this means so much to me ;-;

This little drawing of Ursula’s cat Leonard—who also features in the Book of Cats—is among her papers at the University of Oregon. We included it in our latest infrequent newsletter this morning; the next newsletter will be timed to the announcement of the Le Guin Prize shortlist, in June!

Ursula Le Guin

Hey drivers, one way to save on expensive fuel is to drive slower. Another is to use public transportation or ride a bike. Any of those will lead to fewer people killed.

Remember, if our solution to homelessness doesn’t start with more housing, we don’t really want to solve homelessness. #UrbanTruth

Ich see trees of grene Redde roses too Ich see them bloome For me and you And Ich thynke to myselfe What a wondirful worlde Ich see welkin blue And cloudes of whyte The brighte blessid daye The darke sacred nighte And Ich thynke to myselfe What a wondirful worlde www.nasa.gov/image-articl...

Just learned that apparently Artemis 2's Victor Glover listens to the Gil Scott Heron song poem "Whitey on the Moon" every Monday and now I'm thinking about reposting my thread it, from like, five years ago, back when the conversation was about Mars.

🚨 Christina Koch has officially become the farthest any woman has ever traveled from Earth

Shame The Crown corporation plans to transform its business model to “meet the evolving needs of Canadians without becoming a recurring burden on taxpayers.” It’s ok for it to be a burden on taxpayers. It’s a public service cultmtl.com/2026/04/cana...

Advocates (incl @docshumanity) call for Canadian action in response to human rights violation... www.youtube.com/live/noBNiSN... via @YouTube

PS still not flat

We must do THAT in our city #HamOnt

Death penalties are bad Hanging people is bad A death penalty for some, not all, is apartheid Wherever you are, do what you can: ✅Boycott Israel ✅Call on your government to sanction Israel ✅Call on your institution to divest from Israel www.thepipd.com/wp-content/u...

@MarkJCarney @AnitaAnandMP what we're demanding isn't complicated. Sanction Israel. Stop the flow of arms. zeteo.com/p/israel-app...

“Experts describe ‘surveillance wages’ as a system in which wages are based not on an employee’s performance or seniority, but on formulas that use their personal data, often collected without employees’ knowledge.”

It's Trans Day of Visibility today. If you're trans and are raising money for something (I don't care what it is), reply to this thread and I will boost you. If you are a cis person, take a look and find someone to support if you can. Everyone give this a share after.

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

“In Finland, the number of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back to a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” IT SAVES PUBLIC MONEY to house people.

"It seems to me, that if we love, we grieve. That’s the deal. That’s the pact. Grief and love are forever intertwined. Grief is the terrible reminder of the depths of our love and, like love, grief is non-negotiable. There is a vastness to grief that overwhelms our minuscule selves." - Nick Cave

Avi Lewis just won the NDP leadership, and the worst people on the internet are having an absolute meltdown. I think that might be a good sign — because there are very specific, exciting reasons why he pisses them off. Let me tell you all about them:

Indigenous protestors were trying to bring attention to decades of mercury poisoning in their community. Mark Carney's response? "I can outlast her"

No one could have foreseen this.

Raising the Palestinian flag at city hall, Hamilton, on land day

At the regular Women in Black vigil in #Dundas on Saturday Never normalize genocide and apartheid

Her grin knowing how this arrest looks (Published in The Atlantic today)

At our No Kings rally yesterday, I photographed a man holding this sign with an amazing artist's rendition of Alex Pretti. This is why we fight Traitor Trump's masked domestic terrorists. Nobody has been held accountable for his murder. This injustice cannot continue. Resist with all you have.

Pope Leo says God rejects prayers of leaders who wage wars reut.rs/4rZIThC

No Kings #NoKings No Kynges

The avoidance of the word “airborne” in this passage from the original @who.int document is simply Orwellian. Source: cdn.who.int/media/docs/d...

Holy New York.

There is this study of sac/val vs val in hypertensive heart disease. No difference in blood pressure, but more reverser remodelling. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

“Australians can now live & work freely in the EU for 4 years and vice versa That means they now have 𝒎𝒐𝒓𝒆 EU rights than British people. Free movement offered millions of us fantastic opportunities but Brexiteers slammed that door shut, most shamefully on their own children”

Happy birthday to the Washington Metro, which opened 50 years ago today with service on 4.6 mi of Red Line between Rhode Is. Ave & Farragut N. System now serves 130 mi. The DC Metro shows that, with good planning & enough investment, the public sector can succeed & build something extraordinary.

🚨Paper on AI & Copyright Courts have credited AI companies' claims that alignment prevents reproducing copyrighted data. What if finetuning on a simple writing task breaks it. Worse: tuning on just one author (e.g., Murakami) unlocks verbatim recall of 30+ other authors' books (up to 90%) (1/n)🧵

Fundamental foundational reminder: It's human biases and human values all the way down. The particular technology in question can matter in how exactly said values express, but the core remains: Human biases, human values, human choices, and unquestioned human assumptions, leading to human death.

“Let me remind you what fascism is. I need not wear a brown or green shirt. Fascism begins the moment a ruling class, fearing people may use political democracy to gain economic democracy, begins to destroy political democracy to retain its power of exploitation & special privilege.” ~ Tommy Douglas

How incredible: “The full delivery took about 30 minutes. For hours afterward, pairs of whales held the baby above the water until it was able to swim… What struck the researchers was how many mother, sister and daughter whales united to support the new calf, even ones that weren’t related.”

Have you read this? www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

These people have a funny way of saying "Environmentalists have been proved right yet again."

“Statements by top officials from the United States, Israel, and Iran demonstrate a willingness to violate fundamental protections of international humanitarian law, reveal callous disregard for civilian life and property…” www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

This 1990 speech by Carl Sagan is timely times two: #war #climate

“Since 2020 Israeli soldiers and settlers have killed at least 1,100 Palestinian civilians in the occupied West Bank, at least a quarter of whom were children, UN data shows. No one has been charged over any of these deaths.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Three major new studies on democracy and freedom all find the U.S. is slipping further away from democracy. Leaders of two of those studies say President Trump's goal is to rule as an autocrat. n.pr/4uG99Am

Plaid Cymru has proven that we are the only party relentless in demanding the best for Wales. The Senedd election in May is a two-horse race between Plaid Cymru and Reform. We think it’s pretty clear who has the best interests of the people of Wales at heart, don’t you?

Dr Salim Yusuf talking about the long and honourable history of peace-medicine studies at McMaster at today’s inaugural Decolonial Health Justice symposium