What beautiful markings Yasmine had! She looks like she was a lovely kitty. I'm sorry for your loss.

<Looking at my bedside table> I know the feeling!

Thanks to everyone who nominated Rapport! And congrats to all the other nominees!

And congratulations to Paul Weitz, Chris Weitz, and Roseanne Liang for the nominations for Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form for Murderbot TV episodes “All Systems Red” and “The Perimeter”!!! Congrats to the whole Murderbot team!

And congrats to Lee Harris for nominations for Best Short Form and Long Form Editor. He’s my editor for all the Murderbot Diaries and for the Rising World series!!

Judgy

This bullshit artist also said recently that he’d vote for Trump again, rather than a Democrat. So did Megyn Kelly, Joe Rogan etc. Nobody should waste their time promoting this fantasy about a MAGA split.

La Femme à l'Éventail (Woman with Fan), 1913 #metzinger #jeanmetzinger

pink hyacinth blooms

Hyacinths

What a complete idiot

Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government In early 2025, Americans first learned about the takeover of the federal government by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE had been operating under a veil of secrecy, with l...

"WIRED’s stories were not only groundbreaking; they were singular."

HUGE congratulations to my @wired.com colleagues for this well-earned 2026 Hillman Prize for our coverage of DOGE! www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...

future generations will need a series of textbooks just to explainhow this dumb question became a litmus test because these fascists were so stupid and their leader so far up his own arsehole that they couldnt even just lie about what they thought to get into power

Warsh hearing so far has been kind of frustrating. No one has asked the questions that seem most relevant to me:
1) is Trump's criminal investigation into Powell appropriate?
2) what would you do if Trump threatened retribution against you if he didn't like your actions/Fed policy decisions?

Chris Wright insists that collapsing snow pack in Colorado is the result of "the path of the jet stream last year," not climate change

Illustrating once again the extent to which the Venezuela raid emboldened Trump to engage in further military adventurism.

This is already demonstrably incorrect. And Wright isn't even dead yet.

This is Jemma and Bean. Jemma likes to eat her cheese snacks. Bean prefers to eliminate hers. 13/10 for both (TT: bjkuhn)

A cardboard starter pot for plants 🤷

Dogs are also a dog's best pal.

💕🐶💖🐕🐾

#dogs #friendships #sweet

The infamous Steven Seagal episode of ‘Saturday Night Live’ aired on this day thirty-five years ago 📺 😬 👊🏼 #OTD

TRIVIA: Steven Seagal has often been described as the “Worst Host Ever” of SNL, due to his horrifying sketch ideas and inability to work with the cast and crew. 🖤

A poster that reads, “Believing a 12-year-old is mature enough to give birth to her rapist's baby, but needs parental approval to check out a book, is peak Republican.”

NATIONAL LIBRARY WEEK

Believing a 12-year-old is mature enough to give birth to her rapist's baby, but needs parental approval to check out a book, is peak Republican.

Tomorrow, I’ll post a reminder to the GOP about book bans and censorship :-)}

They can’t sleep without you… Emotional support human required.

this will sound incredibly silly to anyone under like 30, but it is so weird that the 70s and 90s are only 20 years apart

An incredibly depressing article

'The chances of you living 50 years are very small': Theoretical physicist explains why humanity likely won't survive to see all the forces unified Live Science spoke with Nobel prize-winning physicist David Gross, who recently received the $3 million Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, about the quest to unite all the forces and w...

More and more see it...

"why uniting the four fundamental forces is so challenging, and why he thinks the major barrier to a theory of quantum gravity isn't science but humanity's time left on Earth."

We are heading now straight for collapse!

Will Americans Keep Paying a ‘Tariff Tax’? - The American Prospect Companies are seeking refunds from the federal government following the Supreme Court ruling—but consumers may still be stuck with higher prices.

"“Yeah, we’re never seeing that money,” Cox said. “It’s messed up—and we won’t just be paying for it once,” he added, noting that corporations have now realized that many consumers will pay higher prices."

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[alt text] An image of a smiling Black woman who is wearing a black hat, glasses, and a dark coat with ruffled shirt. Words at the bottom read: 1930 - 2026 Dr. Gladys West, the mathematician who made GPS possible has died at age 95.[end alt]