I’m choosing me and my loved ones over Hickface McYokel who would put us in a death camp if given the chance, personally - call me crazy, call me selfish, but I no longer care.

Shoutout to this guy on the metro in a suit with an embassy lanyard, idol trading card and uma musume plushie clipped to his backpack. We gotta keep whimsy alive in this town. #WashingtonDC #metrolife

its time we listen to Real America and their complaints about living under the tyranny of the hill people

Local folks (and folks willing to travel)! I'm doing a signing at Multiverse here in Philly on 5/23! www.multiversephilly.com/events/jadzi...

the fascists have been lying, cheating and changing the rules to their benefit for years. turnabout isn't just fair play, it's the only way to maintain some semblance of a civil society.

I do think tech companies are underestimating the amount of - new account fatigue - new app fatigue - useless upgrade fatigue - terms of service fatigue

a while ago a friend of mine posted this Thrawn meme in my Discord server and I had to post it here, it's so damn funny lmao

He's a liar and a killer. I don't know what else to tell people, he's a rich eugenicist, he wants as many poor people as possible to die in the name of 'health.' He's a genuinely and uniquely malign figure in American life and his appointment was an act of violence

Finally finished Devil May Cry 5 and I can't believe this was actually how it ended. I thought this was just a meme.

The midterm gerrymandering war and the Iran war alike show Trump's inability to imagine that the people he's picking fights with have any agency, any ability to respond. He loves his "you don't have the cards" metaphor but he's amazingly terrible at actually thinking about whether they do.

we all know I have no life, so:

GREEK CAPTAIN OF A PANAMANIAN-FLAGGED MALAYSIAN OIL TANKER EN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA WITH IRAQI CRUDE: "So is the Strait open or not?" IRGC COMMANDER, REFRESHING TRUTH SOCIAL: "Look here man, I know just as much as you do, ok?"

Anyway, its been out of his hands since he murdered their high command and shattered their state. I wonder, grimly, what the civilian death toll of our aerial campaign was.

The next administration must make clear that any immigrant, refugee, or asylum seeker wrongly deported, exiled, or otherwise mistreated by this administration will be readmitted with an expedited path to citizenship. Send a plane to get them. We can't undo the damage. But we can do something.

So today on Gone Medieval I have that rare thing - a medievalist emergency - wherein I had to explain the Avignon Papacy because a lot of people know the phrase *cough* the Trump administration *cough* but they don't actually know what it means. Don't let it be you. open.spotify.com/episode/7bsa...

"[We] tried to mollify the restrictionists, but nothing was ever enough ... for immigration restrictionists. They wanted mass, indiscriminate deportations. They wanted to impose a specific demographic configuration by force. All justified by the ideological framework of 'border security.'"

Democrats getting more backlash for attempting redistricting in Virginia in response to completely unprecedented GOP powergrabs than Republicans have gotten for gerrymandering for decades is extremely grim shit ngl.

this but not only this — the wider ecosystem — public and private institutions, culture and society writ large, and dedicated individuals that all need each other to succeed

Strike another one for IR as a field burning itself to the ground

My dental hygienist and I were talking today about the sharp rise she's (anecdotally) seen in grinding/clenching over the last five or so years. Maybe that would be a telling metric to track, how many of us are cribbing like horses on a fencepost, alongside the economic numbers.

I think it would be shocking if the horrid combination of lingering Covid trauma, profound uncertainty over the economic impact of AI, and Trump threatening to ignite nuclear war on a dementia-addled whim WASN’T producing absolutely rancid vibes - even if economic indicators are technically decent.

I'm not one of those super early people (unless there's like an international premium lounge), but getting there two hours early instead of close to 1 has saved me from some many hassles (exception being like 0500 flights)

I was raised in a family of big tech employees and have been analyzing, working in, and reporting on tech since I was a teenager - and yes I do think the gleeful “we’re gonna take all your jobs, worms” rhetoric really did accelerate after 2019

investigate everyone involved in DOGE

I'm more optimistic about future SCOTUS expansion/jurisdiction stripping/etc., but: This is a good reminder that too many pundits view "rule of law" as a purely procedural commitment, so the substance of what executive defiance is over is largely irrelevant.

Spotted the @usc.edu campus bunny on my walk to class this morning. Then one of the facilities folks told me there are now baby bunnies (!!) on campus, too. Stay tuned. @darthbluesky.bsky.social

Yeah. "I disagree with the Court's legal analysis" is one thing, but "the Court isn't using legal analysis to decide cases" is another. The latter is no longer in the realm of law and should not be treated as if it is.

two related thoughts: i suspect that many tech companies get away with utterly ratshit, incompetent leadership because you've got a fat middle section of competence holding up the roof AI is an existential threat to that middle section of the workforce, and will lay bare a lot of incompetence

'if you don't support pig butchering scammers using Palestine to steal money from the gullible, you're pro-genocide' is the product of extreme brain cooking

Everything negative people say about Arby’s is something they should be saying about Wendy’s, it’s like this website and Threads

i'll take the bold (for bluesky) position that working for raytheon or northrup or whatever does not make you an irredeemable person, but palantir is very different because they are making karp's insane worldview the company's official public position, they're explicitly saying you believe this, too

it somehow always come around to "we have to sound more like conservatives" because conservatives are ofc the "ordinary/real people"

Every time a Democrat mentions how to talk to "ordinary people" they mean "how I was told to talk by a handful of weirdo consultants in DC with gross fixations on throwing certain groups under the bus and who would not last a day in an ordinary job interacting with ordinary people."

if i get even 5% more stressed out i'm finding one of these motherfuckers and jamming it in

This is a very very good tweet by Pope Leo.

In the last year many public servants have had their lives ruined. People who knew less than they did pushed them out of work they loved with no real plan. Many were defamed and "put in trauma." But that is not who Palantir is referring to. It views criticizing the tech bros as intolerable.

This is so incoherent that it only makes sense as a billionaires reactionary brain farts. Eg: public employees are not “priests” and are over compensated. Reality: they are underpaid and have been serially abused. Next point, people engaging in public life (read: DOGE, Palantir) deserve our grace.

Apropos of nothing, if the creator of something you cherished turns out to be a horrible person, the answer isn't to close your hearts for fear of disappointment, it's to love more. Love with abandon, because there's always new art to find, love so much as to always outweigh the disappointments. ❤️

the thing about our current moment is that yes, the anti-AI and anti-big tech people are getting very reactive nowadays - but have you seen what they’re *reacting* to?

I'm not joking when I say mRNA technology is more important than "AI" and it's a tragedy we're throwing billions into one while our government is aggressively defunding the other.

No it's very much the limits of hard power that have been exposed *this week*.

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This was shit we were fighting twenty years ago. More than that, actually.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded. “This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.” www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

The most majestic, scruffiest, and beloved dog in all of Washington DC, Freddie of Reiter’s Books!

I think you are on the right track. They need to be treated like a very, very different institution than they are. The mystique, the impunity, the secrecy, the self-governing—all need to change. I wish we could make them not wear robes. The key point: It’s a committee of lawyers. That’s all!

this reminds me, i don't think SCOTUS should be allowed to choose their own clerks. standardize the hiring schedule, put the applications in a pool, blind reads (perhaps by a panel of former clerks) and random assignments.

one day I would like some brave group to calculate which home broadcast spends the most time talking about Not Baseball