Phoeberella

Another amazing knitting pattern from Hansi Singh. This time a knitted cuttlefish, because why not? 

These sheep? They are actually running away from the car.

Songs That Say ‘Me Too’

“Me too” does a great job of crystallizing the rage and vulnerability women feel in the face of rape culture. This conversation, however, is hardly new. Artists, activists, writers and musicians have told the stories of violated women across time — particularly since the 1990s, when popular music and feminism powerfully intersected in the pop mainstream and the musical underground. Here’s a list of twenty songs in which women said “me too” — without shame.

Listen.

Limited availability of gas has been a problem across Puerto Rico ever since Hurricane Maria hit last week. This station in Rio Grande, about 15 miles east of San Juan, doesn’t have any gasoline at all right now. But it did have gas on Sunday night — until it ran out early Monday morning.

By the afternoon, about a hundred cars, along with scores of people with hand-held gas cans, were waiting for a new tanker to arrive.

“The problem is communication,” says the manager of the Gulf Route 65 gas station, Carlos de Armas. “We don’t know where the truck is.”

Like nearly everywhere on the island, Rio Grande lacks cellphone service. There is no way to get word from the truck driver, and so it’s anyone’s guess when the tanker might arrive.

At A Gas Station With No Gas, Puerto Ricans Settle In For An Interminable Wait

Stephen Hawking, in an interview with the BBC regarding climate change (via npr)