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An animated graphic showing wingbeats of different birds. This one is so beautiful.

Image: Eleanor Lutz

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I like the opinions that pundits claim young people only have because of TikTok that I share despite never ever having been on TikTok.

How to read the New York Times for free

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I really can't stress how important it is for progressive and leftists to contend for school, library, water, etc etc boards. Hyper local involvement in our communities where we can actually influence lives.

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A LinkedIn ad showing Jensen Huang shaking hands with some vague fashion executive: L'OREAL 6,204,444 followers Promoted We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen Al. WELCOME TO NVIDIA L'ORÉAL GROUPE

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

Hello @support.bsky.team why has
@sarahkendzior.bsky.social been suspended without explanation?????

The Art and Science — and Joy — of Growing Flowers in Prison While prison presents unique challenges for gardeners, several men in a Washington prison are able to successfully grow colorful flowers.

The Art and Science — and Joy — of Growing Flowers in Prison

Burnout is clinically understood as a combo of 6 factors—work overload, lack of control, insufficient rewards, breakdown in community, absence of fairness, & value conflicts—and only a fraction of it is under your control. Burnout is a systemic problem, so be kind to yourself and hard on the system.

We're so used to being deskilled. Why learn to cook when you've got a microwave. Why learn to sew when you can just buy fast fashion. Why learn anything, when computer can do it for you? Cuz it benefits capital for you to be stupid and helpless, that's why.

Zohran Mamdani’s win has inspired over 3400 young people to raise their hands to run for office just since Tuesday. It’s now @runforsomething.net’s biggest candidate recruitment moment since the election.

A new generation of leaders is here.

orange and yellow graphic from COTA that says: All fares waved during heat advisory. STAY COOL & RIDE FREE

Due to the ongoing heat advisory, COTA buses are free through Friday.

I think what establishment democrats need to understand is that most of us hate them all very much for being so persistently useless and shitty in our time of desperation and it fills our hearts with hope and joy when someone who might not be those things beats them.

If a 33 year old socialist immigrant Muslim can win the Dem mayoral nomination in a landslide in the biggest city in the entire country

Fuck it man, the game is on, get this shit moving and start fighting

raise your hand if you're not in NYC but you're following the mayoral election out of a desperate need to believe that good things are possible

I said a version of the part about figuring it out to a group chat like an hour ago

You stay good at thinking by doing thinking. There's no way around that. If you let someone else do your thinking for you, they're sharpening their skills while yours decline. Same with an LLM.

OH SB 1 Petition Let Ohioans decide the future of higher education.

There is only about a week remaining to sign the referendum petition to pause SB 1. For more information on where to sign, visit: ohsb1petition.com.

A photo of eastern prickly pear's yellow flowers.

Eastern prickly pear 😍

"No Kings Day" protests turn out millions Our unofficial estimate is that around 4 million people attended a protest event yesterday. Anti-Trump resistance is outpacing 2017.

Based on crowd-sourced records of No Kings Day event turnout, and extrapolating for the cities where we don't have data yet, it looks like roughly 4-6 million people protested Trump across the U.S. yesterday. That's nearly 2% of the U.S. pop!

Mobilized anti-Trump resistance is exceeding 2017 levels

if you're still a congressman when you die, you get to be a congressman in heaven and do the really good insider trading up there. why is everyone pretending not to understand this

Rep. Laurel Libby, R-Auburn, recently used my second-place finish in the 1,600-meter run, and that of my teammate in the 800-meter run, to malign Soren Stark-Chessa, the trans-identified athlete who finished first. One of the reasons I chose to run cross-country and track is the community: Teammates cheering each other on, athletes from different schools coming together, and the fact that personal improvement is valued as much as, if not more than, the place we finish. Last Friday, I ran the fastest 1,600-meter race I have ever run in middle school or high school track and earned varsity status by my school’s standards. I am extremely proud of the effort I put into the race and the time that I achieved. The fact that someone else finished in front of me didn’t diminish the happiness I felt after finishing that race. I don’t feel like first place was taken from me. Instead, I feel like a happy day was turned ugly by a bully who is using children to make political points. We are all just kids trying to make our way through high school. Participating in sports is the highlight of high school for some kids. No one was harmed by Soren’s participation in the girls’ track meet, but we are all harmed by the hateful rhetoric of bullies, like Rep. Libby, who want to take sports away from some kids just because of who they are. Anelise Feldman Freshman, Yarmouth High School Yarmouth

this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...

tell people when they’ve done something you think is cool or you appreciate. most of the voices in our heads are ridiculously cruel and hearing that you made a positive impact is incredible

ICE opened their detention center in Newark WITHOUT permission from the city, and in violation of state law.

Mayor Ras Baraka has been fighting to close it down.

RT this to THANK Mayor Baraka!

Shallot starts in soil.

Planted some shallots for the first time, let's see how this grows.

When people break the law, and their actions are righteous and appropriate, we should applaud them. When people abide by or enforce the law, and their actions are repugnant, we should condemn them. We should never pretend the law is a moral dividing line.

Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores. This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though: