Just spent like 30 minutes researching specific local altitudes in Los Angeles so I could know whether it was okay to include the phrase "toward the ocean" when describing the view from a window.

The new Lola Young album is fabulous. www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlD7...

NEW: Psychiatric hospitals — increasingly owned by for-profit corporations — are illegally turning away patients during crises. Yet only a handful face penalties, with fines that are trivial, a ProPublica investigation found. By @emcahan.bsky.social

This is so wholesome I don’t know what to do with my face.

Leave it up to SCOTUS to ruin Fat Bear Week

Love this 18th century plate. In Dutch it says: "That is an unicorn". Just in case you didn't know. Via Atelier Able, who of course had to make a replica. More here: www.facebook.com/www.ateliera...

It's pretty hard to get excited about new Star Wars when the company soliciting it has actively bent the knee to facism. It taints everything, including comics. This is terribly unfair to all the decent people who earn a paycheck by pouring their hearts and souls into writing the stories we love..

if all the people who think they're being Raptured tomorrow actually were, it would fix a lot of America's problems in a day

Governor Gavin Newsom has signed the nation’s first bill banning officers from wearing masks. Now let’s work to bring this change nationwide, reach out to your governors and help unmask ICE!

So Trump has also gutted the DOJ’s elite Public Integrity unit. The office — created after Watergate— has gone from 30 prosecutors to “fewer than five.” www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

It is Hookland. There is no ‘spooky season’. Spooky is the county’s default setting because it is the English gothic, the English strange. The weird is not a costume to be warn only once a year.

What are they all planning to do when he dies?

EPA tells scientists to stop publishing studies, employees say www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...

Easy fix here is for editors to simply publish unauthorized information anonymously. Protect vulnerable reporters as you protect vulnerable sources.

Let them eat their own.

"Every time I listen to a lawyer-trained representative saying we should criminalize free speech in some way, I think to myself, that law school failed." Justice Sonia Sotomayor

In case you didn't know, there is no organization named "antifa." It is just a word, shorted from "anti-fascist." While we're talking, "woke" is another word. It means "anti-racist." People who are "against" antifa and woke are saying a lot about themselves.

Comment: As the NYC Climate Week begins, many of the voices most needed in this moment won’t be in the room.

Some random stranger on Reddit had a brain tumor removed and there was a chance they would not survive the surgery. Posted about it a couple of days ago when they were freaking out. Their sister posted that the surgery was successful for all us strangers keeping watch. That’s the world I prefer.

My usual issues with project management meant that this "series" was stalling in development hell and likely to be abandoned, but I suddenly feel inspired to continue. ^_^ katherinetraylor.com/2025/02/09/v...

Don't they keep proving that increased dependence on technology leads to cognitive decline...?

Young daughter of the Picts, covered in A+ tattooing (& not much else!) as depicted by Jacques Le Moyne de Morgues around 1585. Today is his day.

Some personal news: I've been fired from the Washington Post in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk shooting. Thread incoming. substack.com/@karenattiah...

Some great shots here…! https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/09/60-years-after-gemini-newly-processed-images-reveal-incredible-details/

Hometown newspaper talking weirdly about pit vipers.

In Louisiana, merely helping to plan a protest that might impede traffic—even if the protest never comes—can land you with a conspiracy charge. If 25 or more people impede traffic in Florida, they can be charged with “rioting” and face 15 years. When all protest is terrorism.

I have been working fully freelance for a whole year now, but I still feel like I'm going to get in trouble with my boss when I find myself with a few hours free.

This was a lovely surprise from the algorithm. "We Are the Survivors" by Aoba Ichiko. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms_-... #music #folk #japanese

NASA’s Perseverance rover found potential biosignatures in a rock sample named Sapphire Canyon from Mars’ Jezero Crater. The rock shows minerals and organic molecules possibly linked to ancient microbial life collected in July 2024 from an ancient river valley. Further analysis is needed to confirm.

I know the Perseverance rover is a NASA thing, but it also sounds like the name of a Puritan heroine. Perseverance Rover is terribly clever and accomplished

Hometown newspaper talking weirdly about whales.

Superb mixed bean salad. 🫘 Photo from a book in my collection: The Book of Kittens, edited by Brant House, 1951.

It is important to understand that some places become ghost-soaked not through collecting death, but by the accretion of being lived in. You can call this psychic playback or spirit seepage, you can call it a dozen things, but all of them will still mean haunted. – #CJosiffe #Ghosts

Hugh Mangum, an photographer, travelled all across the US from the 1890s till his death in 1922s. Possibly ignoring segregation laws in some places he welcomed everybody in front of his camera. The results are fantastic. If only these photos could talk. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Ma...

Cancer drug Revlimid is one of the bestselling pharmaceutical products of all time, with total sales of over $100 billion. It’s also extraordinarily expensive, costing nearly $1,000 for each pill, even though that pill costs just 25 cents to make. (Published May 2025)

Alright, so I've been afraid to say this out loud, but I think after today, I can say it: In the first Battle of Los Angeles, the good people of LA County have prevailed. We beat ICE back. 1/

The total loss of NOAA’s office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research —a nerve center of global climate science, data collection and modeling — represents a setback for climate preparedness that experts warn the nation may never recover from. (Published April)

Defying CDC guidance, blue states are making the COVID vaccine available to everyone over 6 months of age. www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Just had a dream in which an 80-year-old Bernie Sanders, who was widely regarded as a fitness role model, was fighting zombies by flipping them up in the air and slamming them onto the ground.

“When the moon rises, the bells hang silent, and impenetrable footpaths appear. When the moon rises, the sea covers the land, and the heart feels like an island in infinity” — Federico Garcia Lorca painting by John Moore (1821–1902)

The United States is now on the Civicus Monitor Watchlist. A global list of countries where there is a serious decline in respect for civic freedoms. The watchlist was updated in March 2025 and includes the US alongside the Democratic Republic of Congo, Pakistan, Kenya, and Serbia. DOJ actions

Hometown newspaper talking weirdly about snakes.

Can you imagine what we could do in this country if we actually started caring about each other?

Assuming it's a real video, there is no way to know who was on that boat.

Strange times.

DEVELOPING: Advocates are seeking a court order to block the Trump administration’s effort to deport hundreds of unaccompanied minor children to Guatemala. Judge abruptly moved 3 pm hearing up to 12:30 after she was notified that some children “are in the process of being removed" today.

We want to apologize if it feels like we’ve been venting a lot lately. It’s just hard to ignore that nearly every move from this administration seems to be illegal, unlawful, or outright unconstitutional and yet nothing happens.

When walking Maryworth, Penstow and all those other harbour towns in Hookland, I can't help noticing how many homes show their open alegiance to the King-Under-the-Sea. It's not submerged symbolism, it's a proud declaration of the Black Fathom Faith. – Lou Kemp, Hookland artist, 1981

Doing research for a story where characters have to travel through a sewer system, and I completely understand how Hugo ended up with a whole chapter about Paris sewers in Les Mis. Shit's complicated.

Scrolling through one weak, meaningless, noncommittal response after another by government officials about yet another US school shooting. "I am heartbroken..." "This doesn't have to happen..." "I am sending my prayers and condolences..." "This needs to stop..." IT IS YOUR JOB TO STOP IT!