"the largest act of mass murder of this decade, and of this century so far, was not perpetrated by militaries or militias, but by the world's richest man in Washington D.C.'s Eisenhower Executive Office Building." www.liberalcurrents.com/what-elon-ha...

BBC News really running with this "Scientists have discovered the *secret* to how horses whinny" story today

Incredible art.

They pay me in woims

I can't get over this number: in 2007, there were 360,000 newspaper jobs. Now, there are 80,000. "My local paper sucked!" Sure. What sucks even more? The void. "I get all my news from the Guardian!" No, the Guardian doesn't report on your town council, your school board, local cops.

What

Awful. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

Starbucks is a sweets & dessert shop that also serves coffee.

After they were done with USAID, they illegally took over and shut down USIP for this crime lord.

I still miss Phil Hartman

I know the US has done a ton of atrocities globally, but it’s really something to get so mad about one *good* thing we were doing that you turn it into a new atrocity. They KILLED MILLIONS OF CHILDREN with a keystroke and a grin, not a second thought. Unimaginable evil. Vought/Musk Hague 2027 Tour

I took this photo walking home a few weeks ago. No one looks at Instagram feeds anymore, so I'll share it here. #nofilter

Overheard after seeing @nin.com: "I'm not saying I didn't enjoy it... That opening was a bit like when Bruce did Nebraska."

Overhead after seeing NIN: "I'm not saying I didn't enjoy it... That opening was a bit like when Bruce did Nebraska."

The impact of what DOGE did, the lives upended, isn't in the past. It's still happening. www.cnn.com/2026/02/14/p...

The volume & geographic distribution of protest nationwide during year 1 of Trump's second term was extraordinary.

Genuinely hilarious note on this restaurant receipt

On that DS9/Starfleet Academy episode. Tawney Newsome confirmed last night on a great interview with @syfysistas.bsky.social that Benjamin and Kasidy's daughter Rebecca was mentioned several times in earlier (longer) drafts of the script. "The writers didn't forget."

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Ebo Taylor has passed. What a great musician.

Easy there pilgrim

The current Kermit voice is very off for me. I found it distracting. It didn't sound like Kermit to me. It sounded like Paul Scheer.

Check out the Shinawatra's new populist gimmick! "It has promised to create nine new millionaires – in Thai baht – every day through a national prize draw."

just a reminder that the united states is essentially operating a network of torture camps holding individuals in arbitrary detention, without access to appeal and rarely to counsel.

Starfleet Academy was very good this week, and the search for Sisko definitely got me teary eyed.

I often think of the line from Touch of Evil. "A policeman's job is only easy in a police state. That's the whole point."

On February 1, 2025, the usaid(dot)gov website went dark. 🔗 Read the full statement here: oneaidcommunity.org/2026/02/02/o... #USAID #USAIDOneYear #ServiceEndures

The Times has learned the President had a call with the FBI agents, or the Times has learned it's outside the bounds of typical procedure?

The Kennedy Center will be torn down and replaced by the Trump Golden Sphere

What an absolutely unnecessary loss for everyone living in the area.

Yolanda López, 1981

Obviously the problem here is that the CEO isn't sufficiently incentivized. Probably needs a better compensation package.

This is good

Both Billy Bragg and Springsteen have released songs about Minneapolis in the past few days. And there was that folk singer on Late Night with his anti ICE song. Can't comment on the quality of the songs, but it's nice that protest songs are alive and happening.

If the past fews years are any example, I don't think tech executives are mature enough for advanced AI.

Story as old as time. "He says that many agents on the ground are just going along with the expanded mission because they are more interested in their away-from-home per diem pay and collecting overtime than whatever the mission is."

NYT also has an article today interviewing therapists about the growing number of high functioning patients they're seeing suddenly suffering delusional thinking or psychosis streaming from chatbots. One says he thinks we're probably only seeing the tip of the iceberg.

Constantly being exposed to daily images of violence, especially state sponsored violence, is not exactly good for an individual or nation's mental health

Don't even know if all these men work for DHS. Any big boy can put on a hoody and tactical vest and join a lynch mob.

Finally starting The Pitt s2. I was not expecting them to introduce a Vulcan as new chief doctor.

I want this show

Two Star Trek memes reposts in one day? Yes.

This is a fascinating headline choice in the NYT, considering Kushner has no official role with the US government

#StarTrek #StarfleetAcademy

What DHS is doing isn't law enforcement. Seems like they could easily make that distinction if they wanted.

I have a proposal for the Europeans to extend. If Trump agrees to move to Greenland and live there for the next 10 years, and never leave the island, then the US will get Greenland at the end of it. Make him do the work for it.