Nothing makes people angrier than when the propaganda that worked on them doesn’t work on you.

Lots of farmers in red states just got screwed, but will any of their Senators say anything?

I come from a family where gambling is normal and was taught (just like I was taught to drink in moderation) and have relatives who work in casinos - gambling on phones has enabled betting on everything and betting on everything is how people lose houses and get tangled up with criminal violence

“Separate the art from the artist” was meant to provoke a philosophical discussion about the nature of art, not opt you out of responsibility for the actions of your money and time. YOU may separate the money/support you fork over to that woman from the political but I assure you she does not.

BREAKING: Trans West Virginians ask full appeals court to revisit alarming ruling in Medicaid coverage case. "Left to stand, the panel’s reasoning could amount to judicially-endorsed regulation of transgender people’s liberty to be themselves," lawyers for the plaintiffs wrote. At Law Dork:

She's not just a creator who happens to be a bigoted arsehole. She's a really proactive participant in Scottish and UK political debates, who uses her private wealth to muster forces enacting actual real world political change for the worse. She is not just a rich writer, she is an oligarch

I'm not sure we have a more explicit example of an artist who said "hey, if you give me any money I will definitely go hurt this small group of people with it, so.... money please??" Some situations have nuance. She smashed all nuance with a sledgehammer years ago.

Here’s your periodic reminder that my first published book was an HP trivia book I was contracted to write because of my HP fanfiction. Like, HP literally changed my life. It’s also how I met a ton of my friends. And I still won’t engage with anything that makes JKR money or raises her profile now.

NEW: Trump had business motive for keeping classified documents, Jack Smith finds The special counsel’s team found Donald Trump held onto documents so secret only six people could legally review them — and believed his reason for doing so was personal financial gain. www.ms.now/news/trump-c...

Donald Trump has been President for 2% of America’s history. He is responsible for 25% of our National debt.

Watching my wife’s face as I made her read this list was everything

Haha there are NO launch windows for missions to Mars in all of 2028. The planets literally do not align properly for a Hohmann transfer orbit in that year. Maybe the President will tweet threats at Mars until it changes orbits.

Incredibly specific job klaxon if you are: 🇬🇧 looking for a UK remote role 💻 where you can use your programming and data skills 🛠️ and do some hardware hacking too 🐈‍⬛ also if you like cats, omg this is a weird cat tech job (Cat Scientist - Emerging Welfare Technology, £49k, apply by April 3)

I rarely listen to music with headphones because I’m usually just at home. Currently very much enjoying all sorts of details from the Sinners tracks I was not previously aware of

Today we sued the federal government to obtain evidence they are hiding in the killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, and the shooting of Julio Sosa-Celis. This follows the DOJ’s refusal to respond to our Touhy demands. This lawsuit is unprecedented in American history.

I just resigned from NASA. It breaks my heart to leave, but I’ve become convinced the best path forward is to do the best science I can, and that can’t be here anymore. I’m still in love with the promise of those four magic letters. Ad astra per aspera, and remember: Earth is the only good planet.

BREAKING: Delta is suspending its special service desk for members of Congress until TSA is fully funded, per @ajc.com. Delta says members of Congress will now be treated like all other flying customers. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

Eric Swalwell — “I don't say this lightly: when we escape this trump hell there needs to be a Presidential Crimes Commission. It should be made up of independent prosecutors who look at those who enabled a corrupt president."

I hate this! Starfleet Academy didn’t make my heart sing because its issues didn’t feel personal to me. But that’s okay. I’ve loved watching it. And love love love Holly Hunter’s Ake.

ALL Star Trek characters are bisexual, especially the ones you insist aren't.

Thune has the votes to override a veto if he needed to so that TSA, etc., could be funded. The GOP too cowardly to do it.

This is Stanley. He just helped solve a 160-year-old murder by digging up a bottle of poison in his backyard. Just two doors down in 1865, Mary Ann Ashford poisoned her husband's tea to be with her younger lover. Since his discovery, Stanley has stopped digging. 15/10

In late October, a cat showed up at our front door. He was skittish and ran off, but came back for food off and on over the next two months until I could trap him and get him fixed. He was NOT a candidate for adoption or even inside adjustment at the time, so the rescue released him to my back yard.

