Minnesota is prosecuting ICE agents for their crimes. Sadly too slow. But these are State charges, so the president can not pardon them.
#ice #crimes #minnesota

https://www.mprnews.org/story/2026/05/18/watch-minnesota-prosecutors-announce-charges-against-ice-agent

Everybody Bakes the Same Cake is on for May 23-24!

The February event was a surprise success. So by popular request, a quarterly event is the plan, with a cake bake for each season.

Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is the retro, mid-century favourite: Pineapple Upside-down Cake.

Here's a reference recipe for your consideration:

https://www.seriouseats.com/pineapple-upside-down-cake-recipe-8686941

Get your ingredients, bake your #cake, cut corners and mess around at will.

Share your result with the tag #EBTSC

#baking

The Israeli military has detained hundreds of activists who sailed to Gaza to break Israel’s blockade.

In the face of unending genocide and impunity, they continue to challenge Israel, to keep the spotlight on ongoing genocide.

At least 11 Canadians are among those taken.

We're calling on the federal government to drop its usual kid gloves treatment of Israel and exert real diplomatic pressure to secure their immediate release.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/israel-vessels-flotilla-gaza-blockade-9.7203134

#cdnpoli #gaza #palestine

CIS PEOPLE TIME TO STEP UP

it’s once again time to yell at our bad government via online comment form

the FCC is trying to make trans and nonbinary content require special ratings on shows

GLAAD has a good writeup on it here:

https://glaad.org/fcc

TELL ‘EM NO

direct link to comment form:
https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express?proceeding%5Bn

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116597735999289806

Time to pull out my essay again about how I used to love rocket launches: https://theconversation.com/an-astronomers-lament-satellite-megaconstellations-are-ruining-space-exploration-215653

And maybe also our article about turning the atmosphere into a satellite crematorium: https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366

While you're at it, you should also read "More Everything Forever" by Adam Becker, "A City on Mars" by the Weinersmiths, and "Astrotopia" by MJ Rubenstein.

And then go outside and enjoy our beautiful planet, because we are stuck here on Earth, together, and we need to make that work.

Via Victoria Strauss (on Bluesky): "Did you discover, as part of the Anthropic copyright settlement, that your publisher failed to register your copyright? The Author Guild is collecting information for a potential class action."

You can fill out the form here:
https://authorsguild.org/anthropic-class-action-did-your-publisher-fail-to-register-your-copyright/

#Anthropic #AnthropicClass #AnthropicSettlement #AuthorGuild #Writing @bookstodon

#indypl #indy

The #library has a ukulele class called uke can do it

THIS WEDNESDAY: join @DAIR as we launch the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a resource for workers fighting AI at work. We provide strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of this tech through case studies, primers, and a resource library.

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-the-luddite-lab-resource-hub-registration-1988317489134?aff=oddtdtcreator

I'd like to remind anyone calling for a new Nürnberg Tribunal that the original one was only necessary because Germans didn't respond appropriately to the evil shit Nazis were doing, when they were doing it. The tribunals essentially asserted that the German people would have been justified in using any force necessary to stop the Nazis, and that all who didn't try to use such force were complicit.

Sit with that for a bit and ponder the implications.