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The group bike ride for Alex Pretti is about to depart in Minneapolis, stopping at his memorial, then Renee Good’s, and finishing at the VFW. If you can join, hop on anywhere. It’s a warm 17° & sunny!

I’ve never seen this many cyclists for a group ride. ⚡️✊🏽⚡️🚲⚡️✊🏽⚡️ #RIPPretti

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It's obviously good that citizens with smartphones can create multiple records of these shootings and undercut propaganda and government lies about them. But I find it a little deranging that being an informed news consumer in 2026 requires watching what are essentially snuff videos in slow-mo.

Alaska Art Student Arrested for Eating Another Student’s AI-Generated Art in Protest A University of Alaska student was charged with a misdemeanor for eating another student's AI-generated art in protest.

eat the slop www.artnews.com/art-news/new...

Poem written on Google sheets by Isabelle Correa

I Wrote This Poem on Company Time

by @isabellewrites.bsky.social

#smallpoemsunday
@tomsnarsky.bsky.social

with thanks to @katierpoet.bsky.social for introducing me to her work on her substack. #poetry

My dad turns 79 tomorrow and his birthday wish is to see Anaconda

The Cane Toad New Years Eve spa party was in full swing when Security spotted the camera. He then put a stop to the filming...
#NaturePhotography #toads #AustralianWildlife #wildoz

Ooh, this looks fun. Kodak going back to its roots, yesss

`Other issue please make the new bus priority signal at State and William activated by a sensor or something. traffic at this intersection was already horrifying, now there's an entire rotation given to nonexisten...

OK, update. Is this correct? Is there any plan to add a sensor? Otherwise OOF... seeclickfix.com/issues/20572...

Yassss

Oooooh, I didn't know this was going to be a thing. Awesome!

Horrific story, but note that the cyclist did not die. Instead, he will need significant, costly medical care for the rest of his life thanks to the officer's actions

Fellow elder millennials, this is the "Auto-Tune the News" dude, how's that for a blast from the past

Mirroring police tactics for humor. Sound on!

I’m happy that the big kooky liberated Portland frogs have emerged as an aesthetic backlash to the dank Pepes

Sora is not the real problem here. The real problem is that in 12, at most 24 months, there will be a Sora clone from Tencent or Alibaba that is just as good and can be run by anybody with a 5099, at which point everyone in society needs to rapidly agree to treat all digital video as fake, period.

If *your department head and your dean* can be removed for supporting your colleague in teaching in their area of expertise, then you have no academic freedom. In a functional sense, you don't work at a university at all.

In honor of sandwich guy getting out of his legal pickle, here is the original video synced with Freedom - George Michael 1990.

How Climate Change Is Transforming The Soundtrack Of The Natural World | Defector It is easy enough to read about the climate crisis through the dozens of devastating stories that run each week, warning us of the people who will be displaced or otherwise harmed by the planet’s rapi...

Climate change is altering the natural world’s soundscape, with declining bird, insect, and amphibian populations leading to quieter environments. This “sensory extinction” is exacerbated by noise pollution from human activities.

Listen to these recordings in this article from @sabs.bsky.social!

I don't know if I've ever been so stunned by a piece of... entertainment?

Tuned in late online, but from what I can see and the applause I'm hearing, it seems like NFMN has a pretty overwhelming turnout tonight?

Petition in support of increased housing density and diversity in Ann Arbor As individuals and organizations in support of expanding housing opportunities, we applaud the direction of the city's draft Comprehensive Land Use Plan as an important step toward adding and diversif...

there's a pretty strong pressure campaign on to delay and weaken land use reform in ann arbor.

please sign this petition to remind the council that the YIMBY voters who elected them still want an affordable, growing, and diverse city.

neighborspetition.org

Pretty much how I'm imagining retirement

Stella Dallas, Malcolm X, mayyybe Flash Gordon

Dr. Alexander Zawacki @AChillGhost Grad school QT of: katja @uckersSket •1d They need to invent the opposite of a gym. You go there and you just get more frail and sickly. Maybe instead of lifting you just sit in a cold dark room and starve 11:12 AM • 4/29/25 • 1M Views

It’s funny because it’s true

Francis Ford Coppola speaks in an IMAX theatre with a big slide featuring his face on the screen

Big Coppola/little Coppola

Speaking to students at the Henry Ford about cinema as art, not commerce, and the pleasure of learning. “You can drink too much, eat too much, but you can’t learn too much”

This is so real lmaoooo
"She booked a solo trip to Iceland while you were composing your <<good morning>> text" 😂😂

Oscar-winning Palestinian director is attacked by Jewish settlers and detained, activists say Activists say Israeli settlers beat up one of the Palestinian co-directors of the Oscar-winning film “No Other Land” in the occupied West Bank, and he was then detained by the Israeli military.

They fucking disappeared Hamdan Ballal. Sheer impunity, knowing the US isn't going to say shit.

"As he was being treated in an ambulance, soldiers detained him and a second Palestinian man, the [Center for Jewish Nonviolence] said. It said his whereabouts were now unknown."

Reddit post headed "Roomba accidentally saw outside and now I can't delete "room 1" and "room 4" showing a map of the Roomba's picture of the world, which includes an ill-defined patch of outside listed as "room 1" and "room 2"

roomba accidentally saw outside