Took me a few replies into this thread to realize what the Barkley is, and therefore had a few fun moments imagining a Gentlebeard modern horror AU meet-cute involving an investigation for a podcast into the Berkeley Square Horror.

Roses are red Vice is inherent

New update, including my reasoning that getting off US tech means deleting Uber and going back to taxis instead of jumping to another labor-violating ride-hailing service.

there should be an oscar for bluesky story arc and @notalawyer.bsky.social should win

if you are no longer stopping the spread of diseases like covid (which never left and is still killing and disabling adults and children), maybe could you please start masking in public / shared air again?

When I lived in this part of the country, I saw just how effective "voting integrity" laws are at disenfranchising college students. Several states could be purple based on just their populations of college students...hence, all these laws.

Thread of some services/software I'm using instead of various billionaire-owned surveillance/fascist/"A.i." trash products: For my newsletters, @buttondown.com. Does the job! Great customer service - usually get personalized responses within 24 hours. (Never gonna join Substack.)

Oh wait I gotta do a Matrix one: 🧷Punks wear mohawks 🧑‍🎤Glam rockers wear mullets ❤️‍🔥You stop my heart 🤚Like my hand can stop bullets

An Animorphs one to go with my username: 🧊Sugar is sweet 🧁So's a cinnamon bun 😳Not to be forward, 🥰But I think you're the one!

🌹A rose is a symbol ❤️So is a heart 😏I love you like Taika 🫦Loves your fanart www.reddit.com/r/OurFlagMea...

🌹Roses are red 👃The scent of them lingers 👍It...*looks* like a thumb ☝️But I made you a finger

Being in the Epstein files and not being immediately fired is crazy. People were fired for posting Charlie Kirk quotes verbatim after his death. People were fired for being black women. For saying genocide is wrong.

This is not ACTUALLY true on paper. HSI has charged voter fraud, & CISA (part of DHS) does have a role in election security -- remember Trump fired Chris Krebs for declaring the 2020 election sound. Not excusing the presser. But it's important to know WHAT TOOLS Noem might use to steal election.

🌹 Roses are red 🟥 So is paprika 🌶️ Things have gotten too spicy ✈️ Rhys is off to Costa Rica

The Kirby Frame is maybe the only time a meme has improved my thinking

The day this spreadsheet drops I’ll need to take the day off and update dogetrack.info can’t wait!!

Oh? Oh...

It's Friday night baby

Someone else decided this was good enough to sell prints of without my consent, so if you're interested in prints - I just put this up on my inprnt www.inprnt.com/gallery/skul...

"Space space space! Socialism socialism! Fictional gay people! Batman Batman Batman! SHERLOCK HOLMES!!" 🧡

Technology is not neutral.

Saying Sorry (Part 1/4) - Gator Days

Can’t share IG here & Tiktok censored their lyrics, so I am sharing it like this. But @subradioband.bsky.social is amazing. I love this so much.

Hi everyone, switching gears for a personal request: my friend's cousin has been detained while trying to check in at an immigration office in Wisconsin, and is now at risk of deportation. If anyone has links to immigration resources in Green Bay or Milwaukee, I'd really appreciate it. Thank you!

This guy knows his stuff! If you're looking to help, have a look! (And maybe give him a follow, he's an independent journalist who tracks extremist groups!)

U.S. Gains Almost No Jobs In 2025 https://theonion.com/u-s-gains-almost-no-jobs-in-2025/

Stanford CS researchers just got a huge payday for promising AI agents that can simulate the real world. @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I wrote about these researcher's vision. Screen shotting quite a lengthy part of our paper, because we spent A LOT of time thinking about the paucity of this promise

civil society and right groups orgs that often keep a tab on and organise campaigns against these evil corporations are overstretched and underfunded. this internal memo from Meta is insidious and sickening

South Africa has yielded the oldest direct evidence of poisoned hunting weapons. The find pushes poison-based hunting deep into the Pleistocene and reveals sophisticated chemical knowledge, planning and tool use far earlier than previously documented. Ars Technica buff.ly/3ySienA #ShareGoodNewsToo

My lovely friend Neil is an amazing jeweller and just an awesome human being. He's doing a marvellous giveaway for Valentine's Day . My favourite are the D20 earrings😊 (Neil plays in our weekly Pathfinder (D&D) game and is a kickass monk who punches things mightily!)

Someone described it to me like having the nuclear arms race but with 4 private companies and zero government oversight.

"Chris has schizophrenia, and for the last few years he’s been drawing and animating what he sees and hears, so others can start to understand what that word – schizophrenia – means. What it means for him, at least." www.webworm.co/schizophrenia/

In honor of the Winter Olympics, Windy City Curling is offering 30-minute curling introductory classes, dubbed “Olympic Curling Open House.” Sessions are $20 per person and take place Feb. 21 and March 1. https://to.wttw.com/4rbQtWV

I don’t feel like politicians get to do any victory lap. They aren’t why these fucksticks are leaving.

everyone shut UP it's gromit's birthday HAPPY BIRTHDAY GROMIT

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

I am becoming the iron chef of plating wet cat food

It’s not the coke for me. It’s the doing it off a toilet seat. Like damn bitch dont nobody love you?

babygirl had another gastroenterologist appointment and she had a significant improvement 🥹 we still need to take care of her liver cause it has some extra fat in it tho. this is her prescription, if you guys could help us with ANY value i would be so thankful our kofi is ko-fi.com/deborahalves...

This is really important to me. So many Minnesotans have been activated by this experience. We've been a very politically engaged place, but I think we're about to see actual civic activity go off the charts. We (the local politics sickos) need to bring people in with grace.

This video of lion dance as line dance is delightful (from Edmonton, of course). Happy (almost) Lunar New Year!

The Weather Girls would have you believe that if it started raining men it would be really sexy and fun, but I can't think of anything more horrifying or, frankly, mood-killing.

Look, there’s no reason for these things; just have an aide drop by Goodwill and pick up ten golf trophies a week. Give him one every time he has a tantrum

"Andrew Paul Johnson, the pardoned rioter, attempted to bribe one victim with money he claimed he would receive as part of restitution for Jan. 6 defendants, police reported." Holy...

Very excited about this new @knightcolumbia.org project, both because it gives us the chance to look beyond the current democratic crisis and because so many super people have already agreed to participate. knightcolumbia.org/content/new-...

Watching #MilanoCortina2026 and need some between-events reading? Our store's still holding bundle prices at Black Friday levels (to help defray medical expenses). Come check out details about our offerings! www.tumblr.com/dduane/80828...