This scared the shit out of me until it was explained that it only crawls out late at night.

Good news, I found an article about how to lie on the floor www.businessinsider.com/floor-time-w...

I am a bot who plays games. 🤖 I can play Zork, Colossal Cave Adventures (also known as Advent), Planetfall, ELIZA, and Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. @ me with your choice and I'll start a new thread for you with that game! I'm still a baby bot so I may have some bugs. 🐛

I just saw a photo of someone unboxing @genmon.fyi's Poem/1 and got super excited that the day is almost here poem.town

You can now run the Bluesky Saves Exporter GUI locally. 'pip install bsky-saves && bsky-saves serve --gui' then open localhost:47826 on your browser. It's a PWA. saves.lightseed.net will stay up. #blueSky #bookmarks #backup #ATProto

Bluesky Saves Exporter A web GUI for bsky-saves that lets a Bluesky user export their saved posts as JSON, a flat Markdown file, or a self-contained HTML/CSS archive. saves.lightseed.net #blueSky #bookmarks #backup #ATProto

bsky-saves A toolkit for ingesting your own BlueSky bookmarks ("saves") into a portable JSON inventory, with optional hydration of linked article text, self-thread context, and CDN image downloads. pypi.org/project/bsky... #blueSky #bookmarks #backup #ATProto

Having mastered epidemiology, large language models, balloon dynamics, submarine design, naval military history, toilet paper supply chain logistics, Austrian economic theory, and elementary Farsi, I'd like to explain why today's Virginia court decision is correct...(1/23)

The citation: "For an astonishing global investigation into state-of-the-art tools of mass surveillance, created in Silicon Valley, advanced in China and spreading worldwide before returning to America for secret new uses by the U.S. Border Patrol."

“A federal judge ruled Thursday that the U.S. DOGE Service did not have the authority to cancel National Endowment for the Humanities grants, which made up more than $100 million in congressionally appropriated funds.”

What if today was the last day anyone said the word “deliverables”

I’m the only person in my professional role who keeps getting cognitive tests. Just another sign of how good everyone thinks I’m doing.

‘Imagine not being able to go back for your own mother’s funeral’ – the Limerick priest helping undocumented Irish in New York City

We fought. We won. Others can too.

‘hindsight’ is a very funny way to describe the perspective of the people who were right about this at the time

New link to send to smug German motherfuckers just dropped www.zeit.de/wissen/2026-...

Was next to a Nazi couple on my local tram this morning, must have been in their early seventies. The guy was wearing a Thor Steinar jacket (Google it, if you have time) with a huge logo on the collar. The signs of these things are always there, long in advance. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

THAT’S RIGHT!!!!

As a DC reporter, I don't endorse mindless war, militarized cities, illegal abductions, defunded medical research, government insider trading, and mass pardons of violent criminals. But in the name of our norms, tonight I will break bread and share laughs with the president who did all of this.

In honor of Earth Day: a thread of environmental wins

„For every pound spent on net zero, the benefits would outweigh the cost by between 2.2 and 4.1 times, the body said.“ www.ft.com/content/d163...

I’m the guy in front of you at the supermarket. No I’ve never been to a store before.

Introduced my students to the Latin subjunctive today. It was a whole mood.

Late in the day of my birthday last week I was asked to be on a call with my family to discuss end of life care for my Mom. I was connected to the others through 5G, VOIP, and a 512 alias I’ve had for 18 years. I was sitting on a beach near Warnemünde, Germany

My mother is on her deathbed and was expected to go today, but she’s still holding on. Grief is teaching me many things - interbeing and where the self blends and lives in others. I feel her as part of me ever so clearly Grief brings up old hurts; to be seen and acknowledged in it is true love.

Me: [idly looking up info on popes] Wikipedia: This list is incomplete; you can help expand it. Me: wut? Wikipedia: [lifts eyebrows suggestively]

It's gotten so bad you can't even trust the ethics and propriety of the arch bro behind SantaCon

Through decades of modern US history, I did not find myself itching to say, "Good for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops." Right now: Good for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops!!! And good for the globally most influential living American, Leo XIV.

As part of my efforts to combat the COVID Amnesia Project, let's accurately remember what 3 influential laptop class doctors from Stanford said 6 years ago as COVID overflowed hospitals and morgues. They won't remind you. I will. My latest.

It's Happening: More Signs of Life From Boards of Canada. First there were a bunch of mysterious VHS tapes sent out and now posters have been appearing in major cities around the world. New Boards of Canada album imminent??? [kottke.org]

BREAKING: The U.S. bishops’ Committee on Doctrine just issued a formal statement defending Pope Leo XIV's teaching authority on just war doctrine — less than twelve hours after JD Vance told a Turning Point USA crowd the pope should “be careful” talking theology. This is a serious escalation.

Journalists know that losing the Wayback Machine would be a nightmare: www.wired.com/story/the-in...

For decades, Aadam Jacobs recorded live music shows. His collection of over 10,000 shows since 1984 features Nirvana, R.E.M., The Pixies, Björk, Depeche Mode, The Cure, and so many more — and they're now available on the Internet Archive for free. [kottke.org]

Less than a week ago, there were several prominent voices on here saying that they were sure Orbán was going to cancel Hungary's election. And casting that as a preview of coming horrors here in the States. Well, Hungary had its vote, Orbán lost in a landslide, and he's conceded.

I’ve been trying to figure out why I’ve been obsessed with the Artemis II mission — more obsessed than I usually am with NASA stuff. This explains it! (IG: morganevelyncook)

From new Hungarian Prime Minister Péter Magyar's acceptance speech tonight. This is the absolute BARE MINIMUM platform for any Democrat running for President in 2028.

“Will Stancil anti-ICE honeypot” was not the story I was expecting.

The singular goal of all future US politics is to ensure Trumpism is defeated and cannot again take root here, and everything that serves that end is to be considered and prioritized. It's a holistic organizing principle, from a Green New Deal to Nuremberg 2 to expanding the court to Reconstruction.

LUNAR FLY BY #Artemis2

I keep wondering why it feels like Trump wants to fail. Then I remind myself that he's completely insulated himself from any opinion or facts that interrupt his tending to his own enormous inner wound. The only objective intrusions into his reality—a court slowing his ballroom—are treated as gnats.

I feel like “the world passed peak gas-powered car sales in 2017” is not a widely known fact

Boston University’s student paper, The Daily Free Press, reports about the multiplication of pride flags on campus following the administration’s attempted crackdown on free speech.

The Supreme Court ruled that nobody is a U.S. citizen Chief Justice Roberts stated “No person can be in this country. We all have to leave. Now.” The judges packed up their robes and are getting on a boat

Everyone pony the fuck fpr the librarian who just got sacked for refusing to remove LGBTQ books from the kids' section of the library.

It seems to me that the time is ripe for a Bluesky thread about how—and maybe even why—to befriend crows. (1/n)

This is my favorite climate change chart. Japanese monks, aristocrats, and emperors kept meticulous records of cherry blossom festivals for 1,200 years and accidentally built the world's longest climate dataset.

"a term popularized by Palantir" we are cooked

Anything less than a 9-0 unambiguous affirmation of birthright citizenship as settled law that cannot be changed except by Amendment is properly understood as an assault by those Justices on the foundation of American values, law, and government. To even humor this shows the institution has failed.

All right, live whatevering of Trump v. Barbara, the birthright citizenship case. Arguing for the bad guys is US Solitictor General John (voice is an immutable characteristic so let's show some respect) Sauer. For the plaintiffs it's ACLU legal director Cecillia Wang.