Five text file icons. Totally pointless image.

All DG beta readers have checked in... Amazing people that they are. Time to get back to it. I'm still very excited about this project.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.

We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.

Please stand by for more.

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Why would blue-collar warehouse workers be so angry at billionaires?

Brian, who wrote an excellent book relating the 19th-century Luddite movement to today’s tech backlash (“Blood in the Machine”), is absolutely the person to read on this.

Photo: Moss-covered trees grow and lean into each other on a forest hillside. Source: unnamed, pd, www.cosmos.so

#ForestFriday
The trees have started Friday;
they're dancing in the forest.

Flock cameras have useful, modular electronic components in them, including:

- Rechargeable lithium iion battery with solar panel
- 5G LTE modem
- 5MP 16mm camera with IR filter

Plus various other components with precious metals that can be harvested for scrap.

@richard-a-boxshall.bsky.social ?

For Keir Starmer to talk of national resilience and ignore nature is absurd | Letters Letters: Responding to an article by the PM, Caroline Lucas says he must be clearer about climate risks, Molly Scott Cato says we must reverse Brexit and Dr Victor Ajuwon applauds Labour’s directness....

Extraordinary that nowhere in an article on resilience did PM find space to include the growing threat posed to UK security by the dramatic decline in the health of nature around the world - especially since his own intelligence chiefs have recently spelt it out for him in no uncertain terms 👇

On Monday we reported on the 8 most insane fascist and antisemitic accounts JD Vance follows on X. @kylebazgo.bsky.social identified the worst of them, HowlingMutant, as Alexander Norden of NYC. He's very edgy, like posting about his sexually attraction to a pile of shoes at the Holocaust Museum.

A table with bins of art prints standing up in them, in various sizes.

A cutting mat, with a grid on it, and three prints arranged on it The prints overlap diagonally, and are sized (from top left to bottom right): 9x12, 8x10, and 5x7 inches. Each one is the same illustration of an antlered deer in black walnut ink.

A poster of four hand- illustrated mushrooms, in black walnut ink, watercolor, and graphite. Each one is in a hand Tron circular frame, with the name of the mushroom underneath. Clockwise from top left: golden chantrell, yellow morel, chicken of the woods, old man of the woods. The text at the bottom of the poster reads: Tess Tanenbaum's edible mushrooms of Central Illinois

A picture of Tess, in a mushroom dress, holding an enormous sheet of fine art paper with a mosaic of her uncut prints laid out on it. It stretches towards the camera as Tess tilts one arm down to pull it straight.

*DEEP BREATH*

I'm selling prints of my painting and illustration, for the first time!

Locally printed, hand trimmed, on textured fine art paper in a wide range of sizes!

Made with black walnut ink foraged by queer witches, brewed under the solstice moon.

cauldronfirestudios.com/fine-art-pri...

Saw/heard on morning walk:
- caterpillar crossing the road
- little birds flying a hem-stitch ahead of me
- meltwater in the ditches
- nuthatch
- gang of robins
- 2 Canada geese overhead
- stubborn clumps of snow
- Busch & Bud cans a drunkard neighbor tossed
- a bluebird calling "chirber- chirber"

Steal Something from Work Day | CrimethInc. April 15, every year

A reminder for tomorrow: crimethinc.com/steal-someth...

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto

Man Who Threw Molotov Cocktail At Sam Altman’s Home Claims He Was Following ChatGPT Recipe For Risotto theonion.com/man-who-threw-molotov-co...

This Borges fanfiction is excellent.

went to check out the techno rave outside Parliament and I don't think I have the data allowance to share a video from it but let me tell you: there sure is a techno rave outside Parliament right now, celebrating Orban getting ousted

this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built

How many birds die from wind turbines? Surprising findings Critics say wind turbines endanger birds but two new studies have now analysed the risk in more detail. What they have found could change the debate.

Two recent studies have re-examined risk of birds colliding with rotor blades of wind turbines.
Research found that there was not a single collision.
"The results from Aberdeen Bay show that modern offshore wind farms can be operated with low risk to wildlife."
www.euronews.com/2026/04/11/t...

Thank you!

Where do you even get garbage bags full of dildos?

Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says Exclusive: Research finds sharp rise in models evading safeguards and destroying emails without permission

This is a great warning, but calling it "conniving" etc. ascribes human emotions and motivations to chatbots that do not exist. "AI" does not have its own desires and motivations. That doesn't mean it can't harm you. Cancer doesn't have motivations either.

www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

AI footage in the quote post. However it's a real fact, with real footage available (See my link below). Now people who believed it have a false image of how octopus act, and people who recognise it as AI question a real observed scientific fact. Utter bullshit.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=RN9B...

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

Great news - tropical forests are resilient!

Long-term research in Ecuador's Chocó rainforest shows that nature bounced back quickly after deforested land was abandoned

Diversity and abundance of species reached 90% of original levels within 30 years

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Pete Hegseth’s holy war: the militant Christian theology animating the US attack on Iran The bible-thumping US defense secretary is overseeing another strategic disaster in the Middle East. Is this a war or a crusade?

Pete Hegseth believes that Jesus guides Tomahawk missiles, even when they hit elementary schools.

I wrote about the roots of his militant faith - from the Crusades to the confederacy - and what they mean for the US and Iran today.

My great-aunt shot Mussolini in the face, says Llangrannog woman Philippa Gibson's great-aunt Violet tried to kill the Italian dictator in Rome on 7 April 1926.

What a truly extraordinary story, beginning in humble Llangrannog…
#Wales #Cymru

My great-aunt shot Mussolini in the face
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The matter-of-fact way she asks what investors should do if Trump destroys Iran. Absolutely wild.

"Let's talk about tonight, this deadline that President Trump has set 8 p.m., has threatened to destroy a civilization. How does an investor process that? Is it a bigger upside risk or downside risk?"

RAF Lakenheath shut down by protesters at both gates The action comes amidst growing public backlash over the the use of RAF Lakenheath to facilitate illegal US-Israeli bombardment of Iran

RAF Lakenheath shut down by protesters at both gates

The action comes amidst growing public backlash over the use of RAF Lakenheath to facilitate illegal US-Israeli bombardment of Iran
www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...

It's harder to motivate those who benefit most from the existing system into acting against it.

Arrests happening at main gates of RAF Lakenheath used exclusively by USAF and sending fighter jets to Iran.
Peace protestors have shut down the main gates since 6am.
A second gate was shut down for hours from 6-10am.
lakenheathallianceforpeace.org.uk
@cnduk.bsky.social @thecanaryuk.bsky.social