“Why should you throw sand in the gears if you can’t blow up the entire factory I don’t get it”

Btwn the craven decision to publish a book by the VP, the harlequin dash AI bullshit, and now this … just a banner work for HarperCollins being a soul sucking shit show of a company

I get into the history of civilian control of the national airspace and why the Pentagon’s push for the power to shoot down suspected drones at will is a threat to that control - and to flight safety. The military wants to do this in Washington DC. Think about that.

Piper is the absolute best, she's SO talented, is SUCH a bright light, even through this harrowing ordeal, and she is fighting SO HARD, join me in a donation to give her more time? She's got a book to finish and I want that for her, and for the world!

The vast majority of Americans are birthright citizens. Unless you naturalized or were born abroad to an American parent, you are a citizen because of the 14th Amendment. There is nothing constitutionally distinct about Americans born here to non-Americans. We are all literally equal citizens.

Really hard to process my emotions when I'm both so glad that Bondi and Noem are getting publicly humiliated, but also Steven Miller still exists.

Goes for venmo too, they want you to think it's a bank but it is NOT and that money is not fdic insured, it could be gone at any moment.

Reminder do NOT keeps funds in PayPal like it's a bank. It's not. It doesn't matter if you're a SFW or NSFW Artist. If you sneeze wrong they will freeze your account and you will not get to access that money at all. Make sure you're transferring it out as often as you can.

A favorite that I haven’t seen in this (fantastic) thread yet…

idk guys when i see a lot of similar headlines insisting that editors & authors are all already embracing AI, i don't assume these things are true. i assume there are a lot of very rich people with an unpopular product pushing a particular narrative in my industry!

Excuse me, anyone who follows me that is connected to Defector!!!!!!! You should have the great Jen Prokop write about how she uses your articles to teach her 7th graders that reading is cool!

Plus one for moon's haunted, love that one

"Just double check! You should always double check any information source!" is the fig leaf that "smart" AI boosters use. But it's a transparent lie. The entire point of an omnipresent machine that blurts out answers is that your lazy ass doesn't have to open a book.

they made the Apprentice guy the President twice and he won't even fire people on TV for them

Some are calling it a quest to find the lowest approval rating theoretically possible in a two-party system

Rumors of his demise have been greatly exaggerated

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

The sort of women into tradwifery are into it because they believe womanhood to be a competition for the favor of the most powerful man they can attract, who may hate and revile and even abuse them but will provide for and shelter them from the abuses of the wider world.

New blog post on the BTS101 site attempting to gather all the Arirang comeback clips / interviews / fun stuff. Let me know what I missed! I'll keep updating it over the next few weeks. #bts #arirang bts101.info/the-arirang-...

in the past week alone we have had... -- a 12-ton KitKat heist -- a highly organized Italian art heist -- reports of criminals robbing trucks using a technique called "the Romanian rollover" i blogged it type-click-type.ghost.io/what-a-week-...

Please take three minutes to click through to James' and Mamdani's websites and tell them to use their powers as promised to protect health care for trans kids in NYC. gregpak.net/2026/03/27/t...

there’s a tree stump in my neighborhood where someone leaves bread for birds. sometimes it’s bagel pieces, sometimes baguette or sliced. and today it’s matzah. I think that’s neat. happy passover, birds

The notion that any person born here should be denied U.S. citizenship because their parents happened to be immigrants is an anti-American perversion of legal principles that actually pre-date the 14th Amendment. The only support for that proposition is Dred Scott, which is of course no longer law.

The reason for the pause in testing is widespread layoffs, hiring freezes and resignations. By July, the rabies team will be down to just one person with the clinical expertise to advise state and local officials, and the pox virus team will have none.

this is insane!! oftentimes the only way doctors can confirm whether an animal that bit you had rabies is to send a sample of the deceased animal's brain tissue to the CDC for testing. but now 🤷🏽‍♀️ there's a reason rabies deaths are so rare in the US. we should keep that reason intact!!

It’s amazing how often the answer in publishing is just “hire more people” and how often what actually happens is overwork and burnt out corner cutting.

You know who is excited about tonight’s Artemis 2 launch? Commercial pilots who might get a chance to see it from the air.

love the contempt Harlequin has for its authors and readers! so cool! so fun to enjoy!

"The color is repellent, almost revolting; a smouldering unclean yellow, strangely faded by the slow-turning sunlight." I made a "Yellow Wallpaper" piece back in 2017, but I re-read the story over the weekend and wanted to try again. Much happier with this version 🖤

These subject area experts are saying one thing but this toddler with a handgun is saying the opposite much louder. Who are we to say who’s right.

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“They say the idea is catching on.” FFS! It is not catching on except among a minuscule cadre of religious freaks. Stop with the clickbait claims. “They say?” You sound like Trump.

When she first ran for senate in 1996, she said she would only serve 2 terms and then retire.

Part of the strategy the anti trans side had was normalizing bathroom bans in government buildings which are now in effect in over 20 states. They'll move to private businesses quickly in a legislative cycle and make it so opposition can't be mounted effectively.

wish SCOTUS would examine "a well regulated militia" with the granularity they are debating "domicile"

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When I got into kpop 6 years ago it was still totally bonkers to hear any kpop song on the overhead speakers in a store or something. Imagining Taemin on the Jennifer Hudson show?? What????

New BTS lines: Those who will look ridiculous if needed: Jimin, Jungkook Those who refuse to ever look ridiculous: Hoseok, Yoongi Those who are excited to look ridiculous: Namjoon, Jin, Taehyung

I would rather chew and swallow an entire beer stein's worth of glass than use AI to write.

It's hilarious because the premise of America is literally "fuck Europe" but all these people suddenly care what the Europeans are doing. I don't. Long live the United States.

the 2.0 MV is so much fun, I need to watch it at least 613 times more right now

you don’t have to know much world history to look at this map and immediately see why the entire western hemisphere has birthright citizenship

Very important reporting here. In Oregon, the GOP has turned over a significant chunk of its messaging operations to right wing livestreamers. One of them (David Medina) is even running in the gubernatorial primary.

Someone years ago explained the plummeting birth rate in Italy to me as follows: “The women became feminists and the men didn’t.”

Reserve Streisand effect. The more they know, the more they like it.

Randomly thinking about Sidney Sweeney stating she’s not here to talk about politics, she’s just here to make art and I continue to be baffled by the sheer obliviousness of that comment. If you truly think art isn’t inherently political, you have no business making it.

Pathetic!!!! Book banning!!!!! Losers!!!!!!!!! Get a life!!!! Find some real joy!!! Leave us alone!!!!

i can't believe a republican president did what every republican president of the last 50 years has done (exploded the national debt)