Just watched @deviantollam.bsky.social’s enough is enough talk. I wish I’d had someone telling me these things when I was starting out my career. Massive burnout and disappointing a bunch of people through saying yes are hazards you should plan for. youtu.be/aUXHItYNKYY?...

It’s important to remember that public pressure has worked to move the needle on things like this before, and it can work again. They want us to think everything they do is inevitable. It’s not

This text is buried in a larger bill. Don’t want Marco Rubio to be personally responsible for revoking people’s passports based on thought crimes? Call your reps about it!

My feed is pretty heavy duty sad-state-of-the-world, so here’s a pic of a wonderful oversized dahlia that my wife grew to brighten your day

While the blueberry thing is an obviously comical gotcha, "It fails regularly and catastrophically, in ways that only make sense if you understand how they work under the hood." is legitimate criticism of a consumer tool.

RFK Jr. backs down all the time when he gets push back, so if anyone wants to call, here's the HHS number 1-877-696-6775. I'd also call your senators/reps as well.

We figured out to *cure cancer* (ref: last year’s pancreatic cancer trials) and the Trump administration decided “nah.” That a society could reject a cure for cancer is astounding.

Reading tsunami updates on The Guardian. Ads are, as always, on point. The update just above it showed a picture of the flooded Russian town.

Legislation introduced to make ASIO’s compulsory questioning powers permanent and to extend them beyond politically-motivated violence, espionage and foreign interference: www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

Throwback to October last year. I haven’t made it out for any of the storms in 2025; either it’s been cloudy or I’ve been otherwise occupied. Hoping that changes soon.

Oh hey guys! Is that bacon?! (Camping, last month)

NYCers, if you aren't registered to vote, the deadline is today!! e-register.vote.nyc?ref=hellgate...

The head of the department of homeland security announced that she planned to use military force to take over a democratically elected government in the state of California and we are arguing about whether a California Senator properly identified himself at the door.

This stuff has to be blown up much bigger than it has been. You want a kitchen table issue? Cancer is a kitchen table issue.

“These guys read those cyberpunk novels & mistook a dystopia for a road map. They’re rich enough to bend reality to reflect their desires. But we’re not futurists, we’re entertainers!” From @cstross.bsky.social’s talk from the Next Frontiers Applied Fiction Day 2023 www.antipope.org/charlie/blog...

I pitched my NYT editor that folks really need to understand that the deadweight loss of tariffs rises in the square of the tariff rate. Despite the wonkiness of it all, they said yes--as long as you can explain that intuitively. Lemme know how I did:

Everyone wants there to be a grand scheme behind all of this but the terrible truth is that extremely stupid people are in charge and they have a fanatical devotion to wrong, childlike concepts of society and economics cooked up by right wing radio hosts in order to sell tainted dietary supplements

Booker: "I confess that I have been imperfect. I confess that I've been inadequate to the moment. I've confess that the Democratic Party has made terrible mistakes that gave a lane to this demagogue. I confess we all must look in the mirror and say 'we will do better.'"

my husband just sent me this

Good lord, McSweeney’s still kills it. Just 🧑‍🍳😘

NEW: Elon Musk’s X has suspended accounts of Turkish opposition groups, suppressing footage of anti-government protests. So, best we share all the footage we can here! This was last night’s massive demo against Erdogan’s government, which follows the arrest of his rival Ekrem İmamoğlu. 🇹🇷 #Turkey

I’m crying, this is so funny WEAPONIZED MANSPLAINING FOR ESPIONAGE ☠️☠️

Language used by individuals associated with the federal government who deported people without trial or due process to a concentration camp in El Salvador, defying a court order, has a specific resonance that, historically, has been used to change regime type. snyder.substack.com/p/the-evil-a...

Hey man, that’s PlayStation inflation

All credit goes to Merlyna Lim of Ottawa.

I hope the Florida governor’s comments mocking Canadians spread far and wide. He’s saying 2024 tourism numbers mean there’s no boycott in 2025. We went there in ‘24. Definitely not going back this year.

Somehow this story is even worse than it first appeared: “When the acting head of the Bureau of Reclamation did not relent, the DOGE agents flew to California with the goal of turning the pumps on themselves, in what people familiar with the incident characterized as a stunt for a ‘photo op.’”

Imagine DOGE opens your mail and finds your household electric bill. To eliminate this cost, they burn your house down without warning. Then they total up the bills that, as a homeless person, you will never again pay. On its website, DOGE boasts about the money it has saved you.

Well isn’t this a terrifying thought exercise

Lol John Oliver set up a how-to guide for how to make Meta make less ad $$$ from you. johnoliverwantsyourraterotica.com

Elon Musk wants to know five things you did to justify your existence (as a federal employee) last week. But anyone can email him at: [email protected] You know what to do...

trillion dollar industry that will revolutionize everything

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

We are in the midst of a massive constitutional crisis. If Trump/Musk win, it's the end of our system as we know it. If the president controls everything, can shut down agencies, fire their staff at will, ignoring Congress, the entire system dies.

Canada is a country worth fighting for against anyone who’d roll up and sock us in the kisser, goddamn them. I will still stand up for my country and our right to decide for ourselves how we want to live. www.davidmoscrop.com/p/confession...

American health workers looking to relocate? Doorway to practice medicine in Canada 🇨🇦 We have job openings nationwide. www.canada.ca/en/immigrati...

Looks like this is happening. This great perfidy from our longstanding and close ally and friend is immensely saddening and maddening. But it also makes me resolute to defend our country. We should and must retaliate. A thread about what I'll be looking for in our retaliation measures....

"The other side pooped on the Monopoly board and ate the money" - you won't find a better explanation of why "working within the system" won't work at all.

Oreo was very excited to finally get some fresh, dry snow in the valley

With big tech trying to shove AI productivity tools down our throats, I'm reminded of something my "bald from his 20's" grandfather always said: "Never trust a baldness cure with advertisements. A real cure will sell itself through word of mouth alone."

Interesting clouds, a little sun, and some otter tracks on the ice (I think).

Made me think about @tracketpacer.bsky.social talking about some of the gear she’s worked on lol

Stuff like this makes me happy that I cancelled my subscription. Celebrating a murder is ghoulish, but equating it to insurrection is a stupid take. (For the record, I think the US healthcare funding model is shameful, tragic and infuriatingly stupid)

DOGE is a fake government agency designed to provide flimsy "innovative efficiency" cover to corrupt robber barons as they dismantle federal corporate oversight and sell the country for scrap off the back loading dock any politicians or journalists helping the performance should be laughed at