I like to make panoramic photos. Many times I do not have my tripod & wing it hand held. Photoshop has gotten impressively adept over the years at stitching them together. But every once in a while Photoshop goes full Picasso on it. I think I love this result better than the real 6th St.

Monstera leaf unfurling

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

Another lesson in real world jawboning. DOJ pressures one company (Apple) into compliance. The next company (Google) also complies with no direct DOJ contact at all. The company whose Maps app tells me where the highway patrol is (thx!) won't let scared and vulnerable people share ICE location.

Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.

This got me several times: SGA is 27. Tatum is 27. But Jaylen Brown is 28. (I only know NBA players and millennial celebs, and the crossover candidate - Chalamet - is covered in the piece.)

This is why you shouldn’t be chickenshit. You’re not saving anything. You’re dooming everything you claim to love. bsky.app/profile/thef...

This is the thing elected dems seem unable to swallow. There is no realistic modus vivendi where somehow remain a functioning liberal democracy after 3 years of Trump. He is removed or we become Azerbaijan. Removal is ultimately the only goal that matters.

It's important to name the tools of authoritarianism so we can identify and condemn them with precision. I'm glad we now have a term for ICE's openly racist, degrading immigration arrests: Kavanaugh stops. slate.com/news-and-pol...

Everyone should read this devastating report: Trump’s sabotage of USAID stranded lifesaving medicines — fueling chaos and leaving children to die. His policies are destroying our reputation and influence overseas and literally killing kids. No words.

In the sun or up in the shade On the top of my sunny glade

Jesus

With everything going on, I get entirely too much satisfaction every time I see one of these

It’s autumn so it’s time for me to repeat my demand that Over the Garden Wall get a stage adaptation

This is EXCELLENT. 1) this is spot-on analysis of the problem & a great immediate 1st thing a city can do to improve outcome. 2) as a 2 min clip? He's giving history, hope & change. Speaking to women, to Jewish & Black NYers, saying "abortion." & also naming eugenics in feminism. 100/10 no notes.

The campaign treasurer for Gov. Abbott is a beer distributor: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_L....

Yes

HOLY MOLY!!

22-year-old Ward Sakeik, a Palestinian woman who has lived in Texas since she was 9, says her experience in federal detainment could only be identified as “human trafficking.” And she’s not staying quiet about the women she was forced to leave behind. thebarbedwire.com/2025/09/22/w...

Conducting tasks while receiving e-mails and phone calls reduces a worker’s IQ by about ten points relative to working in uninterrupted quiet. That is equivalent to losing a night’s sleep, and twice as debilitating as using marijuana.

While Positron is a great product, one of the most reassuring things I heard from posit::conf (that I know will reassure others as well) is that if you are solely an R user a) you don't really *need* to switch to Positron and b) RStudio is not going anywhere! Posit will continue to support it.

It really is like Nixon live blogging Watergate and the journalism establishment saying eh, what can you do

I guess it’s good to know that inside the panopticon tower, it’s also hell.

Is this Dana Carvey?

Honestly surprised there hasn't been more of this yet

I don’t think any country in the history of the world has ever done anything as stupidly self destructive as what Trump and RFK jr are doing with vaccines.

If you’re really serious about changing this country so this can never happen again, it’s going to take years, or more likely decades, of sustained, difficult, and increasingly dangerous work. Elections are part of it, but the institutional Democratic Party as it exists now won’t be the vehicle.

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People want everything to be a binary between dooming and “we’re so back” but I’ll just say this is both a really troubling attack on press freedom and an open admission that your regime is fragile enough to feel threatened by Jimmy fucking Kimmel

Yep, just nixed Hulu

I am just going to keep posting that the TX governor recently pardoned a political murderer. The dude texted "I'm going to shoot protestors", then went and shot a Black Lives Matter protester. He was convicted in a jury trial. Hard to find a more blatant example of celebrating political violence.

jesus christ

So glad I got out of journalism

That's right

Another Sunday morning getting absolutely lit up by my 9 year old’s video skills and my busted jumper. This is unedited, all the cuts are from him pausing the recording

what

This is starting to remind me of the press's complete befuddlement about the varieties of the counterculture in the late sixties. A transformation is happening in American society that's absolutely essential to understand, and the elite media is absolutely unequipped to understand it, or to learn.

Horrors of Trump detention centre: Lisburn man tells his story after arrest for 'looking like a Mexican' Lee Stinton was lifted by US immigration police on an American street — in an incident he compared to a kidnapping. Here, he tells us his story.

"The president of Russian America for Democracy in Russia, an organisation that supports political refugees,… believes that US immigration authorities are now working with the Russian FSB."

They posted a video zooming in on the fact they made the sign the wrong size?

obsessed with this 21 savage/Amadeus edit

"Actually crime is down in DC, you have to hand it to Trump" — I find this incredulous view insulting to common sense. Of course crime will go down if you deploy the military as police, or impose a national curfew, or declare martial law etc. The question isn't whether the takeover is *effective*

FYI this is my favorite sign I’ve ever seen

Seeing someone open carry here in Texas makes me feel deep-down unsafe. It is so unnerving and out of place in a perfectly safe city (Austin) to see a lethal weapon just out there. It triggers the “We need to get out of here” emotional response

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

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This is true for so many things. Anything other than massive negative consequences for people and institutions that played ball is losing.