This is why the “just show your ID” message is insanity.

Anyway I just don’t think this is the year for a white presenting person to be yelling at a queer Black Jew about passport privilege

We are watching one of the wildest things a nation-state has ever done: A superpower is committing suicide because the GOP Congress is too cowardly to stand up to the Mad King. This is one of the wildest moments in all of geopolitics ever.

Share a television show that raised you.

Vietnam draft dodger deports Vietnam vets.

Danish Parliament Deputy Speaker Lars-Christian Brask: "If I could come with some advice, it would be for the Senate & House to start to take control of political power in America because with this erratic & mad behaviour, you have to ask the question, is the President capable of running the US?"

✨no I won't subscribe to or read your Substack✨ but if you move to Ghost, Buttondown, or Beehiiv, get back in touch.

I was talking to a friend of mine about her various bed/housebound experiences She said what she always thought was, "My life may be the size of a teaspoon, but it's MINE." Sometimes I've felt this...other times it felt like everything that makes me who I am is being stripped away #NEISvoid

Wow! Here is the current view over Falkenberg, Germany! Quite amazing red aurora from this mid-latitude location. Europe get outside! go.theauroraguy.com/webcams

This is pure, unabashed bigotry. If a politician said this about any other faith, they would rightfully be run out of their party. But this kind of despicable anti-Muslim rhetoric is so normalized that a sitting Senator uses it without consequence. A stain on our Congress.

it's 100% what they expected. Conservatives think of Minneapolis' white people as scared of our neighbors, especially the immigrants. But that's because *they're* scared, not because we are. They cannot imagine being in a city with such diversity and enjoying it.

The other day I bitched that people always forget LaMonica McIver in their list of politicized prosecutions. The New Yorker has a profile here, so hopefully we can change that. www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Unfollowed ä longtime former moot from Twitter bc they kept posing disingenuous arguments abt LLMs.

It's MLK Day here in America. Do you know what that means? Today is the day politicians from all corners gaslighting the American people saying how much they stand with MLK & what he said. But there's a problem... They don't. In fact Dr. King spoke out against these politician like Gavin Newsom.

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Dracula (1897)

Toxic asshole tries to manipulate his way into a polycule but through the power of autism they manage to get him to fuck off for good

It’s gonna pain me bc I used to love Posh Spice but the stuff Brooklyn is saying about his mum and dad and their treatment of his spouse will likely position me as Team Brooklyn. Disrespecting your child’s wishes, blowing past stated boundaries, & using the British media to plant stories is 😕

One of the most horrifying bits of Christopher Browning's book "Ordinary Men," on a group of German Holocaust perpetrators, is the fact that absolutely nobody in the unit Browning researched was ever punished in any way for refusing to participate in massacres. These guys could just say no.

The detainee was an immigrant from Nicaragua who was being held in an immigration detention facility in El Paso, which the ACLU calls a “human and civil rights disaster.”

New from 404 Media: ICE's facial recognition app, which the agency is using to decide who to detain and deport, misidentified a woman. Twice. ICE says results of the app are definitive and override a birth certificate; obviously this case shows the app is inaccurate www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

I think the problems plaguing the world might actually be because of this. Just a thought: www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

My debut is coming out TOMORROW!!! :) #booksky

Music for the revolution youtu.be/pllRW9wETzw?...

Buffy being a Capricorn (Aqua cusp) makes SO much sense. Deep sense of duty and commitment but to all of mankind. My queen 👑

Happy 45th birthday to our beloved hero (and style icon), Buffy Anne Summers

Senior White House official says local and state police in Minneapolis “have been ordered to stand down and surrender.” What?

In which CBS News is the latest news organization to learn the valuable and complex lesson taught by the children's book "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie": www.nytimes.com/2026/01/17/b...

Throw out your Ring

Headdesk. The whistle is an ALERT. It’s not for vigil or memorial.

the only time i'm walking around holding a candle is when i'm in my nightcap and sleeping gown, ensuring my shutters are secure so that no vandals or strong breezes can interrupt my slumber

Fun fact: Many years ago I got invited to Valve to [redacted due to NDA] but I think it was really to scope me out to see if they wanted to hire me. They did not hire me. In the meantime I got to see an early version of [redacted] and advised about [redacted]. I got a headcrab in appreciation.

MUST READ thread before Monday night's forecasted G4 / SEVERE geomagnetic storm. Auroras could be seen as far south as the U.S.-Mexico border at times. Widespread mid-latitude displays are possible. Here's what you need to know to have a successful aurora chase tonight! 🧵 #heliophysics #aurora

When a friend asks for a fuck ice pun, how could I say no?

This is a big reason why @jbpritzker.bsky.social needs to STOP LETTING THE ISP PROTECT ICE. When ICE is attacking us at Broadview they can't be kidnapping our neighbours, but when the ISP is doing that *for* them they can go and kidnap to their heart's content.

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

The prongler’s use is finally revealed.

It finally happened @cowtoolsdaily.bsky.social

Seems like the companies pushing this tech are not being strictly v honest with anyone about how it works. futurism.com/artificial-i...

No shit.

A few years back I wrote a position paper for NJ specifically on why cops/SROs shouldn’t be allowed in schools. If any PTAs want to use it and repurpose it for local situation, you can download it here: docs.google.com/document/d/1...

i know - my partner and i are trans, i'd certainly LIKE it if the EU offered refuge to vulnerable Americans. but we are officially in the "literally no good options are left that will make everyone happy" zone.

I think … the comparison here is “why is the United States turning boats of Jews away?” And the answer was because they couldn’t give a flying fuck whether they lived or died There are Americans who *need* to leave because they are facing genocide It’s not cute

U.S. liberals are getting a small taste of what it feels like to be a southern U.S. liberal AND THEY DO NOT LIKE IT.

i think that you're being an absolute wiener if your key complaint as an American right now is "the Europeans on this niche social media site are being mildly rude to me over the prospect of our mad king going to war with them."

imo many Americans are not prepared for the soft privileges they’ve long enjoyed being removed

Saturday Post alert! Read about the importance of trusting your instincts in writing and life + misc: gwendabond.substack.com/p/good-insti...

They got suburban realtors talking like Patrick Henry, it's over