So it’s not about whether you personally would inflict unspeakable sexual violence on someone. The question is whether you challenge an environment that protects those who do.

Men, We Need to Talk About "Rape Academy" This isn’t about women. This is about us. And it’s long past time we had this conversation

The number of angry messages I got from insecure men on my article demanding men be accountable for rape culture & 'Rape Academy' reminds me to share my article repeatedly.

Men: Stop being insecure. Stop being pathetic. Start holding rapists accountable.
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No, you weren't. The tech was having issues, not you.

I am surprised the DOJ took this long. The SPLC has been doing great things to combat hate, which is something the admin doesn't much like.
I'm sure the investigation won't get anywhere.

His father was a jazz pianist out of Louisiana, his mom a vocalist. Miles thought of him as the Ellington of his generation. The connection between jazz & Prince is strong & on Voice Tracks I'll mark his 10 yr passing with covers of his tunes.

Sammy Jackson, Lyle Lovett & more.

9pm with JAZZFM91

If you've ever wondered about this GOP being a cult...

there is a moment
just before evening
when things lose their edges

cars soften into grey
voices into shapes
you into someone
you almost recognise

and you stay there
longer than you should

A New Supreme Court Leak Shows John Roberts at His Worst The newly leaked memos from the justices show how the court came to claim this new “emergency” power for itself.

slate.com/news-and-pol...

The Inside Story of Five Days That Remade the Supreme Court

And here’s the original reporting

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

Looks like Coachella's owner supports a lot of anti-LGBT institutions.

The Rolling Stones - Paint It, Black (Official Lyric Video) YouTube video by ABKCOVEVO

#MusicChallenge
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic

Day 22 - A song with non-western harmonic ideas.

The Rolling Stones - “Paint it Black”

Built around a Phrygian dominant flavor with that sitar line—dark, Eastern-tinged, and instantly recognizable.

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in the fog

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Chief Supervisor Round Frog has been hard at work today with her Extra Large Sapphire Blue Feeties of Supervision!

He's in jail. But the DOJ is incompetent, rushing to find Dems they can harass instead of proceeding to trial.

Can we strap Musky on as well? To balance the load, of course.

My grandparents had one of these. Grandpa kept his pipe tobacco in it as well as a bottle of whiskey. The whiskey was unopened, but the pipe tobacco was replaced weekly.

Comic: Types of Board Game. [Each panel has a person, a person with a ponytail, a person with shoulder-length hair, and a person with a white hat seated around a table with different board game and pieces on top. (1) Boring: PERSON 3: Each turn, roll a die and move your token. Turns proceed clockwise around the table until we all get tired and go home. (2) Abstract: PERSON 1: Each turn, you can place any number of red triangles or blue squares on a hexagon, or move any hexagon to a... (3) Hyperspecific Theme: PERSON 2: It’s October 2, 1814. The Congress of Vienna convenes. You are each in charge of distributing and lighting candles for the opening ball, which was held at these three locations... (4) Overcomplicated: PERSON 4: It’s a cross between *Twilight Imperium* and *Cones of Dunshhire*, but implemented entirely in category theory. Every cone is a monad, and... (5) Cooperative: PERSON 3: We’re working together to sort these decks of cards using only hand gestures. After that, we’ll silently organize my junk drawer. (6) Branded: PERSON 1: You can play as Phoebe, Chandler, Monica, Rachel, Ross, Joey, or, due to an ill-advised tie-in, Goku. (7) Party: PERSON 2: Each of the cards in your hand has a bad word on it. On the count of three, yell the... (8) Social Deduction: PERSON 3: Remember, per our *find the secret murderer* house rules from last week, discovering that a player has committed a real-life murder does *not* count.

Types of Board Game

xkcd.com/3235/

Trump just accidentally filmed a campaign ad for Democrats. He told Virginia voters that if they pass fair redistricting maps, the GOP will lose the House and Democrats will actually pass legislation. Don’t threaten us with a good time, Donald.

BookCon 2026 was amazing!!

Best way to fight a war - everyone is puking, feverish, can't breathe, can't eat, can't see straight.

Mountain Bluebird #bluebird #ilovebirding #birding #birds #FDT #BirdWatching #birdphotography #Colorado #bird_photography 🪶

Yes we did. In subtle and not so subtle ways, every day, everywhere we went, for no goddam good reason other than we were alive.
I had a bad rep after awhile for snapping at men who were patronizing and misogynist, wore that rep like a super-heroine cape.

It would be nice if everyone understood and accepted this reality. It's true. It's real.

Insider trading is illegal...
but they don't care

“Two weeks of vacation annually is not enough.”

🔥 @repauchincloss.bsky.social to RFK JR: “FDA issued 3 vouchers based on a text from JOE ROGAN—flies in the face of your commitment to put science over politics. I want safety/efficacy to be standards to approve psychedelics, not Trump needing support for a disastrous war.”

H/T @acyn.bsky.social

If you go back and watch a movie like All the Presidents's Men, it will really hit you how massively our country has changed in my lifetime. It was unthinkable for any of today's headlines to ever even exist back then.

A lot of you think it's always been this bad, but it hasn't. It really hasn't.

700-year-old mummy from Bolivia contains earliest confirmed evidence of strep throat bacteria in the Americas A DNA analysis of pathogens from a pre-Hispanic mummy revealed that the bacterium that causes scarlet fever and strep throat was present in the Americas prior to European colonization.

Scientists have confirmed that group A strep can be identified in ancient remains. They found pathogen DNA in a prehispanic mummy from Bolivia — raising the question: Where did strep (and diseases like scarlet fever) originate? 🧪🏺

Left: wall painting depicting a woman wearing elaborately decorated robes and a tall crown. Right: a person wearing a reconstruction of the outfit.

Reconstruction of an outfit of Nubian Royal Mother Martha, as depicted in a wall painting at the cathedral of Faras in the Kingdom of Makuria #MedievalMonday

The rich outfit highlights the elevated status of the royal mother in Nubian society.

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🏺 #Archaeology

The Kintsugi Protocol: Why Broken Systems Should Wear Their Scars

Tribe, Tokyo here. 🏺

In a quiet workshop in Kiyosumi-Shirakawa, I once watched a craftsman repair a 400-year-old tea bowl. He didn't hide the cracks. He filled them ...

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