The unquestioned common understanding that the nazis were the bad guys.

You can judge any community system by how it treats automated content. If it's unrestricted, they're not building a system for people, they're building a system for attention, and they don't care what kind of attention they get.

Rabbi who boasts of bulldozing Palestinian homes will light torch for Israel’s national day Human rights campaigners say honour for Avraham Zarbiv endorses ethnic cleansing and war crimes

“Zarbiv indeed deserves to light an independence day torch: not because he is worthy of the honour, but because Israel has lost its way, its moral compass and its conscience.” www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

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we all know I have no life, so:

Poster for described event with photos of the authors and the cover of Moor's new book, which features glossy bronze silhouettes of serpentine trees on a black background speckled with stars. Text reads: Powell's Books presents Robert Moor with Ferris Jabr Powell's City of Books. Thursday, April 30, 7PM

On Thursday, April 30, 7PM, I'll be joining @robertmoor.com at @powells.bsky.social to celebrate & discuss his truly wonderful new book, IN TREES. It's a brilliant meditation on trees literal & figurative; botanical, familial, & conceptual — trees as ways of thinking & being. Highly recommended!

Academic Search Premier, but only into 2015.

Gale Academic OneFile has it, but only through 2021.

eLibrary has it, but delayed one year.

Better question: anyone know if any of the research tools on the library website give me access to Nature?

Happy (approximate) 29th anniversary to the battle to defend Bianca’s Smut Shack.

A white and tabby cat in close up

A white and tabby cat and a grey cat lying on a bed

Here are some cats!

Walking to the chalkboard, writing the word Quibi, then adding a dollar sign to the end of the word.

40 years on from the disaster, why there are foxes, bears and bison again around Chernobyl Endangered species are making their home in a massive wild zone around the derelict Chernobyl nuclear plant.

"The zone has undoubtedly been shaped by radiation but also, crucially, by abandonment and time. As a consequence, the usual ecological rules no longer apply and this has meant Chernobyl now has some remarkable wildlife." theconversation.com/40-years-on-...

Cleo the cat at 2 months old. Gray and black tabby kitten in an empty bookshelf looking up to the corner of the frame

Cleo at 7 years old. Grey-brown and black tabby fully grown cat sitting on a cat tree near the window looking outside

Anyways, this little furball turns ten years old today, so we’re going to celebrate her with lots of treats.

Monterey Park becomes the first city in California to ban "all data centers within city limits" Residents of the small enclave east of LA not only killed their city's proposed 250,000 square foot data center, they pushed city council to ban them altogether

Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers.

The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits."

My story:

Automatic Noodle Audiobook on Libro.fm A cozy near-future novella about a crew of leftover robots opening their very own noodle shop, from acclaimed sci-fi author Annalee Newitz.“Without ignoring the metallic constraints of their robotic b...

As a special treat for Indie Bookstore Day, the wonderful folks at @libro.fm are running a sale, and the AUTOMATIC NOODLE audiobook is available for just $4.99 until 4/26. This sale is only on Libro.FM, Nook, and Chirp. Lots of other books are on sale too! Rejoice! libro.fm/audiobooks/9...

Omar comin'

there's a japanese antidiarrheal whose packaging proudly claims to have won the russo-japanese war because it was so effective in addressing dysentery

If you're suddenly unable to pun, we'll know why.

Two Mourning Doves at a bird feeder with a built-in camera. One dove is in profile, very close to the camera, and appears to be looking at it, and the other dove is further back, but also looks like it’s staring straight into the lens.

These two Mourning Doves at my feeder cam look like they just rang my doorbell because Tony Soprano sent them to collect a debt I owe.

From has just quietly gone around being one of the best shows of the past several years.

Oh good, From is back.

bengal cat resting his head on a stuffed weasel on a red leather couch

he loves this stupid toy so goddamn much

I SAW THE TV GLOW's Jane Schoenbrun Is Publishing A Horror Novel Filmmaker Jane Schoenbrun is continuing their self-titled "Screen Trilogy" with a new novel, PUBLIC ACCESS AFTERWORLD.

I had the opportunity to read an early copy of the novel and it's wonderful.

www.fangoria.com/jane-schoenb...

I was struck early by Bezos providing his personally assembled coterie of influencers, who all likely could afford child care themselves, one nanny *for each child*, but fuck Amazon warehouse employees for ever wanting anything.

“Biology can build wheels. Now we know.”

#SkeetsIWillNeverPost

You have to make an effort. You're not going to just *magically appear* in someone's car.

OH COME ON