The FCC just opened public comments on SpaceX's plan to launch a million satellites to do AI compute in space. Under the current proposal, an environmental review won't be required. Please consider submitting a public comment to oppose this damaging plan. darksky.org/news/two-sat...

Yes! The point of educating is to create lifelong learners. Dumbing it down doesn't help anyone. We need small necessary conflicts to create growth and our aversion to that, societally, creates a greater number of bigger problems down the line.

This is real hero shiiit. Bless his heart (laudatory).

NH state house passes "CHARLIE Act," which bans teaching, I kid you not, "critical consciousness" & "prohibited world-views," such as that queer people exist, or that slavery involved race, or, implicitly, that the Nazis murdered Jews based on identity. newhampshirebulletin.com/2026/02/19/h...

Who’s up for a 2nd premiere lol 😭 Tomorrow! Is Sheldon Autistic? youtu.be/W_Ay6Rf0uCs

As a PNW transplant of 19 years, I have to say that while we do have mystifying rain, we also have some angry winds. Sometimes umbrellas are good for buffeting strong misty wet rain, especially in Winter. Wanna smoke a J outside? Umbrella wind shield!

Final round of interviews: Suspiria.

Freyja has a perfect sitting kitty profile. She is just so CAT, and I loves her 😻.

The only LOTR show I really want is a low budget comedy series set in The Shire. Tonally, think Plebs. I want 22 episodes per season of hobbit comedic drama with the occasional Tom Bombadil appearance. Tommy Bomby is basically Q from Star Trek in this series. Hijinx will ensue!

Carrie Bradshaw: I would never do that! *Procedes to do exactly that.*

Imagine all the amazing things our government could do for the people if we seized the assets of every single person in the Epstein files 🤩. Free healthcare, daycare, college, homes for the homeless, and last but not least: reparations!!!

I made it through a whole 2.5 hours of work today with this gawdawful spica thumb & wrist brace on. It's only three weeks. I can do this 😭.

The recommendations landscape needs to go. It was useful w/ Spotify 15 years ago, but it's run its course. It's turned into an advertising racket. Like, I never heard of The Third Day & it came out 5 years ago! But you can bet your tits I know about copaganda I'd never watch in a million years.

Who was that little poop-stain incel streamer that made the broccoli head haircut popular a few years ago? I can't remember.

I need to know if anyone else is unable to watch music videos on youtube because there's no way to toggle tracks away from album art, anymore. My playlist of music VIDEOS has no videos. None. Driving me up the wall!

Is anyone else unable to find the toggle for video / album art / lyrics on Youtube? Like... It just disappeared?!?! I want to watch music videos. I made a playlist of music videos. Why is youtube only showing me album art?! There's an "ask AI" popup, but I'm missing core functionality!

Consider: If Elon hates himself, wouldn't a jury if his peers also need to hate him? Hating Elon is the baseline.

This is how we get The Thing.

How much you wanna bet that the cost of nothing will drop because capitalist businesses have zero incentive to not rip off everyone they can?

I will continue topping my bowls with shatter, and watching non-English media until morale improves. Now watching: The Empress & shoveling mac n' cheese down my gullet. Huge thanks to my kind & handsome husband for making me lunch. Comfort food & companionship makes everything a lot less terrible.

“I have this [unpopular] hot take: that post-Omicron variants are more dangerous than previous variants... I'm not talking about…acute respiratory failure. I'm talking about cumulative damage to your health. Because the more times you catch…Covid… the more hits you get—it's a hit to your system…”

“They keep telling us it's milder. Maybe in terms of acute disease…because it does have a weaker tropism for the lungs. So it doesn't attack the lungs as much as previous variants, but unfortunately it attacks the blood vessels just as much, and it attacks the brain maybe even more than before…”

🚨Must read/listen: “After COVID infection, the immune dysfunction usually…lasts a few months, & then it does begin to recover. But…people are often catching COVID more than once a year. And that would keep you in a permanent state of immune dysfunction…because you just keep adding infections…”

I saw that video! And it is wild watching everything in it come to pass within my lifetime. Must watch!

Counterpoint: Hoarding wealth is wrong in principle.

