Ruthie the cat biting
Ruthie the cat rolling around
One time I was in a situationship with a real jocky guy and I posted a picture of Ruthie on my Instagram and he messaged me “whoaaaa what kind of animal is that”
we talk about carcinization, but never about the many, many times plants have invented the “tree.”
Tree is not a kind of plant, it is a thing plats do, and they are by and large unrelated.
A neon green slug holding a yellow bat in its mouth. Red blood drips from the bat’s barrel.
Pre-orders open for Vol. 2! Link in bio! Featuring work by @kayv.bsky.social @dreadwrites.bsky.social @jakeiswriting.bsky.social @carsonwinter.bsky.social
@innatelywriting.bsky.social
@beardedbetts.bsky.social and others!
time of year where i really miss swimmin around and being submerged
once again reminding everyone to funnel your emotions into organizing and building solidarity in your community and not pointless doomscrolling
To move forward with focus, we must first understand this simple fact: we are up against an ideology that has given up not only on the premise and promise of liberal democracy but on the livability of our shared world – on its beauty, on its people, on our children, on other species. The forces we are up against have made peace with mass death. They are treasonous to this world and its human and non-human inhabitants.
The key paragraph from @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @astra.bsky.social's powerful piece describing the urgency of our present moment. They are right, and we better move quickly.
In one four-day period in March 2025, engineers logged 205 maintenance calls. Sailors reported working up to 19-hour days to fix leaks and restore suction, with problems in a single head capable of disabling an entire section of the ship. Since 2023, the Navy has carried out at least 10 acid flushes, each costing about $400,000, though the procedure cannot be performed while the carrier is underway.
The sailors on the USS Gerald Ford who keep stuffing their t-shirts into the toilets so the bathrooms flood and the carrier can’t deploy to Iran should be awarded a collective Nobel Peace Prize
Such a cool story by @spicycloaca.bsky.social! I read it when the issue came out last month and I’m still thinking about it when I look up at night 🪐☄️
“The picture that emerged was of a slow shift playing out beneath the surface of entire populations: a rise in cognitive problems, subtle declines in functional capacity, and lost independence”
You gotta know it’s two z’s Sasha
hmmmmm
These LLM tools are an enemy to science, in the broadest and deepest sense. Scientists need to be resisting them at every turn, because whatever niche positive uses have been found in no way compensate the net assault on collective epistemic and cognitive stability
#refuseresist
John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way.
Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.”
Thanks Jim!!
It Only Tuesday
It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/
NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.
This isn’t a departure, tech has always been against women. Facebook started as a woman-rating app
“the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building.” @mckay4senate.bsky.social www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...
THREAD:
In AZ, a cancer patient was told to treat his symptoms with an energy drink.
A MS inmate broke his arm and later needed to have his broken arm amputated.
In CO, a 22-year-old died from treatable infections after he was ignored by prison staff for a month.
www.nola.com/gambit/news/...
The front cover of REMAINS issue 4.
The back cover of REMAINS issue 4, with the titles and contributor names: 'HEAVYNESS' SEÁN PADRAIC BIRNIE 'HEARSTEN LAKE' KAY 'STATION TO STATION' STEPHEN BACON 'DEVELOPMENT CONVERSATION' STEPHEN "THE BABY' ANNIE NEUGEBAUER 'SCISSORS, PAPER, ROCK' CRAIG 'THE BLOCK' STEVE TOASE 'THE RETURN OF BENNY STORAX' JOHN POSSIDENTE and 'LETTERS FROM NEW AMERICA' JAMES SALLIS
The opening spread of my story ‘Heavyness’, illustrated with a a tired-looking woman lying on her back, a hand laid across her forehead, by Richard Wagner. The first paragraph of the story reads: 1. PREFATORY REMARKS - MY SISTER'S DEATH - OUR ENVIRONS On the Tuesday I collected my sister's ashes from the funeral directors on Lewes Road. That it was an ordinary Tuesday, overcast and constantly on the verge of rain, felt remarkable. It seemed that a change so immense in implication for my own affairs should somehow mark the world beyond it, as if Esther had borne a Royal title and grand formal displays of mourning ought to have interrupted the course of everyday life, That things should proceed as normal felt scandalous. Of course we were not royalty. We live - had lived - small and modest lives, bound together since infancy, Esther eight years older than I.
Gotta love the smell of print in the morning. Today’s post brought issue 4 of REMAINS, with stories by @stevetoase.bsky.social, @kayv.bsky.social, the late James Sallis, and others, with art by Richard Wagner. Thanks to editor Andy Cox for finding space for my story of illness and loss.
JD Vance personally invited Pope Leo to the U.S. 250th celebration on the 4th of July. Today the Vatican announced Leo will be spending the day with migrants instead.
Inside a black circle are the words "Bad Science, May 1, 2026, Guest Editor: Eric Williams." Outside the circle are the words "agita 1" and "agitamag.com"
TEN DAYS! until Agita Magazine opens for its very first open submission period.
The theme is "Bad Science."
The length is flash.
The genre is horror or dark sci-fi.
The co-editor is Eric Williams (@geoliminal.bsky.social).
The guidelines is at agitamag.com/submissions
BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide.
This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.
me and my RCFP lawyers outside the courthouse this morning
BREAKING — WE WON! DC Superior Court Judge Darlene Soltys ordered the DC Metropolitan Police to produce ALL body cam footage of the March 2025 DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace within 14 days.
Thanks to my @rcfp.org lawyers for their tireless work.
Details on thehandbasket.co later today!
New hard data show the same pattern of intense anti-Trump backlash that polls do. Protests against Trump are happening at 4x the rate as 2017-18, and special election swings offer more data on the same point
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-back...
It is absolutely a choice.
Susquehanna River is older than the Atlantic Ocean it drains into
Issue 4 is at press and will mail out soon. @kayv.bsky.social, @seanbirnie.bsky.social, @stephenbacon.bsky.social, @annieneugebauer.bsky.social, Craig Bernardini, @stevetoase.bsky.social, John Possidente... and Jim Sallis. Art by Richard Wagner. remains.uk/products/iss...
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I love that story! Well deserved
