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The @chicago.suntimes.com photographer who risked their personal health and safety to take this photograph is Anthony Vazquez. Please credit photographers and media outlets. In this age of misinformation, a photo with no context could be anything at all.

I will say immediately following the lyric "stand the world on its ear" with "set it spinning" always conjured up an interesting mental image—a large-eared planet doing some sort of painful-looking breakdance move

Papua New Guinea foreign minister resigns over coronation travel cost controversy | CNN Papua New Guinea (PNG) Foreign Minister Justin Tkatchenko said he was resigning as minister on Friday amid a controversy over the cost and size of the country’s delegation to the coronation of King Ch...

How about former finance minister of Papua New Guinea, Justin Tkachenko? www.cnn.com/2023/05/13/a...

Any excuse to post Neal Rijkenberg, the Finance Minister of Eswatini

Trump says US strikes another boat accused of carrying drugs in waters off Venezuela, killing 6 President Donald Trump says the U.S. has struck another small boat he accuses of carrying drugs in the waters off Venezuela.

Our peacemaker-in-chief is at it again. apnews.com/article/trum...

Nick Fuentes is a psychotic fascist who openly admires Hitler, denies the Holocaust, and says that rape is "so not a big deal." But you'd never know any of that by reading this simpering GQ profile, which treats him as a kind of edgy internet curiosity rather than a deranged Nazi.

This is not really about Hamas violating the terms of the ceasefire. This is just collective punishment of the people of Gaza. And the fact that Israel is still doing this is a big part of why people are not celebrating the ceasefire just yet.

Sure do love all the ever-shifting "am I dooming or sticking my head in the sand?" calculations I have to do these days. Great for anyone's mental health.

Hamas' Grisly New Message: Public Executions Militant group is looking to quickly reassert its control over Gaza

Damn. www.newser.com/story/376814...

You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't

This was once the kind of shit we cited to differentiate ourselves from authoritarian countries. It’s just who we are now.

Even in Michigan?

In Portland, nude cyclists join anti-ICE protests in rain-soaked ride The naked riders joined demonstrations that have been mostly peaceful and featured inflatable costumes.

Portland's version of sending in the cavalry. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

Betsy Blair, 85, Actress and Wife of Gene Kelly, Is Dead (Published 2009)

Married to Betsy Blair, so indisputably. www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/m...

Did people really memorize phone numbers before cell phones, or is that just a movie thing? 2? Questions I was watching some old shows from the 90s and noticed people would just dial numbers from memory - like they'd call their friends or family without looking anything up. Made me wonder if that was actually normal back then? Did people genuinely have all their important numbers memorized, or did most folks keep a little address book or written list nearby?

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

From the whatsthisplant community on Reddit: Went yard sale shopping yesterday and saw this in a neighboring yard. What is this unusual plant? Explore this post and more from the whatsthisplant community

The best of the Internet: when everyone puts their heads together and identifies a plant as a "hairy balls milkweed." www.reddit.com/r/whatsthisp...

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A kids' song called "My Special Chair" that used to play at the store where I worked at 17 (It is about a disabled child, but I'd have to imagine most disabled children would find it insulting.)

People don't focus enough on how much diversity can be a consolation for everyone—when you see there are hundreds of different ways to live your life, it's harder to believe you're doing it wrong.

Schrödinger's Opsec Expert

I am far from in love with the Catholic Church as an institution, but this pope is definitely emphasizing the parts of Catholic doctrine I can get behind—much to the dismay of certain types of Catholics here.

Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.

Journalism: Pope tested, pope approved. 👍 www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news...

"...Alito delivered the opinion..."

There are a lot of sentences I never thought I'd see before 2025.

The difference is, I actually like this one.

Mapping Population Density Across the Globe Explore the detailed geography of population across the globe with interactive mapping and statistics. Identify global megacity regions and the growth and diversity of urban forms. Data is from the Gl...

Fun fact: despite the enormous land mass, the population-weighted density of Canada — basically the density experienced by the average person — is the same as Denmark and close to the Netherlands.

Canada and Denmark are 3,000 people per km², while the Netherlands is 3,400/km².

Blintzes 💅

Viktor Orbán attempts to claim credit for the Nobel Prize won by László Krasznahorkai. But as the Nobel laureate himself explains, his work from over thirty years has been a patient dissection and critique of Orbán and all the corrupt refuse from which he has assembled himself.

Oh yeah? How are they gonna enforce that one?

YouTube video by The Daily Show The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised. #dailyshow

The Daily Show did a neat little video montage of PDX's hellholery. www.youtube.com/shorts/BSkDJ...

Civil rights activists in the 1960s tried all sorts of things that didn’t work out!

We tend to think of the history-book moments — Montgomery, Birmingham, the March on Washington, Selma — as one uninterrupted march from strength to strength.

But it wasn’t like that!

Hm. If you can pirate it from somewhere, you don't have to worry about him commercially benefitting from it, I guess.