From Rebecca Flores, Juanita Valdez-Cox and Jim Harrington: "After the stunning revelations about César Chávez, we must help others understand the movement and continue to back it. The movement is about people and what people do about justice. It is never about one person, no matter how iconic."

Welcome back to #StatsSunday — your statistical fix, pulled from this week’s stories.⁠ Read the story behind this stat here: https://reasonstobecheerful.world/inside-germanys-schools-without-racism/

How do you keep the lights on when the wind isn't blowing and the sun isn't shining? For years, opponents of renewable energy have treated that as the killer question. A new breakthrough suggests we may finally be getting close to an answer 🌍⚡⤵️ @eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

If you absorb nothing else take this observation in fully. And here’s a gift link to the entire conversation. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/o...

A cancer-killing virus has stopped pancreatic tumours from growing and spreading in three people in an initial safety trial, raising hopes that it may help to beat the deadly condition

Make Things Better meeting accomplished! If you're currently in the network, there will be a hiatus - then you'll get a message soon about improved/streamlined communications and operations and future scheduling. If you're not currently in the network but would like to be, let me know.

I was always alive. I just didn't realize until a few years ago that being alive is wonderful. That breathing and touching things is wonderful. That the very existence of earth and everything on it is a freaking miracle. That was always true. I just ignored it. I forgive myself.

I would like more people to read this thread in order to truly understand me and why my "positivity" is neither shallow nor toxic.

we eighteen men with our thirty-six arms, and one hundred and eighty thumbs and fingers, slowly toiled hour after hour upon that inert, sluggish corpse in the sea; and it seemed hardly to budge at all

This is a story that requires more than the character limit. But since someone asked, I'm gonna tell it. Please note: your personal difficulty level may vary. None of us are playing the exact same game, here. Thread. 👇

Not sure what it says about me that lately when I start to get stressed my comfort thing is rotating through 9 different languages on Memrise

🗣PARALIVES IS OUT NOW ‼️ Play in Early Access now with 10% off during the release week! Only on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/1118520/... youtu.be/JdM39bSS-JY

For #WyrdAndWonder, I put together a rec list of neurodivergent fantasy! Incl 🌊faceblindness on a tidally locked planet with @feliciadavin.com! 🏙️ BPD + the fae in LA from @mishellbaker.bsky.social! 🍫autistic mathemagician + chocolate economics via @ellenkushner.bsky.social et al!

Absolutely nothing "distanced" about the engagement I get on here. More followers here than I had on Twitter. I even argue intelligently with the odd troll. Mostly I've been making genuine human connections. But unlike the "Bluesky is bad" crowd I understand my experience may vary from others'.

Beyond lethal ones, you should absolutely let your kids make mistakes. Let them cut their own bangs or touch the candle. Lectures, they tune out. Consequences, they remember and actually learn from. And learn to think for themselves rather than passively waiting for others to do the thinking.

One of my favorite things today was: - A big flashing marquee sign with an arrow jauntily pointing the way to the city's hazardous waste dumping site, as if it were a grand attraction - Followed by a "PLANT SALE" sign in the most serial killer red spray paint dripping down raw plywood S w a p 'em

How is it that all you need to know about the headline is "Tesla" and "Texas" and you already know that it's going to be a disaster and that a white guy will be at the center of it?

Andreessen's sales pitch for AI as told to Joe Rogan: "We've turned sand into thought." futurism.com/artificial-i...

Hello, friends. My health has been a little worse than usual the last few months. Experimenting to see if self-care stuff sorts it out (I've been a bit neglectful) or if it's just, disease progression, or what. Everything has been a bit harder, but...I'm here.

*Crucial* article. Please save it, read every word, pass it on. Also Rogue in general is good stuff. Maybe give a follow.

In a rare show of global unity, countries adopt landmark climate ruling

This is great to hear. It's kind of my whole thing. This account isn't here FOR anything really. Just to be me, and talk to people. There's no endgame. It's not a "platform." I'm just...here.

"We do not answer to investors telling us which features to build. We do not track your behaviour or treat your data as inventory. Other browsers are adding AI to decide what you see. Vivaldi adds tools that give you more power when deciding for yourself." 8.0 version has just released!

Every day, a new reason to love Tatiana Maslany. www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-featur...

