We should round up all the people who keep making this argument and put them in a chamber filled with 100% oxygen. I'll even be nice and remove all sources of ignition to prevent accidents

The persistent use of the euphemism "detention camp" in this is an interesting editorial choice given the mid-article paragraph saying "this meets the dictionary definition of 'concentration camp' "

Took me far too long to realise how devious a joke this is:

"Waiting for Washington to do the right thing can mean watching people die while politicians debate." www.statnews.com/2026/02/13/c...

Haven't the "divorced widows" suffered enough?

One can only hope!

I thought this was going to be one of "we can't express right wing opinions" rants, without ever saying *which* opinions. But no... The 2nd paragraph is a doozy! It's a real sign of the times that people can and do openly say they want their country to be like Nazi Germany

Wednesday.

please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro

Seeing some criticism of Superbowl Vs Turning Point/US admin turning malicious in a way that doesn't support the people who'll want to boycott the World Cup and create their own entertainment around it in a few months. /Sad face

*looking at the Mona Lisa* there is no way a turtle painted this

A resident named Walter calmly took the mic and recounted an April 9, 1945 newspaper clipping about the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp... "And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough." www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...

Jaw, meet floor

Monetisation The advert said MONETISE YOUR FOLLOWERS so he thought he would respond by painting them in the changing light, like waterlilies in a pond.

Looking for ideas for a company sweepstake to run in place of our usual World Cup one

Television is 100 years old today! 🎉

"but, but, editorial balance" I cried as the water lapped at my ankles

Yesterday, I awoke to news of another ICE killing in MN. On Bluesky, the conversation was deeply critical of ICE. But I wanted to see how things were going on X. Surprisingly, the attempts there to blame the victim weren't getting as much traction as I suspected. So I wrote a thing.

stuff like this, etc

Understand that 370 days ago even bringing a motion like this would probably have been treated as sanctionably frivolous Today it was granted ex parte

I was a sensitive kid. I loved cats. I had OCD, undiagnosed. When I was 9, a fraternity brother tortured a cat to death in my hometown. The details even now are beyond imagination. archive.is/xdmUL I was traumatized for years from reading the news story. The torturer? Now the head of the NRA.

Usha Vance should demonstrate how safe Minnesota is by walking calmly in broad daylight through the suburbs past an ICE contingent

"Competing to be the most accommodating is not sovereignty. It is the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination"

Cat wandered in front of the camera during the #aurora long exposure

You may not agree with everything you read in our paper. But we trust you to read it and decide for yourselves. That’s why we print statements from powerful people we like without printing the facts showing those people are lying to you. You can do that part. We trust you.

This is an astonishing read, and required reading for anyone in Britain who thinks it's just the US sinking into fascism #justsayno

Found footage of what happened to Keir Starmer's spine. That's it for me. Complete failure of a government. Just hope I can give a useful vote to Lib Dems or Greens next opportunity to keep out the cowards and sycophants as well as the Trump wannabes

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

"Why aren't people talking to each other?" is always code for "why aren't people agreeing with me, a conservative voice?" which is twin sister to "why aren't people hiring me, a white man?"

Thinking about the FIFA Peace Prize it occurred to me that international football is a system for teaching people that corruption is good, actually, and makes you stronger And suddenly it makes sense why some of the worst of society are football fanatics

Hmm. Are the Daily Heil preparing for a "the mass deportation policies we're supporting are nothing like the mass deportation policies in America" argument?

A spokesman for the Department of the Defense insists that Secretary Hegseth tried to contact the survivors on the Venezuelan boat by Signal chat several times before firing the second missile.

Even censored (to remove criticism of Trump without the listener being aware of the edit) this is a must listen A Time of Monsters: Dutch historian Rutger Bregman asks what can be done to counter the moral decay of today's un-serious elites. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

I've never seen this particular quote (and am not a [capital H] Humanist), but it neatly captures many of my own thoughts when I realised that creation myths in religion and fiction, are not only child-like but depressingly mechanistic in comparison to reality

The editor of PC Gamer is the hero we need right now: "Microsoft's head of AI doesn't understand why people don't like AI, and I don't understand why he doesn't understand because it's pretty obvious: it consistently doesn't do the things we're told it can do" www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

My very good friend... whose name... I don't remember

It's the Roger Moore of snowmen

It's the perfect encapsulation of the reductiveness of modern conservatism: "Less red tape" means "NO red tape or protection" "Less immigration" means "NEGATIVE immigration" "Limited government" means "NO government" (except armed enforcement) Policies people nod along with until reality bites

It was supposed to be TACO not DACO

Donald Trump has sacked the six members of a US federal agency tasked with advising on design for major projects such as the White House ballroom and monumental arch plans www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/trump-s...

Fairly straightforward and true answers: There is It isn't Different boots It's daytime But people like this are never really "just asking questions". On the other hand, the "norms" of assuming good faith need to be questioned far more often these days

"I'm something of a soybean farmer myself" meme

TFW you realise his war-ending claim is the same scam as a shark repellent salesman in the desert: "well, you don't see any sharks, do you?"

This and the protest sign saying "the only orange monarch I want [picture of butterfly]" have been my biggest laughs of the morning, thanks

I remember rec.humor had the Canonical List of Viola Jokes. You can tell this is old by the ~ in the URL. www.mit.edu/~jcb/viola-j...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Loving the happily cloistered horse chestnut

Jesus, and I thought it couldn't get worse than the tagline that "people won't go into public service if they might end up in jail". How shitty a person do you have to be to undoubtedly have more intelligence than a garden snail but to actively refrain from using it for clicks?

My 5th wordle in 1! But now I need a new starting word. 🤔