I would like to thank Palantir and their manifesto for allowing me to see Shining Path reeducation centers as a not totally horrible thing.

Remind me how things went for the architects of Hiroshima and Dresden at the Nuremberg trials. Oh...right...never mind.

Owning/caring for livestock has really advanced my thinking on how rich people think of people who aren't rich.

Good News Folks! I hear Brett Ratner is rebooting Night and Fog for a new generation.

May the forge be with you.

Sorry... HARD pass. 🤢 #MayTheFourthBewitchYou

A history of the top marginal tax rates on the wealthiest Americans: 1940: 81% 1950: 84% 1960: 91% 1970: 72% 1980: 70% 1990: 28% 2000: 40% 2010: 35% For 50 years, corporate backed politicians in Congress have slashed taxes to line the pockets of their wealthy donors.

Why doesn't he just skip to the end of the chapter and declare the constitution unconstitutional?

There are times when the spring parade of birds and rabbits is all a bit too much for Vesper’s prey instinct. She caught her first mole yesterday.

Happy Beltane!

What percentage of our current nightmare is ultimately due to a substantial percentage of white Americans being unable to abide the concept of taking orders from an African-American? The Koch Brothers weaponized it in 2010 to birth the Tea Party and it just metastasized from there.

I want to be very clear that although others have said that for every 2 staged attempts we should get a real one for free, I do not agree with them and am very slightly disappointed that they brought the topic up at all. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Truth

2 This affects every state. Check your registration NOW — don’t assume you’re still on the rolls. Then check on everyone around you. 2026 decides whether any of this gets undone. That starts with who shows up. That’s us. Democracy is a verb. Use it. ✅ iwillvote.com​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

If any of y’all want to see something perfect and beautiful and have a taste for football, yesterday’s PSG/Bayern match was the best match I think I’ve ever seen. Astonishing all-out grace.

Every time I see his mug with the words "former president" under it, I have to remind myself that the leading issues being discussed in the 2000 election were: 1) Which candidate would you rather have a beer with? 2) What are we going to do with all this surplus cash? Seriously.

Have they tried giving him a bulletproof backpack? It’s good enough for 1st graders, why not him?

We could even make the backpacks red and print "ARE WE GREAT YET?" on them in gold letters.

Good morning from Amboy, WA.

Speaking of things that were way better than they had to be, The Gorge on AppleTV is one such movie. Well written, fun and perfectly focused. Hope there will be another one.

“But if we aren’t supposed to chase them, why do they have white targets on their butts?” My dogs confused as to why I don’t let them chase rabbits whenever they want.

Honest to biscuits folks, this is where the aliens will decide that our species died of natural causes. apple.news/AoGgn0eL4Ste...

This makes me very, very happy. Bill’s a great guy who knows how important The Toronado is. For those unfamiliar, it is the best beer bar in the world. I may not live in the Lower Haight any longer, but The Toronado will always be my bar. #TORONADO www.sfgate.com/food/article...

Yesterday was a rough day, no doubt. Found out one of the publishers I do design and production work for is retrenching (which I assume involves WWI but I may be off about that) so if you need a book designed or produced, I’d be happy to talk to you.

Call me old fashioned but I liked it better when we buried tyrants up to their necks at a crossroads and allowed the voting public to express their feelings with full bladders and steel-toed boots.

Finally deleted (for good) my Meta accounts.

Do NOT use #Enterprise car rental. "Every day, there are reports of violence they (ICE) are impacting our cities with," Larkin told Global Sisters Report. "And they have an endless supply of vehicles to put people in who want to harass people with dark skin." www.ncronline.org/sisters-soci...

I, for one, would love to have a camera on de zerbe occupying a corner of the screen through the match. #COYS

Thank you for sharing, Corrina!! 🙏🏻🙏🏻

There’s already a date onboard for a general strike May 1st, National Strike No work, no school, no shopping www.commondreams.org/news/no-king...

@doctorow.pluralistic.net Hiya. I’ve been advocating for an AI Generated tag for posts on Bluesky but am getting nowhere. Any chance you think this is a good enough idea to promote it? I’m thinking it’ll be good to have a spot where people don’t have to deal with clankers unless they choose to.

NEW RULE: Any new data center has to be within 100 yards of the CEO’s primary residence.

@bsky.app Is there a way that posts with AI generated art could be labeled as such so those of us who either are artists being put out of work by tech or have people in our lives affected by AI disruption can avoid seeing it? Would really help some folks.

As a Tottenham supporter and US Peacock subscriber, I’d like to thank NBC and Peacock for saving me from having to watch Tottenham matches live. So much better to watch their fall via highlights, not that there are any. #COYS #PEACOCK #PEACOCKSUCKS

🚨🚨MAJOR BREAKING: Opposition leader Péter Magyar WINS the election for prime minister of Hungary, defeating Putin and Trump’s ally Viktor Orbán. 🇭🇺

Currently entering stage 4 of acceptance in processing Tottenham’s likely relegation. How are y’all handling it? #COYS

“Open the strait or we will blockade it” is the new “we had to destroy the village in order to save it.”

Is there anything like an “AI generated image” tag we could insist on so we can choose to not get discouraged by “Join the Good Fight” kitten memes that are generated by an inherently environmentally and economically devastating technology?

We have met the madman intent on destroying the world and he is us.

@sanders.senate.gov “TRUMP MUST BE STOPPED. THIS WAR MUST END.”

Good morning from Amboy, WA.

My guess is that Bondi is being shifted to the new mining project on Ghorman.

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We’ve gone to the “just talking about current events raises the ambient stress level to where both dogs are doing whatever they can to distract us” stage of reality.

How Palantir, not Anthropic, led US bombs to kill 175 civilians, mostly 7-12yo girls, in a school in Minab, Iran on Feb 28. How embedding automation - not LLMs in this case, just image processing and sensor fusion - in military workflows mutes human judgment, causes errors, & diverts accountability.

A WIRED analysis of DHS records identified dozens of specialized federal agents who used force against US civilians during the largest known deployment of its kind in US history. www.wired.com/story/border...