I received a call for illustrators from the New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. They're looking for someone to draw 5 realistic, color illustrations about lives of free and enslaved Africans and African Americans in New York State during 17th-19thc.

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Inventing the air conditioner Make it a 100 fucking pounds. No, no center mass to it at all somehow. Throw some fuckin…accordion arms on it that flap out and catch on everything when you’re carrying it up from the basement. And let me get 50 razor blades on the back of it too.

I briefly worked as a cabinet makers apprentice, and we cut this stuff regularly. Thinking of my mentor who survived a parachuting accident where he broke his back and had to learn how to function physically again. He has been working with these materials for decades.

I don’t think friendship is dying, nobody teaches you that friendships have to be maintained until it’s too late. They’re just like any other relationship, you get out what you put into them. There’s no puzzle there unless you don’t realize when someone else is putting in the work when you aren’t.

The honeybees have been drinking out of the birdbath.

This @ft graphic shows that trump suddenly got very interested in trading stocks

There are places in this country where a gallon of gas costs more than the federal minimum wage.

Yeah, this is fucked. I sat in a meeting the other day and some guy started talking about running stuff by ChatGPT, which, no. 12-step programs are inherently experiential and human, that's what makes them meaningful. Computers are devoid of both. We'll save your seat.

GOD. DAMN. This Louisiana man fucking COOKED like I’ve seen very few people cook before.

In case you haven’t heard we are all boycotting REI until they respect the union. Please spread the word.

i have yet to see a single cis person say something about the fact that the government just designated trans people a terrorist group and threatened to kill all of us.

Jason Collins, the NBA's first openly gay player who has served as a global ambassador for the sport, has died from brain cancer, his family said. He was 47 www.espn.com/nba/story/_/...

Losing AL and MS is something else

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

Hey man, you need to stop taking my fucking videos, cropping off my handle, splicing it with other clips (which you presumably also stole), and then slapping your name on it. It’s one thing to download my TikTok and post it instead of just sharing here, but we’re hitting lawyer territory here.

I wish you well in your adult literacy journey

unfortunately, kim il sung's clothes hang a lot better

"I have a gardener. In fact, I have three gardeners. Three generations of men with no ambition, who are happier than I will ever be". -Tommy Shelby

Alabama, from mineral deposits through agriculture and slavery to modern voting. Understanding how this sort of thing happens and why it matters is a basic test a lot of people are failing while they argue teaching history is unimportant

Just heard someone say that the new Mortal Kombat movie was written by the person who wrote Moonlight and I was like ok now this is interesting but then I looked it up and it was Moon Knight

More like a golden cow, to be fair

This dog was a three term mayor of Whoville.

I'm stoked for this one, @lukeoneil47.bsky.social is the man. He hooked me up with a WTHW sub when things were tight, and I told him I'd buy stuff as I was able. Luke writes for a few indy outlets I subscribe to, and his work is so, so good. I'll also be reupping my sub to WTHW when the time comes.

Microcosm of the horror of this post-Callais moment: the Mississippi House plans to hold its redistricting session in the Old Capitol where they seceded & instituted Jim Crow. They'll meet there aiming to erase Bennie Thompson's district — the one majority-Black district in a state that's ~40% Black

YOUR CHILDREN ARE NOT YOUR PROPERTY

i just can't stress enough how getting your foot in the door at DOJ used to be a knife fight against the best knife fighters in the country and now they're begging people to join

Well fuck me, starting smoking again was my fall back plan to be cool again, now I can't even do that

Not sure about the rest, but Card II is definitely 2 gnomes playing patty cake.

hi, i have to encourage you all (all genders) to obtain some mifepristone while you still can — to have on hand for you or others. it doesn't expire for five years. please let's do what we can to facilitate access to abortion as much as we can. apnews.com/article/abor...

Come again?

Brad voted Trump bc he promised to be “the most pro-farmer president you’ve ever had.” Instead, tariffs cut Brad’s export market; the war surged fertilizer prices by 70%. So Brad arranged his family’s final sale. “Farm is going dry,” said the ad. “Every cow must go.” www.nytimes.com/2026/05/03/u...

This here is probably the single most important thing for anyone to understand about North Carolina's state government.

Casablanca

These solar canals are made with bifacial solar panels that pull in sunlight from both sides. They generate power not just from the top, but also from light reflected off the water in the canal below. #solarcanals #energysky

Which coffee mug will bestow me with the most mystical powers today?

If you a see this post a bird!

happy may day! every right you have as a worker was written in blood ❤️

No words

Man, fuck David Feherty

Alaska, Australia, Maine, New York, and Canada. I might have to start a bucket list.

IT WILL BE 90 MINUTES OF DANGLING THAT BABY OVER THE HOTEL BALCONY

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if packing the supreme court causes logistical problems i have a couch one of them can sleep on until we figure it out. whatever i can do to help save democracy i guess, it's a loveseat though so pretty tight

Mom went on a trip to London with a friend when I was about 8, and my grandma stayed with us. I asked if I could watch a movie about London, and she said sure. I watched An American Werewolf in London.

Only in the UK can a guy best identified with the word "Labour" run around with a Sir in front of his name, simply not a serious country

OVERNIGHT: Trump Admin files latest court motion in support of White House ballroom It reads like a Trump Truth Social post, with random capitalization, accusations the plaintiffs are "very bad for our country", suffer "Trump Derangement Syndrome", etc storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Restaurant killed me for years.