Wednesday, September 30, 2026
Wednesday, September 30, 2026

Five strangers drove 600-mile relay to save an injured pigeon

Natalie Wallington THE WASHINGTON POST – Night had fallen in the rural town of Blacksburg, South Carolina, when 26-year-old PhD student Mae Kwong-Moses pulled into the Food Lion parking lot. Another car arrived, and its driver emerged, handing her a cardboard box with holes punched into the sides. She thanked the stranger, buckled the box into her back seat and began a three-hour drive south. It was the final stretch in what its participants have dubbed the Great Pigeon Relay: a crowdsourced bid to transport an injured pigeon down the Eastern Seaboard, from Baltimore to the Ramsey Loft, a pigeon-specific rescue aviary in Hephzibah, Georgia. The 600-mile trip was carried out on April 30 by people in five cars, most of them strangers who connected over social media to coordinate the effort. The pigeon, which its chauffeurs named Passenger, was rescued in Baltimore by Mel Tillery on April 27. Tillery was driving to the Enoch Pratt Free Library in the Roland Park neighbourhood of Baltimore when they spotted an immobile bird in the middle of the road, probably hit by a car. Most people would have kept driving, but Tillery, 34, who has experience with wildlife rehabilitation, was quick to…

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Teens on TikTok Are Already Nostalgic for 2013

TikTok users are reminiscing about 2013, those halcyon days when Macklemore was gonna pop some tags, Miley Cyrus danced with a foam finger and, ironically, TikTok wasn't yet invented.A video by TikTok user @zayla.tpwk has amassed over 100,000 likes and made just as many feel old while doing so. The video features Zayla wishing she was a teenager in 2013.She responds to the questions, "why do you want to be a teenager in 2013," using the popular "are you on drugs?" TikTok audio, which is often used to demonstrate how obvious a question is. In the clip, images of One Direction, who were arguably at their most popular in 2013, flash onto the screen. "A dream I will never live," she captioned the video.For those who were teenagers in 2013, the viral video has acted as a stark reminder or time flowing too quickly. TikTok user @abejab hit over 200,000 views in nine hours with a shocked response to the video, "duetting" it with text reading: "Not us entering the 'I was born in the wrong generation' stage please i'm only 22." Teen angst manifesting itself as "born in the wrong generation" feelings is nothing new, but it's a message…

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Facing stigma in their own homes, LGBTQ Gen Zers find a 'safe haven' in the digital world

For many of those who grew up on the internet, the world wide web offered access to a community that may not have been reachable offline. On Tumblr, where users are twice as likely to be lesbian, gay or another sexuality, these connections proved vital to navigating and surviving the mental health struggles that nearly three-fourths of LGBTQ Generation Z users reported in a recent survey. If you were on Tumblr in its heyday — or still are today — you can skip ahead. For those who weren’t, the microblogging and social networking website founded in 2007 was popularized in the 2010s by teen and college-age users sharing everything from their OTP (One True Pairing) to their deepest and darkest secrets (think a diary, but online and with multimedia).READ MORE LGBTQ+ STORIES FROM CHANGING AMERICATENNESSEE PASSES BILL REQUIRING BUSINESSES TO POST SIGNS SAYING THEY ALLOW TRANS PEOPLE TO USE THEIR BATHROOMSFLORIDA’S NEW BAN ON TRANSGENDER STUDENTS IN SPORTS WOULD ALLOW SCHOOLS TO SUBJECT MINORS TO GENITAL INSPECTIONSNCAA BACKS TRANSGENDER ATHLETES, SAYS IT WON’T HOLD CHAMPIONSHIPS AT PLACES THAT AREN’T ‘FREE OF DISCRIMINATION’NEW NC BILL WOULD REQUIRE SCHOOLS TO TELL PARENTS IF A CHILD ‘EXHIBITS GENDER NONCONFORMITY’Almost half of 1,000 LGBTQ Gen…

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A Brief History Of 21st Century Pop-Punk, From MySpace To Tumblr To TikTok

