So much of this could have been prevented if the men in the Epstein files had been prosecuted instead of protected.

You’re Dead To Me Live plays Cardiff tomorrow night — VERY EXCITING!!

If you’re a student *without a ticket already*, DM me on here or on Instagram and I can send you a student discount code

Mark Hamill on LEGO SMART Play and 50 Years of STAR WARS Mark Hamill talks about his role as the LEGO Group's Junior Executive Director of Information, a.k.a. J.E.D.I. promoting their new Star Wars SMART Play sets.

Had the great privilege of chatting with the man/the myth/the legend @markhamillofficial.bsky.social on all things LEGO, & 50 years of #StarWars for @nerdist.bsky.social. I was even lucky enough to get a trademark Hamill “grumpy Harrison Ford” impression. Check it out! nerdist.com/article/mark...

Iran is currently working with allies to attempt to close Bad al-Mandeb.

If you don’t know what that is, look it up. Then Americans can expect gas prices to double.

War is hell. The US is the stupidest country on Earth.

RESULT: The right took over the Francis Howell school board, a large MO district in the St. Louis suburbs, earlier this decade; followed book bans & restrictive policies on LGBTQ students.

Tonight, the slate endorsed by the teacher's slate swept, and the last remaining conservative was ousted.

ProPublica Guild

4/ To learn more about our fight and how to support us, visit our website:
www.propublicaguild.org

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly:

- Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat)
- Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex)
- Humming (stimulates vagus nerve)
- Exercise (anything helps, outside even better)
- Impeachment and removal

BREAKING! NBC calls Taylor the winner of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election.

Democrats majority increases to 5-2.

Have you seen this petition yet? 300,000 Children Married in America. I Was One of Them. End Child Marriage Now.

If you are one of those who add to the momentum by putting your name on lists...
#change #endchildmarriage
c.org/kjPKVYf5JV

The One hundred and eightieth Roving Ranger The Roving Ranger #180 brings you all the interesting things Tolkienian of the last week and the weeks upcoming, curated by the Tolkienist.

Another edition of the Roving Ranger has just been sent to its subscribers.

Including:

I am nominated for the TS Awards; Brandywine going UK; Sarehole returning; Tapestries at Angers; Songs for 65k; LEGO Smaug; upcoming films & games etc...

steady.page/en/bd48e165-...

#Artemis II astronaut Reid Wiseman’s wife Carroll was taken by cancer a few years ago. Just now, as the crew broke the record for furthest human journey from Earth, he asked for a lunar feature to be named after her. The crew gave him a zero-g group hug and honestly I’m getting a bit emotional here.

(April 6, 2026) In this fully illuminated view of the Moon, the near side (the hemisphere we see from Earth), is visible on the right. It is identifiable by the dark splotches that cover its surface. These are ancient lava flows from a time early in the Moon’s history when it was volcanically active. The large crater west of the lava flows is Orientale basin, a nearly 600-mile-wide crater that straddles the Moon’s near and far sides. Orientale's left half is not visible from Earth, but in this image we have a full view of the crater. Everything to the left of the crater is the far side, the hemisphere we don’t get to see from Earth because the Moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that it orbits round us. Image Credit: NASA

👨‍🚀 The #Artemis II crew are now further from home than any humans ever, and European engines brought them there 🚀.
🌍 The record of 400 171 km was previously held by the Apollo 13 mission 🌕.

Jigsaw Treebeard by Rodney Matthews

A bit of nurturing nature as Treebeard carries of Merry & Pippin to one of his homes in Fangorn. Treebeard by Rodney Matthews jigsaw I finished a couple of years agoTrewsday. #LOTR #Tolkien #TolkienTrewsday @timbolton.bsky.social

Photo of a table seen from above with watercolour artworks in various stations of completion as well as pencil and ink drawings of different sizes spread across it.

This Easter break, I’ve been on something of a painting spree because I’ve got lots of art projects to finish this month:

• six new Tolkien illustrations (two are done) for a book about the History of the Elves to be published by Legendaria Ediciones
#TolkienTrewsday #TolkienTuesday

Great line!
Let that reel roll on repeat for those handsome, shaggy beefs.

We need more days like this 🥰🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Happy #coosday

#arnbegfarmstayscotland #highlandcow

Good trouble.

A man of principles and a spine...!

“The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the convinced Communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction (i.e., the reality of experience) and the distinction between true and false (i.e., the standards of thought) no longer exist.”

Hannah Arendt

If this disgusts/enrages/upsets you, please check out @aimoratoriumnyc.bsky.social and sign our petition if you’re in NYC!

Gah! Fie on whatever rhythm this is. May the day return, and your environment support - rather than thwart - you! lol
(I know, it's complicated, so good wishes your way).

A cover of DER HOBBIT with a Tove Jansson painting of Bilbo shyly holding an axe and shield.

A cover of HOBITTI illustrated with a Tove Jansson painting of an excitable-looking Smaug flying over the Misty Mountains.

I'll see you this classic and raise you two Tove Jansson Hobbit covers

The front cover of a paperback copy of the Dutch version of J.R.R. Tolklien's The Hobbit, circa 1960. Eight cheerful-looking cartoon figures with long grey beards surround a smaller, waving beardless figure in the middle.

have you guys seen the Dutch cover of The Hobbit cuz I hadn't

AP says it will offer buyouts as part of pivot away from newspaper journalism The Associated Press says it will offer buyouts to an unspecified number of its U.S.-based journalists as part of an acceleration away from the focus on newspaper journalism that sustained the company...

The Associated Press pivoting away from outdated and lame products like “actual reporting” in favor of “visual journalism and developing new revenue sources, particularly through companies investing in artificial intelligence”:

RIP AP.

Brooklyn Museum Costume Collection at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift of the Brooklyn Museum, 2009; Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Maxime L. Hermanos, 1961

Collar
https://botfrens.com/collections/223/contents/96647

LBJ spoke about this exactly over 60 years ago. "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

This Day in #History 1889
George Eastman begins selling Kodak flexible roll film for the first time...

This is one tenacious 'tree'
wonder now it looks to be
as though not one but three
clinging you to me to thee
entwined each strengthened be
the bough that hideth kitty
shades also warrior mighty.