#2026MMM In some places, a bone collector is a gossip who runs off to tell others what’s said about them so I have some questions about the Bone Collector Caterpillar… what information do they have on the other combatants?

Well this is a new one. Filling out a form at a doctor’s office and the “what language do you speak?” form has an absolutely fantastic list of options. I have no idea where the website dev or whoever sourced this list but damn. Way to look out for the occasional 4,000 year old Elamite revenant.

ARE YOU READY FOR MARCH MAMMAL MADNESS TODAY?! #2026MMM

They’re literally pushing out Black women to make sure they can try to permanently staff the federal government with white supremacists.

"and the people, they came up to me with tears in their eyes and said 'sir, please, stop we can't take any more portents' and I told 'em, I told 'em tough, these are the ends of days, it's a very fine apocalypse, we're doing so good. So so good. They call it the Grand Finale, isn't that nice?"

NO NO NO YOU DON’T GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL tell everyone you know www.freetaxusa.com

“…about the 1873 massacre in Colfax, La., where dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of former Confederates and Ku Klux Klan members. ChatGPT had deemed it “D.E.I.” Mr. Fox said he agreed. “Because it focuses on exclusively anti-Black violence, which is a race,” he said.”

Claude and OpenAI being used to guide a war that leads to their own demise would be in some dark way extremely funny

And computer chip manufacture that depends on things like helium and bromine from Qatar. www.reuters.com/business/ret...

Things look grim in the markets right now, but at least the U.S. economy wasn’t already being propped up by a massive speculative AI bubble that is highly sensitive to rising energy costs.

THIS. If you’re in central Glasgow tonight please close your windows; if you have to be out please wear the best mask you have available. If you can smell it, you’re at risk.

Also while I was fighting despair by sorting laundry and watering plants I want to say Happy International Women's Day to the women and especially the women who are in the closet about that It's your day! Even if it's a secret

The only positive thing about my Seasonal Depression is the one week of high energy I get in the Spring as the light increases.

No society has ever eliminated the existence of queer people by forbidding the depictions of them. Your children will be queer no matter how much you cover their ears and eyes.

Paralympic curling is wild with no sweepers. Just so much riding on getting your push right. 😅

I’ll say this as a pastors daughter. It gives me the heebie jeebies that there is all this talk about the rapture. Not because I believe in it (I don’t) But because there are powerful ppl & their followers trying to bring it about. It’s just a story that’s weaponized to make ppl fear & fall in line

New rule: You can't relitigate an election after one year has passed

The US and Canada go to Daylight Savings Time tomorrow morning.

we are going to win.

BBC Verify has analyzed videos and satellite imagery that show severe damage to schools, a hospital, and historic landmarks in #Iran since US and Israeli strikes on the country began. Civilian casualties continue to increase as well. www.bbc.com/news/article... #Iran

Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.

Just once I’d like it to be a ballroom blitz instead of a military one

Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas. "He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger." www.bbc.com/news/article...

I love watching people use LLMs in public. They’ll reply to a breaking news article and say “@grok is this true?” Babe where do you think it’s about to pull its answer from

At the end of A New Hope, Leia gives Luke and Han their employee badges and lanyards. Chewie is a contractor who has to be signed in. #canon

the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter www.statesman.com/business/art...

This. Stop anthropomorphizing the tech.

Did you know that you can get all the parts you need to build a dragonborn skeleton from LEGO’s official Pick-a-Brick for under $3! (CMF plate not included) BRB, off to build a horde!

Celebrate the positive when it comes along: Two charismatic marsupial species that had been thought extinct for 6,000 years are alive in rainforest in remote West Papu www.theguardian.com/environment/... 🧪

Wow, that's a monster signal for El Niño in today's new ECMWF seasonal forecast.

so much of tech innovation is trying to repackage blatantly abhorrent ideas into forms you don't think so hard about

Let me be clear: I’m glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.

It's vitally important that Kristi Noem still be held accountable

I truly do think all of the "Noem out, Mullin in" posts and stories are failing American democracy right now! Trump is announcing his nominee. That's it. If the Senate majority wants to confirm him, they're a part of this—even after knowing what they know now. And that matters come November.

After four days of hesitating, the president of France has joined the prime minister of Spain in saying that the 🇺🇸🇮🇱 attack on Iran is a violation of international law. But they are still the only 2 EU leaders to have done so. Will others join?

Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez reiterated Spain's opposition to the war in Iran, condemning the war for causing suffering among civilians while “lining the pockets” of a select few and for other leaders “to use the smoke screen of war to conceal their failures” – an apparent jab at Trump.

Isaac Chotiner absolutely can simply walk into Mordor, sit down and interview Sauron, and then a few hours later after he’s gone Sauron looks and goes “Well when you say it like that it looks bad.”

I spoke with two ICE watchers who lost their Global Entry after brushes with federal agents. Now an internal memo shows Customs and Border Protection is evaluating cases where people's Global Entry could be revoked based on "encounters" with its officers. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

A list of countries that have been hit by missiles / drones in the past 48 hours: - Iran - Israel - Saudi Arabia - UAE - Bahrain - Qatar - Kuwait - Jordan - Lebanon - Palestine (Gaza) - Iraq - Oman - Afghanistan - Cyprus Trump and Netanyahu have unleashed a regional war that will impact millions

What it is Like to Accidentally be Trapped in a Country at War By Zack Davisson Hey! You seen on the news of evacuation orders for Americans whose vacation was suddenly disrupted by a little war as a treat? Well, it happened to me too. Gather round for story time! Destination, EGYPT!!! (1)

I tell people that if the government is covering up the existence of aliens, NASA is absolutely not involved, because astrobiologists can't keep a secret to save their lives

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

Obama is the only president to date born when there were 50 states

I'm reading a bunch of Coruna reports after dinner because I am a cool person who knows how to party. Of particular interest: not only does Coruna not work against iOS in lockdown mode, but if it even detects lockdown mode running, it bails. This is why I talk about lockdown mode so damn much.

eventually we'll get to the heads in jars phase of 1946 presidents

Let's talk about eels & dams. 'Cause dams are a problem for eels now, but they haven't always been. Eels can live out of water for a while, & travel overland. Young eels climb up & around small waterfalls as they migrate. And so many medieval dams weren't a problem for them. 1/7 🗃️

Lately* I find myself missing the convenience of living on a college campus. Being able to walk after dinner to a building where something is happening with people is highly underrated. *I don't know how lately, I've definitely been thinking about this for a few years.

kind of crazy that if you have enough money and don't like what you see in the media, you can just buy up every film studio, news station, and social media app and change it

At least 1,097 civilians had been killed in Iran so far, including 181 children.