Parker Dorris

How Libraries Are Creating Community Through Food Libraries nationwide are offering community classes on nutrition, food security, and how to get a good meal on the table.

Amidst all the bad news, this is great: Libraries across the country host cookbook clubs, offer classes in demo kitchens, loan spices + kitchen equipment, include food pantries, host farmer's markets, offer English language learning through cooking, host nutrition literacy programs, etc.

Them: “Cities are all rotting hellscapes!”

Cities:

The Political Awakening of the Oyster Farmer Gunning for Susan Collins Graham Platner’s campaign launch has been a sudden sensation. But what he’s building now is rooted in the work of a lifetime.

This story has it all: aquaculture, Black Flag, Bernie Sanders, Star Trek as policy, John Hodgman, male tears, and a candidate citing Luthen’s monologue from Andor.

Meet Graham Platner, the Maine oysterman trying to crack the senate. @grahamformaine.bsky.social

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Bodhi Rook

Jyn Erso

Kleya Marki

Lonni Jung

one of my favorite things about this age of Star Wars storytelling is finding out that the Rebellion's victory wasn't just because of one hero in an X-wing but because of all the people along the way who made the choice to do the right thing

"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

The problem is far bigger than Jeffrey Epstein | Rebecca Solnit Treating the scandal as an aberration misunderstands the global epidemic of violence against women

"One of the reasons the epidemic of violence against women is so unacknowledged is because cases like these are talked about individually, and often treated as though they are shocking aberrations rather than part of a pervasive pattern that operates at all levels of society."

Tommy Lee Jones in No Country for Old Men looking up disdainfully from his newspaper

When I see someone saying “when was the last good Spielberg movie?”

I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.

When your neighbor on the left is being dragged away by masked men and your neighbor on the right can't get an X-ray for their child, be sure to quickly explain that "both parties are the same" and whatnot.

Pin this, save it, we’ll need it.

“When a prison camp opens in your town…when a DREAMer is disappeared from your classroom…when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution…They will all say they didn’t know this was coming. And I want the American people to know that they did.”

AOC 🔥🎯

I'm on my way to the Senate floor to talk about the assault on my colleague, Senator Alex Padilla.

This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.

"Brian Wilson, he made all his records with four tracks, but you couldn't make his records if you had a HUNDRED tracks today." "That ear – I mean, Jesus, he’s got to will that to the Smithsonian." — Bob Dylan

RIP Brian Wilson

Oh man RIP Brian Wilson 🙏….thank you for all the music!

RIP #EnzoStaiola who played Bruno in BICYCLE THIEVES

It's weird to me that so many of my neighbors voted to take away their own healthcare to give me a tax cut. They need their health care. I don't need a tax cut. Neither does anyone who makes more than me, either.

Who is Speaking About the Geonosians? Andor is a human story: it’s about love and loss and rage and resistance and the price we pay to make a better world, one that we ourselves may never get to inhabit. It’s also a human story. There …

I’ve officially made my writing debut over on @clashingsabers.bsky.social!

Andor’s characters are (almost all) humans. Ghorman was a massacre of humans. So what is #Andor saying about whose suffering we empathize with…and whose we don’t?

Crazy how long this conversation has been going on

Lined yellow legal pad with handwriting on it: The Empire is like America ten years from now; after: Nixonian gangsters assassinated the emperor and were elected to power in a rigged election; created civil disorder by instigating race riots. Aiding rebel groups. And allowing the crime rate to rise to the point where a “total control” police state was welcomed by the people. then the people were exploited with high taxes, utility and transport costs, gangsters, a cartel made up of power companies, transport companies + crime organizations. Other companies had to pay bribes to stay in business. they increase the crime rate by slowing down the system of justice and punishment.

George Lucas’ handwritten notes before starting the rough draft of Star Wars in 1974. Alt text provided. From The Making of Star Wars by JW Rinzler.

A photo of Andry Romero, the gay makeup artist kidnapped and trafficked to El Salvador, wearing a costume and standing next to a little girl. I superimposed an emoji of a red heart over her face for her safety and privacy

A photo of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father kidnapped and trafficked to El Salvador, kissing a baby on the cheek. I superimposed an emoji of a red heart over the baby’s face for safety and privacy

A photo of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland father kidnapped and trafficked to El Salvador, holding his son on his third birthday with a cake in front of them. I superimposed an emoji of a red heart over his son’s face for his safety and privacy

A photo of Andry Romero, the gay makeup artist kidnapped and trafficked to El Salvador, applying makeup to a client in a press photo

They don’t want you to see photos of the men they kidnapped and trafficked like this, because it counters their racist narrative and makes the CECOT propaganda all the more horrible in juxtaposition. Which is of course why we should see these images

The Hudsucker Proxy (1994): The Style is the Substance The most enchanting thing about The Hudsucker Proxy is the Coen brothers commitment to the bit.

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Back to the Future poster by Drew Struzan.

Drew Struzan poster for The Goonies.

Word that the great Drew Struzan, who painted more iconic movie posters in the 1980s & 90s than you can imagine, has entered the final stages of Alzheimers. His wife asked that everyone thinks of him and his work and I'm certainly glad to do so. What a talent.

AOC: I want to live in an America that guarantees healthcare to every person.

I want to live in an America that has a living wage for every person

I want to live in an America where you have free speech to express yourself and not be afraid of being put on a list or deported.

Budapest today. People are demanding that PM Orban resign.

Wisconsin man who showed up to support an anti-trans bill does something amazing - Queerty “I have a very little knowledge of gay people and things like that there…” “I have a very little knowledge of gay people and things like that there…”

This elderly man showed up to support an anti-trans bill in my home state and then, because he had to wait hours to testify, he was stuck listening to queer folks rally against it

By the time it was his turn to speak, he'd changed his mind

Never doubt that speaking out can change hearts and minds

[quoting a tweet from bad novelist Brad Torgersen complaining about the teaching of The Great Gatsby in schools]

“The Great Gatsby is dated and irrelevant.” You’re right. What could a novel about a generation of young men becoming hustlers and white nationalists because they were sold a lie about the American Dream possibly have to say about our current moment?

Movie night with Bagel. Trying not to interrupt whatever’s going on here. #Flow

“Put the glasses on! Put 'em on!”

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A Brief History of Kids Today Have Too Much Freedom

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If any Hugo Awards voters enjoyed Lower Decks, it would be very cool to get a nod!

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