After I got fired by DOGE, I wanted to respond to this climate of fear. So I started working at SecureDrop, making software for whistleblowers to communicate with journalists. Our response to all this is to expand who can run and use our software, while safeguarding whistleblowers' anonymity.

Update: link above no longer works but the full segment has been uploaded to the Internet Archive with torrent link.

!! Here’s a link to full video of the 60 Minutes segment that Bari Weiss killed last minute, via @jasonparis.bsky.social: is.gd/paU8Ko (It was uploaded to the Global TV app in Canada, seemingly by accident, and has now been taken down)

download your own copy. make this thing samizdat, until CBS is forced to air it.

"A promessa de maior eficiência raramente se confirma quando o incentivo central é económico e não clínico" Isto é que devia estar em outdoors, o nome deste país já eu sei...

Seven German journalism students tracked Russian-crewed freighters lurking off the Dutch and German coast—and connected them to drone swarms over military bases.

McSweeney's hits it out of the park again

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

“Macron betrayed Merz, and he knows that there will be a price to pay for that,” said a senior EU diplomat. “But he’s so weak that he had no other choice but to fold in behind Giorgia Meloni.”

Pantone just updated their Color Of The Year

The Epstein file is the only thing Trump has ever taken his name off of

A gentle reminder if you've received an invoice from a Freelancer/Self employed person which is due before Christmas. Be a love, and pay it today.

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Oh to be a little Tardigrade walking across a microscopic slide. 🫧🐻🧪

Become ungovernable

"No one is actually dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away" - Sir Terry Pratchett, 'Reaper Man'. Poor Ea-Nasir is destined for true immortality, etched in the finest low-quality copper.

"Toda a gente foi trabalhar" disse Leitão Amaro. De pantufas, como se vê. A realidade é mais forte que a agência de comunicação, parte XXVI e 1/4

Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.

When Rob Reiner was on his all-time epic run at the start of his career, he had an opportunity to read a script that was looking for a production partner, and he lost his mind for it. He decided Castle Rock had to have it, no matter what.

The run that Rob Reiner went on between 1984 and 1992 is one of the most amazing hot streaks any director has ever had. Legendary stuff

LOUDER

The funny thing is there are absolutely traits skills and characteristics that financially super successful people have and they are: money being born into money knowing other people with money

Eu não voto no Manuel João Vieira porque não tenho carta de condução... o que é que eu ia fazer com um Ferrari?

Sou filha de Abril, saí do esgoto, nasci pronta para o confronto e eles gritam-me aos ouvidos Ó Mãe, eu nasci num país Nasci num país que me odeia Dizem: "Deixa passar a louca" Dizem: "Deixa passar a feia" Ó Mãe, eu nasci num país Nasci num país que me odeia

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

It’s Friday and that means it’s flamingo o’clock somewhere ⏰🦩 Getting ready for the weekend, @darthputinkgb.bsky.social ?

In case you were wondering, Trump is loathed here in Europe Despised Derided

Haja saúde e boa disposição.

I must not have a take on the insane rage bait. Having a take on the insane rage bait is the mind-killer. Having a take on the insane rage bait is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face the insane rage bait. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone

Companies including OpenAI have stolen vast libraries of works owned by the studios and created by WGA members to train their artificial intelligence systems. We have repeatedly called on studios to take legal action and defend the intellectual property we help create. variety.com/2025/digital...

"If elected to public office what book would you swear on?"

#retvrnToTimesNewRoman Enquiring minds want to know if the Department of State will accept Times Europa, Nimbus Roman, CG Roman, Linux Libertine or if Monotype is donating to the ballroom. When Googling for "Times New Roman", the whole results page comes set in Times New Roman. That was a chuckle.

1) Carneiro não sabe ler 2) Carneiro não sabe que os candidatos a PR fazem-no como cidadãos, não como membros deste ou daquele partido 3) Se Seguro se recusa a assumir um posicionamento político (qualquer que ele seja), que enfie a carapuça. 4) A nova cor Pantone ser um branco sujo é o ar dos tempos

Il paraît que, comme Sarko, Dominique Pelicot a pondu un livre en prison. Malheureusement pour l'écrivain violeur, aucun éditeur n'a encore accepté d'éditer sa prose. C'est officiel : Charlie est candidat !

"You see, I am a good person because I am cheering for the leopards to eat different faces" means you're cheering for leopards to eat faces, y'all.

Grading something very special-

É o Estado que eles gostam, alguém autorizado a tirar-nos dinheiro sob a ameaça da violência e o entregar a privados para que façam o que entenderem.

"Get in loser, we're unifying Faith and Reason"

Está comprovado que o bolo-rei, depois de lhe tirarem as possibilidades infinitas de sufoco e/ou partir dentes com as favas e brindes, é péssimo. Para quando o bolo-povo?

congratulations to Rand Paul on inventing *checks notes* single payer healthcare

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

In a back channeled "offer" to the International Criminal Court, the United States proposed dropping sanctions on ICC officials if the Court •Dropped charges on Israeli officials and pledged not to indict anymore •Stopped investigating crimes in Afghanistan •Amended the ICC treaty the ICC said: no

This came to me in a dream

À margem das regras do processo, escolhendo quem atiram para a fornalha mediática, decidem da moral da República e quem está à sua altura para governar. Têm todos como reféns. Como os militares faziam e ainda fazem em vários pontos do mundo, mantêm a democracia sob um ameaçador cutelo.

The headline, the main takeaway from a European viewpoint is this: The transatlantic relationship as we know it is over. Yes, we kinda knew this. But this is now official US White House policy. Not a sppech, not a statement. The West as it used to be no longer exists.

I think it’s bad that leaders of companies are visibly up to their gills in stimulants now. Did nobody tell them that, contrary to how they make you feel, those things make you stupid? This is why everyone needs some fuck up friends growing up, to teach them that there’s no good way to abuse drugs.

Let's try this again next year, maybe... #eurovision #esc2026

Considering what the US has been giving to Ukraine, they still have a place in negotiations. At the kid's table, with a golden pacifier to shut them up.