African Longtailed Shrike (aka Magpie Shrike) #BirdOfTheDay #BlackAndWhite

Taylor Lorenz now posting controversial crap with all replies turned off. Block strongly recommended.

Since Zohran Mamdani took office, the US has conducted an illegal invasion of Venezuela, bellicosely threatened to do the same in Greenland, and launched proceedings against Sen. Mark Kelly for exercising his First Amendment rights. At what point does the Left admit it made a grievous mistake?

I wrote section 230 to protect user speech, not a company's own speech. I've long said AI chatbot outputs are not protected by 230 and that it is not a close call. Given that the Trump administration is going to the mat to protect pedophiles, states should step in to hold Musk and X accountable.

Sorry she’s depressed but not anticipating a backlash to helping sane-wash Bezos’ send-my-fiancé-to-space pointless media-grabbing event just means she didn’t look at what she was getting into. There was no real science. She was in space for mere minutes. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/ast...

Trump team is so stupid they thought a general term for corrupt military officers was an actual criminal organization. You can’t make this stuff up. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/18/u...

It’s like rolling the odometer. Please clap.

Remind me again what this stuff is good for besides crime? Crypto returns its holders to a world before banks, except worse, because you can be identified and targeted by anyone in the world with sufficient hacking skill. www.bloomberg.com/features/202...

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

A functioning Congress will have articles of impeachment drafted by the end of the day. Our Congress will just go to social media to basically say “We don’t like this, but what are you gonna do?”

Nine of the Minnesota child care centers that were discussed in a viral video, prompting allegations of fraud, were "operating as expected" when state investigators conducted on-site checks this week, officials said on Friday.

Dust and sun on Maui

NYT returns to character assassination. Note the framing, which implies Mandani targeted Israel exec orders when in fact, it was all orders after Adam’s was hopelessly compromised by indictment and bending a knee to the Trump admin. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/02/n...

I was wondering what Mamdani's first executive order would be, and I'm not disappointed by this. He has wiped off the books EVERY Eric Adams executive order issued on or after September 26, 2024, the day Adams was indicted on federal bribery charges.

NYT literal both sideism. One article that talks about her racist history, and this one, which pretends that the only thing that matters was her impact on notions of beauty. She was virulently racist, homophobic and anti-Muslim, and that makes her ugly. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/s...

How I’m walking out of 2025

Happy New Year! Now get them off the streets of DC. www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...

Article blames playoffs for the death of the college football bowls. But I’d equally blame the utter sellout of the bowls themselves that gave us the “Union Home Mortgage Gasparilla Bowl”. No one remembers that. No one knows where it is played. No one cares. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

Wow. Nice shot. Here’s the best I have… #BirdOfTheDay #Outstretched

Merry Christmas. The gift handgun comes with involuntary manslaughter included. www.cnn.com/2025/12/27/u...

The road from Seattle to Steven Pass ski area was partially destroyed by flooding. Epic/Vail is denying all pass holders, even ones who declared it to be their home resort any refund or credit. Instead they suggest 180 mile detour with 3 mountain passes to approach from the other side.

Not, not the executive who refused to bribe them. It was the owner, who demanded a stadium paid for by someone else but with all the revenue flowing to the team. Plus a mixed use area so the team can make even more money. States and cities need to stop this. www.kansascity.com/news/local/a...

Besides the grammatical incompetence—2 “the”s, using memorial center for someone whos still alive)—they not only botched the typeface, they botched the font weight (how bold or heavy), which is why it looks strangely scrawny.

And by “always going to come back to this” we mean “never going to come back to this unless the movies since Endgame were flops”. www.gamesradar.com/entertainmen...

Reason #2,432 not to buy a Cybertruck www.notateslaapp.com/news/3439/te...

This is the most appalling healthcare story I’ve seen this year. University of Chicago and others are selling US donated organs to transplant tourists for profit. Note this is illegal in many countries. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/u...

What a novel idea apnews.com/article/aust...

Hey GM, congrats on replacing perhaps the least important part of CarPlay. I will *never* give you contact or calendar information and without that you’ll always be a pathetic substitute. Give it up. Implement CarPlay and Android Auto. You’re gonna lose this one. www.theverge.com/transportati...

Way to HELP him get even bigger @theatlantic.com This is disgusting non-journalism right up there scholarly Mein Kampf analysis. You’re not just asking questions—you’re giving him followers. www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Gee, I wonder if warping the training and guiding instructions to encourage Grok to buy into alt-right conspiracies might have made it less reliable. gizmodo.com/grok-is-glit...

Suspect wearing all black. Camo mask. Mid 30s. Male. Odds are another racist, conspiracy believing right wing gun nut. But hey, Antifa’s the real danger, amirite?

Incredible and horrifying CNN drone footage of #Washington #Flooding

Stealworkers

For those that aren’t aware, Apple introduced a way to turn it down in iOS 26.1. Settings/Display & Brightness/Liquid Glass (choose tinted).

Yes, I do. Because it’s GRILLED cheese, not air-fried cheese sandwich. www.cnet.com/home/kitchen...

Called it. www.cnbc.com/2025/12/05/b...

The near total lack of information on the background of the January 6th bomber makes me believe that he’s a right-wing nut job who loves Trump.

If you’re a journalist who’s still on Twitter, from now on in your writing you have to replace “the American people want” with “troll bots in Eastern Europe demand” Being there makes your judgment suspect. I don’t care how savvy you think you are, you’re marinating in a disinformation campaign.

Reporters sticking with X because they get so much engagement from Nigerian America First MAGA accounts.

New policy: posting AI “photography” without labeling AI and not deleting it after that’s pointed out is grounds for blocking.

So Harvard is keeping this guy, but Claudine Gay had to step down over ginned up plagiarism accusations and bad-faith accusations of anti-Semitism. Got it.

Implicit subsidization of air travel is completely out of control. It wasn’t the airlines who spent a billion dollars. Imagine if trains got this kind of public financial support. www.cleveland.com/news/2025/11...

Yes, but unlike Fox News, she knows the difference between a verb and a noun. www.foxnews.com/politics/mam...

Katie Wilson widens her lead in race against Seattle Mayor Harrell in 11/11 update, but still only 1346 votes separate them.

Repost this if you want Chuck Schumer to step down as Senate Minority Leader.

Unbelievably, Google is nickel and diming YouTube TV subscribers with their $20 credit due to ABC/Disney carriage dispute. Believe it or not, you don’t get the credit UNLESS YOU EXPLICITLY REQUEST IT (and it’s buried in settings). Here’s the link. Do it now. tv.youtube.com/settings/ser...

Reed Cormorant, Okavanga Delta #BirdOfTheDay #StandingOnThings

ftfy @nytimes.com Dick Cheney, War Criminal Who Shot His Hunting Partner In The Face, Dies at 84 www.nytimes.com/2025/11/04/u...

How nice that the first time my kids saw footage of the Twin Towers on fire was thanks to a Cuomo ad during the World Series.

New Yorkers, you understand the assignment. Give Mamdani exactly what the WSJ fears: more than 50% of the vote and a mandate to tax the leeches they have been stanning for generations. www.wsj.com/opinion/new-...