Anyone can be made a nomad. Anyone. At any moment.

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

Eric Adams, Citizen of the World, Becomes an Actual Citizen of Albania

What’s not to love about Albanian immunity?
www.nytimes.com/2026/04/10/n...

Trump: Cave or we kill you all.
Iran: no
Trump: Ok what if we give you everything you want and stop bombing you
Iran: um ok
Israel: shit, we better bomb Lebanon
Lebanon: wtf
Iran: wtf
Vance: nobody mentioned you
Pakistan: they were literally in the text
Trump: … I totally won
Iran: u ok?

It’s like being on a runaway train, heading for a disastrous collision, and being unable to get to the locomotive. And there are armed guards preventing anyone from trying to stop the wreck.

john waters at a No Kings rally in Provincetown

(not my pic, Peter Toto, x)

Underrated that the era of neoliberal globalism characterized by fierce defense of intellectual property as rents, patents, and copyrights gave way so quickly to a new paradigm marked by the blithe plunder of all human creativity for LLM training data.

FT Exclusive: Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting 'productive' talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling ft.trib.al/SVLeLoM

He’s just gonna grab Cuba by the pussy.

From the Point of View of a Cat This is my Man. I am not afraid of him. He is very strong, for he eats a great deal; he is an Eater of All Things. What are you eating? Give me some! He is not beautiful, for he has no fur. Not having enough saliva, he has to wash himself with water. He meows in a harsh voice and a great deal more than necessary. Sometimes in his sleep he purrs. Let me out! I don’t know how he has made himself Master; perhaps he has eaten something sublime. He keeps my rooms clean for me. In his paws he carries a sharp black claw and he scratches with it on white sheets of paper. That is the only game he plays. He sleeps at night instead of by day, he cannot see in the dark, he has no pleasures. He never thinks of blood, never dreams of hunting or fighting; he never sings songs of love. Often at night when I can hear mysterious and magic voices, when I can see that the darkness is all alive, he sits at the table with his head bent and goes on and on, scratching with his black claw on the white papers. Don’t imagine that I am at all interested in you. I am only listening to the soft whispering of your claw. Sometimes the whispering is silent, the poor dull head does not know how to go on playing, and then I am sorry for him and I meow softly in sweet and sharp discord. Then my Man picks me up and buries his hot face in my fur. At those times he divines for an instant a glimpse of a higher life, and he sighs with happiness and purrs something which can almost be understood. But don’t think that I am at all interested in you. You have warmed me, and now I will go out again and listen to the dark voices. Translated by Dora Round; revised by the editor. Originally published in Intimate Things, 1935.

A friend just sent me this perfect piece by Karel Čapek, trans. Dora Round, ‘From the Point of View of a Cat’.

Exclusive | Trump Sons Back New Drone Company Targeting Pentagon Sales Powerus says it plans to acquire Ukrainian drone technology to sell to the U.S. military.

Who benefits, you ask? 🧐

www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Brendan Loper. #NewYorkerCartoons

A tweet from Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs Mora Namdar telling people in 14 countries to "Depart now via commercial means due to serious safety risks." The list includes Bahrain, Iran, Iraq, Israel, Kuwait, Lebanon, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and UAE.

A flight radar map showing much of the Middle East has shut its airspace, including most countries on State's list.

State's current directions for Americans stranded in Trump's illegal war of choice, compared to the current FlightRadar map.

emptywheel.net/the-catastro...

Sarcasm emoji.

On commercial flights, bro. On the bright side, we can decisively bury the rational actor model.

Paging George Orwell…

Ugh. Maybe hard boil those Iranian eggs in case the power goes out later .

Do you have access to a bomb shelter?

An Unpopular, Doomed, Bloody War People will die and nothing will be accomplished

My thoughts

open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

How to Ensure You’ll Never Be a Chair Again (opinion/humor) Want out of the chair role? Lisa Chasan-Taber and Barry Braun offer 10 tips for failing (up).

Nailed it.
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...

Because it is The Regime of Cruelty

Are ski jumpers enhancing their penises to fly further? WADA is ready to investigate World sport's anti-doping body has vowed to look into the lurid claims that first surfaced in a German newspaper in January.

My favorite headline of the week.

Are ski jumpers enhancing their penises to fly further? WADA is ready to investigate www.nytimes.com/athletic/702...

🚨 Declassified FBI memo reveals Trump “compromised by Israel” and that Kushner was running a parallel State Department. Epstein and Dershowitz likely co-opted Mossad agents.

Plus more Russian interference and sketchy ties

www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

ICE Deportation Flights Are Getting Longer and Crueler A private equity-owned airline profits off Trump’s migrant crackdown.

Anyway, it’s oligarchs all the way down. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Who now are the guardians of liberty?

After today’s shooting, Minneapolis is filing a declaration to push for an immediate ruling on our temporary restraining order. We need swift action to protect our city.

And here’s an Omni jet landing in Equatorial Guinea yesterday. This is very likely a third-country removal to a torture prison, the second in a week and the third there overall.

Marco Rubio paid off their dictator using humanitarian funds.

It dawned on me today that what ICE is doing in MN is just a drawn out January 6th but the insurrectionists are handed a gun and paycheck by the executive this time

It’s the “Bored of Peace,” silly autocorrect .

Don’t give him any ideas, please.