Screenshot from Mastodon, white text on black background: Erik Uden @ErikUden@mastodon.de Once libraries are nonexistent any modern fascist movement wouldn't even have to burn books, but flick one switch and they'd be remotely deleted from your Amazon Kindle or similar digital "library". Capitalists are already building the infrastructure to do this through DRM, so stop believing tech is apolitical - the defunding of libraries and paywalling of information are all part of this.

A reminder during #NationalLibraryWeek, libraries are our best and last defense against the fascist monopoly on knowledge and information

Artemis spacesuit development risks further delays New spacesuits for Artemis lunar missions and the International Space Station may not be ready until after the end of the decade, a report by NASA’s inspector general warns.

Artemis spacesuit development risks further delays

New spacesuits for Artemis lunar missions and the International Space Station may not be ready until after the end of the decade, a report by NASA’s inspector general warns.

A painting depicts the death of former general Sir Isaac Brock at the Battle of Queenston Heights during the War of 1812.

Who was Sir Isaac Brock, and why does Carney have his statuette in the Prime Minister's Office?

Prime Minister Mark Carney stunned some Canadian historians over the weekend when he released a pointed video message about the U.S. featuring a War of 1...

#cbc #cbc-canada-news #Canada

3-panel comic. (1) (A person with a picture of a spacecraft behind head.] PERSON 1: There are now three spacecraft headed to Europe: NASA’s *Europa Clipper*, which will investigate Europa’s subsurface ocean, (2) [Person is gesturing at a picture of a different spacecraft while talking to a person with a ponytail and a person with short hair.] PERSON 1: ESA’s *Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer*, which will study the topography and chemistry of Europa and the other moons, (3) [Person with a picture behind head of a Zamboni with a rocket launcher underneath] and the NHL’s *Zamboni Voyager*, which plans to resurface Europa. PERSON FROM OFF-PANEL: Oh no. PERSON 1: We tried to stop them, but the league is set on an expansion.

Europa Missions

xkcd.com/3234/

Americans have always moved away. These days, Lindsey Tramuta writes record numbers are leaving in search of health care, civil rights, freedoms, even safety. Does exiting the U.S. mean you’ve given up? Not necessarily. Originally published in Issue 13, now here: bittersoutherner.com/issue-no-13/...

What if All the -Stans United?

More about the plan: brilliantmaps.com/united-st...

Friday pump meet Monday dump.

Rinse, repeat.

Comic. [Person and person with white hat facing two boxes stacked with $80 price tag and sale tag on each box.] PERSON 1: They want $80 for this? I could make one myself for $10 in parts, an hour of work, a trip to the hardware store, another $30 in parts, another few hours of work, two more trips to the store for $20 more in parts, another hour of work to redo the first hour of work because I messed up, and $80 to buy this when the one I made breaks.

Make It Myself

xkcd.com/3233/

Oil Prices Plummet In Big Fuck-You To Americans Who Got Gas Yesterday WASHINGTON—In what is being characterized as a massive middle finger to millions of furious motorists, oil prices plummeted Friday, delivering a big fuck-you to all the Americans who gassed up their v...

“Nobody was hit harder than the suckers who filled their tanks mere hours before the ceasefire between Israel and Lebanon caused the price of a barrel of crude to plunge 10%,” said Georgetown University economics professor Elizabeth Murphy

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe... Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion... I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain... Time to die.

Also, hoping the lady who says Obama is guilty of treason, the guy who thinks Trump is Jesus, the lady sleeping with her security detail and who drinks on the job, and the guy who harvests raccoon penises will vote the president mentally unfit for office doesn't seem like the soundest strategy.

Colorado AG Phil Weiser (D) reacts to today's decision by a federal judge pausing the acquisition of TEGNA (9NEWS) by Nexstar (FOX31). Weiser and other Democratic attorneys general sued to stop the deal on anti-monopoly grounds.

Judge halts local TV giant Nexstar's takeover of rival Tegna until trial U.S. Judge Trevor Nunley ruled that consumers could suffer irreparable harm if Nexstar integrated Tegna's stations into its own operations ahead of an antitrust trial.

