I understand that a lot of folks have been misled by fear-mongering and powerful regressive voices but it’s still astonishing to me that so many have fallen for the idea that oppressively policing other people’s gender identity and expression could in any way be part of an enlightened future.

ICE cut off her wedding ring. Sue Tincher is a 55-year-old American citizen: a grandmother, 5’4’, and white. Just in case you thought you’d be safe. She walked to her neighbor’s house after getting alerts that ICE was nearby. She stood across the street and asked an officer if they were ICE.

Bovino, the man overseeing mass deportations, publicly declared that we must all have our papers on us, at all times, or we could be stopped, harassed, kidnapped, and detained, as they did with the man in this case, who is a US citizen.

Kinda sorta? There were some advances in LED tech ~10-20 years ago that made them cheap enough for plants. Before that, greenhouses & indoor weed growers both used high pressure sodium lamps. This is an HPS light- deep orange color.

The Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) paid $18 million for a chatbot named Charlie, which the auditor general reported gave her team the wrong answer 66% of the time. The chatbot's responses were found to be brief and lacking context, with only 2 out of 6 questions answered accurately.

I want to add, without spoiling, that this movie has a scene that takes place on the phone that I think is one of the best quiet scenes of the year. Beautifully shot and written and performed, and beautifully shaped as it shifts from one kind of scene to a different one.

I had a good conversation with a patient yesterday. After 20 min, I think i convinced her to vaccinate her newest baby. She's already vaccinated the others but said, "she's just so confused now with all the information out there". This is the legacy of RFK,it will result in disabilities &deaths.

Chavarria, a U.S. citizen, was held at the airport "for more than four hours and released only after he finally agreed to let the agents search his smartphone, tablet, and laptop computer. The agents...informed him that he had no Fourth Amendment right to resist." @pacificlegal.bsky.social is suing.

What a great ornament! I love this and also it’s terrifying.

Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

So this person got harassed by a straight up police impersonator; someone else who dealt with an ICE kidnapper climbing into their car after someone by driving everyone to a police station is facing federal charges. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

So apparently moose could actually have gotten into the yard at any time this summer to eat my garden

crossword: "name within 'burglar alarm,'" four letters me (confidently): larm

We're completely screwed if our response to measles is going to be asking antivaxxers - the most selfish and stupid people in our society - to voluntarily self-report and quarantine for 21 days each every time they get exposed

My hottest take is that letting cops park in red zones for mundane errands and coffee breaks; I think “you can break the law at your discretion as a job perk” is the small domino that ends in the large domino of “shooting protesters in the face with rubber bullets”

So the president was like “hey Indiana, help me cheat in the next election,” and Indiana was all “no thanks,” but then the president went “you better disenfranchise a bunch of your citizens or I’ll illegally withhold money to hurt you,” and the Indiana Senate went “in that case, an even bigger no.”

COVID Vaccines Slashed Kids’ ER Visits by 76 Percent, Study Finds www.scientificamerican.com/article/covi...

Sam Altman: hey I made a machine that stole literally all your stuff in order to make CSAM of your child actors, sometimes it encourages people to kill themselves Disney: Holy shit here's a billion dollars Altman: the machine loses more than that each week but thank you. Soon it will become god.

“According to a source Ms. Halligan became enraged when a grand juror told her that the word ‘indict’ is pronounced ‘in-DITE,” not “in-DICKT.”

Sixty-six million years ago, Earth went dark… and fungi took over. For a short time after the asteroid impact, the planet became a giant decomposing world where fungi were the main winners. 🧪 #SciComm buff.ly/6rayRko

The mood is right The spirit's up We're here tonight And that's enough Simply having a tardigrade Christmas time

I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

Dear the media, When the US president claims he brokered a peace deal in a place with active combat—eg Rwanda and Congo—the story is (1) fighting rages on, and (2) US president lies. The story is not “president touts historic peace deal.” A peace deal involves peace. Sincerely, Factual reality

If you see this, post your art with animals. #minis #minipainting #dnd

Oh dude! Haha Matt woke me up this morning being like "Look what I just found on the Portland Reddit- you're on the news!" Volunteering at Repair PDX is the highlight of my month & the quilt mend they feature was extra special for me. (~4:20 mark in the video) www.kgw.com/article/news...

