President Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act on this day in 1862. The law offered western lands to qualified settlers but also land loss for American Indians & environmental degradation. In this short article, I argue it was important for cohesion among early Republicans before the Civil War.

if everything was run on the local hardware that would be mostly fine. and this is in fact doable for things like translation models these days. its the pipelining of all the Surveillance Content to the Bro Servers that is the issue

this is, yes, a very specific message to a very specific group of cis people but hey we are overrepresented on this app so: when your otherwise well-meaning friends say they don't understand being trans the answer is "you don't have to"

He is a convicted felon, a rapist, a scammer, a liar, and mean.

This is interesting. I was accused of using AI for a photo because "mushrooms don't grow in the desert". Pic was from White Sands, which is basically an IRL science fiction location. Am now preemptively adding "no Ai" to attempt to forestall accusations.

Ouch!

Oddly enough, Ouroboros is also the sound a snake makes when trying to do this. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/sick-2 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

#GnomonPress "Worm and Peace" Leo Tolstoy and Frank Herbert

#GnomonGames "Grand Theft Auto: Weigh Station" Resource management adventure video game which follows a trucker who climbs in status within his company by rigorously maintaining his vehicle's cargo capacity and weight.

Jupiter art by Kazuaki Iwasaki x 2 (1981), Les Edwards (2002), Peter Elson

#GnomonTV "A Time for Kangaroos" (1959) Narrator: Rod Serling Lost episode of the television series The Twilight Zone starring Bob Keeshan and Bennye Gatteys. youtube.com/watch?v=ORbs... www.youtube.com/watch?v=dov4...

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Anyway, if you live in or around Baltimore you can come and buy my 100% AI-free art this weekend

Minnesota Becomes First State to Ban Prediction Markets, Feds Immediately Sue gizmodo.com/minnesota-be...

There is a trivially simple solution: kagi.com It's a real search, without ads, and you need to pay for it for anything other than incredibly casual use. BUT...they have their own indices and it's a functional general-purpose SEARCH ENGINE, the first in a decade. Pay $10/month and get results.

#wtaf Just checked on Steam and this is real.

I have a case right now where a child - a LITERAL CHILD - was segregated from the other children in their elementary school because the parents of the other children said they didn't feel safe around them. You know the ONLY reason given? Because this child was Muslim and 10/7 happened.

"dude you have to watch monogatari its peak!" the peak in question:

not sure if anyone is here at Bluesky. when I visit the site all is calm, unchanging; I have not had a single new follower in many months; exchanges are always interesting & intelligent but relatively few. Bluesky exudes the air of an upscale mall, beautifully maintained, hushed.

YES! Please switch to Kagi. You need to pay for it, but you get a real search engine b

New Mexico’s snowpack is officially GONE. Well, mostly. There’s still a little snow hanging on in the highest peaks and north facing slopes, but the snow at every SNOTEL site has now melted. This ties 2018 for the earliest melt off on record. Average melt off is June 16. #NMwx

Cost of extending ACA subsidies: $30B/year Cost of Trump's Iran War: $29B and counting It's not a question of what we can afford. It's a question of priorities.

Good news! Discord's hundreds of millions of users now have their communications scrambled, so not even Discord can see them.

A criminal gang controls the White House. It’s our job to take back our country and throw them in prison.

BLANCHE SHIELDS TRUMP: In a newly posted order signed by Acting AG Todd Blanche, the Department of Justice states that the federal government is now permanently barred from pursuing a wide range of tax-related claims and reviews against Donald Trump, his family members, and affiliated companies. 1/

... Cover art by Tony Meeuwissen. (Who is, as you can see, a genius.)

Where in the Constitution does it say that a presidential appointee can give the president the right to cheat on his taxes whenever he wants? This shit is intolerable.

This is a follow-bot account. Anything like this should be blocked.

They all need to be in jail, all of them. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

Sale alert. Kobobooks.com is selling the latest (and final) book in the Laundry Files, THE REGICIDE REPORT, for $2.99 CDN. Also on sale is Peter F. Hamilton's PANDORA STAR, for $1.99.

Remember when the Supreme Court said a president lacked the power to forgive $20,000 of student debt for Pell Grant recipients and the White House just said "Oh, okay"

how long is it going to take for governments to get that nobody under 40 being able to afford a home, to raise children, or to save for retirement might be a catastrophic societal problem

The insurrectionist pedophile in question is Andrew Paul Johnson and it is public record that he tried to silence his victim(s) with promises of Trump millions for J6.

New, from me: The Roberts Court does not want colorblind voting maps. We know that because the easiest way to get such maps would have been to kill partisan gerrymandering. Instead, they upheld it, using it as a means to kill the Voting Rights Act. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-lie-be...

Just referred to feeling cautiously optimistic as "microdosing hope," in case you're wondering how it's going.

Years ago Scalia provoked gasps in the gallery when he called the Voting Rights Act a “racial entitlement.” But turning American democracy back into a white racial entitlement, as it was for most of American history, is exactly what the Roberts Court is doing. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

I honestly can't tell whether accounts/people like this just don't eat, or have kids, or are all rich, or what. I'm guessing badly done bots.

Full review since people were more curious than I would have guessed: www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews...

I had a case two years ago - I've posted about it before - where a landlord issued a notice of termination of tenancy saying that my Muslim clients violated the lease when Wife Client became pregnant because the child would be, I am not joking, a "Hamas baby" The discovery in that case was bizarre.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6ie... Notice how extremely gay/trans this is. :| (banned at a school concert in Watertown, Wisconsin, US)

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Wanna get a signed and/personalized copy of this book when it comes out later this year? Here's a very fine way to do it. Also Subterranean ships internationally, so if you're outside the US, it's probably the best way to get a signed book (I have no international appearances scheduled this year).

My peonies painting Art with flowers