Old McDonald had three arms. A.I.A.I.Oh

BREAKING: The Wisconsin Supreme Court struck down the state's abortion ban from 1849. This is a win for abortion rights.

Passengers At Gate Saddened By Poor Frightened Plane Loose Inside Airport theonion.com/passengers-a...

Good morning to everyone else who only realized as grown adults that u had been lied to as a kid and actually no, children cannot fight "with" their parents Because of how power dynamics work Anyhow, let's read a whole bunch of headlines about cops "clashing" with protesters

Climate Protestors Throw Paint On The Louvre’s 1988 Copy Of ‘Hustler’ Magazine

I've always been skeptical that Trump is a unique threat to our political norms and institutions. And now that he's shown everyone how easy it is, what's stopping the next guy from building on the authoritarian project? We're just hoping no one else has his shamelessness and nerve?

"No Other Land," the Palestinian-Israeli made film showing the destruction of the occupied West Bank's Masafer Yatta by Israeli soldiers, just won the Oscar for Best Documentary. It can't get a distributor in the US. Which tells you everything about censorship in the US.

It's a Chick Corea / Gary Burton ("Crystal Silence") kind of day.

Speedy recovery to the Pope, but "bilateral pneumonia" sounds like two nations exchanging vials of pneumonia bacteria.

Wallace Stegner must be delighted.

One day about 18 years ago I was looking around a Yoko Ono exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum when an old wall phone in the gallery rang. This phone was part of the show. I looked around & I saw that it was just me & a security guard in the gallery. He said, “oh my god you need to answer it! 1/5

A good qawwali recording is fun but a live qawwali performance is exhilarating. They sure know a thing or two about the art of pacing, building up gradually - and then suddenly - to a white-hot heat.

😂 😂 the fully diminished chord in root position is a warm, roasted, salted cashew.

Always have been, but especially now.

"The 75 most essential books for Gen X": I read the title, I sniggered, I even said "whatever" silently, and then I read the list and realized it was a fairly decent list (with some obvious issues, like no MAD magazine. That was essential reading.)

"Being dependent, they have no essence of their own." I must have read this concept a few thousand times in various Buddhist texts and each time it hits me anew (and harder).

Today, we at Google have a new product: what if you could could ask an app a question? Oh, we do that already? Well, what if we were a little bit worse at it? What if we also sometimes gave you egregiously wrong information? And what if it cost a billion dollars? Still not interested? It's mandatory

Wait...a 25 year-old who knows COBOL?

What if EVERYONE liked it that way, uh huh uh huh? #DiscoRules

Cecil Taylor's not from this planet.

I've assembled a team of the most horrible perverts and criminals you've ever seen and we're going to fix this country

Writing tip: Why do the hard work of finishing your novel when you can simply issue a blizzard of executive orders declaring it's done and forcing everyone to buy it?

SA apartheid and the Paypal Mafia - a must-read piece in the Guardian.

Hi! Quick note: The Onion accidentally posted a stock photo from a vendor with an AI generated image in it. We pulled the post down once we found that out. Our commitment to not using AI is very real. It's in the union contract to disclose it if we ever do. World is a slop minefield and we're sorry.

RE: ICE Raids on ELEMENTARY schools…

Dear fellow desis: Your "ha ha illegal Indians in the US are being deported" jokes are merely cruel. Have a little heart and empathy. It's not that hard.

The current movement to ban X links across Reddit is genuinely fascinating, only partly because it's cementing the collective identity of Reddit as progressive (in opposition to its older, earned reputation as a hive of scum and villainy). It's also about the nature of digital activism! 🧵...

For all you language-heads. (cc: @sridala.bsky.social)

Brian Johnson's isolated vox on "Hell's Bells". It begins around the 1 min 30s in the clip. I'm sure vocal coaches will find technical issues with his technique but MY GOD he's got his bell and he will take us all to hell.

"Some of us are illegal, and others not wanted Our work contracts out, and we have to move on Six-hundred miles to the Mexican Border They chase us like rustlers, like outlaws, like thieves Hey Woody Guthrie, that "funny ol' world is a-comin' along".

Good morning!

Listen, it's ok if you already need an escape from all of it. Any night, you can go outside, look up at the stars, and remember that we are so small in the grand scheme of -- damnit is that one of his rockets blowing up

Portraits by Mike DuBois Garth

Being a person with deadly, incurable cancer who is nonetheless still alive for an indefinite timeframe gives me an interesting metaphor that helps me deal with things like large-scale corruption in government or commerce. Bear with me for a second while I try to explain.

Wow. Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde fearlessly calls out Trump and Vance to their faces. This is heroic. (posting in 3 parts due to Bluesky's 1 minute limit)

Repeat after me, as often as necessary: "Sir, that is an illegal order."

Support the ACLU.

Here's how to cover things that are illegal: (i) this is illegal (ii) they say it's legal (iii) It's not Truth sandwich, extra mustard

"Do not obey in advance" - from Timothy Snyder's "20 Lessons from the 20th Century on How to Survive in Trump’s America"

Happy “Fuck Trump And All He Stands For Day” to all who celebrate!

The best soundtrack to this processional would be Pink Floyd’s “Pigs (Three Different Ones)”

I’m currently still on trial in Italy and I have a verdict coming in 4 days. The waiting is the hardest part. So I turn to my comforts, like Star Trek. You probably know that it’s always been a progressive show, but it’s also featured many wrongful convictions! /thread

One of my favourite things anyone has ever said about art. You'll be missed, David. 🌹