this is basically the most effective thing you as an individual can do to fuck with ICE and good on this dude for dedicating his retirement to fucking with them

I have a policy of not liking or reskeeting screenshots from Xitter, and that saves me a lot of time, but I do wonder why so many people are 1) still there and 2) bringing that Xitt here. Haha, look what Grok said. Lol, see how toxic it is there? Just. Why?

When you cheated your way through school, but now the test is a legal trial in front of a judge and jury.

It irks me that our country has been brought to its knees by people this incompetent.

As Ratthi put it, “You’d think they could at least pretend to give a damn.”

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Bartleby the day!

Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt. . Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL

Not satisfied with just destroying their own brand goodwill, OS companies are now using AI to try to destroy the good names of the apps users install. (Scrivener taking out adds to explain how it has no AI but Apple adds some anyway.)

While the ostensible political goals of Q and AltNPS couldn't be more different, this dynamic is exactly the same. Both Q and AltNPS rocketed to popularity and built their audiences on their "insider" personas, but once they hit the mainstream, they pivoted to being "cheerleaders."

Literally just lectured about this! In the late 1960s, air quality was so bad in several cities they had to turn on the street lights during the day so drivers could see. And yeah, the Cuyahoga River was so polluted it literally caught on fire.

One must wonder: how many people threatened to stop donating before he caved?

Highly recommended! In addition to the usual topics, this edition also recommended a really great article: lithub.com/maybe-dont-t... It was maddening, entertaining, and crystallized my issues with the NYT.

Oops. lol

Name calling is a symptom of dementia/Alzheimer's.

Already updated on Wikipedia. Someone is on top of this shit! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_Io...

@diane.dianeduane.com , this is AI slop from Facebook. Try searching for any combination of Jennifer Morrison, Glendale Arms, and Boston. This video is the only source. Notice it's a different woman throughout, and the "security cam footage" looks like handheld cell footage, etc.

A thing I was taught over and over and over in journalism school was that following the money would almost always lead to the truth. Once we started following the politics and not the money, the truth reliably stayed hidden. I do not suggest this was an accident.

Alleged? Didn't the judge make a ruling?

Verily.

Trending but not dead.

@molly.wiki I have a Wikipedia question if you've got a moment. Where are the definitions for terms used on pages. Specifically, I'm looking for the official definition for a person's "occupation." There's a page that keeps getting edited to list occupation as "physician" because NYT called him that

His GF was working, so I went house hunting with Oldest today. 1) Best location, smallest but OK layout, highest price. 2) Middling location, worst layout, best price. 3) Worst location, biggest & best layout, middle price. Prices are all outrageous! Skyrocketed in the past 6 years!

this would have been a month-long scandal in 2011

THIS IS BIG For non-academics who might not understand why: 1. Sen. Warren is still a Harvard professor so this is a call coming from inside the house 2. As a tenured law prof, Warren knows it is a VERY big deal from a labor standpoint to call on Harvard to ignore tenure. The bar for this is HIGH.

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The Salvation Army are a hate group. Do not forget that this winter.

Look, sometimes posting here can be a grind, but you have to jump in feet first and everything will come out fine on the other side

A shorter snout is one of several physical traits linked to domestication. Using almost 20,000 raccoon photos from iNaturalist, researchers found that urban raccoons' snouts were 3.5% shorter than rural ones.

SOME PIG

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Feenstra ist running for IA governor! #IAGov #Iowa

Don't shop Target, and if you do, don't cross the Starbucks picket line! No Starbucks anywhere, even if that location isn't striking. Starbucks must negotiate in good faith with its unionized workers, period.

Oldest kid is house hunting again (first deal fell through due to an issue on the seller's end—after he gave them an extra month to fix it), and look what was in a house he toured yesterday!

I just realized my photos app was hiding some folders, which means technically the Ralph meme (which I deleted after posting because I didn't mean to keep it that long) wasn't the most recent! I saved this one a week later:

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy

Old woman yells at clouds: WHY IS 6' THE DEFAULT LENGTH FOR USB CABLES? That's so long! Like, I don't even need 3', and those are still almost impossible to find. And when I do, they're newrly $25! $25 for wire and plastic that doesn't even last a year? Where do you get your cords, dear Bluesky?

This idea that #metoo was a temporary piece of insanity that happened because America was too woke... Fuck you. It was a temporary moment in time when people decided, for the first time, that 20 women were finally equal to one man.

What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are: -Competency Porn -Teamwork makes the Dream work -Surprise!Teamwork -Never leave a person behind -The Decline and Fall of Space Fascism

The AI -> suicide pipeline just got younger!

/2 I mean, my lede made my point pretty explicitly —. That saying “the system could never be this incompetent or indifferent” is just wrong — but we’re talking about agitated subnormals, not agitated rocket scientists.

Got a case now where they refused to give a pretrial detainee his insulin until he fell into diabetic ketoacidosis and died.

Oh, excellent talking point! Thompson keeps claiming the protestors are from "out of town" but the cops & soldiers are coming in from out of state, so that dog won't hunt.

Ok, Clues by Sam are kicking my butt. I bought the puzzle pack, and I'm on #7, plus doing the dailies. I really need a way to take notes in the app like I do with Sudoku. Even a pencil mode would be nice where you don't reveal clues by marking C/I to follow a trail. #CluesBySam

Promises, promises. He wouldn't even say the W-word when the vast majority of Polk County had unsafe drinking water last summer.