A 41-year-old Maine woman has accused Graham Platner of rape. Her account is corroborated by contemporaneous emails to her therapist, by a boyfriend she confided in about the alleged assault, and by messages she sent to another woman warning her about Platner. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

speaking generally, I think the no. 1 thing you can do as a cis ally is help a trans woman get a job

As a few have noted, the only Justice not to have a majority opinion from April yet is Justice Kagan. We can't be sure, but it seems a decent bet that she has the majority opinion in Chatrie. As always, stay tuned.

Officially middle aged* today * assuming I will live to 115

Oh look, actual evidence that agrees with the start of my AI Eloi-ification of the human race theory (I.e. that reliance on AI will lead to skill loss to the point that in the future humans will as useless as the Eloi in HG Wells’s The Time Machine)

Thomas House of Dublin exhibiting the pro-human solidarity that all of us should demonstrate.

Gave the released songs from @sad13.horse’s upcoming “mixtape” of minute-ish songs “1331” a listen & you should too. sad13.horse/1331 I’m a fan of the idea that constraints enable creativity & all these songs are good, complete, & take advantage of that minute-ish constraint.

At the Reflecting Pool, and guys, this doesn't look right

"So ... so I said ... why not sign your treaty here, at Versailles?"

Candidate that promised to “drain the swamp” literally *makes a new swamp*

Things that will never happen for 500, Ken.

Going to totally change things up - new actor for the Doctor, new companions, maybe even a new Tardis control room. And the new Doctor, it’ll just be the actor being himself. But let’s make it totally anti-fascist. LIKE IT’S BEEN THE WHOLE GODDAMN TIME.

Post a song lyric that hits you right in the feels What am I going to do with myself if I lose you? What am I going to do with myself if you stay? @robynhitchcock.bsky.social “Driving Aloud (Radio Storm)”

Congratulations to Elon on becoming the world’s first trillionaire from London 🔥

Who is Laura Riding? #jeopardy #blindguess Shameless plug: www.nocontactmag.com/nine/poets-i...

“Dad taking the kids to breakfast” is giving @rosemarymosco.com cartoon vibes

OH MY GOD I GET TO TALK ABOUT MY THESIS I specifically studied the instance of election fraud within a 1/2 point margin of victory. I'm calling them whisker thin elections. Fraudulent elections are proportionately less likely to be whisker-thin than other close margins of victory. 1/

give me the most 80s song you can think of youtu.be/hnpILIIo9ek?...

A story I love about Anthony Stewart Head. Thank you to this person for sharing it on Tumblr. What a mensch.

Real men don’t care what other people think a real man is.

My most important advice for getting lobster rolls and fried clams: never get them from a place that doesn’t have a line.

A great thread, and to a large degree this development is due to the sickness now consuming the entire economy - the network’s job went from making profit to driving stock prices up. A mature business will not make your CEO and his pals as rich as a “growth” business.

“What was your biggest impact on the Internet” I have a more infrastructure-ish answer, but it’s a tossup: Either working most of the maint windows reconfiging regional networks into BBN Planet’s AS 1 backbone Or some peering clauses from 1998 that’re still in interconnect/peering contracts

happy Pride Eve to all the people who are about to paraphrase this tweet from 2022 or repost it with my name removed as if it’s a thought they just had themselves

Thinking about why women might not want to use a product that has forced itself into every software interface to confidently shout things that are wrong

This seems like it’s setting up front line corruprion. Individual officers have discretion and chaotic direction from above, how is this not a problem for a green card applicant not most simply solved by an envelope full of cash? www.nytimes.com/2026/05/29/u...

The old ram stands looking down over rockslides, stupidly triumphant. Grendel by John Gardner

Had to fill in my 20 year old - who prides themselves on cultural literacy - on “cone of silence” because my “gnome of salience” pun whizzed right over their head.

Cider donuts are not worth it.

Went to a Toronto Symphony Orchestra concert last night, with guest Anoushka Shankar. The concert was in this great modern building, Roy Thompson Hall. The orchestra STANDS UP and PLAYS “O CANADA” and THE AUDIENCE STANDS UP AND SINGS. Never seen anything like it at a symphony concert before.

Kirk episode

Pixies Queens of the Stone Age Les Paul X Dizzy Gillespie Mission of Burma Sonic Youth Poptone (reincarnation of Tones On Tail) Radiohead Neil Young

Introduce yourself with ten bands you wish you'd seen but never did: The Velvet Underground The Clash Joy Division The Beatles Big Black Johnny Cash Queen MC5 Art Blakey Wings

FUCK ICE NOW AND FOREVER

Walter @walterdeemer.bsky.social shared this on the other site yesterday. Great story.

Fortunately, there are numbers to multiply by that are bigger than two.

Toronto and Toronto-familiar peeps! Any recommendations of things to see/do/eat during a short stay near City Hall in the Queen City?

I’m starting to think Mamdani may actually make headway on reverse enshittification of Bloomberg’s luxury product

It’s like they don’t know what the real world is like anymore and prefer AI’s vision.

I definitely do not want to do this again.

My wife was the recipient of our first verified honk from vampire squid lovers yesterday. Stopped at a long red light, the car behind her was honking & when she looked they were making hearts with their hands and making flappy squiddy gestures. Best thing that happened to either of us all day.

It’s hard to think about any one 2024 race that’d move the needle at the fed level. It turns into vindication or wish fulfillment. No Mike Johnson? Easy to imagine worse. No Ted Cruz? That’s spite, he hasn’t done diddly for a while, has he? Ima make @sarahtaber.bsky.social NC Ag commissioner.

Wow. XAI selling their compute to Anthropic because they can’t use it all on account of Grok having 0 organic demand

Paging @blank.org

I’m at a bar to see one of my favorite Philly bands @gladiephilly.bsky.social but I haven’t eaten all day so I’m at the bar eating a sandwich & GOD DAMN Captain Nemo is doing hand-to-hand combat with a giant squid on the TV. But Noun started their set, time to see the show!

R2-D2 is the hero

I’ll be damned. The Pulitzer board did it. Good on them

It sucks that EV adoption (fucking Tesla excluded) has been so poor in the United States. It's awful and it's detrimental to the environment and to the competitiveness of the US automotive industry going forward. The Big 3 is not to blame. Donald Trump is. 15/15

Always fun to go to a to-the-trade store/supplier with a “you want what?” question and find the guy that says, “yeah, I’m bored, let’s do it”