"Nearly 30 percent of American adults cannot paraphrase or make inferences from a multipage text. In 2017, that number was less than 20 percent." www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

The End of Reading Is Here

Optimists once believed that universal literacy was inevitable. Now it seems that the age of reading might be a short anomaly in human history.

theatlantic.com

Check out the puzzley game I made art for, with a free demo you can try right now in Next Fest! ❤️ Make big trade networks to appease demanding gods ✨ #nextfest #indiegame

Ido Yehieli - Stellar Cartography Interactive@tametick.bsky.social · 2mo ago

My game Prophet Margin has a free demo and is on Next Fest right now: store.steampowered.com/app/3624110/... If it looks like it's your jam please give it a try & leave a positive review if you liked it 🙏

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle! 🐎 (sry yes i know horses aren't vehicles, but they are certainly up for abetting in a getaway!) #artshare

Amelie Ahern-Williams@artfuldoodling.bsky.social · 2mo ago

If you see this, post your getaway vehicle! 🐈 #kidlitart #artshare

I'm happy to announce that Prophet Margin will be participating the this year's @puzzleshowcase.bsky.social and @thinkygames.com's Thinky Direct with its first ever demo on the 28th! Check out the game on steam and wishlist it now! store.steampowered.com/app/3624110/...

Here is a story of growing up 🙃 (1/2) #comic #comics

Yes great bookshop

I told you this place is always crowded, we should’ve called for a reservation 😩

Once again.

You can just say things.

Four years ago I woke up at 5 am from distant explosions. I asked my boyfriend if he heard them too, he said he didn’t and I should go back to sleep. I tried to calm myself down, went on the internet, it was silent, no news or explanations.

We ball

Who broke the budgets, huh? Who hoarded resources and wealth to the point that child poverty is soaring, healthcare is falling apart, public infrastructures have been drained dry? Who did that?

The Economist@economist.com · 6mo ago

It will not work, and is wrong in principle

Happy Tsagaan Sar! Today is the start of the new year and the 'white season' for Mongolic & Turkic peoples of Central Asia, representing spring for nomads. Wear white clothes and eat white foods and don't forget to offer your first milky tea of the day to the sky god and the earth god 💙 #tsagaansar

Happy Tsagaan Sar! Today is the start of the new year and the 'white season' for Mongolic & Turkic peoples of Central Asia, representing spring for nomads. Wear white clothes and eat white foods and don't forget to offer your first milky tea of the day to the sky god and the earth god 💙 #tsagaansar

Some hooved friends to be with through the dark times #horses #yearofthehorse

Charlene Chua@charlenedraws.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Drop some HORSES 🐴 (Unicorns count, right? 🦄) #kidlitart #unicorns #horses

Americans - please watch the Alabama Solution (an Oscar nom for documentary this year). Our own citizens are getting beaten and brutalised in inhuman conditions with no chance of parole, in our name. A heinous system with cruel people profiting off it at the top.

Kim Kelly@kimkelly.bsky.social · 6mo ago

🚨 Led by the Free Alabama Movement, incarcerated workers across Alabama are ON STRIKE to protest brutal labor exploitation and inhumane conditions behind the walls 🚨 Watch ‘The Alabama Solution” doc and read on for ways to support their strike: docs.proton.me/doc?mode=ope...

IT BEGINS!!! #hourlycomicsday #hourlycomicsday2026 good luck for our communal comicking day of insanity 💙

Eternal, from @carlaspeedmcneil.bsky.social :

Varoufakis is doing the same thing right now, btw. Be very suspicious of anyone who acknowledges Gaza without Ukraine and vice versa. Two fronts, one war.

George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 6mo ago

1. Noam Chomsky's response to the first tranche of Epstein docs - arrogant, high-handed, obfuscatory and, we now know, dishonest - reminded me of something: his response to my questions about genocide denial, 15 years ago. 🧵 www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2...

when the rich Do Crimes

On August 12, 2017, Heather Heyer was killed by a neo-Nazi in Charlottesville. On August 17, 2017, Noam Chomsky told the Washington Examiner that antifa was “a gift to the far right”. In between those dates he met with Jeffrey Epstein in Tuscon.

Be wary of people calling themselves the "silent majority" because they are never silent and most definitely not the majority. Even mobilising every gender critter in the UK they could only muster a few thousand objections

Things fall apart, but the protestors around the world and especially in Minnesota have set fire to my heart. Fuck ice! I'm donating to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund of the Women's Foundation of Minnesota. If any protestors want a print from me, pls dm #iceout

In case anyone wants a little break, here are a few of my favorite facts that I learned in 2025, in no particular order. Some trees benefit from, and may even encourage, getting struck by lightning because it kills their nearby competitors nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

@europeanspod.bsky.social This talk by Cory Doctorow on how the EU can break free from the American internet/techs was really inspiring, I'd be curious to know if any of this will be taken on by EU politicians! youtu.be/BVRAr1iQyQQ?...

Post-American internet by Cory Doctorow

YouTube video by Nimrod Kamer

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Things fall apart, but the protestors around the world and especially in Minnesota have set fire to my heart. Fuck ice! I'm donating to the Immigrant Rapid Response Fund of the Women's Foundation of Minnesota. If any protestors want a print from me, pls dm #iceout

Here's how to identify some crowd control munitions, canisters of which federal agents have left on the ground after deploying them against people in Minnesota. bit.ly/3YWp1jE Graphic by Mark Boswell/The Minnesota Star Tribune

i think about this picture of fred shuttlesworth looking at his bombed out house every day because it is in my classroom and so i see it five times a week. tired and defiant. a face that says well, on we go

Nihao Country (a short comic about what a word can mean) 1/2 #comics