Huh? Feel like there's a message/metaphor here some where. (Nice one, McSweeney's. Very nice)

The multiverse is cool again thanks to indie revenge sci-fi Redux Redux. Our review:

From the MTGSalvation forum "A seine is a type of net and this particular seine is used by merfolk. Hence MERseine." #Merseine #mtg #MagicTheGathering

"So I don’t think they’re going to get over, but I think the ultimate goal was always to get rid of the elections completely and just do a complete takeover. I don’t see any other plausible endgame for them." [he's not talking about the 'Empire' from #ANDOR empire here]

Reza Valizadeh was arrested in September 2024 after he traveled to Iran to visit his parents.

Someone at a cartoon convention said “I don’t know if Pat Bagley is a Mormon, but he dances like one” My talents lie elsewhere But, damn! I’m glad dance exists, even though it seems like magic to me 👇

Trump will go bananas after the Supreme Court renders a decision they should have issued months ago, before he destroyed our alliances, small businesses, and illegally taxed the US public www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

POKÉMON LeafGreen VERSION CREATURES INC/ GAME FREAK 2004 (Captured on Gameboy Advance SP)

In honor of Black History Month, here's a thread with one book recommendation a day.

CARTOON OF THE DAY

“No longer willing or able to police the globe, the U.S. government now wields rusty implements of its erstwhile hegemony in a gaudy display of brutishness.”

Today on Glass! "Obedient Plant" by Alyse Bensel! www.glass-poetry.com/journal.html

Don't use them? lithub.com/what-do-you-...

The left doesn't hate technology, we hate being exploited: aftermath.site/anthropic-clau...

Very important thread. #Linguistics #AI #LLM #surveillance #Africa

More snowstorm photos from The Tribune’s Rick Egan, because these Liberty Park sledders are just too cute. Read the story here: https://www.sltrib.com/news/2026/02/18/winter-snow-hits-utah-storm-brings/ 

FUNBAG:

The judge said the removals likely violated federal law and cooperative agreements requiring consultation with the city, comparing the administration’s position to Orwell’s “1984” and writing that the government couldn’t “dissemble and disassemble historical truths” simply because it has power.

Love this poem from @susanlleary.bsky.social’s stunning new collection, More Flowers. Definitely get yourself a copy!

@alexisgoldstein.bsky.social is a real one and she's running for Congress. www.democracynow.org/2026/2/18/al...?

He's basically Taika Waititi's psychotic tech CEO from FREE GUY, if he had also done enough drugs to kill a bull elephant

Trump’s FCC pressured this ‘Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ interview off of TV broadcast, but it was posted online instead. And this might be why — Texas State Rep. James Talarico reminds us that it’s not left vs right, it’s top vs bottom.

NEW: Yet another reason why Social Security numbers should no longer be used for verifying your identity. @lhn.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/a-mega...

Happy Toni Morrison's birthday! Write for your people:

A year ago, men in black dragged a woman out of a GOP town hall in Idaho. The video went viral. Here's the rest of the story:

Decide what to look at and how. If you lower your lashes, the blood looks like mud. - Matthea Harvey how does the cat continue to lick itself from toenail to tailhole. And how does a body break bread with the word when the word has broken. Again. And. Again. - C. D. Wright

happy birthday to one of my favorite poets of all time, William Bronk

Libraries don’t run on good intentions alone. If you’ve ever wondered how to step up for your neighborhood library, this Open House event from FTP will walk through how Friends and Foundations groups work and how you can join one. 2/19, 6:30–8pm ET. RSVP at

A small-town Kansas mayor is in trouble for voting illegally as a noncitizen—but the town of Coldwater, almost entirely Republican, is rallying around their mayor, who voted for Donald Trump in the last three elections and has lived in the town since he was a teenager. trib.al/K1au5Ny

We talked to two of the performers who spent six months in Japan throwing swords and speed-running through two decades of Lucasfilm properties.

Roses are red, These assholes are so embarrassing, ahistorical, and racist.

And we’re LIVE! @ballastpoetryjournal issue 4.1 OUT NOW! We are reading now for issue 4.2: OUR SUBMISSIONS ARE STILL ALWAYS FREE AND ALWAYS OPEN. www.ballastjournal.com/issue-41-tab...

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We hope you loved our FEBRUARY ISSUE, fam. Have a good night, and thank you for sharing in our joy 💗Catch it here: buff.ly/eKv5fuz

If you see this post a dragon

The crimes committed by ICE and CBP aren't accidents or outliers. They're the point. www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

🎯🎯. One of my colleagues turned up in the Epstein files, asking for funding for his “campus rape is just women claiming victimhood, actually.” For more than a decade before Chr sent that email, I begged UT to deal with his vicious harassment of me. They declined.

“I’ve never protested before - but I just watched 4th & 5th grade kids run away from our own government.” 😕🇺🇸💔 (From @crindivisible.bsky.social )

Happening now on 50th Street in Minneapolis. Lined up over a ten block stretch.

All you far-out night owls, lean in.

Happy Valentine's Day! May it remain forever closed. Amen!

A Democrat just won 62% of the vote in a Louisiana House district that gave Trump a 13-point victory in 2024. A week earlier, Democrats seized a Texas Senate district that also favored Trump. Special election results are raising alarms in Republican circles. buff.ly/Ea35U4L

Have you checked out your Artifact Library yet? How many artifacts have you reclaimed so far? #indiegames

and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes care of futurism