Tomato Soup's A Witch's Life in Mongol Manga Wins 55th Japan Cartoonists Association Award WART CARTOON, Manga Ishibumi: Genbaku ga Ochite kuru toki, Bokura wa Sora wo Miteita also win

Congratulations to A Witch's Life in Mongol and the other winners!

Exploring Lupin III Kabuki: Classical Japanese Theater Meets a Modern Classic

Lupin and co. enter a feudal Japan full of astonishing costumes and make-up in the new Lupin III: The beautiful azure castle kabuki play.

The Japanese scientist who painstakingly reconstructed 1,200 years of data on peak cherry blossom blooms in Kyoto to show the effects of climate change has passed away; fortunately, another scientist has volunteered to continue his project.

New COVID subvariant 'Cicada' on the rise in California, just in time for summer The emergence of the BA.3.2 strain comes amid broader uneasiness about COVID vaccination rates among seniors, who are especially susceptible to the virus.

"A highly mutated COVID-19 strain is circulating in CA...

The emergence of the BA.3.2 strain, nicknamed 'Cicada,' comes amid broader uneasiness abt COVID vaccination rates among seniors..."

The timing of its spread "...underscores that COVID has lately morphed into more of a summer disease in CA."

No one goes to a Texas game to experience victory. You go to experience everything else -- the food, the audience's hope, the pain of loss, and the indefatiguable "get back up again" spirit that runs through Houston.

I love this town.

There is a chain of gas stations called Buckey's (not Buc-Ee's -- Buc-Ee's sued them over their name) that had these taquito/eggroll things during breakfast hours heated on hot rollers: cheeseburger, southwest, breakfast sausage, etc. 🤤

A barbeque baked potato at the Texans football game (first discovered at the Houston Rodeo).

But they are very sweet. Each and every one of them. I hope one day they learn to cuddle with each other.

😹😹😹

My boys mostly battle over who gets to sleep in between mom and dad. And sometimes they raise their paws at each other! 🙀 (Thankfully, they only rarely use claws.)

And the girls like to try to escape so they can explore. 😩

Penn is definitely loofah shaped! A perfect loofah loaf! A looafah?

And he is so thoughtful when he dries off the bathmat and imparts the family scent over the clean water!

Why are your boys so purrfect and helpful?? 🧡🩶

“Government issued identification documents are necessary to access public life. When they do not accurately reflect a person's sexual identity, the transgender Montanan is prevented, based on their sex, from obtaining the same attributes of public life that a cisgender Montanan may obtain.“

“Raphael said the consequences of a sudden policy shift could be immediate.

'If that were to happen, I will just close, just that simple,’ he said, referring to a potential end to #TPS protections. 'I wouldn’t have time to rehire, and my restaurants would definitely be closed.’”

I keep thinking about this moment. So inspirational.

I am sorry to hear you get these too.

I can only how bad it is. How bad it is on her heart -- HR and BP. How badly the pain must be on her psychological health.

Stool softeners, laxatives, and enemas will not shrink a giant ovarian cysts. Wrong organ, wrong medicine. Anything over 6 x 6 cm is usually surgically removed.

An ovarian cyst the size of a tennis ball. It may start bleeding -- a "chocolate" cyst so named because it oozes old blood which looks like fudge. It could also result in torsion, which could block blood flow to the ovary. It could also pop, which could be super painful.

As @jwashing.bsky.social recently told @austinkocher.com: the term we typically use to describe this sort of thing—"medical neglect"—is a misnomer. This is not medical neglect; this is medical torture.

The Women’s Liberation Movement and the Gendering of Undercover Police Surveillance in 1970s Britain: the Public Inquiry as (Un)Ethical archive Abstract. In the 1970s a female police officer went undercover in the feminist movement in Britain. Across two years, she shared plans, conversations, and

My article on 1970s feminists, spycops, and if feminist historians can use materials extracted by undercover police officers is out in History Workshop Journal doi.org/10.1093/hwj/...

Sandwich chain Jersey Mike's confidentially files for US IPO Sandwich chain Jersey Mike's said on Monday it had confidentially ​filed for a U.S. initial public offering, adding ‌to a flurry of companies advancing listing plans as markets hover near record highs.

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So I asked one of my old Jessup partners if she wanted to join me on the robot armed conflict treaty contract paper. She is almost done with her llm in international business law, which i have next to no knowledge of.

PRESS RELEASE: SJAC and TIMEP file an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on Syria’s TPS Case Conditions in Syria preclude a safe, dignified and sustainable return of Syrian TPS holders April 20, 2026 Read the amicus brief here WASHINGTON, D.C. – Syria Justice and Accountability Centre (SJA...

The US Supreme Court will soon hear a case that could end Temporary Protection Status for #Syrians in the US

SJAC & @TimepDC submitted an amicus brief to the Court arguing that #Syria is still unsafe & protections must remain in place

syriaaccountability.org/sjac-and-tim...

Volunteer Training Call · Run for Something Join us to learn how you can support prospective candidates through Run for Something’s Volunteer 1:1 team. The Volunteer 1:1 team with RFS supports prospective young progressive candidates from acro...

If you're looking for something meaningful to do right now -- our next volunteer intro call for @runforsomething.net is coming up on 4/21. We'll teach you everything you need to know. www.mobilize.us/runforsometh...

Call for Papers: "Gotta Hear ‘Em All: The Music and Sound of Pokémon"

Journal of Sound and Music in Games

online.ucpress.edu/jsmg/pages/s...

Queer Women's Fandoms: Across Screens, Borders, and Desires Queer Women’s Fandoms: Across Screens, Borders, and Desires brings together new research that rethinks what queer women’s fandoms are and why they matter now. Fan communities where homoeroticism is cr...

Forthcoming new book ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Queer Women's Fandoms
Across Screens, Borders, and Desires

Edited By Jamie J. Zhao, Eve Ng

#FanStudies

www.routledge.com/Queer-Womens...

Getty image: A wide-smiling Prince Harry, seated with President Joe Biden, whose hand is firmly embracing Harry’s shoulder, arm around him.

Harry is ours now ✨🇺🇸

Once taboo, now on view: Seoul debuts major queer art exhibition In Korea, queer culture is still often treated as a social taboo, remaining mostly at the margins of public discourse. Art Sonje Center in Seoul has opened the

"Art Sonje Center in Seoul has opened the first large-scale institutional exhibition in Korea dedicated to queer art, presenting an opportunity to encounter practices and perspectives that have long been overlooked in mainstream cultural spaces."

That is too cute! #catcanoe #catsky

Something about this art captures how cats look at us. With a soft and fuzzy love. #catcanoe #catsky

As someone who lives in an area known for disasters (hurricanes, tornados, freezes that bring the state to a halt, failures of the electrical grid, failures of the water system), this just looks smart and normal.

Do you also have some shelf stable junk food? 🤩 For morale.