Just want to quickly shout out @dessalines for being super-responsive on thumb-key dev *and* for making contributing super easy! I always wanted a Kannada Messagease-style keyboard, but they were closed-source. Because Thumb-Key is designed in a modular fashion, it's super easy (and empowering!) […]

a recent poll showed only 50% of republican voters identifying as maga. it's kind of cold comfort, granted, when there are 3 years remaining; but if you're anti-MAGA, take the W.

Just want to quickly shout out @dessalines for being super-responsive on thumb-key dev *and* for making contributing super easy! I always wanted a Kannada Messagease-style keyboard, but they were closed-source. Because Thumb-Key is designed in a modular fashion, it's super easy (and empowering!) […]

[Puzzles] Strands #653 “Let me count the ways” 🔵🔵🔵💡 🔵💡🟡🔵

ICE pepper-sprayed this 1-year-old girl. Once at the hospital, the doctor had to call in a poison control specialist. They had never seen anyone that young pepper sprayed. Another horrific story. More details below.

“The fundamental flaw (…) is that Mastodon sees each post and reply as its own independent thing. (…) A proper design would be: A top-level post comes with a package of metadata attached to it. Comments posted in reply to it are metadata. (…) All of this metadata travels with the post. (…) […]

I did something exciting this week! I relaunched my company website: https://futureethics.ai It says, boldly, that we want to build ethical and sustainable pro-labor businesses that are pro people and the earth. It's scary to put that out in words because I feel like such an optimistic or naive […]

Montreal’s new driverless metro marks a leap in North American public transport. With 14 stations launched in late Nov. 2025, and planned extensions to the airport and western suburbs through 2027, a new light-metro makes Canada’s best second-largest city a frontrunner in cheap, fast transit […]

Tonight I am paying explicit attention to feelings — mine and others’ — set off by a weekend of awful episodes of tragic violence. Our sadness and horror is our humanity. 8/8

I don’t ordinarily comment on high profile public tragedies. After all, what can one really say? I haven’t lost a family member or friend because of the shootings at Brown or Bondi Beach, and the Reiners are known to me only through Rob’s work. Usually in circumstances like these, I choose […]

If you need or want to share a reflection or thought, please do. For those of us grappling with the ongoing systemic tragedy of Republican Fascism in the U.S. or the rise of fascism elsewhere, weekend filled with other kinds of tragedy taxes our endurance. 5/

I’m sure that many others in this community feel a connection to the weekend’s tragedies in RI, Australia, and/or California. 4/

As a scholar, a significant portion of my work relates to holding the firearms industry accountable for its role in gun violence. 3/

Weirdly, all three of these high profile tragedies feel somewhat personal to me. I am a Brown alum, a nonobservant ethnically identified Jew, and Rob Reiner playing Archie Bunker’s son-in-law was part of my childhood. 2/

The past couple of days have been particularly grueling. Brown, Bondi, and now Rob Reiner and Michele Singer Reiner. Events with tragedy in common, though they also illustrate the many and incommensurable forms tragedy can take. 1/

JD Vance is such a tool, so clueless. #australia #bondi #uspol #trumpregime

Reiner made one of the funniest films of all time, then the best family adventure movie, and capped off his opening salvo by getting Jack Nicholson to crank it up to 11 for a onve in a lifetime dramatic acting role. He also was a fearless advocate for the meek & oppressed. A legend by any measure

Oof. Providence police have released the person arrested Sunday morning for the Brown shooting, saying he is no longer considered of interest. So the shooter is still at large.

Rob Reiner on the murder of Charlie Kirk. Bookmark this.

[Puzzles] Strands #652 “Palette episodes” ⚪️🟢🔵🟡 💡🟢📺🔵 🟡⚪️

[Puzzles] Strands #651 “Pricy pairing” 💡🔵🔵🔵 🔵🔵🟡🔵

A mutual friend who was on the call said they discussed their “shared belief” that the Romanian criminal case was an effort to silence him. So Barron was discussing trafficking charges with an accused rapist. The love of rapists and pedophiles is a Trump family trait.

Within days of that second conversation, the prosecutors received their orders to release the travel restrictions. But Trump’s involvement runs even deeper. Donald Trump Jr. has been exchanging messages with Andrew Tate since at least 2017 And Barron Trump spoke with Tate over Zoom last year.

Trump sent Richard Grenell, his special envoy, to discuss Tate's case with Romanian officials at least twice. Once at Mar-a-Lago with an adviser to Romania’s prime minister. Then at a security conference in Munich with Romania’s foreign minister.

Another woman told investigators he raped her twice, on one occasion forcing her into group sex. A 15-year-old girl said he had sex with her, beat her with a belt, and choked her until she passed out. He then allegedly tried to bribe her to stay quiet. .

One month later, an order came down from the highest levels of the Romanian government. Prosecutors who had argued for years that Tate was a flight risk and a public danger were told to find a “compromise.” The sex trafficking rapist Tate brothers then boarded a private jet to Florida.

🧵Trump pressured a foreign government to release an accused child rapist. On January 14, Andrew Tate texted a friend that he’d received word from Trump’s people. They were “on top of things,” he wrote. He’d been told he’d “be free soon, but Trump needs to see me in Miami.”

The Romanian indictment, a sealed 360-page document obtained by the NYT, is sickening and horrifying. Andrew Tate choked one woman so hard the blood vessels in her eye burst.

[Puzzles] Strands #650 “All over the place” 🔵💡🔵💡 🔵🟡🔵🔵

[Puzzles] Strands #649 “Shakespearean titles” 🔵🔵🔵🟡 🔵🔵🔵

Viandar

[Puzzles] Strands #648 “Let me elaborate ...” 💡🔵🔵💡 🔵🟡🔵

3-Year-Old Becomes Youngest Chess Player with FIDE Rating https://ground.news/article/3-year-old-becomes-youngest-chess-player-with-fide-rating_61431f

For the first time in 30 years, a Democrat will be mayor of Miami. https://www.local10.com/news/local/2025/12/05/view-results-dec-9-2025-miami-mayoral-runoff-election/