The babies are here!

Lol Spike Lee is courtside wearing a Knicks jersey with “Pope Leo” on the back

#NBAsky

How Bruce the Parrot Landed Atop the Pecking Order, Without a Beak

Gift link 🔗
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/20/s...

There's a war on for your mind.

theonion.info

First 2 seasons: 🏆

3rd season: kind of meh with some interesting bits

4th season: 🙄🫠

Sorry to be overly sincere for a second, but here's why we decided to persevere through all of the bullshit and take over InfoWars.

There's just gotta be a line somewhere.

Thank you @pablo.show for letting me talk so openly about this.

This made my day a lot better
🧅🫡

A large white waterfowl with orange feet stands in front of a door. On the door is a cardboard sign secured with tape that reads, "DO NOT LET THE DUCK IN." Adding insult to injury, I think the duck might be a goose.

Whatever you do,

There was a goose on the field at Wrigley, they played on

When I opened up Bluesky earlier today it was just a blank blue screen without the🦋logo.

Weirded me out

💚🪴🐸🪴💚

A closeup image of white crabapple flowers and pink buds against a blue sky

A single white narcissus flower blooming in dappled sunlight under a a lilac with white vinca and blue grape hyacinth in the background surrounded by bright green grass with a stone wall

A closeup image of bright green clover with white vinca flowers and a single purple violet

Timeline Cleanse
Everything Is Blooming

A photo of blossoming pink flower buds and a headline that reads “ECONOMIC POLICY - On Tax Day, Mamdani Taxed the Rich - The mayor, his supporters, and public opinion convinced their previously reluctant governor to agree to a tax on the second (or third, fourth, fifth, etc.) homes of their city's nonresident rich.”

A photo of a child reaching for blossoming pink flower buds and a headline that reads “Mayor Mamdani Unveils 7 New NYC Early Ed Centers”

A photo of of blossoming pink flower buds and a headline that reads “New York City to open municipal grocery store in 2027 - The store will be one of five city-owned food stores Mayor Zohran Mamdani has promised to debut before his term ends.”

Blossoming pink flower buds near a trash container and a headline that reads “Mamdani To Fully Fund Trash Containerization - The new mayor is restarting the Trash Revolution”

Change is in the air, New York. Here are a few things blooming.

Eye of Sauron cloud

I kind of get this. When I was a child my neighbors had a few ducks who would walk several blocks to the village and harass everyone.
They even tried to get into a local bar and my neighbors were called to come get them🪿🪿🪿

Upper left the Moon at waxing crescent phase the Pleiades star cluster at lower right.

Waxing Crescent Moon and the Pleiades. 2034UT 19 April 2026. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

Left pair are more flattering

Paul Revere’s Ride A poem

Happy Patriot’s Day Eve!

A perfect time to read Paul Revere’s ride, which first appeared in The Atlantic in 1861:

www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

Spring was about 3-4 weeks late in the NY metro area by my estimate as an avid gardener.
Mostly because of January and February’s long stretch of unusually cold weather and heavy snowfall.
In April the unusually warm temperatures turbocharged the plants and trees.

It’s climate change.

A woodcut of a bird beside the text "you could just not do that shit"

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
twitter-thread.com/t/2045574398...

Hoping you get power back soon 🤞🏼 and glad you made it through relatively unscathed

Beautiful

Saturday's Weather Rating: 9/10

Noticeably cooler, but still very nice with high temperatures reaching the upper 60s this afternoon. Sunshine is in control early, but clouds increase later this evening. For much of the day, the vibes are VERY good out there!!

Downfall, ballroom bunker edition

A closeup image of white crabapple flowers and pink buds against a blue sky

A single white narcissus flower blooming in dappled sunlight under a a lilac with white vinca and blue grape hyacinth in the background surrounded by bright green grass with a stone wall

A closeup image of bright green clover with white vinca flowers and a single purple violet

Timeline Cleanse
Everything Is Blooming

Timeline Cleanse

Really love seeing them bopping around in my yard & gardens

Mamdani hasn't had time to really think about all that space he now has, because he spends most of his time at City Hall and around New York City. He tries to keep a semblance of his old life by getting around the city on foot, by bike or train. "If you spend every single day driving around in a tinted window security detail, you will have a very specific view of the city," he said. "You actually meet other New Yorkers and you break out of the bubble that so many have come to expect of politics, where politicians only seem to be spending time with other politicians or the people who donated to make them politicians."

I'd say that this applies to anyone traveling in a car in any city. Being in a car versus walking, riding, or taking transit fundamentally changes how you view a place and your relationship to it. I wish more leaders set this kind of example.

www.npr.org/2026/04/16/n...