the Austin mass shooter was a Tesla employee who assaulted a coworker during a company-allowed prayer break late last year the company refused to give the victim her assailant's name so she could press charges, and he went on to become a mass shooter www.statesman.com/business/art...

move slow and repair things

things every single republican president of your lifetime has done - started a war in the middle east - completely destroyed the economy

This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea. newrepublic.com/post/207429/...

Virginia moves to forbid schools from teaching that Jan. 6 was peaceful www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: and when I became a man, I clung desperately to childish things, reviving them as a series of joyless sequels and reboots.

Art by Peter Elson (1947 – 1998). Another giant of British scifi book cover art

Markwayne Mullin has to be one of the worst Markwaynes out there

Oh you don't like an echo chamber? The thing Brian Wilson used to literally create Good Vibrations?

I'm not saying LLMs are completely useless, I'm saying they're irredeemably evil

Look, he obviously can't do everything his most vocal proponents claim, but for certain tasks Jean-Claude can be very useful

anti-trans Dems ate shit last night

Words "content" and "slop" have the same meaning.

Don DeLillo’s funniest novel is a 1980 hockey sex romp he won’t acknowledge:

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump: "Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

There's been a lot of debate within the Democratic establishment about what rhetoric to use via ICE. Well, an incumbent doesn't lose by 48 percentage points very often—and her vote on collaborating with ICE was the defining issue here.

I've been watching surf tournaments and it has vastly improved my mental health

India Habitat Centre - Eco Brutalism in New Delhi, India (1993) r/brutalism

Another striking and defiant piece by @erikhane.bsky.social writing from besieged Minneapolis. "I have come to believe something else too: we are the consequences. We, collectively, are the condition that makes their defeat inevitable." www.welcometohellworld.com/we-are-the-c...

The gear up scene from Commando but he's putting on the hotdog suit

The way that the original PCjr release of King's Quest (1984) draws and then 'paints in' each scene element in the same way that golf games and graphic text adventures often do due to technical limitations is very pleasing to watch.

For Sci-Fi Cutaway Saturday, Oliver Rennart's art for '2001: A Space Odyssey'

Trump administration officials acknowledged in closed-door briefings with congressional staff that there was no intelligence suggesting Iran planned to attack US forces first, two people familiar with the matter said reut.rs/46ybyTg

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“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

Happening now: a protest in Chicago's federal plaza is underway in response to US and Israeli strikes on Iran earlier today. Chicago Ald. Byron Sigcho Lopez just addressed the crowd, which I'd put at a couple hundred people strong. A lone counterprotestor is also posted up across the street.

The world is mostly full of good people who want to help each other and live reasonably comfortable, dignified lives. Unfortunately a vast majority of our ruling classes are evil parasites who want money and enjoy the suffering of children.

I think there's an even bigger problem than the fact that congress didn't get to endorse it first

There needs to be a general strike. Do whatever you have to do but do so with the knowledge that no matter how you slice it if you participate in the American economy you are powering the gears of global terrorism.

THEY MURDERED 60 KIDS IN AN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YOU FREAK

Community defense is different here. Scary. Lonely. There's (some) safety in numbers, and they're hard to come by in our red exurban and rural communities. We're standing up anyway. So, today's front page print headline seemed quite fitting: Emotion, defiance as ICE roams western WI FUCK ICE.

The world could be such a nice place if we allowed it. It's all so goddamn unnecessary. There's no need for any of it. It's so beautiful here. It should be so cool to be alive

Raiding schools in MN, bombing schools in Iran.

Well, I bet getting bombed by two of the most hated countries on earth will definitely help those protests topple the government

Big protest at the Lincoln Monument. Seven D.C. high schools walked out to come here.

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Capricious Forms by Vasily Kandinsky, 1937 https://botfrens.com/collections/212/contents/137201

NEW: The New York Times confirms my reporting that the DOJ is withholding several FBI interviews with a woman who accused Trump of sexually assaulting her as a child www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/u...

Subs open on March 1st! Hope ya'll are getting some BAD SCIENCE themed sf/h flash ready for us!

hi, grandma? can u come pick me up from my rap battle? it's over. no, i lost to a merry fellow; bright blue his jacket was, and his boots were yellow.

Good morning

BREAKING Former ICE agent: On my first day training new cadets, I received secretive orders to teach them to violate the Constitution by entering homes without a judicial warrant.

Breaking MS NOW: An ICE whistleblower is expected to testify at a congressional forum today that the agency is "lying to Congress and the American people" about its training of new recruits. Ryan Schwank was an ICE academy instructor for new recruits before he resigned earlier this month.

I'm told that the blade itself incites to deeds of violence

If I were a knight I'd have the coolest looking and least effective armor you've ever seen

I'd add that the broader fascination with it speaks to why some really want to be billionaires: what if, rather than the money, nobody ever told you no? And maybe a broader crisis of intersubjectivity: I am the only subject, or so I wish.