this is also getting some quote tweets—I am assuming the most likely case here is that a former State employee had some things from the communications division and died/threw them out or something and not so much a purge related to current admin. Who knows, but based on the circumstances most likely

ok I will have to finish looking at these later, just stopped to look through while getting lunch, and now that I am realizing that some of these mayyyyy not be copies of widely preserved photos I’m going to put them away til I’m home

I just trash picked a huge pile of photos from the State Department so you all get Madeline Albright in a cowboy hat

You found this in the TRASH???????????

yes lol

Happy Valentine's Day to coffee I love you so much coffee.

This is blackout poetry to me

So much of our present crisis is coddled, ignorant, and short sighted people tearing down the institutions that protect them because they don’t understand that bad things can happen.

If at all possible, I intend that when I go the contents of my apartment will be a laptop, a chef's knife, a cast iron pan and seven changes of clothes. Someone will hand my daughter an envelope containing a single sheet of paper that says "sign here to receive money." And that will be it.

Being again this day etc, do take a break stroll down this thread. It is vegan and most wholesome.

🧵Spotted on Market Day on Valentine's Day in Aotearoa New Zealand: A woman (70s?) in delightful boho fashion is sitting at a pretty cafe table. A pot of tea and a little pink cupcake decorated with a love heart sitting before her. A small, contented smile on her face. (1)

My parents: Do you need this? Who feels attached to this stuff from grampses? We're death cleaning here, get it while it's lukewarm! Us kids: uhhhhh please don't do this [two years of suddenly having to sort out parents-in-law's stuff] Me: I LOVE you mom and dad 🥹🥹🥹🥹

This. It would be really, really great if Democrats would start *consistently* calling out the way that the media is led around like f'ing children by the right-wing hate machine. Don't just accept the frame. Call out the frame. Force viewers to confront the frame. It's so f'ing basic.

"I think camp counselors should save drowning children instead of having sex"

You may laugh, but the Macbeths are a much better role model for a marriage than Romeo and Juliet. They discuss their problems (killing the king of Scotland), share their hobbies (killing the king of Scotland), and resolve their conflicts (by killing the king of Scotland).

me suddenly remembering the songs on this album

This ceremony gets a lot less fun after the Butlerian Jihad...

this website is a machine for surfacing extremely rarefied internecine beef from toxic friend groups and you need to be able to recognize when it's happening and avert your gaze

if someone is saying shit like "it's lowkey biphobic that you support AOC even though she won't legalize cannibalism" or "you realize that expecting your room to have windows a luxury belief right" what you're seeing are the charged particles being shot off from polycule fission

it's simply not healthy to look directly at the rays. that's not a "blue sky" that's Cherenkov glow. some tweets should have "DROP AND RUN" engraved on them.

The Fugees released their sophomore and final album, 'The Score,' 30 years ago today. 💿 The album sits on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time. www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...

Roses are red, So are some others…

My takeaway is the artist was told to draw painstakingly draw each hair in Platner's beard and then what they thought someone called Jasmine Crockett would look like

Let us celebrate our new arrangement with the adding of snart to helg.

Pro tip: when things are terrible, narrate your tasks like they’re a letter being read over a Ken Burns documentary.

Fie! Fie, I say! I shall defy the might of the angels and the full arc of heaven! If it takes unto my dying breath, I shall find a single ripe avocado in this store. Do not forget me as the seasons change. Yours, M

Being anti immigration is the ultimate luxury belief

we live in the ruins of a greater civilization

Happy birthday to Charles Darwin, patron saint of tired scientists, grumpy fieldworkers, and hating your own manuscript.

the swedish migration agency has ordered the deportation of an eight-month old born in sweden to two legal resident parents. the reason: the government (and oppo social democrats!) changed residency laws last year to make sure this exact thing would happen. gotta look tough!

Happy Radio Day to all those who celebrate.

The year is 2015. China is getting richer and more powerful every year, but America has three trump cards: universitities, biomedical research, and immigration.

Ok.

like a lot of things would surprise people who arrived in 2026 from 1992 but "Snoop Dogg will be marketing himself as a friendly cuddly guy who comes to every Olympics event" is way up there

Old enough to remember when Republicans thought armed agents pointing a gun at a scared little Latino boy was an outrage. "Stormtroopers," they said. "Jackbooted thugs."

Can’t stop thinking about the gargantuan gulf between the kid glove, caveat-laden, “having your name all over the Epstein files doesn’t mean you did anything wrong”-treatment of the men in Epstein’s inbox… and the brutalize first, ask questions later policing in Minneapolis.

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

nobody posted the clip anywhere so i went and dug the whole episode up

Trump And RFK Jr Announce New Asbestos Sandwich

Can you IMAGINE a Commissioner speaking to an MEP this way??

Contrast of Forms, by Fernand Léger, 1913, (rotated) 📸 by Mike Segar

Wrote something combining threads from here & elsewhere on meaningful consent, bias, dis- & misinformation, and harms to critical thinking & skills development and social interaction in the context of "AI." Here's "Failures of “AI” Promise: Critical Thinking, Misinformation, Prosociality, & Trust":

'I said before, the Logics that we use in this space, they are frameworks that depend upon notions that say, "the creators of these technologies will be able to enact their will at a distance; they will be able to make changes in the world; they will be able to alter the very fabric of reality."…

…'These are Logics of belief in religion, belief in spirituality, belief in Magic. These Frameworks then become the ground reality that we all exist in— by the actions that they take, the things that they create, the world that they make for us. And thus, *We Are All Made Subject To* these logics.…

…'These actions are performed on us w/o our input, w/o our knowledge, and without our consent. And we have another word for magic performed on us without our knowledge and without our consent: 'Binding and subjugating magic… is called a curse.' From "Religious Belief & Practice in the Age of 'AI'"

oldie but a goldie

This is the second account - the first being in Chicago - of DHS agents mass detaining people and then *sorting them by race*.

Go for it. I don't even care any more.

I wrote a spec for a Lord of the Rings sitcom. Fish-out-of-water comedy in which Gimli and Legolas fall through a portal and have to share an apartment in modern New York. They had an annoying musician neighbour who may or may not be Tom Bombardil. Always pictured him as James Van Der Beek.