Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X. Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch. Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp. And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO. Yes, this is oligarchy.

I hope so.💠🌸

About every 57k miles driven by Musk’s robotaxis one gets into a wreck. That’s four times the rate of humans.

Just over here casually pulling a dozen espresso shots in a row to freeze ahead of my surgery next week since I won't be able to use my abdominal muscles and I have a lever press espresso machine. Normal. First you admit you have a problem...then you let us become your personality 🤝

Oh, more heartbreaking devastation this morning

ADP is ready for the end of this apocalypse. It's giving D.H. Lawrence: poets.org/poem/nothing... There is nothing to save, now all is lost, but a tiny core of stillness in the heart like the eye of a violet. #poetry

Had a blast at this last year (as evidenced by the photo of me used to promote the event 😂) Sign up for a fun, casual little group ride to reclaim the streets! www.eventbrite.com/e/2026-el-ca... 🚲

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Incredible shot of Rep. Al Green holding up a "BLACK PEOPLE AREN'T APES!" sign with Trump in the foreground from photographer Kenny Holston (Getty)

When Zoom tells me my internet connection is unstable, I try to meet the internet with grace. So am I. So is the world right now. Be well, internet.

Peeped this new-to-me bike transit option on @vta.org today. Neat way to bring bikes on public transit 👍

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Sell me a vision? He looks like he wants to sell me a used car on its last legs. And culturally normal? Fuck that dog whistle.

So true! Copenhagen is one of the calmest, bustling cities I've ever been to 🚲 ✨

Tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich

For your reading pleasure, War is a Racket www.ratical.org/ratville/CAH...

Can LLMs figure out who you are from your anonymous posts? From a handful of comments, LLMs can infer where you live, what you do, and your interests; then search for you on the web. New 📄 w/ @SimonLermenAI, @joshua_swans, @AerniMichael, Nicholas Carlini, @florian_tramer 🧵

Whew! The weather in the South Bay right now is full on chaos! Bands of unexpected heavy downpours are knocking all the pretty petals off the cherry and tulip trees. Ah, spring! Oh, sweet spontaneous!

Happy Ash Wednesday and beginning of Celtic Tree Month of Ash to all other Ash's out there 🌳🩶

Death Sentences // Updated for Linda Davis

In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p

👀 Check where there are Flock cameras near you: deflock.org

rainbows happen often enough here that i always know which direction to look, depending on the time of day. due north this morning, another stunner! 🌈

Oh, the euphoria Of surviving a moment Thought impossible Here's to getting through an intense medical appointment today and to the third deathiversary of losing my dad. Miss you every day, papasan. 🐸

Chat bots give the wrong medical advice more than half the time. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/w...

Cartoon on Washington Post‘s mass layoffs

Re-upping an older piece to illustrate that Covid precautions - especially for athletes - are not “extreme”. It’s not just about performance on the day of competition; long Covid can literally cost athletes their careers

This kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most American cities.

Motion for football to be played like this? Eh?? Eh?!

Happy Bad Bunny Day to all who celebrate 🇵🇷

Got inspired by @blackforager.bsky.social and @justinthetrees.bsky.social and made some magnolia snap cookies, and magnolia ice cream with candied petals. That's some tasty nature!! 🌸

The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose 29%. (Published May 2025)

Just here to remind other Android users that Gboard has amazing and horrific emoji mashup creations just waiting for you to conjure them 😘

This is good. 👍

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

as wapo gets dismantled for sport and grievance, @muckrack.com is surveying journalists on the state of journalism in 2026 and offering a shot at a $50 giftcard for respondents, which is ironically a better picture of the state of journalism in 2026 than any survey could possibly paint

In light of some local tragic news, sharing this suicide prevention training resource. Click "Enroll $24.95" and then enter code SCBSBB to take the course for free. communityconnections.learnworlds.com/course/bsbbs...

Wow. Sad news in a sad time. RIP

My old cat, Roonie (RIP), would eventually kill every air plant I had, relegating them to soccer balls until destroyed. I feel like I'm keeping my current air plant alive just to spite her. Only one of them could live. Here's my favorite portrait I took of her (and her immaculate chest hair)

What if we kissed on the @bart.gov Valentine's Day train 💘 👉👈

The CDC’s Wastewater Surveillance System is one of the most valuable public health tools for detecting spread of #COVID, measles, polio, RSV, influenza & avian flu. 🆘 It's under threat 📢 Tell Congress to fund CDC wastewater surveillance 📆 Submit by Jan 30th 👉 actionnetwork.org/letters/cong...

some good news today

Every day brings new shocking horrors. Abolish ICE

I didn't say it. The Germans did.

Today was the start of the fourth week of the year. We’ve only completed three weeks. What.

Kristi Noem posted photo of church protest organizer Nekima Levy Armstrong being arrested. White House then posted doctored version of photo as if Armstrong was crying. What?! (Also, Armstrong was clear at protest she was there as a Christian: publicwitness.wordandway.org/p/protesters...)

📢 WA Voters: Voice your support the #WellWashington payroll tax to fund social programs. ⏰ Responses are due before ✨12:30pm PT TODAY✨ 🖱️ It just takes 1 min 👉 Link » tinyurl.com/prowellwa

Here's an easy action you can take right now: Add this phone # for @waisn.bsky.social to your contacts so you know where to call in ICE activity if you see it: 1-844-724-3737. Acronym SALUTE helps you remember most useful things to document & share: Size, Action, Location, Uniform, Time, Equipment.

ICE has shrouded entire neighborhoods in Minneapolis in a toxic cloud of chemicals. Last year, I commissioned this story on @thexylom.com on the aftermath of Nepal's Gen-Z protests, where something similar happened. There are likely long term public health impacts in both cities for years to come:

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