Useful for holding up sad dove nest

"[Palestinians] are not superior to any other life, but no other life is superior to us."

Palestinian-American activist, academic, and author Noura Erakat tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social about the double standard the West applies to war crimes against Palestinians.

Watch: zeteo.com/p/iran-gaza-...

Hey, so ICE is still kidnapping and disappearing people in the United States.

Just because they got quieter about it doesn't make it okay.

Abolish ICE. Chinga la Migra.

I have just ONE more spot to fill for May!

OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman reminding everyone that the damage AI use does to your brain is a feature, not a bug: "We see a future where intelligence is a utility like electricity or water and people buy it from us on a meter".

Government Workers Say They’re Getting Inundated With Religion “This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

“This has never happened before,” one government employee tells WIRED. “I have never gotten a message like this from anyone.”

anyone who knew someone with pancreatic cancer knows how big of a deal this is

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE TAGGING ME IN ON THE VATICAN / PENTAGON BEEF HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLY SHIT

My orange long haired rescue cat Sam leaning on my stomach with one arm bent

Sam decided he likes leaning on mom.

You are being misled about renewable energy technology. YouTube video by Technology Connections

This video makes me feel hope and despair in equal measure #SolarPunk #HopePunk
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I hate having to do the "look, they're normal just like us" post, but sometimes you have to do that when American propaganda tries to convince everyone Iranians are "animals".

The Death of an AI Whistleblower Suchir Balaji sought to expose OpenAI’s data abuses. Did it come at the expense of his own life?

For The Nation, I wrote about the death of OpenAI whistleblower Suchir Balaji.
www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Tucker Carlson is not and never will be a friend to the left. Ever. He is positioning himself to pick up the pieces of the MAGA movement, and draw in vulnerable liberals who think he has a point about Trump.

BREAKING: Thousands of Iranians are gathering on bridges and around power plants right now, forming human chains after threats of U.S. and Israeli strikes on Iran's civilian infrastructure.

audiobook listing from libro.fm showing ann leckie's lineup with Ancillary Sword and Translation state marked as on sale

FWIW @libro.fm has two great audio books by @annleckie.com on sale right now.

(Also Libro.fm is great, has frequent sales, supports local bookstores, and is a great way to break away from Amazon/Audible for audiobooks.)

libro.fm/search?q=Ann...

Trump Officials Celebrated With Cake After Slashing Aid. Then People Died of Cholera. Behind closed doors in Washington, top advisers made a series of decisions that had devastating repercussions for the poorest country on earth. We went to South Sudan and found people who died as a re...

Here are the stories of some of the human beings who died horrific deaths from preventable disease because Trump and Musk and their flunkies decided to murder them by gleefully destroying USAID and the entire global aid system:

every country should have suspended non-essential air travel? true. when the iran war started? of course. when covid showed us how clean our air could be? yeah. when climate projections got really bad? exactly. when the oil guys knew in the 70s? yep. when the wright brothers–

Mamdani is not just filling the potholes with the crew. He's creating a visual and personal reminder of the dignity inherent in all of these anonymous government jobs.

Sam Altman May Control Our Future—Can He Be Trusted? New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

The reporting on OpenAI and Sam Altman I've been working on for the past year and a half, for @newyorker.com, with Andrew Marantz: www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

Clancy's Sketchbook Materials and Techniques YouTube video by sue clancy

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"’As a result, and for the first time in centuries, the Heads of the Church were prevented from celebrating the Palm Sunday Mass’ at the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the patriarchate said.”

Shoegaze for Bluesky - Playlist by Catbus

found this playlist and don't remember if I posted it already so here it is

all bangers, all music I liked enough to pay for, dig in
#shoegaze

They count on our exhaustion. They bet on our apathy. Saturday we prove them wrong. We are not tired. We are not silent. We are ready to defend our democracy together. #WeSayNoKings

“Trans sports bans are not intended to be some kind of concession or compromise position. Rather, they are a stepping stone toward further bans and restrictions. This is why trans people almost unanimously oppose them. And it’s why you should to.”

A frog sitting on a lotus leave surrounded by lotus leaves and lilypads.

Ribbit 🐸

nobody could have predicted

This Black Town Has E. Coli in Its Drinking Water, but Feds Just Cut Support Cahokia Heights, ​a Black Illinois community, was already drowning in sewage. Now it faces the loss of crucial federal repair money.

Way too often, when people are talking about the racism animating this moment, people dismiss it as a concern by imagining the only people who will be affected by it are Black “elites,” and there’s a whole discussion about people thinking some people “deserve” racism, but also it’s not true.

Interesting take/approach from @katelynburns.com:

"I don't expect Republicans to stop talking about trans athletes, given its polling levels, but I think we can all start pointing out that they got what they wanted and that we should move on."

Letter to our great nephew With some random art in it

sueclancy.substack.com/p/letter-to-...