As an "autism dad", I'd like to offer a hearty "fuck you and anyone that looks like you" to every dude on the screen.

Once fingerprinted, FBI's NCIC and NGI databases had permanent records for these students. This story proves that DHS is correlating their data with FBI data without analyzing it. For DHS, just being in NCIC is the context that establishes their desired pretext: you're a national security threat.

Just the federal government posting an official news release that bypasses the paywall of an American media outlet. (the "Guardian Bikes CEO Brian Riley" link goes to an archive.ph link of a @wsj.com article, I'm sure they're totally fine with that)

Feeding is, naturally, where the Panican's unique morphology truly comes into play. The wide, shallow pan acts much like a traditional pelican's scoop, trapping unsuspecting fish. But then... a subtle difference. [SFX: sizzling sound]

That's an inclusive group right there, blocking someone who explicitly gives away their whole fucking game.

And all those groups that are terrified of police, and yes, with good fucking reason? They can't "work with police", but those of us with the privilege of being cis while males sure as fuck can advocate for them during a protest, stand in front of them, and make it clear we're all non-violent.

It was the fashion at the time.

Pro tip for estimating crowd sizes: 1. determine the approximate square footage of space taken up by the crowd (using google earth’s measurement tools, for example) 2. is it packed? divide by 2.5 3. crowded but allowing for comfortable movement? divide by 5 instead 4. you have your answer

@seamus.bsky.social, I was listening to a podcast about Brian Morden, whose “Make a Wish Foundation” wish was to visit Bungie (part of MS by then). He described meeting a big guy in a lab coat who stomped on an Xbox prototype to prove its durability before playing a game together. Was that you?

Just want to point out that after the earthquake in Burma/Myanmar, Twitter is failing under the load of people trying to get news or residents trying to contact loved ones or support. Bluesky seems to be humming along.

Ratcliff just said China's growing foothold in Central America is dangerous because they were using, among other things, "direct aid." Yet we gave up the very same sort of "soft support" tool—USAID—that China continues to employ. Nobody in this administration is representing American interests.

MAR added MAR? Nobody using Signal needs to sign in with two accounts. That’s the first thing I’d be investigating.

Read every single executive order in the context of agency heads disclosing: • private data (whatever it is they have access to thanks to each EO) • to unknown domestic and foreign parties/entities • over an encrypted channel with self-destructing messages • without oversight • illegally

Only Congress can preempt state laws. The Elections Clause of the U.S. Constitution (Article I, Section 4), says that while states have the initial power to prescribe the "times, places and manner of holding elections," Congress has the power to "at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations".

This specifically suspends subsection (o) of 5 U.S.C. 552a (the Privacy Act of 1974), which (before this EO) forced agencies to enter into a written agreement that protects private information and provides oversight when sharing their data with another agency. Your private data is private no more.

Deja vu; this order doesn’t seem substantively different from the same one he ordered in January, 2021. (Previous memoranda: www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...)

Aside from the federal crimes committed by the administration while discussing a military operation on Signal, there's one staggering lack of OPSEC that struck me: Nobody verified participants' "safety numbers". That's how you ensure that you're talking to the person you *think* you're talking to.

@jeffreygoldberg.bsky.social (EIC for @theatlantic.com) and Shane Smith (who covers national security) were interviewed by Hannah Rosin for the Radio Atlantic podcast. You can listen to it on their YouTube channel, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Senator Warner is fresh out of fucks.

BUT HER GODDAMN MOTHERFUCKING EMAILS, AMIRITE FELLAS? > J G has left the group.

Jesus Jumping Christ. No, Pete, you definitely weren’t “clean” on operational security.

A true leader here: knowing when to step up, and knowing when to lift others higher.

Congrats @marcelias.bsky.social, you’ve arrived!

