So NJ lawmakers wrote a bill to rein in ICE. And this is what they called it. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/21/n...

nothing will ever be twitter again idk what to tell the ppl writing about this stuff, it can't be twitter, bc we want better than twitter which ended up largely capitalizing on ragebait as a replacement for human interaction

this is immensely cool and I could not watch it bc my brain has an instinctive panic around anything that reminds me how small I am and how enormous the world/ocean is, video of blue whales terrifies me on an irrational level see also i can't do images of space

Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel. “The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”

Who doesn't double check this stuff? I am really grateful that I work in medicine and we just. Do that.

Okay, brain literally stopped working, so time to stop for the night: Progress: Day 4/8 (Exam due 2/19) - 35/48 problem completed, but still need checking and clean-up - macros created for set symbols in Excel and Word - not screaming

Computational Thinking Exam I is All Set Theory, All the Time. It's due in four days; we have eight days to finish it. That may be enough time, I honestly don't know anymore. Among my greatest moments: 1.) Had a crisis thinking I mixed up Absorption Law and Distributive Second Corollary

I keep saying lawyers are going into battle on the front lines every damn day and it matters, it matters so much. Here's a thread from one who never wanted to do immigration law but is doing it anyway under the worst circumstances.

We were coming up with perfectly good conspiracy theories why they shut down an airport for *10 days.* Then we all agreed it was probably going to be something stupid. We didn't know it was going to be "we popped a balloon with a giant laser so the furious FAA shut down air traffic" stupid. Wow.

If you’re mourning Dawson today, add that colonoscopy

have never seen popular public opinion shift so fast about a surveillance product than the fallout from ring's super bowl "search party" ad. they'll teach this in advertising courses one day. chef's kiss baby www.404media.co/with-ring-am...

SWALWELL: You said you wanted to see a deportation process that was 'like Amazon Prime but with human beings.' How many times has Amazon Prime shot a mom 3 times in the face? LYONS: None SWALWELL: How many times has Amazon Prime shot a nurse 10 times in the back? LYONS: None

Surely by now we should have an alternative that is private and not terrible?

Finished the double assignment this week for set theory, which I thought would be a nightmare but holy shit, why did no one tell me how much fun it is? THERE ARE LAWS. Which yeah, now that I've spent a week stockholming myself into loving this, I do remember a lot of this came up in Algebra. B

This will go swimmingly, I'm sure

Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month - all accounts set to "teen-appropriate experience" by default www.theverge.com/tech/875309/... discord.com/press-releas...

It is. The Jewish Musuem in Prague has a collection of children's drawings from the Terezin ghetto. It was the worst thing I've seen in my life.

The things people are offering up as "if you like Heated Rivalry," are all wild. If you liked Heated Rivalry, go to AO3's "pining while fucking" tag. You're welcome.

THIS. They’re in the South Metro now, hitting Carver County & Minneapolis suburbs HARD. NOTHING HAS CHANGED. They’re detaining observers because ICE & CBP believe the real problem is people filming them, not that ICE & CBP is committing domestic terror. Less footage = less national news coverage.

What a disgrace. ICE may have handed a suspect in the largest jewelry heist in American history a free pass by deporting him before he ever faced trial. This is the result of Stephen Miller’s chaos. Reckless mismanagement that undermines public safety and makes a mockery of the justice system.

From WIRED: How to Film Ice (an article) www.wired.com/story/how-to...

By the numbers….

GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

What an absolutely disgusting and disgraceful post by Trump. But this is who he has always been: racist to his core and rotten in his soul. Good people everywhere should stand up and reject this.

VA Gov. Spanberger (moderate, was in CIA) and NYC Mayor Mamdani (left, is in DSA) both taking steps to block local law enforcement from helping ICE as it violently violates people's rights is a good example of how the relevant divide in the Dem coalition isn't center-left, it's fight-don't fight.

From @acyn.bsky.social (posted on X) "Reporter: Do any of you have a favorite animal? Child: My favorite one is a gold snake that can move. It has gold eyes, and it has a super-duper tail… Reporter: Mr. Mamdani, the second question for you. Mamdani: Yes. It’s also the golden snake."

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

"These agents, and the president who sent them, are no one’s heroes, no one’s saviors—just men with guns who have to hide their faces to shoot a mom in the face, and a nurse in the back." -Adam Serwer, in The Atlantic

TRIGGER WARNING, because here is a US Marshal from Trump‘s Gestapo Force in Memphis kicking a puppy today in the Whitehaven neighborhood and breaking its rib. They were serving a warrant and I guess BIG MAN got scared of the schnauzer. (I didn’t take the video, the dog’s person did)

So far, the spring semester is kind of terrifying. Fine, whatever. However, I do have a few thoughts about my Computational Thinking class. All of them involve screaming into the void as my professor gleefully teaches us set theory, which is like math but without numbers or any sense of hope.

happening this morning in Minneapolis -- ICE agents drawing guns on observers. I reiterate again that it is only a matter of time before DHS kills more innocent people in Minnesota. Congress needs to shut this shit down right now.

Seen floating around the Internet:

12/10 would definitely start a war for her

An old one that can't get traction, for one of Wings's old friends. His little home needs to be modified to accommodate his wheelchair, and he needs to cover medical expenses, too: gofund.me/d53e0ff09

Finally, some wonderful AI news

When he finally croaks — after the celebrations wind down — they should dig him up and keep impeaching him like the Cadaver Synod

But Mikki you don't know that. Yes I do. Employees would have benefits in place already. Real Federal employees know how quick they turn those around when you're a direct hire. I've heard this song from contract employees many a time. And this is the same tune. Perfect for the criminals they chose

"I keep thinking that evil would like nothing better than to have us feel awful about who we are."

Thank you @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social for bringing Liam back to his friends and families. He endured more than any 5-year-old ever should. Now more than ever, we need to get ICE out of Minnesota.

If you're a US citizen, you'll be free to go after agents briefly break your windows, beat the shit out of you, and leave you lying concussed in the street

4 federal agents pull over an elderly US citizen for the suspected crime of being brown, break her car window, throw her to the ground, then drive off after they find her US Passport in her purse. The Salem Police, when called, say there’s nothing they can do. www.salemreporter.com/2026/01/31/u...

The Side-eye of Doom

Heads up - if you have a TikTok account the terms of service have just changed allowing the new MAGA owned branch to use your highly personal data as they see fit. You have to agree to the TOS to delete your account! 😳… But there’s a hack to avoid it! 👇🏻

Congratulations to Taylor Rehmet for flipping a blood red Trump +17 district solid BLUE!

let’s not forget: there is NO FUCKING REASON for them to be there. there was no crisis, no incident, no event. just a barely-literate youtuber making up racist shit about Somalis

Hell yeah, have hobbies.

Once again thinking about 1950s refrigerators They came in colors! You could *switch out* the colors yourself!Built-in rotating shelves, butter softening cupboards, and basically every organization item sold at the Container Store Why did we stray so far from the light 😔

Jfc