Power lobotomizes.

Excellent instructional video pass it on

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@skinnylatte/115878613324969503 In the kitchen! :D (true, that)

"I hate Illinois Nazis." --Jake Blues https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yHD0ZEsI1OE

shot, chaser

One of our most important tasks in saving American democracy is to help the wider public understand this: When the Trump regime's masked immigration thugs injure or kill people, as is becoming more common, government statements about what happened are likely to be lies […]

FINALLY, a sane response from a Democrat in Congress. Illinois Congressperson Robin Kelly to introduce articles of impeachment for Kristi Noem. http://robinkelly.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/rep-kelly-announces-plans-impeach-secretary-kristi-noem

Reformed January 6th participant (who refused a pardon): “You can't gaslight me. I was there. I saw the officers being pepper sprayed. I watched one of them fall down and hit his head and his back. So don't be telling me it wasn't violent.”

lol The FT is not fucking around! #grokai #clanofpaedophiles #csam #noncensenual #misogyny #patriarchy #paedophilia #technology #elonmusk #musk #twitter #deepfakeporn

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/115848969233248224 And if you're not sure where or how: https://getblogging.org/

Five years ago.

I do not want Venezuela I do not want Greenland. I do not want Cuba. I do not want Canada. I do not want Mexico. I just want healthcare.

Report from Georgia that gives a picture of what’s happening with influenza. Flu hospitalizations 2024: 427 Flu hospitalizations 2025: 1176 Flu deaths 2024: 0 Flu deaths 2025: 27

PSA: Venezuela is not in the United States ...

#naturalexperiment prediction : Reducing childhood vaccination will result in more deaths.

#project2026 : Reverse #project2025 .

Seems like an opportune moment to admit that this is not, in fact, a "Happy New Year" ( #2026 )...

Never thought I'd be glad that the CDC has no enforcement power, but here we are in #2026 ... https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/05/childhood-vaccine-schedule-new-cdc-recommendation-11-shots/

I again wish to point out that it is utterly catastrophic that RFK Jr. has unilaterally ended CDC recommendations for many childhood vaccines. It’s a betrayal of science, ethics, compassion, and the people of the United States. And it was also a specific goal of Project 2025 (page 254).

#til : The second Bush administration comissioned a U.S. pandemic response plan (which was ignored by future administrations)... https://www.amazon.com/Premonition-Pandemic-Story-Michael-Lewis/dp/0393881555

Shockingly forceful and well-argued editorial by the NY Times editorial board (gift link) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/opinion/venezuela-attack-trump-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BlA.7fw0.B0rI9WSti4E3&smid=nytcore-ios-share

You're god damned right. Every word.

Corrupt tech billionaires are buying power to tilt the world in their favor. Even the co-founder of Y Combinator is saying it. ⬇️ The radical death cult rising from Silicon Valley venture capital is metastasizing rapidly. It's an existential threat to democracy and humanity.

#nyres26 : Create first, consume later

Per Jack Smith. This is the Jan 6 lynchpin. "As I said, our evidence is that he, in the weeks leading up to January 6th, created a level of distrust. He used that level of distrust to get people to believe fraud claims that weren't true." (cont'd)

The US is trapped in a permanent election cycle; it’s not an accident. Binary parties, unlimited money, and nonstop campaigning are exhausting generations of voters and blocking true governance. This is an important read on how democracy should work. www.patreon.com/posts/electi... #BindingChaos

State of #neuroscience interactive trend maps, courtesy @thetransmitter : https://stateofneuroscience.thetransmitter.org

#2025 : Number go down (and we all know why) ... https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/12/27/opinion/year-in-charts-2025.html

"...gonna feel good...marching the hate machines into the sun..." -- #thieverycorporation , Menlo Park Guild, 25.12.29

Took the absence of #aislop on #mastodon for granted until I saw my relatives' #facebook feeds (where it seemed to exceed 50%)... https://www.fastcompany.com/91289861/facebook-ai-slop

RE: https://mastodon.world/@mlanger/115786089449487661 “Sorry” : Endorse 💯 %

This Christmas let’s not forget the reason for the season (Earth's 23.5-degree axial tilt)

You know how Americans are surprised to learn that gun deaths are rare in most other countries, pedestrian-centered cities are normal, or everybody else uses metric? That, but discovering that the rest of the world moved to EVs.

#goodnews: Courts in America are providing justice: "Federal judge says Trump administration must restore disaster money to Democratic states": https://apnews.com/article/immigration-sanctuary-city-trump-fema-9c441d9cbe953a8ecd78123f0fe8a64e Trump's actions were so very wrong that this perfectly […]

Ötzi and a 45,000-year-old Siberian were both infected with a cancer-causing strain of HPV. This is fascinating, and a reminder that we have a vaccine that *prevents cancer* and everyone eligible should get it.

Give up your day job. https://www.thedailybeast.com/president-donald-trump-79-wants-to-know-if-you-think-he-should-quit-the-white-house/

New holiday ritual: 1. Discovering your elder relative's social media timeline has been infested with #AIgarbage 2. Realizing they have reposted some of the #AIgarbage 3. Deleting the #aigarbage they have reposted from their timeline ( thanks, #ai ! ) […]

The CBS 60 Minutes CECOT segment showed up in Canada's Global TV app and then quickly disappeared. But a direct copy (not a screen recording) is now archived online: https://archive.org/details/60minutes-cecotsegment

New favorite holiday / zeitgeist mashup (CW: references to overthrowing evil kings): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LzG-qji05Lc

Rep. Thomas Massie: "A future Department of Justice could convict the current Attorney General Pam Bondi and others because the Epstein Files Transparency Act is not like a Congressional Subpoena which expires at the end of each Congress." #politics #EpsteinFiles #coverup

Here's a quilt of Volume 4 of the Epstein document dump. Gives you a 10,000 foot view of the redactions. that's 2,704 docs.

"The Year That Changed Research." https://www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty-issues/research/2025/12/19/how-2025-changed-research-and-whats-ahead Summary from @insidehighered: "A year of mass federal grant terminations and sweeping policy changes to the nation’s research enterprise broke many […]

Trump’s DOJ and AG Pam Bondi are now breaking the law to protect powerful pedophiles. #TrumpEpsteinCoverup

RE: https://masto.ai/@Nonilex/115747490802417903 Surprise (not)! ( imprison )

Because I don't think I've stated this directly: Anil's thoughts on AI are substantially my thoughts on AI, but described more clearly than they existed in my own head. LLMs are powerful tools, prepared in unethical ways, often advanced for harmful purposes by bad people at bad companies.

The #performingarts center is by #law designated the John F. #kennedycenter for the Performing Arts, & the power to change the center’s name lies with #congress, not with a bunch of idiotic tools. #trump #trumpsucks #vanity #narcissism […]

#jacksmith lsaid that if asked whether he would “prosecute a former president based on the same facts today, I would do so regardless of whether the president was a Republican or Democrat.” #trump #law #seditiousconspiracy #electioninterference #coup

#tfw you learn that your favorite producer was responsible for yet one more of your favorite songs... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_Up_the_Pieces_(Average_White_Band_song)

How a rational country deals with a mass shooting ( and ensures fewer in the future; #weaponsregulation ):