four panel cartoon by Jon Bailey 1) East Berlin 1971, kitchen. A woman preparing food says "Alexei, play Tchaikovsky". 2) close-up of a blue telephone behind her on a table showing there is microphone taped under a table in the same kitchen, next to a speaker 3) a man in a grey uniform wearing headphones sits in front of a record player and selects a record from the shelf above. 4) back to original woman in kitchen preparing food, now listening to music coming from the speaker under the table and smiling @jbaileyofficial @jbaileycartoons https://x.com/jbaileyofficial/status/1233356763598139394

Alexei ❤️

We’ve repeated a warning for a long time: “Eventually, the monster will come for us all.” We’ve said it to each other as Trump and his administration have continued targeting anyone they view as part of the resistance, attempting to silence and eliminate opposition,

Nick Offerman explains how America's farms are feeding corporations more than people

bet it feels good as fuck to be a fungus using enzymes to break down detritus in order to absorb the nutrients

Your daily reminder that the fossil fuel industry is propped up by billions of dollars in U.S. government subsidies and a multimillion dollar campaign to spread climate disinformation. 💵

Calling Foul: Breaking Down WNBA Pay and Why It Matters Breaking Down WNBA Pay for Women Athletes and Why It Matters: a case study in systemic undervaluing of women’s work

For @msmagazine.com, I wrote about the WNBA and the issue of pay equity. By the time the WNBA was only two seasons in (1999-2000) the average NBA salary was 58 times higher than the average WNBA salary. Twenty-six years later, the gap has jumped to 116 times higher.

A map showing a town called Deer Park next to a town called Kildeer

Easy choice if you're a deer deciding where to buy a house

A calico kitten with polydactyl feet.

No longer #caturday but I thought BlueSky would like to see Sadie as a kitten. She is polydactyl and her feet were huge as a kitten. 💖

This picture says everything about the state of our nation right now, peaceful clergy being arrested and forced face-down on the pavement.

One third of the country supported the January 6 2021 attempted take over the government & are the same ones who voted him back in. They are traitors in my book.

If you call yourself a follower of Jesus Christ but support the pepper-spraying and arresting ministers, then thou art staggeringly full of crap.

The House is set to vote Tuesday on forcing the release of the Epstein files.

The Historical Situation Room. JFK-created in 1961 to handle “The Cuban Missile Crisis’. Obama-used in the operation of getting Osama Bin Ladin in 2011. Trump- How can we keep my involvement in Epstein’s sex trafficking files hidden 2025.

I just don’t see how we can pretend even for a moment that anything involving our federal government is remotely normal when the president is covering up his involvement in a child sex trafficking ring. Like, what are we doing here

@christopherweyant1.bsky.social

Why aliens are (probably) too lazy to make first contact | BBC Science Focus Magazine Space is big. Why not kick back, relax, and wait for them to come to you?

The Fermi paradox asks why we've yet to find evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life. The odds are we should!

A NASA scientist suggests that "alien societies might plateau at modest technological levels and even grow bored with exploration."

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Life pro tip: a role of butcher paper is a great cat toy. It will last a long time, as this is just a small fraction of it. #FosterKittens

YouTube video by Reuters Iceland on alert amid Atlantic Ocean current's possible collapse | REUTERS

"The science is evolving quite rapidly and time is running out to do anything about it because the tipping point may well be quite close," says PIK's @rahmstorf.bsky.social in this piece on Iceland declaring the potential collapse of #AMOC a national security risk. 👇
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Dear Americans,

THOU SHALT RELEASE THE EPSTEIN FILES! The victims deserve justice!!!

God

Golden aisle
#scape #forestfriday #japanesegardens #gibbsgarden #eastcoastkin #autumn #fall

As @rbreich.bsky.social notes billionaires and their families own X, Paramount, CBS, Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, the Washington Post, Amazon, MGM, Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and New York Post, and could soon own Warner Bros and CNN

And they are all Trump supporters

"Liberal media" indeed

This is a better answer than I gave on The Source to @kaitlancollins.bsky.social last night.

We received a lot of questions yesterday about our post concerning Dominion Voting Systems and we’d like to clarify. To begin with, it is true that Trump and his allies made many false accusations against Dominion in the past, accusations claiming that