And hey - since we spent years working on making comics accessible for blind/low vision readers - here are the events we hosted and resources we've gathered that may just come in handy - and let this blackout of images help everyone master alt-text!! spinweaveandcut.com/blind-access...
I’d rather pour resources into training more dogs to sniff out cancer
Today in social justice toolkit:
A dilemma action is a strategic action that forces your opponent into a lose-lose situation.
You've given them only bad options.
I give some examples
& then we talk about how to design them.
This one's pretty important.
Read and share, please?
"Peng said the long-term goal in Taipei and New Taipei is for commuters to be able to leave an MRT station and reach their workplace without walking through long stretches of exposed pavement. He said trees should be treated as climate infrastructure, not only as landscaping."
A white flower with thick stamens that appear to be clutching a pale green egg-shaped berry
Mayapple blooming for the first time, seven years after bare-root planting
#FlowerReport #NativePlants #BloomScrolling
A huge, kaiju-sized green and orange carp is looming over the Watertower and nearly as tall as the Hancock Tower in Chicago, which it is leaning against, and the building is bowing with the weight. Two people are in the foreground running from the massive fish as giant waves lash upward in th background. Even closer in the foreground is a newspaper box with a paper in the front window with the headline INVASIVE CARP CHAOS and a photo of said carp. Everything is done in a stylized manner vaguely reminiscent of a Japanese woodcut print.
This is something I put quite a bit of work into that got canned the day it was supposed to come out for reasons I'm not getting into here. But I'm allowed to show you the image with identifying branding elements removed, which is what I am doing.
A bronze statue of the late Cubs announcer Harry Caray that stands by the entrance to the bleachers at Wrigley Field. Harry is seen wearing a windbreaker and his signature large and thick-rimmed glasses. He’s gesticulating with both arms, one holding a microphone as he leads the crowd singing in the 7th inning stretch. The base of the statue is a sculptural rendition of the stands of Wrigley Field and rising up from it, in what can easily be interpreted as bronze hellfire, are faces of damned and tormented Cubs fans. I know it sounds like I’m being facetious but that is sincerely what it looks like.
For those previously unacquainted here’s the sculpture known to me as ‘Harry Caray and the Harrowing of Hell’
Screenshotted excerpt from linked article reading as follows: "In public, Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has cultivated a reputation for care and caution. The papers reveal a different side of him. At a critical moment for the country and the court, the papers show, he acted as a bulldozer in pushing to stop Mr. Obama’s plan to address the global climate crisis. When colleagues warned the chief justice that he was proposing an unprecedented move, he was dismissive. “I recognize that the posture of this stay request is not typical,” he wrote. But he argued that the Obama plan, which aimed to regulate coal-fired plants, was “the most expensive regulation ever imposed on the power sector,” and too big, costly and consequential for the court not to act immediately."
OOP
New York Times got receipts on John Roberts being like, 'I know this isn't how anything works, but a Democratic president is about to implement a policy!!'
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...
Update: @nytimes.com Story is out but the pun didn’t make it. Sad! www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/u...
July 21 1935: The Führer orders a new reception hall and ballroom to "entertain foreign diplomats" at the Chancellery. Underneath the dance floor is an air raid shelter. A 2nd deeper bunker is built next to this in 1944, where he would spend his last days as the Reich collapsed.
corvid detected
Be the bird you want to see in the world
“Daedalus, a brand-new company run by a MAGA physician with no aviation industry experience, got a $140 million contract …”
Is the name trolling or a fundamental lack of understanding the myth? I’m leaning toward the guy having asked ChatGPT for a name from classical mythology related to flight
I just had to track down my errant beagle in the woods in the dark, and it turns out the forest is absolutely full of spiders right now. Thousands of them. It’s a little unsettling.
Headline on Hollywood Reporter that reads ”Paddington 4, Escape From New York' Reboot in the Works”
I misread the headline as one movie and got very excited for a moment…
Windows Error Message from Torment Nexus: "For legal reasons the Torment Nexus will not be made available to our valued customers in the European Union. We apologise for the inconvenience."
Black & white portrait of the young writer with his arms crossed in front of him.
Samuel Beckett by Curtis Moffat
London, c. 1925
We don't often see pictures of the young Beckett. He'd be about 19 here.
ICYMI: this past Saturday there was a "dildo day of action" outside the ICE processing facility in Broadview, IL.
Latest by @domguan.bsky.social for @unraveledpress.com:
TikTok put me on to one of the best musicians I have ever heard and I need y’all to understand the vibe I’ve been feeling for days now
The election in Hungary is like if Trump got ousted by a guy named Steve American
Pink buds opening to white, five-petaled flowers on a small apple tree with some leaves. Tiny yellow flowers are visible on a currant bush below.
Clusters of small white plum flowers with prominent stamens on branches without leaves
Apple (Arkansas Black) and native plum (Prunus americanus)
#FlowerReport #BackyardForest
ok I did need pancakes but now I remember why I never go there
but I am leaving in time to catch the noise protest outside Hegseth’s church
Idiosyncratic auto-archivists like this are one of my top three or four favorite incidents in phenomenon of humanity
Fuck Eric Swalwell, fuck Al Franken, nobody is entitled to women’s bodies and nobody is entitled to a seat in the federal legislature. It’s not fucking television, you don’t get to skate for a few seasons because you have such dedicated fans
Treble Clef: here are the notes I hope you like them ☺️
Bass Clef: I moved all your stuff, good luck finding anything, Ds are Fs now fuck you
Lake Sturgeon spawning
After disappearing from the Milwaukee River in the early 20th century due to overfishing and habitat loss, the new discovery of an adult sturgeon 20 miles upstream from Lake Michigan is a milestone in a massive restoration project that’s been underway for 20 years www.wuwm.com/lake-sturgeo...
In all seriousness, I think the President of the United States having an online presence like this presents an actual public health concern.
