And as always, if you just absolutely NEED a beloved British childrens' fantasy series about witches and wizards to survive, a further reminder that Sir Terry Pratchett appears zero times in the Epstein Files and Granny Weatherwax would take none of Mrs. Rowling's transphobic pedophilic shit.

The world is in a scary and precarious position. If you are a medical device manufacturer in Germany and you need medical grade PVC, once that plant is shut down, you can't get a substitute without shipping costing more than the device.

Not once does this story mention that offering a federal job in exchange for a political favor is a crime

the age of man is in it's last twilight hours, the age of silly goofs is upon us

This is how I'm introducing myself at all work and social events going forward

Tough decade for me because i still want to know things, except no i do not

apparently there are drawbacks to the "why don't we just call our army Death Bringers and our troops War Fighters and kill everyone we see while our Secretary of War poses with seventeen sparklers up his ass and recites Vogon poetry in appreciation of the act of murder" philosophy of foreign affairs

I am excited and honored that @calyxpress.bsky.social has published my short story, “The Schools,” in its gorgeous 50th anniversary issue! This story is a chapter from the novel-in-stories I have been working on for quite a few years. Publication in CALYX has been a goal of mine for many years.

I want to say that if this dragnet snags enough white people, we might finally get meaningful action. But I am pretty sure the elites have already called off even the pretense of caring about poor white people AND they’re actively making middle class white people poor. Sooooo…

Just a reminder that Muslims have been on this continent since the first arrival of non-Indigenous people. They were among the first generation of Americans, and have been here ever since.

[guy who sang baby beluga] the festering belly is splitting, each half digested soul fumbling for a knife

We were promised that the rich were going to leave NYC after Mamdani won and instead we have this...

WTAF?! www.change.org/p/virginia-a... #FreeMikeCrump

The parody movie about the AI bubble is going to have nowhere to go.

devastating thread 🧵💔

There is no way Senate Dems should vote for DHS funding while Republicans are threatening to nationalize elections and Trump is threatening to do it by executive order. ICE reforms are no longer enough. Their authoritarianism must be fought with every legislative lever available.

This sounds bad but we should still give him a trillion dollars to build moon computers later this year

Reality check: Does anyone else's entire monthly budget look like the post below?

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

These people are truly demonic.

Trump was credibly accused of sexual assault in the Epstein files. It's unclear what became of the DOJ's investigation.

Linked in the email: A slide deck for a designer baby project. Humans as a product. Design goals, timelines, resource allocation, funding discussions.

They should rename The Olympics "Look at These Crazy Motherfuckers."

Hello. Yesterday, I learned (YIL?) that there are (still!) conventions of town criers, and all I can think of is how loud those must be.

I just wanna close by bringing it back to this LLM tech. I'm saying that presenting this tech as "artificial intelligence" was a deliberate choice. Modeling it as "it's a thinking machine that can do what humans do but better" was done intentionally to devalue human jobs.

Me on Bad Bunny's beautiful joyous halftime show and why it is legible to everyone, no matter what language(s) you speak

Big news from New Jersey: Sam Wang—neuroscientist, Princeton professor, and one of the nation’s leading anti-gerrymandering voices—is running for Congress. Evidence-based democracy is stepping onto the ballot. This is how change happens.

A desperate plea sent to me by a Minneapolis resident who's been on the front lines since the beginning of the ICE occupation:

This was the best season of Iron Chef.

The March for Life is going to end up killing *actual babies* with measles in the name of non-existent, hypothetical babies. which is the most perfect distillation of the American MAGA worldview that I think I’ve ever seen.

More of this.

Don was taken into custody by federal agents last night in Los Angeles.

he's married to trump's college bestie's daughter

Awful to even try to catalogue the harm being done here in MN. Educational harms, students out school? At least months. Economic harms, from empty, half-functioning businesses? At least years. Civic and psychic harms, from shattering the basic sense of safety? Decades. Stolen neighbors? Forever.

What he said

Part 3,576 of wondering how people can watch Trump stab his partners in the back and then decide to partner with him.

Professional grade bubble letters. Extremely buying. Very cash.

Ah, the "states rights" party in action again, I see.

I've decided now is the right time to start calling it fascism. Everyone who called it that before now was wrong

This is one of the biggest stories in America, comparable in scale to what’s happening in Minnesota. The largest social media platform is transferred to Trump’s allies and immediately forbids you from saying anything bad about him. Absolutely totalitarian in nature. No different than China.

part of this is like, conservatives projecting; part of this is conservatives unable to imagine politics without money; and part of this is dudes who are so out of touch with feminized labor that they think children's birthday parties exist as a spontaneous act of parthogenesis

From the excellent "Welcome to the American Winter: In the frozen streets of Minneapolis, something profound is happening" in the Atlantic (free link) archive.is/U9zi6 "Knutson mentioned in passing that his neighbor had 'an adopted brown kid down there; they hid her in the basement yesterday'.”

The irony of the NRA recognizing when the administration is entirely against their values, when evangelicals won't recognize the same thing for their values.

I say all the time: lefty politics is fueled by middle-aged and retired ladies. We'd love for our menfolk to join us!

A thread of MAGA protesting with guns and not getting murdered for it... Arizona, November 2020

Anyone have that meme with the two journalists where it’s like 1: “It seems I have to apologize for being wrong about this” 2: “Yes, but in doing so, you are more right than ever” 1: “Of course you are correct, thank you”

hey folks, six figure opinion columnist here and gotta say, made a big ol’ whoopsie on the most consequential and honestly, probably the most obvious opinion of my life. thats my bad. anyway, guess I’ll just keep getting paid to give my opinion, thanks for reading

It was so wrong to use the word until this week, now it's perverse not to. The hidden magic fascism switch has been flicked