Witness the mesmerizing murmuration of starlings in Italy, a stunning display of nature's coordination and beauty as they dance through the sky in unison.

Going back 2000 years really brings our current warming into perspective. Carbon pollution is remaking our climate. Thanks @edhawkins.org for the great visual.

Trust me, disabled people feel this hostility acutely.

I thought this point Eric made about how libraries are early introductions to a social contract was really interesting, too:

Watch Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota | Netflix Leveraging his ability to withstand pain, a young man trains to follow in the footsteps of his martial-arts hero in this high-action, meta comedy.

Uh oh - MARD KO DARD NAHI HOTA is leaving Netflix on May 22. If you haven't seen it, make this one a priority: www.netflix.com/title/81057229 #DesiWatch

Matt Damon playing a 14th century French knight that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mullet. Beard. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and cigarette smoke.

Matt Damon while playing Odysseus who also looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Long, skinny beard. Smells like horseshit, pine tar, and perhaps Mediterranean herbs.

Matt Damon playing a 19th century cowboy that looks like a third baseman for the Phillies. Mustache. Shaggy hair. Smells like horse shit, pine tar, and definitely chewing tobacco.

Every time Matt Damon takes on a period role he ends up looking like a third baseman for the Phillies.

I feel like Sun Tzu really missed out on "Invent Pete Hegseth and give him to the enemy"

flipping through a proof of yet another book from a somewhat well known liberal voice diagnosing “where the left went wrong” and i’m struck, again, by the fact that a large part (if not most) of the liberal commentariat simply does not believe that the political right has agency.

Gov. Pritzker bans state workers from using insider information on prediction market apps like Kalshi

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on Tuesday signed an executive order barring state employees from using insider information to bet on prediction market apps, joining six other states that have moved to either restrict or regulate the burgeoning betting field.

“I used AI to combine the data from two excel lists and then send emails to people who were on one list but not another. Saved me so much time.”

My brother in academia, you just fucking discovered mail merge. Welcome to early nineties computing.

I think you could also call this "class solidarity."

Media, universities, corporations see fascism or antifascism as secondary to protecting the power and reputation of their own industries/sectors/classes.

everyone with real American manliness and a basic knowledge of military history knows that serious war efforts have never been derailed by such trifling matters as "communicable diseases"

Air Canada will suspend flights to JFK for nearly 5 months as jet fuel costs soar Air Canada will suspend service to New York’s JFK International airport over the summer, the latest move in an industry struggling with high fuel costs and falling supplies.

2/ kiss any summer plane travel plans good bye
Everyone's out of jet fuel just before peak travel season...

"Air Canada will suspend service to New York’s JFK International airport over the summer as war in Iran creates jet fuel shortages that have sent prices soaring"
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"the strait of hormuz is open"
"the strait of hormuz is closed"
"wait they're opening it again"
"the strait of hormuz is actually closed this time"

europeans having no idea just enjoying the weekend:
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Data Center Policy in Practice Training Series

Data Center Policy in Practice Training Series - starts this week.
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Watched MASTHISKA MARANAM (2026) the 7️⃣1️⃣6️⃣th film I've seen with an exploding helicopter.
🚁💥📽️
A rare example of a virtual reality chopper fireball.

Write the easiest bit first

I would love it if those of you who do not have library cards will apply for one at your local branch during #NationalLibraryWeek. Then let me know about it. 😇

The fascists aren't actually having fun. I said this in Feb 2025 and it still holds.

There's a very good essay to be written about the profound emptiness of *winning* when your project itself is joyless and cruel.

You look at Elon Musk's actual life and no amount of money would entice me to trade for that life. He is miserable and carries that misery around with him. That misery has taken over all aspects of his being. All that money and yet so so miserable.

I would sell my soul for a cell phone carrier to bring this back.

i finally wore these in public today and let’s just say the people crave headless aristocrats

We won.

Tesla Chicago is closed.

Their new location is in a ghost town. They sacrificed visibility to thousands/day--& proximity to the other luxury car dealerships--to get away from us, because we'd turned their brand ambassador location into a liability.

Organizing works.
@teslatakedown.com

Tim Curry in The Rocky Horror Picture Show

Tim Curry in Clue

Tim Curry in The Three Musketeers

Tim Curry in Muppet Treasure Island

Happy 80th birthday to Tim Curry who has always, *always* understood the assignment.

I hate that my first response to this is how pissed I am that I work at a #hospital that banned medically necessary #genderaffirming care (against state law, btw, Elliott-Larsen)

I'll give you one #hospital system that never complied in advance:
The University of #Minnesota Children's

"The Night Feeling" - my oil painting

Someone made a time machine just to travel back to the '70s to find Dona Sebastiana.

ALT:

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Our Clean Air for Healthy Equitable Schools bill (HB4739) PASSED THE IL HOUSE TODAY!

This bill (which provides air quality monitors to IL classrooms) now heads to the Senate!

Big thanks to Leader Camille Lilly, as well as Rep Faver Dias & Rep Hanson.