Totally normal little shipping crates now for sale! Never mind the cronching sounds!

New layer art pieces are in the works! An axe to add to the sword, staff, and bow. And a set of mushroom/fern moon phases!

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

easy slogan for the next democratic presidential candidate is “i will reform the corrupt supreme court and repeal citizens united”

You deserve access to abortion care if you are pregnant and do not want to be. Full stop. Your reasons are your reasons and they are good enough. Abortion is healthcare and everyone deserves healthcare access.

it was their own stupid "policy" that forced them on to - ugh this is a terrible headline anyway not even worth it but COME ON

You can't... repeal... a scientific finding. At that point it's just called lying about it.

I hope folks grasp the fascistic resentment underpinning this shit, and the fact that there is nothing these AI robber barons would like more than to automate human creativity because they resent it and wish to devalue, own, and control it and us.

Someone did this to me last year: “Why didn’t you post anything about *this* news story, huh?!” I looked at the date and realized, well, that was the day we buried my mom, so I guess I was a little preoccupied? Sorry for letting you down. I’ll try to Do Better.

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I'm still SHOCKED by the obscene rise in billionaire election spending since Citizens United in the NYT piece, despite already knowing that election corruption w/ $ was profound. (Recall that BCRA fought dangerous campaign $ in *2002*) The article data didn't have a graph, so I made one to show it.

Good. Bring it all down. Drag all of these abusive monsters out into the daylight and destroy them. Like, come on. We're waiting.

The thing that we will have to confront soon about AI is not that it's as smart as we are. It obviously isn't. No, the thing that's we really have to confront about AI is that we are very often as dumb as it is.

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Agitating the populace is our goddamned First Amendment right here in the US.

The majority of the US population its concentrated in its cities. While cities don't make people like each other or stop racism or genders or misogyny, they do MASSIVELY offset all those prejudices because that clumping of diverse groups FORCES them to get along, just enough to stay alive. >

The thing about ebooks as a substitute is that it ignores two major needs of teen readers: autonomy (the ability to get a book without going through parents) and community (the ability to pass a book around to all their friends.)

‘Tis true! If thou art in the Ottawa/Kemptville general area, why not make this your leap-year Saturday night frolic and hang out with a bunch of spiffy people who like to read?

OK, claiming property rights in a new term (I think). I just did a Substack live with Catherine Rampell, in which she suggested that young men may be pivoting from Bitcoin to prediction markets. And it just popped into my head: the Testosterone Trade.

But I have reasonable belief there will be a major investigation and changes made because that is what happens here. Again...Wikipedia will tell you this. The news will tell you this. You can go to the CBC no matter where you live--I promise, it's fine, you're allowed to read Canadian news.

Hey folks, Krista's fine, she just deactivated her account for a while because she can't talk even take part in expressing our collective grief and horror today without folks here unable to google "gun laws in canada" and expecting her to educate them.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

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CNN confirms what MSNBC reported live a few hours ago: DOJ is surveilling Dem lawmakers when they go to the DOJ to search unredacted Epstein files.

Alan Dershowitz — Jeffrey Epstein's long-time attorney — enabled Epstein's abuse and sued a survivor.  Join us in demanding that Harvard University cut all ties with Alan Dershowitz immediately:

Hello! I see you've decided to conflate a human being being an evil fascist apologist committing crimes and perpetuating fraud with (checks notes) being a woman. Perhaps you would like to not do this.

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this is the kind of talk im here for

I just stumbled across this and thought some of you might like to see it. A letter from E.B. White to a man who'd written he'd lost all hope:

Ok people, you know what to do. I seriously can't recommend the Eric Carter series enough. I'm doing a reread right now via the Graphic Audio adaptations, and they're soooo good. So much grit, humanity, and dark hilarity. Very cathartic in these modern times!

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Canada has tough gun legislation. Below is from CNN this morning.

In Tumbler Ridge, BC where the horrific shootings took place there’s a guy running a one-man paper (he’s been doing it for years). He’s been letting outlets use his photos and info and just asking for donations so I thought I’d share the link to his site in case. tumblerridgelines.com

CBC has a collection of updates about the shooting. This is extremely rare here, the PM is near tears (and was likely crying before coming out to speak to people), and there's been an outpouring of support. I appreciate our media is careful not to speculate while investigations are underway.

If AI were so crucial I’d think it would sell itself — but it always seems to be infused with this non-consensual inevitability, like YOU BETTER ADOPT IT OR DIE IT’S COMING LIKE IT OR NOT, a threat gilded as promise.

She spent the whole morning performatively screaming at Congressmen, but this image of Bondi saying nothing and refusing to turn around will be the only real takeaway from her testimony today.

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This is among the most egregious lies about all this. First, the fossil fuel industry gets HUGE subsidies from the government (Burgum whines about supporting renewable energy), but the CO2 stuff is such a mind-boggingly braindead claim it amazes me anyone buys it. Like flat-Earth level bullshit.

Well, wow. I just got an amazingly supportive and complimentary email which raised my spirits considerably. It reminded me: if you like an artist or writer or whatever and their email is public, sending them a quick note will make their day. YMMV, but I really enjoy complimenting someone I admire.

Cooooool

Dear Republicans: are you *sure* this is the guy you want to fall on your sword for?

Sometimes the exact right question falls into my TL. www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/ar...

This amazing pic of the galaxy IC 5332 from JWST gave me some arachnophobic-like chills, but damn, it's so amazing. Read about it here! badastronomy.beehiiv.com/p/a-spider-w... [PS: this Tuesday issue is usually for paid subscribers but I put a lot of it above the fold because it's cool] 🔭 🧪

So we're clear (because the press is apparently incapable) this is a fake competition investigation designed to help local right wing propaganda broadcasters consolidate and increase their power over whatever's left of local U.S. news

I'm always amazed when a see a truly dark splotch in a JWST image. The 'scope detects infrared light which can get through dense dust that's opaque to visible light, so how dense is that little cloud such that it can *entirely block the light from material behind it*? Yikes.