Squeezed by data centers' relentless demand for electricity, a Nevada energy company just said it's going to stop supplying energy to Tahoe. The city has a year to figure out how to meet 75% of its energy needs without it.

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Air travel has been a testing ground for Americans to accept fascism since 9/11. Remember life before there was even TSA? They said, to get on a plane you need to accept the airport as a site of surveillance & infringement on your human person. ICE being there really just expands that.

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

I’m a white US born citizen w an unusual name. Half the time I fly I get officers being like “where were you born?” over and over, while I say “New York, like it says on my passport which you are holding.” Anyway, this use of ICE Is going to result in terrible things happening to just about ANYONE.

A think you can do to help our cat rescue efforts is to follow us on Insta - www.instagram.com/uticacats

just missed World Tattoo Day but take it from someone whose skin is more inked than not—tattoos are fun and cool and a little pain never hurt nobody

This is your reminder that if you are a class member and have NOT yet filed a claim in Anthropic v. Bartz, the AI copyright lawsuit, you have 9 days to do so.

You know how in a library no one’s trying to sell you anything? That’s how the internet was.

11,000 Japanese citizens stormed their parliament demanding their PM stop following Trump into war. 82% of Japan opposes this. Protesters surrounded Japan's National Diet building today chanting: "Japan's FUTURE is not in Washington. Stop bootlicking Trump."

Your reminder to be sure to download and print out the Mueller Report (I did years ago). We should expect that there will come a time when it can no longer be found online.

Anyway, I -just- found out that Delchi died. We’d known each other since the mid-90s and had a big chunk of time where we didn’t talk for reasons I can no longer recall. We’d started reconnecting in the last couple years. Over the last months I wondered why he’d disappeared. Turns out he was dead.

The worst thing about our algorithm-based world is finding out an old friend passed five months after the fact, because Facebook decided his death wouldn’t cause me to buy anything

Ugh we have reached the “my whole face hurts” part of allergy season

Foreign food safety inspections have hit a historic low after Trump staffing cuts. The dramatic shift in oversight comes as the U.S. has never been more reliant on foreign food. “It’s only a matter of time before people die,” one expert said. (Published Nov. 2025)

Open query: What TV or movies do you think have a Shadowrun TTRPG aesthetic? Cyberpunk, dystopian, urban fantasy, whatevs. Not looking for book or comic recs at the moment, or video games. TV shows or movies, animation is also welcome.

Breaking: A U.S. district judge in Oregon said he will vacate a declaration made late last year by health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. that asserted gender-affirming care for young trans people does not meet medical standards of care. www.statnews.com/2026/03/19/j...

Yet another writer co-signing this. My voice is specific and one of the great pleasures of writing for me. I check it meticulously throughout the process and I’m gonna notice and holler if something gets changed. And no, the LLM cannot imitate me enough to fool me. It can’t imitate anyone that well

Oh NOW the elite want people to work from home again

As someone who works in a grocery store, I wish people understood how real this is. We have a week max worth of staples in back stock at most, the warehouses we get delivery from a few more weeks at best. Just-in-time logistics has been and always will be a crisis waiting to happen.

Under a new state law, starting tomorrow, stores in our state are required to allow you to pay in cash.  Businesses can't deny access to necessities by refusing to take cash or charging more for paying in cash.   You have a right to service no matter how you pay.

White supremacy works the same way. White people don't necessarily like it, and it makes them feel bad; but they're more terrified of what happens if they let go of it.

I try not be to a wackadoodle prepper, but every time I’ve had a gut feeling to do a prep cycle, I’ve been right and the data is very concrete right now.

I never want to hear that we can't afford universal health care or clean energy or high speed trains again. For the rest of our lives, any time a Republican says "well how can we afford--" the answer is "your clown asked for $200 billion to kill civilians on the opposite side of the world."