BREAKING: Just posted presidential action revokes security clearances: Antony Blinken, Jacob Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, Mark Zaid, Norman Eisen, Letitia James, Alvin Bragg, Andrew Weissmann, Hillary Clinton, Elizabeth Cheney, Kamala Harris, Adam Kinzinger, Fiona Hill, Alexander Vindman, and all Bidens.

Repost me, you cowards.

This is a terrifying development that will erode our democracy. I’ve been working on an article about this, and I’m going to accelerate it so I can release it today. Wholesale data sharing between agencies will be the end of privacy, national security, and for some, even liberty.

Repost me, you cowards.

PSA for iPhone users protesting or iPhone-using citizens transiting back from another country: hold the power button and either volume button for 3 seconds (you can do it in your pocket) before coming in contact with any authority. This temporarily disables FaceID, requiring a passcode to unlock.

I've had Jackie and Shadow's live stream going 24/7 somewhere in my house for days now. Feeling some emotions today, with one eaglet having likely perished, but the other two are eating well, and oddly, it helps me deal with my white-hot fury at the DINO 10.

They negotiated with terrorists. Literally everyone who's seen a handful of popular movies knows not to do that.

They flood the zone with executive orders? In the senate, flood the zone with amendments and force debate on them. Stymie all attempts at invoking cloture. Refuse ALL unanimous consent, even for the mundane. Boycott committee meetings to prevent report. Filibuster motions to proceed, AND the bill.

When Aaron Sorkin wrote, "If liberals are so fuckin' smart, how come they lose so goddamn always," this is why. Feckless, spineless, milquetoast, anachronistic legislators hoisting themselves by their own dotards, yet we're the ones left twisting in the wind.

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Schumer is trying to pull a fast one. If they get the GOP to agree to allow Dems to put up amendments, they'll vote to end cloture on the CR. Those amendments will be nothing but performative then; the GOP will easily defeat each one of them with a party line vote. NO CLOTURE, @schumer.senate.gov!

I'm about to give up on the tech job market and get my CDL. Sick of being ghosted, told (in couched language) that I'm too old, or haven't done enough with AI. I created some of the most popular custom GPTs, I know when NLP should be used, and I don't think you should throw an LLM at every problem.

Post a meme made by you...do gifs count? This one charted on both GIPHY and Tenor for a bit.

Totally normal times over at TikTok.

This man fuckin' gets it, and I'm proud he's my governor.

Same energy, Dems. You know the dog's body is just melting like that Nazi in "Raiders of the Lost Ark" in the last panel, right?

@algreen.house.gov was the only one on the floor making the "good trouble, necessary trouble" that John Lewis told us all was necessary to make change happen.

Anyone interested: I have copies of the original list of 443 properties that the GSA planned to sell, as well as the reduced set of 320 after they realized that FBI HQ was listed. gist.github.com/spdustin/08b...

Hakeem Jeffries says we shouldn't swing at every pitch, that we should pick and choose our battles. I say storm the mound, and fight *all* the battles. Be dirty rotten rules lawyers with parliamentary process. Call out fuckery by name. Loudly. And do not help the GOP do one single goddamn thing.

Hakeem Jeffries says we shouldn't swing at every pitch, that we should pick and choose our battles. I say storm the mound, and fight *all* the battles. Be dirty rotten rules lawyers with parliamentary process. Call out fuckery by name. Loudly. And do not help the GOP do one single goddamn thing.

Reported this Apple Maps issue while getting through switchboard for my daily @5calls.org

The Overton Window is gonna be sliding like a runaway train going downhill with no brakes.

Bye, Nazis. 46k+ tweets and something like 14 years later:

Broke 28 million users!

I threw together a free-tier (meaning it'll probably get swamped quickly) feed for English-language videos tagged with #TikTok: If it seems useful/used, I'll host it myself rather than using the free tier of BlueSkyFeedCreator.

Just to be clear, the second paragraph is a message from a company whose valuation surged to $300 billion directly appealing to Trump's vanity with a fawning display of gratitude for his Dear Leader benevolence.