It's a delightful book.

Make people afraid
as they work to survive, even thrive.
Not civilized yet.
#zentao

Of course, the women in question were also awful and incompetent, but that just means everybody needs to be fired. (Not that it will fix much, given that there are apparently more awful, incompetent people waiting in the wings.)

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

Archives & History — Unbreaking How the administration is breaking the government, and what that means for all of us.

In our most recent update, Archives & History has the latest on five lawsuits against the administration. Thanks to our case tags, you can create a filtered view to see just the entries specific to a single case, like this: unbreaking.org/issues/archi...

Here we assume greed,
prize scalability, don’t believe in
human/forest balance.
#zentao

dare to suck

We've had administrations where the Civil Rights Division took a less watchful eye to the rights of racial minorities or diverted its energies to address other issues, but this is the first administration in history to pervert it wholly into a tool to *hurt* the people its supposed to protect.

I am in Barcelona today to help unite progressive parties from around the world in a defense of democracy and a war against corruption. A first of its kind event. Necessary to beat back the forces of fascism.

It frustrates me every time I see someone describe possible things we haven’t been able to do yet as “impossible.” There’s lots of things that seem impossible until we do them.

Fill up daily lives
with tedious bullshit chores.
Not civilized yet.
#zentao

Man touching grass saying, 'I'm touching it. When does it kick in?'

The latest from Unbreaking. We did a lot in Data Security for this week.

Our cats nuzzle us,
bathe us, and attack us as if
we’re just larger cats.
#zentao

To be fair if I were Kash Patel I would also drink an enormous amount

My sweetheart and I took a Road Scholar trip to the Channel Islands and had a great time. I shared some of my impressions over at the Treehouse Writers blog. treehousewriters.com/wp53/2026/04...

My goal in life:
avoid all bureaucratic nightmares.
Worthy. Impossible.
#zentao

Very good excuse!

I assume you mean the TV show and not the movie, which aged badly.

“Gas prices? What gas prices?” better cities create choices. Via the Urban Truth Collecrive Image of people riding bikes in a protected bike-lane in Paris

“We could never do THAT in OUR city!” Leadership doesn’t make excuses. Via the Urban Truth Collective Image of people walking on a wonderful pedestrianized street in central Montreal

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Infrastructure that works.
People who can and will fix things.
Steps to civilization.
#zentao

Pixel Scroll 4/15/26 I Scrolled The Pixels And The Pixels Won (1) SFWA INFINITY AWARD. SFWA Honors Roger Zelazny with Infinity Award – complete details in the File 770 post. (2) COMPTON CROOK AWARD. Hayley Gelfuso is the winner of the 2026 Compton Crook Award…

Pixel Scroll 4/15/26 I Scrolled The Pixels And The Pixels Won
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Me either, but we should probably send something else to Clarkesworld so Neil can have a treat.

Way past time, but very good news.

Boy, they're really getting desperate to find ideas for this slop.

Bad day leads to bad sleep
leads to bad mood and attitude.
Not a great start.
#zentao

This is brilliant.

Court Reform Is the Only Real Exit from Today’s Political Hellscape Opinion: The problem starts and ends with Democrats' unwillingness to wield their power and money—whether they want to admit it or not.

Allow me to yell about court reform for a bit.

My latest:

This is why I like backpacks, fanny packs, and vests and pants with multiple pockets. I always want my hands free.

Sharing to remember to listen. Both of these folks do great work.