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A horizontal flier with University of Kentucky School of Journalism and Media banner announces a “Conference w Patrick Chauvel” famed French War Photographer. Today, Monday April 20, 2026 in Wrigley Auditorium 250 Pence Hall. The flier shows images of Chauvel shooting the long glass with a burned out bus stall shouldering next to him and shows 2 photographers from his own work. He has covered war and conflict since he was 17, beginning w the Six Days War in 1967 and the Vietnam War. The visit is part of a Lexington Sister Cities and UK International collaboration w a French delegation from Normandy.

Today, Monday April 20: Famed French Conflict Photographer Patrick Chauvel conducts interactive session on photos from 57 years in conflict zones. All welcome 2 p.m. Wrigley Auditorium 250 Pence Hall. Lexington Sister Cities, UK International Office, College of CI/JAM @universityofky.bsky.social

#Breaking
7.4 magnitude #earthquake strikes northern #Japan, sparking a #tsunami warning for waves as high as 3 meters.

Coastal residents to head to higher ground immediately.

A still from Me, Myself & Mary, showing a kaleidoscopic vision of ketamine-induced mania, i which I - Séamas - am holding a tray of drinks surrounded by cosmic ephemora, planets, rainbows, mushrooms etc, standing on a rainbow, flanked by Mary McAleese and my boss's boss's boss's boss. There is a giant me - Séamas - standing behind me, with three eyes, backed by a rainbow, with his hands outstretched in puppeteer stance.

The film stars Chris O'Dowd as me, and Aisling Bea as my boss. It's a work of insane genius by John Michell and Antagonist films.

And, now, because of their fine work, this diorama of me on ketamine serving drinks to Mary McAleese is the banner image for Tribeca's entire animation shorts program.

Do you want to see the "big picture" on climate change?

Here it is.

Emissions are on the left, and include CO2, CH4, N2O, and f-gases. Natural CO2 sinks (from healthy forests & oceans) are on the right. And carbon removal, what little there is, is on the right, too. All expressed as GWP100.

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24 companies funding Trump's ballroom received $279B in gov't contracts in the past 5 years.
Most are facing federal enforcement actions for conflict of interest.
These are not random donations, but clearly an effort to win favors from the Trump regime.

Have been wondering when candidates would start talking about this. One of the biggest corruption scandals is U.S. history playing out in real time.

Once again wishing that either the F in my last name wasn’t silent, or that Palantir was run by a different psychopath.

There had been 375 performances before the New York Police Department raided West and her company on 9 February 1927. 325,000 people had seen the show, including members of the police department and their wives, judges of the criminal courts, and seven members of the district attorney's staff. 2/2

#OTD: Having produced, directed and starred in her Broadway play titled simply "Sex", Mae West was charged with "corrupting the morals of youth" on 19 April 1927. www.infinite-women.com/women/mae-we... 1/2

A screenshot of a white-on-black terminal depicting a 19x19 go board in ascii graphics, with empty grid intersections as periods, and black and white as Os and #s

It’s absolutely incredible that one of the largest Japanese-run Go servers, which has been running since 1992, is still accessed entirely via Telnet. And while most players use GUI clients that use Telnet under the hood, you can still connect manually and get ASCII graphics streamed to you

Good morning, we have arrived at Swindon to report on this.

A few people are already gathering, having walked outside from the local pride hub here.

Sarah Isgur QTing the NYT shadow docket story: In 2014 and 2015, the Court used the “shadow docket” to stop Texas’ anti-abortion restrictions from going into effect while the case was pending. The left was thrilled with the shadow docket at that point—years before this case even existed…

Isgur is such a fucking hack. the case she’s referring to is one where the 5th Circuit entered a stay and it was appealed to SCOTUS. the case in the Times story involved the Court intervening to stay an EPA rule while a lower court was still adjudicating the issue.

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.

"Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial: Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later."

'She also documented how few women were in federally sponsored clinical trials for AIDS drugs...
That was significant, she told The San Francisco Chronicle, because “the clinical trials are the only way you can get treatment.”' Long helped save so many lives.

NYT: Iris Long, Scientific Mentor to AIDS Activists, Dies at 92

By Richard Sandomir

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what a great great lady

Milly Strange, who opened for us tonight, blew me away with their talent. Keep an eye out for them.

“We cannot defend freedom abroad by deserting it at home.”

— Edward Murrow

it's wild that we have a fascist president currently invading multiple countries for no good reason and he's also a huge advocate of ibogaine

DOJ Presidential Records Act argument threatens to send us back to time of presidents burning papers The Trump administration wants to undo the reform that put presidential papers in the hands of the public.

www.salon.com/2026/04/17/d...

POTUS v the Pope Running short of new people to poke, the president has a go at God’s vicar

For almost a thousand years, world leaders have mostly tried not to upset the Roman pontiff. That is until Donald Trump told Pope Leo XIV that he needed to “get his act together”

In Peru, native stingless bees have become the first insects to be granted legal rights in the world. 🌎

The decision follows collaboration with Indigenous communities to document the bees.

🧪 The Guardian: https://ow.ly/bmw850YIc1j

🏡 IPBES Pollinators Assessment: https://ow.ly/tBaA50YIc1k

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...

A Newly Discovered Recording Lets You Hear Delta Blues Legend Robert Johnson in Stunning Clarity

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Opinion | Tyranny at Texas Tech

Academic freedom and the First Amendment must protect the right of anyone to disagree with the government. By John K. Wilson: https://bit.ly/4mJGqXW

#EDUSky #HigherEd #AcademicSky

Judge halts local TV giant Nexstar's takeover of rival Tegna until trial U.S. Judge Trevor Nunley ruled that consumers could suffer irreparable harm if Nexstar integrated Tegna's stations into its own operations ahead of an antitrust trial.

NEWS: Judge halts local TV giant Nexstar's deal for Tegna until trial

My story:

www.npr.org/2026/04/17/n...

Experts: New Accreditation Rules Threaten Academic Freedom The draft proposals, up for discussion this week, could change how accreditors oversee colleges and what they measure, but some say they violate existing federal law.

The Trump admin’s rewriting of rules governing college accreditation “obliterates” autonomy & is is being described as “a cluster bomb being dropped on American higher education.”

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Ex-Kennedy Center staffer alleges chaos and cronyism under Trump leadership Unless courts intervene, the Kennedy Center will shut down this July for two years, as part of a roughly $250 million renovation. In the lead-up, there’s been a wave of layoffs and a controversial reb...

The Kennedy Center will shut down this July for two years, as part of a roughly $250 million renovation. In the lead-up, there’s been a wave of layoffs and a controversial rebranding. https://to.pbs.org/4cRRjDu

Tufts University student targeted by Trump administration completes PhD Rümeysa Öztürk, who faced deportation over pro-Palestinian op-ed, travels back to Turkey to begin career

She made it! She finished her Ph.D.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...