STOP CALLING THIS "IMMIGRATION ENFORCEMENT" THAT IS NOT WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE! NEWS OUTLETS, REVISE YOUR GUIDELINES!

Predator: Badlands: the real friends were the tools we met along the way.

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started re-reading The Laundry Files (after finishing re-reading Murderbot Diaries) and realizing that in my head, Angleton is 100% William Frederick Knight voicing Aramaki from Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex (despite the fully incorrect accent)

started reading Sagan’s The Demon-Haunted World and i am highlighting so many things

Maisie and Reece would have been scored higher if Greg and Alex knew the exact same methods would be used to successfully burgle millions of dollars of jewelry from the most famous museum in the world the same week this episode aired. #Taskmaster

i worked at an Indiana Kroger the summer between high school and college, and i say Good For Them labornotes.org/blogs/2025/0...

"It is not about upholding English and shared values, but about denigrating Spanish and those who speak it. It is about turning Spanish into second-class speech, about making us wary of using it in public, about keeping us quiet and submissive."

"'Political equality, natural rights and popular sovereignty can be expressed, upheld and lived out in any language,' I wrote in response to the EO. 'Trust me that fluency in Spanish does not stall the pursuit of happiness.' Except now it does. It’s harder to pursue happiness with ICE in pursuit."

"Making language grounds for official suspicion is a particularly insidious suppression of speech, bc it makes you question not just your ideas but your means of expressing them. Everything else about you is stripped away; you are a person who speaks Spanish, and that is all anyone needs to know"

does ”red” modify “hot chili peppers” or does “red hot” modify “chili peppers”?

i am at a crowded noisy pool, distracting myself by reading a story about a rogue secunit that is frequently in crowded noisy areas and distracts itself with its stories #MurderbotDiaries

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i feel like you don’t see a lot of commercials for car tires anymore

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watching Mitchell and Webb Are Not Helping and i feel like they might possibly have beef with the Channel 4 lawyers

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Listening to the Murderbot soundtrack to entertain myself while doing mindless work feels fitting also "End Message" still brings up feelings about that scene with Gurathin and MB's final voiceover T.T

i would very amused to see the site traffic stats for milk.com for Aug. 27-Sept. 2 and Sept. 3-9 www.npr.org/2025/09/03/n...

Another really important story from the Climate Justice Fellows at @globalvoices.org. if you haven't spent any time thinking about the international trade in trash and what that says about global hierarchies, here's a place to start. And if you have, here's an update/case study.

YAY

i feel personally targeted by the Cadillac F1 driver announcement (also based on purely parasocial vibes i feel like Bottas and Reeves could be friends?)

it's not an "immigration crackdown" if they are 1) revoking legally granted visas for 2) temporary student residence. it's not a crackdown, it's a policy change; and it's not about immigration, it's about weakening the universities and education more generally and signaling white supremacy.

periodically reposting this, when it’s what i need that day

spoiler: they're the bad guys

The more Elon Musk speaks and clearly wants the world to marvel at how clever he is, the more realistic I find the Squid Game VIP actors' performances.

After years of activist pressure, lawsuits, and bad press Ring made much needed reforms. Now, they’re pivoting back to mass police surveillance as a business model.

Generative AI changes what things mean because it focuses on words, not the meaning. It adds words, changes meaning, and makes "plain language" that is not accessible. We know, because we tested it. Generative AI has no place in plain language. autisticadvocacy.org/2025/07/asan...

“Sometimes moments of fun can just be like a liftening of the burden for a short little moment. But hey, that is life, you know? That is how life works. You have fun, and then you have not so fun. You’re happy, and then you’re sad. That is the roller coaster that is life.” #ritehererightnow #ghost

Reader View in Firefox makes the internet so much easier to interact with

Today’s NYT Connections game brought back happy memories of Christmas 2024. Honestly, these coincidences mount up and up.

if you like motorsports, self-driving cars, or college students doing cool things, the Indy Autonomous Challenge is livestreaming from Laguna Seca right now www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tZ2...

you can tell who lives near where they grew up by whether they think the saying “if you don’t like the weather in ___, wait 15 minutes” is specific to their region

“trying to go viral by pretending that Chris Martin caught you and your paramour having an affair on the jumbotron at a coldplay concert” being a social media trend is a recession indicator

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I posted these back in May, but here they are for all the new people. #murderbot

i need Apple to put out Murderbot on disc so that i can make my co-workers watch it

FYI: The Murderbot sountrack by Amanda Jones is for sale on iTunes, etc, and includes the title track and the theme to Sanctuary Moon!

i don't understand why the #indycar live timing interfaces are different for the web and mobile versions

A really thoughtful essay on Murderbot: ‘Even If They Are My Favourite Human’: Murderbot Just Explained Boundaries countercurrents.org/2025/07/even...

I’ll give you one guess what’s winning the Hugo for Dramatic Presentation: Short Form next year #Murderbot #ThePerimeter

Remember tonight: reactormag.com/read-a-new-m...

there is a universe where The West Wing was famous for its jabberwalkies

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just watched I Saw The TV Glow for the first time and am now reading the wikipedia for it so good