Earlier today, I was notified that someone was at my door. This is who it was:

Trans Day of Remembrance. Pour one out for our trans siblings lost and keep *living* in their honor.

States aren't real but watersheds are

Superior Court intern mistakenly targeted by ICE in PVD today, per RI Supreme Court Chief Justice Paul Suttell

TIX FOR SATURDAY 22nd ALMOST GONE! ADDED SCREENING ON SUNDAY THE 23rd AT AN EARLIER TIME IF YOU WANNA COZY CLOWN COMEDOWN!

You're at the Combination Pizza Hut. I need you at Taco Bell.

Farewell to Gary “Mani” Mounfield, the bassist for the Stone Roses who later joined Primal Scream. www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater...

Periodic PSA, the only currently licensed Murderbot merch is at Worldbuilders Market, where it's sold as part of a charity fundraiser. You may want to sign up for their new product notices because they should have a new Murderbot thing coming up: worldbuildersmarket.com/collections/...

I promise you, trans people have existed throughout human history. We have the records; we have the stories; and shameful as it is to use this as a marker, we have the slurs. Humans are GREAT at slurs, but we usually develop them because they have targets. If the slurs exist, so do the people.

"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us

Another name for this would be "pre-existing conditions," a way used to exclude disabled people from health care for decades in the US. Understand, when you hear people talk about "rewarding the healthy" - these are policies that have a body count.

Advocates rally for lower speeds and safer streets in Providence "We have the tools and know-how to prevent traffic violence and severe injuries. We can save lives by investing in safe road and vehicle designs and by prioritizing safety over speed." steveahlquist.substack.com/p/advocates-...

Breaking: With a federal court order in their favor, the journalists of @pghguild.com have voted to end their strike and on Monday notified the PG that they intend to return to work next week: www.unionprogress.com/2025/11/17/p...

obviously i also do lots of other research but there is nothing like the specificity of the information you will receive from someone who begins with "okay, so--"

A woman reported that Ronaldo assaulted her in Vegas in 2009. "In recent months, Ronaldo has also been part of diplomatic efforts to woo the U.S. President Donald Trump."

Urbanism—the notion that cities are good, that we should build housing in the dense walkable neighborhoods where people want to live, and that urban governance should prioritize city residents’ quality of life over suburban drivers’ convenience—remains a radical political program in America.

Sssssooooo... yeah. (Wow!) 😳🤗

If you’re interested in 1960s relay computer circuits, take a look at this Minivac 601 Simulator I just released! ~2 years of work on and off. Simulating electricity wasn’t as easy as I originally thought :) Cheers! minivac.greg.technology

Psst. Choppy Choppy, both earrings and pendants are back in stock. www.peculiarityshop.com/product-page...

Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.

Trying to measure coding productivity is, and always will be, a fool's errand. Why? Because I can go for a walk then take a shower and have an idea, then write a single line of code that fixes everything I was working on. Immense productivity, but by most metrics I didn't do anything at all.

I have been alerted to the existence of this horrifying elder god y’all worship in Nova Scotia. What the actual heck, Canada? www.moderntraveller.ca/home/waking-...

NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected. And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.* Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:

Teenagers are old enough to have sex with middle aged men. They are not old enough to be trans. by Megyn Kelly

This was written 50 years ago. I wonder if in 25 years there will be situations like this about the “AI” years and whatever the current flavor of fascism will be known as then. (Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason, 1976)

Rhode Island FC at Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC: This freaking ref. I can't even.

What does it mean that a work of art has "stood the test of time"? It mostly means people still like it, for the reasons they originally liked it. Why does the Suck Fairy exist? Because tastes change, but also, whole modes of storytelling change. My noozletter: buttondown.com/charliejane/...

Everything is political!

I cannot wrap my head around how cruel and destructive this is. This is what comes of years of rhetoric demonizing and blaming the unhoused on the part of politicians (including big city Democrats) instead of seeing them as neighbors who need help

On August 12, 1971, 16-year-old me mailed the first story I ever wrote off on its first submission to my dream market, F&SF. My tale was quickly rejected. On July 17th, 2025, I finally sold a story to that magazine. Here's why I felt I had to withdraw that story. www.scottedelman.com/wordpress/20...

This weekend, soccer teams from three cities I've lived in will be playing in league or conference finals in USL leagues. Wild!

Wow. Can't say much else. The overhead corona was unbelievable. The most intense reds and greens. ❤️💚😍💃 She'll be dancing until sunrise. I visited Franconia Sculpture Park over summer and it has been on my aurora photo bucket list ever since. That's where I went last night. Schafer, Minnesota.

As someone who got into a good university on the strength of being Good At Both enough on that one big test to make up for pretty mediocre grades... People who dismiss the power and necessity of words because they are the mathiest and techiest are infuriating and not even that good at math or tech.

This poem was written while sitting in the women's restroom in the U.S. District Courthouse in Chicago Illinois while Greg Bovino stood outside in the hallway

Oh my heavens. If I had been taught to read this way I would have absolutely suffocated. I feel so sorry for people taught this way. D:

Given the NCFC situation, and the league’s shameful response, the remaining owners owe it to the players and the fans to ratify the new CBA immediately.

Please note that my remarks are limited to Colorado, because I know what you have to do to get a real challenger on the primary ballot. Wherever you are, focus on that. We need to get it done.

I received this email about Democrats caving to end the shutdown from one of the SNAP recipients I spoke to:

Using "The algorithm" or "AI"—or whatever business leaders want to use or call it—is all about *laundering responsibility*. Making it so that lower-level employees don't feel they are allowed to make decisions while at the same time preventing executive decision makers from being held accountable.

Hey, a lot of people are talking about changing affiliation from Democratic to Independent. Let me tell you why you shouldn’t do that in Colorado. One of the main ways to get a primary challenge candidate on a ballot is to caucus for your party. You need to be registered as a Dem to caucus.

I am so incandescently angry I don't even know where to start www.cnn.com/politics/liv...

How about we shut down the government for this very popular and specific goal and then, hear me out, we hold out for like a month and a half and then, ok this part is important, after a watershed election where we ran the table, ONLY THEN, fold and don't get the one thing we said we wanted.

It's 11:45 p.m. ET and we're going to a penalty shootout in Spokane, Wash. Spokane Velocity FC vs. @heartsofpine.bsky.social for a place in the #USL-1 Final next Sunday evening. Get in here. www.espn.com/watch/player...

Holy heck. #USL-1 playoffs also wild this weekend.

Note them well

Dek of the Yautja has a posse.

you can just go ask crows stuff instead of asking chatgpt

Shutting it down for the night with this post from a comrade in Chicago: 🎶"I wish I could give you this feeling. I wish I could give you this feeling."🎶