Lately I’ve been in an indie team making stop-motion animation. It’s just 4 of us (animator, writer, voice actor, sound designer). The show’s called The Tiny Angry Witch. It’s all basically hand made. No AI. It’s tiring, but we love what we do. So, anyway, here’s a Witch making rude noises:

This is one of the reasons “we can’t run AOC” makes zero sense. The gop accused Bill Clinton of being a secret communist! They said Obamacare was socialism! The underlying policy just doesn’t matter, they’ll always make this attack. So why don’t we run someone who believes in things?

Ps Portsmouth, not Plymouth! Sorry about that!

an alternate universe where everything is the same except matthew mcconaughey’s catch phrase is “not bad not bad not bad.”

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

ok, deep breath… we're discussing *potentially* adding post editing to Bluesky this year.

Trump #EPA Aims To Roll Back Limits On Toxic #Wastewater From #Coal Plants @mhlevy.bsky.social reports for @apnews.com #news #environment , @sejorg EJ Today Headlines: sej.org/headlines/list apnews.com/article/trum...

First Bari Weiss's CBS failed to do any prep work, so Tony Dokoupil was unable to broadcast from Beijing. Now he's been kicked out of his Taipei hotel for broadcasting without their permission. www.status.news/p/tony-dokou...

People have lost more than $116 million this year placing parlay bets on Kalshi’s retail app and website For every $100 wagered, retail bettors lost roughly $15 Research from @dan-bernstein.bsky.social for @sportico.bsky.social. Link to full story below ⬇️

STATEMENT on Utah’s terrible VPN law: “Fight for the Future pre-emptively endorses any lawsuit filed to hold Utah politicians accountable for continuing to ignore, in the year 2026, the basics of how the Internet they're trying to regulate functions.” www.fightforthefuture.org/news/2026-05...

This was a hard story to report. Newborns who don’t get a vitamin K shot are 81 times more likely to develop a condition where they bleed uncontrollably. But more and more families are declining the shot. And babies are dying. www.propublica.org/article/more...

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

On fashion’s big night out, we turned the lens onto the garment, retail, warehouse, and delivery workers who make the fashion industry possible. Read the full piece: bsky.app/profile/mayo...

"The Fox News contributor is the founder of a supplement business that develops 'clean, thoughtfully crafted tinctures'... "Her Instagram account is peppered with dubious wellness claims such as 'rosemary and sage decrease Alzheimer’s risk'...” arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

just a friendly reminder: when using google, you can add "-ai" to the end of your search string, to stop google from providing an AI summary. in addition to reducing the junk at the top of your search result, hopefully this reduces the power / resource consumption created by your search.

Partnering with the Trumps on crypto and suing them for fraud? It’s like partnering with hustler magazine and saying how shocked you are to discover Larry Flynt is a pornographer.

The fact that the US Secretary of Health denies that pathogens cause disease should always be a much bigger story

We translated each part of Palantir's 22-point manifesto because public service is our passion www.theverge.com/policy/91523...

The Washington Post Editorial Board was fine with Republicans gerrymandering in Texas. But when Democrats responded in Virginia, it’s a “power grab” that “plunges America deeper into the gerrymandering abyss.”

we all know I have no life, so:

Incredible shots of the exchange between Rep. AOC and RFK, Jr. at today’s congressional hearing. (image credit: WSJ reporter @lizessleywhyte.bsky.social)

due to corporate consolidation we are being forced to merge your group chats. the family group where u talk about your weird aunt is being merged w/ the bigger family chat where your aunt posts weird things. your 3-person meme group called "piss christ" is being folded into your office book club

Iran disrupting bluesky servers is a bit lol They’d get a lot more mileage taking down roblox

Someone please let me know when guillotines go on sale

Before becoming a top official at the Environmental Protection Agency, Aaron Szabo was a lobbyist for the oil and gas industry. Metadata shows he helped draft a trade group’s 2022 letter to the EPA objecting to controls on methane emissions. By @alexcuadros.bsky.social

Reskilling to FUCKING WHAT DAN

"In the place of problem-solving technology, companies have jumped on successive bandwagons like NFTs, the metaverse, and LLMs. What these all have in common is that they are not built to really solve a market problem. They are built to make VCs and companies rich." Read more: buff.ly/Yu2AUFy

me: hey is this the mouse temple? i'm here to worship the mouse god snake temple guard: buddy you are lost

I mean, yeah, this has always been the problem with having a fucking idiot as president.

#ICYMI: We released a trove of disclosure records that detail the finances of more than 1,500 Trump appointees, including former lobbyists, industry executives and at least a dozen officials who declined to identify former clients.

"Independent bookstores make quiet comeback as big chains dominate retail" "About 422 indie bookshops opened in 2025, up 31%, defying predictions of retail consolidation"

When Trump & his toadies say the US is more respected around the world, they couldn’t be more wrong. And the respect for him, personally, is so low as to be subterranean.

Goo goo g'joob is to walruses as coo, coo, ca-choo is to Mrs. Robinsons

EXCLUSIVE: When ICE arrested a Connecticut high school student last week, it was trying to rearrest his father — a former interpreter for U.S. forces in Afghanistan who spent three months in ICE custody last year. My latest at @ctinsider.bsky.social — www.ctinsider.com/connecticut/... #nutmegsky

NEW—I got an exclusive excerpt from a USAID whistleblower's new book that made me gasp multiple times. It details Trump's dismantling of the humanitarian aid agency & his team/DOGE's shocking ignorance to public health. 'Into the Wood Chipper' by Nicholas Enrich is out tomorrow. Read excerpt here:

Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.

ProPublica dropped a bombshell on how Trump dismantled every guardrail that stopped him in 2020 — and replaced them with election deniers. Just in time for the midterms. 🧵 #SheShed

It's not a counterpunch, guys. The pope didn't throw a punch. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/u...

Me, when the world is outgrooving itself:

I keep seeing ads on Peacock that the Whopper tastes "better than ever," and bizarrely the ads say nothing about WHY. I actually had to research this. The company has a Feb. 26 press release saying it's now letting "guest feedback impact the future of the brand." Here's a snippet: (1/3)

BREAKING: the judges who dismissed high-profile cases in immigration court against two international students who have advocated for Palestinian causes, Rümeysa Öztürk and Mohsen Mahdawi, were fired yesterday, alongside four other judges. /w @haleaziz.bsky.social and @nicknehamas.bsky.social

good morning

how much money does the marine corps lose

me: [awakening one morning from uneasy dreams to find myself transformed in my bed into a gigantic insect] how orwellian

Exclusive: The acting director of the CDC has delayed publication of a report showing the covid-19 vaccine cut the likelihood of ER visits and hospitalizations for healthy adults last winter by about half, according to two scientists.

"Anyone who disagrees for any reason with my hot take should abandon their chosen profession fast" is quite a statement for Emma Tucker to make. It's also one of the stupider things I've ever seen anyone say, and I've read a lot of things Elon Musk has said. (1/2)

NASA demonstrates that the federal government can be effective and can pursue goals that aren't—or aren't immediately—commercializable. That vision of government is compatible with social welfare programs like Medicare and ambitious projects like the New Deal