Drawing of a book with a desk printer on the cover with the title "The printer that simply worked and other fairy tales"

Painting of a painter creating a painting of figures moving furniture on a car roof

Benny Andrews, "Self-Portrait Doing the Migrant Series," 2004

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

April is #StressAwarenessMonth. It is a proven fact that #birding can improve #MentalHealth by lowering blood pressure, heart rate, and stress hormones. 😊 Photo: Snowy Egret in Arcata, CA

Same. I keep pushing this. We need this to be a huge success.

Step it up. #MayDay

Poster with pink background. Text in diverse fonts reads Love LA Like You Hate Ice (last word is in middle of dagger handle that says Los Angeles, and a blade.

On window of tattoo shop in #losangeles Chinatown. Fonts signifying hard against #ICE

Can these SCOTUS memos be used in future court cases about the abuse of executive power?

Trump, IRS In Talks To Settle U.S. President's $10 Billion Lawsuit Trump's adult sons, Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump, and the Trump Organization are also plaintiffs.

Trump is reported close to a "deal" with himself under which US taxpayers would pay him $10 billion.

I served in multiple communist and authoritarian dictatorships, but I never witnessed corruption on this scale or this blatant.

A digital illustration of a fat cat, done in yellow, cream, vermilion and forest green. The cat is stretching to try grab some treats, with the treat box being stuck around its waist.

failing is hot girl behaviour 🫵🏻💥

Hey how about dem screenwriters Defying our expectations

Poem - 'The New Poetry Handbook' by Mark Strand

I love the argument & counter argument in this Ars Poetica, and there's a delicious ambiguity in some of the statements too

There's philosophical depth to some & laugh out loud to others

But honestly, I would share this poem every day for stanza 10 alone

#Poetry
#Poemoftheday
#Nationalpoetrymonth

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces.

Equals 10 nuclear reactors
Reduces heat island, shades cars

The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight.

Why aren't we doing this?

Same thing happened in the Flint GM factories in the 1930s. Autoworkers sometimes had to step over corpses to get their jobs done.

I haven't been this enthusiastic about a candidate in a long time! A young supporter created a fact sheet yesterday (and she fact-checked it)! #BecerraForGovernor

The wee tufts of feathers on their teeny tiny heads 🥹

Democrats needs to be heading to DC tonight and gather in Congress to move for impeachment even if Congress led by Republican bootlickers is “on recess.”

Schumer/Jeffries should be issuing calls for Dems to get back in DC now while have their leadership staffers prep impeachment resolutions now.

B&W photo of Eleanor near Chazy Lake, dressed in shirt, tie, cardigan and dark pants, aiming her pistol.

Eleanor Roosevelt in 1934 practicing with her pistol, a gift from her bodyguard Earl Miller.

What Nobody’s Telling Querying Writers About What’s Happening to Publishing Right Now I’ve started this post four times.

Thanks, @vickyweberbooks.bsky.social for this honest look at the industry.
#kidlit #writingcommunity #amquerying

open.substack.com/pub/vickyweb...

Reid Wiseman @astro_reid There are no words. NASA X.com [photo of the astronaut’s profile against the backdrop of a glowing blue Earth]

There are no words.

NYT front page. No headline. minimally evocative photos. no text reporting the events. Below photos a Headline "will primal scream of "no kings" echo in the voting booths" front opinion piece by Jeremy Peters.

Front page of LATimes across top of the entire front page. Powerful headline "millions protest at "no kings rallies in US" in LA and 3,000 other sites crowds criticize Trump, ICE, war and affordability" multiple authors and text describing events.

@nytimes.com leadership continues to minimize democracy under siege while also failing to cover the significance & size of the essential pro-democracy movement. This is typified by their poor coverage of #NoKings

8+millions Americans in the streets fight for democracy:
Contrast NYT vs. LA Times
1/n

Marc Chagall, Frontispiece from The Seven Deadly Sins (Les Sept péchés capitaux), 1925, published 1926 #museumarchive #marcchagall

Sen. Daniel Inouye on Iran-Contra in 1987: "without our principles and without our ideals we have little that is special or worthy to defend."

Photocollage constructed of repeated & mirrored images of NYC skyscrapers

Thurman Rotan, Skyscrapers, 1932 www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...

Sure sounds like somebody at DOGE took the Social Security numbers and personal information of every American on record, and put it on a thumb drive to bring home to Elon Musk’s AI company.

Fantagraphics to Publish R. E. Burke's 'Visiting America: 19 Days in an I.C.E. Facility' - Former BF Team Member's Graphic Memoir to Explore Her Story and Those She Was Incarcerated With – Broken Fron... News came in just before the weekend that Fantagraphics are to publish R. E. Burke's 'Visiting America: 19 Days in an I.C.E. Facility'.

Fantagraphics @fantagraphics.bsky.social to Publish R. E. Burke’s ‘Visiting America: 19 Days in an I.C.E. Facility’ – Former BF Team Member’s Graphic Memoir to Explore Her Story and Those She Was Incarcerated With.
www.brokenfrontier.com/fantagraphic...

After the apocalypse they’ll have their own little Mad Max Fury Road

Videos like this are utterly cathartic.

I want EVERY Dem to throw away decorum and politeness and start YELLING the truth, like Rep. McGovern.

Don’t get me started about passive voice in U.S. history books for kids