Trying not to be angry but... The growing number of concentration camps across this country, in which FORTY PEOPLE that we know of have died, elicit a fraction of the outrage that the murder of white protesters did Watching you all underreact has helped me realize how my family was allowed to die

Why isn’t the right excited about technology?

If the US state can figure out tariff rebates for big business, it can figure out reparations for slavery. The difference is that the US is structurally set up to serve big business and to oppress the working class and people of color.

Oh and they’re still indiscriminately executing random people at sea with no evidence, warrants, trials, or verdicts. And absolutely no one is doing anything about it, I guess.

Niemöller was asked by his concentration camp cellmate why he had ever supported Hitler and the Nazis. Reportedly, this is what he had to say for himself:

"Your direct ancestor (14 generations) Elizabeth Rosina Dalton appears in this photo" I sincerely doubt that

Sure: Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.

Millions of files related to Jeffrey Epstein suggest the existence of a 'global criminal enterprise' that carried out acts meeting the legal threshold of crimes against humanity, a panel of independent experts appointed by the UN Human Rights Council says reut.rs/4rpxDfl

People talk about this stuff in terms of how much it'll suck for gaming and I hate to inform you how many MRI machines, X-Rays, all sorts of other vital machinery are just a Windows IoT Edition PC in a beige plastic box with a big magnet/accelerator/whatever attached.

It's like printers. The machine itself is cheap, the DRM-locked batter cartridges are where they make the real profits

Whoever had the idea to mix most of the drums on the left channel and just the hi-hat on the right channel, on a country-rock record in 1966, had a moment of genius This version blows the Crickets original out of the water, mostly because of the production www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGYN...

THIS MAN CREATED ICE

There had been flag officers of color in 1966 but there were no women captains in Starfleet until 1986

Happy #WorldHippoDay! 🦛❤️ To celebrate here’s a lovely naturalistic painting of a hippo on a small flake of limestone. Painted by an Egyptian artist some 3,500 years ago! 📷 The Met www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti... #Archaeology

Any time Priti Patel expresses *any* opinion about Palestine or Israel it should come with a reminder she was forced to resign in disgrace for holding 14 secret meetings w. Israeli ministers, businesspeople and a senior lobbyist while a member of the UK government www.theguardian.com/politics/201...

And stay out. Company is told that its super-exploitative business model violates basics of labor law, decides it would rather close up shop in Finland entirely than follow the law yle.fi/a/74-20210163

Holy crap I think this show finally attained self-awareness #SFA #StarfleetAcademy

we know this, but a reminder: anytime ICE CBP etc says they’re drawing down their presence in a city, it’s bullshit. whatever their numbers, lawless federal agents remain behind & still cause havoc & kidnap people. Also relocated agents just go somewhere else to destroy lives. Abolish ICE end DHS

There are far better ways to create jobs -- state investment in infrastructure, in education, in green power generation -- than building arms for the US yle.fi/a/74-20209835

They're saying "El Paso" but note that the closed region includes the Mexican city of Ciudad Juarez and a major border crossing. This stinks of an ICE mass deportation elpasomatters.org/2026/02/11/u...

The guy who wrote "The Distance" by Cake, Greg Brown, died. That song was the anthem for the cross country team I was on in high school. I'm not that old. It's weird that music guys from when I was in high school are dying.

listen if the billionaires are going to keep on isolating themselves like this the there is only one solution: we all move underground, grow fur, and start factory-farming the rich

1. Not news. 2. Lots of people know this and still use Substack. Holding their noses and closing their eyes, no doubt.

Also notable about Quisling: he married his first wife Alexandra Voronin the day after she turned 17 (he was 35), started cheating on her the next year when she got pregnant, then started referring to her as his daughter when he bigamously married his mistress. Fortunately Alexandra escaped.

Britain doesn't have any values of its own, just distorted versions of the values from places it conquered

Man goes to Grok. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Check out Elon, has dankest memes. Pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, But Grok...I am Elon.

No context spoiler for #StarfleetAcademy #SFA episode 5

I'm already on the stuff, yey Caveat: this article summarizes a summary paper referring to just 2 studies, although one had n > 1000.

