Historian of abolition here, history tells us how we got here, to put it succinctly “John Brown was hanged for treason and Robert E. Lee was not.”

My devious plan to start listening to shows with fewer episodes so I could catch up and keep up faster backfired by working, and now I'm already out of KILLJAM XXX episodes. 😭 Must choose another show while I eagerly await the next season.

This inspires. The GOP city govt refused to oppose ICE, so the Latino community organized, doubled turnout, and swept the GOP out of office.

It's so easy to tell when someone with a hot take about the Purge movies never watched any of them, usually because their issue was directly addressed or was literally part of the plot.

Sonata, the little food monster, seems emboldened by her cheese heist last week. I made a sandwich for lunch and this little cat hopped up and casually leaned over for a bite like we do this all the time. I got a glass of milk before bed and caught her with her face all the way in the mug.

I made So. Much. Food for my friends on Saturday, and you know how I know I don't have what it takes to be a social media presence? I forgot to take a single picture.

WE GET IT. YOU'VE GOT STOCK IN AI COMPANIES RIGHT AS THE BUBBLE'S ABOUT TO BURST AND YOU'RE DESPERATE FOR PEOPLE TO BUY IN SO YOU DON'T LOSE ALL YOUR MONEY. Jesus fucking Christ, people don't WANT this shit and have said so. Yet you keep demanding we acquiesce. Fuck. Off.

I have finally caught up with Malevolent, and now I need to pick one of the many other audiodramas waiting for my attention. Probably should finally dive into Killjam XXX.

to be clear, she does not eat the mushrooms, she posts her mushroom hauls to online foraging groups so they can calculate the estimated body count

famously the only joke allowed on Wikipedia is, in their List of Whales, any entry that is missing a photo says [cetacean needed] apparently some unfunny losers have made it their job to find public domain images of whales to eradicate this joke only one instance of [cetacean needed] remains

One thing people don’t realize is that even if you don’t use Medicaid—even if you never would use Medicaid—your ability to access care, and your ability to access healthcare providers like me, will be affected in some way or another by every cut or barrier to Medicaid. Nobody will be unaffected.

I'm almost caught up on Malevolent. I'll hardly know what to do with myself once I am. (Start one of the ~75 or so podcasts I have saved and waiting? Surely not.)

Yep. When you digitize old stuff, you now have to look after the original artifact *and* it's digital surrogate. "Just put everything online" is not the labor-saving flex laypeople think it is.

TECH BRUNCHLORDS: we believe AI has successfully achieved human-level cognition NEUROLOGISTS: okay so your brain is like, imagine if there was a kind of pudding that sang two bars from Semi-Charmed Life whenever somebody nearby was baking cookies, right? we don’t know why it does that

agree, but I could possibly allow that their fantasies/desires for this did not prepare them for the less enjoyable reality. Not in a face-eating way, but in a "a free society is actually a lot nicer to live in than a shitty apartheid state even if you're the ruling caste" way

I have yet again had an incident that made me hope no one ever has reason to luminol my house.

After yesterday, when there were strangers stomping around on top of the house and strangers in the house and I moved new furniture in and she couldn't even eat her dinner because it was too scary, Sonata needs extra cuddles today.

Getting a new roof today, and it's so loud I just found myself thinking, "I want to go home," while sitting in my own living room.

Despite creating a billion-dollar franchise - with a new $200M budget Hollywood blockbuster launching in a month - the creator of He-Man's family were unable to afford his dementia and care facility costs, and had to setup a GoFundMe. Mattel gave $5,000.

It is my pleasure to finally announce that my colleagues and I at Hachette Book Group are unionizing! We're asking for any authors, artists, and fellow workers of the world to stand in solidarity with us, and sign our open letter of support at hachetteworkers.com/open-letter

All states: www.feedingamerica.org Feeding America has a general list of food pantries and programs besides SNAP. IF THOSE PROGRAMS CANNOT HELP YOU, IT IS OKAY TO ASK THEM WHO CAN And this list will benefit from feedback by anyone who is seeking assistance, so please share if you’re willing.

