1/ Update on what we know about the evolving hantavirus situation, strap in. A Swiss man linked to the ship has now tested positive after developing symptoms after disembarking. He received an exposure alert, sought care, and tested positive. This means there are 3 deaths and 5 suspected.

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Saw a bit of booksky discourse of authors saying "if you pirate my books, you are stealing from me." So I'll just say: "if you're pirating my books, I don't really care that much." I came up writing zines and the whole point was copying and it was cool and good and punk rock.

imo if you don’t want someone to bomb another country it’s self-defeating to call them a chicken when they don’t bomb that country but i don’t mind low engagement numbers on my posts

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What is going on with BBC headline writing?

This just in: the White House has announced the resignation of Pope Leo. Marco Rubio will be assuming duties until a replacement is selected

How has no one pointed out that Hungary elected someone who is named the equivalent of "Joe America"

Honestly the "But actually it's good to be the anti-Christ" for MAGA fits right in with the "naming your company Palantir" set. I beg you all to actually read a book

Uncap the House! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...

I'm hearing rumors that Melania Trump has been relieved as First Lady and Marco Rubio will be assuming her duties as Acting First Lady

The Peter Principle remains, but it is now named after Pete Hegseth.

I really thing this is the best argument for human vs. robot exploration. The uniquely human instinct to go "hey! What's that over there?" just isn't replaceable with machines.

Also woth saying: this shot would have been extreeeemly difficult if not impossible duing Apollo. They had top of the line Hasselblads then, but film would have been very hard to expose fot his kind of shot.

I think it's nifty that it's "upside down". Good for NASA to not feel the need to flip it.

If Fox Mulder were real, we would have never had Kash Patel

Log off, do some art. Nothing you read today will be accurate anyway.

In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.

Netflix can just make a news company with their money. There's a huge pool of talented folks at all levels of journalism (business and product end) suddenly available. Hard to come up with another company as well positioned to do this, or a better time to do it.

The troubling thing about the "deranged king" stuff is that there clearly are people making the calls, via him, but have absolutely zero consequences for their actions. They can just attribute it to a demented leader, and say they were just following orders, and/or had no idea

How is it that these people read the same fiction I did and yet conclude that Necromancy is anything other than an obvious abomination.

I feel like the video @foldablehuman.bsky.social did for NFTs back in 2021 could just be key word replaced for the AI investment bubble. NFTs are a dead topic, but I think we live in that world now. They robber barons have figured out how to make money from bubbles built on bubbles.

Same Energy as Hans Runesson'a iconic image. www.mpr.org/stories/2026...

Been meaning to share this, but it looks like those awful new National parks passes with Trump's mug on them are starting to circulate. If you need to cover it up (and comply with the rules) I made some sleeves that feature real Park art. www.scottwurzel.com/warehouse-or...

her last name looks like one of those randomly generated chinese company names on Amazon marketplace

I know artist rightly worry about AI, but when complete dumb-dumbs use it for graphic design, no matter how good it gets, you'll always know. The art- / aesthetic-illiterate will not even notice when it churns out garbage, because they have garbage taste.

The hilarious thing is, where would Beyonce's album have gone? Clearly they intend the new category to include albums like hers to be "contemporary" but in almost all ways her album was more traditional than the wide majority of modern country

In 10 years we are going to get an *actually* good documentary about the MAKING of the Melania doc

Moments before the first shot is fired, this federal agent can be seen retreating with a gun. It appears to match the general appearance of the firearm posted by DHS, including the red dot sight. This agent’s back is turned when the first shot occurs. x.com/BillMelugin_...

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Detaining nerdcore rappers now? (-__-)

This is so salient. ICE is an SA-style paramilitary force deployed to arrest people for offenses equivalent to speeding tickets.

My take on what is clearly murder: a bunch of insufficiently-trained ICE agents dog-pile — and subdue — the victim with multiple guns drawn (why were the guns out?!). One of agents accidentally discharges his improperly-drawn gun, spooks the rest, and then they all unload in to the unarmed victim.

Al Gore being the lonely booer is a Simpsons scene made real

Selbst mit KI sieht Rubio total gelangweilt aus.

Super low effort merch too

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

At this point giving Trump a Nobel would probably be a Nobel worthy move. We've plunged over the irony & shame cliff

Is it just me or has engagement here shot through the roof after they included reposts in lists?

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

John Abernathy tosses his camera to another photographer (Pierre Lavie) to prevent its confiscation during the police riots in Minneapolis. Rarely is a photo *of* a photographer pulitzer worthy but this is!

Along with a raft of other amendments which shrink the power of the presidency down to a size such that you could accidentally loose it in the cushions of your couch and it wouldn't be worth the effort to find it.

I think everything you need to know about the ultra rich right wing is that they read LOTR and thought it was Sauron and Saruman who got short shrifted by the narrative and not Sam.

new rose garden sign is giving "kitchen nightmares"

I think the real wake up call to Progressives in the US is that you can just do stuff. All the "unpopular" or "legally grey" things. There are zero consequences to just doing them. So many positive and restorative possibilities for a theoretical future liberal president.

My hot take? This is not true. They count on folks getting used to it and letting it happen quietly. They lash out so quickly because they know how tenuous their hold is. Don't mistake the boldness of fear for grand strategy.

Are we just doing Britney Spears' conservatorship, but for a country?

We must reduce the presidency to a formality. The office was a mistake. Massive constitutional reforms must start now.

Netflix: I implore you. Find a good author and release Benoit Blanc novels. I will buy hardcopies of every one. I promise. Is @straczynski.bsky.social available?

Ten two-handed swords that had been kept in an city hall attic for years because everyone assumed they were just replicas turned out to be genuine! historiek.net/tweehandszwa...