are you as excited as i am? YouTube video by Unoriginal music edits

On Robert Smith's 67th birthday, possibly his greatest moment, at least outwith the songs that have been part of the soundtrack of my life
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A black and white photo of a row Victorian houses tilted at odd angles presumably due to liquefaction, labeled “Peculiar Effects of Earthquake”

A ghostly black and white photo of people and a cart walking down a street where the buildings are all damaged and some just have the facades standing, labeled “California Street”

A black and white photograph of the burned-out shell of San Francisco city hall with the dome still mostly intact, labeled “City Hall”

A black and white photo of people and makeshift shelters in the earthquake and fire-damaged city, labeled “Refugee Camp”

It’s April 18th, so time to repost some of my great-grandfather’s photos of San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake

Now accepting applications for 2027 #FictionMeetsScience residencies from authors working on novels or narrative non-fiction books about science. See: tinyurl.com/FMS2025

#writingcommunity #writersresidency #fellowships #scilit
Repost!

I saw the best minds of my generation produce high quality content for startups that laid them off on a zoom call

This Open Letter is fantastic…and so important. I hate everything about LLM’s, but couldn’t think of a worse place to use them than in academia. What’s the purpose of education if not to teach critical thinking & the ability to grasp & synthesize information in order to sail in uncharted waters?

A thatched roof with 2 chimney pots. Atop the roof, instead of the usual duck or pheasant made of thatch, there stands a majestic T-rex

Went for a walk and a pint and spotted the best example of free will I've ever seen

VIZ comic at its best...

Caution - this area contains giant rhubarb. Keep out

…but I like giant rhubarb?

Trump fires the entire Presidio Trust board It’s common for a new president to reshape federal boards — but Presidio Trust chairman Mark Buell says he’s surprised it took this long. Trump fired all six Biden-appointed members via a terse “effec...

Trump ousts all six Biden-appointed Presidio Trust board members (by @cfarivar.bsky.social)

sfstandard.com/2026/04/11/t...

On April 15, Charlotte Wood will be in conversation with Rebecca Makkai about THE NATURAL WAY OF THINGS in a streamed session for @92ndstreety.bsky.social. Throw yourself into this "briar patch" (New York Times) of feral rabbit women! Tickets available here: www.92ny.org/event/charlo...

Hope your parachute jump was OK Dave?

🇩🇪 La nouvelle loi allemande sur le service militaire obligera la plupart des jeunes hommes à informer les autorités en cas de séjour de plus de trois mois à l'étranger, une disposition qui a fait débat ce week-end après sa révélation cette semaine dans la presse allemande ⤵️

The Hair Ghost Of Prague taking a little walk in the park

Circular stained glass artwork featuring a central image of the head of a rabbit surrounded by grasses and flowers

Liz Huppert. Contemporary stained glass artist #WomensArt #Spring

Trump Seeks $152 Million to Begin to Turn Alcatraz Back Into a Prison

Many last year dismissed Trump’s idea to turn Alcatraz back into a federal prison. But his new budget plan includes $152 million to do just that.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/03/n...

What are you talking about? There's nothing wrong with AI fact-checking!

Trump administration orders dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service Late Tuesday afternoon, with the subtlety of a wrecking ball and the morality of a foreclosure notice, the Trump administration announced the most devastating attack on the U.S. Forest Service in the ...

Amidst everything else, the Trump regime has quietly killed off the U.S. Forest Service 🌲

“One hundred and ninety-three million acres of your national forests… just handed, on a silver platter, to the people who’ve spent their entire careers trying to destroy it.”

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A sheep who is looking at me sceptically after I have assured it it is the best sheep ever

A sheep who has experienced an extraordinary dip in its previously buoyant mood because I have just told it about the ways in which the music and publishing industries are planning to use AI in the future

PAID EDITORIAL FELLOWSHIPS!!

just want to be clear that the supreme court will not be deciding if the 14th Amendment guarantees birthright citizenship; the justices are deciding whether or not they want to strip the 14th Amendment of its guarantee of birthright citizenship

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently."

Microsoft: LOL

Trump’s Birthright Citizenship Order at Supreme Court Splits Conservative Scholars

The 14th Amendment, hundreds of years of law, and Supreme Court precedent confirm that virtually all babies born on U.S. soil are citizens, regardless of their parents’ immigration status.

We're headed to the Supreme Court to defend this fundamental freedom.

At House Rabbit Society, we believe rabbits are wonderful companions, but they're not for everyone. If you've never had a rabbit before, we encourage you to spend time on our website, houserabbit.org, learning more about them, and not purchasing one impulsively for the Easter holiday.

Three UNM Press books about men who served and reported on the Vietnam War: Undesirable: The Vietnam War and a Father's Battle for Justice, by Laura Kalpakian; Richard Tregaskis: Reporting Under Fire from Guadalcanal to Vietnam, by Ray Boomhower; and Ultimate Protest: Malcolm W. Browne, Thich Quang Duc, and the News Photograph That Stunned the World, by Ray Boomhower.

March 29 is the anniversary of when the last U.S. combat troops were withdrawn from Vietnam in 1973. These books honor men who served and reported on the Vietnam War:
📘 Undesirable
📘 Richard Tregaskis
📘 Ultimate Protest

#VietnamVeteransDay @laurakalpakian.bsky.social @rboomhower.bsky.social

A slightky rubbish photo of a felt nuthatch on my hand.

Nuthatch. What next? Maybe a bullfinch.

Stained glass artwork featuring a sitting hare among grasses depicted on green panels of glass

English stained glass artist Ann Sotheran, 'Isa's hare' (2011) #WomensArt

Explore live radio by rotating the globe Explore live radio by rotating the globe.

Your periodic reminder that there is a website that lets you listen to local radio stations anywhere in the world

This is honestly one of the coolest inventions ever, imo. Global access to hyper-local imagined communities

Woken by the Premier Inn's fire alarm.

A tiny felt wren on my hand.

Finished with pigeons, now onto garden birds #wren #felt #gardenbird #bird #wool