Louise Arbour is Canada's new Governor General. She was top prosecutor at the international court. She brought charges against President Milošević, secured the first conviction for genocide since 1948, prosecuted sexual assault as a crime against humanity. This is a powerful statement.

I come back to @juliusgoat.bsky.social's essay again and again: open.substack.com/pub/armoxon/...

Fruit bat, two gnomes high-fiving, headless guy in evening wear with a red bow tie, Ganon, big moth, cursed violin, ghosts of Siskel and Ebert giving two thumbs up, torso internal organs, King Frog, Popoie the sprite from Secret of Mana

Thank you Google Maps for respecting this cow’s privacy.

imagine reading “Animal Farm” and being like “that was okay but I wish this were a coming-of-age story about a pig named Lucky” “also I wish that any time anything happened two or three characters looked into the camera and announced that it was bad”

lol

Trump just fired the Secretary of the Navy and replaced him with Undersecretary Hung Cao, one of the biggest idiots Virginia politics has produced this century (really saying something here) in the middle of the Iran war

At the end of 2024, the National Academies put out a report concluding the NIH has woefully underfunded women’s health research, and they suggested $15 B should be invested over the next 5 years. Here’s what’s happened instead. Hard to study women’s health if you can’t say “women.” wapo.st/4euUt1c

Please confirm, WHITE LOTUS

It's entirely possible to not use AI

But Lord Donald … what about the hardest times in my life? … then, in the midst of my deepest struggle, there was only one set of footprints …. Trump Christ: Yeah I don’t walk with losers

"for unknown reasons, my mortal enemies appear to be concerned with the core essence of humanity in a way that my allies are not. oh well, better not think about it too hard."

you so rarely see a leader picking fights with both sides of the crusades. it's probably because everyone else throughout history was simply too big of a coward to try

With his pathetic little backpack

It's pretty hard to understate how good this news is. Hungary's obstruction in Europe, done at the behest of Russia, is likely over. But it's unclear just what Magyar will mean for Ukraine, e.g. www.epc.eu/publication/...

Look. Just a few days ago. What are they up to?

the devil just blinked

Reeling with second-hand embarrassment

jesus christ

You’d think the “ultimately” at the end of that review would have rung alarm bells for the NYT editors that it was either AI or a first year English essay.

Happy TDOV to all my trans sibs. Keep on trucking. Keep on holding each other up.

No one, no matter how strong or wise or great, can rightly own and use another.

I don’t love being in a society where you can sell enough pillows to do meaningful damage to democracy or sell enough children’s books to do a genocide or sell enough chicken sandwiches to abolish gay marriage That all seems like a ridiculous way to do society to me

LOVE U WIKIPEDIA

Again, just don’t get podcasts. If I wanted to listen to people talking, I’d be an extrovert.

So flags at half staff for Charlie Kirk, but making a mockery of a man who served and was awarded a Bronze Star with Combat "V", Purple Heart Medal, two Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medals with Combat "V", Combat Action Ribbon, Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross, and Vietnam Service Medal.

Throw them all into the sea.

Trump: "Who knows better about surprise than Japan? Why didn't you tell me about Pearl Harbor?"

Over 400 women have been arrested since they overturned Roe v Wade— yet not a SINGLE man has been arrested for raping children with Epstein.

"A.I. used to make mistakes like these." The notion that McCarthy is making a mistake here, rather than writing in his fucking inimitable style, is astonishing.

jesus CHRIST. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

I had been planning to sleep tonight, patchily… don’t look back on this thread if you too hope to knit the ravell’d sleeve of care.

The current rule of government is that you say two opposite things and therefore both things are true and also neither thing is true

Northeast Tehran, about 30 minutes ago

NEW FROM ME: While US and Israeli forces launched strikes against Iran this weekend, Global News' The West Block host Ben Mulroney reposted video of fighter jets that had been miscaptioned as American F-15s attacking Iran I double-checked. Ben was actually sharing footage from a video game

A machine is more blameless, more sinless even than any animal. It has no intentions whatsoever but our own.

the chips are down. an administration on the ropes. the legitimacy of a regime hanging in the balance. donald j trump has one last desperate shot to turn this whole thing around with an epic speech

Just so we’re clear on this: Maxwell recruited Virginia Giuffre at Mar-a-Lago.

Was trying to remember a Will Forte quote from Tim & Eric’s Billion Dollar Movie and accidentally figured out how to make Google’s AI tool shut up

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Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Jeffrey Epstein's December 20, 2016 email to Bill Gates: "come to visit the island. new administration people visiting." What was the upcoming administration in December2016? Oh!

Anthropic head of AI safety quits, warning of "world in peril" & announces plan to study creative writing, as my college charges ahead in deal with Anthropic, which trained its tech on at least 25 books taken without permission from our Creative Writing faculty. www.bbc.com/news/article...

This is the key point - it's not about Moderna's flu vaccine, it's about sending a signal to the rest of the industry that vaccine development isn't viable in the US. It's all part of the larger anti-vaccine agenda.

whomst amongst us

This is genuinely insane, I clicked to see the years expecting the low part to be 70s or maybe 90s but its 2015!!!!! The entire anti trans panic is a decade old

come on

When you get visited by three Puerto Rican ghosts

Just because good news is worth celebrating: There is now a Prep medication that is an *every six month* injection. HIV has, effectively, a vaccination.