Razorbills have the slickest design in the animal kingdom. They look like they were made by Yves Saint Laurent

My MA was on the Mu Family Genealogy 木氏宗譜 and these issues were really obvious there These (non Chinese) guys increasingly depicted themselves in the style of Chinese gentry scholars, and adopted cultural conventions of representing ideals rather than strict reproduction of appearance

But here’s something weird: average Romans also wanted to look like Augustus. This went beyond hairstyle to to marble Looksmaxxing. Augustus’ facial features suddenly became more common in male portraiture. Are all these people lost cousins of Augustus? Do we need to call 23andMe to check? /8

Elizabeth was creating the visual rhetoric of one, unified royal bloodline w herself at the legitimate center. Genetics & technicalities of blood relations be damned. Elizabeth didnt invent this game. Let me get back into my own lane: Rome’s first imperial family had perfected it centuries before./5

NEW: In the morning, lawmakers plan to introduce an amendment to a $580 billion transportation bill that would make federal highway funds contingent on states and cities killing off their automated license plate reader programs, i.e., Flock, in most cases.

Just going to leave this here.

This is basically renaissance art

*Juneteenth t-shirt*

Ghislaine Maxwell is eligible to file a claim with Trump’s $1.8 billion theft of taxpayer dollars. 5 appointees of Trump’s former criminal defense attorney Todd Blanche would then decide if she should get some of your money. This is the Republican Party.

none of the occupations are over

My friend of 17 years, Piper Drake, passed away this week. She was 49. I know the exact date I met her because she sent me a email that day. I had been on a panel at Philcon. She asked me if she really had a chance at reaching her dream of becoming a writer. I told her that yes, absolutely yes.

Back on the market... 👀

I think Democrats like Cory Booker should take a hard look in the mirror and consider why Jeff Bezos loves their tax cut proposals so much. Billionaires would love to see a weak state with a gutted fiscal capacity.

Yes, I'm suing Matt Taibbi.

now i have to be visited by a toilet leak detector inspector

having billions of dollars is basically like walking around with a nuclear bomb, politically speaking, and there's a reason we do not let individuals have nuclear bombs to set off entirely at their own whims

Few things are as insane as the anticipation of a "big pay day" for a guy with over half a trillion dollars. Greed is truly a mental disorder

One of the things I keep thinking about with the Sand Diego mosque is the guy who lived across the street and ran into the line of fire. He ran from a safe place to a death trap to protect others. This fucking sucks. The bravest among us should not have to die because of cowardly hatemongers.

Gift link to live updates about the shooting at the Islamic Center in San Diego.

Great read and right where I am with AI. Providing solid examples of why AI sucks resonates with people who are just accepting all of this at face value.

i am not saying taco trucks on every corner is the answer for everything but

This is even funnier when I picture my grandma (hated everyone including her kids) as the sanctity of domestic bliss

📣 Great Graves of Illinois: Learn about this tall Alton monument to the first martyred journalist (and many other storied resting places) at Elburn’s Town and Country Library tomorrow night!

Yeah I doubt many people know SNAP is an available payment through these apps because they rarely interact with people they know are on the program.

I mean, this is great news, but there’s a big WTF: 21 council members voted *against* this measure.

Writer friends! The AI-generated email scams targeting authors are getting more sophisticated. I got one today w/ a real editor's name on it, which could be very convincing to someone who doesn't know how actual editors communicate, so I annotated it to highlight red flags. Spread the word, ok?

When a toxic boss tries to bully your shop steward over email.

FUCK YEAH VIPERS FOREVER

Trans people are not “fighting for unpopular positions that society isn’t ready for.” Trans people are fighting to KEEP the rights we have enjoyed for decades. We have been able to legally change our gender markers since the 70s and before. Same with bathrooms, sports, youth, all for decades.

Hello from me and this pupper who are asking for your help in supporting access to sexual and reproductive health care by donating to my fundraiser for Planned Parenthood of Greater New York. donations.nyrr.org/donations/ne...

Food should never be a purity test. You shouldn't have to be deserving to eat. Like seriously, what bullshit is that. Food is beyond fundamental. Let people eat.

Because nothing is bigger than the program.

Also we are inundated with AI scams. Just drowning in them. Multiple per day. Over and over. It makes my life harder because I have to scrutinize every piece of fan mail I get to see if it's real or some piece of shit using AI to try to scam me out of money.

The extent to which launching with "hey creatives, we stole all of your stuff but it's fair use for the good of humanity, now we're going to charge other people to replace you with it" poisoned the well is hard to overstate.

It’s happening,, it’s all happening. Flavor Flav’s SHE Weekend was approved by the Las Vegas Clark county commissioners today and we throwing a historic free public party and celebration with a parade on the Las Vegas strip. Details coming tomorrow 👀

A key reason people in China are more receptive to AI than in America is that the courts there have ruled that you can't just lay people off because Claude can now do research and write code. You need a better reason than that. In America, CEOs can't wait to get rid of "low value human capital".

Twin Cities residents also have been reporting a noticeable increase in surveillance ops in recent weeks:

Is anyone good at comp titles? Just describing this thing in genre/category form is a mouthful ("coming-of-age sapphic science fiction YA"). Please do throw a tip my way if you know similar stories that fit the tropes/elements in the image. #writingcommunity #querying #booksky #queerwriters

Ugh, WordPress 7.0 (out today) is leaning in on AI bullshit. Looks like there’s a flag to disable it entirely, but it either needs to be in a custom functions file or in the config file. Technical info here: core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64706

I remember years ago I was talking about the huge effort involved in always cooking and some guys I knew from grad school told me I was wrong and I was like ...I cook six days a week for four other people guys

I learned after one of my comrades made such a mess of making breakfast, our sergeant kicked the whole pan off the propane stove into the weeds. It turns out everybody's in a good mood all day long if you make them a decent breakfast. And that's how an "unpromotable" gay soldier became a corporal.

I don't know why we're doing this discourse again but if we have to, my take is: men learn to fucking cook

this is what some of you look like in short sleeve button-up shirts

Money is all they understand. I am ok with fining the shit out of every MAGAt felon from the top down along with every abusive red state government as long as those fines are realistic & high enough to actually hurt them.

A man spent 37 days in a local Tennessee jail over a Facebook post about the assassination of Charlie Kirk. The local government now has to pay him $835,000: tennesseelookout.com/2026/05/20/p...

Imagine being stressed out about life and the state of the world and then you walk outside to clear your head and see this

my gf works corporate and is on a training about AI and there's a word cloud for "what do you use AI for." the largest word by far is "Nothing" and the trainer is PISSED

Hasn't even been a year and Zohran's governance is having a massive impact on my family. Our daycare was able to open a 15-seat 3K program because of the 2,000 extra seats the admin funded. Everyone we know got in somewhere they wanted. This is gonna save us almost 50 grand.

BAY OF PIGS II: No electricity, no bugaloo.