If the UK wanted to keep those exceptions, it should've voted Remain. It's not like the UK wasn't told that this was a horrible bargain with consequences.

A University of Washington trans student was fatally stabbed in her campus housing building and the suspect is still at large. abc7news.com/post/seattle...

Someone in network has to personally know Charles Yu, right? Anyone willing to pass a message along to see if he’s willing to write a note to the teacher?

During the pandemic we became hooked on Wingspan (and expansions of course!), a boardgame by @elizhargrave.bsky.social We just completed our 1000th play 😁

Calling protected bike-lanes “vanity projects” should be automatic evidence that a political candidate has no idea what they’re talking about when it comes to public safety, urban mobility and congestion, geometry and urban space, fiscal responsibility, or the successful positioning of cities.

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The laws are *different* when there are billionaires involved!

I'm thinking about the late Aaron Swartz and copyright lawsuit US v. Swartz (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_...) when he downloaded academic journals from JStor, presumably to make an open source archive. Felony? Fraud? And today ChatGPT, Anthropic, all LLMs can steal and remix everything?

This was expected, but it removes any legitimate reason for Republicans to rush to redraw Mississippi's Supreme Court map in a special session this month. They will likely gerrymander the one competitive district to become heavily white and solidly GOP. They might add other maps to the agenda too

SCOTUS, which ordered Alabama to create a second Black opportunity district just 3 years ago, has lifted that order a week before the primary. The Purcell principle says courts shouldn't permit chaos too close to an election—it's now an open question whether there will even be a primary on schedule.

7 months to go

NEW: Despite a long-standing court order, the NYPD didn’t audit thousands of stops made by its Community Response Team, which has a history of unconstitutional policing and has drawn hundreds of civilian complaints.

For those outside the Seattle area, the current area drama is that wealthy residents of a mansion neighborhood are complaining to the city that helicopters that carry children to the Children's Hospital are too noisy. I cannot say my thoughts publicly :)

Seeking health care as a woman in one headline www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

Slighty increase a band: Correct, Said Freidrich

Funny how the Evangelicals who insist liberal society hates them are never the subject of murders like trans women are.

The Roberts court is, above all else, racist. They don’t like the reconstruction amendments and they don’t like the laws that enforced them. There is no legal, constitutional or separation of powers principle here. It’s just racism. joycevance.substack.com/p/heres-why-...

@roaminump.bsky.social You might need some alcohol on hand before reading this.

"The end result of all of this is that we grew from 2k users to almost 150k, added a ton of heavy new functionality, and still managed to optimize and cut down costs from $.15 per active user per month to just $.03 or so." - @snarfed.org breaks down all the work he's done to optimize Bridgy Fed 1/

Are you tired of hiring grads who got sabotaged by their institute of tuition extraction's use of LLMs? Have YOUR candidates play Attack Vector in the interview! With 3D vector movement, accurate thermodynamics, and fuel tracking, Attack Vector filters the competent from the merely credentialed!

We lost Douglas Adams 25 years ago today. This has made a lot of people very sad and has been widely regarded as a bad move.

You need to read this horrifying and astonishing account of the genocidal murders in El Fasher in October 2025. These killings could have been stopped: unfortunately, the world did nothing and actively looked away.

Since I've had an observation about AI and MBA-brain do numbers... I've had experiences with some...fluidly ethical members of the business community in the past. If you like my insight about AI and MBA-brain? Buckle up. We've got some weapons-grade hubris enriching in the centrifuges.

"The problem with AI isn't that it can do your job. It can't. The problem with AI is that your MBA-brained boss's boss doesn't know how your job works and thinks AI can do your job at fractions of a penny on the dollar, and hears the siren song of 'maximize shareholder value'." MBA-brain is real.

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The Pike’s Peak Humane Society has a social media manager who is very good at their job

former proud boy jason kessler has filed a defamation suit against proud boys’ founder gavin mcinnes over gavin’s claims that jason was the SPLC’s paid informant at unite the right

The future of Western forests depends on professional pinecone collectors. They’re slowly being starved out of existence.

This is why ICE tries to get everyone on a plane to Texas, Louisiana or Mississippi (5th Circuit) before the victims' lawyers can get to court.

A lot of attention has been paid to the collapse of traffic to The Daily Wire and Ben Shapiro's YouTube channel. But other ragebait sites are also seeing huge drops in audience. According to The Righting, Outkick, The Federalist and The Blaze are down at least 48%. therighting.com/traffic-repo...

@ohcatrina.bsky.social won @thomasthecat.bsky.social's heart by bringing balance to the Star Wars Girlfriend. :)

The Republicans made your health insurance premiums skyrocket to pay for this. Remember when Republicans called single-payer health care "death panels" administered by the uncaring government? OUR meetings to determine decedent status are efficientized by private equity! No competition!

Sidebar: IME, health services research journals hesitate to publish academic research on hospitals' "charity care" provisions WRT their obligations as outlined in the ACA

Not only did we make a sale yesterday, but we made another sale early today—the streak is now at 25 days and counting. We'd love to keep it going!

Blue states & blue cities are keeping the country afloat. Red states can’t make it in their own, they have to rely on tax dollars from cities like Chicago to pay the bills.

This is sober reading. Also, I highly recommend reading it if you're a creative of any sort, and you want a glimpse into what's going on re: AI gigs. www.wired.com/story/i-work...

• Haven't looked this young in 20 years. • Gave no legal permission to use my likeness in this image. • Gave no legal permission to use trademarked logos placed on incorrect product images & layouts shown here. • Them Fate Dice are jank, yo. • Contemplating legal action. • Enjoy, motherfucker.

Every year, politicians pledge to fix our "crumbling roads and bridges." Even when we give them enough money to do it, they don't. usa.streetsblog.org/2026/05/11/c...

The thing about Fascists is that the obvious grift, of having a side hustle sponsored by the businesses you regulate, shows they're Above All Consequences. It's a power flex. It's a belief that if you jail them, a future POTUS will pardon them. Dead grifters don't reoffend. Or get pardoned.

The Republicans made your health insurance premiums skyrocket to pay for this.

new zealander everlee wihongi was due to meet with her lawyer yesterday. then ICE moved her to their most notorious tent facility in texas: 3000 people, highest death rate, most sexual assaults. and today, she disappeared off the system. please RT: www.webworm.co/everleehasdi...

go tell your favorite artists you like their work. you may think they hear it enough or your praise would be identical to someone else's so you say nothing, but i promise you they would love to hear it. and sometimes they need to hear it.

Whenever racists go off about how Sharia Law is taking over I'm like, fun fact: the Church of England has courts that have the same legal standing as Crown Courts - and so as the only person in this conversation who's actually been taken to a religious court... I'm telling you to shut up.

It’s a bust-out. This gang of criminals is looting the US to steal everything they can get before it all collapses. And they’re doing it right in front of us.

There's an entire blog set up to document Ken Whitnan's history in RPG spaces. Or at least a lot of it. This is not an unbiased website, so don't go into it expecting journalism.

Cat is clear winner.

The kids are all right. And sassy.

Do many people know that the ICC judges, once sanctioned by the US, almost immediately lost access to credit cards, google, amazon & microsoft cloud, etc. www.ft.com/content/4c3a...

Sadly, I’m not at all surprised at this, since it was unlikely that Alberta’s awful Premier would let Ontario’s awful premier hold the title for “leader most likely to endanger people, make traffic congestion worse, & hurt the success of cities, all to score dumb ideological points with their base.”