Great sequence!
"jay giving what for"
Thanks for sharing your pics

For real!
Also your profile pic nails what a jay would post for a profile pic

Ossoff: "How does American politics really work? It's coin operated. Money goes in, favors come out. It's been running on secret money, corporate money, billionaire money ... all of this gave rise to a depraved president who exploits this rot to empower and enrich himself"

Universal vaccines
Cancer cures
Massive movement to green energy

We're at the cusp of a great new world. But true evil is fighting it.

"Our quest stands upon the edge of a knife. Stray but a little and it will fail, to the ruin of all. Yet hope remains while all the Company is true."

Heard this in AC/DC

I didn't even know airplane ears was a thing, AND there's a subreddit for it. Thank you for your service.

Our new album is out today! A sincere request to help spread the word!

But of course the consequences are only leveled at women, who must protect themselves from rape by abstaining from any activities that could establish them as equals to men.

Swalwell is now likely going to face an expulsion vote this upcoming week in Congress, and Democrats are prepared to fire back by calling for the expulsion of Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-TX), who slept with subordinates. one of whom committed suicide. That could lead to an expulsion vote for Rep. Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-FL). who allegedly embezzled COVID funds mistakenly given to a company she ran and used it to bankroll her House campaign, and that could lead to an expulsion vote for Rep. Cory Mills (R- FL). who has been accused of assaultins a woman and threatening another with revenge porn. In U.S. history, only six members of Congress have been expelled; it's not out of the realm of possibility that well see four this week

It's really not hard to just kick them all out.

prospect.org/2026/04/12/e...

No shade to the OP for admitting this, but it shocks me that people my age don’t know this.

You fundamentally cannot understand how the world functions, how power works, if you don’t know history.

Keep Cats Indoors - American Bird Conservancy Outdoor cats kill up an estimated 2.4 billion birds in the U.S. each year. Discover how American Bird Conservancy is reducing the threat of roaming and stray cats through our Cats Indoors program.

Little migrating songbirds are performing one of the most stunning behaviors on the planet-- some are flying from Brazil to Canada, overnight. When they stop to rest they are exhausted and vulnerable.

Protect them by keeping cats inside! It helps cats too!

abcbirds.org/solutions/ke...

I highly recommend that everyone follow artists. If you do, your feed is filled with art every day. Real, original art. It's bonkers that you can even have this. Amazing. Undeniably cool.

And then support those artists, when you can, because that helps the delight continue.

A screenshot of the Youtube live stream of the Artemis Two mission, it shows the Artemis 2 craft on the far left lit by the sun, and in the middle of a completely black background is Earth, looming fairly large half shadowed, with the brightly lit part showing blue ocean interlaced white clouds

hey kids

you may want to tune into the NASA livestream for the Artemis 2 mission

it's rapidly approaching home and the earth is getting *big*

they're set to splashdown at 8:07 pm tonight

www.youtube.com/live/6RwfNBt...

Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations:

Alphabet: 8.01%
AT&T: 4.6%
Meta: 3.57%
General Motors: 3.09%
Amazon: 1.37%
Exxon Mobil: 1.31%
Disney: -1.57%
CVS Health: -3.88%

Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5%

This is what a rigged system looks like.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Massachusetts College Access Hampered by State Disinvestment State funding for public higher education in Massachusetts fell steeply over the course of two decades, limiting college access for low- and middle-income students, according to a new report from the ...

This "return on investment" discourse is brought to you by decades of accelerating public disinvestment in higher education, shifting cost burdens onto students–as–consumers rather than citizens–as–citizens.

Yes, even in blue states! Even in the Capital of Education state!

They will still do tremendous damage. Cleaning up the mess that SCOTUS—and our collective failure over all of the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s to think abt how to rein in their deepest anti-democratic super-legislature behavior—created will take a generation.

But still: the politics are shifting.

No More Kings
By Schoolhouse Rock

#NoKings

Good. And often days honoring one individual do more harm than good: they teach the nonsense that one person alone is mighty enough to alter history, perpetuating the (mostly US) pernicious myth of rugged individualism. They flatten & simply social movements; empty them of context & meaning.

This happened to me years ago, an otherwise good boss using a sound-alike name for me. I started calling him a completely different name every time he did it, and that finally cleared it up

However much you hate your annual gyno appointment, you don’t hate it enough because literally EVERY SINGLE THING ABOUT IT could be less painful, less humiliating, and less poorly designed if any of it had been developed based on actual science and not Man Science.

Hegseth wants media to be "patriotic" by elevating US successes. But coverage of school bombing has been a model of careful, nuanced reporting. He says he won't let media rush govt investigation. But we *want* media to put pressure on official probes like this one!

newrepublic.com/article/2077...

I had the Amazon fitness tracker. The Halo i think? It was not good. It was a solution in search of a problem, clearly based on what technology that had, not what problems were in need of solutions. Have to think they have the same approach here.

🎯 Redaction criticism course work did it for me (among many other things)

It was explained to me, at about that age, that fear = love, and that did not sound right to me.

Remember that when AI stole your shit, Big Publishing did not fight for your copyright.

This should cause an immense shift in author/publisher dynamics because it's huge.

And yet...

Mom, come pick me up, the best lack all conviction and the worst are full of passionate intensity.

I smacked my hand over my mouth when the music started. Unbelievable. And yet totally believable.