Looking good, Lake Michigan.

Rockapella needs to cover this.

Birders report seeing huge flocks of blackbirds flying up the Chicago lakefront today — 5,000 or more.

I believe it was @golikehellmachine.com who first observed here that if he ever had his shirt off in front of a tattooist while getting his other work done, they would have noticed his Nazi tattoo & engaged him forcefully on the question of why he had it, & whether he wanted to be rid of it

This thread is not about whether Platner is a Nazi. It’s about how he lies like a toddler when he’s cornered. And that’s enough. He’s not electable, and Susan Collins knows it. You can too, if you can read this thread, or this 18-page document. 2/

Oh they did? All by themselves? Did they show up all at once or arrive separately?

It’s foggy in Chicago today

YOU ASKED FOR THIS! Downfall. Kristi Noem Edition:

"Being fully fired might have been more of a kindness, as it would have freed her up to carve a new path — or at least write a tell-all book."

I just learned something: there is a NASA Space Poop Challenge.

The perfect headline doesn’t exi…

Screaming

Can’t stop thinking about other alliterative compound dude names. Gregdave Grubbin. Toddjeff Tuggin. Bilbo Baggins

Yogi Berra ftw

Last year when I was checking into a hotel, the desk person was wearing Meta glasses. I kindly asked them to take them off. They were annoyed. I said, “I do not consent to you looking at my credit card and ID with Meta glasses on.” My instincts were correct: www.bbc.com/news/article...

We watched Karina Villa chase down ICE in a suit and heels, telling them to get out of her community. Margaret Croke intentionally panicked white parents about their selective enrollment schools vanishing if neighborhood schools received additional funding. This race is ICE whistles vs. dogwhistles.

"He’s sensitive and food-motivated; if given the choice between a distressed person and a tasty treat, he might have a hard time picking." This is my favorite story of the day.

my loyal companion

Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

A man asked me last night what publishing needs to do for literary fiction to begin appealing to men again. I said, as nicely as I could, that, with over 2,000 books published every Tuesday, of which many would appeal to men, it’s not a publishing problem, it’s a men problem.

Attention: Everyone in a state whose primary election hasn't happened yet -- Vote early if you can!

American Jews have been TRYING to tell folks that yes, AIPAC is evil, & fuck them, but Christian Zionists in the US outnumber Jews IN THE WORLD & have risen to power in all areas of our government, & they want to bring the End Times (& kill all the Jews btw), AND THIS IS WHAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT.

The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.

Meet three scientists who said no to Epstein. The warning signs included a web search, a mother’s doubts, and inklings of a “sexist attitude” www.science.org/content/arti...

Dropped off our mail ballots at an early voting site’s dropbox. Yay!

I want you all to guess how much Graham Platner’s grandpa’s chair costs

If they want me back they have to go fully Woke 2, sorry. Whole hog. I gotta be able to get an abortion there

What's scary about this story is the surveillance it hints at. This trans woman had changed her name, legally, but chose not to change her gender marker. She was apparently flagged in the DMV system as trans and her license was invalidated under a law that supposedly only concerned gender markers.

So many of us have spent years warning about the dangers of Christian dominionists in the U.S. government...

In addition to being inclusive, writing the alt text for images is fun tbh.

A nation of newspapers and newspapermen indeed. I guess "objectivity" is when you're such a smug and effortless propegandist you don't even notice how deeply sick you've become.

CUBE HEDGE

I know that I sound like a broken record but I think once this society was ok with accepting mass covid deaths just to be able to eat at Applebees then all bets were off.

Coming in like a lamb so far

From Hunter S. Thompson’s ESPN page 2 column one week after 9/11.

@rikiwilchins.bsky.social 2026 Mar 1 Scouting America wastes no time in pushing back on SecDef Hegseth's claims that it agreed to limit membership based on assigned sex: "We have transgender people in our program, and we’ll have transgender people in our program going forward,” said CEO Roger Krone.

Never forget: 8 years ago a random person on Craigslist wrote the most effective ad for the Toyota Corolla, ever.

“Dolly Parton Children’s Hospital did not share how much Parton donated as part of the naming announcement. But Matt Schaefer, its president and CEO, said her support would ensure ‘every child who walks through our doors receives the treatment they deserve.’” GOD BLESS DOLLY PARTON

They are literally trying to convince you that starting a war is ending a war.

it's stunning how bad and EXPENSIVE fruit is in America. we really pay too much for such crappy food.

an updated debbie downer sketch but it's friends showing her funny videos and she has to respond like this to every single one like this:

Bluesky has as much bad news as X but over here, we're against it

So, this is a story about Online Harassment. I had a dude who used to email me EVERY. DAY. to tell me I was clinically insane and would hurt my kids and that my Dad left me because I was worthless and etc. I got him banned from Twitter, so he just started emailing. One day, I found out who he was.

“It’s weird,” he said. “I just did something that I would think anyone would do. What do you mean you would watch a stroller and a baby just sink?”

We've reached that point in the solar calendar where I get mad at the thought of DST because LOOK HOW LIGHT IT IS OUTSIDE RIGHT NOW! The sun does not need any help!!!!!!

Reich forgot TikTok

Look I actually like brutalist aesthetics for the most part and I think this is an interesting looking bit of geometry but also if this were on a movie screen there would be TIE fighters flying past in the background and you’d hear the Imperial March

I welcome our new teleportation nephrology overlords

I’ve puzzled out the Trump doctrine. It has many facets. The most important: 1) I said something! 2) If I buy something I want from you, you are RIPPING ME OFF! 3) Foreigners? Yuck! 4) Did I ever tell you Putin is a friend of mine? 5) Give me that! 6) I’ll do it myself! 7) I’m just resting my eyes.