Amazon controls over a third of the global cloud computing market. Its customers include Capital One, United Airlines, and the US Army. Today's outage should be a wakeup call: Dependence on a handful of powerful corporations is a threat to economic and national security.

I voted today. You should, too.

“Average musician makes $12 a month on Spotify. The fact that they are not even able to sell a record and it’s taken from them by rich motherfuckers on streaming platforms who get paid royally by record labels,Ticketmaster, merch companies. They’re all fucking getting paid, except for the musician.”

Hoggsian theory of crisis management

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

Who robbed the Louvre? Right answers only.

Spotify is now running recruitment ads for ICE. It’s time to cancel your account.

I imagine @gregjenner.bsky.social reluctantly agrees with me: that was an amazing Villa goal. The controlling touch before the shot was sublime. COYS

Austin PD, too.

“There’s no way I’m bending the knee I have left for a king in America.” Damn. Just … damn.

Nye: We are here to tell our lawmakers that what's going on in our government is wrong. They must stop the abuses of this petulant president and his circle of sycophants. No thrones, no crowns, no king

Not being even vaguely sarcastic: At some point, a journalist needs to ask Johnson “you regularly claim you have no idea what your own government is doing. If we take you at your word, how are you so poorly informed, and do you this level of ignorance should disqualify you as speaker?”

This is very good

Thanks to @aarontpratt.bsky.social of the @ransomcenter.bsky.social for hosting us today. A wonderful host who gladly shares his knowledge and enthusiasm for manuscripts and early printed works.

Great news!

They fired a top-level commander, the top of the chain of command but for SecDef and POTUS, because the wanton murder spree on the high seas as it's been conducted so far wasn't enough for them.

Man, this freaking guy. "I have no staff ... The phones don't work. There's no computer," Grijalva says from her sparsely furnished office on Capitol Hill. "We don't have a government email." www.npr.org/2025/10/16/g...

A Ren Faire implies a Stimpy Faire

I’m running for governor. For over a decade, Greg Abbott has made it easier for billionaires to profit while hardworking Texans struggle to afford groceries, housing, and healthcare. But together, we can make Texas work for Texans again. Join us: ginafortexas.com

443 years ago, on the 15th of October 1582, the Gregorian calendar was first adopted causing many Catholic European countries to jump from the 4th to the 15th. The calendar was decreed by Pope Gregory XIII to regain a correct calculation of the date of Easter. #otd #history 🗃️

The veneration of Books As Objects misses the point entirely. If you're reading a book, turn the corners down, break the spine, spill soup on it. It's your book, go nuts. A pristine, unread book is a tragedy in a way that a beloved, much-read book that looks like the dog's been at it could never be.

Most of us can’t do all this but all of us can make our yards more hospitable to native bees and pollinators. youtu.be/rGRqeN3PCNw?...

Look, this is what Catholicism does so well. Yes girl, BRING OUT THE MONSTRANCE. MAKE THEM SAY IT IN FRONT OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT. Martin Luther could *never*. He failed to predict the Trump Presidency and also is directly implecated. I am so serious.

cry havoc and let slip the frogs of war

Donald Trump just got a COVID booster at Walter Reed, per the White House physician. Let’s be clear this is the same guy who downplayed the virus, mocked masks, and turned lifesaving vaccines into a political wedge that cost hundreds of thousands of lives.

Can you think of a single movie in which there is a video from the government denouncing its political opponents playing on a loop in public spaces in which that government was the good guy?

“This is a movement…This is an achievement of a whole society…I am just one person.” The beautiful humility of Venezuelan pro-democracy leader, Maria Corina Machado, the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize recipient.

The ketchup is about to be thrown

LA: we will fight you. Chicago: we will fight you. PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

This evening, President Trump is ordering 400 members of the Texas National Guard for deployments to Illinois, Oregon, and other locations within the United States. No officials from the federal government called me directly to discuss or coordinate.

Ooh I love this game. "When the President plays golf, who's paying for it? The American taxpayer."

Eternal.

The Swiss Guards unveil a new uniform as 27 new recruits join the pope's army in a pomp-filled ceremony at the Vatican

This book by @litpress.bsky.social sounded interesting so I bought it. Don’t know if the poor binding and upside down text are my first test in not being judgmental or just publishing errors.

The dog caught another possum tonight As usual, she didn’t kill it. Just plays with it.

Fat Man and Little Boy bombed.

Tonight calls for a beautiful Calvados

Just a reminder that the Commander-in-Chief of the Louisiana National Guard, who can call them out all by himself if they were actually needed, is … Governor Landry.

Wow. The fine folks at @tslac.bsky.social have surpassed themselves with this fantastic photo of the 11th street courthouse and stone jail in Austin. This was located directly south of the capitol building. That road is 11th street, running east and west. The capitol is directly right.

White House Deputy Press Secretary seen here posting data showing how much more prevalent right wing domestic terrorism is than left wing domestic terrorism... while thinking she's showing the reverse. Apparently she can only read headlines, but not the actual graph with the data.

El Paso once had a trolley system that ran from 1882 all the way into the early 1970s. It didn’t just move folks across town—it carried them across the border, too. For 70+ years, streetcars rattled between El Paso and Juárez, the first trolley between two nations in history.

The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy. www.chosun.com/english/nati...

Anaphylaxis is not fun. Wipes you out.

Mr. Roma himself. Francesco Totti spent his whole career there achieving a smattering of trophies and achievements amongst a ton of goals and assists, with perhaps 2000-01 being one of his most notable where he lifted the Serie A title. Check out his whole career graphic on his birthday today! 🐺🇮🇹⚽🥳

once again trump’s great political asset is that voters literally do not believe anything he says