This is not a dunk whatsoever, but I wholeheartedly disagree with the first sentence. I'm old enough that a friend in my K class got polio and she ended up in a wheelchair for life. I think not vaccinating is akin to neglect like not feeding or clothing a child. And yes I have a kid.

one of the very most deeply wired of human instincts is "this is not fair" and that's why we try to build societies that are either fair or (more likely) lie to us about being fair what these people are doing is breaking that contract in favor of "fuck you I'm doing this because I can"

Wow, they want a machine that makes guesses about people’s criminality with as much care for truth as a real police officer!

East River 2023 #photography

Nope, it's mostly on them.

"Slavery was real" Tiny sign at the base of a brick wall that, until yesterday, held panels about the people enslaved by George Washington. Presidents House, Philadelphia.

RFK Jr. appointee Kirk Milhoan has just clearly stated, out loud, that he wants to experiment on the people of the United States by seeing what happens as vaccination coverage plummets and infectious diseases spread.

These strange color decisions of the 1560s do have a background story. A short 🧵 for #bookhistory.

It's annoying that we already had so many existing problems to solve before these assholes created a bunch of new ones for no reason

No surprise that a politician engaged in a literal daily fight for his life against fascism understands Trump better than too many in the Democratic Party and their European counterparts. Zelensky, today: "Europe looks lost, trying to convince the U.S. president to change. But he will not change.”

Washington Post seems to think the UN should just prostrate itself for Republican voters and only them

In our conservative estimate, 41 percent of Grok’s images — or 1.8 million — were sexualized depictions of women. Separately, CCDH analyzed how many were sexualized images across genders and ages. Their findings: an estimated 3 million images, including more than 23,000 of children.

With most psychedelic drugs, you never know what you're going to get. But this mysterious mushroom from China - without fail - causes users to hallucinate tiny people: crawling up walls, popping out from under furniture and marching under doors. www.bbc.com/future/artic...

Holy shit. HHS says the Africa CDC "is a powerless, fake organization attempting to manufacture credibility by repeating its claims publicly. It is not a reliable source, and its statements should be treated accordingly."

“We’ve invented a magic computer. It uses all of the earth’s resources, we’ve spent trillions on it and it’s the sole growth area of the US economy.” “What does it do?” “We were hoping you could tell us.”

The most annoying thing about our current crop of AI executive dorkwads: They have convinced *themselves* they’re totally indispensable to society and thus whine constantly about how not using their products makes you a *bad person who hates progress*.

Maybe it's my exhaustion and current health garbage, but it's really feeling like his cronies have convinced him to go after these ridiculous things he wants because they know they'll result in the crashing of global commerce into a state of chaos from which they plan to excavate the rotting scraps.

This is infuriating. WPA-era art is one of the great cultural legacies of the 20th century and one of the most important artistic expressions of labor and working people in world history.

"While the murder rate is falling, the number of twitter replies saying 'I just witnessed a murder' appears to be rising"

Hier in Finnland gibts die schon seit ein paar Jahren. Scheint ganz gut zu klappen, sogar im Winter. Der Gedanke, dass man die auch beklauen könnte, ist mir noch nie gekommen. Es ist schon ein Glück, in einer Gesellschaft zu leben, in denen Menschen sich noch nicht gegenseitig das Essen wegnehmen.

Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe:

I keep thinking about the number of people that have to be involved to kidnap a small child, transport him to one facility or another, then an airport, then a plane, then another facility. Did no one on that chain stop and say hey what the fuck?

he’s looking very “da fuck they doin ova der” and it’s making me laugh SO hard. 🤣

I remember that many people warned about the dangers of putting the most ethically deranged person on earth in the most powerful governing position in the world and to do so without any meaningful legal constraints or realistic accountability mechanisms -- and they were dismissed as "hysterical."

I guess I do think if you participated in the arrest of a five-year-old you are probably just fundamentally incompatible with society. That you are not a safe person for humanity to be around, generally

This picture broke me, but the description of this kidnapping by a witness who says ICE referred to this precious child as “it” as they took him away fills me with an unspeakable, murderous rage.

a heavily armed paramilitary force with legal immunity is occupying a city and going door to door kidnapping non-white adults and children in furtherance of an explicitly white nationalist political project

Discworld QOTD, from Moving Pictures "‘Students?’ barked the Archchancellor. ‘Yes, Master. You know? They’re the thinner ones with the pale faces? Because we’re a university? They come with the whole thing, like rats-’"

I have been actively involved in protest movements for 24 years. I have never seen anything approaching this scale. Minneapolis is not accepting what's happening here. ICE fucking murdered a woman for participating in this, and all that did is bring out more people, from more walks of life.

I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.

ICE detained a 5-year-old Minnesota boy coming home from school + took him and his dad to Texas, school officials say. The family has an active asylum case + entered the US at a port of entry. "They’re taking children. They're not violent criminals. They're little kids," the superintendent told me.

Ich have seene how thys movye doth ende and it ys awful

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Nigerian-born scholar, translator and documentarian @kolatubosun.bsky.social moved to Minneapolis with his family in 2022, little imagining the kind of U.S.A. he would be bringing his children into. Rich, sobering essay about how the world is changing under our feet. flaminghydra.com/issue-485/

Tonight’s cleanup and restorative work. Am I restoring the books or me? Yes. We’re all 40+ and spent a lot of time in a library

One court decision, two different headlines. Guardian on the left, NY Times on the right. Which one more directly conveys information and the stakes to the reader?

Is anyone surprised? It’s been quite clear everytime he mentions it -he is drooling at the idea of invoking it.

You will not be surprised at the number of breathless conversations about space data centers I’ve heard in the Bay Area. “But how will it work?” “It just will.”

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Even after Trump is gone, the world will remember that he threatened to forcibly seize the territory of a peaceful democratic ally, and our institutions failed to immediately remove him. That makes US dangerously unreliable, not just one senile gangster.

I give it eight hours before he threatens them with force again.

His brain is mush, and he probably meant to say Greenland. There's a chance he could invade your country entirely by accident. I am so sorry.

I'm listening to Trump at Davos and he said the US stock market took a large dip because of Iceland. "Iceland has already cost us a lot of money". What is he talking about??

Every couple of weeks we get a different description of the apparently awful stench coming off our necrotic president and I think it's high time the media nail down exactly what kind of rotten meat covered in women's perfume he actually smells like.

Mafia goon: Nice house you got here...it'd be a shame if something happened to it Media outlets: Mafia goon rules out use of force. Expresses regret at the mere thought of it

The US granted visas to Jews but only allowed 30,000 in from Germany a year. You had to wait for your number to come up. Meet Robert Smallbones. An unassuming British diplomat who 'hacked' this system so effectively (saving 48 THOUSAND Jews) the UK government kept his scheme secret for decades /1 🧵

I've been reading a book in Finnish outloud to practice pronunciation (and hopefully gain vocabulary and confidence). Every time I start reading Mr Orangepants comes up to my face and meows insistently. Either it's my struggling tone or that he thinks it's weird I'm speaking Finnish.

My husband would like it noted that it's all genuine vintage, not retro.