My god. This is so applicable to so many Christian Nationalists/Republicans ... which is to say, basically every single one of them.

Bloomberg: Duffy said he is prepared to close US airspace if the budget crisis makes flying unsafe. FAA is already short on air traffic controllers, and many of them are working without pay. More than 6,200 flights were delayed on Friday and nearly 500 were canceled.

Look at Creemee. 🥹 He's a big, handsome, FIV+ smoosh at the shelter right now, and a total sweetheart despite his very hard life. If you know anyone in northern Vermont looking for gentle friend, please pass this along! www.hsccvt.org/Cats#sl_embe...

Take it from an American, vote as if the lives of people you care about depend on it 🇮🇪 💚

@rahaeli.bsky.social Since you aren't DM'able, do you have a better channel to ask a slightly sensitive moderation question?

What America really needs is its own prize, maybe the Lockheed Martin Peace Prize, in association with Raytheon, brought to you by Palantir, with a half-time show presented by General Dynamics and OpenAI

When life imitates art

Okay, so this is fascinating. It still sucks that our flight is delayed by hours, and that I've missed my connection, but I love tangible examples of fractal complexity in systems, so at least there's a new example I can use to explain the concept. Systems are so very, very complicated sometimes.

TIL !

We've been sitting on the tarmac in Tallinn for nearly two hours because SAS is basically too cheap to pay for their own engineers. Which is kind of nuts when you think that the whole problem would be a non-issue if the airlines were smart enough to pool funds and pay for airport wide engineers.

#Speirgorm It appears a very serious concern has emerged over the last 24 hours or so. Is it bejaysus, bejaysis, bejasus, or bejasis?

Portland is amazing and this is such a joyous response to a deeply depressing authoritarian set of actions. When this finally ends, I hope every single ICE agent and complicit cop serves prison time and is ostracized for life.

Seriously, Judges *do no do things like this* They don't give their opinion to the media They don't criticize how SCOTUS works This is them breaking the emergency glass, folks www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

This is exactly how the Hungary plan went, and the December meeting went down to the wire. Why is our Government supporting amass surveillance plan the German police minister said should be ‘taboo’ and the Dutch spy agency said was a threat to security?

Once again, this happens every time the Council/Parliament try to ram through Chat Control. They know this is a terrible idea. At this point, the only reason they're trying to introduce it again is that they're hoping people aren't paying attention.

It's really interesting how many people are terrible at grasping scale. When I read this, I think to myself 'well, obviously, you need automation/ML for moderation', but I'm sure that until many see the numbers, the scale question isn't even considered.

Timeline Cleanse Watching these giant predators who can easily disembowel me playing exactly like my cats is the Platonic ideal of "But if not friend, why friend shaped?" www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pxC...

The following is REAL footage from Portland, 2025. Viewer discretion is advised.

Pritzker: "He wants to militarize major cities because he wants us to get used to the idea of troops on the streets. I believe he's gonna post people outside of polling places and if he needs to in order to control those elections, he'll assume control of the ballot boxes & count the votes himself"

I love this initiative and happily used it to send a customized message to my MEPs. It saddens me that Ireland is a supporter of this affront to rights and freedoms, and I hope they all get lots of messages from similarly concerned constituents.

@fightchatcontrol.bsky.social thank you for creating this. Chat Control is one of the worst European policies and the fact that MEPs still don't seem to get it indicates that they haven't been hearing enough from worried and concerned constituents.

This will get worse. Women will be surveiled, harassed and prosecuted until they have no rights and live in fear. This has always been their plan.

Chat Control is “like a malware on your device” – Signal slams the EU proposal to scan your private chats | TechRadar https://alecmuffett.com/article/116368 #ChatControl #ClientSideScanning #EndToEndEncryption #censorship #signal #surveillance

👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻 The reasons for eroding privacy always sound reasonable at first (nobody wants to protect terrorists or pedos), but sooner or later, the Overton Window shifts and people are getting rounded up for sending a group meme mocking a politician, or exposing corruption.

