I think the Ellison's putting Bari in charge of as much of their businesses as they can is brilliant. Unleash her throughout the Oracle and Paramount universe and just let her do her thing.

Anthropic's logo graphic designer was reading Vonnegut, and they just went with it?

Quality framing here.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

D.C. gets enough snow and it would be an 8 person Court.

Okay, I'll take Gallego talking like this, but how about somebody besides Gallego talking like this?

Cybertruck representation is correct in that it can't carry or haul shit.

Well. I was a non-believer, but the glowing cougar here has changed me. I guess I'm now a worshiper at The Church of The Big Cat.

the current position of the US government is that NVIDIA should be allowed to sell chips directly to China but banned from using Claude, because the latter is a larger national security risk. that is the level of absolute insanity coming out of the White House & Pentagon nowadays

it also just makes good business sense for anthropic; trump isn't going to live forever, hegseth isn't going to be secretary of defense forever, and it would be foolish to discount the possibility of retribution for illegal and unethical behavior in the next democratic administration

I had a lovely coworker who I used to talk dogs with; we were working together and out of the blue she started talking about how the Clinton's were having people murdered. In 2017. Completely unable to answer any questions about this murderous crime spree. Just that she believed it.

Writing the home office to ask when a Branch is coming to my location. It'd be good for the neighborhood.

My landlords are great at all of the practical stuff so, uh, I guess I'm working on keeping them alive post-Collapse. Perhaps the only lib-left person in history who, when asked what they're doing post-Collapse, immediately says "protecting my landlords."

Me, checking this poster's Senate Votes Tracker. Hey, look, Katie Britt HAS voted with Trump 100% of the time. Yup, Britt's office is really pushing this for some reason, and look at all the bites.

Shouts to the Zamboni riders at tonight's Sirens game!

My inclination not to be charitable to Platner, but were I so inclined to think all of this just a big misunderstanding, it still means his staff has some serious issues. It means Platner is so bad at staffing he not only hires, but keeps on antisemites. Another bad sign for Senatorial competence.

Everybody thinks they're immune, but only JCO actually is.

post a pic you took, no context, to bring some zen to the feed.

i love my trans homies

'fraudulent amber alert' is the sort of thing that simply must have decades in prison attached to it because of how corrosive it is to one of the few remaining high-trust law enforcement/public safety mechanisms.

Security footage that WaPo reporters saw

It takes a real business genius to hitch your wagon to a tiny audience of permanent malcontents.

can I please piggyback off you as a Bigger Account that responses like "lol it's Kansas what did you expect" or "Kansas deserves to be hit by more tornadoes" are actually not helpful or comforting to the people being harmed most right now? Because no one bothers listening to me

It's so ironic how often bigots talked about being "unpersoned" because people did not want to socialize with them. You know what's really an "unpersoning"? Having no driver's license in a rural area. Losing the one ID you need to vote or pay taxes or open a bank account.

I've seen people pulled back from the brink, but once a transphobe you're nothing but a transphobe. It's like a parasite that takes and takes until nothing else is left. We need a cordon sanitaire until the JS's & BR's can only write self-published Chick tracts we know to immediately bin.

We literally know now that anti-trans legislation was pushed by a pedophile ring to allow a pedophile ring to serve a pedophile ring’s interests, and legislators have decided the best course of action is to keep doing what the pedophile ring wants.

Too much snow left on your car? Trapdoor. Phone in your hand? Trapdoor.

The Garden at Les Lauves, 1906 https://botfrens.com/collections/43/contents/13531

Every agent who participated in this should spend the rest of their life in prison.

Sort of posting this again. Never watched the original, but putting Danielle Deadwyler into a reboot (sequel I guess, really) and I'll be there. Very much looking forward to it.

the science is evolving

"Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind refugee from Burma who Border Patrol agents dropped off at a doughnut shop Thursday and left to find his way home, 5 miles away, has been found dead." To read the words is to damn all involved, from Trump on down.

full quote

I know this is becoming something of a mantra but it is really disheartening to be reminded constantly how many seemingly normal folks out there are just completely bereft of the most rudimentary degree of basic decency or moral sense.

*My mom telling me violence isn't the answer.* What about if I vote for this person and their platform? My mother: "maybe I was wrong...."

They won't start with banning birth control. First they'll lie about it. Then dictate who can prescribe it, use it, fund it, in what forms, and for how long. Suddenly, your doctor won't call you back. I know this is what they'll do because it's what they're doing to transgender healthcare right now.

This was also done for abortion

fml man, the uptick in "birth control side effects are really unpleasant" online content was probably not entirely organic huh

Heads up folks: @thetnholler.bsky.social posted an AI-generated video this morning that was a deepfake of the captain of the U.S. women’s hockey team, and they seem to be promoting it as if it’s a real video. So watch out for that and don’t spread fakes.

There’s something so incredibly bleak about the stereotypical YouTube engagement thumbnail being used to incite a pogrom. Like what the fuck are we doing as a society, how are we just letting this happen

Wiping out every bit of Trump's money and that of his family members won't do that, but it's better than nothing.

since I am not done Alysa Liu-posting, here she is making heart hands at the trans flag because she rules

your time on earth is brief and diminishing, people are astonishing, butterflies are flying 3000 miles toward your house right now, you have James Baldwin poems and Jim Downey sketches in your pocket, and you’re consumed by hatred for trans people? Get your head out of your ass

The most evil guy in the country is also being elder abused by an entire political party. Everything is a nesting doll of deranged cruelty within cruelty, vice within vice.

You see anti-trans hatred rile up such grinning sadism among conservatives and it’s so clear they just like to hurt people. They’ve made it their entire personalities and reason for being, and I can’t think of a sadder existence than that.

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

These are lovely. Makes for a nice plants double feature with the Pomological Art gallery.

trump is calling for banning congressional stock trading, but he leaves out the key detail: the reason there's a standstill right now is democrats want it to apply to trump and the white house, but trump issued a veto threat over that.

Ready to go. 1 bottle of champagne, 1 bottle of non-alcohol bubbly, 1 sake, a little whiskey. Would consider walking over to neighbor's house 1 block up, 3 doors down to watch them set off fireworks. Would sing at the dog. Would sing at the cat.