meanwhile, on detroit bluesky

Someone told me lately "Bluesky is just like Twitter." I argued that was untrue on the basis that last time I had a Twitter account most times I got a new follower their bio said "single & looking for fun" & here when I get a new follower it tends to say something like "professor of rare moths".

RIP Robert Tinney (November 22, 1947 – February 1, 2026), the artist famous for his playful covers for Byte magazine, a hobbist magazine that ushered in the microcomputing age from the mid-70s through the 90s. I'm honored to have included his work in my own art collection.

sigh

99% of modern security products are just some company going "would you like this app that gamifies paranoia" and you going "yeag" like just don't do it. just turn it off

@livonia.gov should look into something like this to replace the moldy Noble branch library 👀

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

i still don't understand the theory here. do they think they can win congressional seats in like detroit and philadelphia by sending goons to mill around urban polling places?

where are people getting the idea that its either "supporting trans rights" or "continuing democracy". what kind of democracy do they want to live in. where "politically inconvenient" groups get thrown to the wolves every two to four years? doesnt sound good to me. why would you want that

Not picking on Van Hollen here but it's just odd. Members of congress every day describing the president's countless crimes in lurid detail and then signing off like "well see ya"

I am pleading with people to stop calling anything this administration does, especially with regards to ICE in Minnesota, a "distraction" from the Epstein files or whatever. They are doing all this simply because they want to do it and they would be doing it no matter what.

My reddit account just turned 15 What the shit

Discworld QOTD, from Thud! “Beating people up in little rooms…he knew where that led. And if you did it for a good reason, you’d do it for a bad one. You couldn’t say ‘We’re the good guys’ and do bad-guy things.”

I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio. Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3. Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.

This is the way, make “ok, abolish only ICE” the moderate position.

A statement from the management of Tech Hockey Guide, a business registered in the state of Minnesota.

i need to throw my phone into the river

Wise words from WEB DuBois to gird us today: "It would be shame and cowardice to surrender this glorious land and its opportunities for civilization and humanity to the thugs and lynchers, the mobs and profiteers, the monopolists & gamblers who today choke its soul and steal its resources."

i need to throw my phone into the river

Huskeeees

Call me Ishmael.

if we abolish the gestapo who will do the important work of the gestapo

Something we talk about a lot is that parents don't want to be chauffeurs for their children. It's unfortunate that tech companies are filling the void instead of safe, reliable transit. And this is only a solution for people who can afford a $20 - $40 fare.

this picture is from 2020. these were actors in Atlanta that showed up to a BLM protest pretending to be Black Panthers. they had to apologize afterwards. there are new contingents of the party, but these people ain't it.

Imagining Ohio State losing the CFP final in Ohio Stadium to, like, fucking wake forest or something. That’s this for Miami and it rules, congrats Hoosiers

A SECOND DOINK HAS HIT THE NATTY

I just woke up from a nap and somehow while I was asleep, everyone on the bus has figured out we are not going to the right place

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

you know Silicon Valley has lost the juice because it hasn’t occurred to any of them that they could use robot dogs to re-create Terry Pratchett’s autonomous luggage that both carries your stuff and brutalizes your enemies

at least for baseball and football I don’t miss sports twitter at all anymore bluesky has the juice now we gotta raise our game for the nba playoffs when they roll around

Started watching Death Note for the first time, this shit probably hits like crack when you're 15

It's particularly galling to call for ICE to wear body cams when Renee Good's murder literally recorded the whole thing on his phone. He was so confident in his impunity as part of that organization that he recorded and allowed for the release of footage of him shooting a woman at point blank.

in case you didn't understand why transphobic rhetoric worried us so much about this guy, well it's because it's a signal that shit like this is coming next.

Free my boy he did nothing wrong www.uafsunstar.com/news/student...

the new york times interviewed the parasite living in your small intestine and it expressed resentment that you're not eating enough junk food

Lmao someone threw an open bottle of piss into an ICE vehicle that was driving by

Can't stand the safety features on modern cars, if I wanted something to start squawking at me randomly on road I would drive with either of my parents.

reading Dracula for the first time why didn't anyone tell me about the cowboy

On my quest to manually find the longest punt of the year, in D2 Braden Biller of Adams State, booted this 91 yard punt over the head of the returner who tried to field it.

Saw a band over the weekend that's getting big off tiktok. Won't name them but I can't really recommend bands from that space, mostly because they seemed more focused on getting good footage to the detriment of putting on a good show.

“probabilities on polymarket” polymarket and online gamblification of every aspect of our lives is the worst new development of the world in 2025

"If that's not a highlight reel goal I don't know what is" Minnesota's Abbey Murphy beats her defender with a lacrosse move, then slides it over for Bella Fanale to score

In America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.

it takes a lot in january 2026 to look like a complete dunce in the national news but the detroit tigers ownership has met the moment

Doink bank shot FG (Pleas shut up Chris Fowler)

the world may be going to hell but at least we still have DOINK

Discworld QOTD, from Snuff

The text faded to the paywall at the same rate as my eyes would have glazed over anyway

A dude named Taco just caught a 4th down touchdown pass to win the FCS natty for Montana State how can you not be romantic about football

An official NYT response means this is clearly a sore spot for them and people should keep hitting the target