Last night our @frontlinepbs.bsky.social documentary collaboration with @pbs.org , @washingtonpost.com and @evidentmedia.org covering Iran's nuclear programme won an Emmy for Outstanding Investigative Coverage: Long Form.

happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves

• No, everyone *isn't* using AI to do their writing for them. • Modernizing kids' books demonstrates massive contempt for kids. And for books. • He *is* an ugly fuck, and he should shut up. Have a nice day.

But Obama had a basketball court…

Who doesn’t love quail chicks following mom across the road? (From my walk this morning).

Wait Gruters thinks God is what, exactly? If God isn’t nonbinary, I’m guessing he thinks God is male? These religious zealots are a bunch of smooth brained weirdos

Over 50 years later, this anti-Vietnam War PSA still rings true.

How long until Trump brags he aced yet another cognitive screening? He’s at Walter Reed now So….tonight? Even if somebody convinces him NOT to bring it up, he’ll do it eventually Maybe someone in the media can ask him about it?

Industrial action at the University of Cambridge is taking place on 26, 27, 28 and 29 May (Tuesday - Friday). We aim to maintain services during the strikes but we advise you to check our service updates page before travelling to our libraries: https://loom.ly/JAHIoXk.

We’re not playing baseball at the White House Or basketball or lacrosse or ultimate frisbee We’re going to have UFC: people intentionally hurting each other—and that’s the goal, not a consequence of trying to move a ball or catch something HURTING A HUMAN BEING IS THE GOAL

When you get caught stealing Top Secret documents from the government 💯💯💯💯🎯

The National Weather Service just put out a flood advisory and severe thunderstorm warning. Here's how to stay safe, New York.  Text NOTIFYNYC to 692-692 to sign up for NYC emergency alerts and find more information at nyc.gov/floodprep.

Tim Walz doing mystery science theater but for fox news

Angus McEwan, Scottish painter, born in 1963. Moving Shadows, 2021. Watercolor on Fabriano paper. Private collection. 🙏🏼🌍🕊️ 📷 Susan McKenna | Masters of Modern and Contemporary Art

Everybody thinks when he's rich he'll be a different kind of rich person from the rich people he sees around him; later on he finds out there's only one kind of rich person, and he's it. —Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker

Obsessed. (Via @thetnholler on IG)

Yikes 🧵

HOLY FUCKING SHIT

The guy who leaked it is in jail Bidens DOJ put him there There’s no “they”

I got a LOT of flack on the other site back in the day for saying that worldbuilding is not inherently story. There's something to be said for "just enough" worldbuilding: just enough to build a compelling scaffolding for your plot and characters. If you go too hard, it turns into handcuffs!

YES Here’s a newsflash for members of the Democratic Party: some voters don’t belong to EITHER party & want to vote FOR a candidate instead of AGAINST a candidate If your message is just like the GOP (vote X because they aren’t Y) those voters will be gone when the obvious threat to democracy ends

BREAKING: Federal judge finds that Presidential Records Act is likely constitutional, issues preliminary injunction requiring compliance with the law. Judge Bates, a George W. Bush appointee, opens his opinion with an Orwell quote.

I propose a new rule: The ONLY time ANYONE swims near the USS Arizona is when it BENEFITS the memorial No visits by dignitaries or political hacks like Patel If it doesn’t benefit the memorial, it doesn’t happen.

I do not know why WANDERERS is a dollar ninety nine at all the electromagic ebook marketplaces but it is! So come get your peri-apocalyptic book about crumbling American dynasties and AI and plagues and rock and roll and the CDC and also hope amidst the chaos! Tell everyone! Black Swan says hi!

✨️LOOK AT THIS MAJESTY✨️

Freshly signed copy of MATH FOR KNITTERS at Book City Toronto Danforth location! 🧶

This is my shocked face I am shocked Trump lied about what we are paying to have work done on the Reflecting Pool, shocked he lied about past dealings with the company, shocked the company has demonstrated no pool experience Just shocked

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Holy forking shirtballs www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Clearly, Kash Patel is a sober fellow who does not have a drinking problem and just happens to give out booze as tokens to remember him by 🤡 Yep Sure That’s like me giving out personalized skeins of hand dyed fingering weight #yarn Of course I don’t have a 🧶 problem, i haven’t hit SABLE

“The no-little-people-welcome dance palace that has become the symbol of Marie Antoinette-meets-Nicolae Ceaușescu lavishly gilded grift” Nice

May 5 is Red Dress Day. We take a moment to honour and remember Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. #RedDressDay #MMIWG #MMIWG2S #NoMoreStolenSisters #TruthAndReconciliation #EveryChildMatters #NationalDayOfAwareness #CanadaRemembers

🇩🇪 German postwoman celebrates 15 years of delivering mail by boat For 15 years, Andrea Bunar has been delivering post by boat in the UNESCO-designated Spreewald Biosphere Reserve in Germany.

Somebody tell Katy Perry that AI slop isn’t art #MetGala

In 1933, Justice Louis Brandeis said: “We can have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few, but we cannot have both.” What he said was true 93 years ago. It’s even more accurate today. Let us choose democracy over oligarchy.

Born on this day in 1784, in Philadelphia, my namesake Rubens Peale. One of the many artistic (& scientific) sons of Charles Wilson Peale. Here painted by his brother Rembrandt in 1807. Rubens by Rembrandt, love it.

Are drones the next big deterrent? They’re hard to protect against in the sky, but as Ukraine demonstrated with Russia, there are other ways to deploy them Country A can have $ tanks, but if Country B drones kill fuel supply lines, bridges, generals? B doesn’t have to be as rich as A Am I wrong?

NASA just dropped more than 12,000 photos from the Artemis II mission. It'll take me a few days to go through them all, but so far it's one stunner after another. Link: eol.jsc.nasa.gov/SearchPhotos... Credit: NASA/Artemis II Crew (h/t @jonostrower.com)

The Russia Tool Shed

Tinker Tailor Soldier Noisy Neighbor

WE NEED A HISTORIC LEVEL OF WHITE VOTERS WHO VOTE TO PROTECT OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS WHO ARE VULNERABLE BECAUSE OF THEIR SKIN COLOR THIS IS ON US It is NOT the job of Black voters to compensate for racist white voters or judges We need to pass the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act #VRA

This is a crushing blow to our democracy. We cannot stand by as Trump's extreme SCOTUS eviscerates protections against voter suppression that heroes like Dr. King and John Lewis marched for. We need to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act. Now.

when we mourn le guin, we mourn one of our greatest writers & thinkers. but we also mourn one of our all-time greatest haters

Joshua Jackson wins Delaware Marathon on April 19, in the last 100 yards by outsprinting leader who was celebrating early Original post

Gerry Conway has passed at 73. He leaves an incredible legacy. Co-creator of Punisher, Power Girl, Firestorm, Killer Croc, Jason Todd, Ms. Marvel. He also wrote a lot of tv including Law & Order. Best remembered for The Night Gwen Stacy Died? Probably? My condolences to his family and friends.

#RestoreTheWhiteHouse I want to support candidates who make THAT the underlying theme of their campaigns Restore the integrity of the White House in all ways Rebuild the East Wing Restore guardrails to prevent presidential corruption and overreach Restore people’s rights

King Charles is visiting the US supposedly to mark the 250th anniversary of American independence, but not visiting BOSTON or PHILADELPHIA? Yeah, we see you Chuckie Chicken.

Is there a #goodnews or #good list of posts on BlueSky? If so, somebody please put some version of the #CancerFighters news in there So much bad news online and this story about Poland raising money for children with cancer will lift spirits