment capability, the casting of Helen in Christopher Nolan's "Odyssey," and the ability of Tennesseeans to check out "Roots" from a library 1000 media outlets: can we please talk at length

Scientists named this species of hairy ghost pipefish after beloved Sesame Street resident Mr. Snuffleupagus and we're obsessed.

Have you heard that Stars Die is a Kindle Monthly Deal this May? (US & Canada) An intriguing mystery set in a magical, interstellar parliament. 4.7 ✨️ a.co/d/0daf63i6 #booksky

Wow. Just - fucking WOW.

Why Penguins Don’t Fly

Ok, several items: 1. I called Dr. Snuffleupagus (a fish version); he's as delightful as you would expect. 2. My editor did not let me make the share headline "Science confirms Sesame Street’s Mr. Snuffleupagus is real" but you guys I really tried. 3. My mom's gonna be so proud of me. 🧪 🌍

France is mandating solar panels on every large commercial car park in the country — turning millions of square metres of idle asphalt into one of Europe's most productive clean energy assets. I have been mentioning this for months - they are shooting up on all the supermarket car parks.

Results Age xkcd.com/3245/

NEW — The Handbasket presents FASCIST VACATION by Chrisitian Dawson www.thehandbasket.co/p/sean-duffy...

Is Bluesky dying? Is it the community's fault? Should people here refrain from criticizing journalists who think J. K. Rowling might have a point? The thing is, it doesn't matter. Because the answer isn't to make Bluesky change. It's to take advantage of Bluesky's tech to build something else.

Critically: You must INTENTIONALLY REQUEST expedited processing by including a letter with your citizenship request explaining your situation, along with supporting documentation.

Trump frustrated the Cuban government hasn’t crumbled yet. Trump disappointed Iran hasn’t folded. Trump confused why Minnesota, especially white Minnesotans, didn’t greet ICE as liberators. A neverending string of surprise that other people exist, have interests, and don’t bow down when bullied.

The bluesky account cwebbonline. com is routinely stealing other people’s work without credit & has developed a big following. Content farming is lousy & opens the door to all kinds of misinfo. Please keep an eye on who you follow and repost to make sure they’re legit and worth your time

if you're a diabetic on something like jardiance and also virtually any anti-depressant please pound that water back

My poodle mix rolls on the couch till static has her fur all on end.

“officials discovered two industrial-scale water hookups feeding a data center campus located 20 miles south of downtown Atlanta. One water connection had been installed without the utility’s knowledge, and the other was not linked to the company’s account and therefore wasn’t being billed.”

Hungary’s parliament sings “Ode to Joy” — the anthem of Europe — after Péter Magyar is sworn in as prime minister. Hungary is once again a proud member of the European Union.

Icelandic authorities just rerouted a planned hot water pipeline so as not to disturb an elf hill.

On being friends with Americans in difficult times: Toronto misses Buffalo. This week in @thestar.com I write about the big missing pieces of city life in the GTAH & other border cities like Windsor/Detroit. Buffalo Sabres fans singing O Canada was a reminder of a long complex relationship.