The FBI Director Is MIA Kash Patel has alarmed colleagues with episodes of excessive drinking and unexplained absences.

www.theatlantic.com/politics/202...

Autism: Awareness, or acceptance? Views from Medium writers on April’s Autism theme (Issue #425)

When my daughter was diagnosed, at the end of 8th grade, it was such a relief. We didn't know much about autism, but we knew it wasn't something that needed to be fixed ... rather her environment needed to be adapted.

I was also lucky enough to stumble upon a book by Dr Luke Beardon at the time.

Angine de Poitrine - Full Performance (Live on KEXP) YouTube video by KEXP

Sorry but Angine de Poitrine has changed my brain patterns.

Forever

youtu.be/0Ssi-9wS1so?...

you know you've been computering for too long when you can recognise what this is

Democrat Analilia Mejia wins special House election • New Jersey Monitor Analilia Mejia will succeed fellow Democrat Gov. Mikie Sherrill as the 11th Congressional District’s House rep.

As someone who grew up in this district, it's so amazing to have seen Sherrill replace Frelinghuysen when he got on the Trump train and then Mejia replace Sherrill when Sherrill moved to Drumthwacket.

Former UN Ambassador Rice:
"The U.S. is systematically weakening itself across all 5 pillars of global power—

Military: increased spending without modernization, depleted weapons stockpiles, politicized purges of experienced officers/generals, weakened legal/military norms, and a costly Iran 🇮🇷 1/7

I also bumped into plenty of folks from the roller derby community.

Scoreboard from Prudential Center in Newark, NJ. WIN is shown in large block letters, underneath it shows Toronto Sceptres 2 to NY Sirens 3.

The NY Sirens huddled on the ice after their win.

Went to see the last regular home game for the NY Sirens, against the Toronto Sceptres. It was a very physical game with a great 3rd period.

#NYSirens #PWHL

I am intrigued by your ideas and wish to subscribe to your mailing list ...

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Three panel comic. Panel 1: at a house party, a guy is standing next to his buddy, a human-size horseshoe crab. They’re both holding red solo cups. The guy is looking to the other side of the room and excitedly says to the crab, “hey, there’s another horseshoe crab here!” The crab replies, “ugh.” Panel 2: the guy says, “what’s wrong?” The crab says, “he’s one of those guys who flaunts it too much.” Panel 3: we see the other horseshoe crab in question, engaged in conversation with a group of smiling people standing around him. This second horseshoe crab is wearing a cap with a horseshoe on it, and a novelty t-shirt that reads: I SURVIVED 5 MASS EXTINCTIONS. IS IT FRIDAY YET?

A new printing of the zine What You Agents are Doing in Your Hotels, and piles of the pages waiting to be collated and assembled. From the back cover: Most of this text was written while staying at a hotel near the Milwaukee airport for a two-night self-initiated artist residency in late January 2026. In the days and weeks leading up to this residency, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents murdered two people in Minneapolis (Renée Good and Alex Pretti) and there was online speculation that agents might go to Milwaukee next. A rumor started that ICE booked a hundred rooms at the Hilton in downtown Milwaukee but this turned out to be untrue. I stayed at a different chain, about five miles south of that hotel. Still, I thought about what CBP and ICE and DHS might do in their hotel rooms after a long hard day of being violent pieces of shit in different cities. I explored the hotel I was staying in from various angles, noting signs and policies and details. I put myself in the place of the agents. From the comfort of my room and my [No] King(s) size bed, I worked on this text, imagining life as a CBP agent, staying in the same hotel as me in the middle of the week. When I got stuck writing, I posted a prompt to followers on Bluesky and they collectively generated many more short answers, which I have mixed with my own writing, edited, and shaped into this publication. This booklet is a follow-up to Who Shares the Restroom Code with ICE Agents? which is Public Collectors publication 97. That was first printed in June 2025. Like with that booklet, I’ve hand date-stamped the covers of this publication so that each printing can be a record that we are still living with these Federal agencies and their violence. — Marc Fischer / Public Collectors

Back in print with a new cover! "What You Agents are Doing in Your Hotels" by Public Collectors. Just 100 copies in the webstore (the rest will be sold at fairs). This collectively-written booklet imagines the lives of ICE agents after hours in their hotels. halfletterpress.com/what-you-age...

As Michael Cohen so aptly characterizes them " the trifecta of incompetence". Rather than send trained diplomats to try and negotiate a deal with Iran they sent these clowns and of course they met with failure.

France starts moving government systems from Windows to Linux Linuxiac reports that France's Inter-ministerial Digital Directorate (DINUM) has revealed a roadmap for shifting the country's government systems away from non-European software. This includes switchi...

France starts moving government systems from Windows to Linux
France is ditching US software for homegrown alternatives of Google Docs, Microsoft Office, Zoom, and Telegram

Libre Office is very good.

www.techspot.com/news/112032-...

“We want to destroy the humanities as a field, we only want people working vocations, we don’t want you thinking, speaking, writing for yourself.”

Is, once again, a Saturday morning cartoon villain’s plot.

A large infographic showing the colonial owners of various world countries

Interesting map of historical colonial rule

dr.eamer.dev/viewer/static/BhVUYQp.html

I just finished this yesterday, and I loved every page of it. As usual, @tkingfisher.com 's characters had me invested from page one.

NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, commander; left, Christina Koch, mission specialist; CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, mission specialist; and NASA astronaut Victor Glover, Artemis II pilot, right, pose for a group photo after viewing the Orion spacecraft in the well deck of USS John P. Murtha, Saturday, April 11, 2026, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California.

Artemis II, both crew and capsule, all home and fully aboard.

Grayscale image of the capsule under the parachutes, which look silvery. The capsule is glowing brilliantly along the bottom where the heat shield took the brunt of the atmospheric beating.

Love this shot. I think this is a thermal infrared camera, showing how the bottom of the capsule is still glowing due to its warmth after hypersonically ramming the atmosphere — compressing a gas heats it up a LOT when you're moving at superorbital speeds.

#ArtemisII

The capsule splashing down onto the water with the three red and white parachutes above it

Splashdown! Vehicle is stable and upright. “A perfect bulls-eye splash for Integrity and its four astronauts!” #Artemis

Elena Wuest (German, b.1977)
"An Afternoon Tea II," 2026
Oil on canvas
110 x 110 cm

#art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

This is excellent scientific journalism. It's clear, it's concise, it describes the technical issues in an accessible way, and it discusses the disagreements objectively.

New Deadline Looms for U.S. and Iran as Truce Wavers

What's the liklihood of Vance commenting on the Iranian delegation not wearing ties when they meet?

A screenshot of a spectrogram image of a bird call, identified with a labeled image of an Osprey.

Got a good one in the Merlin app.

Yesterday, the crew of the ISS called the crew of #Artemis2 and had a short conversation in between their busy schedules of research and documentation (I promise, to a scientist, that's more fun than it sounds!)

This was the first ship-to-ship communications ever to take place in space. #NASA

If they were tricked, it was into believing the administration would only hurt "the other".

Ok, now do the bass clef.

The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), by Hieronymus Bosch, 1480-1505, 📸 by @alexbrandon

Christina Koch’s facial profile backlit by Earth in the background, through the spacecraft window

So, to sum up, a couple of days ago Christina Koch became the first woman to see Earth in its entirety, and today – right now, in fact – she is the first woman to see the Moon up close, and the first woman to see the far side. 🥹