My biggest conspiracy theory is that telling working class people that engagement in the arts is a middle / upper class thing and to do so makes you a class traitor is a psyop to make them disengaged with themselves and the world and the beauty of being human, so that they accept worse treatment.

May you have at least one experience of delight today - a delicious bite, a sumptuous smell, a sweet observation, a sincerely kind interaction, a moment of joy or wonder. We all need it.

Yup. Everyone’s only one election away from statewide disenfranchisement.

Make your bad art. When you do it, someone else knows they can do it, too.

Ugh.

CLAM DOWN, EVERYONE.

One of our local deer friends has been visiting our bird feeders.

Amanda is so, so, so fucking right. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Here's the debut episode of the ATL Arts Collective podcast, a successor to WABE's cancelled arts radio show. #atl Episode webpage: www.atlartscollective.com/e/%e2%9c%a6-...

An excellent class.

At least the bread was fresh and the circuses were affordable.

Pundit brain has it that Trump's pope-baiting, Easter profanity, etc., are meaningfully offensive to Christians, but if you call yourself a Christian and have supported Trump through (among other things) ICE murdering innocents and kidnapping children, I don't see how the past week will flip you.

NASA astronaut Christina Koch just made history as the first woman to fly around the moon. Koch also holds the record for the longest single spaceflight by a woman and took part in the first all-female spacewalk. – @popsci.com #science #space #womeninstem #womeninscience #astronaut

Wishing you and yours a very merry Confederate Surrender Day.

OH. MY. GOD. THIS IS THE MILKY WAY SHOT BY THE ARTEMIS II CREW. LOOK AT ALL THOSE STARS!!!!

Don't taco Tuesday this shit. Millions of people spent the day wondering if they would get vaporized, and no one in our government stood up to him. Nothing cutesy about it.

My one-hour special “Rick Steves Iran: Yesterday and Today,” which helps humanize 90 million Iranian people, is streaming free and ad-free at www.ricksteves.com/watch-iran.

I hate that the people holding power in the United States just see it all as a fucking game. Just a little gamble.

timeline’s full of people saying they don’t REALLY think the president will detonate a nuclear bomb in 10 hours but he did kind of imply he planned to. he’s a liar & he says stuff all the time that’s never going to happen. but it’s still weird to exist in the hours before the off chance of the end

The beauty of Artemis II coupled with the threat of nuclear war is the thesis statement of 2026

Yesterday, we had a shared experience totally new to humanity. Today, threats of annihilation. It's heartbreaking. It's hard to find hope. Nihilism.

Nuclear war wipes out credit card debt, too, right?

Some lunar vocabulary in case you're following along with the #Artemis II flyby: * albedo: reflectiveness (high albedo=very shiny) * mare/maria(plural): from Latin for "sea," dark regions on the Moon, which are dried lava basins * terminator: the line of the transition between sunlight & darkness

Y'all there is a woman and a black man circling the moon and NASA's mission control+ science teams are so diverse and people are nerding out about science and exploration this is all a gigantic middle finger to the stupid and hate and grotesque ghouls running our country

OH NO NOT THE POTTY

Gawd, these descriptions are so human. From the first humans to see the moon's topography with their own eyes. Just fucking amazing.

Y'all, if you aren't watching the Artemis feed, you're missing some really fucking cool space/science stuff that no human has ever experienced before.

Yesterday, I learned that my spouse was not familiar with Reverend Horton Heat's "Bales of Cocaine" and, reader, I was questioning my life choices.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Even at its furthest point, the Orion spacecraft will still be within Earth's atmosphere ... the geocorona is a vast halo of hydrogen that extends for 630, 000 km. #ArtemisII 🧪 🔭

I have two virtual book tour events! The first is a hybrid, tomorrow, with Charis Books in Atlanta! You can register here: crowdcast.io/c/the-edge-o...

BREAKING: After a late night at the Capitol to finish out the 2026 legislative session, we could not be more excited to share that WE DID IT! We successfully defeated ALL of the nearly 15 pieces of anti-LGBTQ legislation! Swipe to read our full statement:

Birth control pills to be available over the counter in Georgia pharmacies The Georgia General Assembly passed a bill allowing licensed pharmacists to dispense birth control medications without a prescription, making contraceptives more available to women in the state.

why the fuck are so many people taking the bait on that smear article about that's person's spouse?

Rick Steves: "Know people before you bomb them." On Death, Sex & Money, the travel writer reflects on the 2009 episode of his show on Iran. Watch now on YouTube: youtu.be/MGQw7_-6uCw?...

The actual reality of what’s going on with NASA is a real trip when juxtaposed with what a hit the NASA-saturated “Project Hail Mary” film seems to be. I wonder how many people who enjoyed the film are aware of just how much this admin has shanked all the cool real-world research it featured.

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I was amused to read in McKibben's new book that an acre of corn ethanol will drive an F-150 ~25,000 miles, but an acre of solar panels will drive an F-150 Lightning ~750,000 miles

Are we supposed to be happy about this? She shouldn't be charged with ANYTHING.

Have you read "Women of a Promiscuous Nature" by Donna Everhart or "The Trials of Nina McCall" by Scott W Stern? I *need* to talk about the American Plan and how its legacy is affecting 21st century people.

7/ Florida’s constricting of the rights of pregnant patients is a striking exception for a state that has pushed to enshrine “medical freedom” for those who wish to avoid vaccines or fluoridated water.

Unlike some certain mega corporations...we think that when you buy something, you should own it 😺 That's why our audiobooks are proudly DRM-free; you own them, files and all. You can listen on our apps, or wherever else you want.

OK so Cesar was the face of the movement, but Dolores cofounded the farmworkers' union with him. She was instrumental in organizing the grape strike & boycott. Dolores was the one who coined "sí, se puede"

It somehow gets worse: Georgia prosecutors dropped murder charges in a disturbingly similar 2015 case against another Black woman after determining that state law prohibits criminal charges. @ifwhenhow.bsky.social tells me the law hasn't changed. Read @autonomynews.co:

This is actual reporting on a pregnancy criminalization case, and we all deserve better than breaking news blog posts on this topic—including and most importantly the people being prosecuted. Please support @autonomynews.co today:

WE TOLD YOU THIS IS WHERE IT WAS HEADED.

Remember, the Bechdel Test was an intentionally low bar to demonstrate how bad things were for women onscreen in studio releases. One-third of films that simply have two women speaking to one another about something other than a man... Harvey, Lisa, you shouldn't have.

Immigrants and advocates say rising ICE enforcement in Georgia is leaving families separated and struggling. https://atlanta.capitalbnews.org/rodney-taylor-ice-detention-anniversary/