You know there’s some guy at Crocs today asking why they also haven’t become an AI company and someone is having to be like I dunno man I thought we made these stupid shoes but sure why not

This is lunacy.

A library-turned-reading campground inspires students to read - SmartBrief The lights are low. Crickets are chirping. Inside the tents, light flickers, casting shadows on the walls. School librarian Shaye Miller smiles at the students, who are clustered excitedly around her....

Always good to see hopeful blooms in unlikely places.... (The next question might be about what books are still easily available to them on those surrounding shelves...) www.smartbrief.com/original/a-l...

Destroying forests for this, and affecting the watershed, along with ruining the Haw River riparian habitat by being adjacent to important natural areas. Disney does this in Florida, too.

Bannon referred to Orban as "Trump before Trump."

Well, Orban is gone. MAGA is next.

A young boy with curled hair is sitting on the back of a man whose face is not visible as it is cut by the frame of the photo.

12 April 1936 | A Belgian Jewish boy, Sylvain Melzer, was born in Antwerp.

He arrived at #Auschwitz on 18 January 1943 in a transport of 610 Jews deported from Mechelen. He was murdered in a gas chamber.

holy shit he actually conceded

folks, they tell you they’re invincible

they tell you they’re inevitable

they tell you that you should give up and stop fighting

and absolutely none of that is true

I spent 16, SIXTEEN years fighting this crap.

I can’t believe it 😭

😬

no one is doing it like jd vance, a loser across three continents in a single weekend

I do not regret to inform you that we are going to win

To be fair "Orban" does sound like a kind of couch

more seriously congrats to the hungarian people for kicking that asshole out

It's a good day when fascists lose

Congrats to the people of Hungary for making it happen

And a huge loss for the US fascist duo of Trump and Vance who did all they could to prop up Orbán

Now we need J.D. Vance to go to Britain and support Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson.

Is this why Trump is dismantling the US Forest Service?

and it is not an exit poll bsky.app/profile/szab...

I don't know how to explain to the people who pop up when creatives complain about "AI" to say there are legit uses for it just how much they sound like someone saying "Well actually fire is used to make bread" when people are talking about an organized arson ring burning down their fucking houses

The return of the Artemis II crew

llustration: Stephen Lillie/The Guardian

Seen at local pubs...by Primitive Brewing, Seattle

A photo of a face of a young smiling girl with dark hair pinned in the back and styled with few large curls. Someone is visible standing behind her.

11 April 1935 | A Hungarian Jewish girl, Csibi Szilvia Guttman, was born.

In May 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.
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▶ Watch our webinar about deportations of Jews from Hungary to Auschwitz: https://youtu.be/M42znxofU5Q

Notice how the most celebrated and successful space mission in *decades* was run by at least 50% “DEI hires”—not all white men? And not even all Americans. Maybe diversity *is* strength . . .

"I'm just gonna say it, Fuck Trump"

"I'd much rather everyone made music as opposed to going and beating the shit out of each other"

— Hans Zimmer

A group of protesters gathered outside Philz Coffee in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood on Friday afternoon to denounce the company’s decision to remove Pride flags from its cafes.

Female octopuses throw rocks at males that bother them, documented in Octopus tetricus

Absolutely remarkable statement from Pope Leo today.
One for the history books
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

Exclusive: Four women describe sexual misconduct by Rep. Eric Swalwell, including a former staffer who says he raped her | CNN A former staffer of Rep. Eric Swalwell, a leading Democratic candidate for California governor, says that the congressman raped her when she was heavily intoxicated, an allegation Swalwell strongly de...

CNN follows SF Chronicle's reporting on Swalwell with their own exclusive:

A very astute (and upsetting!) piece that touches on four scary cultural trends: 1) The demand for spelled-out moral clarity in stories 2) A growing inability to understand different types of narratives 3) The "customer's always right" version of fandom 4) The growth of fandom as a social identity.

As far as I know there is literally no reason for this, it is just an incredibly lucky coincidence that we get to enjoy for free