“The closer we get to Gaza, the higher is the risk. I’m not scared of Israel” Greta Thunberg delivers a powerful message from the Global Sumud Flotilla while heading to break the Israeli siege on Gaza.

We took Josephine to see a big school she might attend and it seems genuinely great (an IB school with 40+ nationalities!) but oh my god I’m not ready! She was just born!!!

They've lost the 9yos

Gotta love a helpful error message

A fun fiber fact for today is that in the late 19th century, a guy decided to experiment with fiber technology by building a miniature crossbow and having it shoot molten glass across his lab. This is why today you can read my bad takes online.

Death toll surges in early Israeli bombardment with the heaviest carnage in besieged Gaza City.

Came across some coverage from 2019 of a push by the second-largest political party to make a law saying only citizens should be allowed to use the library. The discourse has only gotten worse since then, but it’s easy to forget how bad it’s been for a while.

This is a gross way to respond to the threat now faced by thousands of people who thought they were safe. Not to mention that European immigration systems are increasingly brutal (don’t @ me, go listen to your local immigrants). Solidarity is better than this slathering, smug trash

"People weren't autistic in my day," says Dad over his trainset, circling a scale model of 1 district of Naples that he has been to every year since 1973

I mean now is really not a good time to start an exclusive, invite-only UX event. Talk about not reading the room. Maybe I wasn’t invited because I would never be OK with it. But it seems to only have been for majority Swedes and a few select foreigners who don’t rock the boat.

I’ve been organizing UX events for years and have just been too burned out to do any lately. Turns out someone I’ve worked with directly, who knows I’ve felt burned out and taken for granted, started an invite-only meetup and didn’t invite me.

I imagine this is how a lot of the advice given to ADHDers feels

Trans rights are not the rights of a tiny minority, trans rights are everyone’s rights to self-determination, control of our bodies, and a society where opportunity and aesthetics are not restricted by sex assigned at birth You should support and defend trans people because trans people are people

When we were coming through the airport in Lisbon this morning, security was pulling little girls out of the line for extra screening. And I mean little! Some were younger than mine (who is 5). The parents didn’t get swabbed, just 4 or 5 small kids in a row (including mine).

["aristocrats" joke voice] the democrats!

I hope museums have a soft KPI that’s “children having meltdowns at the idea of having to leave, and parents needing to bribe and beg to get them out” because the museum of communications in Lisbon would have absolutely smashed that for the whole year today. What an amazing museum!

Reporters on the ground in Chicago are screaming to be heard over the false narrative that Pritzker defeated Trump there. PLEASE listen to them.

"the shooter was a trans antifa left winger, I'm sure" "the shooter was a right wing groyper accelerationist, I'm sure" the shooter:

Really hope other countries follow suit. I love Eurovision. They either need to reject Israel or we end up with a 2026 contest that’s basically just Israel, Germany, and the UK

i do not think it can be overstated at this point that we do not know who killed charlie kirk or why they did it.

Very glad to see that someone is doing the important work of aligning AI alignment. alignmentalignment.ai

I’m such a terrible academic because everything makes me think of Simpsons references. That’s not the only reason I’m a bad academic but it’s one

A sitting Minnesota politician was stalked to her own house by someone who killed her, her husband, and her golden retriever, then shot two other people, on JUNE 14TH

every time there's political violence discourse i think about how jo cox was assassinated in broad daylight by a fascist who shouted "britain first" as he shot her, and now nine years later her party is dedicating every moment in power to placating the ideology of her murderer

Liberal politicians if you are so disturbed just pretend Charlie Kirk was a Palestinian child and you’ll get over it in no time

They droned a second boat. We’re still going to Gaza. Pressure the Irish government any way you can to support the flotilla and sanction the country attacking us

I can’t imagine someone more delightful to root for than CMAT.

the dailup sound was a protection spell the computer said for us every time we went online but we thought we were too good for it. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time. we wanted to be on the phone and the computer at the same time and now we’re fucked

"The destruction of Palestine’s seed banks reveals ecocide as a weapon of temporal control — a strategy for extending genocide beyond the present moment into an undeterminable future."

Just finished the new Spike Lee doc about New Orleans and Katrina. It’s so fucking good. I gave basically no connection w NOLA apart from a few visits, but the abandonment of the city in 2005 broke me. Anyone who even jokingly vindicates Bush needs to be reminded of what he did (or didn’t do).

Please let it happen on my birthday (it’s tomorrow where I live, but still my birthday in most of the US, and maybe it happened hours ago Please please please

Dispatches from the West Country: somebody’s painted 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿s on a load of roundabouts in Penzance and the locals are furious because they also hate the English

Gavin Newsom is the American version of Kier Starmer and I will put my fingers in my ears until people get over him

Lascaux Cave in France contains paintings from the Paleolithic era, 17,000 to 22,000 years ago. The paintings depict people, animals and abstract symbols and you couldn't do them today because of woke.

This dalek full of bananas is why when people are like “I want AI to do my laundry” I just shut up. An AI laundry bot would be an incompetent dalek that would rip the socks right off your feet because it’s whites day

*Pushes 2 + 2 on hand held calculator* *4 appears on screen* Wow it’s alive and thinking, maybe even sentient

this is the funniest one I’ve seen

The divorces are going well x

The University of Southern Maine, just down the street from me, is hiring a medievalist. jobs.chronicle.com/job/37871743....

Everyone needs a sleepy pup Sound on for comforting snores

I’m picking up good vibrations I’m picking up excitations Wouldn’t it be Nice?

when president garfield was dying, they shoved a bunch of stuff up his butt in the hopes it would save him. it didn't work, in fact it definitely killed him quicker. but if any white house guys are reading this: you're the chosen one, you can make it work

Stephen Miller screaming for some Hollywood makeup artists to fit him into a Trump suit and makeup

when it happens... I will be online ALL day. cancel my appointments. hold my calls. "what were you doing when you found out?" my grandchildren will ask. "the posts, children, I was reading the posts!!" I'll say, and we'll all crowd around my scrapbook containing the best ones

opening and closing and opening social media like a maddened orca slamming myself against the walls of the pool

Sometimes you want your cart to be WAYYY in front of your horse, actually

Um... www.pizzint.watch

Also pleased to realize I haven’t lost the ability to hope

Hey US time zone friends, it’s morning in Central European time, so if you need to sleep, I can take over the timeline watch Am here ready to block every “oh you think anything will change?????” goober