One of these is not like the others 🤔 is that a hybrid rainbow parrotfish?? Rainbow x Midnight? Rainbow x Queen? Shine on parrot boy shine on 🫡💎🌈🦜🐟 #coralcitycamera

Hi. 😊 Black American here. Norway is an almost entirely white country. The United States is racist as fuck. That's why we don't have a social democracy or, like, healthcare. Follow for more glimpses into a racist society where white people* would rather die than see a Black person succeed.

"Exceptionalism" is valid when we are actually exceptional in several empirically observable ways. The most important being this *very* kind of study of our own species and the ever present desire to transcend our limitations and understand things beyond us.

Neil Gaiman has 300k followers on here, and learning that is the first time I have genuinely been disappointed in bsky folks.

Many, many folks here have expressed interest in/curiosity about our grassroots hope + action group targeting those exhausted by anger/fear-based approaches to activism. Would love to see more availability info on this poll so we can open the door for you. You can use an alias. No way to track you.

Author Thomas Dekeyser explains why modern resistance to Big Tech is a deeply sane response to a narrow vision of humanity https://restofworld.org/2026/techno-negative-thomas-dekeyser-fighting-ai/?utm_campaign=row-social&utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social&utm_content=1779123841

The kids are all right aftermath.site/eric-schmidt-a...

If you've wanted to get involved in Make Things Better (a group dedicated to pushing back against corruption, hate, and greed via large numbers taking small actions), this is the meeting to attend! The time will be based on poll response, so make your preferences known! Re: the group, a thread. 👇

My 13yo sent me this picture and said it was us

Going to see INTO THE WOODS was exhausting but SO worth it. I cannot believe how talented my 16yo is. Can you? www.icloud.com/photos/#/icl...

your moment of calm

Today is so full of Things, and I am so tired, my friends. I picked a bad week to quit not using the treadmill.

Is 'embrace like a boa constrictor' an option? 'Embrace like a junkyard car-crusher'? 'Embrace like the depths of the Marianas Trench'? 'Embrace like a black hole'?

When a guy says, "AI is *out there*, you can't unring that bell," you can respond, "So is COVID, so is the atom bomb, so is climate change, so are some nudes I sent to the wrong guy, so is your bad breath, so is the Ku Klux Klan, a lot of things are *out there*, Brad. I don't have to embrace them."

The idea that a novel can be 'best' is so self-evidently silly I despair slightly that folks think it worth discussing. Awards & rankings are antithetical to the project of telling diverse stories. Read, lose yourself in fiction, press books into friends' hands. but don't make ridiculous lists.

Even though I'm still getting chemo every 2 weeks like clockwork, some of the hair that all fell out that one awful week has grown back. Just a little fuzz like a baby's, but it's kind of cute. And nice to know that even 3.5 years in with no cure in sight, "worse" isn't the only possible direction.

All week, Matt has been sending me the cutest "Hi" gifs out of nowhere while he's at work. He's so adorable 🥰 You'd think we'd just started crushing on each other last week instead of knowing each other for 32 years.

Most of us spend most of our energy trying to manage and fix the unhealthy relationships in our lives, counting on the solid and loyal ones to "be there" for us without effort. Life works better when you reverse this. When you have no time for toxic drama and pour your heart into what ain't broken.

Good morning, Bluesky friends. I've not been feeling much like engaging with social media lately, but if you'd like, please leave me a little reply here letting me know something you are Making Better or planning to Make Better, however small, and I will check back later for a dose of warmth/hope.

I'm not interested in making excuses for myself or in trying to explain the tragic backstory of why I messed things up. I'm more interested in fixing it. And honestly, at this point in my life, I expect the same from the people I deal with closely.

@themattmcd.bsky.social's gif usage is always A+

Okay, frens, time to psychoanalyze me. What's going on here. I still haven't sent the b**a dr*ft to anybody. I've got like, a dozen people ready and waiting, at least one of which has been asking me for over a YEAR to read the thing. And I just... haven't sent it. To one person.

Why do unasked Bluesky DMs bother me? Because this is my public speaking platform. The conversations I have here are public, part of the "event." I do private conversation in private places. If you don't have access to those places, I'm not sure what we would have to talk about that is private.