this is comically evil. brazenly anti-social. just absolute black-pilled nihilism. we will not have a republic, we will not be free, until we regulate these companies to the point where — at a bare minimum — they're too afraid to put stuff like this down on paper. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Found an additional graphic that gets even more of these quotes together. I've kept "I hate myself, I hate clover, and I hate bees" pinned above my desk since I first started studying evolutionary biology as an undergraduate. So relatable to get extremely frustrated with your study system.

You don't fight the enemy where you wish they were. You go and fight them where they *are*. (I can just hear Sun Tzu shouting "What are they *teaching* them in these schools..!")

Admin Officials in the Epstein Files: Donald J. Trump Melania Trump Howard Lutnick (Commerce) John Phelan (Navy) Paolo Zampolli (Kennedy Center) RFK Jr. (HHS) Kevin Warsh (Fed Nom) Mehmet Oz (CMS) Elon Musk (Fmr DOGE) Steve Bannon (Fmr WH) Alex Acosta (Fmr Labor) Bill Barr (Fmr AG)

People can have different political opinions about immigration policy. Political differences are fine, healthy for a democracy. But if you’re okay with this, that’s not a political opinion. That is a moral failing. 27/

When I got the contract to write a history of concentration camps in 2014, I hoped to keep the US from ending up here. That didn't work out! But now it's critical to understand how much is already in process and the enormity of what's coming. The sooner we act to stop it, the more people we'll save.

Notice how the popular media narrative has moved on, while people on the ground in Minneapolis are still struggling and crying out that things are as bad as ever. This is how fascist regimes operate — overreach, recalibration, normalization. Get louder, not quieter.

NEW: Ever feel like everything takes longer, costs more, and leaves you more frustrated than it should? That’s not a coincidence. We call it the Annoyance Economy, and it costs American families $165 billion a year in wasted time and money. 👇

Got hit with a $3000.00 vet bill yesterday. Still looking for work. So, uh, buy my books, maybe? www.penguinrandomhouse.com/series/EC2/e...

If you are in Baltimore, and you haven't had an adult MMR booster or recent titers, now is the time to get that booster! Mumps immunity is more susceptible to waning than measles and it needs a single adult booster after age 18 or so for maximum efficacy!

This was not an inevitability. This is the result of decades of political choices that rig the system in favor of the wealthy and powerful while leaving workers behind. It does not have to be this way.

age verification? I have an unfinished afghan that’s older than google. (@spidersocks - the waffle house one.)

The patchwork worldwide legal framework resulting from the ungrounded moral panic over people under 18 using the internet has a lot of us making extremely unpleasant choices. The blame lies on the governments mandating them.

The common denominator is sociopathy

Emerging from his viewing of the UNRELEASED Epstein case files at Justice Dept, Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) says: "The Dept of Justice has been in a cover-up mode for months... trying to sweep the entire thing under the rug"

I really do think this is an excellent metaphor for the moment.

Someone just finished writing a novel. Spoiler: It was me. It's called "Monsters of Ohio," it's my 20th novel, and it'll be out in November. I hope you'll like it. I'm very tired.

Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

Reminder that the Luddites were not opposed to technology, they were opposed to technology being used by the wealthy to oppress the poor. They only went after factories where advancing technology was used as an excuse to lower workers' wages. So I'm PROUD to be called a Luddite when it comes to AI.

Epstein and the right-wing promoted QAnon as a cover for their own international pedophile and criminal ring. Trump is a part of it. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Concentration camps: stories of as many as 50 people to a cell — men and women in some cases — with no windows and limited airflow, a single camera-monitored toilet, aluminum blankets, no showers and poor quality food.

LOL.... i wanted to hear JD getting booed at the Olympics and when i searched for it on YouTube i got this

and after the critter funk, the random three hour power outage. I want a new weekend, this one’s defective.

Understanding society is dangerous to reactionaries selling racial animus & crushing austerity, while enriching the rich

I really hate waking up in the small hours due to unspecified animal pungency. Pretty sure it’s a fox, outside. Way too cold for skunks to be out. Geez. Yippy fart dog, why?

