That the NYT was wholly unwilling to own this, even today, says quite a lot about how it feels about this (namely, that they don't care and aren't ashamed of it, or that they don't see the problem).

A ditch in Roseland, Louisiana, seven months after an oil facility exploded here.

environmental racism example #329886755474

Made the call a while ago that I won’t be writing much about the series itself, but it was important to spell things out now that Warner Bros. is cranking the hype machine up

Today would be a great day to watch the new Pat Summit documentary.

the Israeli model for Gaza is also apparently being followed now in southern Lebanon; already there are multiple photos of Lebanese villages razed to the ground, some of them half a millennia old

Since Geno is making news for all the wrong reasons, here’s an article that I wrote a decade ago about the GOAT Pat Summitt & what she meant for queer Black women. www.jezebel.com/pat-summitt-...

perfect warm going-out weather in DC all weekend and the metropolitan police department has just announced a number of zones in the city where teenagers have an official, city-imposed curfew of 8pm. in case anyone was wondering how the exponentially increased police presence there has been going

And they criminalized reading and writing of any kind (or teaching it).

"The deliberate exclusion of women and girls from education and erasure of women in the public sphere pushes us to reimagine that women’s bodies are not the only battlegrounds—women’s minds are battlegrounds as well."

Georgia is just about at the ultramarine blue stage.

The @washingtonpost.com describes the deaths of an estimated 750,000 people to date as "messy"

I was curious so I tried out requesting a timer. And yes, the base text model has the same issue as the voice model. And it ALSO “lies” about its ability. Which of course is the actual troubling part of all of this.

Regular reminder whenever this human is in the news: read @jordanas.bsky.social's excellent + devastating Cruel Care for the links between the dual ongoing horrors of the genocidal Northern Territory 'intervention' & the cruel performative violence against those seeking asylum in 'Australia'.

As a White man who has been on the receiving end of White Supremacy's outrage and bile, I can attest to this. It is a system to goad the sane to propagate the belief that anger and cruelty is natural society. And that white people deserve to inflict it on those who neither look nor act like them.

I will say this over and over again until I am blue in the face, MAGA does not believe a bunch of misinformation because they are all a bunch of idiots. They believe it because believing it is the price of entry to justify bigotry.

Another interesting animal video: a rat is caught in a trap, and a sulphur-crested cockatoo spends a couple of minutes working out how to release the animal from the cage.

Since I'm posting animal videos apparently: This male trumpet swan was away from its lake for a few days because it's Toronto and there's veterinary care for the wildlife, and this is the swan being released and its mate realising he's back, and running up so they can do their synchronised dance.

Be a Dawn, not a Geno.

"Luke Hilakari called the police...stalked the women as they left...took photos of them. He took photos of them whilst they were in a car changing... & provided the photos & a 5-page statement to police..he suggested that this was an antisemitic attack, b/c Zelda D’Aprano was Jewish"

'Trump seeks historic $1.5 trillion for military in Congress budget request.' Or: 'Just in case you didn't know what the different parts of a fighter jet are called.' [via stuffchristianculturelikes]

In case you're wondering what life on a Daily Wire production is apparently like... deadline.com/2026/04/jona...

And now, inevitably, Graham Linehan begins his turn to anti-abortion propaganda. You really have to wonder at what point are the so-called "feminists" in the "gender critical" movement going to get it? You're part of a machine that drives people Right, and Far Right.

I've built a free open-source intelligence dashboard tracking every coordinated inauthentic behaviour (CIB) operation Meta has disclosed since 2018. 214 operations. 53 origin countries. $22.7M in ad spend. 71 reports analysed. Access it here! marcowenjones.substack.com/p/i-created-... #disinfo

Fairly famous video of a badger and coyote together using a culvert going under a busy road near the Southern Santa Cruz Mountains, in California. Video from hours earlier showed them together going in this direction, so this video seems like them going home.

2/ h/t : K|C www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH5m...

"When someone shows you who they are believe them the first time." -- Maya Angelou, born #OTD 1928

#Christian-Dominionism is the absolute pinnacle of #genocidalism labeled as a #religion. These people are the most dangerous on the planet when you allow them total access especially with military power. They want to kill everybody who is not in their cult.

I love you, Dawn Staley.

I tweeted this in 2021. Thousands of Black women replied with their personal stories. Moved the convo to IG and hundreds more jumped in to share. I can say with confidence that Dawn has felt this before and has seen it for Black women in her life. #ncaaw #blackwomen #wcbb #wnba

Interesting story on university language requirements and revitalization efforts: nativenewsonline.net/education/co...

My partner gets on TikTok & goes into chats where Algerians & Tunisians & Moroccans passionately & heatedly debate who has the best cous cous. The REAL cous cous.

Geno definitely doesn’t recruit the same players that Dawn does. I’m glad she destroyed him.

University of Washington professor fired from director job after sending email criticizing Iran war

Calling all Authors Guild members! Join @franklinleonard.bsky.social and Randy Winston for a FREE virtual event with @authorsguild.org on April 14 at 4PM PT/7PM ET. Learn more here: authorsguild.org/event/the-bl...

It turns out that breaching the wall between church and state means that some branches of Christianity are officially elevated over others. Who could have known? When in the last 500 years could such a lesson possibly have been learned?

What a time to be alive www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

The beautiful, wondrous adrienne maree brown has written many exquisite things about grief. I was introduced to her work at a conference, where she advocated bringing back black arm bands, so people would know your heart was broken and they should be tender with you.

So many expressions of sympathy in the US are more about the giver dealing with their discomfort than actual sympathy. The one thing Job's friends get right is just sitting with him for seven days and not saying a word. I don't know you; I'm so sorry for what you've experienced.

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with." — Ada Lovelace, 1843

"Among young American men, the strongest predictor of support for the tradwife lifestyle was not gallantry but hostility towards women" Apparently this is not what researchers "expected". Which makes one wonder: had these researchers thought about it for 30 seconds? www.thetimes.com/life-style/s...

Crimes against humanity upon crimes against humanity

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She spoke out about Gaza. Now she can't use a credit card. The UN investigator for Palestinian territories is facing U.S. sanctions and accused of antisemitism by the State Department.

I‘m a Barbie Girl inside a burning world. It’s not fantastic and definitely mostly made out of plastic.

The return of sex testing in sport risks harming women athletes rather than protecting them theconversation.com/the-return-o...

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