I have a case right now where a child - a LITERAL CHILD - was segregated from the other children in their elementary school because the parents of the other children said they didn't feel safe around them. You know the ONLY reason given? Because this child was Muslim and 10/7 happened.

⚡️ Reuters: China secretly trained Russian soldiers who later fought in Ukraine. The Chinese military secretly trained about 200 Russian military personnel in China in late 2025, with some later returning to fight in Ukraine, Reuters reported on May 19.

If anyone needs me I'll be over on the YouTube commenting "AI slop" on all the feel good, fox news shorts

Artist: Philippe “Manchu” Bouchet #artsky #scifisky

One of the fun things about character limits is that it sometimes helps me type out my thoughts more succintly. I don't like writing strings upon strings on a thread, so I will condense my thoughts using technical writing tricks I've learned over the years.

Relevant

Halfway through the first day of this new 12 hour schedule and I gotta say, the first night has not been that bad. I'm sure tomorrow will feel longer. It's a 2-2-3 "Panama" style one, so at least I'll have a 3-day weekend every 2 weeks.

I’ve done an inexplicable thing.

No money for pediatric cancer research but there's $1.7 billion for people who beat cops and smeared feces on the walls of the US Capitol.

*seductively licks dripped queso off my shirt

Holy crap, it's so much easier to train a new lab tech when I only have to keep track of one of them. The other guy was like 99% trained up, but he was chatty as hell which made it harder to concentrate on the newer tech. Yes I'm very introverted, how could you tell?

I miss the days when we didn’t do anything on the production server until after it had been through the test server and meticulous people had poked at it to make sure it wouldn’t crash out like code produced by a nepo-intern.

During "infamous 'Peptide Fridays'... employees injected themselves with gray-market compounds during breakfast in the office"; but it was "scrapped for being too flip." If yr boss asks to you to inject unregulated substances into your body at work, you need a union. sfstandard.com/2026/05/17/h...

Raise your hand if this would cure you 🙋‍♀️ 🦇 Lesser long-tongued fruit bat

The Bidet Party would like to announce a proposal for $1,776 Trillion tax on big tech that will pay for free universal education and healthcare.

1 like = 1 vignette I'll write about a long forgotten place lost to time itself This is a new redux version of the old thread where I'll do the same thing as last time. The only caveat is I'm posting a GoFundMe under it. If you can chip in even a dollar I would appreciate it. gofund.me/8f5b4fcb9

Don't let anyone define you. Especially not those yahoos running the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.

Pick a Bond from the photos you already have on your phone.

Slightly diminish a book: A Series of Minor Inconveniences

If you're a writer, write "I waited" without saying it. "Seconds trickled into the gap between my last message and her reply, made puddles of minutes, then pooled up to hours, more, until I drowned in the days of silence, afraid to move, afraid to ask her again 'Can you estimate a delivery date?'."

this is such a great encapsulation of what the various factions of the reactionary right want. i might add that they envision themselves as slave masters and the rest of us, in one way or another, as their slaves. betterdonkey.substack.com/p/the-vra-wa...

Slightly diminish a book: Nineteen Thousand Nine Hundred and Ninety-Nine Leagues Under the Sea

Karma is coming for Orban and his thugs!🤞 #Hungary #Orban #Magyar

Aand my power's out, not sure why yet -.-

motherfuckers will really try to slot you into as many arbitrary little categories as possible so they know how to treat you, which they would have you believe is easier than just treating everyone as a human being

This is grotesque and deeply inhumane. Everyone in that court room should be fired and barred from public service for putting this woman through something like this. Fuck the carceral state and its penchant for abuse.

Look what you’re doing! Stop it!

Around the World With 80 Grogus

Any advice that starts with "you should do" is in my opinion, bad advice. Warn me about potential pitfalls, make recommendations, that's all fine. Don't tell me what to do or how to do it. I know what I'm capable of more than you do. Advise me, but don't tell me what to do.

Freedom of religion is important, but more important is freedom from religion.

ICE must be destroyed as an institution and concept

If I had my life to do over again I would make completely different mistakes.

The writing life.

One of my favorites, the spectacular Snowcap #hummingbird at @tapirvalley.bsky.social #CostaRica #birds #hummingbirds #nature

🔥🔥Tonight, strike UAVs carried out the largest attack on Moscow and the region since the beginning of the full-scale invasion. The Moscow refinery. The “Solnechnogorskaya” oil depot. Sheremetyevo Airport. Microelectronics plants. The war russia brought to Ukraine keeps finding its way back home.

I work near a coking plant (smelting coke for a nearby steel mill), and it often smells like burning coal when the wind is blowing a certain direction. I love steam locomotives, so this doesn't usually bother me unless the emissions are strong enough to trigger my asthma.

Seems fitting that Larry the Cat has been the only steady presence in British politics during this turbulent decade 🐱

Behold, the laburnum arch. At 55 metres long and more than 140 years old, the arch at Bodnant Garden is a spectacle to behold. If you want to see it for yourself, please pre-book to ensure you're able to visit.

The fact that some drones over Moscow can make these turns without being impeded speaks volumes. More than 300 drones were used for the operation against targets in Moscow, Russia, and they have likely overwhelmed in some areas the Russian air defense.

Margaret Minardi (American, b.1960) "Protector" Colored pencil #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

An extremely short horror story I wrote, set in the future.

Hannah Frank (British, 1908–2008) "Night Forms", 1932. Lithograph on Paper, 56 × 47 cm. Private Collection. #art #painting #artist #BlueSkyArt

This was a unique test. findmypolitics.com

My... MY BOOK!! #aegis

The “Save America Act” says that all states “shall” submit their voter registration lists to the DHS’s “SAVE” voter purge program, which has error rates as high as 14% & relies on data from SSA whose databases were mishandled by DOGE. I include this & other parts of the Act in my 8-point summary. 1/

In the process of doing this I accidentally Cask of Amontillado’d a Piplup

someone just tried to own me by implying i can't write cursive 😭😭 in 2026 😭😭😭😭

I have entirely too little to do at work tonight. Gonna go sketch some ideas for stylized lyric pages in my graph paper notebook.