Bread season is upon us. I’m a devotee of Ken Forkish’s book on the subject, the recipe for this was his Saturday loaf. Before this week I hadn’t baked since 2021!

The same image as the original post, flipped so the grebe is facing to the right.

eastern grebe

There’s renewable energy ads and there’s mother**cking wind farm ads. This, blissfully, is the latter.

a ½ gallon of neutral milk

They finally made the milk from that hotel

This @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social video is absolutely INCREDIBLE. The numbers he cites, the strategy and results they produced — it’s the future. When have you heard *any* campaign talk about this, ever? (Video split in 2 to fit in Bluesky’s limits)

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...

Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

Conclave Selects First Chicago-Style Pope

The new pope signed up for Twitter in 2011 with a Hotmail email address that he also used for a lot of other stuff, which is how I know that he's probably the first pope on Zynga and almost certainly the first pope on Tumblr

It's OK when Andre 3000 does it, but the rest of you should not carry a piano like that.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

I am really saddened by the level of vitriol and hatred being directed toward the trans community.

We are losing our common humanity. How hard is it to treat people with kindness and respect?

Trans people are human beings — and they deserve to live in dignity like anyone else.

A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.

South Korea's President Yoon Suk Yeol removed from office over ill-fated declaration of martial law South Korea’s Constitutional Court removed impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office on Friday, four months after he threw South Korean politics into turmoil by declaring martial law and sending troops to parliament in an ill-fated effort to break through legislative gridlock.

BREAKING: South Korea’s Constitutional Court removes impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol from office. The unanimous decision comes four months after Yoon threw South Korean politics into turmoil by declaring martial law in an ill-fated effort to break through legislative gridlock.

Boost for London nightlife as mayor Sir Sadiq Khan given new powers to overturn council licensing decisions Chancellor Rachel Reeves says the new powers will mean hospitality businesses have "the conditions to grow" and are not "tied down by unnecessarily burdensome red tape".

I’m delighted that the government is looking to grant London greater powers over licensing.

This significant decision would allow us to do more to support the capital’s pubs, clubs, music venues and other parts of the visitor and tourist scene.

#uksnow 5/10 N4 !! Heavy but not settling much. Such a lovely way to wake up this morning.