This video shows a Fitchburg man appearing to suffer a seizure after ICE agents used an illegal carotid restraint on him. This happened with his daughter in the car and while Fitchburg police protected the agents. The man's wife was arrested. He's now suing. Full story: archive.ph/l75WM

Just so its clear: there's a blatant reason the chatbot gets applied to climate investments and not to, say, tech or real estate or finance. You apply the slopbot when you don't care about outcome quality and want to minimise cost. NBIM doesn't care about taking good climate investment actions.

This could not be more relevant: In this exclusive Q&A with author / artist Ben Passmore, we discuss his graphic novel, "Black Arms To Hold You Up: A History Of Black Resistance," a story that follows some of the influential people from the Black liberation movement. paulsemel.com/exclusive-in... 📖✊🏾

We just murdered eight more people in boats.

Here are the 28 Dem Senators who voted to advance the first federal ban on trans athletes & a federal definition of sex that would make trans & intersex people non-existent: Angela Alsobrooks (MD), Tammy Baldwin (WI), Richard Blumenthal (CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (DE), Chris Coons (DE), ->

They left Substack three months ago and lost 40 paid subscribers. They deserve support & appreciation for getting off the Nazi platform despite it costing them a substantial amount of money in a terrible economy.

she looks like a Thwomp. i can’t unsee it

Very much reads like they are significantly reducing the influence of peer review on scientific funding, which under the current regime opens the way for more politicized funding instead.

this is just historical and legal fan fiction. made up bullshit designed to vindicate trump's lawlessness

The older I get, the more my politics mature from childish, naïve beliefs like "the world is complicated and leaders have to make hard decisions" to more serious, adult principles like "hurting people is bad and helping people is good."

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US legal citizenship is a complex topic. Here's what I hope my book helps people understand. 1. Before the 14th Amendment included birthright citizenship, one's access to rights/privileges/protections was not based on legal citizenship--it was based on race, gender, social class, membership in 1/

I was in a tribunal a week ago where DHS moved to pretermit every single asylum case on "safe third country grounds." Every. single. one. At one point, a judge scheduled a second master for a man to prove he would be in danger in Honduras. Confused, he said "No, Peru. I'm from Peru."

Whoa. This would be two tiers of rights—-

I may be on Bluesky, but my culture is still Tumblr. I want to find out through a Destiel meme as God intended.

I realize folks don't want to hear this, but we really need to re-examine the conventional wisdom that we can shift the entire US market to pure EV with massive batteries and some light consumer incentives. It's a nice thing to believe but the evidence doesn't add up.

Indiana just sued Pornhub under the state’s AV law, claiming it fails to block Indianans from using VPNs to access the site. Indiana wrote a bad law that they were warned was grossly ineffective, and rather than admit it or fix it, they’re blaming porn sites.

I’ve been wondering about that…

one of the funnier aspects to the AI backlash is the fact that they're negatively polarizing much of the tech enthusiast demographic against them by making hobbyist PC building functionally unaffordable

okay somehow this totally banal observation about the relative scale and influence of social media platforms has made some people extremely mad

if you've never been around clowns when they aren't performing you might not be aware that they are the most self-serious, humorless people about their art on the PLANET, like the one topic where they will absolutely broke no jokes at all whatsoever is the clowning biz

Posting this again because I've been getting questions: at this moment there is no licensed merch for Murderbot or Sanctuary Moon except what is on Worldbuilders Market worldbuildersmarket.com/collections/... where it's sold for charity fundraising. And they are getting a new t-shirt design soon.

Choosing to focus, on hearing the news of Rob Reiner's passing, to remember this moment where he was so overcome with joy and laughter that he - the director of the movie - was one of many people banished from the set in order to finish filming.

As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson. Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa! [BIG ASS THREAD]

…what the fuck

Every single chatbot implementation where the users are actually discerning starts out with full sycophant-bot and then just crawls backwards towards being a search window again www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

The righteous fury of Cait is honestly a joy to behold in these times.

tesla owners admitting without shame they don’t know how to drive anymore

Situational awareness for @mbta.com riders: Cubic, the company setting up the T's new fare payment system, is also a military contractor with a "strategic partnership" with a Trump-aligned AI company that uses data to facilitate ICE raids. Details here: mass.streetsblog.org/2025/12/15/w...

As we mourn Rob Reiner, don’t skip this: he was, pretty much, personally responsible for overturning California’s Prop 8 banning same sex marriage. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/bus...

OK. I'll just go and wash my hands somewhere else, shall I?

Put Gremlins on for background noise. I had completely forgotten how mom just no nonsense immediately starts killing the fuckers once they turn.

fascinating thread. give it a read.

Reminder that “abolish ICE” is the bullshit technocratic position, “give ICE officials fair trials” is the moderate position, and there is absolutely a position that comes after that.

Just need to be clear that the US Air Force almost caused a major commercial flight catastrophe because they are flying over Venezuela with transponders off

2025 box has beaten 2024 box and there’s still an Avatar movie left to go. But movie theaters are dying. Sure, Jan.

Steve isn’t here anymore, but he always posted this picture on Hanukkah so I thought we could carry on his tradition and remember him.

The library board wouldn’t remove a picture book about a trans boy so they dissolved the whole board. “The book has been banned by three school districts — Carmel, Indiana; Palm Beach County, Florida; Stillwater, Minnesota — and nationally by the DoD in military schools” archive.is/2025.12.14-1...

It’s so cool that every website is just Like This now. We used to send guys to the chair for putting pop-up ads on their sites. Now if I want to read something I have to read single lines between autoplaying video ads that use so much RAM they force the browser to reload every 5 seconds.

Oh this is very clever. Perspective effects play a bigger role in astronomy than you might think at first. Astrobites, BTW, writes about journal papers at a moderately technical level. It's a great resource for undergrad/grad students, or high school students who are into the science.

Press conference beginning now. 12 deaths plus one of the shooters. "This attack was designed to target Sydney's Jewish community on the first night of Hanukkah... this attack is being designated as a terrorism event." there you have it.

The dress code for visitations is one of the most illogical and dumbest lists you’ll ever read. No sweatpants No track suits No scrubs No leggings No loose-fitting clothing No tight-fitting clothing No logos No tank tops No jackets No jeggings No spandex And it goes ON AND ON.

VIDEO: and that's how you cook a whole turkey in a log cabin ME: what an informative and soothing time YOUTUBE: more videos from FrontierPatriot88 ME: oh, I did not read that name before-- FRONTIERPATRIOT88 VIDEO: how to homeschool your white children ME: ME: yeah my bad

Just saw someone wearing an enamel Pin of a coffee cup that said “you’re my present this year” and it knocked me off guard, I was not expecting to see a Folgers incest Christmas commercial reference out in the wild.

okay, let's finally give John Carter a try.

my favorite thing about the benoit blanc movies is that they aren't really about benoit blanc. he is not grappling with demons from his past. we are not getting flashbacks to the husband whose murder he never solved. he just shows up and does his job like mary poppins for homicides

When you make it to another Jewish holiday, before you say any other prayer or start your celebration, you recite the Shehecheyanu, which is essentially a thanksgiving for bringing us to this day. It’s ritual but it’s also a statement of survival on nights like these. A miracle of persistence.

i am once again asking who the "leftist extremists in the faculty lounge" shaping democratic party priorities are, and what policies it is that they are instituting