This spica wrist and thumb sprint is brutal. Gonna be posting less and watching more foreign (non-English) films to try and hold my attention, and keep me from using my right hand. Any recommendations? (I love bollywood!)

Goodest boi!

Strongly disagree. A key piece of information here is that we're talking about non-violent offenders charged with simple possession in Chicago. These are crimes without victims that can derail someone's life but, more importantly, they're also the exclusive result of Chicago's racist policing. 1/

Maybe if we hadn't sold out the vulnerable to COVID, we wouldn't be so far down this dark path. Just saying... As a disabled person who was thrown under the bus "for the economy." How's that economy treating y'all?

I don't know what it is about the 5pm-6pm hour, but I almost always want cheese during this time.

Read this sentence slowly: “Gov. Gavin Newsom, crypto executives and business leaders are ramping up efforts this week to stop the proposed wealth tax...” gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/u...

Thread 🧵: Food Assistance By State/Territory The document below lists previously established food assistance programs, searchable by state. Each state and territory is also listed alphabetically in the thread comments. Help will come and go, so pls use this thread to update info for your state:

It’s actually insane how judgmental people feel comfortable being towards someone they don’t know who posted something they barely read. People are just desperately scrolling until they finally find someone they can feel superior to, which is really sad.

emboldened by yesterday's miso soup triumph i am making fresh dashi

video essayists/artists/writers etc in Austin Texas hit me up or if you are not then, let me know which artsy/lefty creators are based in Austin.

Oh wow. Our college president keeps sending out threatening emails. They're couched in "we're a community" and "face reality" business speak, but I know a threat when I read one. So... Union negotiations must be going well.

1. Axolotl 2. Blaxolotl

PMC COVlD Report, Week of Feb 16, 2026 (U.S.) 14 states are still experiencing High/Very High COVlD levels amid a lingering 12th wave. Minnesota may be at an all-time high. THREAD 1 of 4 🧵

I randomly looked at houses for sale yesterday and I found my dream home. It's modest - about the same size as our current house, but with a better layout, and a GARAGE. Best of all: it's across the street from a community garden, and down the street from an ALPACA FARM 🤩.

Maybe one day I won't be so tired. Still, I'm just happy to be here ☺️!

I almost forgot what was best in life.

Eugenics and fascism have always gone hand in hand. Disabled people tried to warn you. AI chat bots have “suggested” suicide. Assisted dying policies are on the rise. SSA staff have been told to tell disability applicants that suicide is an option. It’s a cull.

It happened again. This time it's @dailykos.com who is publishing a plagiarized AI-generated slop version of my work, brazenly right down to the title, "A Field Guide to Japanese Yokai" which is lifted directly from my book "The Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: A Field Guide to Japanese Yokai."

Went to a wedding reception and spent pretty much all of it outside on the patio in the cold, but we got to see old friends and that was nice. Only 2 others were wearing masks inside. Sadly, that didn't include my friends who have long covid. It was crowded & stuffy inside. I hope they'll be OK.

Thank you. My lord. Too many rubes (or worse, people playing rube) ignoring this shit. It's no different than your "AI microwave" that for some reason needs to be attached to your wifi. Everything is selling/using your data and giving you zippo in return.

In my young adulthood I was so worried about not being able to grow roots because my family moved me around all the time. Now I'm 42 & I've been living in PDX for 19 years. I've been happily married for 10. As it turns out, I have staying power & people who love me. Happy Valentine's Day ❤️.

Hello everyone! I am working on something and could use your help. If you pay for Claude code, please type npx ccusage@latest into your terminal and send me a screenshot of your usage from the last month, along with your level of subscription ($20/100/200). I would be so grateful!

Where the heck do you get good spanikopita (to go) in PDX? I am dying for a huge ol' piece of that flaky spinache pastry. Phyllo! Spinache! Feta! What can go wrong?

I had a dream last night that I was building houses for homeless young adults. There wasn't any money or bureaucracy involved - it was like a video game. We found space nobody was using, cut down a tree from my home base, and used the wood to make cute little free houses in walkable neighborhoods.

OMG I just realized I haven't put on makeup in a LONG time and my wrist is bad. I hope I can still manage eyeliner later tonight. At least I am giving myself a few hours to get ready. I'm gonna need it!