Alright Philadelphia, this is a city-wide alert! We have an event this Wednesday that you're not gonna want to miss. We've got babes, rain barrels, drag queens, native plants, a diversity of butts, and trees! At 254 (in center city!) doors 7, show 8 Get tickets here: biodiversitease.eventbrite.com

Vacuuming: ✅ Lunch cooking and eating break: ✅ Thing picked up from friend: ✅ Clean sheets on bed: ✅ Shower AND bathroom sink scrubbing: ✅ I may find it in me to do some laundry, or maybe not. I've definitely done enough to call Chore Day a success. :p

Vacuuming: ✅ Lunch cooking and eating break: ✅ Thing picked up from friend: ✅ Clean sheets on bed: ✅ Can you tell I don't want to scrub the shower/it desperately needs it? 😂

Vacuuming: ✅ Lunch cooking and eating break: ✅ Thing picked up from friend: ✅

Vacuuming: ✅ Time for a lunch break

Accountability post I need to: -Vacuum the apartment -Scrub the shower -Pick something up from a friend's house -Change my sheets -Probably some other stuff but let's start with those :p

it’s what makes a subaru a subaru

It's a beautiful day and I spent the afternoon in a park with a friend at a local favorite market that's truly an example of our city at its best and, like... some things really are still good.

NASA and Mamdani are proving that Americans are desperate to see their money spent in ways they feel good about. This, however, is not the same thing as simply spending the money on things we would feel good about but never know happened. People need to be able to see it.

This is Catherine Zeta-Bones. She lives in my neighborhood and has a great sense of style. Other skeletons envy her T-shirt collection. (Andersonville, Chicago)

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

Anybody here fluent in Irish Gaelic? I need something translated.

I never want to be a killjoy so I won't get in the way of people dancing in the streets when he drops dead but I think one reason everyone is so thirsty for it is we tacitly understand that to be the only consequence he'll ever face. Which sucks! There should be way more consequences

I’ve been a professor for 32 years. My 25-year old daughter just just started her career as a physician’s assistant and her salary is the same as mine:

Messages found all around Philly: ICE OUT. (Part 2)

That night Frog and Toad were both happy when they each turned out the light and went to bed.

A very important detail about the group that performed the review is that the panel was "composed of four members of the Police Chiefs’ Association of Bucks County." 🙄

8 years ago, I told a story which changed my life forever. Shortly after, an old pal from college asked if he could turn it into a film. So I am DELIGHTED TO ANNOUNCE that 'Me, Myself & Mary' is not only finished, but has been chosen to lead the Tribeca Festival's animated shorts roster this year.

We're watching the open web as it existed die in real time.

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example. www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...

“Yes, it is bread we fight for, but we fight for roses too.” 🍞🌹 (Put this on a t-shirt, please.)

I love music. I love public radio. I don't speak Spanish or Galician (and hot damn, these women talk FAST), but that doesn't even matter. This is so cool. youtu.be/P522xaC8VdM?...

I haven't watched the KEXP video yet, but I did listen to Angine de Poitrine's full discography on Bandcamp at work this afternoon and it slaps. anginedepoitrine.bandcamp.com/album/vol-ii

We're halfway through the month so I'm bumping the thread. Have some poems! I usually try not to double poets, but I did do it accidentally earlier this week. Oh well! Good art!

Artemis II tea set 🌓 #SciArt

"Just weeks before she was killed in Gaza, Rachel wrote to us, 'This has to stop. I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop…. I am disappointed that this is the base reality of our world and that we, in fact, participate in it.'"

this is called "doing something"

Tuesday late morning ear worm: youtu.be/cqssaNRv9Ko?...

This is NASA's #Artemis II crew, spotted from Earth while returning from their epic journey 🚀 🌕

grilled cheese sandwich with aged cheddar and asiago on potato bread with fig jam, toasted in a pan with butter

Hello, Bluesky! We, the staff of Scientific American, are pleased to announce we have formed a union with @wgaeast.bsky.social. Just as mitochondria are the powerhouse of the cell, we are the powerhouse of the publication, and we’re excited to have a new way to contribute to its success.

Scientific American’s (@sciamunion.bsky.social) 40-member bargaining unit has called on Springer Nature mgmt to voluntarily recognize their union, without delay or division. An overwhelming majority of the unit signed union cards and asked management to recognize the union on Monday, April 13. 💪

This is also Tuesday morning's ear worm.

For the curious defector.com/a-brief-and-...

Jobi Riccio makes good music. youtu.be/QVVSL9SbGKA?...

And a very happy 20 years of Neil banging out the tunes to all who observe

Omelas already exists: no need to build it or choose it. We already live here –in the narrow, foul, dark prison we let our ignorance, fear, and hatred build for us and keep us in, here in the splendid, beautiful city of life...

i don’t want my appliances to be smart or connect to the internet. i want them to do one mechanical task for 100 years

Monday morning ear worm: youtu.be/dWUa7aAIfLE?...

Good morning youtu.be/sRCLHBhZPQ4?...

Most weekends I don't have a whole lot going on, but somehow I have FOUR activities (two each day!) on deck this time around. They're all things I'll enjoy doing once I'm there, but OOF.

Lads, it's fecking awful right now. But at least the fat parrots are having more wee babies.

We sent people to THE FUCKING MOON and they’re like “splashdown will be at 8:07 eastern” and it fucking WAS that is genuinely insane to me like they had parachutes there were probably wind speed variables involved and they got it to the goddamn minute?! SCIENCE

“Crowds watch the Artemis II Orion capsule splash down off the coast of San Diego at the Air and Space Museum in San Diego, California.” Photo by Sandy Huffaker

Just a reminder that we can fund science, and save the earth, and feed everyone, and have health care and housing too. All those things are within our reach, together.

All four crew members are now safely aboard the recovery ship and will now make their way to the med bay. (They’re reported to be feeling good but they’ll be more thoroughly evaluated there.)

Space is cool and we shouldn’t hand it over to billionaires who want to turn it into a new Epstein island

One thing to think about is that this is the astronauts' first smell of Earth. Sea air and burning hydrocarbons. There's a breeze that they'll be feeling after days in a capsule. There are fans there, because without fans CO2 will build up around you. But not a breeze like off the ocean.

Forgive me a moment of spite amid the moonjoy: suck it, Elon.