On Sunday, parents across the five boroughs got a night to themselves while NY's Cutest enjoyed free activities with NYC Parks staff at select recreation centers. Free & accessible child care doesn’t just make our city more affordable — it gives parents time to rest, recharge, or enjoy a night out.

The Cut@thecut.com · 2w ago

This past weekend, New York City launched its first Parents’ Night Out, a new initiative by Mayor Zohran Mamdani to give families four hours of free babysitting. It was a hit.

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Reworking a past teapot design for Malik, winner of the @blackinastro.bsky.social Art Contest!

Oh, hooman! That's science? Very interesting, let me show you physics science . 🤣

The once revered newspaper that broke Nixon over Watergate is now on the side of Nixonian coverups. Katharine Graham is lucky to no longer be alive to witness this gross demise.

I commend Governor Walz’s bold leadership in issuing an executive order that protects the pristine waters of the Boundary Waters and its watershed, and honors our Tribal treaty obligations for generations to come.

Outstanding capture by Lai Yeu Huan The Oriental dollarbird 30 cm gets its name from bright coin shaped pale blue spots on its wings that flash like silver dollars when it flies. They lives across Asia and Australia, prefers open woodlands, and eats flying insects caught mid-air.

I'm listening, I'm learning. Safety first, NYC.

A less dire but still important part of the dangerous climate for LGBTQIA criminalization & now legal violence against queer people is the very chilling effect this has on not just tourism for these countries but more importantly that researchers & aid workers have bad options to choose from

Dr. Aubrey Tauer (Chaos Art Studio LLC)@draubreytauer.bsky.social · last mo.

I’m watching one by one the countries I have lived in & loved & always consider still my homes in Africa during my wildlife veterinary epidemiology career fall prey to white US Evangelical meddling to severely criminalize queer relationships & identity. I’m talking the death penalty in some.

I’m watching one by one the countries I have lived in & loved & always consider still my homes in Africa during my wildlife veterinary epidemiology career fall prey to white US Evangelical meddling to severely criminalize queer relationships & identity. I’m talking the death penalty in some.

A bill in Gabon proposes a five-year prison sentence for consensual same-sex relations between adults. Sign the petition to demand that this law be stopped before it is too late. a.allout.org/s/P39aw/

Gabon : Love is not a crime

A bill in Gabon proposes a five-year prison sentence for consensual same-sex relations between adults. Sign the petition to demand that this law be stopped before it is too late.

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LGBT+ riders face systemic violence on Uber—from Bogotá to NYC. 🏳️‍🌈🚫 No one should fear an attack or abandonment because of who they are. We demand mandatory safety training and real accountability. Safety is a right! a.allout.org/s/vG7eA/

Uber: Stop hate attacks on LGBT+ riders

LGBT+ riders face systemic violence on Uber—from Bogotá to NYC. 🏳️‍🌈🚫 No one should fear an attack or abandonment because of who they are. We demand mandatory safety training and real accountability....

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India just generated 50% of its electricity from clean sources. For 15 minutes. Sounds trivial? That's how every record starts: first minutes, then a day, then a month, then a whole year. Some states are already there: Karnataka crossed 60% clean power last year.

An Idaho woman who has claimed that vaccines killed her 18-month-old twins was charged last week with two counts of first-degree murder. www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...

Mother who claims vaccines killed her 18-month-old twins is charged with their murders

The Idaho woman is the lead plaintiff in a lawsuit an anti-vaccine organization founded by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. filed against the American Academy of Pediatrics.

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Street art, London

It’s, it’s almost like he’s the kind of guy that would bankrupt casinos, and not just once!

The Donk@thedonk.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Bombs Iran - pays Iran $300B Sells memecoin for $75 - now worth $2 Endorses candidate - candidate loses "Fixes" reflecting pool - algae blooms, paint peels Goes to Knicks game - Knicks lose Hijacks 250th birthday - no one attends Meddles in World Cup - US loses It's like there's a pattern #ETTD

I met up with Mitch McConnell today for a coffee & had a great 4 hr conversation about the merits of Marxism & how Communism has been so misconstrued for so long because it was never intended for agrarian societies, it was meant to be implemented in a post-capitalist hellscape like modern USA.

I met up with Mitch McConnell today and we beatboxed for twenty minutes.

Playing badminton with Mitch McConnell. We talked about the midterms and Iran. I took the first game 15-0 because he is unresponsive and lying on the ground.

This bear is having the best time with this log and then suddenly decides to casually walk off. She has a tight schedule. From our trail cam in the woods. #mammals #nature #bear #love #trailcam #Seattle #wildanimals #goodmorning #PNW #love #funnyanimals #nokings #bears #outdoors #zen

Take a look at these photos filled with the vibrant summer scenery of Hokkaido.

If the whole planet went to complete solar & wind energy we could stop global warming in 5 years. 5 years,folks. The oil & gas industry would be relegated to machinery only.

I mean Stephen King would have come up with something way better than that shite, but in general...yeah.

Man, when you can fall asleep at a Knicks playoff game *in NYC* while the entire crowd nonstop boos you….that’s some level of advanced frontal lobe dementia.

Jeff Rudd 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 🇵🇸@jeffrudd.bsky.social · 3mo ago

"The president is not well. He has tremendous difficulty staying awake on the job. He has repeatedly fallen asleep at Cabinet meetings, at White House events, at a Memorial Day ceremony, and most recently at a very loud NBA game last night."

“Brad Paisley, a Grammy Award-winning American country music singer and songwriter, urged his followers to sign a petition to stop the construction of a 69,000-square-foot data center that would be 50 yards from the Nashville Zoo, which he called “an absolute nightmare scenario”

Brad Paisley criticizes data center planned next to Nashville Zoo

The petition, created by the zoo’s communications team, has 331,824 signatures and 126,599 shares.

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Aaaaannnnnddddd—it’s official, and unanimous: a one year moratorium on large data centers in the city of Seattle! 💃🎉🔥

Since the bird app went super fascist & we all fled, I’ve spent almost all my social time on Threads because despite the majority of my Twitter Science friends coming here, Meta very unintentionally developed what is almost the most perfect social app specifically for neurodivergent folks.

@newsmax and #Elon, wanna give us all an update on how great things are going since you cut the sterile fly programs? Maybe cite this particular tweet?