These people do not understand that not everyone and everything is for sale, that just because *they* would do anything for a buck does not mean that others will. I have zero doubt the good people of Greenland and Denmark will have little truck with this

Stephen Miller is the exemplar of the impotent, small, feeble man whose braggadocio comes entirely from proximity to a power he does not possess, which he has not earned, and which he has no ability to wield with even a modicum of skill. The only innate strength he possesses is his fetid hate

I've seen a lot of discussion about Ukraine and Russia in the context of the invasion and kidnapping in Venezuela; but I think the biggest risk is Taiwan. This administration is willfully ignoring just how badly they've destabilized the world order and who that benefits.

When you're feeling down, and you need a hug

It's truly sad how little things have changed in over 20 years (despite what the video title says, this lecture is from 2003 originally). I have the album, and this segment at 22:30 is a track entitled "Israel, The US, and the Geneva Convention" youtu.be/LezMLXVxzSI?...

Such a peaceful way to start Christmas

Couple pies a-cookin, the others I want to make will have to wait for later today lol

Have yourself a minor little Christmas!

Not exactly holiday music, but, the fruit of last night's labors (I really need someone to shake me before I decide to duet myself, it's *so* much more work :/ )

Clinton's gotta be high in the list of people who would know *just* how compromised Trump is by the Epstein files 🙃

"national security" is "stop resisting". same energy

There are many problematic uses of AI which will be resolved by the bursting of the AI bubble. There is a lot of (well deserved) concern about students failing to learn because they use AI, of artists being sidelined in favor of AI, of people creating fake images & videos that spread disinformation

This administration is truly monstrous and evil.

I *know* AI isn't capable of doing my job. But I don't make CEO money...our capitalist system is a scam fortune.com/article/klar...

In any decent country this would result in outrage and maybe jail. Here? Just another day where we kill someone using "healthcare" Mount Vernon cop on dialysis following kidney failure, 6 months from retirement being terminated leaving him without insurance | abc7ny.com share.google/WBMDOejYyqHB...

Yes, next question

Councilwoman Paladino should be exiled a remote, uninhabited island to live out her days in quiet asceticism, pondering the steps that led her to such deep seated hate

It's insane to put someone who is a eugenicist at heart in charge of our public health apparatus. The problem with RFK & that graph is that he almost certainly doesn't see it as a negative because he believes a) that it helps leave a stronger gene pool and b) that your immune system is like a muscle

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The USA should be abolished and sovereignty given to individual states, so that governments can better represent their people What's good for the goose...

John Stewart on Iraq Part Deux (or Trois really but who's counting)

I've always felt that Strange Days was underappreciated for its look at how dangerous technology like this could be, and was really ahead of its time in imagining how our world might suck. High on my list of underappreciated movies

American concentration camps. It's us, we're the evil guys from the movies. “They call it ‘the box’ at Everglades … it’s a box outside … exposed to the South Florida sun and humidity, and exposed to mosquitos, that is said to be used as a punishment.”

More appropriate for our times

Why does Blackbaud bother with a "Remember this browser" checkbox? Every single time I sign in, I have to redo the 2fa. It only "remembers" if I log out and log right back in...which, is great for people who enjoy doing that on the regular?

Always a good song youtu.be/PPASHOdFTF0

Just wildly evil. Support for a regime that allows and encourages these continued atrocities delegitimizes any individual, institution, or government offering *any measure* of support

I don't keep close watch on this, but when these stories have popped up, it seems like it's almost always POC or women being relieved of command of late, not just at the Pentagon but much lower in the ranks. Does not bode well

Good post on the use of social media to counter authoritarianism from a truly fantastic creator

Harrowing and important

From a ~1793 book of Scots tunes. Had fun setting it for viola and playing it.

Sadness. And it happened during a performance, unaccompanied 😞

Perfect. They're The New York Times

Given how dangerous religious delusions can be, this feels like a business plan about as safe as mail-order dynamite

Senate Dems interrupted, "Wait, let us show you how, first!"

Another good news story!

"what are we going to do with how much hate we have unearthed?" - quote from a video talking about moving forward from the NYC election. A comment said "we balance it out with love" ...And I cry, because I used to truly believe that and I don't and I wish I did again. i wish

ICE kidnapping adults and children, both US citizens. Kavanaugh deserves the harshest of treatments for enabling this, as does everyone from president down to the trash doing the kidnapping

Way to go Zohran Mamdani! May your tenure be a boon to the people of New York City, and an inspiration for all of us living in cities elsewhere!

Private equity is legitimately a cancer and a blight on society. It's the evils of capital market economics distilled to its purest, most sinister form

"We are at most a few years away from the mainstream media becoming controlled top to bottom, with a few very exceptions, by ultrarich conservatives and their hirelings." Crucial @mjtoma.bsky.social piece about need to reckon with how bad the info-space has gotten: newrepublic.com/article/2025...

It speaks to how broken our world is that anyone ever, in any country, has ever discussed the Nobel peace prize in the same breath as this dude

The State insists on having a monopoly on violence. Well & good right? that's what we're taught is part of the social contract, why we come together in civil society. But *it does no fucking good* if the state refuses to use that monopoly to protect against bad state actors.

This fucking game, Jesus! 🤯

What is the best sport, and why is it baseball?

Happy Halloween! Ready for the trick or treaters