The #1 single in America is a pop-punk song. With “good 4 u,” Olivia Rodrigo has become the latest in a string of artists to venture into the resurgent genre. The track marks an important point in the style’s latest mainstream comeback: Now that the biggest pop star of the moment has released a pop-punk hit, without rebranding herself as a pop-punk artist, it’s safe to say that pop-punk is pop again. (Predictably, “good 4 u” is currently all over TikTok.) “good 4 u” is not the first pop-punk song to hit big in the last year. 24kGoldn and iann dior’s “Mood,” which combines multiple genres including pop-punk and hip-hop, posted eight nonconsecutive weeks at #1 on the Hot 100 last winter. Another pop-punk/hip-hop crossover hit was All Time Low’s “Monsters,” featuring blackbear, which spent 18 weeks at #1 on alternative radio — the best-charting track for the Baltimore band in their 18-year career. And of course, Machine Gun Kelly’s pop-punk album Tickets to My Downfall debuted atop the Billboard 200, becoming the biggest release of the former(?) rapper’s career. The current wave of pop-punk can be broken down into a few different groups. The first is the bands that…

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Cuz I love you

Andrew Nakamura/Daily. For as long as I can remember, I have always been fat. For me, self-love could never be a matter of “you’re not fat” or “it’s all in your head” because through my daily interactions with other people, I’m often reminded that others see me as fat even when they mean well and especially when they don’t. As such, I had no choice but to confront fatness itself and accept myself as I was. However, loving my body was much easier said than done, because fatphobia is so ingrained in society that unconscious bias is accepted as reasonable and almost never challenged. When I was a young teenager, I sunk many hours into scrolling through Tumblr and my Instagram explore page (that exclusively consisted of reposts from Tumblr) in order to find some sort of inspiration to love myself. While I waded through a flood of posts, I saw countless variations of “you have to love yourself before you can love someone else.” At the time, I didn’t think critically about these statements. They promoted self-love, which I recognized as a good thing even if I didn’t really know what that was supposed to mean to me personally.…

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Man sentenced for possessing child pornography

Brian Wayne Hillyard | Bonneville County Jail IDAHO FALLS — An Idaho Falls man will spend up to a year on a rider program for possessing child pornography. Brian Wayne Hillyard, 63, pleaded guilty to two felony counts of possession of child pornography in March before District Judge Bruce Pickett sentenced Hillyard Wednesday. Hillyard received an underlying two to eight year prison sentence that could be served if Hillyard does not successfully complete the rider. A rider is when a judge sends a person to prison for up to a year to undergo different treatment programs. When the inmate has completed the program, the judge can then decide to send them back to prison or release them on probation. As part of a plea agreement made with Bonneville County Prosecutors, three additional felony counts of possession of child pornography were dismissed. RELATED | Local man admits to using Tumblr to access child pornography, court documents say The Idaho Falls Police Department began investigating Hillyard before his arrest in 2020 after Tumblr, a microblogging and social media network, alerted authorities of child pornography on Hillyard’s account. According to an affidavit of probable cause, Hillyard admitted to police he had used his…

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17 K-Dramas That Will Make Actually Make You Swoon

Settle in for hours of tropey goodness. So many K-Dramas are great for romance fans. They typically run for single seasons of 16 episodes (sometimes slightly more or less), and often have a heavy focus on a central love story. If that's your idea of comfort viewing, here are some absolute must-watches... 1. Romance is a Bonus Book tvN / Via nurabiaylmaz.tumblr.com This is like Younger, but better. Dan-i took time off from her successful career to raise a child and now she's divorced and struggling to get hired again. She lies about her qualifications (saying she has less than she does) in order to get a support job at the publishing company where her best friend Eun-ho works. She also winds up living with him, so there's a lot of forced proximity goodness as their relationship grows and changes. 2. Crash Landing On You tvN / Via cookiesandcontemplation.tumblr.com This drama is both quite silly and absolutely devastating. Se-ri is a rich South Korean heiress and businesswoman who finds herself in North Korea after a paragliding accident (there's the silly). North Korean military captain Jeong-hyeok tries to help her get home, and the two begin to fall in love (there's…

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