Me: hmm, this image has a fake glow and blown-out contrast attached to pretty much every object. I wonder if... Me (about half a second later): Seems like the person who put this image on their website has no interest in scientific accuracy.

BREAKING: Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has been formally reported to the police over allegations he was involved in the trafficking of a woman to the UK for sex in 2010

This took me fucking ages

Question for the writers: Do you rewrite as part of your writing sessions? Does your muse flounce off to her treehouse with a bag of candy and a bottle of booze, refusing to speak to you, if you think the word "rewrite" before you have reached "THE END"? Something in between? #WritingCommunity

DO IT!!! (You know you want to!)

remember back when we all doodled the current thing for warmups? we could bring that back, maybe, that was fun

I know you've heard that a federal judge ordered the release of 5 year old Liam Conejo Arias and his father, and that they're now home. But did you look at the judge's order? It's less than 2.5 pages and well worth a minute. "Jesus wept." Link to pdf: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

BREAKING: 8 more U.S. Attorneys in MN resign from Trump’s DOJ in protest as backlash grows. This isn’t normal; isn’t routine reshuffling. It’s a rebellion. Last month, 6 veteran prosecutors quit in protest. Normal staffing for the MN DOJ’s office is around 50 attorneys. They’re down to just 9.

French prosecutors raid Paris offices of X, issues summons to Musk and Yaccarino www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#WIPSnips #WriteSky "perish"

The Presidential level of "You won't play with me, so I'm going to rip all the heads off your dolls."

Venture capitalists are like the lowest of the fuckin low and they have done so many crimes, every single one you can think of, and I hope the Epstein files illustrate for everyone how serious this problem is and what we are facing in them. They steal, rape, lie and kill.

If you campaigned for the presidency on a promise to destroy these assholes, you would win a landslide the size of FDR in 1936, when he campaigned on a promise to destroy these assholes.

Just a reminder that while we did finally add the whistles to our shop, we also sell many other cool things and would love to send them to you! I'm scheduling this thread to post some of my favorite shop things while I'm off doing Whistle Stuff! http://thebrokencirc...

Maybe it's time that we stop venerating rich US men, and give similar platform to unproblematic, progressive women? Like Zofia Kielan-Jaworowska?

Use those primaries. (Research those primaries first, but use them!) apnews.com/article/youn...

Female Authors: Flash Competition Announcement!!! Looking forward to seeing what you create! theprideroars.blogspot.com/p/flash-comp...

A key thing to remember when seeing that measles is in the concentration camps, is that covid killed more cops than any other cause. Cops are superspreaders, a gestapo jumping around the country to terrorize one city after another, kidnapping people into concentration camps, is a perfect storm.

I can't stop laughing about how we wrote a trilogy about lady book nerds fighting tech bros with community organizing and 3d printers and 6 years later a bunch of lady book nerds Nick Fury'd the whistle avengers. 😂

"Some humans (I think? Hard to tell) in masks and vests showed up this morning and took Manny and Kumal away. As you may have noticed, those two were the only staff—despite this place being open from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m."

It's why they'll eventually lose, and also why it's going to be an especially awful road to get there Go do something beautiful. Read a story, listen to a song, look at a sunset: whatever feeds you. Seriously. I'll do it if you will

How many times a week do we say that last sentence?

4. If you have talents (writing, graphic design, etc) you can volunteer for a small campaign and make a huge difference. I had a volunteer do excellent graphic design for me, and ultimately I was able to pay her with donations accrued throughout the campaign. 5. These races are no longer unwinnable

The CSU/OpenAI contract is set to expire June 30, 2026. Sign this petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/cancel-chatgpt-edu-invest-in-humans/ for the CSU NOT to renew the contract and to use the savings to protect jobs at CSU campuses facing layoffs.

34,000 signing up for this work AFTER seeing their fellow citizens gunned down by federal thugs in cold blood? I'm chugging whatever the opposite of doomerism is

Biden's FBI was trying to build cases right up until the end of his term, victims told Tara Palmeri that they were being invited in to look at photos and everything stopped when Trump came into office.

Alt-text win.

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I was on there yesterday, perusing, and noted that all of the AI-generated postings sounded like they were written by incels.

McConnell fundraiser: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

That happy feeling when you put your Senators and Rep into the Epstein searcher and only get press clippings about them doing their jobs.

Looks like DHS needs to have all its funding frozen until it meets a long list of federal demands, just like Columbia University, right?

Zuckerberg? Yup. Bezos? Yup. Thiel? O hell yeah. www.justice.gov/epstein

For Liam.

I wanted to shout "Yes" and "Amen" at virtually every line of this @volts.wtf and @michaelhobbes.bsky.social discussion. I flagged one particularly important section, but the whole thing is essential. www.volts.wtf/p/all-about-...

Joker Expands Power of His Crew to Kill People During Robberies.

Nothing scandalous, but what a weird redaction! 12 mentions of Vought, a few of those last name only, most with his first name redacted, and two near the end with his full name.

Tell me five classes you took in college: Native American Music Linear Algebra Form, Problem, Event The Gilligan-Kohlberg Debate Creative Nonfiction

open.substack.com/pub/jojofrom... Today hit like a brick to the face. Reporters arrested. Epstein files dumped like radioactive waste. Press conferences that felt like hostage videos. And somewhere under all that—like a rancid cherry on a shit sundae

Shortest possible version: Most of the worst and loudest assholes of the last twenty years are people who came from, spent time on, or were inspired by the toxic conversations that happened on 4chan's /pol/ board. /Pol/ was an imageboard for "politically incorrect." It wasn't just politics, but /

#WIPSnips #WriteSky "suggest" I try to be as canonical as possible in fanfics, but Gil-galad has three distinct canons at least, so I feel free to do what works for the rest of the story. This includes leaving the name change for late.

Today's #WIPSnip word is "suggest" and I think I'm about to find out how much I overuse that word. Beats reading any more Epstein news, though.

This is Nathan Wolfe. Nathan is a virus hunter. Nathan has a bit of a reputation. Through the years, I've told multiple journalists stories I've heard, like "Nathan thanks Jeffrey Epstein in his book." Somehow no one ever wrote anything up. Want to see what Nathan was up to in today's Epstein files?

Oh. Too late.

I looked into Cities Church, which was protested for having an ICE agent as a pastor. You already thought they were right-wing. But they're far worse than you thought. They're ground zero for the "empathy is a sin" idea, among others. www.salon.com/2026/01/26/p...

Scroll to your portion of the middle lands of the Coyote Continent and zoom in to find a protest or planning meeting near you! www.mobilize.us/map/

You are all ABSOLUTELY entitled to your correct opinion that Chuck Schumer's messaging sucks. But don't waste your time whining while he bought you two weeks. Bc this is legislative success.

Hey @raskin.house.gov @algreen.house.gov @hankjohnson.house.gov Found another one for the impeach/remove basket.

interested to learn what “at my direction” means because it sounds like “without a warrant”

You go to war with the martyrs you have. This is now a pro-Don Lemon propaganda account and he is to be considered an unstoppable ubermensch until such time he is once again a free moron. May death come swiftly to his enemies.