Speaking of AI being jammed into everything whether we want it or not, this just appeared out of nowhere on my car’s infotainment system…

DOJ: May we break the law please? Court 1: No. [... later ...] DOJ: May we break the law *now*? Court 10: No.

hey so if you hate how Fandom wikis are bloated resource hogs i just learned you can go to "antifandom.com/whatever" and it loads a clean, ad and video-free proxy of the page

WhatsApp continues to remain miles behind Signal. Film at 11:00.

Periodic reminder that if you don't test your backups, you don't have backups. Today I was grateful that I test my backups, because hoo boy did I sure need my backups.

Discourse on trans people has forever been mired in "we can always tell", in the idea that transition doesn't work and hormones do nothing even as they deny us transition and hormones, and I simply must impress on y'all that I look like a woman in a three-piece suit and no makeup because E works.

The UN (yes, the UN) put out a graphic in support of trans women that depicted us as... women. Feminine women. Much of Xitter was up in arms about that being "bad rep" (what) because you "couldn't tell". They'd just "drawn women and called them trans". And it's so revealing.

There are managers who serve their employees and there are managers who only show up when their reports have done something wrong to correct them. Be the first kind of manager.

saw a t-shirt this evening that really moved me

trans women are the best to ever do it

PSA to people on Instagram: people who don’t have Instagram can’t see your posts! They see a login prompt. That information about your business or your event? Literally inaccessible

The new racist double standard set up by Alito in the TPS ruling: if there’s any other motive in addition to the racism, the racism doesn’t count, but if the state wants to *prevent* discrimination against black people, that is racist and unconstitutional www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

@floregonian.com I already follow you, so would you instead convince me that you are human?

Does anyone make porn where roughly half a percent of the actors just happen to be trans, rather than pigeonholing trans people into a specialty fetishistic category?

Man, this nation of immigrants, composed of 99.1% people not solely native to the continent, sure does hate immigrants.

Alito, wearing an 'I hate immigrants' t-shirt: "It's not prejudicial, it's a policy objection"

this is a great illustration of one of the fundamental insights of democracy — that there is no such thing as "the people" and that majorities are elusive and ever shifting. no election, no decision, is final and treating an election as a final decision is profoundly undemocratic.

i’m getting mixed messages from this “DO BLOCK, NOT DRIVEWAY” sign

@lizdye.bsky.social seeing you on LegalEagle is literally the first thing that has made me smile today.

Scientific American is 180 years old. The most eminent science magazine for the general public. And today, sold off as scrap to stop the staff from unionizing. Many top editors I've worked with for a decade on several articles have been fired. What a disgrace @sciam.bsky.social

easiest way to leave earth

hmmmm 2. Verification data. As part of our measures to keep our services safe and secure we may ask you to verify your age or identity, and we've described what we collect and how.

exactly. horrible things are done away from the public eye, and the public gets to pretend they're not happening and plead ignorance. that shit isn't healthy for a society. maybe if we saw the consequences, we'd want a different approach. (non-violence / rehabilitation)

remember if you see someone shoplifting no you didn’t!

The West Wing - 1x11 - Lord John Marbury - Frame 2212 of 2616

Job alert!

Watching them work, here's what they did: spray a section, let it sit for hours to days, then spray the next one feathering over the cured edge. This lands FAR outside the 4-hour application overlap window (worse in hot humid weather). The seams never got a chemical weld in the first place. 4/

[Ken Burns sad violin plays] Dearest Kaitlynne, I regret that I must inform you that we remain in the pool for another six months. I pray that you and the children remain steadfast. Tell Braedyn and Kassidee I think of them every day as I toil away in the algae-laden muck. Yours forever, Dusstyn

it's because the major questions doctrine is a crock of shit

Piece by me this week - looking at the surging number of killings by police in the United States: www.economist.com/united-state...

NEW: Insane screwup inside Meta. The company exposed worker keystroke data that was being used to train AI — making it potentially accessible to anyone at the company. The data included personnel and performance info, private convos, full transcriptions…imagine your coworkers seeing all of that.

As NPS drains the Reflecting Pool for repairs, thunderstorms and strong rains work to replenish the water.

The White House is posting QAnon engagement bait and I'm sure nobody in the MSM will talk about it because Trump engaging with a cult that imagines all the evil in the world will be solved once ship all the liberals to GITMO is fine and dandy.

The best thing about the reflecting pool is how that man would not shut up about it for weeks. He used his pool guy! He had infographics made! He drove down the middle of it! Never in the history of anything has a punchline been set up so perfectly.

How do you do satire when

Blu Ray (2006) is now as old as SCSI (1986) was when Blu Ray came out.

The work of a master Artist titled “Sedimentary Elephant resting on granite block” By: Nature

The West Wing - 1x11 - Lord John Marbury - Frame 879 of 2616

Found a photo.

Man, if you thought you joined the military to “protect freedom” and end up beating the shit out of tourists at the pool, does it ever don on you we’re the bad guys or do you just keep kicking the shit out of Americans?

Shocked, shocked I tell ya www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

So funny flicking between Bluesky, where the main debate on my feed is "is it unfair to call Keir Starmer the worst prime minister ever?" and X, where discussion of the day is whether liberals should accept there are some good arguments for not letting women vote

Me: watches a YouTube video about a case I'm interested in. doesn't finish it. YouTube: I understand you now want to watch EVERY VIDEO everyone has EVER MADE about that model of SilverStone case! This will now be a quarter of all your suggested videos.

OK, time to find out if this case is secretly SSI-EEB compatible or not...

ITS GOING GREAT. maritime-executive.com/article/repo...

When this war started, almost no analyst predicted a moment when Moscow itself would start looking like a battlefield. For decades, Russia flexed and threatened the entire world. Now it's taking the kind of hit nobody has handed it in a very long time. Support link is in our Bio.

It's starting: bsky.app/profile/jben...

can't argue with this.

PACER collected more than $150 million in fees last year. That’s a drain on the public for viewing the work of our own public servants. The Open Courts Act is the right fix. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...