I wonder who wanted Chair Powell to be investigated in the first place. It’s one of life’s great mysteries.

We’re about two months away from RFK Jr. launching a new initiative to distribute blankets contaminated with smallpox to public schools.

Qualified immunity is a scourge that must be driven into the depths of hell

Absolutely incredible. NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, who commanded Artemis II, took this footage from the far side of the Moon with his iPhone. Watch with sound on.

Used to be a Unix admin for a telco. The telco wiring closets all looked like the guy on the right (except tied with dental floss). The LAN and WAN closets, totally the guy on the left.

I hate Microsoft and never had any use for her husband, but Connie Ballmer? Wow.

Seems Google isn't the only company jamming AI down customers' throats www.theverge.com/news/909640/...

Missed this til now. My spinal injury was treated at a legacy hospital and paid for by BC. This news causes me some level of fear. www.kptv.com/2026/04/04/l...

/3 Me: FINE. Look. Could it be “Chunky”? Brain: I remember the wrapping being more red and it being more square and more sort of substantial like “wow that’s really big and square substantial” Me: I typed that it and the AI says you have dementia Brain: Oh so now it’s snide time is it

Child: I know your name. Mamdani. Obama: What’s his first name? Child: Mayor.

so we're now in "very funny" rather than "how horrible" territory, just to confirm?

I think is time to blow this scene, get everybody the stuff together.Okay 3, 2, 1 Let's Jam.

If you need a little microbiology in your fabrics you can find my radiolarians in the minouette Spoonflower shop in a few different colourways. I love their shapes! 🧪🐡 Radiolarians (or radiolaria) are a type of tiny creature -amoeboid protozoa - which produce mineral skeletons. 🧵

Tbf there’s no SSRI manufactured that can overcome waking every morning to realise yes, Trump is really President.

How the hell has the stock market not learned that Trump just lies?

I do not want to create an account or open a subscription I just want to buy a thing and never hear from you again why is this so hard.

It just never ends. The Trump administration has officially scheduled an auction for drilling rights in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Companies can bid for the right to drill in ANWR starting June 5.

wHeRe aRe aLL tHe sTuDeNt PrOtEsTeRs here, I found one; she's getting choked unconscious by Quakertown police chief Scott McElree

Baby elephant holds the caretakers hand while it falls asleep. 😴

Google's tightly limiting what you can do with your Android, so she installs GrapheneOS on her phone. It gets a "WOW" rating. 🤓 www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HEg...

Be the temporary & insignificant lump of organic material you wish to see in the world.

They're selling the McRib again?

Jane Ormes, contemporary UK printmaker based in Bristol #WomensArt

WARREN: I want to understand how slashing healthcare for families so Meta gets a $3b tax cut is a 'really good outcome for the American public' IRS CEO BISIGNANO: I don't see the two as correlated W: Those tax cuts were paid for by pushing people off their healthcare. Did you not follow that?

The Trump administration is facing serious pushback over its destruction of the U.S. Forest Service and the outdoor industry is answering the call.

Red fox

I keep saying this from a Minnesota perspective. SO MANY students protesting ICE. Risking their safety again and again and again.

We Need You: Our Privacy Cannot Afford a Clean Extension of Section 702.

Damn, Coinstar sucks. Went into store to see if they had da machine. Yup. Drug HEAVY jar of change in, touch the screen, and it switched to an out of order message. 🤬

😆 Not where I was trying to go, but *like* it. Think it's from the Friends episode where Janice came back to haunt Chandler?

As Colin Jost said last night on SNL: “no cards? They’re holding a strait.”

To punish Iran Trump is going to block the Strait of Hormuz that Iran has already blocked because he's pissed that he doesn't get a cut of the "extortion". Do I have that right?

Mother returns home after five months of unlawful detainment by ice. www.instagram.com/reel/DW9QSjC...

[Chorus] (Do you know where the power lies?) And who pulls the strings? (Do you know where the power lies?) I said it starts and ends with you

I'll bet there's someone on the rooftop with a rifle and scope!

he started sobbing when the Artemis II didn't have a spontaneous disassembly event on launch. genius, my ass.

Damn, had forgotten how much I love the Dead Presidents soundtrack... music.youtube.com/watch?v=xbRw...

Amazon goes after comparative shopping app using anti-hacker laws 😡 www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

"I can dream I'm Bugs Bunny, but when I wake up I'm Daffy Duck" - Chuck Jones (pretty good documentary) www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5xO...

Read more: Sources aren’t safe when surveillance is for sale freedom.press/issues/sourc...

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue. 🧵 (1/5) www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Record low levels of Antarctic sea ice is having grim consequences for penguins yet to grow waterproof feathers www.theguardian.com/environment/...

I know it’s tempting to compare ICE to the IRGC but please keep in mind that the IRGC seems to be competent

Hegseth said we’ve rendered Iran combat ineffective for years to come. Just today, Iran has launched attacks at UAE, Saudi Arabia, and Israel, damaging critical infrastructure (desalinization plants, oil pipelines, etc) Less than a week since they shot down an F-15 and an A-10.