[person who has never seen soccer before] “oh no is that guy hurt?”

🌡️ June 2026, Spain: heat killed silently. MACE recorded: 🔴 1209 deaths from extreme heat 🟠 3008 from moderate heat Moderate heat kills more than heatwaves. Chronic, cumulative exposure flies under the radar, but not under the data. 💻 ficlima.shinyapps.io/mace/ #heatwave #health #climatechange

laughing my ass off at this interview of an average sspx layperson in the bbc. this woman thinks she is more catholic than the pope because she won't use her hands to eat the body of christ www.bbc.com/news/article...

these freaks don't believe in plain language or history, all they have left is catholicism and the federalist society and not even the pope is on their side

Kavanaugh, Thomas, Gorsuch, and Alito should be impeached www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...

Today is a good day to remember that authoritarianism is not inevitable, overthrowing fascists is possible, and good things can still happen. www.pbs.org/newshour/wor...

Napoleon Bonaparte made his servants break in his shoes before he wore them. His entire wardrobe was two different outfits repeated. When he arrived at St Helena he had a meltdown about the house smelling like paint. His stare was so unnerving other heads of state believed it was magical.

Not sure if it would be possible to come up with a better name for a National Park Service official providing a declaration in which he is required to tell the truth:

oof sorry, unfollowing now. loved his unique take on religion. had no idea he refused to send troops to Tunip, though Tunip his city wept and its tears flowed and there was no grasping of its hand

These are the zines that sent these people to prison. You can order them here. I did! firestorm.coop/products/253...

also not lost on me that as democratic socialists are winning some elections, a new red scare targeting anarchists, antifascists, and their allies is digging in hard, and today handed down 30, 50, and 100 year prison sentences to activists and organizers

Antisemitism is structurally necessary to Elon Musk’s politics, because he is desperate to brand himself an insurgent against the powerful elite, but as the world’s first trillionaire, he needs a definition of “elite” not rooted in wealth or corporate ownership.

this is unbelievable.

One of my personal favorite Sparling stories. i can only imagine the schadenfreude Zane felt getting to write this expose on how our posh suburb hometown was the epicenter of a 20 million dollar catalytic converter crime ring blamed on homeless people. www.oregonlive.com/crime/2024/0...

I'm really glad that this loving tribute to Zane Sparling mentioned his video reporting on the Lake Oswego court order, which was incredible, as was all of his reporting. Just a tremendous loss. My condolences to his friends, family, and colleagues.

A very Portland kind of journalist. My condolences to his family and friends. www.instagram.com/reels/DIM-M7...

Awful news this morning — one of Oregon's best reporters has passed away, all too young. His absence will be felt by the media and by the public at large. www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

"geared toward safety for families, not activists and homeless" "be beige not rainbow"

historians are divided on whether trump was actually a real person, or the stories of a large series of petty tyrants over a period of perhaps 100 years whose stories got merged and blended together back when AI was unsophisticated and new

In honor of the korea-mexico match, let me tell you about the funniest reel (in Korean) I've seen about the world cup.

ok i'll bite. what is foot ball

well my cat died so this sale isn't the worst thing that happened to me this week

aha ha ha

watching uk bluesky discovering the bad american skeet about guns and belfast and i want to defensively point out that the take-haver cut her teeth here in oregon and that it's an opinion informed by a specific time and a place but i caught myself before i got too hilariously american

When the Artemis program was first announced, the claim, all over the website, was that the landing mission (which has since been shifted from III to IV) would include "the first woman and the first person of color" to walk on the Moon. Last year, that language was deleted from the NASA site.

I saw numbers like 40% of sales were down lol. This is conservatism running into the unexpected reality that most Koreans think the Gwangju massacre was real, a tragedy, and a quintessential aspect of Korean identity. This is conservatism losing, and losing badly.

OK! So my suspicion here is that the role of AI in this fiasco is overexaggerated because the company is trying to find a scapegoat that isn't "Korean Starbucks is run by conservatives and Korean conservatives' brains have rotted from the inside out."

I saw Marjane Satrapi speak about her work at Smith College 19 years ago, and she said something I have thought about and taught ever since when I teach comics. “I draw what I can’t write and I write what I can’t draw.“

Social platforms have started to automatically apply labels to distinguish AI-generated images, videos, and music from those made by real, human creators. But you know what would be better? Letting us filter out the AI slop. Read more from @zombiewretch.bsky.social: buff.ly/9OMUCdc

We also found that if Xinjiang were a country, it would have the highest incarceration rate in the world at 1,944 per 100,000 people. China has an incarceration rate of 119 per 100,000 people.

“We must avoid the … the idolatry of profit that sacrifices the weak, a uniformity that neutralizes differences, and the pretense that a single language — even a digital one — can translate everything, including the mystery of the person, into data and performance.” www.theverge.com/news/936945/...

promise kept ducky 🩵🩷🤞🩷🩵

I am once again back in court. we are doing remedies while the jury deliberates. I don't expect to be posting much today because expert testimony is pretty boring, but to the extent that anything interesting happens, I will be posting here www.theverge.com/tech/917225/...

musk v altman: we have a verdict. now waiting for the jury to enter

tbh I think Mira Murati took the most reputational damage in this trial. she came out looking like a complete snake www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

Exclusive: Every adult with a YouTube account will now be able to enroll in the platform's AI deepfake detection (and removal) program. The feature constantly monitors YouTube for lookalikes, and allows users to request takedowns. www.theverge.com/news/931884/...

this is incredible. israel found the one strategy guaranteed to make NYT turn on israel thehill.com/homenews/med...

Talked about The Internet of Clips with @killthecomputer.com ✂️ Gift link to my story laying it all out: www.theverge.com/report/92000...

one day I hope to frighten all my competitors as much as demis hassabis appears to have freaked out openai www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...

I am honored to share the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Best International Reporting with Dake Kang, Byron Tau, Aniruddha Ghosal and Garance Burke for our reporting revealing how Silicon Valley largely designed and built China's surveillance state and enabled human rights abuses.

By gutting the Voting Rights Act, the Supreme Court is killing the Second Reconstruction. The first Reconstruction shows how Congress should respond. Me and Daphna Renan in the NYT on the tools we have to save democracy from a hostile Court.

Proportional representation is the way forward.

the based pope is at it again

Excellent analysis here by Tess Bridgeman and Oona Hathaway on the War Powers Resolution 60-day clock which expires today ... Making the Iran war illegal (a third way) Requiring the president to terminate hostilities @tessbridgeman.bsky.social @oonahathaway.bsky.social Thread 🧵1/

BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana postpones May 16 House primaries after US Supreme Court rolls back Voting Rights Act.

Very random journalist request: Can anyone explain why in Japan (and maybe East Asia more broadly) a lot of random foreign brands license their IP for merchandise? Like why, in 2024, did I encounter so many SPAM branded products? Working on a story for The Verge and want to pick someone’s brain!!

my latest for @theverge.com is about something i’ve been hearing constantly: Gen Z hates ”AI”, and many young people are deeply resentful of the jobs, schools, and institutions that are now pressuring or forcing them to use it.

Doing this tonight at The Strand! Come and see me!

something about how the essential innumeracy of racism has seeped its way into every fucked-up and broken american institution really got me worked up today www.theverge.com/policy/92159...