roses in the LA rain descanso gardens guild la cañada flintridge, california, usa april, 2026 ~ for @chelseagsummers.bsky.social

Hundreds of protestors from a coalition of organizations were arrested while staging a sit in outside of Chuck Schumer and Kirsten Gillibrand’s office during an anti war demonstration demanding an end to U.S. weapons shipments to Israel.

The hot Swedish husband walked in on Norman Meowler, a zaftig orange cat, chowing down on the lasagna he'd left on the kitchen counter. Fun fact: in Sweden, Garfield is known as Gustaf.

You don't have to read the puff piece but you should read this delicious analytic pastry. It's good.

1. In a massive defeat of anti-trans politics, Viktor Orbán, one of the most autocratic and anti-LGBTQ+ figures in Europe, has fallen to Péter Magyar. This comes after JD Vance traveled to Hungary to campaign for Orbán and decry trans people in a speech. Subscribe to support our journalism.

Just a gal and her anticapitalist cannibalism novella 🥰🩷🥩📚

Warsaw is both medieval hunting lodge and Cyberpunk 2077

Jesus was also kind of weak on crime

Really looking forward to JD Vance campaigning for Netanyahu later this year.

fuck yeah

hell yeah

I bought a wicked cool, slightly impractical used bike for about $200 and I'm thrilled.

We really sent the guy who couldn’t pick out donuts.

A joyful Swedish licorice day to all who celebrate

I've studied so many concentration camps through history that held vulnerable people in just this kind of crowded squalor. You demonize people, you demand more arrests, this is what you get. It already has its own budget and its own momentum, and is on track to go much further, unless we stop it.

Let it be known that Katherine Johnson was the reason for the first astronauts in space. And now Vanessa Wyche, head of the Johnson Space Center and NASA's highest ranking civil servant, is the responsible for the longest manned space flight in history

Schumer is pro the war on Iran and I think that in and of itself is disqualifying. It seems imperative that Democrats demand that he resign or be replaced as Senate minority leader because he is actually working to support the fascist in chief. It's untenable.

I was congratulating my poor, beleaguered immune system for rising to the challenge and fending off the ick that felled my hot Swedish husband over Easter, and it was hubris, I tell you. Hubris.

okay i change my mind, THIS is one of the best and most beautiful images from artemis ii

I know everything is on fire right now but we have to call about this, we’re already calling about everything else, just add it to the pile. The grief I feel rn is indescribable but to them it’s just any given weekday.

I love bats so much.

You had me at "bats rescued from war" apnews.com/article/russ...

Authors put up with a ton of shit to sell books so they can continue exorcising their brains through writing, and big respect to those who nope out of non-writing commitments for any reason whatsoever.

A list of ten countries and the number of heavy metal bands they have per 1 million people... China = 0.1 Jamaica = 0.3 Thailand = 2 Albania = 3 South Korea = 4 Cuba = 6 Japan = 11 Russia = 14 Brazil = 18 Finland = 532

The Artemis II mission reminds me of these 1960s photos of NASA astronauts training in Iceland because they felt the terrain would be similar to what they'd encounter on the moon. The outfits are so great, even some 60 years later.

Let's say you got a bone marrow biopsy and it's been a month and your hematology team has yet to call you to talk about the results, you can basically stop feeling anxious because if the news was horribly awfully bad and time-sensitive, they'd have told you, right?

In its infinite capitalist wisdom, Apple music won't let you make MP3s of recent songs, even music you own, so in order to load my new iPod shuffle, I'm going full Bandcamp.

As Trump continues to attack trans rights and sites like Elon Musk's X power hatred against queer folk, @janus.bsky.social went to a rave on Trans Day of Visibility where participants came with laptops to "self-dox" themselves to see how visible they were online. “We have to protect ourselves."

Read Elia’s thread. There is no ceasefire in Lebanon. There never has been a ceasefire in Lebanon, for now years

I hate that contract negotiations are not going better, but this is where we are. Today my colleagues and I @propublica.org are walking out. We need management to come to the table with more serious contract proposals that address our real concerns about discipline, job protections and fair wages.

The Artemis astronauts. Something that’s happening now that in no way whatever sucks. A blessing.

Our emotional support astronauts took some absolutely mindblowing photos yesterday www.nasa.gov/news-release...

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

This is a huge day for new releases. I wrote about a couple of them in my latest newsletter, where I also proffer the very controversial take that Patrick Radden Keefe is a genius. www.themarisreview.com/the-maris-re...

Today should be about the glorious photos coming from Artemis II, the astonishing set of today's new book releases, the tender green glimmer of spring, and the infinite wonder of getting to live on this wet, blue planet. And yet.

You are a senator.

And here’s the eclipse photo from Artemis II. I am in tears.

A wonderful review of @mollycrabapple.bsky.social's book on the Bund, which I'm looking forward to reading www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/b...

Just watched John Carpenter's THEY LIVE (1988) for the first time, and the date the film gives for the complete takeover of Earth by the rapacious alien billionaires is, uh, 2025.

"Welfare fraud" is such a steaming pile of shit. Oh no, not a person getting [checks notes] at most eight dollars a day for food. What a horrible thing. We need that money to [checks notes again] kill innocent people in Iran for only vaguely defined reasons.

Imagine being the human at the center of a global mass of people crossing their fingers for "it" to happen.

In 2000, John Waters donated 372 pieces of his art collection to the Baltimore Museum of Art. They named a rotunda after him in their gallery. He requested an all-gender restroom be named for him instead. #BOTD

An opposition party would not be on vacation right now. They would have coordinated message to the public about the fact that a President in cognitive decline is threatening more war crimes. They would be BLASTING the message on all available platforms.

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“The Klan monument is run by slave labor” is a little too on the fucking nose

It's crazy that white patriarchy's pick-me girl, Pam Bondi, was seemingly fired for being insufficiently corrupt.

Wild thought: when people go to school together starting at a very young age they learn empathy. Which, despite what Peter Thiel and his pickled transhumanist brain avers, is a good thing.

Hahahaha Charlie Kirk is fucking dead and Victor Glover is flying a spaceship