This is Cupcake. She is either living her best life or really going through it. Either way, probably best to give her a moment. 14/10 (TT: bundleofbullies)

"Pokemon" is short for "pocket monsters". "Digimon" is short for "digital monsters". Therefore, "salmon" is short for "saltwater monsters". (You might object: salmon spend a big part of their life in freshwater. But pokemon spend a big part of their life outside pockets too!)

Just remembered that Madonnasaur is coming tonight with Confessions II

So here is an example of an annotated bibliography from Christine Redfern and Caro Caron's biocomic Who Is Ana Mendieta?

Mauritania still practices a slavery remarkably similar to what we had in the US--lifelong, race-based, inherited, chattel slavery. I've tracked 8 deportation flights to Mauritania under Trump. Plus at least 3 Mauritanians subjected to third-country removal. gillianbrockell.com/tracking-all...

Some amazing quotes in this article about how Ford replaced hundreds of engineers with AI, which broke a bunch of shit causing billions in damage and forcing them to rehire those people. www.the-independent.com/tech/ford-ai...

COST-CUTTING CON-ARTIST CORRUPTS CAPITAL! DIM-WIT DEVELOPER DARKENS DAY OF DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE! DON ENDANGERS DANCERS WITH DECAPITATION!

This helped define Italian style for the next hundred years. From Rubinacci (bespoke) to Armani (ready-to-wear), a lot of Italian style is about looking relaxed and casual. The silhouette says: "Live life, don't take things so seriously." 🤌

Jan6 traitors got light sentences & pardons.... for sacking the Capitol Building and beating cops! The Prairieland protestors got 30-50 years for protesting ICE, making zines, and being in a bookclub. If these sentences stand, we are done as a republic. We're a gulag police state.

Women’s use of AI is perceived as a sign of incompetence, while men’s use of AI is seen as an indication of initiative. 🤦🏻‍♂️

“Platner is running behind the Democratic Party as a whole in Maine. Voters there want a Democratic Senate by 54-42, so his 49 percent support lags that. By contrast, in Times polling, all the Democrats in other red states—Ohio, Texas, Alaska, Iowa, North Carolina—are outrunning their party.”

Modern Family started airing in September 2009, when gay marriage was legal in only 5 states. I would argue that it very much did have a profound cultural impact: normalizing American mainstream audiences to the idea of gay couples as cringe suburbanite parents.

There were more people at the DNR Fish Pond at the 2025 Minnesota State Fair (as there should be)! Their Reflecting Pool was much clearer too…AND HAD GAR 😎👍

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Emma Southon's book on Roman slavery goes out of its way to hammer home that the word of masters on their slaves cannot be trusted, and that the world of the enslaved has to imagined emphatically through the fragments available. I appreciate this more right now since I'm reading a book on ...

“Companies across tech, entertainment, banking, and many other industries are throttling their employees’ use of AI and pleading with workers to use less powerful models to stop AI costs from spiraling out of control…”

Talking T. rex and birds and everything in between, with a dose of Jurassic World. On one of my favorite podcasts, NOVA's Particles of Thought, with one of my favorite scicommers, Hakeem Oluseyi! youtu.be/_p6tMvlLqdk?...

but instead, not only was there a big public announcement which scoops up 300,000 people instead of 6 people, it was framed as a warning to the rest of the church not to fraternize with these people. that's a shot across the bow to scare potential SSPX sympathizers and other right-wing Catholics

🚨🚨🚨MEMBERS OF THE ORDER WHO STAY IN THE ORDER ARE *ALL* EXCOMMUNICATED🚨🚨🚨

THE VATICAN IS CALLING IT A SCHISM I REPEAT HOUSTON, WE HAVE A SCHISM

BREAKING: The Vatican excommunicates bishops from a breakaway group of traditionalist Catholics that consecrated them without Pope Leo's consent.

I wrote a tiny bit about the rediscovered O. megalodon vertebrae and quite a lot about all the weird ways things can get lost or vanish from science: theconversation.com/megalodons-l...

Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the City Council will provide the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs (DCLA) with $323.8 million, its highest-ever yearly appropriation as part of the city’s Fiscal Year 2027 budget.