Trump's antisemitism envoy: "It is utterly inappropriate to compare Anne Frank to children hiding from ICE. This demeans the experience of those who died in the Holocaust." Actual Holocaust survivors in Florida: "This reminds us of Anne Frank."

Remember back in 2020/2021 where Minneapolis actually voted to disband its police department and rebuild the whole thing from the ground up and all the Sensible Centrists went "oh no no no no no, children, you can't do THAT, that would be going much too far!"

Star Trek episodes often adopt the conventions of very specific subgenres wholesale "Balance of Terror" is a submarine movie. "Cold Fire" is 1970s exploitation horror "Sub Rosa" isn't *bad*, it just happens to be a supernatural dark romance And remember, Ronald D Moore went on to make "Outlander"

"Could be MRSA" "Or even worse-a"

A friend of mine has gotten really churchy and started signing off messages with "IJN" She and I operate in very different headspaces so it took me a minute to realize she didn't mean "Imperial Japanese Navy" I was like, "blessed birthday to you as well Admiral Yamamoto" It's my birthday btw

The worst episode of VOY is "Repentance" because for the 30 years up to that point Star Trek had put forward a radically progressive conception of replacing prisons with social rehabilitation, and most Star Trek ever since has instead said "punitive justice is Good, Actually" (Lower Decks didn't)

Welp, they arrested Don Lemon. Don Lemon is an enemy of the state, everyone.

Even weirder is that everyone considers "civilization" to be the proper and natural state of humanity when it's only existed for 3% of our history. Class, the state, and violent domination of non-human life might instead be an aberration of this brief 10,000 year period of climatic stability.

"I'm coming to Boston and I'm bringing hell with me." --Homan in February "Do I expect violence to escalate? Absolutely." -- Tom Homan in March "I actually thought about getting up and throwing that man a beating right there in the middle of the room" -- Homan in July, referring to a D congressman

Please, TV show set on Earth a thousand years in the future, give me some evidence that humanity has undergone a thousand years of cultural and social development #SFA

Rob Schneider's wife has filed for divorce. Poor Rob. Another victim of the Glinner Effect.

listen here you stupid leftoid, if you just voted blue in 2024, ICE would be ruining the lives of immigrant families quietly and efficiently in a way where we wouldn't have to hear about it on the news

Shalom friends, Need to vent your anger at crimes being carried out across this country by fascists who are violating the constitution and terrorizing our friends and neighbors? SAME. Welcome to the Elder Millennials of Zion Ill-Wishing Hotline: ICE Edition. JUSTICE, JUSTICE SHALL YOU PURSUE

When I was a kid in the 80s/90s the idea that the President was not supposed to have his own police force because of the near-certainty of horrible abuses was just sort of generally accepted, and then 9/11 happened and suddenly everyone was just kind of Fine With It? And here we are,

They tell you not to taste things in the lab. It's just to hold you back After all, look at Carl Wilhelm Scheele, who * tasted all his discoveries *discovered hydrogen cyanide, hydrofluoric acid, hydrogen sulfide and arsenic acid * and did it all before dying tragically young at the age of 43

Lots of good signs here, but I have to confess my favorite is a rebel alliance where they replaced the red insignia with blue and the Minnesota loon.

It's -20 in Minneapolis and organizers are in the streets before dawn getting ready for actions related to the general strike. They've had locals training out-of-town volunteers on how to prepare for and endure the cold. AND IT IS WORKING. THE STRIKE IS HAPPENING. THE CITY IS DOING THE DAMN THING...

Adding a Betazoid character to SFA gives the writers an easy excuse to double down on DIS's greatest writing sin: a character feelw something, then another character explains to the audience exactly what that character is feeling before the audience has a chance to think it through themselves

Some good news: Renewables now make up the biggest single contributor to Finnish electricity production "Finland enjoyed Europe's third-cheapest electricity prices in 2025...Approximately 28 percent of domestic electricity production came from wind power." yle.fi/a/74-20205942

Amazing sob story: "ChatGPT deleted all the work I hadn't done" www.nature.com/articles/d41...

finally, my time as a hater with a doctorate has come