Please stop using the words “laser” and “focus” together. Unless you’re in the OR or it’s relevant in your industrial process.

“We shed as we pick up, like travelers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those left behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. But there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.” — Tom Stoppard.

OMG MTG

Sounds like a win-win.

Can we fast forward to the inevitable asystole.

is it gonna take another asteroid to get rid of these dinosaurs?

"I’m not a financial expert, but if I had disposable cash I’d avoid the hyperinflated AI bubble and invest in a company that manufactures pitchforks." What @willbunch.bsky.social said. bsky.app/profile/will...

In this thread, Tom meets cattle. Read every alt text for maximum enjoyment.

He should recover entirely at home. Best to resign his Senate seat (he doesn’t like the job anyway and he’s betrayed his voters) and focus on his health.

I beg you to read this thread but only if you promise to read all the alt texts

"In 2025, 40% of women aged 15 to 44 say they would move abroad permanently if they had the opportunity. The current figure is four times higher than the 10% who shared this desire in 2014, when it was generally in line with other age and gender groups."

If **Jeffrey Epstein** thinks you're a evil and demented sociopath, the odds are overwhelming that you are, in fact, an evil and demented sociopath.

This guy has got to go. He should never have been installed in the first place.

This isn’t even the stuff they’re trying to actually stop from getting out.

Now I want to know how young were the girls Putin procured for him, and filmed him with. 12? 13?

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell

There's arguably no effective way for any future administration to undo the strategic damage being done to the U.S.'s relations with these and other states. No matter what we do, the U.S. will be seen as an untrustworthy, craven & mercurial "partner"—something simply to be endured or hedged.

AUTHORS!! Remember that case where a bunch of authors sued AI for stealing their work? And WON? Well, the settlement money has been announced. Each WORK that got thefted will be compensated $3k (split 50/50 bw publisher + author). So authors will be compensated $1500 per WORK stolen. More here:

Woke up, checked obituaries, no good news.

The inspiration we all need, as always from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Yeah so several major Ukrainian cities are in a complete blackout right now. 0 generation from thermal plants and 0 idea when the power will be back. Just please don’t forget us

Got an email from my editor about a book chapter. They want me to *use ChatGPT* to make certain none of my references have been retracted. Um. No. I won’t be using a water-sucking electricity-hogging climate-damaging hallucinating plagiarism machine for anything.

Rep. Yassamin Ansari has set up a table and this sign outside Speaker Johnson’s office.

Wish a bitch would

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

Worked a poll at a midterm election (not NYC or VA or NJ) and in the first 5 hours turnout had already reached the total turnout for last year. 🗳️

not injured by the sandwich

It's not in this article but the government asserts that the sandwich was thrown at "point blank range", which implies subway sandwiches have defined effective weapon ranges of varying lethality, and I would like to see the government's chart of these ranges.

Sitting through a workplace violence & active shooter video today when I get a call from my kid to assure me that her campus is on lockdown for a man with a gun but she is safe. This is not the first of these calls I’ve gotten. America, what even is this??

Ukrainians are sharing photos of their pets rescued from frontline areas, posting them with DeepState maps marking where they were saved: Popasna, Avdiivka, Kurakhove, Pokrovsk, Druzhkivka, Zarichne. Today, these animals are safe at home with their owners.

As long as there’s morning light I don’t care about coming home from work in the dark.

During russian attacks, Ukrainians and their pets often seek shelter in subway stations. We can’t stop mindless terror, but we can face it together. And we can help prevent it: u24.gov.ua/nafo-dark-ni...

I keep misgendering the cat. #caturday

Want to make sure this letter arrives at the right place.

the state was not interested in whether people believed its lies.The state was not looking for plausible deniability.A good lie could always be punctured w enough work..all they needed was implausible deniability.A lie the population would see thru immediately but would have to pretend they believed

Highly aggressive infected rhesus monkeys run the White House and Republican government now, can’t scare us with a truck escape in Mississippi.

On the topic of Zohran’s aunt: my mother’s cousin married my father’s sister and the children called my mother aunt Jean though maybe the NYPost would have insisted she was their cousin. Instead of b’nai mitzvah, you were recognized as an adult in our family only once you could explain the genealogy

The cats are doing spells. I'm sure it's fine.

In addition to money donations to food banks & food aid for people, please also consider donating money or food & litter to pet food pantries. Many people who rely on SNAP to feed themselves will now need to redirect $ to buy groceries that they would have spent on pet food before.

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Guess we’re about to see how well the concept of bread & circuses works when you stop providing the former. #restoreSNAP

The way we avoid having to do all of this again in 8 or 12 or 16 or 24 years is by imprinting a generational memory of, "oh, the last time they did that, all of the top guys - I mean, the ones who survived - went to prison for the rest of their lives, and had their property seized."

House of Dynamite, on Netflix. Tense and horrifying. Now mentally pull Idris Elba out of the decisionmaking role and swap in Epstein’s best friend. Somebody tell the Republicans in Congress they should not be OK with this.

If I happened to run a food kitchen, I would set up shop as close as I could to the ruins of the East Wing, and publicize that I was feeding unpaid federal workers and people who’d lost SNAP benefits.

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

The dialogue is a whole other thing but the bit about "fuck you shoot me I'll die for this shit" and the reaction is the crux here, from Gandhi's time on down, no authoritarian in history ever knows how to respond to this and it's why it beats them whenever deployed

Now that precedent doesn’t count at SCOTUS, time for John Roberts and his accomplices to take another look at their egregiously wrong presidential immunity decision.

NBC News finds that: -- ICE has shortened its training from 13 weeks to six. -- Nearly half of recruits couldn’t pass an open-book written exam. -- Recruits "are supposed to attest" they can pass the physical-fitness test, which requires them to run ... 6 mph. www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcn...

ICE will not have fun in New York City. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/ice-vs-nyc

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