I didn't think Trump could achieve an unconditional surrender, but I guess I didn't consider us surrendering.

Australia investigates and charges one of its most decorated veterans with war crimes for murdering civilians in Afghanistan (www.abc.net.au/news/2026-04...) while the US President proudly threatens genocide. It's a contrast.

Once again I'm annoyed by the slogan "No Kings", when we have a problem with a president. Very few kings have as much power in their countries as the US President has in this one under our constitution. Americans seem to like it though.

Antigravity is most of the way through getting a fully featured(ish) Wayland backend for JUCE written today, with just a little poking from me. It's crazy how tractable fairly large, but bounded engineering work becomes.

We at are such a weak country to be running to the people we've been trying to pick fights with for help when we bite off more than we can chew. www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

It's not a surprise when you compare the Iranian and US leadership. Iran's cabinet is dominated by PhDs, lots from western universities. The US cabinet is mostly JDs and lightweight bachelor degrees. gemini.google.com/share/9e8184...

Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

Are we supposed to keep pretending that the ZTE and Huawei bans are for legitimate national security rather than transactional political reasons?

Some randoms: - When I was a baby we had a pet kangaroo. - McKellar Crater on the moon is named after my great uncle Andy.

You learn that country A is about to illegally attack country B. On what planet do you use that to justify attacking country B rather than warning them, preemptively attacking country A, staying out of it, etc? www.theguardian.com/us-news/live...

This is a policy of genocide.

They bombed a girls’ school.

So we're assassinating religious leaders now. Watch out Pope Leo.

Every time I make myself a cup of tea I say to myself... youtu.be/M5o_KtUmg5I?...

AI companies are the funniest bastards: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/t...

In theory, we know this is true. But "struck down" doesn't quite capture it. These tariffs were obviously and transparently illegal. They were knowingly illegal. It is a stain on the Court that something so obviously illegal was allowed to stand for a year. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/scotus-...

It's nice that we don't have to miss the Bush presidency anymore.

In the process of applying for 6 passports, 3 identity cards and 2 citizenship certificates. I have manila folders and checklists galore...

It is very very surreal to see all of this happening in tech from being around in activism in web 2.0. it's like literally every single thing and then some we were trying to prevent has HAPPENED. people treated the whole movement like we were being unreasonable.

realising things could be worse for heroku, could have ended up like github

Unfortunately, in modern America "right vs wrong" is a partisan issue.

I kind of assumed that Mandelson was picked to be ambassador because of his links to Epstein and others. If you can appoint an ambassador who has spent decades in the same social circles as the US President that seems like a great choice.

All of these alternative "milks" are ridiculous. The soy plant isn't a mammal. You can't "milk" a legume! What's next, people claiming that they can make peanut "butter"????

No other democracy on earth has a longer unbroken streak of proven election malfeasance than the USA's record of making it harder for Black people to vote at every single presidential election. Seriously.

It’s like living in China, but without the trust in science, progress on renewable energy, uptake in EVs, amazing high speed rail network, and great food.

ACAB includes the world's policeman.

Every California gubernatorial candidate, and SF BOS member (hi @jackiefielder.bsky.social) should be asked about this. You can’t call yourself anti-fascist if your housing policies forces a single voters to move from California to a red state.

It's not gaslighting unless the person is trying to make you feel crazy and doubt your ability to trust your judgment, otherwise it's just sparkling lying.

Cripes a’mighty people, Steven Miller is not staging a militarized ethnic cleansing and sending the border cops to murder people in the street to distract from the Epstein files. He’s doing it because he and Trump (and Vance and Homan and Noem etc) really really want to.

This morning one of my kids was talking about how in her dream last night Harry Potter was supposed to be at her summer camp, but he missed the bus. I had a dream about tax paperwork.

When a white guy hiding his identity with a mask attacks an ethnic minority, the default assumption is that he works for ICE, right? www.mpbonline.org/blogs/news/h...

I'd rather American goons not kill anyone, but I guess if they've got to kill people it's better that they're killing Americans instead of innocent foreigners. We might be more likely to address our violence if civilians are dying in Minneapolis rather than Sanaa or Rafah.

Jury Duty (1995) Oliver! (1968) Nope (2022) Air (2023) Taxi Driver (1976) Hot Fuzz (2007) Avatar (2009) Noises Off (1992) Repo Man (1984) Oldboy (2003) Superman (2005) Shooter (2007)

Indeed. Those "protectors of girls' sports" never even bothered to advocate for fixing widespread Title IX noncompliance, it was always an obvious fig leaf for trans bigotry. Big surprise, they're all totally fine with the nonconsensual porn machine owned by their party's largest donor.

A cat is a cat

I don't have time to doom scroll, but I do it anyway...

Just a reminder, unless you're racist, don't stop saying "Happy Holidays" until after Lunar New Year. More Americans are from Lunar New Year celebrating East-Asian backgrounds than from Jewish backgrounds. If you only care about white people holidays you're welcome to stop the "Happy Holidays" now.

Will any country come arrest the criminal US president?

It's a rough day to work on low level system software for a living. Every device around me saying it's January 1st makes me momentarily think there's some kind of clock failure.

“Can’t believe NYC elected a Muslim as mayor.” In truth—a Black American Christian woman swearing in a Ugandan American Muslim of South Asian ethnicity as his Syrian American wife holds the Qurans he swears in on, all while standing on the steps of a subway station—is the most NYC thing imaginable.

I feel like "Business Center" is a better euphemism for "toilets" than "Restrooms".

This thread of four tweets offers a neat mental model for working with coding agents

Each of these 3000 people was someone's everything.

What these people are doing to the power of calling out real antisemitism, in an incredibly dangerous time of surging global antisemitism….man, it is just so worrisome

I'm not convinced that LLM coding agents are appropriate for writing actual production code, but I sure do enjoy being able to get them to write prototypes. From my phone. Right now Jules is iterating on an implementation of a language I've wanted to try creating for years. JS-like syntax but lazy.

Prison guards: - Watched a woman experiencing psychosis gouge out her own eyeballs. - Ignored a man’s beeping insulin pump for more than 24 hours before he died. - Left a man sitting in his own feces not eating for weeks, he lost 60 lbs before he died. All in San Diego County, last ~5 years.

🤡There's never been a time in US history where people expect you to apologize *for being white*. People expect you to apologize*for being pro-racism*. Worldwide, fewer than half of all white people are pro-racism.♥️ In the US it takes an active disinfo campaign to keep the pro-racism group > 50%.

Stop calling them "Jewish settlements". Stealing peoples' land has nothing to do with Judaism. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...