Eloise Jarvis McGraw Expanded Universe!

I don't have a chops, but can you imagine being able to successfully adapt a Dorothy Dunnett novel? You would go down in history. #dunnetsqueak

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

(A line from my forthcoming book): the most important thing to understand about tech futurism is when Musk, Altman and their peers are wrong about the future of technology, they don’t have to give the money back.

TRACERS (Tandem Reconnection and Cusp Electrodynamics Reconnaissance Satellites) Archives - NASA Science

Tracers studies the magnetosphere, link for anyone interested in learning more science.nasa.gov/blogs/tracers/

Man, you have two hours of meetings and the guillotine has fallen again...

LAPD Deployed Drones to Spy on No Kings Protest Flight records show that Los Angeles police dispatched drones 32 times over last month’s No Kings rally.

NEW: Flight data reveals that the LAPD's "Drone as First Responder" program—sold to the public as a public safety measure—is in fact being used to spy on anti-ICE/anti-Trump protests in Los Angeles.

theintercept.com/2026/04/20/l...

Awesome essay about egalitarianism and laundry

And you didn’t even get to the fact that he’s dumped the demolition debris from the East Wing on a public golf course in DC because he wants to seize the land and turn it into a luxury resort.

I have always considered myself a libertine. I had no problem with gambling. But the expansion of gambling into EVERY CONCEIVABLE CORNER of society is horrific. This is why I don't read ads for sports betting anymore.

people can't leave well enough alone. and this isn't just a gambling thing.

The media blackout of Jared Kushner’s historic, ongoing corruption scandal As Trump's son-in-law returns to Pakistan for more talks with Iran, major news outlets are largely ignoring an egregious conflict of interest.

What we already know about Jared Kushner is infinitely worse, from any possible angle, than anything we ever learned about Hunter Biden. And yet the media is completely ignoring it.

Open corruption is tolerated from one of the two parties. But only one.

The insider trading suspicions looming over Trump's presidency The BBC has found a pattern of spikes in trades ahead of public announcements by the US president.

You’ve seen this before but the BBC has put it all together.

www.bbc.com/news/article...

We’re defending Western Civilization by kicking Plato and Shakespeare out of university classes.

Beginning to think that the Trump presidential library, like TrumpCoin, or in an earlier era, his hotels, is just a useful front for processing bribes to the President.

Youtube comment: @ScotClose • 3 hours ago I'm disappointed that you blocked me on Bluesky for trying to bring some real skepticism to this topic after you strongly implied that Platner is a Nazi and ridiculed people for asking for evidence. If you're only a skeptic about topics you disagree with, are you really a skeptic? Reply 0 replies ^ Graham Platner is an Embarrassing Liar WE @RebeccaWatson • O seconds ago I'm not shocked that a man who openly defends an obvious liar with a Nazi tattoo is also apoplectic that the woman he was yelling at opted out of a conversation with him. This is psychotic behavior and you should see a therapist.

PSA: never in the history of humanity has a woman cut a man out of her life for being insane and then changed her opinion of him after he found other methods to contact her.

Cadaver Synod - Wikipedia

The People, they yearn for a second Cadaver Synod.

some of the comments think it's AI.

Gotta say, hares are fast but I would have thought the dogs would get tired...

Man I remember that. We are old, hon! Sigh.

Gonna spend the next two years spamming every elected Dem about the concept of "damnatio memoriae." Chisel his name off every inscription. Build over the various Trump Towers like they're Nero's Golden House. Remove him from physical memory, not to forget but as a sign of disrespect to the man.

Change is horrifying for them, and they will confabulate to paper over the gaps in their memory or understanding, which can result in anger or paranoia. I had to learn to not take anything personally, and it was really hard

Making my blood boil: details on Trump's sweetheart deal to pay nearly $1 Billion to French Oil and Gas giant Total in order to get them to not build offshore wind off North Carolina. This money is coming from taxpayers and will increase bills for ratepayers. @heatmap.news @emilypont.bsky.social 1/

definitely. Why is corruption not the single most important issue for national Dems?

Before Iran, there was Covid: Trump falls apart in a crisis | Press Watch But journalists are still letting him write the headlines

Never forget this is the man who suggested you inject bleach. presswatchers.org/2026/03/befo...

::sigh::

... slowly, then all at once

Seriously if you're a reporter and have a chance to interview this man, ask him if he thinks his father -- an outspoken ally of MLK Sr who helped ease desegregation in Atlanta -- would be proud of him sidling up to a white nationalist.

like, this is a publicly traded company, in a more normal era, publishing this from what is effectively company letterhead would be grounds to remove karp from his position and publicly disavow him, instead, he's one of the most well paid CEOs in history

if you want a great example of why even America’s most right-wing bishops oppose deportations: the English language Mass community had like 10 kids for First Communion today. the Spanish language community had 60 and had to do a whole separate Mass. a lot of parishes would fold without immigrants

one thing i'm pretty certain of is that no one currently working in elected politics is prepared for the ways that our politics are going to change when hundreds of thousands of upper middle class, educated tech workers are getting laid off and rehired as contractors for ~60% of the pay

... I don't think he means what you mean by "public servants". He means SCOTUS judges and senior elected officials, not the staffers at the public utility commission or the woman who answers the phone at the IRS.