#OTD, Pinocchio, Walt Disney’s second animated movie, was released, Feb. 7 in 1940. For a twisted NON-Disney take on the Pinocchio tale, listen to Marionette About to Drown by @bradleycdenton.bsky.social with @cspector.bsky.social on bass as the whale. blandlemondenton.bandcamp.com/track/marion...

Don’t give up the ship.

The GOP’s top think tank just defended an open Nazi - Vox I'll just leave this here,

Are you f******* kidding me!? I cannot imagine a decent reason for this to be happening. Unless the Cheeto hates America, which he clearly does. This isn't one of his shitascular "real estate developments," this is OUR House the White isn't the President's house, it's the people's house.

Spotify is running ICE ads. I went to cancel on mobile and saw that this isn’t allowed on mobile. They make you cancel on desktop. You think that’s gonna stop me, Spotify? I will erase you and forget you ever existed. THOU SHALT CANCEL SPOTIFY!!!

The corrupt begat corruption

This is a little over-the-top, but it needs to be kept alive while bullshit "wars" against political opposition to the current regime are being put in place. It's a two-fer for them. Assert their military might at home and distract from the files.

This is exactly what the right wants— our silence. They want us afraid and to stop speaking up, to check out, to shut up about politics. We can’t give them that. Not now. Not ever.

BlueSky’s interface is awful. I just lost my comment on this article. In a nutshell: This is destroying a system that had bene broken by Reagan. Kewl

Sweet baby Jesus, this so much this. Also, weary.

Holy shit! I couldn't be prouder of a public figure than I am today than of Gov. Pritzer. Every state gov. and the mayors of the cities being threatened with an unprecedented use of our military against its own citizens need to do the same thing. This isn't what our military is for and is demented.

Gaslighting 101

A must see…

I'm not sure whether to be scared or pissed. Maybe a heapin'helpin' of both. The "Department of War" now has a "leader" who just gave the best Goebbles' speech of his life. The goal is to purge the "Department of War" of anyone who isn't a true believer who will do anything horrible asked of them.

The irony is not lost on me that a company known for creating some of the best shows —about the Resistance— capitulated in the worst way possible to the actual fricken Empire. Enjoy Mothma’s epic speech, from Andor

Allowing the ripping away of First Amendment rights and personal liberty is the end game for the corporate state. Shutting up critics and the arts is straight out of the Nazi playbook. Pity it appears too late to stop it. All they needed was their Horst Wessel moment and they got it in spades.

HEY UK!🩸🩸🩸 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon who incites political violence, adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🩸🩸🩸

I find it amazing, but not surprising that they're capitalizing on a murderer (utterly unremarkable in the USA) as if this is the first time it's ever happen. The silence about liberal assassinations is defending. They're craven monsters to capitalize on what happened. Horst Wessel effect much?

I'm exhausted (I say that a lot) with the breathtaking hypocrisy of the right. And I don't consider this an "assassination." It's just another day of business in the ol' U.S. of A.

God, I love her.

True...and hilarious.

This is on the al bum "At the Earth's Core" by Bland Lemon Denton. I play in the band, though the drummer and I don't play on this one. It's beautiful and haunting and also stolen. Flattered? (Got get the album. It would be nice if you bought the cd, but it is streaming.)

Could I love Gavin Newsom more? Not sure, but I bet he's going to make it so.

So, another Republican is being tried as a serial abuser of children on a horrific scale. Depressing how this sh*t no longer surprises me.

RFK Jr. doesn’t like that a study of every child born in Denmark from 1997-2018 showed no link between aluminum in vaccines and 50 adverse health outcomes. This study included more than a million kids. RFK Jr. wants the study retracted. The journal, which is a very prestigious one, refused.

It's been obvious for years that that's what they've been doing in Texas. And what they can't succeed in gerrymandering, they'll do voter suppression, or they literally won't count votes. (F*ck you Ken Paxton.)

Overheard: I'm surprised the nickname “Pedofuhrer" hasn't caught on yet.

I'm not going to paint all Rs with this brush, but so many of them are covered in paint already.

Cops were caught on camera beating anti-ICE protesters on the Ohio–Kentucky state line bridge; then dragging them off in zip-ties like it was open season on dissent. They didn’t de-escalate. They cracked down. And they made sure the cameras saw it.

This. So much this. The gerrymandering in Texas is appalling. I truly believe that were it not for epic voter suppression and gerrymandering, we would be a purple state.

There really is about nothing worse than a pedophile rapist. But the women who were raped and trafficked are still here. And they still have voices and continue to speak the truth.

🚨🚨🚨 I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x POS convicted felon & adjudicated rapist & pedophile Trump did 🚨🚨🚨

Yes, well, so much this. The worse are the people who didn't vote because 'It doesn't make any difference." F$#& y'all.

BREAKING: Senator Alex Padilla is calling for ICE agents to be unmasked. Who agrees?

I’m heartbroken at the losses from Guadalupe flood in Kerr County. Between Texas and the current administration people died. The Age of Heartlessness is upon us.

Trump’s immigration crackdown is taking a toll on the U.S. economy. From small farms to corporate giants like Disney, businesses are scrambling to replace workers after recent admin actions have taken immigrants — both legal and undocumented — out of the labor force.

Just remember children, every time you use AI, and angel loses their wings.

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models - Ars Technica F$#% AI. This is nothing but a wholesale copyright violation, stealing from actually creators. And don't come at me with that buggy whip analogy. You know that's b*llsh*t.

Three years ago today, Trump's far-right Supreme Court majority ended Americans' federal right to abortion under Roe v. Wade. Since then, over 100 women have been denied emergency abortion care. Amber Nicole Thurman, 28, was one of them. Today, share her story. www.propublica.org/article/geor...

what federal agents did to a father of three Marines while he was cutting grass in Orange County on Sunday has happened in some form daily — and deliberately — all over Los Angeles for 18 days.

It’s been a clusterfuck of a day. SCOTUS has thrown decency and legality out the window. The law is now lawless. Here’s a collage because why not.

After seeing an awesome video of jack-booted thugs masquerading as police, and in the recording heard them saying,as they manhandled and arrested a woman for no reason other than she was recording them, then saying, "This ain't LA" well we have come to quite a pass haven't we.

I'm tired of waking up tired. This is both a sleep thing and a raw horror at the world thing. So here's a collage I don't think I've posted before. I made this for a friend. Foxes are her thing.

I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what the 34x convicted felon & adjudicated rapist Trump did.

This says it all about how I feel about AI. As a writer, I sure as hell don't want my work being used to train a machine to writing in my style. I'm not a name, but I have plenty of friends who are. They worked hard for where they are and don't deserve to be plagiarized.

F****** pricks. There are no words to describe how horrid these creatures are. Covid is still a thing and is still killing people. But hey, who cares about herd immunity and making things safer for people with compromised immune systems.

Started walking again. Saw this on my path. It’s been a long since I’ve photographed anything . It’s a magnolia tree and the blooms got a little over exposed. There’ll be a collage coming soon. (Now I have to finish it.)

As someone who uses audiobooks -a lot- this is just f****** awful. Part of the joy of audiobooks is the interpretations by the narrators. AI has its uses. This shouldn't be one of them.

Yes, this.