fyi on the notorious green smoke

having to pause “come out ye black and tans” as I approach the school drop off line

Is the timing of this some weird "expelling the snakes" dog whistle? Or just a coincidence?

Excitedly opening the door to I'm Spartacus territory.

Underreported in all this is just how manifestly Musk's Starlink has failed its one job. American techbros stay winning and innovating

hey, Ventura County folks, heads up

I've been waiting for this. 😬

I do not think anybody is prepared for how quickly and how thoroughly things we've taken for granted our whole lives could change

This is how they see us.

A favorite sign from today's NYC protest march

“Surely Caligula didn’t really try to fight a war against the sea itself and declare himself victor.” Couple of years of watching Trump “No, I fully believe he did that and more.”

you know they're going to get billed for that

I think about this quote from the Luddite movement all the time

thanks for the recommendation, @beijingpalmer.bsky.social; this was a very fun read!

Local security services have sided with those of the central government, in defiance of local civilian politicians, against the populace

Feels to me like the Dept of Agriculture cutting all funding to Minnesota including SNAP “because fuck you that’s why” should be a bigger story!

Those of you who still insist on drawing a distinction between ICE and police should be aware that the police are not drawing that distinction.

Democratic governors are in a real bind right now. Non zero chance that the state police start ignoring orders once push comes to shove. None of them have put any thought let alone resources into building parallel defense infrastructure answerable only to the governors office.

Indeed, even this is not really an exaggeration at this point. The United States of America Except When The Mad King Decides Otherwise?

If the executive branch can unilaterally cut off federal funding to specific states the union has already been dissolved.

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cool okay so it's exactly what every queer person was most afraid of

[Thomas Paine has entered the chat]

there aren't a lot of visible Trumpists in my town. if anything, there's a sizable minority of vocal, Democrat-supporting, alienated Republicans. but there are a couple, including one house that's made a point of flying the American flag ever since election day.

Hope to see you there. Shabbat Shalom

The real threat to the system is when it goes so far that the SPD wine moms think ”you know, Ulrike Meinhof had a point”

i think we probably muddle through but BOY the uncertainty intervals are fucking gigantic because only need a couple contingent outcomes for shit to get real squirrelly in innumerable ways

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

Fuck. This breaks a bunch of my stuff. 🫠

The message here should be “we want the shooter.”

ICE should leave but the shooter needs to stay to face justice

This just arrived today:

The number one thing I've been hearing from people in tech lately is, basically, "How the hell am I supposed to work in this industry anymore?" Though most folks are kind of afraid to say it out loud. So I wrote about how to think about it: www.anildash.com/2026/01/05/a...

oh, this 🧵

pet peeve - I don't think that I hate any rhetorical flourish more than "but you're not ready for that conversation."

I was never able to make international relations my day job, but I've been waiting for this since the breakup of Yugoslavia.

this is really all about Rubio's Cuba fetish, isn't it

forget the long arc of history bending towards justice, I need the rube goldberg machine of inexorable consequence to endgame the kind of profoundly ironic yet blackly hilarious karmic downfall that would’ve had ancient greek theatergoers hollering at the chorus

The members who did the "don't follow illegal orders" video absolutely need to immediately do a "hey these were the illegal orders we were talking about and participating in them can expect to face consequences to the fullest extent of the law" video

A lot of people forget how in 2004 the Bush regime kidnapped the democratically elected President of Haiti, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, and dumped him in Africa.

WHAT THE FUCK

this probably won't go anywhere fun, but let's see

I wish I'd taken a screenshot, but yesterday I got an AI Overview result that literally included the text "(no, that's not right, let me redo it.)"

fyi, it appears to have crashed and been taken offline for the moment - it's returning 404s.

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using UUIDs instead of sequential IDs is just socially-acceptable security-through-obscurity send tweet

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