Have you ever noticed that the massive, coordinated, multi-year assault on trans rights is based on NOTHING WHATSOEVER

I'm a little behind on getting the next zine bundle out there, but you can check out our previous fifteen zines in our zine freak bundle. You'll find reviews of horror movies that don't exist, liminal workplace stories, horrible worms, and more! www.cursedmorselspress.com/product/zine...

Steve Kerr spot on as usual

Had a tomato that lasted a surprisingly long time...because it sprouted instead of rotting. Did a quick search to see if it's safe, decided it would be better to toss it into the garden and see what happens.

I sat down to eat, which included a few pieces of cheese. I realized I needed to grab something, got up, and as I returned, I thought about how good Sonata was being. Realized shortly after she was sitting quietly beside my chair eating a piece of cheese.

not me being like "wow, capybara researchers, how cool" when I saw this and not realizing it was about my own story at @heartlines-spec.com

The city blocked off part of our neighborhood to tear down a building w asbestos. The teen said "Why did people use asbestos if it causes cancer?!" I told him people thought it was a wonder product and used it EVERYWHERE & told him how the same thing happened w radioactivity... and now AI.

Trying to watch How to Make a Monster with Svengoolie and instead a sports game took over?

Cat art: sitting in a box in a box on a pile of boxes.

I've been in charge of donating stuff that belonged to my grandmother, and today I took unopened toiletries to the City Rescue Mission. I added unopened medical stuff--mostly bandages and dressings and such--in a separate bag in case they didn't want they kind of thing. They very much did.

“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.” My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.

Laszlo found a new buddy.

true crime brain has fucked people up so bad and they get really mad when you point that out. and also that the entire true crime industry is predatory and exploitative

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

There is too much going on in my life in too many directions and I am not constitutionally suited to this sort of thing.

My dietician: I'm not concerned about the amount of fruit you eat. Me, crouched over a bowl of three pounds of peeled and segmented Mandarin oranges: You sure about that?

Exactly one year ago today:

I like bluesky because it feels so much like tumblr 1. barely works 2. userbase is annoying (affectionate)(not that affectionate) 3. being queer on here feels like I’m actively participating in ruining some tech company’s investment

Well, I got less than a day where I thought maybe things were going to work out ok for me. More the fool, me. Felt good while it lasted.

Wet towel in space: NASA astronaut demonstrates how surface tension forms a perfect water sphere in microgravity at the ISS

guys, this is how you lose the time war

ICE has reported the 16th detained death of 2026. Alejandro Cabrera Clemente, 49, from Mexico, died on April 11 at Winn Correctional Center in Louisiana. Here's what we know and what ICE isn't telling you. 🧵

I’ve given this a great deal of thought, trying to come up with the perfect joke for this moment, and this is what I have so far - POPE LEO: our religion teaches that this war is bad VANCE: wow, who died and made YOU head of the Catholic Church?? POPE LEO: well, you should know, you were there

Me: Onion rings and a bottle of wine for the table waiter: white or red? Me, trying to impress my date: whichever onion the chef prefers

Brazil also did that quite recently (although our fascist didn't stay 16 years in power and Hungary is a powerhouse for that ❤️). We also made our facho expresident ineligible and sent him to prison. The (US) internet not only lied to yall, it hides stuff from yall constantly.

I know it's still considered impolitic to say it, but Hillary Clinton couldn't go nearly as hard as she could and should have with Trump on this shit for the simple reason that it would have meant talking about Bill.

Opening a book with, "And looking back, I realize..." is unfair. I spent way too long trying to find a missing page or figure out if there's a misprint.

I'm one of those trans women. I worked ground ops for Artemis I. I am torn between celebrating the success of my friends and peers and grieving how my dream of working for NASA was shattered by hateful assholes in Tallahassee