Timeline cleanse. Enjoy the loud purring.

So there is a story about the "top 10 cities at risk during nuclear war" circulating in various tabloids/etc. with my name attached to it, and I will say that a) I never have (nor would) make such a list at all, and b) I never said any of the quotes attributed to me in the article.

hey, remember when you guys had an ombudsman and took criticism seriously and with consideration instead of outrage that anyone would presume to question you?

I will never get the AIM open/close door sounds out of my head for as long as I live I got my bluesky invite from a friend I first met on IRC do not cite the deep magic to us

I don’t actually think you can blame the Iran war on the neocons, something I see a lot of people doing. The neocons wanted to do imperialist nation-building. This is just blowing shit up to post it on Instagram.

Thread.

Beats me how no one in Washington figured out that the logical move for anti-regime Iranians and dissident elements in the regime when faced with a military intervention led by a wildly unreliable US is to sit back and see what happens rather than go Leeroy Jenkins on day 1

There is literally no available off-ramp from this shit, we've fucked it up so badly. There is no end game that isn't disaster.

like, TACO is not possible ***EVEN IF*** trump decides to just completely turn tail and run because it also requires what's left of the iranian state to sign off and they do not want to do that, they want revenge bsky.app/profile/sky....

Anyways.

So, will Corey Lewandowski keep his portfolio as “Special Advisor” to the Secretary of Homeland Security?

If you look at the list of peptides, one of the peptides on that list (Melanotan II) is one where my husband treated someone in the ER who lost the ability to speak in words for half a day after injecting it.

I’ve been getting spam ads for these lately with no idea what they were—the ad is just photographs of bottles with alphanumeric gibberish that sounds like the “pop”’peptides identified in the linked article. MAHA is nothing but grift. All grift, all the time.

Just blocked a left antisemite follower posting about the “possibility” of false flag attacks by you know who in the US. This was a second offense and I had already warned them once in case they didn’t understand what they were doing.

I'm teaching about early 20th century eugenics today and was reminded that 9 years ago Republican Representative Steve King was stripped of his committee assignments by his GOP colleagues for this post that simply states what is now bog standard GOP policy/rhetoric on immigration and "civilization."

Human in the loop human in the loop human in the loop. For anything high consequence. Humans make mistakes too, but they do so differently. it’s the swiss cheese metaphor.

Trump puts Republicans in a terrible dilemma. The things the Admin is doing are *deeply* unpopular with the general electorate, but in poll after poll Republican voters remain enthralled to his cult of personality. So rather than publicly break with him, they dodge and avoid having to take a stand.

One woman who called the State Department helpline looking for help said they told her to "stop ranting and raving" and hung up on her. Another woman said they asked her how to spell Oman. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/04/t...

It's a crime to lie to Congress, which is why Kristi Noem refused to answer this question about whether she's schtupping her adviser Corey Lewandowski.

god i love how Russians use American cultural memes as well, if not better, than most Americans

😬

That's pure hubris. Chotiner is going to extract some dumb statement FAR better than the best waterboarder the CIA has. And you never know it until it's in print. If Chotiner called me and left a voicemail requesting an interview, I would change numbers and consider moving to Belize.

Both of much of the far-right and much of the far-left want you to turn on the Jewish community in this moment because of Netanyahu's disgusting actions. Don't give them what they want. These people suck and should be ignored. Focus on the illegality of this war and demand Congress put a stop to it.

Nudge nudge wink wink! Say no more!

If you think you are smart enough to avoid saying something dumb in an interview with Isaac Chotiner, you are not smart enough to avoid saying something dumb in an interview with Isaac Chotiner.

There are two prominent Democratic senate candidates in Maine. One of them has stood up to Trump’s campaign against trans people and the other has an overtly Nazi tattoo that he replaced with a more subtly Nazi tattoo.

Voters completely ignoring Trump's actual agenda: Lower prices plz Trump: Best I can do is fascism, ethnic cleansing, persecution of lgbt people, and a more wars run by fox news hosts who think war crimes and tv ready abs mean you don't have to worry about logistics bsky.app/profile/carl...

This is framed in terms of Dunkin because it’s the Boston Globe, but Starbucks is also a target. Middle America is NOT going to give up their Mocha Frappuccinos and Pumpkin Spice Lattes without a fight. Caffeine delivery systems are a bipartisan issue.

The idea that the US government is being controlled by Israel is an old antisemitic trope and it would be helpful if this administration wasn't trying to make it true

Current DHS rules require that Secretary *personally* approve every contract over $100,000, grinding normal contracting to a snail’s pace.

LLMs produce form but not function. They mimic human cultural output without understanding it. It’s pretty garbage. I have been baffled when I point out that a “photograph” is AI, not real, and many people respond that they like it anyway. People like slop. AI produces slop because humans like it.

“NYU Langone’s change in policy is self-imposed,” the letter states. “There has been no change in federal law to require the cessation of medically necessary transgender health care.”

Tish James to NYU Langone on cessation of gender affirming care: Stop obeying in advance. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

If they want me back they have to go fully Woke 2, sorry. Whole hog. I gotta be able to get an abortion there

"Great question, Croesus! While my status as a delphic model prevents me from elaborating further, I can affirm that by going to war with Persia you *will* destroy a mighty empire. Would you like me to write this up as a set of daily affirmations, or perhaps you'd like a list of mighty empires?"

Tillis, like Lisa Murkowski, Susan Collins, Rand Paul, & anyone else ostensibly still a "moderate" & "pro-democracy" GOP Senator, is welcome to caucus with the Democrats, giving them control of the Senate & actually fighting back against the authoritarianism, at any time. bsky.app/profile/mcop...

The best time for this speech would have been during her confirmation hearings. The second best time is now. The wheels are coming off the bus; better late than never.

I love this account almost as much as I love the lectern account for its single-minded devotion to one obscure topic. The benefit of the eel historian is I learn interesting things beyond the impulse to mentally say “lectern” almost every time I see the word podium.

The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:

This is a corollary to “every accusation is a confession”.

With a whiff of antisemitism waiting in the wings: when everything goes wrong, it’s because the puppet master Joos misled them and dragged them unwilling into this war.

Sometimes I am plagued by doubt: what happens if their policies turn out to work. What if they are right and our predictions of broad terrible consequences are wrong, or the broad terrible consequences happen slowly in the long term while the visible benefits are now.

Just to recap from my soda-straw perspective: My government started a war of choice that led to my home being bombarded by missiles and drones depleting our air defenses which they refuse to resupply while telling us to evacuate after our airspace was shut because their war put us in danger

I have killed the senior leadership candidates that were in Iran and which you were probably saving for post-regime change Forgive me they were irresistible so right there and so bombable

That’s gotta be a world record for rat departure from the ship.

She utterly murdered Elon; this time it’s Trump’s turn.

She's like an old samurai whose great battles are behind her but every once in a while she kills a man with piece of paper just to prove a point

Terrible news. I hope he makes a full recovery.

If ‘don’t drink that’ was a photo

The problem seems to be that the war planners (and I use the term “planners” loosely here) did not think adequately about what would happen if their target hit back and their jolly little war lasted more than a day or two.