a large-scale installation by Nicola Turner inside of Yorkshire Sculpture Park's 18th-century chapel gallery space of a textile form that appears to be crawling or expanding across the room, out of an opening toward the ceiling, with sharp clippers and scythes for "feet"

a large-scale installation by Nicola Turner inside of Yorkshire Sculpture Park's 18th-century chapel gallery space of a textile form that appears to be crawling or expanding across the room, out of an opening toward the ceiling, with sharp clippers and scythes for "feet"

In a converted 18th-century chapel on the grounds of Yorkshire Sculpture Park, a giant wool form by Nicola Turner creeps through openings in the architecture.

www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/04/nico...

How Islamophobic rhetoric leaves an impact on the mental health of Muslim Americans (The Conversation) — Negative portrayals of Muslims shape public attitudes and lead to increased discrimination, often resulting in hate crimes and psychological harm.

"A 2025 poll found that 63% of American Muslims reported experiencing religious discrimination, with many reporting at least one such incident every year since 2016." religionnews.com/2026/04/20/h...

Side note: I cannot believe he is FOUR!!!

I figured that was a given! Babies are no respecters of property etc.

Man, when you compare the bravery of every day Minnesotans to the overpaid cops it’s astounding

Excellent; thank you!

In other news, I will be an aunt in October; if experienced parents will tell me what qualities make a good baby blanket, my crochet hook is poised and I am all ears.

My father and brother have to be dragged away from cute babies on the bus so they don’t miss their stops.

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!

Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!

I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

Oh, wait, I did! archiveofourown.org/works/134398...

Yeah, I remember a quite nice one where Ben had been raised gender-fluid by Leia and Holdo and the forcible imposition of masculinity was part of the dark side’s hold, but I can’t seem to find it again. ☹️

There’s another author who did a lot of really neat canon stuff with gender but it looks like they put a lot of their work on private, maybe?

There was one really good long one set on a college campus where Rose lead the queer affinity group and was dating Kylo when the story started but it was incredibly emotionally rough to read… I wish I could remember the name.

When 😭

Please. I need it.

Reflecting on this: I sort of take it in stride that SW fans have no sense of proportion and treat laser sword drama queens kissing like the Literal Battle of Berlin or whatever, because it’s a self-serious fandom, but doing this over the Neo-ER? The Scrubs Soap? Lmao

Good fucking lord

Unsure if this is COVID, a mean cold, that “rest or your body will make you” thing I hear warned about or some combination. (I am feeling better, though.)

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity Great swathes of rock music since the nineteen-sixties would never have existed, we're sometimes told, were it not for the recordings of Robert Johnson. Certainly the likes of Keith Richards, Eric Cla...

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...

Okay, this needs a reboot. Damn, that is one lovely garment! Would look brilliant in waxed canvas.

The U.S. House passes Rep. Ayanna Pressley’s legislation to extend Temporary Protected Status for Haiti.

IT'S OFFICIAL: The House has passed our extension of TPS for Haiti.

This win wouldn't be possible without the strength & organizing of our movement to defend our Haitian neighbors.

To those in the #MA7 & beyond, this is for you.

The Senate must pick this up without delay.

Probably Bluesky's biggest impediment when it comes to making money is that there's a large chunk of the site that has ideological objections to any of the steps it might take to become profitable

One of the most significant but largely immeasurable consequences of the last decade of fascism in America is that it is a form of civil, moral, and spiritual rot that debases all of us. We are all made that much cruder, insecure, and therefore crueler despite our best aspirations and efforts.

The price of beef is massively subsidized, not least by the fact that the cost to graze cattle on public land has not changed since the 1960s.

$1.35 per cow-calf pair per month - 30 to 50 times less than market value.

If you really want to stop corporate welfare, beef prices are gonna go up.

Very sorry about your friend Mr. Darnielle.

The El-Mohtar/Gladstone reference but also:

you bring something unreplaceble to each and every day
or you used to anyway

guys, this is how you lose the time war

The combination of plug-in solar and battery storage (and relatedly, cheap e-bikes and mopeds) is going to be unbelievably revolutionary in the Global South.

Because I feel like I know what saved an uncounted number of people from ICE in the Twins Cities area and it wasn’t Ruthless Willingness To Kill Our Puny Foes.

Weird-ass tendency by some people to come online and declare that the power of the left comes from “violence” or “the weakness of our enemies” and not like… the organized collective action of the people.

It’s not that this has never gone wrong! It’s just that I think it’s something we should be more comfortable with as an option. Put it on the table. You know.