Thank you @michaelwest.com.au.web.brid.gy This is depressing but unsurprising. #auspol

The East Wing was built in 1902 & rebuilt in 1942, long after asbestos was used as a fire retardant. So, I’m sure the White House took steps to prevent a known carcinogen from entering the air during the current willy-nilly demolition. Kidding! These irresponsible assholes don’t care who they kill.

A D.C. man has filed a lawsuit claiming he was detained for playing Darth Vader's theme from the "Star Wars" while protesting National Guard troops patrolling the city during President Trump's crime crackdown.

Help, the bot I fed on racism has turned out to be a racist. theconversation.com/historical-i...

Politics is the art of making people care. Effective movements *shift the polls* by framing issues as moral questions. If the fascists can make people care about conspiracy theories like QAnon, we can make people care about freedom and democracy. (George Lakoff wrote several books on this.)

Anyway, the tl;dr to take away from all this is a thing I have been repeating for ages, which is that extremism symbols function on a plausible-deniability basis. People who use them 100% rely on normal people going "I had no idea, so maybe he didn't either."

Gaza Government Media Office says Israel has breached the truce agreement 80 times, including 21 violations on Sunday.

What has the senator done for you? Checking in on suburban news on FB, I saw a post announcing @senatorsurfer.bsky.social retirement. Lots of predictable uninformed snipes by old codgers in the comments, but here the senator clearly articulates the collective wins. A substantial list indeed 👏👏👏

Trump's mechanism to pay the troops during the shutdown is by far the most illegal budgetary action he's taken as POTUS, potentially setting the stage to break everything. It's also needless because Congress would easily pass a troop pay bill if Johnson were willing to gavel in. Long thread.

This has massive ramifications, and hopefully inspires many other victims of unlawful mutual obligations decisions to demand justice from the government. If you're in this cohort, and would like support, please get in touch: [email protected]

Huge story here. Daniel had his payments illegally cancelled by the Mutual Obligations system. After years of bravely fighting, he exposed the error and won the backpay he was always legally entitled to

Hail mary: If you work/ed for the Department of Employment or a job agency and want to leak me info on the TCF scandal, I'm on signal: JeremyPoxon.96 signal.me#eu/Jto6rQ6iY...

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

Left: Father Coughlin's anti-communist club, September 1935 Right: Donald Trump's anti-communist club, October 2025

HOLY FUCKING SHIT GUYS GUYS THIS IS IS SEISMIC GUYS I CAN'T EVEN TELL YOU OPUS DEI IS THE SCIENTOLOGY OF CATHOLICISM THEY ARE THE ONLY THING "THE DA VINCI CODE" GOT RIGHT THEY ARE AWFUL AND THEY ARE EVIL AND THEY HAVE ENORMOUS POWER AND THEY ARE INTEGRAL TO TRADFASH CATHOLICISM

Statement from OpenAI and the estate of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Of the people I follow, the harshest critics are those who have been working in the field of AI for a long time. They understand how it works.

The hard evidence of brutal physical & mental #torture of #Palestinians ( held without charge) in #Israel is mounting. Will there be a modern-day #Nuremberg trial that identifies and punishes those that ordered, conducted & condoned these practices? #Netenyahu #IDF www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

Learned that an anonymous outside expert on submersibles did an interview with the OceanGate Titan investigation, and they released a transcript, with all the names redacted. The first line of his first answer? "I'm sure you're familiar with my film Titanic."

I hear there’s a new wave of Twitter people headed this way. I know we don’t talk about them much anymore, but I made a starter pack ages ago you might like if you’re into critical tech work and Luddites.

Aftonbladet's report is harrowing and should make anyone who doubted it feel ashamed.

Downtown Portland has some new art at 5th and Washington🐸 👀 Click the link to read more about Portland's Protest Frog: www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...

Trump is upfront in saying he will use the shutdown to punish Democrats, and here are the receipts. About $27.2 billion cut from Dem districts compared to about $0.7 billion in GOP districts. We all complain about the media, but need this type of in-depth journalism. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

What's Your Wayback? We've archived 1 trillion pages. Now we need your help! Share the top 5 web pages or sites you want to preserve for future generations. We'll start: 1️⃣ The first ever web page at CERN 2️⃣ Wikipedia 3️⃣ GeoCities 4️⃣ WebArchive 96 5️⃣ Wayback Machine 🔗 ⬇️ #Wayback1T #WhatsYourWayback

The Albanese Government is kicking off a national TV campaign to " prepare Australians for the Albanese Government’s world leading social media minimum age laws." In addition, the eSafety Commissioner has flagged her office will be releasing more resources this week

the ABC is carefully curating a narrative that people harming children via social media are all other children. Lies. The biggest threat is adult males. The biggest threat is always adult males, including to each other.

