This site needs a break. Post 3 good things, none of which are the cessation of a negative. 1. The silence after it snows 2. Warm, spicy broth 3. Laughing so hard it hurts

So anyway I guess this is what it feels like to be one of the tiny humans running through the streets while the giant supervillain monsters are fighting by throwing passengers trains and apartment buildings at each other

Cc: @shaheen.senate.gov @hassan.senate.gov @goodlander.house.gov @repchrispappas.bsky.social

The people of Minnesota did that. Not Schumer and Jeffries, not Walz and Frey, not the standard-bearers of decorum. The People.

Thinking of a few Malcolm x speeches as they tell people getting kidnapped in the streets by masked thugs to ‘remain calm’

Merlin rocks. Could not issue a stronger “check it out”

I was in too much haste, and now have no time left.

"the wealthy and powerful appear not as master operators but as bumbling sycophants, eager to cozy up to influence no matter how villainous or depraved" PS read those emails and tell me you would pay that person hundreds of millions of dollars for investment advice

No it’s important to listen to this. Because then you understand that many of them will do ANYTHING to keep power. Remember Musk got involved in the 2024 election after saying to Tucker “if she wins” I am definitely going to prison. So we need to move knowing that nothing is off the table for them.

thank you comrade cuomo for giving unprecedented validity to 3rd party candidates in contentious races

We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.

"Data manipulation by the US Gov...makes crucial datasets untrustworthy and unusable. If the US Government secretly changes datasets for political reasons, researchers relying on the data might erroneously recommend ineffective or counterproductive interventions." www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Gonna write some brief troll mitigation tips for you all because like any successful, happy woman on the internet, i’ve had ‘em Tips break down into two main areas: 1. Defensive tactics: how not to make it easy for them 2. Offensive tactics: fuck ‘em up 🧵:

I went to a friend's sleepover birthday party and he had Myst and it freaked all of us out a little bit but it freaked this one kid out way more than the rest of us. His mom picked him up early and when we woke up to find him gone we were convinced that Myst had "got him"

Some people are still super mad that they didn’t get to orchestrate a mass infection event. Because that is the only possible lens through which the covid vaccines could be seen as a failure.

My hill: kids are naturally creative and artistic. You give kids paper and something to draw with and you will get the wildest shit ever created. It's an actual tragedy & horrifically anti-human to be shoving AI on them and encouraging them to stunt that essential part of themselves.

the fear of negative space these people have is so incredible. the fear of breathing, the fear of thinking for a single second. everything must be filled in, everything must be certain. oh they love fascism bc it tells them what to think at all times!

if the band comes out with these, you're gonna die in the mosh pit

Gazans are starving anntelnaes.substack.com/p/gazans-are... (And a reminder since there will be people who try to change the narrative of this cartoon: Criticizing the Israeli government and its policies is not antisemitic)

Hi, I worked at USAID. 👋 Airdrops are universally acknowledged as probably the worst and least efficient way to get aid to people. You airdrop when you a) want to want to so something but can’t, or b) you don’t want to do anything but want to look like you are.

Imagine your cat giving a Cribs style tour of their various perch spots and claimed boxes

i genuinely dont know what other industry has failed as speculatively as journalism has failed at meeting this moment we are talking about whether zohran is going to do a sharia law while gop has been trying to pass a bill to strip medicaid to pay for concentration camps like

Constitutional calvinball

Yup. And part of the freakout is that — unlike Cuomo — Mamdani is not Netanyahu’s lawyer. Moreover, Mamdani may actually hold Netanyahu to the standards of international law and treat him as a war criminal, which is how he should be treated.

Today, the people beat dirty money

Open some peaches

This is a fucking outrage.

God my absolute heart is with the people of Iran, who’ve fought so steadfastly for their own liberation, and are getting fucked half a dozen ways by a whole pantheon of geriatric war criminals while being told they should be grateful for it

You can't begin to imagine the brutality of the conflict between the pointy-hatted and crumple-hatted gnomes. Gardens soaked in entrails. Trench warfare out of flower beds

Just a reminder that generative AI is theft of labor and intellectual property, uses vast amounts of energy/ water, provides at best mediocre results (if not outright lies or misinformation), actually affects your ability to think over time (mind duh), and is in general a really fucking bad idea.

live from the huge spontaneous anti-ICE protest after the agency used military-style tactics during a series of raids in Los Angeles today.

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Vermont State Sen. Becca White, D-Windsor, a friend of Mohsen Mahdawi, was with him Monday morning when friends quizzed him on the Constitution. He went into the 11 a.m. appointment with his lawyer and a friend. Around noon, she got a text from someone inside saying Mahdawi was put in handcuffs.

He could not force himself to understand how banks functioned and so forth, because all the operations of capitalism were as meaningless to him as the rites of a primitive religion, as barbaric, as elaborate, and as unnecessary.

with apologies to @xkcd.com

Here's a cool thing: This is a graph of women in computing over time. Look what happened in 1982.

elon musk can eat shit 🫶🏻

I will continue to wield my millennial full stop and lol like cursed artifacts.

Some days I wake up and choose violence. Some days I wake up, lick the yogurt lid clean, and go back to bed.

Let’s also remember that the Treasonous Ten also just fucked over the city of Washington DC’s budget

I voted for two of these traitors. I feel like I’m going to vomit.

Well at least the moon’s full

I just called my (useless, cowardly) senators and you should too: (202) 224-3121

Somehow missed this 2022 UK paper exploring responses to radical right parties (RRP) and whether accommodation - i.e. "beat" them by repeating a version of their tale actually worked electorally. Short version: Nope. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Zelenskyy showed more courage and intestinal fortitude today than the entire Republican Party since 2016. It's shocking to see someone refuse to bend the knee and become a supplicant.