I drag anti-Trump libertarians about their inability to engage in any introspection as to why the ideology was mostly neo-Nazis and what made it attractive to them but this is just rats leaving a sinking ship. Mangu-Ward led anti-Trump purges at Reason www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/o...

No Kings includes Draft Kings

The people compiling this Wikipedia page are doing yeoman’s work. Literal patriots

Otay Mesa "Detention Center" (prison camp) in San Diego, CA: lataco.com/captive-loti...

I love how our app now puts this AI bug over every text field that gets in the way of selecting the field and follows the cursor around. Not at all annoying or frustrating!

We found that Jeff Bezos paid *zero* taxes in 2007 and 2011. In fact, he reported making so little in 2011 that he even claimed and received a $4,000 tax credit for his children. This is how he did it (published 2021):

Hear me out: the GOP needs to be outlawed, just as the Communist Party was in 1954, on the basis that Trump tried to overthrow the government of the United States, and the party aided and abetted him. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communi...

Ok, hang on. Is the Oval Office shart story actually real?

When Ken gets in a mood it’s this meme in essay form and I can’t think of a much better reason to get in a mood

Confused? Let me help make sense of this. The American right’s claims about any constitutional rights only apply to them. There. Now you perfectly understand their claims on gun rights, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion.

Tonight other dumb napkin cartoon…

The most racist people I’ve known were Border Patrol and given how long I was in the Marines that’s saying something. As @hcrichardson.bsky.social often points out, we’re using ICE as an umbrella term that covers a bunch of different organizations within DHS and CBP is amongst the most violent

Pretty good size today. This was taken when the tide was at seven feet so it was really high but still the sets were overhead

remember when the panama papers came out and we found out every rich person on earth was committing tax fraud and then nothing happened

This was an absolutely fascinating piece to research. Do not trust the answers AI chatbots glibly offer you -- they're not necessarily lies, but they *can* and *are* being manipulated.

@kedseconomist.com Should the t-shirt read “I derive utility from consuming leisure?”

There’s a lot to get mad at Grassley about here but the one that sticks out to me is that he became a Senator in 1981. Conservatives hate governing is their ethos. People like that shouldn’t get or take the job

I was tempted to buy this from Goodwill just on the off chance that I could somehow get it to @davekarpf.bsky.social

Is there a form I need to sign?

I’m old enough to remember six months ago when the suggestion that ICE was being staffed by Proud Boys and J6 was dismissed as unrealistic

Let's be clear (and I'm not being cute): this is DHS trying to get ahead of the inevitable moment when they shoot a baby.

What’s the over/under for when the administration starts talking about needing the draft to come back?

brilliant idea, everyone I know *loves* having to do this once a year at work, bet they can’t wait to do it all year long on an app

[wakes up] “I’m sorry, what”

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

After blocking “No. Do your own homework” is the only valid response to this kind of poster

MTG found out what everyone who thinks an abuser is their friend eventually learns. They apology tour is just the next step it usually lasts until they inevitably make amends. People who fall for the act once look like fools. People who continually fall for it are their own kind of enabler

Between storm sunset

Disappointing but not surprising

This is a pretty long thread for it to be almost nothing but receipts

Definitely a “you go out and I’ll catch up later! I just need to get some laundry done and I promised to help my wife move some furniture first so I may be a bit “ kind of day

One of the right wing's top cultural initiatives was trying to destroy the idea that assholery deserves shame and we'll have to reverse that. "I'm just expressing an opinion I'm entitled to." Ok but you're an asshole. "I'm simply doing a business practice that technically isn't illegal." Ok. Asshole

Christmas was yesterday

Since @erinbiba.bsky.social got me thinking about DS9 I’m going to reveal my one reasonable wish for a new DS9 story. I’d like a le Carré esque novel that explores Garak’s origins and what he does on Cardasia after the Dominion War. Bonus points: get Andrew Robinson to narrate the audiobook

I know I won’t shut up about this but we did the same thing except with CDs. It was shocking to me to see just how bad streaming services got and how easily I could get distracted playing music on my phone or laptop

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

This has been made available, so for purposes of commenting on Bari Weiss's decision to spike the story, here's a live-post of that segment. It begins with a "you may recall" summary of the deportation to el Salvador. Describes the admin's claim that it could deport the men without due process

SCOOP: Flock left at least 60 of its AI-powered, people-tracking surveillance cameras exposed and livestreaming to the open internet. We tracked ourselves. The exposure highlights the power of these cameras and types of things they're tracking. Not just cars. www.404media.co/flock-expose...

In general, AI adoption levels are a measurement of to what extent a particular reward system (a corporation, a market, academia as a whole system) has ceased to distinguish between doing a thing and pretending to do a thing

Describing AI marketing as a traveling salesmen shoving their foot in the door is as on point as it gets

It's a whole genre it's beautiful

For her birthday my wife asked for a couple of CD players for the around the house. It worked so nicely that I got one for my home office. This whole thing has given me a new appreciation for purpose built devices because it works so much better than listening to music on my phone or laptop

Turns out that the neighbor that drives a giant pickup that no one likes is definitely MAGA. I assumed as much with fake bullets he bedazzled onto it but now he’s got one of those KKK flags to remove all doubt

hey troops this guy thinks you’re stupid

From the same person that brought you the definitive “Roblox is terrible and you should never let your kid anywhere near it” thread comes the definitive “editing posts is an abuse nightmare” thread with bonus “starter packs were a mistake” content!

The rare exception to Betteridge's law of headlines

In college a bunch of us would go to a theater that did two dollar Tuesdays no matter what was playing. The most memorable for me was when we had the entire theater to ourselves for Batman & Robin. I impressed everyone by declaring “I’m wearing lip condoms!” MST3K style right after Ivy kissed Batman

It's so fucked up to have been a kid during the D&D is the devil freakout and the Tipper Gore dirty lyrics freakout and live to see the teen suicide machine get such a pass.

In a sane world Waymo would have been fined out of existence by now www.sfchronicle.com/california/a...

Last night I did nothing but dream I couldn’t fall asleep