Computer scientists know that certain problems in their field are hard, but proving their difficulty is a hard problem unto itself. A topsy-turvy approach to mathematics has helped show why.

"Trump is pushing hard into the chaos by threatening a “severe” tariff on the Canadian potash that is vital to American farm production. Good luck with that, Donald. Such a move will result in the collapse of the U.S. farm economy." bsky.app/profile/char...

Can't say I ever expected to see a "That Font was No Angel" headline. But here we are.

The govt’s filing yesterday in JGG suggests it will try to derail, by a 2d mandamus petition (appeal), next week’s hearings before Judge Boasberg. Testimony there could suggest that Emil Bove lied to the Senate & that DAG Blanche misled the public. ... 1/7 storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms. It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.

scanning the @sundance.org lineup: hmm, interesting, might be good, sure why not, :loses entire fucking mind:

This. This is the part that the people who make fun of the romance genre don't get, right here.

Required fucking reading.

because the defendant's full name is not actually william, we once again find no true bill

Sometimes people are like "aren't you worried about the kids and their nonsensical new brainrot memes" But like, the thing is, I can still spot a member of my internet generation by how they respond to "badger badger badger badger" Playing with language and rhythm is fun, it'll be fine!

The only plus I see here is that I could wipe my phone and the most they'd find of me under my real name from 2020-2025 is possibly some LinkedIn data or a facebook post by somebody else. But yeah, i won't be playing this game.

Just because it's being passed around a lot: NO, data centers in space do NOT benefit from space being cold. Space is cold in the formal sense we use to define temperature. But it is very bad at cooling. What would you rather have to cool hot metal: a lukewarm water tub or a giant cold atmosphere?

"There is growing concern ... that in 2029 the ICC will turn its attention to the president, to the vice president, to the secretary of war and others, and pursue prosecutions against them." I believe this is referred to as consciousness of guilt. www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

"there's a new serif in town"

human snoring: disgusting, shudder-inducing, intolerable. someone else's snot inside my ears cat snoring: adorable, delightful as a baby's smile, how can I amplify this incredibly lovable sound, please bless me by snoring into my ear O Magnificent Creature

Will Arnett was on Conan and told a story about how Conan dealt with the death of his parents by accusing Jason Bateman of killing them. It’s so funny.

Every facet of generative AI has made my professional life worse, without question, but THIS specific aspect has been driving me NUTS. Clients, who have made me toil for weeks over indescribably small details, are now approving & producing in-house commercial artwork that looks like a fever dream.

Boss, during meting: "ok, wait, I gotta ask, Mike, what's going on with those socks?" Me: "they've got the London Underground map. They're tube socks."

I promised animal stories, so: the Ballad of Curly, Best of Owls. CWs for thread: domestic abuse, animal-on-asshole violence.

read the first two "Culture" series books while vacationing, and though they are ripping yarns and perfect beach reads (especially Consider Phlebas) the standard view amongst the technology brothers that they are somehow serious looks at a plausible (if deep) future never really occurred to me

My parents were free-wheeling Boomers convinced things were only ever going to get better, financially. They had good reason, then. They could afford a house, car, and weekly nights out on two full time assistant manager jobs at a fast food chain. But they also got caught up in emulating wealth trap

I thoroughly recommend reading all of Cory Doctorow's recent speech on AI skepticism, it's crammed with new arguments and interesting new ways of thinking about these problems pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Me: Ah, cats Me: So graceful, so majestic Fiasco: *hits the window full force, topples off the cat tree onto the floor like a sack of potatoes* Me: Me: Me: You all right there buddy