Britain has dethroned a prince, forced Mandelson to resign, & lost confidence in Starmer because Rep. Thomas Massie & I forced the release of the Epstein files. What is America doing to hold the Epstein class accountable? We need to haul these powerful men before Congress.

What we’re dealing with is more than just politics, which is an expression of deeper psychological processes. This is an existential battle that will determine whether the world becomes more cruel and more deadly or if we end cycles of abuse and realize a better future. That’s the whole thing.

you can really judge a place by what goes on when the mods aren’t there nazi shit? you got yourself a nazi forum bud this stuff? wholesome, on the grand scale of things

The conflict in Minneapolis plays out to a certain degree as a clash between mainstream Christians, led most notably by Catholics and Lutherans, on one hand, and white Evangelicals, especially Southern Baptists, on the other.

as i keep saying, the things to do to secure elections are to volunteer to work the polls or to serve as an observer, & to pressure your *state representatives* to take steps to further secure voting locations and ballots. you should also learn about how election administration works in your area.

Our founders, though deeply flawed, understood that democracy requires an informed citizenry and a government accountable to it people. That’s why the press is the only profession protected by the Constitution. It’s also why autocrats and oligarchs seek to control and destroy it.

I’ve been working on the Lawyers’ Committee Election Protection project for more than 20 years. This kind of threat happens in almost every cycle and almost never materializes. The threat - creating fear - IS the voter suppression tool. It costs nothing so any suppression it produces is a plus.

this whole thing is on Bezos, a perfect example of why billionaires will not save us for years he supported the Post and then he decided destroying it utterly at the altar of a wannabe dictator better served his personal ambitions, so he did institutions shouldn’t live or did at one man’s whim

Predicting that this week we’ll hear more conciliatory words from the Administration regarding Minnesota (since they’re starting to realize that ICE has become politically toxic) but everyone outside of Minnesota needs to know that nothing on the ground has changed.

please, argue with me pointlessly. I am a man of infinite patience who is not at all stretched to the breaking point these days.

Remember how I said we had plans to try to reduce Amazon wishlist dependence for our whistle printers? We'd love to get enough polymaker gift cards so we can do a bulk buy directly from the manufacturer and get a stack of filament for an entire urban area.

Wormhole. Cats are known for finding them

"I am sorry I hurt you" and "I am sorry I got caught" are very much not the same statement.

I get asked a lot about whether this activism is like the 1960s and the answer IS NO ABSOLUTELY NOT. Social media is certainly one way difference, but while it's true that the amplification of petty beefs is more likely, the absence of traditional leaders minimizes the fallout. 8/

🤔You mean the *centrist* Dem responsible for killing good bills had ties to Epstein? Imagine that

Kelly Latimore's painting of The presentation of christ features Joseph with an @ufw.bsky.social shirt on. Absolutely losing my mind about this.

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Also: as St. Brigid was associated with dairying, here's a link to "Cottage Cheese From Scratch", the recipe passed to us by Jonathan White at Bobolink Dairy (in NJ) sorta 20 years ago. Not sure what your local dairy company's putting in your cottage cheese? DUMP 'EM. mind-palate.com/cottage-chee...

Discworld QOTD, from Jingo

anyway. the only way to prevent disease outbreaks in concentration camps is not to create concentration camps. that's it.

As an aside to the above note, just today I saw some dudes still seethingly furious about something I wrote in 2012, on how being a straight white dude in the US is the Lowest Difficulty Setting in the game of life. That's longevity in writing for you! whatever.scalzi.com/2012/05/15/s...

Yep

Hey folks! Due to a series of unforeseen expenses, I need to raise some cash before royalty season rolls around at the beginning of April. Because of that, I am going to do something I don't usually do and offer paid mentoring sessions for aspiring writers.

Given the pervasive late unpleasantness I really need people to specify WHICH Portland it is THIS time. Actually, city and state would be generally very helpful In reporting the pervasive late unpleasantness.