Technocapitalists’ great trick is to make people who hate all this bullshit feel like they’re suffering from the same fogeys-not-coping-with-a-changing-world syndrome every generation succumbs to, rather than, say, just rejecting a rampant evil that seeks to rob us of our individuality & and soul.

Gate of The Alhambra https://www.wikiart.org/en/childe-hassam/gate-of-the-alhambra

All the news that's fit to post, and, in Dobrzyn, Hili shows off her Shakespeare, though Andrzej is hard of hearing: Hili: To meow or merely to watch, that is the question? Andrzej: It’s your choice, yet remember - the deaf cannot hear. whyevolutionistrue.com/2026/03/04/w...

The worst people in the world

Here's my first edit on the March 3rd Lunar Eclipse. 15 moon shots, 1 foreground. Taken over a 3 hourish period.

- These monsters hanged kids for posting on Twitter. - They gouged women’s eyes out for daring to wear makeup. - They threw gay people off rooftops. - They murdered Americans. 1/2👇🏼

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If you follow the right accounts on X, these stories are endless

Mayor of Toronto Olivia Chow doesn't care

Good Morning. Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SideView, birds that are side on to the camera, the Alt theme is #Yellow, any bird with Yellow in it's plumage. Here's a Reed Bunting, Blackbird, Great Spotted Woodpecker #SideView and a Blue Tit #Yellow #birds #EastCoastKin #ukbirding #photography

An update on how the Iranians are fairing. We're seeing lots of hits on stationary abandoned launchers, which implies either a high missile failure rate or Iranian crews are simply abandoning launchers after firing.

AI-generated art can’t be copyrighted after Supreme Court declines to review the rule www.theverge.com/policy/88767...

How was this guy not part of the Day 1 target list?

I hopped on Bluesky and saw half the timeline crying for Iran and shitting on the US. One simple fucking question: when the hell did all of you finally lose your goddamn minds? Quick reality check for the room: Hating Trump does NOT mean you have to cheer for medieval religious psychos. 🧵…

As a long time fan of @economist.com going back to the last century, when James Callahan was PM (yes, that old!), it's a thrill to appear in print on their pages. Revised version of a web essay on the Supreme Court decision.

Legends of the game

Pro-IRGC sources are acknowledging it is likely that newly-appointed Iranian Defense Minister Majid ibn al-Reza has already been killed by U.S. and Israeli strikes only days after taking the position.

There's so much you people don't understand

he's not joking. this has been tried www.businessinsider.com/panetta-burn...

What we are reading:

'Moon (slips away .. ) Oil Paint Sketch

He can’t believe I would stop rubbing his belly for something as frivolous as a photograph!

This is normally a trustworthy reporter but I have trouble believing this

From 0:40 to 4:39 you can watch a hilarious and mostly persuasive infomercial from the Norwegian government. Wild stuff. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii-D...

One wonders what sort of replacement building they'll use to choose the next Supreme Leader

"In particular, while expressive responding clearly causes surveys to exaggerate the extent to which partisanship acts as a perceptual screen, the same forces that produce expressive responding in surveys may also affect the political judgments people make in real life."

I’d like to use this moment to highlight that smoke damage from structure fires is often substantially worse and more widespread than the immediate area of fire. So too with water damage from extinguishing operations. Keep in mind whenever you see what looks like “small” fires.

60 degrees and blooms beginning to appear in Portland, Oregon today. #Photography #Flora #Flowers #Oregon 📷

About that curse where your dad jokes turn into public policy.

A flighty Northern Flicker deciding whether my presence will prevent her from eating. 📷 Olympus C-740 Ultra-Zoom #birds #shittycamerachallenge

The BBC's unflagging commitment to accuracy continues to not flag

What do we think this phone call sounded like?

The Flag, Fifth Avenue https://www.wikiart.org/en/childe-hassam/the-flag-fifth-avenue

On NPR this morning, a representative of the Qatari government said that Qatar had fired over 100 ballistic missiles at Qatar.

"The Unexpected Winners From Trump’s New Global Tariff" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/u...

"The General Motors plant in Janesville, Wis., had a bar so close to its front doors that the automaker tried to discourage lunchtime beer runs by building tall fences..." www.autonews.com/general-moto...

Breaking: The Air Force recently struck a senior commander of the Iranian terror regime in Tehran. The target - Commander of the Lebanon Corps on behalf of the Quds Force, Daoud Ali Zada. According to two sources in the security system