Vibrant street art in Limerick, Ireland. A standard street bollard is painted as a bright blue octopus head, with its tentacles sprawled playfully across the pavement for a local scavenger hunt.
🐙 Painted Octopus — By Lumen Street Theatre in Limerick 🇮🇪 This Is Clever (14 Photos): streetartutopia.com/2026/04/17/c...
This was a nice "advertisement/art piece" on MARTA this morning.
Considering these services remained operational throughout the last shutdown, this is a very obvious, heavy handed and misguided attempt to shape public opinion.
Uncle Sam with an american hat in stars and stripes holds a box labelled "US Govt. Control of Internet Speech" and the other guy in a suit, labelled corporate media asks "how do you want this wrapped?". On the wall there are two gift wraps, one with the US flag labelled "Anti-Terrorism" and the other with animals and flowers labelled "Protect Kids".
It was never about the children... See this really old pic:
Seen in Los Angeles
(Credit: Zurita Carpio)
Celebrating B.J.’s bday, this was one of the best dining experiences I’ve had. I’m a vegetarian and sometimes substitutions are kind of sad compared to the main menu, but their accommodations were very good, and the service was excellent. Recommend if you are in Maui celebrating nylosmaui.com
Celebrating B.J.’s bday, this was one of the best dining experiences I’ve had. I’m a vegetarian and sometimes substitutions are kind of sad compared to the main menu, but their accommodations were very good, and the service was excellent. Recommend if you are in Maui celebrating nylosmaui.com
I’m glad he’s proposing some money to address homelessness, but I think problem is much bigger than $50 million www.ajc.com/politics/202...
Bugs and Daffy in the Backrooms. youtu.be/qYsNXCQ0170?...
One thing this invasion of Venezuela is gonna do is persuade countries like, oh, Indonesia, Vietnam, Brazil, and Argentina that they could need nukes after all. Iran will work harder. Egypt and KSA may well, too. And what about Canada and Mexico? Easy for the one; maybe harder for the other. Maybe.
The Screamers - a late 70s queer punk band from California that I never heard of before today. They never released an album while they were still together.
I’m enjoying checking them out, though youtu.be/wG-OMjz9g8w?...
Just caught this local news piece from 50 years ago on gay life in 1976 San Francisco. Great time capsule
youtu.be/r73bZi3zWV8?...
Montage of creative works entering the public domain in the US in 2026.
When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like:
💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon
🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels
🚂 The Little Engine That Could
🎩 Morocco
🍑 Georgia on My Mind
and many more!
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Ed Emswhiller’s Christmas cover art for Galaxy Science Fiction, December 1960.
Sigourney Weaver Text: THERE IS NO XMAS ONLY YULE
ONLY YULE
I began watching Doctor Who in the “new” era. I only started watching “classic Who” recently (since episodes have been posted on YouTube). We just watched “Trial of a Timelord.” Wow - The Valeyard is such a good character. Would like to see him come back tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Val...
Bluesky now requires age-verification in Mississippi, even though X does not.
So Mississippians can still access X anonymously, but htey have to submit paperwork to read Bluesky. Guess which site doesn't think they'll get prosecuted in Mississippi.
Asymmetrical enforcement threats are censorship.
I also think letting Paramount or any other competitor purchase WB US a bad idea. Lack of competition is bad for consumers… and ultimately bad for democracy.
This merger is bad news for anyone who cares about a healthy and independent media ecosystem. I hope it’s blocked by regulators.
Great overview of queer people’s relationship to Oz over the last century.
The Oz books were really important to me when I was a kid. They showed an escape into an interesting fantasy world at a time when I needed to imagine something better.
🕺I only came here to dance 🕺
Let's be clear: Trump's attacks on "antifa" are an attack on America. www.theverge.com/policy/79051...
A law requiring UK internet users to verify their age to access adult content has led to a huge surge in VPN downloads—and has experts worried about the future of free expression online. www.wired.com/story/vpn-us...
The Christian right is absolutely giddy connecting the decisions in Free Speech Coalition v Paxton and Mahmoud v Taylor as both protecting minors for "sexual material."
They plan to merge the two in legal doctrine, branding LGBTQ+ content as "pornography" — and thus subject to restriction online.
"It’s easy to imagine LGBTQ resources or sex education sites becoming targets despite having the exact kind of social value the law is supposed to exempt... The question 'What is porn?' is going to have a tremendous impact on the internet."
We found people in serious relationships with AI partners and planned a weekend getaway for them at a remote Airbnb, hoping to find out what it's really and truly like to be in a serious relationship with an AI partner.
Read the full story: www.wired.com/story/couple...
These two psychos have access to all your personal data, by the way.
I recently found out a podcast I recorded a few months ago is live, and it dives into a lot of what I have been focused on as Mayor of Doraville. It was a great discussion that hit on many of my key priorities.
