there is no folly of the beasts of the earth which is not infinitely outdone by the madness of men

Several important nuggets in here: • Swalwell was rebuilding Newsom's inner circle; he was the establishment hope • One lobbyist: "Were we willing to delude ourselves or not ask questions that should have been asked? 1000%" • His campaign started sending cease-and-desists last year

I was truly madly deeply torn when Sunny came home at 3AM, barely breathing.

I think social media offers an ability to "see" everywhere online, but the ability is a lie. The exchange for this "sight" is that everyone can also see you. The user becomes a prisoner of this gaze and feels obligated to perform defensively because the gaze can be weaponized in a second.

This is the one day I have where I know I won't have to deal with any legal stuff before 3PM, and I absolutely should get out of bed and go for a hike to the Amyntas tombs, but it has been so beautiful to actually sleep for the first time since I left the US that I don't wanna get moving

White people think they have the power to police Black people—strangers at that. It’s suuuuch a bizarre experience, when a white person confronts you over something they deem you shouldn’t be doing. And they will legit stand there waiting, expecting you to obey them in real-time as they command.

"Gen AI" is not politically neutral, even & especially when using it against political opponents. This isn't some "tying a hand behind your back" situation, this is literally harming yourself and everyone else by giving legitimacy and credence to a deeply dangerous technisocial paradigm. So stop it.

My childhood neighbor is a retired chef. I visited with her a year ago and she spent the entire time educating me about how eggs have slowly declined into dogshit quality with sickly yellow yolks instead of the deep red-orange yolks she grew up with. The good eggs exist, but they are $12+/dozen now

Energy policy think tanks keep putting out proposals like "give Mark Zuckerberg sole control over our utility rates by making him America's next grid czar" and the people in Everytown, America are like "go ahead and fuckin try"

Hate to see people living my dream.

A lot of people complaining about how Democrats aren't in the majority, and that's all true enough, but there are actually going to be two votes on Wednesday to block weapons and you should in fact press Schumer and Gillibrand (and everyone else) to vote for them.

I think another reason many Americans Feel Bad About the Economy: There is a constant barrage of information indicating to the casual observer that people who run scams and lie and refuse to play by the rules aren't just going unpunished, they're *making way more money than you are* as a result.

i work at the department of portents and omens and we keep sending out all these portents and omens and they’re ominous and everyone just keeps laughing????

Imagine a study that found kids with ADHD have more visits to doctors than kids without ADHD — and used that finding to suggest ADHD treatment doesn't work. That's the standard of evidence the anti-trans braintrust is willing to accept.

If you look at the polling over the last year and a half or so it's more or less indisputable that being unconditionally and unlimitedly pro-Israel is about as popular among Democratic voters as being pro-life is.

"For more than an hour, several employees said, [Amazon] workers in the facility were instructed to continue fetching totes, picking items off shelves and loading them onto trucks for delivery as the man lay dead"

Absolutely fuck off. If 8 billion of us had a choice in naming something more than 7 billion of us will never see, the heavens will plastered with aged memes and terrible Xbox360 gamer tags. The eye of god nebula would just be blue goatse in the sky or some shit.

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/02/11/the-anthropic-test-refusal-string-kill-a-claude-session-dead/ The Anthropic test refusal string: kill a Claude session dead Via @davidgerard

"everything he did over the past 10 years and in fact his entire life was entirely consistent with my Christian values until this specific thing" is a hell of an argument

Meta is marketing their generative AI tools with explicitly antisemitic imagery. via @alte.klezmor.im

Simon was our letterer for BE NOT AFRAID, and he's a major reason why the project turned out as well as it did -- Mr. Phim's angelic script, over and against the shaky regular script of the mortals, builds the mood beautifully without ever being too heavy of an effect.

zohran please turn the public water fountains back on. zohran please some of us are very out of shape and trying to get back into running. I am not at this time coordinated enough to carry a water bottle while running zohran

I truly cannot imagine the level of not having real problems it takes to set your fingers to write this. Just incredible, Ms. Halligan. Incredible.

If you are still skeptical that a massive, uncontrolled surge in electricity demand is a huge benefit for a fossil fuel industry desperate for a lifeline, you only really need to pay attention to what the industry itself is saying.

Heavens to Betsy Betsy to Heavens Heavens BACK to Betsy Betsy GOOOOOAAAALLLLLLLL

Hot take: people should not have to flee their homeland to live freely as their authentic selves.

I find it deeply hilarious to accuse the Catholic Church of being soft on crime, like even the saved have to do a prison sentence when they die

Why does that FinTwitter account always shout? Is it a bit?

I've been quietly removing tech from my school library since I took over 6 years ago. I thought people would be annoyed, but it's been great. Adults have barely noticed, and the students have responded well.

It’s a great moment to remember that in the leadup to this popular uprising, the first major gut-punch was delivered by Budapest Pride. Poetic justice. 🇭🇺🏳️‍🌈

I find it deeply hilarious to accuse the Catholic Church of being soft on crime, like even the saved have to do a prison sentence when they die

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

“Sir, are you aware that you are a cat, and Mayor Zohran Mamdani is standing right behind you?”

Went for a walk and a pint and spotted the best example of free will I've ever seen

Disco Elysium rocked face for many reasons but one was because it wasn't afraid to actually say things with meaning

To give a concrete example: California paid for 70% of the UC budget and 90% of the CSU budget until the 1980s; now it’s down to roughly 10% and 40% rsp. Students pay most of the difference. One has to get paid a lot of money, as an ed economist, to not know this www.npr.org/2026/04/12/n...

I just listened to an extended NPR interview w an education economist about 40 yrs of rising college tuition & student debt, and not a single mention that 40 yrs ago was about the time all states cut higher education budgets, privatized tuition, in order to pay for tax cuts and prisons

The simit in this airport lounge is 10x better than the simit in the bakery under my dad's apartment

hitting a big button that says I’VE SEEN IT so i don’t see it anymore

I’m just going to leave this here.

The replies to this are the only time I will tell someone to read the comments. Just a delight.

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Wild that Altman is being sued by his sister for repeated sexual abuse and that doesn’t come up in basically every conversation about him. I get that it’s alleged but if that shit was happening to someone else I feel like that would come up, particularly if that person had a history of lying a lot.

Seeing my stepmother, who is 4 months to the day younger than my mom and 12 years younger than my father just completely deteriorate in taking care of him instead of (as opposed to in addition to) herself is a lesson in how not to be (and maybe just not to be) a wife. Thank God my mom divorced him.

1) …two things can be true. DT can be a frickin’ Nazi, and the Democratic Party can also be a self preserving organization which upholds everything from white supremacy, to misogyny, to state sanctioned violence toward transgender people, and genocide, when it suits their selfish interests.

…yeah so…if you’re ever late to an appt with me? Please don’t stress. Lots of life experience taught me compassion for all of the reasons people struggle with timeliness. In a time when our humanity under fire, being even shittier about people’s imperfection is really not a flex.

At a diner today. A middle aged white guy in a booth was mumbling something to an older woman across from him. She blurts out, “I dunno it sure seems like those tariffs he did aren’t really working out,” then she just stared and waited for him to respond. She was clearly doing the lords work.

Bit late to the fun, but "the Pope is weak on crime" is one of those lines that will outlive him