TODAY: @katewagner.wehwalt.net on lithium. “All I know is that when I woke up that day a remarkable and tender calm settled over me, the way sunlight finds its path in a room without furniture” flaminghydra.com/down-to-earth/

Nothing will make your brain suddenly reveal previously unseen flaws in your work like showing it to someone else

Trash Cat’s cone comes off tomorrow night! He’s been such a champ

When you have a balcony and a curious cat.

America didn’t turn ugly because he became President. No. He became President because America was already this ugly. That’s the uncomfortable truth nobody wants to admit.

Cat Bane investigating the “eep eeps”

why does every web site fail to load like this now

EVERGREEN FEELING Literally everything we want, everything that could make the lives of hundreds of millions better within a month, lift millions out of poverty, would be a return to the kind of taxes the rich already once paid.

dear god PLEASE let this also lead to a wider acceptance that treatment needs to include *improving quality of life* and not just "how to make them have baby"

Wealth Tax Fixes Everything, No One Paying Even A Little Bit of Attention Remotely Surprised

Related to my previous note about AI literacy... I think that very often the more you *actually* learn about AI (how it works, how it's built, what's behind it, what its impacts are, who controls it -- not "how to use it") the more critical you are likely to become. bsky.app/profile/cfie...

There is a big difference between "people who are 'scared' of AI and don't want to learn new things" and "people who have deep moral objections to AI's underpinnings, impacts, and the systems of power behind it." It's wild to me that institutions pushing AI adoption don't seem to understand this.

#AEWDoubleOrNothing 8e/5p, HBO Max PPV Sun, 5/24 AEW Women's World Title 4-Way For the 1st time ever, 4 women who have held the AEW Women’s World title will fight for the belt when champ Thekla defends vs former champs Hikaru Shida, Kris Statlander & Jamie Hayter at #AEWDoN!

WE ARE BROKE.

You (wise, complex): I consume 100s of podcasts from all across the spectrum; when you're not in a bubble you see the far left is as bad as the far right. Me (fool, simple): I glance at my phone & see direct words/actions of conservatives vs leftists in practice, side by side. One is always better.

Here's a pup who seems to be on the fence about something haha no but seriously someone help her. 13/10

some people should really shut up sometimes

Democrats should ensure that voters hear this so much it haunts their dreams this fall.

No one ever had to yell “adapt or die” to get me to use any other bit of technology in my life.

When we took office, NYC had a $12B deficit. Today it’s zero. And we didn’t close that gap on the backs of working people. We closed it while funding parks, libraries, safer streets, & public housing. Call it Pothole Politics or Democratic Socialism: We are government that delivers for the people.

I'll never get over how journalists writing about the Paramount deal don't think it's worth mentioning to readers that every single major media merger has proven terrible for creatives, consumers, workers, and the overall market especially when Warner Brothers is involved

South Korea appears to be continually inching towards implementing some amount of universal basic income.

I told you this place is always crowded, we should’ve called for a reservation 😩

NEW: The NYT sent a firm email to freelancers today warning that "contributors must not submit any material for publication that contains content generated, modified or enhanced" by generative AI. The "reminder" notably follows a string of AI incidents at the paper: futurism.com/artificial-i...

"I now believe NVIDIA is warehousing at least a million GPUs." people don't get how much waste this embodies: energy to manufacture, extraction of hundreds of non-renewable resources, unimaginable amounts of extremely pure water, gases, chemicals, acids for catastrophically negative social benefit

You can tell that Trump is getting more and more panicked about the midterms and starting to vacillate wildly towards anything he thinks will save him bc he's randomly come back to trying to fearmonger about trans ppl. Wont work when gas is about $4.60/gallon & rising, asshole!

Let's see, we wouldn't be at war. Black Americans would still have representation. Gas wouldn't be $5. My grocery bill won't crush me. Fat National Guard members wouldn't be wobbling around DC struggling to breathe. Don't worry Gym, we're all well aware things would be much better.

Any questions about why the GOP is desperately trying to cheat before the midterms?

Sekimaru, a mix of a puffer fish and a whale wearing an old soldier's cap and a market tradesman’s boots, is the mascot for Shimonoseki City.

"The resulting study seems particularly concerning, says Bakker, because a person’s willingness to persist with problem-solving is crucial to acquiring new skills and also predicts their capacity to learn over time."

The war that they never bothered even trying to explain or sell to the public — $29B flushed down the toilet in order to make gas $6/gal

👀 LMAO

Completely avoidable suffering that's happening only because one old man is bored and button mashing. The entire midterms campaign should be about removing him from office

Sega has canceled its $882 million "Super Game." Plus, it has given us a birds-eye view of its upcoming games. More here: gameinformer.com/2026/05/12/s...

As a self-esteem building exercise, I've started saying "I lived, bitch" after completing any miniscule task whatsoever. It does not help.

By all means, please keep talking to the press and giving them these comments

Time for my annual PSA! Many public libraries in the US do have a summer reading club for adults! Participating helps boost stats and you can usually earn prizes or enter for giveaways. If you're not sure if your library participates, ask anyway so they register patron interest!

The real message of Frogger is the dangers of commuting in a city that doesn't have reliable public transit.

building a society that lets you starve in the gutter but i'll be goddamned if you make fun of a white man online

You can still use pumpkin after spooky season. It’s allowed. Pumpkin maple cream cheese rolls for the community pantry this week. 🎃 🍽️

Remember when EVVVVVVVVVERYTHING was going to be on the blockchain? Remember how so many people say AI is inevitable so just start using it?

Went from being like “this is stupid” to “as always, Karl Urban makes a good point”

Every fucking day you read/hear some of the most horrible, stupid shit. Don't they ever get tired of being on the wrong side of every issue.

Being alive to see the Republican dream of re-instituting Jim Crow become a reality because our country wouldn’t put a woman in charge is a hell of a thing.

the Democrats retaking the House and Senate, on its own, will not destroy the Republican project. The only way to do that is a broad, years-long cross-ideological commitment to break American conservatism's power base TL;DR congressional Dems must be forced into war with the used car salesmen.

the supreme court is both rooted in so much history and so fucking deranged that it feels like a real blind spot for me as someone with a firm grasp on currents events, and a lot of the time when i see a SCOTUS headline my brain shuts off because it’s something too awful/hard to process

america's reactionaries would love nothing more to nullify the reconstruction amendments and render them a dead letter of the constitution. this was as true in 1873 as it is today.

Netflix is in the crosshairs of red state governors & legislatures because Reed Hastings donates to Dems. Thats the entire reason - don't overthink this or be fooled by the media sane washing. They won't go after Meta, Warner, Google, or Amazon for the same "violations"

Sometimes life is good.

Love her. Glad she's locked in for a while.