For example, horrifyingly, some people think Saltburn was not an offense to eyes, ears, and the concept of time. And that doesn't *invalidate* more important opinions, but... it is an opinion I wish to remember someone holds.

TIL that before Gov. Abigail Spanberger joined the CIA, she was a Postal Inspector, which I suspect is actually where her impeccable energy comes from. Postal Inspectors are apex predators.

Warren Buffet also appears to be objectively happier and less of a miserable ghoul desperately begging for accolades on his own social media platform than some the others on this list. Makes you think.

I really do think this is very instructive of the ratfuckery that any Dem (not just AOC if she does run) is going to face unfortunately and I’m not really sure how you deal with it

Elimination of emissions standards was one of the pretty clear policy stakes of the 2024 election and it received about 1% as much coverage as whether Tim Walz retiring from the national guard after 21 years was cowardly.

I’m going to keep sharing this PSA: although the MMR is usually given at 12 and 18 months, your baby can get a first dose as early as 6 months. They will still need the other two doses, because immunity doesn’t stick at that age, and insurance may not cover it. But it’s protection.

Everywhere this man goes he should be treated as if he murdered millions of children, because he did.

Even better: The Continuous Sidewalk. ​Instead of forcing people to step down into the street, we make the cars step up into the pedestrian space. It prioritizes the person walking or rolling, keeps the path level for accessibility, and physically forces drivers to slow down.

building on a topic we were discussing yesterday: in large portions of the United States, there is a *very strong* cultural norm that the highest social faux pas is to imply moral deficiencies in others even *or especially* if those things are true. It is because half the country were slavers.

I love this America so much. I am aware that I am in a constant fight, one with existential stakes but which will not be conclusively resolved, to determine whether the America that exists is the one I love or the one people like Rubio love. But it is a fight to which I am wholly committed.

Watching pro AI people in Reddit discussions about slop PRs (code edit submissions to open source public software projects) complaining "What's the problem just review the PRs, if they're good merge them" really underlines a lot of the problematic way that AI boosters devalue respect for labour.

Like literally find anyone else to give us a “it’s bad if kids get measles” take.

There are ~90 million people alive today because of USAID. Russ Vought illegally shut it down and now is spending the money on himself. These are deeply evil people. www.reuters.com/world/us/whi...

If you average out desires across a broad fandom, you're going to end up with dull, lowest-common-denominator reactionary sentiment. Basically: "show me stuff I know, show me familiar stuff, trigger my nostalgia." Just that, again & again & again until we're all sick & bloated & stupid.

These men will hopefully be judged one day... Soon ? Then, they will be sent to prison where they will rot til they die.

If Moderna is no longer bringing vaccine trials for Epstein-Barr virus (good evidence that EB causes Multiple Sclerosis), herpes, and shingles because of Trump appointees, I want prison time for those appointees. This might be dooming millions to disease they don’t have to experience.

At the very least, everyone else has to start playing Duck, Duck, Gray Duck

You see, they're sending them to a camp in TX, where abortion is illegal, because "pro-life." "Some were as young as 13, and at least half of those taken in so far became pregnant as a result of rape... Their pregnancies are considered high risk by definition, particularly for the youngest girls."

I deeply fear that default “detention is always a horror” is blocking people from realizing the relationship between crowding, conditions, and coercion to accept deportation.

the people who spread the “female brains are bad at math and spatial reasoning” lies should be tried at the Hague

Yeah I'll prepare for "it"... a freaking cold beer at quittin time. I'm researching it now

The Pentagon has a VERY RECENT history of not respecting commercial aircraft flight paths. So, yes, if I was the FAA dealing with a Pentagon which wasn't disclosing its potentially life-threatening airborne operations, I'd hit the "panic" button, too.

the rollout of the mRNA vaccines was one of the greatest public health triumphs in history and the end result has been the all-around triumph of the antivax movement and I will never get over it

IMO one of the dumber ticks online that people have is insisting that you can't have open disdain for those who warrant it just because they're on your arbitrarily defined side in some unrelated struggle. If you think Ukraine or Palestine or Syria are destined for destitution you should be spat on.

