Somehow I'm supposed to be working on a federal tax return right now.

AFGE is the American Federation of Government Employees. Local 3669 represents professional employees in the Minneapolis VA Health Care System. Alex Pretti was a union man.

I recommend not watching the videos, which are chaotic and gut-wrenching, and instead going through Bellingcat's analysis. This man appeared to be zero threat, while the officers were overly-aggressive, agitated, and clearly primed to used lethal force.

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

DHS legislation that funds ICE without policy restrictions needs 60 votes to pass. Tell your Senator NO MORE funding for ICE and demand accountability with this link to a form letter drafted by the National Immigration Law Center act.nilc.org/page/92715/a... Deadline is next Friday

Our Democratic elected officials are not rising to this moment so most of them must go. Any elected official who isn’t willing to organize a Project 2029 around punishing everyone in the Trump administration in order to save democracy must go.

Windows games running on Android is getting really exciting. Feels like 2021 again, when Proton was picking up momentum and you could start to roll the dice on installing a game and getting it to run. It will probably evolve massively this year. Maybe Steam for Android isn't far off.

I genuinely think boycotting the World Cup is some of the strongest leverage the Europeans have.

Wild that Fastlane doesn't support Xcode's synchronized root groups, a great feature that was added in June 2024 and has been in production Xcode builds for nearly a year and a half. github.com/fastlane/fas...

🚨 ICE is creating a watchlist of anyone and everyone who films them, DHS sources tell me: www.kenklippenstein.com/p/ice-making...

breath of the wild set us back 30 years man

that right there? that's a man with a union

Minnesota: "School officials say the [5-year-old] child was used as bait. They say [ICE] agents made little Liam knock on the door to ask to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home."

Starting to believe that the best career advice you can give young people right now is not "learn to code" or "learn AI" but "learn Mandarin".

Me logging on to everyone going "did it happen" right after watching episode 5 of Heated Rivalry was some whiplash

Whenever I read discourse on AI energy/water use that focuses on the "median query," I can't help but feel misled. Coding agents like Claude Code send hundreds of longer-than-median queries every session, and I run dozens of sessions a day. On my blog: www.simonpcouch.com/blog/2026-01...

I was in high school when ICE came into existence. I remember it happening. Anyone my age or older can remember a time before ICE, and it really wasn’t that different! It’s not a radical policy proposal because the department didn’t really change policy, just created a new culture of cruelty.

How to knock out hours of business filings and bookkeeping and tax things you have been dreading and don't want to do: grind in RuneScape while you do it

Anyone who wants to discuss AI (positively or negatively) should be prepared to show at least, like, 20% of the nuance that Affleck talks about here.

My favorite Pixar movie has historically been WALL-E, but I think I have to change that to Ratatouille on rewatch. The movie has a fair few writing flaws and poorly-aged choices, but it is incredibly charming and optimistic and fun to watch Doesn't hurt I've learned to cook since last watching it.

perfect

a few things I want people to get from this: -how tense it is here. I was death-gripping the steering wheel during this, even watching it makes me tense up -how organized the community is. the rapid response networks are ENORMOUS and highly effective -how completely the city is united against ICE

Nei will return in Avengers: Doomsday

Molly's being characteristically thoughtful. I'll be more of an asshole: THE AI COMPANIES HAVE USED WIKIPEDIA'S SHIT FOR YEARS. It costs millions of fucking dollars in infrastructure to serve up content to these companies. Should Wikipedia subsidize them? No? Then it's *good* they're getting paid!

One thing I learned working at a social network like Tumblr is that people will be mad at you for literally anything you do.

The Last Judge in Silksong is a great example of how bullshit this game can be. The fight itself is great, a decently hard skill check that's very readable and the rhythm is really smooth. Then you win, he turns into a bomb, and if you don't know he does, it kills you and the win doesn't count.

The Last Judge in Silksong is a great example of how bullshit this game can be. The fight itself is great, a decently hard skill check that's very readable and the rhythm is really smooth. Then you win, he turns into a bomb, and if you don't know he does, it kills you and the win doesn't count.

Happening Now: Students have walked out of school and are protesting against ICE in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Saba's singing voice is always so pleasant...

Today at 34 & Park in Minneapolis, a woman tried to drive down the street where a protest had broken out in front of a home ICE was raiding, saying she had a doctor apt to get to. ICE agents busted out her windows, cut off her seatbelt, and pulled her out before arresting her.

We did a ride along. Not with law enforcement. But with the Minneapolis residents defending their communities from those very officers. @premthakker.bsky.social's front-row seat at ICE's psychological warzone in Minnesota — and how residents are banding together against it:

I am rapidly becoming a single-issue voter and that issue is "throwing people with poorly aimed, way too bright aftermarket car headlights directly into a wolf den"

every day involves grappling with how embarrassing it is that the secret police are so embarrassing, just complete losers incapable of visiting the men’s room alone, who cannot comprehend why people are calling themselves bums to their faces

You can have whatever opinion you want about AI companies, the impact of AI on tech, its cultural impact, the ways generative AI is contributing to enshittification of the internet, all of that. But the number of people who think that makes it okay to harass individuals for using AI is... alarming.

I am generally enjoying Silksong much more than Hollow Knight. And then I lose 300 rosaries because of some bullshit and I want to delete the game.

You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today. This could be you.

Every person on Bluesky should know: * Every post on Bluesky is PUBLIC forever * Every post on Bluesky is archived by ICE, NSA, and many other agencies * Even if you delete a post, it’s already been captured * Judges don’t care if you were “kidding” or being ironic www.404media.co/the-200-site...

Two queer women with a 6 year old in school today stopped to film ICE and for their bravery ICE agents murdered one before the other’s eyes. The grief in the survivor’s voice is a knife to the gut. Destroying people and their bonds is what ICE has always done.

ICE has only existed since 2003. A Bush-era creation, it is a militarized federal secret police that has been imbued with the Supreme Court with the unconstitutional power to ignore the fourth amendment. Abolishing it and salting the earth where it grew is the moderate stance.

It’s genuinely wild that the United States spent decades building an elaborate rules-based international order which de facto cemented its permanent status as the dominant global hegemon, sustained by ideology rather than might, and now is just blowing it all up for literally no reason

Going back to the job I generally enjoy tomorrow after being off for 3 weeks

There is no constitutional crisis. Congress just refuses to do its job.

Going back to the job I generally enjoy tomorrow after being off for 3 weeks

Zohran Mamdani, the new mayor of New York City, called President Trump on Saturday to personally object to strikes the U.S. had conducted in Venezuela and to the capture of its leader, Nicolás Maduro. Mamdani accused Trump of violating international law.

Now that "early 2026" is upon us, I need Valve to start shipping the Steam Frame and Steam Controller yesterday, thank you

For nonlawyers, it’s worth noting that statements like this have—as a formal matter—important legal effects as a matter of international law. If such statements are *not* made, and in volume, future arguments that Trump’s invasion sets a legal precedent will stand on much firmer legal ground.

Amid reports of explosions around Caracas, the US FAA issued a new NOTAM prohibiting US aircraft from operating at all altitudes within Venezuelan airspace as of 0600Z today, 3 Jan. Flightradar24 is not currently tracking any aircraft over Venezuela. www.flightradar24.com/airport/ccs