If anyone needs me I will be in the museum, lying down next to the bog bodies.

Final two hours 🚨 You either click/share this or you don’t. But our responsibility to Palestinian life will persist—forever. This isn’t about guilt. It’s about whether humanity shuts the door once we’re sated by “good news” or we continue onwards. Food & shelter for six families. 857/879

I’m shocked… www.smh.com.au/politics/nsw...

One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.

BREAKING: Israeli war planes continue to launch raids on Gaza City as Palestinians celebrate the ceasefire announcement, according to an Al Jazeera Arabic correspondent on the ground. 🔴 LIVE update: aje.io/xqppys

Google blocked STI awareness ads as ‘adult content’, Senate estimates hears

Are you an #Autistic surgeon (diagnosed or self-identified)? The Autism Research Centre @UAlberta is studying the lived experiences + career paths of Autistic surgeons. 📩 Confidential info/interest: [email protected] api.typeform.com/responses/fi...

"left for dead on a Darwin road by a driver who did not stop to help, and then later sent text messages to his friends describing the victim as an "oxygen thief" and a "dog"." This passes for justice, in the N.T. www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

I'm willing to bet that SCOTUS does overturn the tariffs, but it'll be for some monumentally corrupt reason, like Brett Kavanaugh is trying to renovate Mt. Misery Farm into his vacation home and lumber is too expensive.

Elections Alberta has approved a citizen-initiated petition application to gather signatures in support of the proposal to end public funding to independent/private schools. Calgary teacher Alicia Taylor says she brought it forward because it could help improve funding for public schools. #AbEd

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU. Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

Here is Stephen Miler of the Trump administration targeting "far-left Democrat judges" and accusing them of shielding "leftwing terrorism." This was YESTERDAY.

Judge Diane Goodstein crossed the Trump administration last month. Yesterday, her home burned, her husband was injured and it's being investigated for arson. www.postandcourier.com/news/crime/s...

Government ID may have been accessed in the Discord data breach au.pcmag.com/it-security/...

If you work at EA and want to talk privately about your feelings about the sale to Saudi Arabia you can reach me anonymously at [email protected] or via Signal/WhatsApp at +12673263042.

If you were concerned about Kimmel, here's another for you… Journalist Mario Guevara has been detained for 100+ days, ironically arrested as he reported on a "No Kings" protest. The Trump-Vance admin just issued an order of final removal, to send him to El Salvador—where he fled from 21 years ago.

Nothing you say on Discord is private. Not your messages, not your servers. They are scraped regularly for specific types of content.🙃It's in their TOS. Please use disappearing messages and keep sensitive conversations to those. If it's extremely sensitive, do it in person, without your phones.

Wounded Knee was a massacre of women and children. That's what these people celebrate. apnews.com/article/woun...

This is your must read of the day. "The neurogeneticist Stanley Nelson once said, 'If you had 100 kids with autism, you could have 100 different genetic causes.' Researchers increasingly believe the search for a cause of a singular 'autism' is misguided. There are autisms, rather than just autism."

White supremacy is the enemy of disabled people. It is steeped in ableism and eugenics. “Name the systems of power.” “The lens of power can really help us see what’s going on.” stimpunks.org/pathways/sys...

Stephen Miller tweeted that calling ICE authoritarian "incites violence and terrorism." This wasn't just the usual fascist bluster. It was a signal. I asked Bannon if Miller will seek to prosecute groups that use this language about ICE Read our exchange below. 2/ newrepublic.com/article/2009...

Protests, mass meetups, conferences—a youth-led movement is reclaiming the Luddite mantle, rejecting a future dominated by Silicon Valley companies, toxic apps, and generative AI. This fall, a "Luddite renaissance" is in full swing. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

I refuse to accept the colloquial/common usage of “anarchy” that is a synonym for “disorder, chaos, complete lawlessness.” It’s just not what the word actually means. Sorry