To the "Trekkies" complaining that Star Trek has gotten too woke and insults the memory of Gene Roddenberry: The first pilot had a strong female character in a position of authority -- second in command -- and was respected by the crew. Star Trek has been woke since literally day 1. Fuck off.

#Egyptian flip flops: a pair of sandals made of woven reed and palm leaves. Dating around 1500-1400BC On display at Museum of the University of Tübingen 📷me 🏺

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means? ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

Closer inspection of 'black objects bobbing up and down in the water' revealed them to be a mass of corpses. Among the victims was the body of a woman with a life preserver strapped to her waist and the bodies of two little children clasped in her arms. #Titanic

I’m old so I get to say this Declining fertility … sucks for old people who can’t hire cheap labor or sell their homes high … benefits the smaller, next generation that gets capital at a fire sale + wage hikes driven by labor scarcity See the Black Death www.theguardian.com/business/202...

i am a pretty basic straight man so i do get things wrong when it comes to feminism and listening to women generally, like a lot of men do, but this concerted effort to make women seem like they're too angry over nothing when there are clear and present dangers all over society is just insane really

Luna Park at Coney Island, New York, 1926 (Daily News Archive) #Photography #ConeyIsland #LunaPark

2. Muppets, I tell you, muppets! 😆 Don't give me that "Jumping Spider" classification business; these are clearly Oscar the Grouch's cousins except one has remarkable turquoise & gold furry hairs colouring. Who knew spiders had eyes in teal or mint?! #EastCoastKin #Photography #Nature #Macro

And I don't expect white Dems to listen to Black folk or even acknowledge how much Black voters know, no matter how many times we are right.🤷🏿‍♂️ If white Dems listened to Black folk we wouldn't be in this mess. The fact that we are in this mess, is evidence that this listening has still not happened.

Every time I’ve seen this video over the past week, I watch it. I’ve followed Jordan Lucas on all platforms. More self-expression in all sports. Please and thank you ❤️

Tim Curry, the absolute legend, turns 80 today. This man took huge swings.

I’m a take this opportunity to shout out www.blackmen.build because they’re doing it and they have chapters across the country.

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

“The sun does not shine for a few trees and flowers, but for the wide world's joy.” - Henry Ward Beecher. #photography #stunday #marseille

I've set out the framework I'm using here in an earlier thread, on VDA, the Arc of Democracy, and the moral-epistemic stacks idea, what follows applies that framework to the Palantir document directly. skywriter.blue/@eliothiggin...

You can plate it and serve it you like but it’s impossible to disguise that this is just shit scraped from the toilets of 20th century totalitarians

This is the most extensive disclaimer I’ve ever seen in a buying guide. www.wired.com/story/best-m...

Mr Buster lived on his chain living on the cold concrete for years. Complete neglect as he was "Vicious and dangerous" according to his owners. Just look at this big gentle baby boy now!

my latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Border-area mass surveillance and its resulting harassment is something you'll hear about if you talk to any person that lives near the border or who has to cross it regularly.

Grandpas popping up all over with the hardest songs of 2026.

Hey folks! I'm selling my tiny house, it's all prepped and ready for someone new to love it as much as I did. If you're interested, please reach out, I'll leave DMs open for a while! Happy to answer any questions, and I've got a more detailed sales flyer I can share upon request.

Vulnerable populations keep tabs in this respect, & it isn't pettiness; it's self-preservation. You NEED to know who REALLY has your back, and who's just pretending. Watching who eagerly stampeded in to kiss the ring during the opening salvo of Project 2025? That won't be forgotten anytime soon.

We can question that all we want but we will always be wrong. Why waste time on the matter? Either you're Catholic and Leo's word is law or you're not Catholic and Leo's word doesn't even have to be acknowledged. If you choose to engage, you already chose to be wrong.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Were Were those the only two options

Here is a nice mushroom

Holy SHIT someone found the test pressing of Robert Johnson's Cross Road Blues and it is clear as a PIN www.openculture.com/2026/04/reco...

Spanish PM Pedro Sánchez: “Here in Spain, we are approving and advancing a process to regularise half a million immigrants. “And I want to say to the Right and the Far Right who oppose this: Spain is the daughter of migration and will not become the mother of xenophobia.”

Cave bear <3

Celeste Roberge’s sculpture “The Weight of Grief” #art

Wow. SCOTUS’s “shadow docket” was first established to stop the Clean Power Plan. It’s remarkable how many assaults on democracy, or at least on established process, over the last decade have served to protect fossil-fuel interests from the energy transition. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Rooftops, 2022 by Emma Haworth, contemporary London-based painter #WomensArt

I think Meg White is a good drummer just by the standards of being a good drummer but I think she’s an exceptional drummer by the standards of having her extremely strange husband come home one day and say that they were starting a band and had to dress alike and also she’s his sister now

The Isle of Arran from Seamill Beach on the Clyde Coast. One of the wonderful things about living in Glasgow is how close we are to some rather stunning countryside. Cont./ #glasgow #seamillbeach #arran #scotland #beach

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

I always find the survival of glass from antiquity to be amazing, but sometimes you come across quite extraordinary pieces. This Romano-Germanic glass item is moulded into the form of a little fish or whale and it’s delightful. 🏛️📷Romano-Germanic Museum, Cologne 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

A blackbird, wet with rain, come to see Old Fox. She hops through the study window, pecks the apple cake brought for her. The gentle days of high spring are here at last & she needs to tell him of the new shape of her terroir, her pale blue patch of sky, her earth, her wattle nest in the ivy.

Serious point - if every public aspect of Trump isn’t eradicated, America will be forever Trump. The Germans know. And Trump knows.

Ben Espenson, 24, who is autistic, and Naveed Azkhat, 25, who has ADHD, harbour a great deal of affection towards each other, but neither of them can name a single reason why.

Remember the Dead A comic from some years ago inspired by my local cemetery and a particular mausoleum that has fossils in it's stones.

hey guys - i'm in a pretty dire housing situation right now. i have to move at the end of the month (lease expires) but prior plans w/ people completely fell apart & i'm back to square one. i'm looking for a room in Brooklyn, trans friendly, 1100 a month max, not a temporary sublet. plz let me know.

like what if we just regulated official government social media posting to the point where it is text only and you have to go to a special office in person and dictate it to a nonpartisan scribe (who will be a 40-year veteran of the federal workforce who just stares at you angrily)

this must be that meritocracy they were talking about

Spiffy took some photos on your phone while you were away Spiffy | Female | 13 years old | 51 lbs

It gets worse. The quote from the police chief is literally why women, especially black women, don’t trust police. ‘Ongoing domestic dispute’ implies wrongdoing on both sides. There is nothing in this story that indicates Cerina did anything except file for divorce and try to protect her children.

Me: [idly looking up info on popes] Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it. Me: wut? Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

women who hate men generally just hate what men have done to them whereas men who hate women mostly just hate what women won’t do for them the difference is crucial

A wee bat print for Bat Appreciation Day! #linocut #printmaking #bat #washi #wildlifeArt

Bluesky brags about using AI all over the place. AI is total trash garbage that causes things to fail basically all the time. But don't blame this Bluesky outage on AI, that is you being so ridiculous you might as well have pinned it on Black Magic. It's ridiculous you could even THINK it.