We want to ask anyone who comes across this study to avoid and not to participate in it. www.reddit.com/r/traaaaaaan...

Really good video showing how AI is sold as the solution for the green transition by the tech overlords but actually is the opposite. Not just a claim, the tech overlords are saying it themself...

I'm planning the annual charity teach-athon for Romancing the Gothic. GOTHS FOR BREAKFAST is a full day of classes and workshops (more or less related to the Gothic) raising money for @magicbreakfastuk.bsky.social to feed hungry kids! Looking for volunteer speakers! Get in touch!

gallego sucks (his position on trans issues means I will never trust him) but it's very good that a frontline, moderate-coded member of the senate caucus is calling for miller's head and hopefully it will help drag the rest of the squishes towards this position

PLEASE! Do not come to this country. Do not come to LA!

Signal boost! 🤓

When Gov Abbott says the White House needs to 'recalibrate' you know they've probably murdered one to many people talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/ic...

This bullshit never got deleted at all, so.

Very proud to call Joanna a colleague (though we've never met), for both her talent and her bravery, and I agree with everything she says here. StandwithMinnesota.com

Not untrained, not inexperienced.

When the New York Times stops using the passive voice, you know it's bad.

If there were any concerns about not traumatizing kids in the current American zeitgeist, school shootings would have stopped after Columbine.

Newly unsealed evidence makes it even clearer that Rubio and Noem knew they were targeting students based solely on their political speech and that they knew this policy was unconstitutional. They just didn’t care. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/u...

“If one is honest about the history of the United States, it prominently features white violence, terrorism and revanchism, particularly toward Black people, Indigenous people and women.” — @sorayanadiamcdonald.com andscape.com/features/cap...

Me and me cousin, one Arthur McBride, One morning went walking along Lake Street's side Now mark well what followed in that wintertide As the cold Friday morning was dawning

took a shower because that seemed like a nice way to relax but my brain decided to spend the whole time making up a protest sea shanty, which is not something my brain has ever done before 🤷‍♂️

Most of the people I saw saying a general strike couldn't just be spun up out of nowhere were right. I don't think any other place could pull this off right now. The Twin Cities built a citywide support system on every front in like 6 weeks, they are doing the ridiculous backwards in heels.

okay, what are “we” going to do about it, United States Senator Adam Schiff?

Lost in everything else going on this week is a little good news. The federal govt has dropped its appeal seeking to have schools drop DEI programs in order to retain federal funding. apnews.com/article/dei-...

There is no level to which these heartless shit-for-brains won’t stoop to inflict cruelty and suffering.

A poem I wrote a while ago that feels like it fits our current moment annoyingly well.

No, the important point is that America, IN THIS DECADE, has done awful things to melanted people. Here and abroad. The framing of America’s issues as being completed for a century is merely a lie that helps “some Americans” sleep better at night.

Tina. Sweetie. I really feel like you could do more than that.

Seriously, @people.com has been meeting the moment better than 90% of publications with direct reporting and crystal clear headlines. This is a good way for the low-information voters who are usually detached from the news cycle to get turned around.

The tech industry #enshittification continues at pace. I recently reported another outright scam that was appearing above legitimate results (as a sponsored ad) but Google replied to say that it did not breach their policies. www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

I need at least 3 more folk to sign up for my Edinburgh Adult Education Programme archaeology classes at Craigentinny, or the course will be cancelled. If you know anyone who might be interested, please let them know. Thank you! adulteducationedinburgh.spydus.co.uk/cgi-bin/spyd...

They’re still killing journalists in Gaza. The horrors and war crimes have not stopped.

Here’s part 3 of this week’s 4-part Better Offline Enshittifinancial Crisis special. I walk you through how the imaginary demand for AI compute sets up every data center developer for disaster - and how many major banks will get burned. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b... Linktr.ee/betteroffline

"[M]asked agents apprehended 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos in his driveway on Tuesday...[the agent] led him to the door and directed him to knock on the door asking to be let in in order to see if anyone else was home, essentially using a 5-year-old as bait.”

If you have read even a single history of fascism, you are already aware that one thing that its rise has in common in every case is an opposition party that refuses to intervene for fear of looking weak or putting the left into power

I know we're all seeing 87 unhinged things per day, but "guys if our multi billion dollar product doesn't start being useful for something, literally anything, the people might not appreciate us wrecking the planet over it anymore" is a truly bananapants thing to say out loud

Spider-Man backpack. A five year old with a Spider-Man backpack. Peter Parker would be absolutely beside himself.

Imperial boomerangs don't always need to visit other countries

Obviously we should care BECAUSE IT'S FUCKING EVIL even if it doesn't happen to us, but even politicians who are worried about shoring up their white base could easily argue that, hey, they gassed BLM in 2020 and guess where they're using that gas now

The techniques they test on non-white folks get rolled out to the rest of us whenever they succeed Which is a case Dems could EASILY make about ICE if they wanted to demonstrate any moral fiber whatsoever

Hi I agree with this but wondering if @gretchenmcculloch.com can offer some innerweb insights about the linguistic patterns here?

Q: Why's the Supreme Court reluctant to let Trump fire Lisa Cook from the Fed when it has greenlit so many other illegal firings? A: The other firings were at agencies charged with protecting workers and consumers. The Fed is charged with protecting the economy ballsandstrikes.org/scotus/trump...

World Cup is gonna go great.

Absolute banger from @garbageday.email today on Gen AI: "It is not a revolution in computing, but a revolution in accepting lower standards." www.garbageday.email/p/generative...

There are now at least 100 House members signed on to our effort to impeach Kristi Noem. Where the hell are the rest of them? Let’s ask:

Buy the cheap 50lb bags of non-clumping litter and put them in your car over your rear axle wherever that happens to be. Do at least 100lbs. Your rear axle just doesn't have much weight on it compared to your front axle which contributes to fishtailing etc.

Very cool—thanks for the update! Today I got gassed by the federal government two times within a few blocks of my house

16 years ago today, the Supreme Court erased the limit on how much the wealthy and big corporations could pump into elections. Since Citizens United, we've seen billions of dollars of dark money drowning out the voice of American voters.

There is going to come a time in your life when you are chatting with a guy, at a barbecue or something, a new coworker maybe, a dad at school drop off, and he tells you he used to be in ICE. You’re going to need to spit on that guy

Ted Cruz the most reliable source of how bad the weather is.