I'm sorry I'm sorry it's all such a mess but if the opsec slapfights round the corner to intel slapfights I just. it's just too much

If you can tolerate caffeine the data, we do have actually suggests coffee is good for you. What Meghan is tapping into is the cultural belief that if it's FEELS good it must be bad for you. And that's not true. It's also why we've turned exercise into torture

going to start referring to all this no-caffeine, omni-spectrum sobriety, celibacy, 996, workout and diet focus stuff as "mormonism with silicon valley characteristics" because it's more polite than calling it "homeschool mindset"

Over the weekend, I encountered someone who said that explaining to people why the hats "weren't helpful" was "exhausting." Friends, if this is how you are exhausting yourselves, you aren't doing the movement any favors. I am tired, too, but more fruitfully so.

Omg, this is very cool (and the first such cluster map of social media that actually pulls it off, imo! I love the cluster naming)

The merciful thing would just be to end it now

I knew this was coming. The people responsible for stranding reporters thousands of miles from home without support are the same people responsible for stranding aid workers in the same conditions. In both cases those responsible probably deserve to die and certainly should be sued for lots of money

ICE told nurses this Minneapolis man “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.” What actually happened is that they pulled him from a car, beat him so viciously with a steel baton that he had 8 skull fractures, 5 life-threatening brain hemorrhages, and couldn’t remember he had a daughter.

Not that I'll ever bother, but in case someone else wants to: it'd be theoretically possible to privately "tag" other accounts, right? Like how mute is private (right?)

The idea that art has to be the thing you make your living from instead of just being a thing you do to nourish your soul and bring you joy in your non-working hours - this, too, is the death of culture.

Guy posting about how the head shape of Estonians make them unfit for public service before liking someone else saying that women should have compulsory pregnancies: thank goodness I’m not in some weird political bubble

Just like with Kilmer Abrego Garcia, the biggest sin any targeted immigrant can commit is winning battles — legal or PR battles — against the government, and they just won’t let those losses go

One of the weirder part of the last few years is realizing how many people really, really, sincerely seem to find a face on a screen to be sufficient [para]social contact

they deserve to be exponentially more widely hated than they are, and I believe we can make this happen together

The pivot to video is a tax on women's time and dignity, I will die on this hill.

This happened to them for no reason.

just like on the most basic terms if a guy broadly says that women who invite him to do his job (generally or categorically) represents a sexual advance, he can't be working here

People get hung up (reasonably) on the "walkable" cities frame because many people cannot walk or have problems walking I propose: human scale cities as in: a city where the spaces I am in are built for human bodies, and not two ton high speed murder machines

A resident named Walter calmly took the mic and recounted an April 9, 1945 newspaper clipping about the liberation of the Ohrdruf concentration camp... "And we don't know exactly how ICE will use this warehouse. But we know enough." www.welcometohellworld.com/a-surprise-z...

I can't speak to whether it is actually bortac and whether it is actually mortar launchers but I mentioned in my piece yesterday that I had witnessed tear gas being launched in the air in an arc over people's heads. This video I found on IG shows what I described

🚨 New: We built a visual tracker of the warehouses ICE is targeting across the US. Working off an idea from @actualkatherine.bsky.social, we’ve mapped active searches, canceled deals, and linked state property records. Explore the map here: tinyurl.com/ICEWarehouse...

Schumer & Jeffries lay out the Democratic demands for a DHS funding deal in a letter to the top Republican leaders

The two children who returned to MN today say they saw one of their Valley View schoolmates at a detention center in TX. This is a child whose family was last in contact with the school on January 9. No one has known where they were until now.

Actually starting to feel very allergic to the claim that Epstein's crimes are a function of his class. His money obviously increased the scale of his abuse and granted him additional impunity, but to say that wealth was the genesis of his depravity feels like willful blindness to gender.

Props to the source here, we've found uh, a semi-novel variety of home cooking discourse ? 😶

it's probably fine