a hyperrealistic, scale sculpture of a small radio made from white paper, deconstructed to show its inner parts
Using nothing but paper, artist Manabu Kosaka makes scale replicas of cameras, watches, gaming consoles, shoes, food, and more with a preternatural attention to detail.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/04/mana...
H.R. 1897 is moving fast in the House and could hit the floor for a full vote as soon as tomorrow. This bill would gut the Endangered Species Act forcing economic impact considerations into listing decisions, limiting your ability to challenge bad science in court,
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Russia is turning Crimea’s coastline into a minefield.
Not symbolic. Systematic.
Hundreds to thousands of anti-tank and anti-personnel mines.
Beaches. Coastal waters. Everything layered.
This is not confidence.
...It’s fear of a Ukrainian landing.
war.obozrevatel.com/ukr/okupanti...
🙌🏾 denying the reality of how many think in this country regardless of political party, will not fix this mess.
Trump refunds
”We’re gonna win so much” has quietly pivoted to “we’re gonna spin so much.”
“Farage rarely turns up to do his actual job. Yet he finds time to jet off around the world on his donor’s private plane and trouser half a million quid while families struggle. Reform are not on your side. They’re just in it for themselves”
It’s so obvious, it hurts.
www.desmog.com/2026/04/18/n...
When you learned about the Iran hostage crisis, did they teach you this part?
In November 1979, during the crisis, Black hostages and women were released first.
Ruhollah Khomeini said they were oppressed in the United States and not part of the power structure, so they weren’t seen as spies.
Lots more examples can be found. (Post any u find in my replies)
I've had a quick look and it seems some accounts originate in Sri Lanka, which tallies with this investigation by @meriemm.bsky.social @niamhmcintyre.bsky.social & @mpsellman.bsky.social
www.thebureauinvestigates.com/stories/2025...
Florida men must feel devasted
For those who missed it: this was the moment The Strokes ensured they’ll never be invited back to Coachella again! I'm so proud of them
If you could ♻️, I’d really appreciate it 💜
Looking for streamers 🔴:
• neurodivergent / bipolar
• safe-space vibes
• gaming (Nintendo, Pokémon, cozy = bonus)
I stream full-time so I don’t have much time to be in streams. Recently switched to English, so looking for people to raid & network with 🙏
Put yourself in shoes of someone in a oil & gas importing country
Its triage: which hospitals get fuel, which industries shut, which crops get fertilizers?
Those who don't have deep pockets in a bidding war pay in hunger, lost wages & shrinking economies #theydidthis
tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWesleyan
They have so many alcoholics in the Trump Administration, we should call his cabinet the Liquor Cabinet.
Because this makes sense, it will probably never happen, but just once, if they lifted the cap, it would make the system work as it was designed. Can you imagine how much life could change for people who rely solely on Social Security to get by?
two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management
The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.
The EPA is forcing 124 of its scientists and researchers to accept reassignments and 35 of them are being told to pack up and move to a new city if they want to keep their jobs.
In accordance with the most common homeopathic dilution, 60X/30C, the Awareness Week took place for a total of 6x10^-55 seconds.
Your voice matters more than you think.
Call your members of Congress right now at 202-224-3121 and tell them exactly what you need. It takes 2 minutes. Do it today. 📞
Then share this with every woman in your circle. The more voices, the louder we get. Tag a friend who needs to make this call too.
That sentence and conclusion is neat, so versatile:
“Why isn’t there a *school* that is exactly aligned with me on every issue?”
“Why isn’t there a *gym* that is exactly aligned with me on every issue?”
“Why isn’t there a *news outlet* that is exactly aligned with me on every issue?”
True stories.
Screenshot of Mendeley with a PDF of Mark Warren's paper, "What is Political". Abstract below: Our conceptions of politics ought to: (a) help clarify our normative interests in politics; (b) encompass everyday understandings of politics; and (c) define the domain of politics in ways that serve explanation. Events in the last couple of decades - from the rise of new social movements to the end to the Berlin Wall - have combined with shifts in the culture of expectations within political science to overtake most of our received definitions in these respects. I offer a conception of politics that focuses on the intersection of power and conflict, and argue that such a conception is more in accord with our political world today than are most common conceptions, especially in light of new concerns with democracy and democratization. Finally, I show how this conception illuminates our contemporary understandings of democracy.
As a political scientist, I often return to the very definition of "what is political?" Dr. Mark Warren's 1999 article in the Journal of Theoretical Politics offers a simple definition (the intersection of power and conflict) I find super powerful.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Alphabet, Meta, and Amazon all have headquarters in Seattle. This year the Seattle School District has an 80 million dollar shortfall.
Separation of church and state anyone??
USDA secretary’s ‘He is Risen’ Easter email unnerves some staff members
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
I feel like the Christian stuff has been increasing lately, I wonder if it's like a 'religious freedom' tactic for when the inevitable post-Trump prosecutions get rolling 😅
You've found the start of another daily thread and Friday is Day 1507 of Ukraine's heroic struggle to keep alive its independent statehood.
Since Bohdan Khmelnytskyi's uprising in 1648, Ukraine has never had 35 years of freedom. It's about to accomplish that, but at what cost?
hey i’m being real fucking serious right now
call your reps. this is insane. he already had thousands of jobs removed from the us fish and wildlife service. dismantling the us forest service will have a devastating impact on habitat protections.
im too mad for words.
NEW: A federal judge has ordered the DOJ to hand over all it's evidence in the murder of Renee Nicole Good in the next 3 weeks. www.advocate.com/politics/nat...
Word on the street is Joe and Eileen Bailey packed up and left Long Island and traded in suburbia for Emily Gregory controlled District 87, Mar-a-Lago's backyard in Palm Beach County.
