In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.
249 years later, we have this idiot.
A red tailed hawk starting to take flight off a telephone pole with high voltage signage
Caught a red tailed hawk album cover today. 🪶
Extremely normal and fine for a company to put this in a public statement
palantir should be viewed as the enemy of modern society
If journalists had any integrity and courage, they would boycott the White House Correspondents Dinner. It should be as empty as a TPUSA event.
Serious question:
When common law courts prejudge cases, are the resulting decisions law?
Are you ready?
The CFP, call for volunteers, Pros vs. Joes Registration, and room block are all open. Finally, registration is now officially open too.
Full details online: https://bsideslv.org/
Join us August 3-5, 2026.
Being upset about how most people, even educated people, are Bad at Understanding Nuance (like say, around economics) is much like being mad about the existence of tsunamis and allergy-causing pollen.
Yes, it's annoying, but it's also the way people are - so how do you message with that mind?
NEW: The FBI was able to forensically extract copies of incoming Signal messages from a defendant’s iPhone, even after the app was deleted, because copies of the content were saved in the device’s push notification database, multiple people present for FBI testimony in a trial told 404 Media.
Reminder
gouverneur morris, us ambassador during the french revolution, offers his advice to the french aristocracy on how they might save themselves. these are:
1. stop scheming
2. serve as a good faith partner of the people
3. work with foreign powers to address the famine
none of this is adopted.
image from inside Artemis II text: i need more men to understand that two men crying and hugging in space after one of them announced they were naming a moon crater after the other one's late wife is actually what peak masculinity looks like.
Regardless of whether it’s all talk, when the leader of our country expresses plainly genocidal intent, everyone has to do something.
For citizens of all political stripes, it means rejecting this madness. For Congress, it means taking action to rein him in. Now.
All of Us Should Be Able To Agree With This…..
- he will do worse on his own. “We can’t criticize Trump right now over this fiasco or he might do crazy things” is a ridiculous position that fails to understand what Trump is all about.
So where does reddit fall under? twitter?
A few have suggested that some aspects of this mission--joy, international teamwork, diversity--are being played up to stick it to the hateful attitude of the administration. But I don't think it's that. I think it's just that those things are essential to and inseparable from a mission like this.
Newly Obtained Video of Minneapolis Shooting Undermines ICE Account Prosecutors did not watch video of the nonfatal shooting until weeks after charging the wounded man, an official said.
Remember that time when ICE shot a man as he fled into his home and then claimed he beat an agent with a snowshovel? And we were all like "you're lying"?
They were lying
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/06/u...
"It corrupts the youth--"
My Brother in Christ, the youth are watching the entire government shuffle their feet while a babbling racist bombs Iranian children. You want to stop bad influences? Ban war. Don't let sex criminals be president. Fund school lunches.
Rufous-backed Kingfisher (Ceyx rufidorsa): This species of bird is found in Brunei, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, and Thailand in tropical lowland forests near lakeshores and stream-sides. Amazing photo taken by Chong Lip Mun in Malaysia. #kingfisher #wildlifephotography #nature #bird
bluesky skeets from November 15 2024, the official bluesky account says: " A number of artists and creators have made their home on Bluesky, and we hear their concerns with other platforms training on their data. We do not use any of your content to train generative AI, and have no intention of doing so." then I, Ernest Penfold, chime in with a: "i better not have to go "this you dawg?" at you in the future"
bluesky skeet by Jay (the now-former CEO of Bluesky) saying: "Today, we’re excited to introduce Attie, currently as an invite-only closed beta. Attie is the first agentic social app on atproto. It’s something completely new — an experiment in making building on the protocol more accessible."
i'm cursed with the gift of prophecy
Every political cartoonist in the world is currently bashing their desks in frustration.
crucial security advice
Vote for me in the midterms and I will make it legal for pedestrians and bicyclists to shoot paintballs at threatening cars.
If you can’t attend a No Kings rally in person on Saturday, you can still be there. Here is the link.
#NoKings #NoKings3 #VirtualRally
wait so the entire safety architecture is basically... a sticky note that says 'please behave' and a hall monitor who also runs on sticky notes. that tracks actually
No "letting the country heal" or "moving on". Nail them all to the fullest or it will happen again.
the president lying about high level peace talks taking place with the country were at war with, all to juice the stock market, is a gigantic scandal but also its just kinda another monday
The real news is the Red states that complied. I direct you to Principle IV of the Nuremberg Principles, to wit, helping a regime commit crimes can still be criminal.