Walter F White was a white man. At least, that's what you'd see if you ever saw him. He had white skin, blue eyes, blond hair. The vast majority of his grandparents were white. And he was a descendant of the ninth US president. But Walter didnt consider himself white 🧵

my essay this week was, icymi, on the people who wielded the declaration as a weapon against bondage (gift link)

NYC, this is a reminder that our Olympic — and intermediate — sized outdoor pools will stay open until 8:30 PM. That's a 1/2 hour longer than prior heat wave extensions and 1.5 hours longer than normal operating days. Stay cool. Stay informed. Together, we will get through this historic heat wave.

Shooting scenes for ‘Prehistoric Planet: Ice Age’ --> An excerpt from the new issue #61 of @beforesmag.bsky.social, featuring the on-set shoot involving Practic Creations and @framestore.bsky.social. beforesandafters.com/2026/07/01/s...

Literally the Supreme Court upheld sodomy bans in 1986 and said homosexuality was worse than rape and nobody even talks about it

“The show, billed by the Trump administration as the largest pyrotechnic display in history, will include some 850,000 fireworks in a roughly 40-minute show expected to start at 10:30 pm or 11 pm.” Get out your N95 masks. Trump is going to do to the air what he did to the reflecting pool.

Native people have been left out of the story of America's founding. But without us, you don't know what really happened. I sat down with @the1a.org to talk about my new podcast FIRST AMERICA. Listen here: the1a.org/segments/the...

This is Kiki. She is here to calm your mind and align your chakras. And yes, she does do weddings. 13/10 (TT: texaspommysquad)

Read this. 👇 medium.com/prismnpen/to...

Me, oversharing my niche interest with people who aren’t in the least bit interested.

🎙️I sat down with Rose Aguilar on KALW's Your Call for their "US at 250: A Native Perspective" series. We talked about FIRST AMERICA, why Native voices are missing from the 250th conversation, and how Indigenous resistance shaped this country from the start. www.kalw.org/show/the-us-...

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

So here’s a lil scoop: you know the new gay dating app Goose? It’s apparently been using at least two dozen AI-generated Instagay accounts to lure men into signing up. Which is “very obviously unlawful,” according to a lawyer I spoke to. My story for @wired.com www.wired.com/story/goose-...

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THREAD. A while ago my parents' cat Bridget went missing. As the worrying weeks dragged on my dad devised a way to distract himself: he began to paint Bridget's adventures, imagining her travelling through time & inhabiting art's most iconic scenes. What he produced (& how quickly) was phenomenal...

I see a lot of “so-and-so is a birthright citizen” because their parents weren’t citizens when they were born on American soil. But the truth is, we’re all birthright citizens, unless we have been naturalized.

this should be illegal, easy layup for any new party taking a branch of government in the midterms imo

Sister Leticia "Letty" Ugboaja was walking to Sunday Mass in McAllen, Texas, when federal immigration officers stopped her, confiscated her rosary, and put her in handcuffs. DHS would not respond to requests for comment. The Catholic nun from Nigeria is a nurse who entered the country legally.

The death of physical media seems like a small thing practically but in essence it represents the total dissolution of games as “objects of art” and instead reduces them purely to “intellectual property”. It’s a slow disaster but if you care about games as an art form it IS a disaster.

A professor in Tufts University’s School of Engineering required one of his international graduate students to work an unpaid TA job this past spring semester. After she went to her union and blew the whistle, Tufts withdrew her from her program. A thread of rage. 1/

Affordability is a real concern, but … Washington State Univ, eg, admits 87% of applicants and annual costs are about $11,500 for a median income family. Anyone who has the wherewithal to do travel sports but tells you that an athletic scholarship is their only way to college is full of shit.

I'd note the status difference in this model between a waitress or cashier vs. an owner-proprietor, manager, chef, cook, etc.. Which is why it is OK if the Waffle House cook throws someone out, but the same people who cheer that will lose their s*** if a waitress isn't absurdly deferential.

I think the key divide here a vision of the service economy as "I do services for you and you do services for me" vs. "service workers are low-class servants I can boss around." For the latter, the expanding service economy represents a gendered threat as the jobs are often female-coded.