As Kash Patel actively covers up the murders of Minnesotans, the Minnesota Wild GM invites him into the USA locker room. Awful look.

I await the day DAGs become part of "voodoo stats"

Ok well THAT's fucking crazy. What the fuck was the bbc thinking?

he found the sidewalk clearing price

Worst blizzard in a decade and the sidewalks and streets are almost entirely clear in less than 24 hours, he’s gonna be mayor for life

and it's specifically a very American tradition.

I think that's the highest score in race for the galaxy i've ever gotten.

Look, in fairness, what do you think Ted Cruz is gonna say when you ask him about someone blowing off their job to fly somewhere

2026 is the year of the horse The horse

Academics see the worde TTRPG and thynke "tenure track roleplayinge game"?

@rickperlstein.bsky.social completely changed how I understood the conservative movement and mid-century America in general

This is the singular legacy of the Biden administration, the failing that preceeded all subsequent failings. What good there was (and there was real tangible good!) will have to be excavated from a legacy of failing while in power to punish the plotters and beneficiares of an attempted coup.

If somebody attempts a coup, and then they’re not held accountable by elites and institutions, the public will draw the conclusion that it’s not a big deal.

yikes. Bitwarden: still free, even self-hostable, at least, is still an option. Premium features of it may be worthwhile to some. 1password is still a very good product especially for enterprise, but "AI-powered item naming" is a weird feature.

Citrini piece doesn't say much new and has issues. DoorDash works b/c driver reliability is the hard part. Travel is already dynamically priced. MLS data is already useable via RedFin. People use brands b/c reliability, not just cost. Folks won't trust comps to auto-spend money, esp not w/ crypto.

It's a national holiday

yes, words do mean things

Painful to read this and think about the 2021 coup attempt, which was as blatant as it gets. An utter failure of US elites to seize the moment when everybody saw the threat right in front of their eyes. If we have history books in the future, they will be unkind.

full statehood for DC on demand without apology

This is the dumbest central planning in American history.

this is not a country that will go back to normal

I think at the end of the day if software engineers felt that software engineering skill assessment hiring practices were incredibly good and everyone loved them, I'd pay just a bit more attention to how software experts are arguing that aptitude and potential should be evaluated.

I know this isn't really the point but you actually *don't* need an ID to get on an airplane. You need an ID to: - Get through a TSA checkpoint to enter the gate area (and TSA has discretion to waive that requirement) - Check a bag with the airline. That's it. No ID needed to "get on."

Worth noting his objection to no fault divorce. I worked a bit on the campaign for that, and one of the striking things with the scholarship was the evidence that demonstrated allowing it led to a drop in suicides of married women.

It's not mob justice if the cops go to your domicile after investigating the crime and arrest you. It's literally the opposite of mob justice. It's just regular justice when you deal with the *justice system*.

In 2024 Rufo offered $5000 to anyone who could prove Haitian migrants were eating pets. Then he turns around and wonders why the brains of so many people on the right have melted into conspiracy slop

Left-of-center online political people never paid much attention to the case, but the fact that the FBI never found Nancy Guthrie (who now is almost certainly dead) is pretty shocking. Making a stink over it would be effective in skewering Patel.

It’s great (derogatory) that you can work very hard to find out something incredibly important, and the main response you will get is a derisive “Gee, I’m shocked.” Somebody has to ACTUALLY DO THIS WORK! You can’t pursue justice by going “Your honor: I mean, duh.”

#rstats Here's a useful guide to creating publication-ready #ggplot figures to journal specifications, which is often quite fiddly. jaquent.github.io/2026/02/crea...

Lessons from the MN civil contempt case, by me: Petitioner’s atty: “I understand that the caseload has affected all parties astronomically, and we are all human. But my client is, too. . . . All the people behind these petitions are humans.” www.lawfaremedia.org/article/less...

Isn't this an argument that the files *should* have been released? The institutional failure to investigate and prosecute Epstein shouldn't mean his crimes remain secret.

It shouldn’t be hard to condemn Andrew Jackson’s enslavement of hundreds of people. But in Middle Tennessee, he’s still a saint. Hats off to the folks at the Hermitage who are doing to the right, hard work.

A recent NYT op-ed blamed the Trump's regime's lawless violence on 'paganism' while conjuring Christianity as the source of good values. I think this is a terrible way to think about history and gets in the way of cleaning up the messes Christians have made. My latest from @religiondispatches.org

Incredible how much they selectively ignore their standards and practices when it’s time to pick on trans people. And as much as Singal sucks, it’s the mid- and senior-level editors at the Times who keep platforming anti-trans voices.

This is also a story about caste! Hindutva apologists are far more likely to buy into this kind of MAGA-adjacent eugenicist horseshit if they are also caste supremacists! (Special fuck you to Gavin Newsom for vetoing the bill that would have banned caste discrimination in California.)

Today, @mckay4senate.bsky.social urges us not to forget what Elon Musk do to USAID, something that is still likely to have the highest body count of the administration’s actions. McKay documents just what Elon has done in detail www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

MB insists on going down with the ship formerly known as Twitter, but if he were here, I believe he'd agree that a whole lot of posters would benefit from taking his poem to heart

actually bluesky has succeeded as a twitter replacement because i have forty times more followers here than i ever did there. journalists so often fail to consider my point of view and soaring stats

NEW: In a closed-door Vatican meeting last November, Pope Leo XIV told Spain’s bishops that the greatest threat to the nation was the far right. This comes as Leo was already confronting the Trump–Vance White House over migrants and war — and as parts of the right have revived nostalgia for Franco.

"the gaming culture" is a phrase that makes exactly as much sense as "the theatre culture"

this is an absolutely astonishing feat of independent journalism, top to bottom, and proves that the only way to truly fight billionaires is not being funded by them. just…read the whole thing.

these people treat being called racist like it is a slur, and treat slurs like they're mere differences of opinion

Feb 2026 addendum: yes, the correlation between lines of code and user value is loose/approximate, but the correlation between lines of code and amount of effort required to validate them is 100% real. If your org is not sufficiently invested in validation (CI/CD, observability), brick wall ahead.

You expect adults to care about places that are against their own existence? Sorry if I don't care about places like a whale's stomach where I might get negged on for being myself.

An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump. n.pr/4qTItsU

Feeling very disturbed by how the Epstein Files have unleashed a kind of Pizzagate among progressives. What Epstein did was awful enough: He trafficked girls and women, raped and assaulted them, and did so in full view of many powerful men. He doesn't need to be a pedophile cannibal for you to care.

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

that does in fact mean that you need to get over yourselves and that objecting to renewables construction is in fact inherently almost omnicidally evil

here's the basic fucking reality about energy that some of you are apparently somehow still unable to grasp: we have to migrate fully, with no exceptions, to renewables and nuclear because the alternative is to continue fairly rapidly destroying the ecosystem we need to survive as a species

Something I don't think a lot of current Dem congresscritters understand is that the person running on a platform of getting Bondi's Dometic Terrorist List on Day 1 and sending employment offers to everyone listed there would get a pretty decent set of votes.