This would be a terrible decision. It's already bad that so many countries' MEPs (including Ireland) want to mandate technology companies to build a snitch line that violates privacy rights. It's shocking that the EU pushes this now, as they watch the world slither towards authoritarianism.

It's funny, when you have a cognitively challenged Dem president, his advisors manipulate him into forgiving student loans & expanding domestic cleantech manufacturing. When you have a cognitively challenged GOP president, his advisors manipulate him into fascism. Kinda revealing.

Deleting Facebook, getting rid of your Ring camera, and unplugging Alexa are three concrete things you can do to break the chain of surveillance which will undoubtedly be used more and more by state apparatus to nab you or your neighbors. Don't be an unwitting Fed or ICE agent. OpSec is solidarity.

Watching the Áras debate Humphreys and Gavin are so blandly beige it's honestly unreal. About all they have to say is to get loud against Connolly which is quite a thing.

Both Google and Apple are carrying water for Trump's Gestapo, and when history is written, I hope they face the same derision as IBM, Chase, and Ford did for supporting Hitler's. Payouts and bribes are cynical takes, but just make the companies look bad. But this kind of censorship is dangerous.

Republicans are learning about how FAFO works. Pity this wasn't in a redder district though.

Of course. Even Trump's favorite guy Hitler wasn't this egotistical.

And now you all know why Palantir is the platform of choice for DHS/ICE. It's one of the few that can ingest this information and analyze it quickly.

🇪🇺🚨 HUGE NEWS: #ChatControl vote reportedly to be postponed (unconfirmed)! 🎉 Our protests are working! https://x.com/SeppTyvaert/status/1973788987442803023 But it's just a delay. Many governments are still undecided. ⏰ Tell YOURS to join the resistance […] [Original post on digitalcourage.social]

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

“Empathy and compassion are evolved states of being… Over my years in politics and business, I have found one thing to be universally true: The kindest person in the room is often the smartest.” JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov @jbpritzker.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/ifin... #KindnessMatters

In less than a year, the entire DNC will be declared a domestic terrorist organization and then Hakeem Jeffres and Chuck Schumer might wake up. Pity it'll be too late.

@kenwhite.bsky.social Was just listening to the recent episode, and wasn't sure if you knew that the far more likely reason for settlement was as a payout / bribe to get the DOJ to drop further antitrust actions/penalties against Google www.reuters.com/technology/w...

This ad is wonderful. Bang on brilliant.

This has been the Republican dream for at least 10 years now. They want American women barefoot, pregnant, confined to the home, and utterly miserable. That's always been the plan.

This is a great example a democratic politicians office doing internet well. This is just an example and not an endorsement of the politician

Larry Ellison is Trump's new bestie for now, but shit's going to get real exciting when he eventually pisses Trump off and Trump takes TikTok away from him.

This dipshit is going to drop a nuke on Venezuela or Iran because someone decided to run an updated version of War of the Worlds on Fox News and millions of people are going to die.

Our pee terrorist Rosie must be sequestered in a room because she insists on peeing everywhere when she is near other cats. But she's so needy that she screams bloody murder until we come up and snuggle with her. And then she makes us feel guilty by looking adorable.

@tupped.bsky.social I died. I am literally dead from laughing at this in The Gist today. "Micheál Martin's candidate Jim Gavin (or Don Uachtaránacht as he's also known to the less observant poster reader)" 🤣

BREAKING NEWS: Trump asks the Supreme Court if he can nullify the Constitution.

Today @chamberofprogress.bsky.social submitted our response to the European Commission’s review of the #DMA. One year in, it’s clear: enforcement is disproportionate, fragmented, and the process for compliance uncertain, leaving European users worse off.

*taps mic* remember: this is not just egregious lies about autism which is already bad enough it's also about ensuring pregnant people suffer by trying to make them afraid of taking painkillers don't let the ableism hide the misogyny

The US has now entered the 'disappearing people' stage of authoritarianism. Sadly, neither Congress nor anyone with power or authority will do anything because they're all cowards.