I don’t know how people keep forgetting that workers rights were entirely written in blood and the capital class had to be threatened with violence before they agreed to things like 8 hour working days and 2 day weekends.

Teleskopfische sind schlanke Tiefseefische mit großen Köpfen, die durch große, vorwärts zeigende Augen beherrscht werden. Der Kopf endet in einer kurzen, spitzen Schnauze. Das Maul reicht bis weit hinter die Augen und ist mit langen, scharfen und nach hinten gebogenen Zähnen besetzt. #verrückteTiere

BREAKING: Following the American threat of an “Avignon Papacy,” Robert Kennedy has begun a Diet of Worms

✅ #Artemis II update: 'Earthset', 6 April 2026, and 'totality', 7 April, seen from lunar orbit, the Moon eclipses the Sun, a view few humans have ever witnessed (pics: NASA) 🔗 www.nasa.gov/gallery/jour... @exploration.esa.int l

TIL

If the wealthy can get you thinking about who deserves basic needs and who doesn't, they win. They don't care if you think wealthy people are the ones who don't deserve; establishing that it must be earned is the key. With that done, they can just keep expanding the definition of "undeserving."

Had cause to bust this out yesterday, and figure it can't hurt to share it again more widely.

This is an excellent summary of the US War on Iran current situation. I’m an existentialist and borderline absurdist and even I struggle with the current moment. This summary is just fantastic.

These are valuable facilities they’ll be guarding, and I certainly hope they’ve fixed the problem of using a wifi jammer to kill their cameras’ connection to the security feeds, one person flipping it with a pole and another then pulling up and back on the battery handle on the now exposed belly.

The Art of War makes infinitely more sense if you treat it not as a sublime work of unfathomable wisdom, ever beyond your reach, but if you assume that every fourth or fifth sentence should be read with, "you dummy, you blithering damned idiot" appended to the end.

But you can’t say it’s wrong unless you can explain exactly how human colons work, right?

the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy quote I think of most often these days is, “What do you mean, why’s it got to be built? It’s a bypass. You’ve got to build bypasses.” Any connection to certain modern technologies is purely coincidental, and mostly harmless.

Eisenhower

Now more than ever, you don't have to be cutting and pasting batshit posts that you have seen over on That Other Site and also, for fuck's sake, get off That Other Site, again, now more than ever

Once again.

Stop pre-negotiating. Stop telling voters they have to sacrifice minorities and the marginalized to have a chance of winning. Stop telling voters to settle, to not ask for everything, to be reasonable. Don't be reasonable. Demand the world. The world belongs to us. They don't have more right to it.

you cannot trust anything that is on archive today, archive is, archive ph, etc. there is no accountability for it (anon owner), they host doxxing data and refuse to take it down, they alter things (defeating their one reason to exist), and they massively copyright infringe news sites etc.

Lord I have seen what you have done for others and I want that for myself

instead of quote dunking on awful AI videos consider blocking or muting the accounts who post them. leave a clean park for your friends and neighbors.

This Valentine's Day, why not snuggle up with a loved one and read my long damn post about "AI" and some of my current thoughts about where it's at, where it's going, and how much anyone should engage with it? Best Valentine's Day ever! whatever.scalzi.com/2026/02/14/1...

This. Terrible people can (and do!) make moving art, and playing revisionist history to gain moral superiority isn't helping anyone.

I think about this post at least once a week

“Signal is a honeypot” is definitely what I’d say if I was a fed who wanted people to move away from platforms I don’t have a backdoor to.

AltNPS is absolute trash, grifter bullshit, and has nothing to do with anything. This has been true since basically day one, but during Trump II they've amped it up 10-fold and anyone who interacts with them should stop.

One of the purposes of non-profit complex orgs is to gatekeep, deter and co-opt organizing, especially when it's militant and working. So if you suddenly see polished posts by "otg" groups using social justice jargon to demand people abandon wildly successful tactics, it's worth being skeptical.

As Pratchett said:

I would never suggest that anyone do anything unlawful - certainly not right here, in front of God and everybody. So remember the first rules of firearm and internet safety: Treat every gun like it’s loaded… and every poster who calls for crime a cop.

A reminder that bringing shitty posts over from That Fascist Site to be performatively angry about them here is a choice you don't have to make! You can just leave them there! There is so much else to be legitimately angry about! You will not lack for content!

31 December 1995. Still the perfect goodbye.

The original Christmas family. (Comic by Charles Addams)

cool, cool cool

I’m in favor of right wing influencers challenging real boxers to beat them senseless. Never been a boxing fan but if this becomes a trend it might change my mind.

Since yesterday, many people have DM’d to say that they were strongly affected by my essay & wished they could share it. So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon. Please feel free to share. www.patreon.com/posts/this-i... catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...

The best thing about middle age is not giving one single solitary fuck about being cool anymore.

When we miss the Old Internet it's not just nostalgia, it's missing a time when online culture was driven by people who were really good at written communication rather than people who really liked to be on camera and hear themselves talk.

The cultural impact of Rob Reiner cannot be understated. Legend isn't big enough a word. It goes to 11. You can't handle the truth. As you wish. I'll have what she's having. I'm your number one fan. You guys wanna see a dead body? The very idea of a bucket list. The West Wing. All from his movies.

WHAT ANNOYING GUYS THINK SUN TZU'S ART OF WAR SAYS: show everyone in every single situation you're the big dog, literally bark in your bosses face to assert dominance ACTUAL SUN TZU: no but seriously you do have to feed your army

This imagined defense by Cheney ("What I Got Right About the Iraq War") from The Onion in 2023 ought to run as a sidebar to every obit that's published this week: is.gd/mzdB9j

There are just so many smart people out there. Read this thread

Shanah Tovah! May the coming year be as sweet as honeycakes and as savory as brisket, and may it see fascism ground into a sticky paste suitable only for scraping off the bottoms of our shoes

i challenge you to find cooler news today than “despite all odds against American scientific research rn, a CO researcher developed a temperature-stable, single dose rabies vaccine that works bc of particles coated in CANDY & SAPPHIRE, & it could help reduce rabies deaths in places w/o electricity”

It's cool that guys making tens of millions are like, "yeah one benefit of signing here is I don't have to give a small amount of money to fund public schools and disability services," and we treat this as shrewd navigating rather than an abomination.

Federal immigration agents were seemingly forced to retreat from a roofing job site in Rochester, NY, after being confronted by more than 100 protesters The workers stayed on the roof and agents drove away in a Border Patrol SUV on four flat tires, which had been slashed

*breathe in* I am not a dumpster fire. *breathe out* I am a dumpster phoenix.