Sign you might be in Arkansas. Biscuits with chocolate gravy.

Just the seven most recent breaking news alerts on a random Friday afternoon. But it’s fine. Everything is fine. 🔥

last friday, job gains from May+June were revised down by a total of ~258,000. the downward revisions hit virtually every sector, but jobs in state+local government were revised down the most story by @bencasselman.bsky.social about why revisions happen, 📊📈 by Keith Collins+me 🎁 nyti.ms/4fpAbEI

"Unlike the left, we don't believe in erasing history" says the guy renaming ships and purging any mention of like the navajo code talkers, tuskegee airmen, black medal of honor winners, etc

SCOOP from me: FEMA is planning to order states to immediately stop activities intended to combat domestic violent extremism - the latest in a broad federal move to downplay the threat:

NASA is making plans to shut down two Earth observing satellites that provide key data to climate scientists and farmers, despite lawmakers telling them it’s illegal to do it. Story by @astrokimcartier.bsky.social eos.org/research-and...

No Kings

I bet this would be cozy with jammies.

Say it louder for the folks in the back.

As an introvert who still rather likes most people, my FOMO is constantly doing battle against my desire to miss out.

“As a little girl growing up in Chippewa Falls,” Judge Susan Crawford said in her victory speech, “I never could have imagined that I’d be taking on the richest man in the world for justice in Wisconsin. And we won.”

What happened in Wisconsin is an example of what is most feared: That in a true democracy regular people have more power than a billionaire, that all the money in the world doesn’t change one person one vote.

Pete’s dropping bombs now. You know it’s bad when the editor of The Atlantic knows details of military operations hours before we bombed Yemen because the Secretary of Defense, NSA and Vice President were casually chatting about national secrets on an unsecured app.

These are the 13 books I read last month. I highly recommend most. This is the first month I can remember that I read more nonfiction than fiction. #booksky

Also, and I know I'm FAR from the first to note this, but every time the camera lingers on Isabella Rossellini in her blue velvet my heart explodes with joy. Such a magnificent tribute.

There should be a tribute to David Lynch, where they just show 60 seconds of a static shot of a steam filled underground corridor, with a flickering fluorescent light backed with ominous washing and a distant scream

and the oscar goes to 'el mal'

“EMIIILLIIAAAAAA..”

My favorite of the BP nominees. This is satisfying. (As was Flow winning Best Animated)

I’ve been trying to figure out who she reminded me of! 100% accurate. @peetgelderblom.bsky.social

Suspended raindrops 📸💧 #photography #nature #naturephotography #macro #moss #woodland #woodlandphotography

Kermit the forest

Random pretty picture of the day: Spring Waterfall. (Decided closing my eyes and moving up and down my camera roll before stopping randomly takes the stress out of deciding what to post)

Hi 👋🏻 I’m Cecilia and I’m new on this app - looking forward to connecting! here’s the first ceramic piece that came out of the kiln in 2025 🥳 #ceramics #pottery #whimsy

Choose 20 pots or ceramic pieces that you have made. One pot per day for 20 days, in no particular order. Day 12 #20pots #pottery #ceramics #clay #handbuiltceramics #pottersofbluesky #handbuildersofbluesky #slabbuilt #birds #birdart

Sad news from my hometown. Times are ridiculously tough, are they not? Surely a home can be found for such amazing craftspeople. #potterythrowdown www.stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-o...

This is like an In Memoriam scroll at the Oscars but for industries that are about to die

Big snowy Little Rock. The contrast between the peaceful scene I see out my window and the fires destroying so many homes and livelihoods in LA is so stark.

He reliably manages to be shocking yet somehow not surprising.

some forthcoming 2025 books by women of color I’m excited about!!! in this piece out today in @electriclit.bsky.social 🖤 electricliterature.com/48-books-by-...

LA friends, if you’ve lost your home, I’m so sorry. In case it helps, here’s some stuff I wish I’d known: 1. Make detailed contemporaneous notes about every conversation you have with your insurance company.

Cannot stop thinking about how Octavia Butler wrote a book in 1993 about climate change. It opens with deadly fires in LA in 2025. In the story, a fascist President has just won office with the campaign slogan "Make America Great Again." She was a modern day Nostradamus. If only we'd listened.

L.A. news choppers are better able to survey the damage today vs. yesterday. KABC is flying over parts of the Palisades right now. Block after block is gone. abc7.com/watch/live/

One thing I appreciate about BlueSky is that besides browsing feeds on news and trending topics and friends’ posts, when the world gets to be too much, you can switch over to feeds about usually less contentious things like Pottery or Moss. It’s like taking a deep breath to reset.

New pics just in from planet Mercury! Yesterday, the BepiColombo probe made an ultra-close flyby & took images with its monitoring cameras (selfie-cams), so you see the spacecraft in the frame. Next year it will enter orbit around Mercury and begin full science. 🧪🔭 www.esa.int/Science_Expl...

Total losses for the LA wildfires are estimated to top $50 billion, the costliest in US history.

LA

This should be obvious but sometimes obvious things need to be said out loud: If you're not in the LA area, don't expect much out of folks there for the next several days except that they are going to be busy either surviving or trying to help their neighbors. www.cnn.com/weather/live...

These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer. These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP. You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇 www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...

You will read countless times today that the LA mayor cut the LA Fire Department's budget by $23 million. That is a lie. The budget was actually *increased* by $50 million.

Besides Trump, no one lies more than Elon Musk. His plethora of lies about the LA wildfires have fact checkers working overtime. 😳👇 shorturl.at/Ao3rq

Absolutely heartbreaking overhead of the LA fires.

I just read that the LA fires have collective burned 25,000 acres in the last 2 days. That is 39 square miles. By comparison, and for us East Coasters, Manhattan is about 23 square miles.

did you know that 57 oil corporations were responsible for 80% of co2 emissions between 2016-2022? www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne... www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Love me some Murderbot. Thanks to this excellent profile on @wired.com, I admire Martha Wells even more today. Thanks, @ryanadams.bsky.social, for pointing it out to me. www.wired.com/story/murder...

Has anybody tried putting cool little prizes inside boxes of *healthy* food? Like I’m not saying I definitely for sure would eat quinoa five days in a row just to get a free decoder ring…but I’m not saying I definitely for sure wouldn’t either.

Pretty crazy someone can be charged federally with interfering in an election and those charges get dropped because they win an election.

Let’s run the government like a business, drive the car like a bicycle, and play the guitar like a piano