Encampment sweeps do not decrease homelessness, but they do increase deaths by accidental overdose for the people they displace: jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

The judge of course did not say what prompted her to say this, but I 100% promise you she did not just think of this on her own and decide to announce it in court. Someone had to have complained to her about this.

The judge said absolutely no AI glasses with facial recognition can be worn in the courtroom. If anyone has already used them to record jurors, “you must delete it or you will be held in contempt of court.” “This is very serious,” Judge Kuhl said.

Could a tech loyalist identify social media addiction trial jurors by wearing artificial intelligence facial recognition glasses in court? That appeared to be Judge Kuhl’s concern when she addressed the gallery before jurors returned from recess in Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony.

After reading Careless People it’s actually wild to open meta’s text-based platforms and see them try to do all of the things to me that Sarah Wynn Williams describes in the book I think if you are gonna use Threads you have to read the book so you know the anti-democracy machine you’re sustaining

POINTS TO THE 'IT'S IN THE *NAME*' SIGN.

I'm using writing a book as practice to improve my writing.

this is so so so so so good. My relationship to WoSo changed as soon I started watching hours (and hours and hours; sorry, partner who doesn't do sports) of the Aussie league, the WSL, the Frauenbundesliga, and other NWSL games, not to mention international friendlies.

Important day job update!

who corrected an already-written GIF alt text from "a dog laying on a bed" to "a dog lying on a bed" earlier today? THIS PERSON, WHO SURVIVED 7TH AND 8TH GRADE PAROCHIAL SCHOOL ENGLISH CLASSES. (Or maybe thrived in them, let's be honest.)

anyway, more mocking the weirdo for wearing JEANS into a plunge seen earlier in that thread—because covering your legs is fine if you’re not comfortable with them being seen for whatever reason but denim is a fucking weirdo choice for it!—and none of “well he’s gross and/or pathetic looking”, please

yes, actually I do care about middle-aged white men feeling bad about their bodies—even, god help me, Republican ones I’d cheerfully drop in a volcano—because they are people. while no one owes anyone else aesthetic appeal, neither should anyone be told their body is *innately* disgusting.

shaming people for appearances that don’t appeal to you ain’t the fuck okay—even if it’s genuinely evil middle aged white men you’re shaming!—because the stigma *doesn’t fucking stop with people whose politics you hate*. shame them for their shit fucking politics and evil, leave aesthetics out of it

I say this, every time i say it (which is far too fucking often), to myself as much as anyone else. Like Kaba says, hope is a discipline, a practice. That doesn't mean "don't be sad," but rather using what you can to turn sadness, anger, frustration, even despair into something that drives change.

I haven't been this depressed as an American since I heard about the free baby boxes in Finland.

oh my goodness, so useful!! #NWSL

This will be a companion book to the main Star Trek title, which is all about the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, led by Raffi's girlfriend Seven of Nine, as they go beyond the known galaxy. That's written by @ifyoucantwell.bsky.social and it's going to be utterly brilliant. 🖖🌟✨💖

At last I can talk about it! I'm writing a Star Trek comic!!!! All I can tell you right now is it takes place several years after the end of Picard. And it stars Captain Raffi Musiker working with a giant positronic brain to protect the Federation from future threats! gizmodo.com/star-trek-id...

the city of minneapolis is spending money on clear channel billboards right now???

Doggy.

"fibermaxxing" makes me laugh so hard as a person who read Diet for a Small Planet in the 1990s and then ... er ... bought a lot of vegetarian cookbooks.

“Is there a technology the left is excited about?” High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!

so all those departments are going to be re-funded?

THIS IS THE JOURNEY.

Two days after the deadly sea collision, ~1,000 people demonstrated in central Athens, chanting slogans such as “Athens – Minnesota we fight together, against the system that murders us,” “open borders for refugees,” and “we live together, we work together with the migrants, fight the nazis.”

Not sure if/when we'll update it again, but I can say a few that I personally would want to add would probably include: XALA (1975) THE ANNIHILATION OF FISH (1999) COMPENSATION (1999) SYLVIE'S LOVE (2021) NICKEL BOYS (2024) HEDDA (2025)

Just realized this year marks a decade since Dan Kois and I put out the Black Film Canon, an entry point to filmmaking history, and three years since we updated it. Love to see it's still be used as a reference point for movie enthusiasts! slate.com/culture/2023...

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This is actually ... kinda Thorns heavy, which I like for the future.

"Unexpected" REALLY THO?

There is no drawdown. There is no retreat. ICE is just redistributing their assets to better avoid accountability.

I still don't know why Microsoft didn't learn from Clippy. We hated him and we hate this too. Also, I can just write my own email.

Writing can be frustrating and exhausting, and sometimes it can feel like flying. Being able to articulate what I mean in words all the time has made me smarter and happier too. Writing a lot is deeply important and will change your life. Even if you think it sucks! It probably does at first!

honestly, its because foreign policy is an aristocratic wasp gig and one of the few nodes of power monopolized by the exact kind of guys who write for the atlantic and the nyt

Kellie Harper died for this.

This thread is so deeply nauseating (not for what Castro is doing, just to be clear).

a fucking pedophile sexually abused nearly every prospective and actual Olympian gymnast for over two decades, and the political discourse is hyper-fixated on the hypothetical unfairness of trans girls competing with cis girls

The general public should get a chance to see the last half of Amber’s program the way it was meant to be seen. The energy and exuberance are next level, it makes you want to smile. Amber is SO GOOD when she’s on! #MilanoCortina2026 #figureskating

A more accurate way to characterize chances would have been that there is a decent chance that a US woman would get a medal, and a small chance that we might get two, and gold was not impossible but was always going to be a big reach.

I am annoyed that the US press has been leaning so hard on “all three girls are medal possibilities!” and didn’t say that they’d have to skate absolutely clean and to hit the gold would require multiple people who had a lot of experience to mess up.

This infant is an American citizen so they just fine murdering American babies. That’s where we’re at now

Portland Thorns news & updates #BAONPDX 🌹Olivia Moultrie called up for SheBelieves Cup 🌹Soph Wilson still in return to play protocol, but nearing return for club/country. 🌹Cassandra Bogere reports and completed first training 🌹Full NRI list stumptown-footy.ghost.io/portland-tho...

Today is the first day of Ramadan, the first day of Adar, Lunar New Year and Mardi Gras. This means that for one reason or another, the majority of humans on the planet have a reason to eat fried food, and that is beautiful.

Delirious Cold War panic has been swapped out for noxious trans panic, but the result will be the same: athletes will be punished for no good reason. @michaelwaters.bsky.social on chromosome testing at the Olympics is a must-read defector.com/chromosome-t...

YES. I've been begging for this. They are running illegal detention facilities in office buildings. Municipalities shut down businesses all the time for health code or zoning violations far less severe than ICE's. Pressure your cities!

I wrote about Frederick Wiseman, for whom most superlatives don't go far enough, and the most important thing he did that wasn't making movies.

It's also alternate side of the day parking is suspended in NYC but that's a more common niche holiday dependent on the below.