Today in Totally Foreseen Unforeseeable Consequences.

My God. This is what happens when you have an agency filled with mostly incels.

“Hating a computer program is racism” is such a funny belief to talk yourself into.

They’re dead to me.

Join us at the DC Public Library from Oct. 5 to 11 as we celebrate Banned Books Week! As a First Amendment institution, we are dedicated to protecting your freedom to read and express yourself https://bit.ly/3PzJZjj

AFI is playing here next week. Someone I know said it was one of the best shows they had ever seen. Does anyone else I know have an opinion on this? Tickets aren’t cheap (not too bad, and they’re not sold out so I assume I can pick one up day-of)

the people who told us to calm down because Roe was settled law are the same people now telling us to calm down because the military would never open fire on Americans

This is back on the Mall. I figured since I was down there….

Celebrate creativity + community at the D.I.Y. in D.C. Festival curated by Rhizome DC! 📅 Oct 18–19 📍 MLK Library Enjoy 2 days of cross-genre sound, storytelling, movement, art making and more, a full-spectrum celebration of D.C.’s DIY spirit. https://bit.ly/3IGSTfo

Got to see this today. The memories! But also, lots of stuff from before I moved to DC. Go check it out!

Tentacle Pot 277

Your gentle reminder that Rep. Melissa Hortman was assassinated on June 14 and hardly anyone bothered to talk about it.

Newsom: "In my heart I know I'm not bigoted. "It hurts me, it's not just offensive as a guy who has literally put my political life on the line for the community for decades, that people think somehow I've sold the community out." I mean, you did say a ton of super transphobic shit Gavin!

Oh my gods, the fucking helicopters. Make it stop

1. This is one of the most insane statements ever delivered by a presidential spokesperson in U.S. history. Totally disconnected from reality. 2. There is either going to be a civil war or abject Democratic surrender to autocracy. They are telling this you, to your face, in explicit terms.

What the tariffs really mean - with numbers

Everyone knew about Sean “Diddy” Combs. Everyone knew about R. Kelly, Harvey Weinstein, Bill Cosby, and Jeffrey Epstein. Everyone knew about Donald Trump. I’m so tired of people protecting rich perverts, keeping their dark secrets for decades. So damn tired.

House Republicans appear to be extending their vacation before and during the government shutdown through a third week. I’ve never seen anything like it.

Covid booster was $144 perennialtheband.bandcamp.com

This by @katmabu.bsky.social is the best speech I've heard yet by any politician about what ICE/Trump/Noem is doing and it's not close.

Please, please make sure your Tdap vaccine is up to date. www.mississippifreepress.org/mississippi-...

Better leadership than Jeffries and Schumer.

Thread.

They kept Telegram on their App Store even after it was used as an organizing platform first for ISIS and then for murder Nazis

I don't think it would be possible to overstate Blake's influence on the DNA revolution in criminal justice and the exonerations that followed. He genuinely changed the world for the better. Rest in peace. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/01/s...

if i had to see another comic book movie why not make one based on spy vs spy ie ninety minutes with no dialogue and two awful little spies played by gorgeous women wearing cone shaped hats killing each other over and over with bowling ball bombs and exploding umbrellas

Statehood for DC NOW #TheLastColony #TaxationWithoutRepresentation

Reminder that @theguardian.com has a partnership with OpenAI, and has of late published a spate of asinine articles that are uncritical in framing, and just read as press releases for the company and for "AI" in general. The headline/implicit framing of this article seems consistent with its biases.

Who needs a new friend or two? These kits could not be cuter, and they need a good forever home

Clarence Thomas announced that he doesn't care about precedent and is making it up as he goes along. He didn't say it *like that* of course, because then people would have noticed. But I noticed, through the jargon, and explain it here in @thenation. www.thenation.com/article/soci...

Born 101 years ago on this date: President Jimmy Carter. He was a patriot, a public servant, an American treasure, & a longtime friend of the District. He passed away on December 29, 2024. He supported the 1978 Constitutional Amendment that would have granted DC voting rights.

Republicans have really found a formula that works for them. Their base doesn’t believe reality at all because after decades of the media legitimizing the “both sides” bullshit, they believe facts are biased instead of objective truths.

Like, what? Am I supposed to report every senior member of the administration if I see them on Metro? Bankers? Anyone with a consulting service polo? Do any of them even ride Metro?

Mine is like this. With slightly more cats

Be the Mothman you wish to see in the world

this is basically portland's version of a haka

Thank you dear scientist for helping me see this world more clearly. Rest well.

🚐📚 The Banned Wagon Tour is rolling into West End Library! 📅 Sun, Oct 5 | ⏰ 1–5 PM Celebrate the freedom to read, explore 30 challenged books, & grab a free copy (while supplies last). https://bit.ly/4pNEfU5

One reason the Dem establishment hates Mamdani is that he's just *better at this than they are*. He just talks like an authentic human about things that matter & people respond & it breaks their poll-tested, consultant-cooked brains.

It's still so fucking weird that all these tech companies are foisting all this A.I. shit on us in spite of the fact that we DO NOT WANT ANY OF IT. Like, bros, read up on sunken costs and go find something else to invest in.

Fixed it. Just a reminder that while the federal government is sadly shut down, the District government remains open. Our hearts go out to those who live or work here in the District, for or with the federal government, who are suffering during this difficult time.

Ohio’s new age verification law targeting porn goes into effect today, which means people will either have to use a VPN or submit their IDs to use Bluesky. This is Project 2025 in action. The goal is to limit freedom and make it harder to access anything remotely progressive

Shane Lamond set to report to federal prison today for an 18-month sentence. www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...

every day JB is out there showing none of this is hard, the democratic party is just that soft

Our medical establishment

J.K. Rowling's anti-trans bigotry and the alt-right pipeline she's personified require her to undermine and perpetuate real misogyny, so she's browbeating a woman almost half her age who has already been subjected to plenty of sexual violence for playing Hermione spitfirenews.com/p/jk-rowling...

If you’re upset with the government shutting down or dissatisfied with government in general, don’t blame “Washington, DC.” The people of DC, all 700k of us, have no voting representation in Congress. This falls on the 535 chuckleheads the American voters sent to Congress. #DCStatehood #FreeDC