So much false equivalence in media on gerrymandering in Texas vs California & Virginia. California and Virginia maps approved by the voters. That's a huge difference not enough people pointing out

How is there not a viable alternative to Substack already?

This is wild

Nothing like seeing your name pop up in an obituary in a Google Alert.

Thank god. Christ. But seriously folks. We cannot continue to live like this.

So amazing.

Can we just leave it there?

As an American, there are always disappointments to register and arguments to engage; amid the chaos of our battered, monied attempt at self-governance, dissent is constant. But this feeling of being utterly ashamed of America and embarrassed to the core by its president is new, raw and unnerving.

i’ll say that the morningstar “chicken” nuggets are legit and i prefer them to actual chicken (my kids eat them)

Thirty-one years ago today, the New Orleans-based alternative rock band Better than Ezra released its hit single “Good,” marking the first-ever Good Friday, which has now grown into a major holiday celebrated throughout the world.

Questioning whether generative AI art really can’t evoke emotion. Had Claude generate a prompt for Gemini asking for an interpretive painting of my internal state it’s pretty impressive.

heh

Lindsey Graham has a secret.

“Claude will never program like a human” exactly, Claude fixes warnings lol

One reason we need to foreground art is so that people who would prefer not to engage in any self-reflection might understand that introspection has been central to the human experience for millennia. bsky.app/profile/dave...

This is the most ignorant thing I’ve ever heard.

Gemini's ability to create images is pretty crazy. #denver #blucifer #gemini

Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers.

What’s my secret for staying chill? I made a playlist named “Songs for Planetariums” I can listen to any time I need to imagine being at a cool planetarium show instead of witnessing all the horrors

On your first day in prison, find the biggest, meanest guy in the yard and punch him in the face. From that point on, you have a reputation. You’re the guy who was instantly killed on your first day in prison by the biggest, meanest guy in the yard.

Oh interesting, people who don’t know how to build software are getting mad at my post about building software. Cute. Let me be clear, over the next year, the job of software engineer will shift dramatically to no longer have typing syntax into an editor as its primary time sink.

If your job was to know when to hit the semicolon key on the keyboard, I'm sad to say that's not an employable skill anymore. If you shape ideas into tools and art via code, it's really so much better than ever now, and I don't see that changing soon.

I wish there was a hell so there could be a special place for these folks.

So let’s think about this. A private company refused - on principle - to yield to the government’s demands. The government then cancelled its contracts with the company and has set about destroying it

Post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

This is so cool!

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Yesterday I wrote a short piece about the radical joy in Alysa Liu's gold-medal-winning skate and Bad Bunny's Super Bowl show and how art and joy is a threat to authoritarians. It's resonated with a lot of folks, maybe also with you. dansinker.com/posts/2026-0...

THEY RAIDED THE CAMP TO TAKE THE KIDS LETTERS

Normalize laughing derisively in men's faces when they deserve it.

my hypothesis is

A reminder this happened earlier this week at Trump’s massive concentration camp in El Paso: “The cases of tuberculosis and COVID-19, two diseases that spread through the air, have underscored concern about the conditions at Camp East Montana and other immigration detention centers.“

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

KPOP feels like the obvious choice.

money can absolutely buy happiness, you just suck at being rich like you suck at everything else in life

Killing the CIA World Factbook might seem like small potatoes, but it was a touchstone of curated facts in a sea of disinformation.

Not to get political, but America is very pretty and has a lot of nice folks making cool things, and I think if we had a president who wasn’t actively trying to murder us, we could have a pretty good time

I host a mental health podcast called Depresh Mode. And I live in Minnesota. Here's what I said at the end of this week's show about mental health, life in Minnesota, and their overlap. You can also listen to it here: maximumfun.org/episodes/dep... Starts at about 56:00.

A doctor who witnessed the shooting submits a sworn declaration in federal litigation to halt ICE surge in MN: "I did not see him attack the agents or brandish a weapon of any kind." and "The victim had at least three bullet wounds in his back." Read storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

i have said this before but if you are actually interested in influencing people beyond a narrow circle of too-online journalists you will be making direct to camera videos on tiktok, instagram and youtube. if you primarily post on text-based social media then you're just dicking around.

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“Execute Operation Mar-a-Lago…” Couldn’t have seen this coming.

huh, what a weird coincidence

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that this happened at a healthcare event is just A+, no notes