U.S. Judge Trevor Nunley ruled that consumers could suffer irreparable harm if Nexstar integrated Tegna's stations into its own operations ahead of an antitrust trial. n.pr/3QcTl8B

Brutal Economy Fulfills Mom’s Dream Of Having All Her Kids Back Home DULUTH, MN—Overjoyed to have a full house for the first time since everyone went off to college, local mother Leslie Daniels confirmed Thursday it was a dream come true to have all her children back h...

“I’m so glad to have all my kiddos under the same roof again—it’s just so nice it worked out this way!” Leslie Daniels said as she cheerfully stirred a big batch of chili for her three adult children

This is an important point to remember every time some yahoo politician who wants to defund the NSF reads the title of a grant in dumbstruck tones: "They're studying the venom of Gila monsters? What? Who's *that* for?"

All of us, Gomer. It's how science actually works.

I recommend anyone looking for a good blogging alternative to check out @leaflet.pub and @pckt.blog.

They use the same protocol as Bluesky so you can sign in with your account there.

Since they're fully open, you can publish to one and it'll show on the other.

A split bar chart of YouGov polling data with the headline: "Americans are most likely to say T. Rex is their favorite dinosaur, but many don't have a favorite." The chart has the sub-headline: "Which of the following is your favorite dinosaur? (%)." The chart has the note: "Note: "Other" includes responses of archaeopteryx, spinosaurus, plesiosaur, ankylosaurus, allosaurus, parasaurolophus, dilophosaurus, diplodocus, iguanadon, and pachycephalosaurus, as well as responses of "other." We know pterodactyls and plesiosaurs aren't dinosaurs. Opinion about dinosaurs comes from the question, "How much do you like or dislike dinosaurs?""

A shocking new poll result: Many Americans somehow don't have a favorite dinosaur.

And only 6% give the correct answer (triceratops).

Check out YouGov's new polling on Americans and dinosaurs: yougovamerica.substack.com/p/whats-your...

I kept this part of the thread, i didn't mean to upset my wife any more or for it to get so much notice, but I'm glad people know now how it can happen. When she wants to let other people know more I'll let you know more.

Waking up Canadian YouTube video by dtyua

Me today after seeing online that my Canadian citizenship by descent had been approved & proof of citizenship certificate mailed on Friday! Thank you 🇨🇦 & my great-great grandmother Susan Amelia Archibald (born Nova Scotia 1869).

youtu.be/rlZnhZscw90?...

From EARTHSEED: THE BOOKS OF THE LIVING Choose your leaders with wisdom and forethought. To be led by a coward is to be controlled by all that the coward fears. To be led by a fool is to be led by the opportunists who control the fool. To be led by a thief is to offer up your most precious treasures to be stolen. To be led by a liar is to ask to be told lies. To be led by a tyrant is to sell yourself and those you love into slavery.

Octavia E. Butler, 1998:

He ran out of Amendments to violate so he's moved on to Commandments

If Republicans end up disowning Trump over this image, it’s not because he’s portraying himself as the Messiah. It’s because he’s giving away free healthcare.

Lessons that all Americans should contemplate about the road ahead for Hungary and for us

Hungary admits it voted out Orbán just to see look on JD Vance's face BUDAPEST ― The Central European nation of Hungary celebrated the victory of Péter Magyar today, and specifically, the accompanying incredibly silly scowl it put on JD Vance’s already perpetually-silly...

Hungary admits it voted out Orbán just to see look on JD Vance’s face

Meme about 1969 being in a war, going to the moon and the president being a crook.

France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech | TechCrunch France's move to ditch Windows for Linux is its latest effort to reduce its reliance on American tech giants.

"France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech" #digitalsovereignty techcrunch.com/2026/04/10/f...

Watching space missions live coverage there are two phrases that still cause me to stop breathing for a moment: “…go for throttle up” and “…comm check.”

IMPORTANT ARTEMIS II HOT SAUCE UPDATE

Thanks to Carlie Kollath Wells’ reporting out of Axios New Orleans (which I confirmed via email since there are two versions of the article out) ….

WE HAVE OUR LIST.

It’s these 4 pictured, plus Heinz Hot Taco Sauce!

www.axios.com/local/new-or...

*talking to teenage militant atheist self*

current me: okay so there’s a big fight between the government and the catholic church

teenage me: got it, so we’re obviously on the side of the government

current me: I, uh, you might want to sit down for this one