This is art

I'm not getting in on the dragging because this is EXACTLY the kind of obsessive stuff rich people should be doing instead of trying to destroy the world.

This is funny and also I’m pretty sure Nikko D’Ambrosio has been held up for legal mockery before. But now with additional AI!

people on bsky only want one thing, and it goes choo choo

in a way, isn’t causing men to crash out before she’s even done anything just proof that Lupita is perfect for Helen of Troy

hmm how many years are we talking about here .... TWO (2) YEARS

The paperclip maximizer goes brrr.

Megatron, hunter of minnows, destroyer of food pellets, absolute drama queen, is 144 grams today. 42 days until she is released back to her native waters in the Chesapeake Bay.

From the brilliant @asherperlman.bsky.social Doesn't resonate with me at all, of course....

If a Croque Madame talked to another Croque Madame about anything other than a Croque Monsieur Would they have passed the Béchamel test?

The local fiber pushed out Internet _again,_ so I gave up and went with Comcast. I hate Comcast. The experience of signing up and having to go pick up my router (or pay $15 shipping) and talk to the tech about wonderful free streaming (a $24 value, funny how the internet costs $30 more) didn’t help.

I know everyone was bashing yoga as one intervention for PTSD yesterday but I will say at the military PTSD program that I went to, the trauma-informed yoga sessions were one of the most popular sessions for the majority of patients I attended with.

As part of Amazon killing my old kindle, I’m double-checking that everything I’ve paid for is in my calibre library. I have so far found one very old book that is simply titled, “Unavailable.” The author’s a romance author, so I briefly wondered if it was the actual title, but nope! Just gone.

Never forget:

One thing to consider when deciding on whether a claim is mis/disinfo or just wrong or whatever: Look for what’s missing, & consider why. Why didn’t Politico or McMorrow’s ppl talk to physicians? Voters? Prosecutors? Boards? Would it have been hard? (Lolno.) Would they have backed the claim? 👀

i know a lot of you are being asked to used LLMs at work at would prefer not to. if you’re in that camp (or are enjoying them!) i cannot recommend this skill enough. it forces you to slow down and answer questions about the code (what if we did X, how does Y work). github.com/drcathicks/l...

Democrats need to understand we’re already in a revolutionary moment. The American republic built in the 60s and 70s is being swept away by Republicans and the Supreme Court. It’s up to us to fight for a liberal democratic future. My latest: www.liberalcurrents.com/democrats-ne...

Perfect

eBikes International Spring 2026 Issue Launches Huge Annual Buyer’s Guide with 200 Models #ebikes #cargobikes tinyurl.com/y688t2ay

As a journalist, I am so very grateful for the volunteers helping HabeasDockets.org. Your work is so valuable! I've read so many petitions! Thank you (and it also hits my heart when I come across the handwritten ones)

Romancelandia!! The fancy historical romance boxed set campaign is now live. No one knew Kickstarter would become problematic when A&A set this up, but here we are are ... Here's the link. www.kickstarter.com/projects/ahp...

The good taxpayers of New York have given me a pair of Meta glasses because I am low vision disabled, and I seem to have used them more than a lot of people on here, so let me say a little about my experiences:

i love you grain weevil

I thought comparing this to a campaign from 80+ years ago was neat. I don’t have the expertise to say the article is right, but it’s laid out clearly and very interesting.

Ok this is true, but I also spent two days teaching Prem he could just push his way out of an unlatched door himself. (The downstairs bathroom door swings mostly shut, but doesn’t latch. Cloud just walked right out but Prem wouldn’t, and cried. Very Midvale School of the Gifted type smarts lol.)

The funniest part of playing training games with my cats is that they take turns. This morning it was fetch. Throw the felt mousie, and when they drop it on the bed next to me, they get a freeze-dried minnow. Then throw the mousie again.

Bad content drives out good. katedaviesdesigns.com/2026/04/29/k...

The White House and Wall Street are acting like the Iran war is going well. But they're wrong. Badly wrong. Trump isn't getting a deal. Iran has the upper hand. And It won't be too long before the economic problems are unignorable. My latest, in @ms.now, with comparison to the 1973 OPEC oil shock.

Explaining to my dog that just because he found his clicker and figured out how to click it, he does not get treats. Although what a smart boy.

Useful thread on why the paper has issues and does not support the claim at all.

NEW: We've spent 10 months tracking the outcomes in tens of thousands of lawsuits brought by ICE detainees amid an unprecedented detention push. It's not a cose call: judges have ruled more than 10,000 times against ICE, a 9-1 ratio. See the database: www.politico.com/news/2026/05...

Most people don't know who Vince Gironda is, but his ideas are being misquoted by weird dudes to make your life worse. Gironda is why all the MAGA people keep trying to get you to not take vaccines and drink raw milk.🤷🏿‍♂️ Some of his ideas were good, some wrong. He hated steroids and liked Black folk

i am begging you not to quote dunk the lame ass WaPo opinion podcast into doing numbers. let it die in darkness

Reposting this for the morning. It’s because of the attack on El-Sayed, an MD/MPH, calling himself a “physician.” He is. The attack is not just racist & wrong; it’s abjectly stupid pettifogging semantics that does more to center supposed Dem lack of substance than the stuff ppl claim for that.

After careful consideration, I just blocked McMorrow’s campaign. I’m not in MI and I don’t need that kind of racist poison in my environment.

So the screenshot going around kinda glues two sections of the US Counter-terrorism Strategy release together for dramatic effect but doesn’t make that clear. www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u... The actual closing paragraph:

Realizing now that someone apparently pastiche'd two separate parts of the document together for More Dramatic Effect and I can't help but tell the person who did that: Go Fuck Yourself.

Oops, I posted about politics which I basically never do so please have some Great Egret chicks as an apology #birds 🌿

enough. i’m tired of github actions. it’s time for github consequences

One thing to add to this 🧵: Democratic primary voters (which includes me fwiw) must start disciplining Democratic officials to the point where they're afraid to *not* use constitutional hardball to stop the fascists. As long as the milquetoast caucus keeps winning, they have no reason to change. 1/x

We should make Alfcatraz a thing.

I was fairly precise here. Telling your kids you want them to die is bad. Cultural opprobrium for behavior talking about parental regret _also helps prevent this extreme._ MANY things would have to change to make a safe space for expressing regret and I do not think this is the place to start.

four musclebound apex predators VS sassy potato RESULT: draw

Needing to win by 4 points nationally to get a bare majority in the House of Representatives due to partisan gerrymandering is (1) unfair, (2) a sign of America’s democratic backsliding, and importantly (3) doable.

This is interesting. It’s also making me think of a better framing for regulatory processes. (This is all me, for good or ill.) I talk about regs as “making the responsible party accountable for externalities” (laudatory). Now I think there’s a tension with the “one-way ratchet for action” (ohno).

“…they [AI] collapse judgment into answers too early in the learning curve. When that happens, junior lawyers stop thinking before they have learned how.” I really like this framing. I’m less convinced by the conclusion, which is that AI should be deployed better and act as a “mentor.”

Man, two all-timers in the space of a month. Nice job, New Yorker cartoon editors. The idea of this one is brilliant, but the execution is maybe even more so—getting the figure in the coffin to read both ways like it’s supposed to is something.

So when the writer says "The voters who already prioritize climate action are firmly in the Democratic camp and highly educated and affluent", he's just wrong. The voters who already prioritize climate action are multiracial working class. Not affluent. Not highly educated. Also, not stupid! /17

Big tech corporations have finally figured out who is to blame for their crappy products: science fiction writers.