A few days ago, a friend asked me to make a FB group for our friend circle planning a tea party. I made the group and invited six people. SIX PEOPLE. It's for a tea party, at someone's house. ... wait for it ... (AI slop post 1/ ?)

No! no!!

ok fine the windsors have done a couple of good things

The tragedy of John Fetterman is that he used to dress like a slob but have an encouraging spirt, making him an Oaf of Rugged Individuality, one of America’s great oaf groups. But now he dresses like a slob and whines all the time, making him an Oaf of Misery

Take a load off your minds everyone, it was regular old misogyny the whole time

Alfalfa. "... animal feed accounts for at least 47 percent of all water pulled from the Colorado River — yet the imprudence of devoting so much water to one industry receives little to no attention in public discussion over the West’s water crisis." archive.is/2026.02.20-1...

She's a local, which we love.

New Jazz Underground SFJazz / Noisepop

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Even as we’re excited for our upcoming gathering, we must acknowledge the current situation in Minneapolis. Headlines cannot fully convey the uncertainty, grief, and fear that residents of Minnesota are experiencing.

Good Night From The Drummer, My Friends. Sleep Tight.

Tech Policy Press fellow Jake Laperruque discusses the privacy risks ICE observers and protesters now face, given the agency’s surveillance practices and tools. Although there are steps the public can take to protect itself, lawmakers ultimately need to enact meaningful policy reforms.

Good to see reporting exploring the politics of Christian religion, even if somewhat obliquely. www.reuters.com/world/us/how...

"The result is a "JPEG of thought" – visually coherent but stripped of its original data density through semantic ablation."

it’s breathtaking to see how this country is in decline by every possible metric

Display an album that was important to you when you were nineteen. (Still is.)

"Galileo wrote wonderful polemic texts* that are still a joy to read for anybody with a good general education. This same factor of readability has led to an over emphasis of the significance of both Bacon and Descartes in the history of 17th century science, but that’s another story."

Finnish Ski Jumping Team Caught Tampering With Earth’s Gravitational Field https://theonion.com/finnish-ski-jumping-team-caught-tampering-with-earths-gravitational-field/

Analysis from @chadaldeman.bsky.social: How 12th grade math and reading scores have changed over time

Improbable Research Show, in Phoenix, at the AAAS Meeting, TONIGHT Friday night, Feb 13 #garlicmilk #spicelessjalepenos #bananas #ignobel #aaasmtg https://improbable.com/2026/02/10/improbable-research-show-in-phoenix-at-the-aaas-meeting/

"... the 6th-gen Driver [system] is expected to cost less than $20,000 per unit (on top of the vehicle cost), more than a 50% reduction from the 5th-gen system."

Nice to see "low engagement" (sometimes called "low information") defined: Those who don't know which parties control both houses of Congress. 23% of people, about a quarter, don't know that answer. I expect their disapproval of Trump is more vague dislike than articulable reasoning, but 🤷‍♀️.

Lockdown mode is DESIGNED to protect journalists and dissidents from government snooping. apnews.com/article/appl...

As Colorado River negotiations build toward a Feb. 14 deadline, few are talking about design flaws in the dam that holds back Lake Powell. #cawater #ColoradoRiver mavensnotebook.com/2026/02/11/h...

"A U.K. study in the New England Journal of Medicine found people who fully recovered from mild COVID infections experienced a cognitive deficit equal to a three-point drop in IQ." www.cbsnews.com/news/covid-l...

But we in it shall be remember’d; We few, we happy few, we band of brothers; ... And gentlemen in England now a-bed Shall think themselves accursed they were not here, And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks That fought with us upon Saint Crispin’s day.

Anyway I don’t believe there will be a moon base in under ten years but I DO believe that there’s a chance that inside ten years Jeff Bezos, Nikki Minaj, and Kyle Rittenhouse will get Titan Submerisbled on the maiden voyage because Musk fired all the “woke” engineers

you know what's cheaper and safer than a ring camera? a fake camera. I've had one since my last porch theft three years ago and it even fooled the eye of a cop trying to get me to snitch on my neighbors. you can't subpoena a recording that doesnt exist.

this is like if my first boss asked what my job was and I said "letting other teens steal cans of Skoal"

Shoulder pads de rigueur in labcoats.

I converted to Catholicism a couple weeks ago. Here’s what I think Jesus got wrong.

"this is fine" British Library Manuscript - royal ms 20 a ii f3r

Based Maritimes

#WITAOD IS SO BACK, BABY!!!

Under Mussolini. apnews.com/article/1941...

Me at Age 12: I drew a frog with three different shades of green!!! Michelangelo at Age 12:

cannot possibly convey how actually crazy-making it can feel, after spending 20 years monitoring all these orgs blaming sex workers and the internet for enabling a vast sex trafficking network, to now see Jeffery Epstein’s inbox

Ian McKellen performs “The Strangers’ Case” speech from “Sir Thomas More” on Colbert.

Regardless of which president appoints them, trial court judges have to do the very basic work of deciding cases according to facts. I don't know how anyone who ends up in a Trump judge's courtroom is supposed to trust a legal system controlled by people who are this unhinged.

Look for me in "Melania 2." @theonion.com

Am late in finding this article by @fox-e-laurence.bsky.social but it's an excellent overview of the Yukon and wider Arctic information ecosystem in Canada www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Some terrific adjectives in here. I expect to read them soon in @rsmythfreelance.bsky.social’s real nature writing (c).

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes." After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Sand in the gears of the desert Southwest growth machine.

Why do your organizing over Signal? So that you don't do your organizing on an app that hasn't been tested or reviewed, run by a guy who doesn't tell his users about data breaches and security problems. www.ibtimes.co.uk/stopice-hack...

From the Economist, no paywall. "Republican states are censoring universities ​ New laws restrict what professors can teach" archive.is/2026.01.29-2...

With the need for privacy and personal security becoming more important, I'll re-up this.