Happy birthday to Tim Curry! My regularly scheduled PSA that he narrated the Sabriel series and his voice is the only Mogget I acknowledge 😼🔔

We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!

Between the "male loneliness" beat and the "passport bro" beat, there sure is a lot of ink being spent on pieces of shit who can't find friends or dates because they're sentient piles of hot wet trash

Yes, exactly!! She has women friends but the story focuses on her internal life (okay!) and many many male friends-who-are-possible-future-husbands

Well, barely. Still! Ugh. Anyway I'm (unsuccessfully) raising money for bodily autonomy fund.nnaf.org/fundraiser/7...

I started a popular YA series (rec'd by an untrustworthy source, shame on me) and it features a strong Enola Holmes type late teen but doesn't pass the Bechdel test 🙃

Every ai news story just sounds insane. Allbirds and jira tickets?!

I hope that if i ever have 80 million dollars to give away (hahahaha) I just toss it in the general direction, without strings, of the cause I think good enough.

True! Fun fact: They did this because someone leaked Robert Bork’s rental history during his confirmation battle.

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

For anyone wondering what everyone is quoting because I haven't seen it posted here yet (credited to Redditor /u/reachling):

Ohhhh my Lorax, those pictures!

For people who don’t understand the possible consequences, here is a verdict against a tree removal company in Maryland last month

thedailyrecord.com/2026/03/13/prince-george...

I've watched all ~6 hours of Vought's testimony on the Hill this week. And his claim that the administration was unable to even give a ballpark estimate of how much the war has cost so far was among the biggest bullshit that was tendered.

The ocean off California keeps breaking heat records The marine heat wave of 2026 is simmering the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California, and experts are warning that it could lead to a warm, humid and stormy summer.

We acknowledge that more than 90% of the heat from global warming has gone into the ocean but then act surprised when this happens.

1000% 🙏🏻

IBM reverses course on decades of DEI efforts Bowing to public pressure, the company dissolved its DEI team and erased much of its DEI messaging.

Much of what we call inclusion practices come from early IBM models. This isn’t just a company reversal. I think it’s just another sign of how much illiberalism has taken hold.

www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...

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

It *does*!!

THE HOUSE JUST VOTED TO EXTENDED TPS FOR HAITI!!! Thank you, Rep. Ayanna Pressley for your leadership on this. Proud to help co-lead this effort for our Haitian brothers, sisters, and siblings. What a day.

NCPH Camping Con was kinda like this, just mildly uncomfy sleep 😆

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

Guess who's winning the war? "The world’s top 100 oil and gas companies banked more than $30m every hour in unearned profit in the first month of the US-Israeli war in Iran..."

Girl, the solution to "the system is exploiting and replacing us" isn't "get a new system that can exploit and replace us". What are we even doing here? You can't fight for women if you're fighting for the technology that will run them out of the workplace.

Great article about the state of public transit but also this is WILD
"the hosting cities themselves do not benefit from the direct revenue of World Cup ticket or concessions sales, broadcasts, or even official parking fees. All of the above go to FIFA." Is this common for big sports??

"A denial-of-service (DoS) attack is a malicious attempt to overwhelm a web property with traffic in order to disrupt its normal operations."

Whoa.

How’s that vibecoding working out for you today, Bluesky? Pretty good it doesn’t seem

I 💕 the right to repair

a gold robot action figure holding a mini mini zine titled 'libraries are awesome and without them we are fucked'

a black and white mini zine titled booty shorts I would totally wear: library edition

its #NationalLibrarianDay so you know what that means:

> visit your local library, get a library card, and take home some rad materials
> smile and thank your local librarians

and maybe grab a library #zine too? Etsy.me/3Ya6bXa

Achieve Information Independence Via Defector’s Spring Sale | Defector When I survey energy markets—that is, when I gaze through binoculars at the gas station sign I can read from my home as long as there isn’t a big truck in the intersection—I see the disruptive effects...

OK this blew up! So before I log off for the night I'm gonna, do what we gotta do to keep the damn lights on!

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