The Brits appear ready to shame the US news media into covering this, distracted as they are by gazing at their own navels ...

Poor Alfred passed away aged 14. He was a brilliant family dog.

This morning’s pretty sky 🌞🩷

Paint what you love! ❤️ 🎨 My dad was a meteorologist and my mom was an artist. Not surprisingly I paint a lot of storms. 😊

music nerds: I'm trying to remember the name of a modern piano piece consisting of only (I think) root/fifth notes played loudly and continuously for an extended period, with the sustain pedal open. Anyone know what this is?

A forever thank you to Roger Ebert for everything. @ebertvoices.bsky.social readjack.wordpress.com/2023/04/04/r...

The wind never settles here and your thoughts grow lighter with it — drifting, softening, gently losing themselves in the vast. #Iceland 🇮🇸 #Hálendið #Möðrudalsleið #landscapephotography 📷 #PhotographersOfBlueSky #EastCoastKin #BlueSkyMonday

Sunday's sky. Sunlit clouds and haze.

Found by our delighted son, not sure where.

Ed is correct. In fact Davy at first suggested "alumium" before switching to "aluminum". Anyway, nice to meet you too.

Ted Chiang once told our Clarion West class that our taste for stories would outstrip our talent for a good while, but that we would eventually catch up to it if we kept writing. Just don’t give up. That’s all you have to do.

#StreetArt Muppet characters Statler and Waldorf located in #Gdańsk, #Poland.

I made cookies 🍪

I have been wanting to hike for YEARS but unable because of my spine injury. It’s taken one year and four months of determination and working hard on my mobility, but today I DID IT. I could cry. You people have no idea. I never, ever thought I’d be able to do anything like that ever again. ❤️

“This clown. Witherspoon sold a majority stake in her production company, Hello Sunshine, to the Blackstone-backed Candle Media for $900 million in 2021. Blackstone is currently a massive investor in AI infrastructure, including a $25 billion project for AI data centers.” @Playerinthgame

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...

"I developed Long COVID while practicing medicine. The system had no place for me" "6 years later, COVID-19 continues spreading, killing, and disabling people, but many of my colleagues ignore it. Last December, a colleague said, “We can’t keep doing this. COVID is basically over” archive.md/CLP40

I am currently attending the last Ebert fest in Champaign, Illinois. My tenure as editor & critic began here in 2013 a couple weeks after Roger passed and Chaz hired me. I feel like those two experiences were bookends. What an amazing family. What a valuable event. I hope it continues in some form.

This novel is the sum and summit of who Vonda was and what her work was about: all of us, imperfect, and doing our best. It’s an alt-history that feels like the beginning of the world. A world we could still have, if we’re lucky.

#thefarside #farside #comic https://www.thefarside.com/2026/03/27/1 “Okay, folks! ... It’s a wrap!”

Congrats, @honorszombie.bsky.social!

Another day. Not too shabby, right?

“Don’t tell me you’ve been using particle board in here,” said the 55-year-old woodworker

guys, this is how you lose the time war

Tomorrow's the day... @recordstoredayuk.bsky.social. Tanita Tikaram Acoustic is now available on crystal clear LP from tomorrow exclusively for record store day. Head down to your local record store tomorrow to find a copy.

Let's hope BlueSky is back on track today. I missed you all yesterday. #Hiking #Photography #Scape #ForestFriday #EastCoastKin #Dublin #Ireland

I’ve been hearing issues about delayed posts and notifications so here is my #scape just in case. Have a great weekend friends 💙 #EastCoastKin #ECK #skyscape #Canon #photography

Decades ago, Chinese artists chose to animate traditional paper crafts, painting styles, theater and more. They tried to make animation that was unique to China — and different from Disney. Tons of thought and creativity went into it, as we explore: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/chinese-an...

Yesterday. #OneWalkADay #MentalHealthMatters

Dorothea Lange, Gas Station, Kern Couny, California, 1938

“He told me I didn’t understand, that we were from the bleak industrial wastes of North England, or something, and that we didn’t understand the Internet. I told him Fall fans invented the Internet. They were on there in 1982.” #FallFriday

and we’re back! Morning! #TGIF

Male Common Grackles (bronzed subspecies) strutting their stuff on the boardwalk.

Next week is 10 years since we lost Prince. Since then, the community of Prince scholars has come together regularly for academic symposia on his legacy and works; you can watch for free this weekend if you'd like to join us online or in person at NYU. Just register here! iwonderu.polishedsolid.com

If the hardcore band’s guitarist looks like this you’re about to die in that pit

“Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play.” ― Heraclitus

Read that again. This Louisiana bill forces homeless people to choose between jail and "treatment"—and if they can't pay for the latter, they will be forced to perform unpaid labor. The historical precedents are clear: convict leasing, Black Codes, debtor's prison.

If Bluesky's got a hangover or whatever the least they can do is wheel in the TV cart and put on an episode of NOVA for us or something.

I think of war through the lens of someone who survived one. It means displacement and irreversible trauma. The continued war with Iran will mean more death, more suffering, and more chaos. End the war.

How are y’all doing out there in BSKY Land? I’m breathing a little more freely, now. 😊

Wednesday evening’s cloud. Lough Neagh.

trying to post through it rn

🎨 David Hockney

Our team received a report of intermittent app outages at about 11:40pm PDT on April 15, 2026. They worked through the night to mitigate a sophisticated Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attack, which intensified throughout the day.

Fog-tastic! Thursday early evening in Chicago.

“We do not have to watch ‘Citizen Kane’ or read ‘1984’ to understand that the concentrated oligarchic control this merger represents is a threat to free press, an informed populace, and democracy itself.”

🤣🤣🤣

This is the room I have never been in.