Haven't been around much due to work travel and personal obligations, but anyway, tomorrow is Ash Wednesday and I'm starting a digital fast. Giving up the pocket-sized Torment Nexus for Lent! I'll probably be back sometime after Easter. Be well!

Now is probably a good time to remind folks that Elon Musk deleted this recent tweet of his about an 18 year old girl

Keir Starmer posting “who won’t me” and then deleting it seven minutes later

The Journal of Genocide Apologia has some thoughts

Know Your… Friends?

Shaun's video about this book is so good.

Bretons and cows https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12445

I love getting an email from like Canva or Zoom that's like "We miss you!" stfu, no you don't! You're software!

Neo-Nazi loser Jake Lang was arrested on a felony charge after destroying an anti-ICE sculpture put up by a group of military veterans at the Minnesota capital. Read more about Jake Lang, pardoned by Trump after attacking police in DC on January 6th, here: unicornriot.ninja/2026/jake-la...

Troubling deaf heaven with your bootless cries, big dog?

I'm sorry but it's time to violate terms of service irl as regards every single one of these people. The French have a machine for it!

BAR, Boston by Jerry Berndt (1975) #FridayVibes

/tʃiɹz/ 🍻

To get from the name on my birth certificate to my current name, I need adoption papers, 2 marriage licenses and a divorce decree!

Democratizing the arts looks like universal income, low-barrier grants for both emerging and working artists, well-funded municipal arts & recreation programs, vibrant third spaces, and a well-funded public school system with progressive curriculum. Not a free pass for corporate-owned slop engines.

They love the Pedophile President and they want to help him rule us like a king.

The Epstein Administration

i love european olympics opening ceremonies. the second the ioc names a european host city the prime minister calls the culture minister into their office and says "find me your strangest homosexuals. give each of them a period of our great nation's history, a kilo of cocaine, and Ten Million Euros"

lol jfc

The Epstein Administration

Writer's parents own 200 units in the city and have racked up many, many violations.

Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi are already black holes for detention. Now obtaining release will be more difficult than ever. As more and more people are locked up, ICE will increase the pressure on those who are detained to give up. The goal is an assembly line of coercion with no day in court.

God don't call it that, RFK Jr will ban it.

Update: They succeeded: www.mississippifreepress.org/byhalia-ice-...

‘In the end, you feel blank’: India’s female workers watching hours of abusive content to train AI

If America 2026 was a joint

Small goat

It's actually funny to ctrl+f and see how much Trump actually talked about God in his National Prayer Breakfast ramble. An hour and fourteen minutes and he said "God" twelve whole times and half of those were "God bless you"

Of course he did.

trolling exists, but almost no word is over- and misused with such frequency. im criticizing your pet candidate, maureen, not responding to all your posts with a closeup of my own butthole.

NEW: lawmakers in new york rolled out a proposed data center moratorium bill today, making NY at least the sixth state to introduce legislation pausing data center development in the past few *weeks*:

Last year, Musk called the moon “a distraction” and said SpaceX is going “straight to Mars.” oh my god they're so close to getting the problem with constantly running "elon says" stories

BREAKING NEWS: ELON MUSK TO FOCUS ON MARSHMALLOW FARM INSTEAD OF GUMDROP CITY www.wsj.com/science/spac...

Yes. Because what's happening now is exceptionally bad, but ICE was already rotten before Trump. This was a bad system under Biden and Obama too. And now that this agency has shown what it will do if permitted, it simply has to go.

Fucking nutjob.

Lawless scum.

This is Kid Rock's concert series and features him & Jason Aldean. And their concert in the very conservative Upstate of SC has been cancelled. Another canary in the coal mine. MAGA-friendly ‘Rock The Country’ event in Anderson canceled after bands drop out, politics cited

The day this minister was shot in the head with pepper balls by ICE agents was the day it was clear the regime was trying to crush a religious uprising against Donald Trump. But the press doesn't see *his* religion as legitimate, so that view didn't register. youtube.com/shorts/Xc6aK...

not their fault, but when you tell most young people “you can’t judge me”, they have the capacity to snarl a “fuck you!” or “fascist!” tell that to a progressive clergy member and you get “welcome to the oubliette, I’ve been waiting decades for this, since grad school, you cannot escape God.”

Why would you ask Trump if he’s going to apologize. Why would you do that. What are you possibly hoping to accomplish

I think in the future we should make it so politics is more than a choice between fascism and 100 slight variations of this person

Gotta say… Not a fan of [gestures frantically at everything] this.

“Don’t talk to me about my own morality,” I cannot get this out of my head. YOU'RE A MEMBER OF CONGRESS, we're not talking about some private matter of conscience!! These people are such clowns, and get SO offended by being asked anything or disagreed with. Lazy clowns.

No matter how good the article looks, I will not be creating an account on your magazine website.

total sex.

Target is BEGGING to get boycotted into the afterlife.

I see… immediate chicken therapy

HOLD UP. This headline from the @wsj.com is dead wrong - No one at the actual opening ceremonies thinks the US team was being booed. Come on! The CBC broadcasters & people in the stadium are all crystal clear that JD VANCE WAS BEING BOOED, not the team.

This is bleak: Jes Staley, currently CEO of Barclays, reassuring Epstein that popular revolt against financial elites is unlikely because capitalism and pop culture have defanged social movements, leaving people more invested in consumption than justice.