Yesterday was very productive for me, so I'm trying to give myself credit that today's most productive activity was making a really great list of <30min activities I can do when I realize doomscrolling is only making me more miserable

The lawsuit calls it 'beef'! That doesn't seem very lawyerly. (Story is only interesting as a "get some popcorn, the bad guys are fighting each other" things.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

The moment I decided to cancel Grammarly.

Tomorrow... ☀️🛻🚗 #Dimension20

Good for the Hampton Inn Lakeville Minneapolis.

There we go. That there’s a headline.

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We’re being led by the anti-vaxxers of the legal sphere: People who’ve never lived without the protections of international law and domestic regulation, so they only notice the inconvenience, not the horrors prevented. When institutions work, their benefits become invisible, until they’re gone.

Microslop Coprolite Outlook (or whatever @microsoft.com is calling it these days) is showing that I have five new emails. It briefly also showed those emails in my inbox and a preview for one of them, but then made them disappear. It's been a couple of minutes. This is a frequent occurrence ...

5. On January 11, 2021, AT&T released a statement saying its federal PAC had decided to "suspend contributions to members of Congress who voted to object to the certification of Electoral College votes." That suspension lasted 35 DAYS

You can commission me ✌️ This is the kind of thing I do. You can share that post to help me, if you want 🙏

The weirdest thing about Americans is how many of them think their laws apply to every person in the world. But they're certain other countries' laws don't apply to them.

Nei nå har jeg aldri... Hvem skulle trodd noe sånt?

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The last two runs of my dishwasher I've used just a single teaspoon of the Good Store dishwasher powder in the detergent dispenser. It's been working perfectly. It only failed to get some sticky pasta bits off a pot - something I expected. Everything else was perfectly clean.

One guy tried, unsuccessfully, to blow up a plane with a bomb in his sneakers, and everybody had to take off their shoes at the airport for the next 20 years. Chatbots have a collective body count equal to Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, and they're trying to put them in schools.

Anyway, I get every side of this, but I don't secretly hate Democrats because I want them to strengthen their opposition. Zohran, those that pushed for the Epstein Files release, the Tesla protesters and No Kings all prove that loudly changing the conversation can piss off and stall these fascists.

Update (boooo!):

New — I wrote about how corporate media is immediately siding with power in the wake of Trump attacking Venezuela and capturing Maduro, and how journalists need to treat the administration as a hostile entity that’s openly lying to them.

IMO the argument is that you can make things into big enough deals that it matters. Khanna found Massey and found survivors and made the Epstein Files the gigantic story it should be. Only then did establishment Dems come along. You can, in fact, make things into big hairy deals if you do it right.

TODAY'S OBSCURE GRAMMATICAL CHALLENGE Make a band subjunctive Would That They Were Giants

I'm looking for an Android or Linux tablet that I can use to read story submissions. I want something lightweight and small, that supports a stylus to make notes. I do not want Apple or Microsoft. Search results are spammy, full of AI garbage, and unhelpful. Does anyone have recommendations?

Conic Sections xkcd.com/3189/

Nicolás Maduro Charged With Felony Oil Possession

The deepest confirmed fish observation occurred at ~8,300 m. I know the shape behind it is another fish’s tail, but my brain insists it looks like the foreground fish is wearing a party hat. #deepsea #marinelife www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/new...

On Air Force One, a reporter noted that some had called it a kidnapping and Trump said that was a good term for it.

‘Cleave’ can refer to splitting something apart. ‘Cleave’ can also refer to the uniting of two things. …what? A word that is also its own opposite is called a ‘contronym.’

Start your reading year right and pick this up. The first book is relatively short and you can get any of them as free audio, to see if they are up your alley, but buy then later, because Ryan definitely deserves to be paid.

I love Dropout! Might soon be the only streaming service we're not boycotting!

Tell me we should trust AI to give us the facts. Tell me it's a future we can put our faith in. Come at me. I'm right here, waiting.

We’re old enough to remember when Congress existed

The death toll is now 80? I know the pandemic made life cheap amid mass death, but 80 dead is staggering

A really sad follow-up to this story — Alexis Erlinmeyer, one of the trans federal intelligence workers who was fired, has died of a pulmonary embolism. She was 31. Her family is burying her under her deadname, so friends are fundraising for an accurate memorial: www.gofundme.com/f/in-memory-...

The weak response from Can, EU and UN to Trump's flagrant crimes in Venezuela is striking. It exposes that much of the world has been cowed. Most notable exception: the Latin American left. That is why the Trump Admin has gone to enormous lengths to defeat the left across the continent. 1/3

GS: “Sen. Warner said you can’t argue drug trafficking charges demand invasion in one case while issuing a pardon in another…”🤔 @marcorubio: “Maduro was indicted.” GS: “Hernandez was CONVICTED.” RUBIO: “I wasn't involved in the pardon… I've got other things going on.” 🤷🏽‍♂️

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

I remember when they were saying they were powerless to return a man they illegally sent to an El Salvador gulag because it would violate that country's national sovereignty.

One of his prosecutors was Emil Bove, who Trump appointed to the DOJ and then the federal judiciary.

Wow, that pic of Obama et al in the situation room really broke a lot of these people. Amazing.

All of them. Trump, Vance, Bondi, Rubio, Hegseth. They should all be impeached and removed from office.

in this statement, Schumer says Trump lied to him THREE TIMES about this invasion. but Schumer's only concrete ask is for Trump to BRIEF CONGRESS. why? so Trump can lie again? IMPEACH. Call your reps and demand they IMPEACH. reps.fyi

Blows my mind that some of the same journalists who see Trump as a want-to-be dictator at home are earnestly discussing the "challenges" for this same man to "bring democracy" to a country it just illegal invaded. Please grow up.

You shouldn't currently subscribe to either, but note that NYT is calling this illegal and dangerous while the WP is applauding. Time to cancel Amazon prime and boycott everything Bezos in general, if you weren't already.

You should be embarrassed to be a member of congress and issuing anything other than impeachment resolutions. You're in the model UN. They should give you legos and a propeller hat

It's illegal for the president to relieve student loan debt. It's completely fine for the president to unilaterally decide to have the head of a foreign nation black bagged on foreign soil.

But what if Maduro’s involvement in the drug trade was an “official act”?

First Venezuela misses qualifying for the World Cup by one game, then gets bombed by the winner of the FIFA peace prize.

Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means it’s now the US administration’s position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.