the throughline is “I can hurt whoever I want, and no one can stop me.” that’s the central tenet of his governance. there is no choosing between the bad things. the problem is one central bad thing which manifests daily in a thousand ways

in a way I think it is as simple and as horrifying as this: killing people makes him feel powerful, and he likes doing it

the question of what is or isn’t a “distraction” from which other thing gets thorny and complicated and risks minimizing some crimes because of their proximity to other crimes when they’re all equally evil, just different flavors. but this is sort of how the pattern seems to manifest itself, to me

Clowns will say it doesn't matter; we don't have the numbers to impeach. You get the numbers by FORCING THE ISSUE. You make NOISE, you DEMAND, you NEVER STOP YELLING. You do nothing? You get nothing. Ignore the clowns. Call your fucking reps and tell them to do their jobs and IMPEACH. reps.fyi

You can find your US reps and senators here: reps.fyi If you call now, you'll get an answering machine and you can leave a message. A great thing to do if you're nervous about talking to someone. Just give your name, your zip code, and demand they impeach Trump for illegally invading Venezuela.

Big question for Congress as to whether they will care about their own constitutional role (or, indeed, care about anything at all) I fear we already know the answer to that

I tell myself over and over not to litigate past elections, but I do think I should be allowed one (1) free bitchslap on every “Donald the Dove” person in the United States.

so, uh, so far it doesn't seem like they got Maduro? or even went after him? was this just "let's bomb the shit out of Caracas"? what the fuck is the plan here? I realize I am asking this of people who are possibly incapable of formulating one, but still

contact your reps

It’s a dark night when you look at the news and are forced to admit that you no longer believe in the power of the FIFA peace prize

impeachment now @mcclellan.house.gov

Impeachment, now. @rephuffman.bsky.social

Impeachment. Now. @jayapal.house.gov

bad insomnia and wake up to find we've just launched another illegal war, good times in these Yoooonited States of America

THANK you

Glad to know it's not just me

A thing I think about a lot is how the hyper powerful and tech billionaires want to be seen as people saving humanity, which is why they create space companies to send us to Mars and invest in gen AI to render us more "productive" And yet, not a single one is working to solve climate change.

the constituents of a chaos, nothing less is here

Whenever I see this photo of harvester ants working on their nest, I think how it looks like they planted a decorative tree by their door like they have an HOA or something. (Pogonomyrmex desertorum, west Texas)

[deep drag on what turns out to be a grape-flavor pixie stix] good thing I never went to journalism school

This just in: calculator has apologized for saying BOOBS

reached the first of many "fuck you, Legolas" moments in my Lord of the Rings reread, where he mocks the others for being cold and unable to run across the top of snow without sinking in.

I’m cold stratifying the milkweed seeds, I’m caterpillarcore, we’re butterflymaxxing, in my Lepidopt-era

i quite like idea that someone on here had of treating any criminal act committed by an ai as having been committed by the ai company’s ceo

I ate so much at lunch that dinner might be nibbles. I don't think I can do a full meal again without causing internal damage.

When @cnbc.com misleads its readers like this, is it because they're afraid of blaming Musk et alia, or because the editors & headline writers are really stupid? (yes, you can joke its both, HARDEE HAR HAR, but akshually those two explanations really don't overlap)

you read the manual to learn how to change your burnt-out headlight, not to open the door of your friggin' car

I just saw a video talking about the Tesla door safety problem and the number of comments that are like, "well you should read the manual" are...shocking. No, cars should be intuitively safe. Passengers are not reading the manual. Are you doing a safety briefing every time you give someone a ride?

Roumnd?? Roundmnd item??

I, for one, applaud CBS News for being honest about its new POV

One two three four I declare a thumb war!

staring contest

last wave of family visits for this holiday season has come and gone. My 17-year-old nibling has very similar tastes in video games to me now, which is rad. We're both playing Ghost of Yōtei and at the same point in the game right now.

The demonization of Somalis is no different than the demonization of Haitians before the election. It's a political attack and has to be actively fought—not through half-measures or expressions of tepid concern but by demanding decency from society and respect for all of humanity.

Checking the borbometer to see how cold it is before going outside😂 #birds #brrrrrds #borbs

"We asked the doors at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory why they didn't open, not the people who chose to lock them."

there are endless headlines about "grok apologizes" or "grok says it will be fixed" after it generated CSAM using pictures of minors and zero headlines about "grok being shut down" or "musk and xAI in big legal trouble" and I think something fundamental has broken here

grok didn't say shit. Grok is not sentient. This is you helping musk escape accountability for this shit. Journalism fail.

This aged well.

“oh, i wish there were some kind of punctuation to chain these two sentences together” the humble semicolon:

The thing about Grok offering apologies to convince people that it's a person is 1) if it were a person it would go in "bury under the prison" jail, and 2) it's not a person but the man responsible is and should likely suffer the same for creating it

Honestly the first Dem to call for Musks arrest on CSAM production charges is gonna get a lot of donations

I did not, as the draft was way too long, manage to work @donmoyn.bsky.social and @pamherd.bsky.social explicitly into this piece. But I am thinking about how their work on administrative burdens meets the accelerating potential of AI screening.

this post is even funnier with the fancy uk schools labeler on

loving humanity *requires* hating "AI"

wow I have a truly horrific headache

may this be the year Tesla and Elon fall (I know it won't be a single event, but we can have little a hope as a treat)

HELLO WE HAVE DECIDED TO POOL OUR TAIL RESOURCES INTO ONE LARGE SHARED TAIL WE WILL LET YOU KNOW HOW THIS EXPERIMENT GOES REGARDS MYCROFT and sherlock

That website is cooking people’s brains