Oh my. 🤩

We all know how this will end. The landowner will get well over market value. The AI company will get huge tax breaks. The construction will not be done by locals. While the residents will be stuck with higher utility bills and a lower quality of life.

900lb crates full of onions in a field

The Coachella music festival is in the news with the minimum price of sold out 3-day ticket costing $549. Contrast that with "Nicolas" who is currently harvesting onions in the Coachella area and getting paid $22 for a $900lb crate. #WeFeedYou #coachella2026

NASA astronaut Christina Koch sits in an U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk attached to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 23 on the flight deck of the San Antonio Class amphibious transport dock USS John P. Murtha (LPD 26) after returning from space on Apr. 10, 2026.

This picture of Astronaut Christina Koch after the Artemis landing is frankly incredible and beautiful.

Personally, I wouldn't go that far, but I am cheering him on!

Great photos indeed!

Speaking of money,

As millions of Americans were losing their SNAP benefits the Pentagon spent:

🔹️$6.9 million worth of lobster tails🦞
🔹️$15.1 million for ribeye steak 🥩
🔹️$2 million for Alaskan king crab 🦀
🔹️ and even $98,329 on a Steinway & Sons grand piano

✏️ see @newrepublic.com

A million dollars weighs 22 pounds.
You could carry it in a backpack.
A billion dollars, by contrast, would require ten pallets.

Great thread on #money #didyouknow

Heartical!

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Janis Joplin - Maybe YouTube video by LocalEye

Trending generally disappoints and confounds here #@bluesky.
Today I gladly welcome #JanisJoplin for the win. #AT40

Monochrome photograph featuring a young white girl to the left and young Black boy ro the right both facing each other, both with arms raised as if dancing on a street

Photographer Helen Levitt,
Two Children Dancing, New York, 1940 #WomensArt

Couldn't care less about diamonds, however with the turquoise-
how splendid!

🇫🇷 🗳️ Training helps French voters with disabilities prepare for polls

Voters with intellectual disabilities in France are receiving training on how to vote ahead of the country’s upcoming municipal elections, using fake voter cards, ballot papers and imaginary candidate lists
#geneu_AFP

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Three white ceramic odd humanoid figures against a blue background

Sophie Woodrow, contemporary ceramics artist who creates ceramic figures #womensart

Cold Friday Awaiting Apocalypse
Mendelson Joe
2003

Camel with a display of children's books hanging off its hump, with a child pointing to one she wants.

Another in my series of libraries
Camel bookmobile for children in Mongolia
#SomethingBeautiful #LoveLibraries #EveryLibraryMatters #Libraries #Library #LibrarySky #libsky

Dr. Mari Kleist (Associate Professor, Ilisimatusarfik/University of Greenland) documents an Early Paleo-Inuit tent ring at Isbjørne Island, Kitsissut.

Discovery of 4,500-year-old Paleo-Inuit settlement on the Kitsissut Islands, north of Greenland, shows the first people in the High Arctic were skilled seafarers, deeply entangled with Arctic ecosystems from the beginning of glacial retreat.

#AntiquityThread 1/13 🧵

🏺 #Archaeology

Xhuwaji – Haida Grizzly Bear
Bill Reid
1990

Drawings of farm workers at work with the words: AS ICE TERRORIZES OUR COMMUNITIES, FARM WORKERS ARE STILL FEEDING YOU. CALL YOUR SENATOR NOW!

We're living in a terrifying new reality. Trump's DHS mob are killing US citizens, kidnapping kids and terrorizing hard working immigrants - including the farm workers who feed us.

Call your Senators TODAY! Tell them don't fund ICEs terror campaign!

act.seiu.org/a/do_not-fun... #ICEout

Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one. Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”

Nice pop of Badger pride this morning: Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar, UW–Madison had just the one! news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...

From the bestskeeting author of the Bluesky-famous six-week Bad Bunny 101 comes this essential close reading of the halftime show! 🧵

The Sermon on the Mount, by Beryl Lewis, before 1965, 📸 by @ScottStrazzante

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance

Terrified Conservatives Lose Ability To Speak English After Exposure To Bad Bunny Performance theonion.com/terrified-conservatives-...

Good Bunny
#grammys
#truthout
#musicsky

Make it make sense.
#grammys
#musicsky
#oldisgold

The tamal is old, once fueling Aztec armies. The secret is nixtamalization, creating aromatic masa. Cooks whip this dough with lots of fat until it floats in water. If it sinks, you keep beating. Geography dictates the wrapper: Mexico uses corn husks, Central America prefers glossy banana leaves.

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