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Just in! New Nobel Prize laureate in literature Anne Carson stands surprised in her kitchen in Reykjavík, Iceland. Stay tuned for our exclusive interview with her coming soon. Join us in congratulating our 2026 literature laureate - send your greetings in the comments.

wonderful

elephants, too good for this world

youtu.be/rJuKHy64inE don’t listen to van morrison anymore, but will always cassandra wilson tupelo honey

Costco runs it's own rigorous food inspection program. And they didn't bend the knee on DEI. Plus, they dropped Callaway Golf after their horrific ad depicting violence against women. And they are refusing to carry trump meat. So that's where I'll be shopping.

the dolly onslaught the last 24 has already made me a better person

the way I smell this

It's insane that minibars are accepted: I'm paying to sleep in this stupid room and you've put a trap in it? Fuck you

it’s baked in

happy fourth!

the largest landbridge in the US is here in san antonio, wildly enough it’s 150 feet wide, and since it has been open the trail cams have showed every texas mammal in this area using it, from bobcats to ringtails to deer i love that humans weren’t the main users it was designed for

dreamy

-From Quarks to Quasars 1/ Fired government scientists just launched a new site to keep climate data public.The site is called Climate.us & it was created by former staffers behind Climate.gov, the NOAA-run website long used by many for trusted climate information."

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I'm thrilled to share my new essay in @aeon.co Who are The Fire Tamers? For the past year, I travelled through salt marshes, visited remote farmhouses & oncology clinics to uncover the secret world of French healers working in parallel with conventional medicine. aeon.co/essays/who-a...

current shelves

The 'Moon Jar': A Transcendent Ceramic Form A work of light and grace, Young Sook Park's 'Moon Jar' conveys certainty and paradox. www.phillips.com/article/1068...

Climate.us is officially live! After NOAA ended Climate.gov’s day-to-day operations in 2025, former team members built Climate.us to carry that work forward. Their explanations and graphics have always stood out to me as clear, accessible, and transparent. I’m really looking forward to this reboot.

pride, baby

There are lovers you forget and sandwiches that haunt you for the rest of your life.

died of sadness

still living in ava-deborah club dance scene

California voting reminder: at this point, DO NOT MAIL YOUR BALLOT. Put it in a drop box or polling place or vote in person

Capitalism does not love competition, that is the fairy tale. Consolidation and monopoly is the end goal of every capitalist. It’s always about gouging when you can and paying people as little as possible. I’m so sick of Real Capitalism Has Never Been Tried horseshit like this.

There's a theme in these lawsuits where a librarian has been fired for refusing to remove books or discriminate against LGBTQ+ folks. They are not losing. www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/edu...

Congrats, Google. We now have unreliable AI narrators of impoverished information sources, representing their hallucinations as truth. I'm glad I learned to use a card catalog when I was a kid, because fuck this. I'm going to the library. (3/3)

thrown, glazed, wired into first version

They're not going to stop with trans. They've realized that they can get away with just about anything if they claim to be protecting "the children." If they roll back gay marriage, they won't stop there either. There is no fucking accommodating these people, they must be defeated & marginalized.

Something big just happened on Haida Gwaii. For the first time in B.C., a utility-scale solar project is now taking a meaningful bite out of a diesel-fuelled remote grid. It's a product of years of work from the Haida Nation, and it could signal a tipping point. (photos: Katherine Cheng) 🧵

Republican leadership intended to vote to gut the Endangered Species Act today… and then didn't have the support needed, so they pulled the bill. Happy Earth Day! 🌍

We should be learning from other countries...

& there it is

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"Planet Earth: You. Are. A. Crew." Artemis II mission specialist Christina Koch reflects on what it means to be a "crew."

Unrelatedly -- I love that Christina Koch put this up on her social media and I'm like "That is a BANGER short story title and/or first line of a poem (or last line of a poem)" What's the most ominous thing you've ever loved?

The other way a whole civilization dies is by committing war crimes

The Moon: oh wow you guys decided to come back Artemis II crew: earth’s haunted

Come on then, and remove him.