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New little thing I put together that might interest you. It’s in beta so it might have some rough edges still.

Are you tired of seeing people with blogs on Nazi-enabling Substack?

Do you want to boycott fascist-captured media?

Introducing: @snubstack.boo.

A labeler to detect Substack links

Packmates on Steam Gear up your animal hero in this 1–3 player co-op survivor roguelite. Master tactical inventory arrangement to unleash devastating combos. Obliterate enemies and battle bosses to overcome the corrupti...

been enjoying this comfy looter backpack arranger store.steampowered.com/app/3171540/...

57 For you I’d do the whole thing through below, above for now, for love.

After feints the heart steadies, pointwise invariant, by the drown'd light of her fire. In the set course we pass layer after layer, loving what we still know. It is an estranged passion, but true, the daughter willed back by blue eyes, unscathed, down the central pain pathway. Timelike delirium cools at this crossing, with your head in my arms. The ship steadies and the bird also; from frenzy to darker fields we go.

Standing by the window I heard it, while waiting for the turn. In hot light and chill air it was the crossing flow of even life, hurt in the mouth but exhausted with passion and joy. Free to leave at either side, at the fold line found in threats like herbage, the watch is fearful and promised before. The years jostle and burn up as a trust plasma. Beyond help it is joy at death itself: a toy hard to bear, laughing all night.

Which makes the thinning sorrow of flight the last disjunction, of the heart: that news is the person, and love the shape of his compulsion in the musical phrase, nearly but not yet back, into the remotest past. Of which the heart is capable and will journey over any desert and through the air, making the turn and stop undreamed of: love is, always, the flight back to where we are.

devastated to hear that the poet J. H. Prynne died this morning. Prynne’s work has been a source of fascination, inspiration, puzzlement, & awe for me since ~2011, when his book Kazoo Dreamboats totally rearranged what I believed poetry could be. His poems are a tremendous gift I will reread forever

“aura” is the yellow thing around Goku when he is Super Saiyan. i reject the modern definition

The Texas GOP's Attack on Catholicism Before President Donald Trump was picking fights with the pope, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton was accusing Catholic ministries of human trafficking.

A great dispatch from the Texas border, where Texas Republicans, led by AG Ken Paxton, have targeted a key nemesis of the far right and Christian nationalists: Catholic Charities.

Monterey Park becomes the first city in California to ban "all data centers within city limits" Residents of the small enclave east of LA not only killed their city's proposed 250,000 square foot data center, they pushed city council to ban them altogether

Last night, after an hours-long public hearing, Monterey Park became the first city in California to pass an ordinance permanently banning data centers.

The city council voted unanimously to declare data centers a public nuisance, and to "prohibit all data centers within city limits."

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death stranding 2 reviewed well and whatnot but i think it might be a little underrated. kojima made some good or at least interesting games after snake eater but DS2 is the first one since then to really hit all the marks you want from a kojima joint

Wild to keep hearing anti-AI sentiment described as an "echo chamber" by people who pretend there's never been a coercive dogshit marketing campaign actively pissing people off about it for two years or any no-opt-out half-baked shovelware making everyone's PCs and phones worse

Yes, I have just done a naked forward roll. But there was a good reason Adrian Chiles

Opinion Homes I've no fewer than 17 wooden spoons. But I have a favourite and I'd miss it for ever if it went missing Adrian Chiles

Celebrating 4/20 in your 20’s vs celebrating 4/20 in your 30’s

dragonfly fairy from mid valley comic arts expo 🧚

Open Measures Timeline chart showing daily number of Bluesky posts containing the phrase "blaze it"

Big spike in posts that say "blaze it" on Bluesky today

Never been more convinced that House Alito was behind the Dobbs leak. Getting it out there locked in Kavanaugh's vote amid Roberts and Breyer efforts to flip him, then Alito argued that the dissenters needed to hurry up because of security threats. How incredibly convenient

gil thorp comic book art by rachel merrill and henry barajas. children angry in a classroom walking out. teacher with salt and pepper hair shocked. We're walking out. I beg your pardon?!

A trans migrant student at Milford High has been abducted by ICE. Her classmates are walking out. Go over to @officialgocomics.bsky.social for today's GIL THORP and read the whole strip by @ohhhaeee.bsky.social and yours truly. www.gocomics.com/gilthorp

How Writing Helped Me Heal After a Trauma On June 4, 2015, I was sexually assaulted and nearly murdered. I went to bed in the evening, the way I always did. I read. I turned out my lamp. In the dark, I listened to the train in the distance…

“In these moments, I am reduced to this fact: Someone broke into your house and attacked you.” On healing after trauma through writing.

A drawing of the artist walking around with a silly smile, while a carabiner holding keys, connected to her pants, is making loud CLINK CLANK CLONK sound. Above her is a thought bubble with a robot bearing the caption "Lesbotron 3000", also making loud CLINK CLANK CLONK sounds.

happy lesbian week

I was aware of this but this is the first time I've seen a picture. It's everything I want.

yo this slaps

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a pipe with the bowl as a bowl of pho and the caption: PHO TWENTY PACKA FAT BOWL

i made this meme like ten years ago but i still have to bust it out every year for 4/20

"One recent study found that while municipal districts pay an average of $512.01 per acre-foot, agricultural irrigation districts paid an average of $30.32 per acre-foot. Fully a quarter of all Colorado water diversions, all to farmers, cost nothing at all. Such a subsidy is difficult to unwind."

A video game where you work as a waiter in a zombie diner is a dead service game

A close-up on the head of a north American river otter.

An Asian small-clawed otter on a rock, shedding water droplets.

A spotted-necked otter laying on rocks.

A sea otter floating on its back in the water.

Announcing our first theme week: Otter Week!

I've got otters on the brain and I've got to share them, so it's time for a whole week of updated species, new species, and photos galore.

Our first species of the week drops soon! I can only preview four but there's a fifth the look forward to...

that's right theweek.com/articles/598...

The Wild Wild Western Water Wars - The American Prospect As a changing climate bakes and dries up the Colorado River, the seven basin states can’t agree on how to share the declining water resources.

in the American West, we've got totally nonsensical 174-year-old legal structures about water rights colliding with climate change-fueled drought, with the federal government AWOL prospect.org/2026/04/17/w...

orange cat lying on a footrest just about to yawn

orange cat mid-yawn with his front paw outstretched

orange cat, peak yawn

orange cat making the goofy freeze frame face he makes right after yawning

finally caught him yawning ^.^

advertising technology in the 1990s: look at this “website” you can “surf”. it has an image of a cat on it

advertising technology in the 2020s: you must adopt this now or die. we are going to completely kill you if you don’t download this app immediately

the penne opticon

yeah its way too on the nose. I just don't understand how ppl can look at this tech and ignore the scale of the damage it causes