I’m seeking photos and videos of drones used by ICE, like these. Please send any you have my way - trying to better understand the patterns.

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

As a foreigner under threat from the US President, what has been irretrievably lost is the belief that the US does not WANT to invade us. That will affect our domestic planning forever and no SCOTUS decision can put that back in the bottle.

This is the Way.

Seriously. I have issues with how the press handles statements from law enforcement—but this is something else. This admin, this agency, these same officials have constantly lied the whole time, including lying about events on video. It is dishonest for journalists to simply repeat their claims.

hey, elected officials? nobody who says anything like revamp or reform or rehabilitate or retrain ICE has my vote. i don't want ICE 2.0. i don't want "hurt and terrorize and murder and abduct my neighbors but in a more socially acceptable way." get them fucking gone and maybe we'll talk

A U.S. president cannot be held accountable. Therefore, a U.S. president must never make a policy decision.

Hell, I'd be happy with low speed trains

When Octavia Butler depicted a future where roving packs of paramilitary thugs were taking people to prison camps and killing on a whim, I thought it was an exaggeration

I keep seeing people asking why the police aren't arresting ICE or protecting people from ICE and I desperately need you to understand that the police aren't protecting you from ICE because protecting YOU is not and never has been their function and that's why we need to defund them.

Same.

If you're cold, they're cold. Bring the Federal Reserve inside.

Everything you can do to slow down ICE's ethnic cleansing pogrom will save lives. If you make it so it takes 12 goons to do a 6-goon job, you're saving lives. Every minute they spend in location 1 is a minute they can't spend in location 2. Every squad they deploy to your city saves another city.

New rule: if you bring a member of the administration on television for an interview, you must: 1. Challenge blatant lies and cut their microphone if they insist on continuing. 2. In the *same segment*, provide fact checking for the audience. "We can't immediately confirm or deny this" is fine. 1/

The feast day of Jonathan Daniels is August 14, the day he was arrested a week before his murder. Honestly, he's probably the biggest inspiration of the church for me and one of the reasons I'm proud of being Episcopalian. His story also sobers me, because it leaves me terrified.

Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago

"What Does That Mean" just sort of wrote itself. "Everyone seems to give a fuck, but they aren't doing a thing." mikalkhill.bandcamp.com/album/the-cl... My first solo release since 2019. Single is out on Bandcamp now, full EP next Friday. No release date set for other streaming services.

This is literally what they do whenever a Black person is killed by police. No matter how solid the evidence is, they will keep pushing that lie, not just to poison the conversation and make sure the killer walks free, but to reassert the political idea that these people deserve to be killed.

Anyone not actively involved in impeaching and no other activity should just resign. There is no government until he is gone. Pretending otherwise props up him, not government.

In the IANS tech briefing today, I'll be recommending that businesses discontinue the use of X purely for liability reasons. Whatever business value you might perceive, you're knowingly exposing employees to non-consensual sexualized imagery/CSAM. Literal definition of a hostile work environment.

All of this. But it doesn't make it any less an instance of journalistic malpractice.

The same Republican state legislatures that passed age verification laws for porn are silent on Grok creating and publishing CSAM. It was never about the children.

second degree murder, and specifically depraved heart murder, wherein the accused doesn't actively plan to kill a specific person or people but acts with callous disregard for human life - like firing a gun into a crowd or driving drunk - should apply to decisions made by CEOs and heads of industry

Man, why's everything gotta start so early in the day

The wisdom of Mr. Rogers is eternal:

I can't fix the world. I can't control the chaos. But I can fix my friend's brakes at cost, using Raybestos ($60) vs Honda ($240) parts. And sometimes, doing what we can is what we must do.

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

friendly reminder to not post anything that will get feds knocking on your door and putting you on no-fly lists, no matter how upset you are about injustices. it doesn't matter that you're not serious and it doesn't matter if you append "in Minecraft". be careful with what you say, here or anywhere

Just woke up even angrier. Impeach, convict, remove. Draft articles now. Either we have a representative government or we don’t. Do not shut up about this until there’s a vote.

Timezones are so weird. Australia is in 2026, Canada is in 2025, and the United States is in 1939.

Sometimes I think I'm starting to get good at chess and then I hang a mate in one to remind myself about humility

As an added practical benefit, fat slows the absorption of caffeine so it spreads out the coffee jitters

“Self-deport” is a whitewashed way to describe “fleeing the country under the threat of state violence.” I agree with Maria here — it’s important to call that exactly what it is.

This is why they want us talking about day care scams.

THIS. Did you know sickle cell is curable, now? FULLY curable. If you're feeling down or despairing about what FEELS like technology/advancement/science "standing still" or being fully malicious, I have great news: You're not paying attention to actual science. Just tech industry marketing.

Liberals are still in the "denial" stage when it comes to realizing that tens of millions of their fellow Americans are unrepentant, gleeful racists. Any campaign strategy, ANY resistance strategy that is not based in this reality will fail.

Doritos and sour cream is basically cereal, right? Breakfast of champions.

It's best to understand that fascists see hypocrisy as a virtue. It's how they signal that the things they are doing to people were never meant to be equally applied. It's not an inconsistency. It's very consistent to the only true fascist value, which is domination.

Next time someone says they don’t have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

i don’t see how any of the benefits of chatgpt and other consumer-facing LLMs can possibly outweigh their incredible ability to induce suicides

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people. It is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless. James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time

Been seeing “canary in the coal mine” used a lot recently, understandably so. But that makes me want to remind people of this lesser known fact: Just something that makes me feel a little better. As bad as things are it doesn’t necessarily mean we can’t find a solution or that no one cares.

Western European countries are accustomed to visible political conflict. Farmers blocking streets with tractors. Yellow-vests pushing and shoving with police. These protests enjoy a degree of popular tolerance if not support. US protesters face terrorism charges and decades in prison for this.

European policing is generally anchored in the European Convention on Human Rights, which mandates that deadly force be used only when "absolutely necessary". In America, we have the "warrior cop" mentality coupled with qualified immunity. It's almost unheard of for officers to face discipline.

In 2019, the rate of fatal police shootings in the US was 3.1 per million residents. By contrast, the rate in France was 0.14 per million, and in Germany, it was lower. In Germany, police officers discharged a total of 85 bullets at people in the entire year of 2011.

Computers were a mistake

I think people today don't understand just how dramatically the night sky has changed - it looked like it does in super remote areas *everywhere* before the invention of electric lighting, and light pollution that obscures the sky has gotten dramatically worse in the last 25 years.

As many of us begin Christmas meal prep, allow me to share the advice that my ER nurse sister puts in the chat every year: A dropped knife has no handle. Jump away. Let it fall. You can pick it up and wash it.