Bluesky just added a frankly gross feature to its iPhone app (Dig in to the thread to see, but basically: Screenshots of the Bluesky app now differ from what was on the screen at the time you took the screenshot?! Bluesky invented?? A screenshot that lies?!)

One of my core beliefs is that trans people have nothing to fear from truthful, ethical reporting. I'm willing to stake everything on that.

this headline reads as if it would be completely normal for the US to run Venezuela in the first place, what's up with that?

Here's the NYT just normalizing the US somehow running Venezuela as if that was a proper thing to be doing. There are just some challenges to be overcome, I guess.

This is a perfect piece of technical writing. alexharri.com/blog/ascii-r...

Some people were confused by my ICE post. This should clear it up.

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.

I agree that we ought to use persuasion to bring people nearer to our political purposes; I think that making every single Republican a social and professional pariah for the rest of their lives would be very persuasive when it comes to people weighing the cost/benefit of aligning with fascism.

He will rein in ICE "At a time and place of his choosing."🤡 ICE shot an unarmed woman in the head, threatened more with "not learning the lesson," added 1,000 agents to Minneapolis, and are now going door to door... and the people you elected to protect you from them? Want to give them more cash.

Note that the fascist is not using the pepper spray for crowd control. He is entering a vehicle unimpeded to depart. He is simply using the pepper spray to physically punish an unarmed citizen he doesn't like.

“Don’t call us murderers or we’ll kill more of you” isn’t really a winning message.

Alaska officials gave false info to American Samoans, telling them they can vote. (They can’t, due to a unique status.) Now, the state is threatening them with years in prison, part of GOP’s voting fraud panic. @burness.bsky.social spent months reporting the story; spend some of your w-e with it.

Amazing. archiveofourown.org/works/733964...

This is the pernicious victim-blaming the nyt relentlessly pursues in virtually every story about trans ppl. The nyt’s leaders are determined to impose their biased political narrative in telling stories about our lives, Thomas didn’t die bc of a “debate.” Hatred, not “criticism” led her to despair.

✨ It's perfecty legal to refuse to hire forner CBP and ICE employees. Throw those resumes in the trash. ✨

I know I’ve been posting (or reposting) a lot about ICE and authoritarianism in the US because *gestures around*. But calling my reps isn’t all I’ve been up to. I spent the day in my father-in-law’s shop working on a chess board. This was its state this morning.

a few thoughts youtu.be/lERS4kJIQR8

I am impeaching Secretary Kristi Noem, who is an incompetent leader and a disgrace to our democracy. She wreaked havoc in the Chicagoland area and has brought her reign of terror to Minneapolis. One of her rogue ICE agents shot and killed an innocent woman today. It must come to an end.

Plz dm me if you want to get connected and trained to do ice patrols. It’s important for us to be doing everything we can to prevent ICE from stealing more of our neighbors. If you’re a person of privilege, time to use it 🚫🧊

Donald Trump, Kristi Noem, and all others in his administration must be impeached and removed from office. Not a single one is upholding their oaths to the Constitution. They must all be prosecuted for their crimes.

The “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.

no, absolutely not, you all should've been nicer to my trans homies

Good, direct, unequivocal messaging here. Also: to Trumpists, lying is a patriotic sacrament. Trumpists lie because they believe, as a tenet of Trumpism, that the people they hate deserve to be lied to and that it’s for the best for the few people they don’t hate today.

It takes an enormous amount of courage to stand there, keep filming, and scream "What the fuck, you asshole" at someone wearing a badge who just shot and killed one of your neighbors in cold blood.

Español: ¡ALERTA MÁXIMA! Necesitamos gente patrullando las calles ahora mismo. En Lake Street, Powderhorn, Central y el sur de Minneapolis hay una gran presencia de agentes de inmigración. Desde paradas de autobús hasta personas siendo sacadas de sus coches. 2/

First blog of the year is five general tips for learning about #OTCybersecurity as a student tisiphone.net/2026/01/04/my-t...

I called my Congressman's DC office and actually spoke to a staffer. (I thanked them specifically for answering the phone.) "I'm calling because President Trump has attacked Venezuela and is now threatening Colombia, Cuba, and Greenland. This warmongering is unacceptable [...] 1/2

The great @jamellebouie.net sets an example for the tone we need to take with people who tricked themselves into believing Donald Trump was a lesser evil. www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yUi...

Democrats need to grow a f*cking spine. No more strongly worded letters. It’s time to draft articles of impeachment. Impeach. Convict. Remove.

At the end of Saturday, once I had some time to read and think, here was my first look at where we’re at and where we could go: www.lawdork.com/p/venezuela-...

So they set up a labeler so that you “report” the user you want to follow. The “labeler” treats the report like a “follow” and then shares that with the feed. So then, when you visit the feed, it shows the posts of people you “reported”

Me faltan manos para aplaudir a este abogado mexicano. A ver si los que están dando saltos de alegría con el ataque de USA a Venezuela entienden algo leyendo su tuit. Lo explica perfectamente. Impecable.

As a candidate for Congress in #CA14, my full statement on the illegal U.S. strike against Venezuela. It's imperialism. It's colonialism. It's illegal. Congress must act now.

I agree with Sen. Kim’s points. But I note that what’s misssing from this thread is a statement about what he, as a United States senator, is going to do about it.

I called my representative to demand he impeach Trump. No one answered the phone so I left a message.

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.

I think everyone who read the Jack Smith deposition but didn’t watch the video is missing out. The Republicans were just so pathetic (e.g., Jim Jordan asking about overly-long filings and the focus on court schedules). You can tell at points they seem to realize just how pathetic they are.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free. consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Today a local conservative and ICE agent who cried bloody murder when asked to wear a mask during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic clarified he’s actually totally fine with wearing masks as long as it’s to ruin lives, not save them: tinyurl.com/3pabcukx

Jack Smith got asked about Republicans not getting jobs as lawyers at big law firms . Q: Would you agree? Smith: That Republicans don't get jobs as lawyers? I mean, I'm sorry... Q: At big law firms. Smith: I don't actually know that that's true. [...] I think there are Republicans at big law firms.

As it happens, I have experience with high-level government demands to stop an explosive, accurate story from running, and I also have experience with 60 Minutes spiking a story I was involved in, so I have thoughts about the travesty at CBS. If you want some journalism anecdotes, here are a lot:

It seems like @lichess.org is broken on Firefox on macOS tonight. A timeout handler appears to be making an unsupported call and setting a timeout handler which then fires and calls the unsupported function again. The stack trace grows with each failed call. Works in Chrome though.

Does anyone know what this @chess.com puzzle number actually means? It doesn't seem to have any correspondence with numbers that appear in my stats.

I only played one game of chess today and I thought I played pretty well. Then I checked the engine analysis. I had the white piece here (on the left).

Cursed circuits #4: PLL frequency multiplier lcamtuf.coredump.cx/blog/pll/

I played some time odds chess games against @pinkhairedcyn.bsky.social this afternoon. It was a blast. The big chess websites should really support that natively. (You have to play on lichess and give your opponent time in 15 second increments.) Cc. @lichess.org @chess.com

I tried asking Gemini to summarize one of my papers this evening. It got the title, authors, and content wrong. I don’t understand why people find that useful.

Well, this is interesting. So they lied and got caught. And there were consequences. Hmm.

67 Senators could remove RFK Jr. today but there aren’t 67 Senators who care about Americans’ lives, health, or wellbeing. Babies will die. Our leaders hate us.