Despite creating a billion-dollar franchise - with a new $200M budget Hollywood blockbuster launching in a month - the creator of He-Man's family were unable to afford his dementia and care facility costs, and had to setup a GoFundMe. Mattel gave $5,000.

I do, however, work on the *opposite* of killing people with drones, in that I am currently trying to find funding and partners to support my work documenting and fighting back against the horrific rise of targeted small drone attacks on civilians globally (please send me leads!):

"One fire official called them 'a safety issue for our crews as well as the victims.' WIRED obtained an audio recording of the meeting." Latest from @aarianmarshall.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/emerge... tip @techmeme.com

By all that is holy, if and when SCOTUS decides that birthright citizenship is protected in the Constitution, don't let the 3-3-3 numpties tell you this is a moderate, centrist court. Rejecting an a-textual stupid Hail Mary doesn't cash out to a push when it comes to eviscerating the VRA today.

Died young, empire immediately collapsed. Assassinated. Died in exile.

In Wales they now do a cool thing where candidates have to list their recent party membership history. It throws up lots of interesting findings for voters. Like Dai Richards (bottom) - 'independent' candidate who has been a member of four far-right parties in the space of a year...

Fantastic episode of @dreamingagainstthemachine.com with KSR: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d... - a man who disavows futurism but has one of the clearest views of the future I know of.

“You said, ‘We will give them no quarter, no mercy.’ An order for no quarter, or no survivors, is a war crime under the Geneva Conventions. You understand, that’s murder. Do you stand by that statement?” Rep. Seth Moulton asked.

LLMs can’t understand “No”. This honestly feels unsurprising.

#DailyBird 🤖 Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata), 1st January 2024 es: Colimbo Chico, fr: Plongeon Catmarin Old Harbor Reservation, Boston, Massachusetts Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 800mm f/11, 15% crop, 1/500s, ISO 2000 #Birds #RedThroatedLoon #RTLO #BirdOfTheDay #HopeIsTheThingWithFeathers

#YesterdaysYardBirds top 10 🤖 (NE MA): 1 American Goldfinch 2 Eastern Phoebe 3 House Wren 4 House Finch 5 White-breasted Nuthatch 6 Mourning Dove 7 Common Grackle 8 House Sparrow 9 Black-capped Chickadee 10 Northern Cardinal #Birds #BirdsongDetection #BirdWeather

The first Baltimore Oriole of the year attempts to brighten up a heavily overcast day, though I'm not completely convinced he was ready for his portrait. #birds

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Well, that's nonsense. House Republican Appropriators are once against trying to prevent GAO from litigating when the president has made an impoundment, which are (of course) illegal. H/T @nehls.bsky.social

A well-reported update on the 15 South American people ICE sent to DR Congo two weeks ago. Trapped in a rat-infested hotel by the airport with no options but going back to the countries they fled. This is what we're doing to legal asylum-seekers who "followed the rules." www.npr.org/2026/04/28/n...

Important to note that Raccoons are always relevant.

aww man, even the king of england is scoring on us

Well spoken words from King Charles in the House of Representatives today. His speech is, I think, best understood as an attempt to reach the American people rather than the American President. Here is a transcript. Via @globalnews.ca globalnews.ca/news/1182087...

A pretty incredible four paragraphs from The Boston Globe. When you simply list all of the horribly violent things Donald Trump has said just in the past year or so, it really drives home how ridiculous it is to "both sides" about rhetoric. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/28/n...

You, YES YOU, need an emotional support vulture.

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I love her

If you told me that you eliminated the annual killer of 40k Americans from your market, I’d be more likely to visit too!

We have a new flagship for "What could possibly go wrong?"

the Sacramento zoo has 6 BABY CAPYBARAS

Today in ratios.

#DailyBird 🤖 American Crow (Corvus brachyrhynchos), 6th December 2024 es: Cuervo Americano, fr: Corneille D’Amérique Wakefield, Massachusetts Canon EOS R5, Canon RF 200-800mm f/6.3-9 + 1.4x teleconverter @ 754mm, 55% crop, 1/400s, f/11, ISO 2000 #Birds #AmericanCrow #AMCR #BirdOfTheDay

As someone who has cancer, I was genuinely expecting "AI", the "magic machine which will cure cancer" to fuck up my treatment somehow. Fortunately, my insurer still seems to employ humans (and the ones I've spoken to seem genuinely caring, as is my medical team).

Best of all this is true on Bookshop.org, the site that supports independent booksellers: bookshop.org/lists/one-da...

#YesterdaysYardBirds top 10 🤖 (NE MA): 1 Eastern Phoebe 2 American Goldfinch 3 Common Grackle 4 House Sparrow 5 Mourning Dove 6 House Finch 7 Black-capped Chickadee 8 White-breasted Nuthatch 9 American Robin 10 Northern Cardinal #Birds #BirdsongDetection #BirdWeather

Just raccooning the timeline… #mammals

Heads up: it looks like *all* of Terry Pratchett's books are on US ebook sale for $2. I can't afford to get all of them, alas, but I'll be getting some. Even the Bromeliad books are on sale, so I will be getting those at least.

a ballroom has a core strategic weakness: the man in the back saying “everyone attack”

You, YES YOU, need an emotional support vulture.

Famously Lincoln’s last words were “this is why I need a home theatre.”

#Raccoon​-posting for humanity.

"Looks like the neighbors are going to be a problem this year". #birds

How Volodymr Zelenskyy manages to survive in a literal war without a ballroom to keep him safe is just shocking to me.

The "Warschauer Wanderrobbe" of 1625, a crown wearing and heavily armed seal with a canon on its back, clearly didn't give a fuck. What a print! #skystorians

#ArtemisII My latest cartoon for @newscientist.com

A rough estimate of doing as much generative AI coding as the CEO of Nvidia recommends : an increase of 2.7x of the global annual emissions footprint for the average person By Boris Gamazaychikov www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Palantir, the mass surveillance and kill chain war crimes company, has a WaPo op Ed telling us that fighting dirty data centers will only help the rich 🫠 "Anthony Bak is head of AI implementation at Palantir. Mehdi Alhassani is head of government affairs at Palantir" archive.ph/Hqsou

Today is Sir Terry Pratchett's birthday. By far one of the best authors of my generation. “A man is not dead while his name is still spoken.” So, may his name echo eternally through the clacks. GNUTerryPratchett

Good morning! Here is a three-day old sea-otter pup, snoozing on their Mama. The image is by one my favourite wildlife photographers, Suzi Eszterhas, who runs girlswhoclick.org - an organisation that mentors girls and young women interested in nature photography. Feel free to share.

A Sedge Warbler in the swaying reeds. #BirdOfTheDay #birds #ukwildlife #birdphoto

Friends don't let friends use "AI" to legislate..."AI"! Via @nyalleng.bsky.social "it emerged that the Department...used AI to generate the document...News24 published an article revealing that the department used fake & made-up research in its AI policy." mybroadband.co.za/news/governm...

Thanks for sharing this document, @rweingarten.bsky.social. I read it, and I believe it's inexcusably inadequate and will not prepare teachers or schools to confront the very real dangers of the "A.i." products pushed by your partners, including OpenAI. A few thoughts for your consideration...

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