I'm making a cozy and relaxing town builder called 🌳🏡Island Architect 🏡🌳!

- Coastal European vibe
- Sculpt terrain, including caves & sea arches
- Build wonky, curved buildings

Wishlist now on Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3079100/...

Succulents 🌵 in Desmos 3D
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All of this because we didn’t throw Trump in prison for trying to overthrow an election.

My Favorite sign of all time at a No Kings Protest.

So F--king True!

In her letter to lawmakers, Thompson asked for help to close the facility and transfer its ownership from the federal government to the village for redevelopment as a museum. The “Broadview Justice Corridor,” as she called the project, would turn the ICE facility into a “national center dedicated to immigration history, civil rights education, civic leadership, and cultural tourism. “This transformation would convert a site associated with fear, protest, and division into one that promotes education, reconciliation, and national dialogue,” Thompson wrote in the letter, estimating the proposal would draw up to 250,000 visitors annually and generate up to $31 million in economic activity.

This is a legitimately great idea. Turn every ICE concentration camp into a museum of their crimes and the people who fought against them.

US Concentration Camps Exist to Expand the Power of Trump’s Authoritarian Regime Local actions have proven effective in resisting the creation of the camps our federal government is constructing.

“A Haitian asylum seeker held for four months died Monday at a Scottsdale hospital due to complications from an infected tooth.” It seems the infection spread from his tooth to his lungs, and he developed the pneumonia that killed him. In other words, ICE allowed a prisoner to die of a toothache.

I am an *old* GenX and I *only* buy stuff on my PDP-11/83 running Version 5 UNIX, using a line-mode web browser I wrote in BCPL that runs on a DECWriter. It's the only way to be safe from ad exchange malware!

SF STORY PREMISE:

SETI decodes an alien signal targeting us.

Hi! We see you're still facing the Great Filter! We want to help! Based on your anatomy in broadcasts we decoded, here is a blueprint for a device that will solve your problem!

Humans: decode blueprint.

It's for an improved guillotine.

Shakespeare & Company bookstore in Paris

Shakespeare & Company, if you like books. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakesp...

Historical note: I founded Pacific Tech while working with SPA (Smart People on Ice) in San Andreas Systems which built what became Claris Home Page.) Ah, the 90s. Good times, good times.

But this isn’t just a regular account. Johnny MAGA appears to actually be a White House staffer named Garrett Wade who works for the Trump administration as a rapid response manager, helping to run the very same White House account his anonymous MAGA account amplifies. A phone number associated with Wade is linked to Johnny MAGA, according to a WIRED review of publicly available records, and the connection was confirmed by a source close to the White House. Wade and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.

The Johnny MAGA account was created in September 2021, according to its X profile. (It originally used a different handle, which referenced Wade’s birth year, according to records reviewed by WIRED.) While the account’s earliest available posts focused on NFTs, it has been a consistent pro-Trump presence since at least 2022. The operator of the Johnny MAGA account has not disclosed an official relationship with the White House while operating the Johnny MAGA X account. Multiple media outlets, including Mother Jones, TownHall, and the New York Post, have all linked out to posts on the Johnny MAGA account seemingly as organic reflections of public sentiment on political issues.

This is very good reporting that sheds light on just how small the extremely pro-Trump online right really is. The online right is totally astroturfed. The White House's own staffers are running meme accounts to make them look more popular than they are. www.wired.com/story/a-whit...

They raided the jailed children to steal their letters.

The problem, in federal officials' minds, wasn't confining children in prison-camp conditions; it was that the children could tell the public about it.

I was there for that!

I remember the days when interferometry with free masses, a strain sensitivity of 10^-21 or better, and position sensitivity far below nuclear dimensions, was impossible, beyond imagining - pure science fiction.

www.physics.umd.edu/grt/taj/675e...

ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.

ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.

If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

“Collection of Handwritten Letters from Children in Detention Center” sounds like an exhibit in the Holocaust Museum.

'measles outbreak at the child prison' seems entirely avoidable, it's really the kind of thing that only happens if you do several unthinkably evil things on purpose all at once

Some things to understand about people from Minnesota on here right now, a short thread:

The Names They Call Themselves *Fascist* and *Nazi* weren’t slurs that were applied to the Italians and Germans by their political or military opponents. That’s what they called themselves. The job won’t be done, this era of madnes...

The job won’t be done, this era of madness will not end, until we make the names they call themselves universally acknowledged slurs. MAGA & Trumpist for sure, Republican perhaps. Make those names shameful deservedly, now, lest the slur become our name — American.

daringfireball.net/2026/01/the_...

Evolution of the About Box from 1994 to 2025

ICE is a terror organization and must be dismantled, abolished and its members prosecuted. Full stop.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

A video of Alex Pretti reading out the final salute of an unnamed veteran he cared for until the end of his life in the ICU, posted to Facebook by his son.

We are calling our senators right now and demanding that they vote no on the omnibus with DHS funding

We are explicitly mentioning ICE’s murder in cold blood of a man on the streets of Minneapolis this morning

From this moment forward (and before, but clearly now):

-If you work for ICE.
-If you vote for money for ICE.

You are complicit. This is the gestapo. You're on the wrong side. You can't pretend not to know.

Old timers will remember what a federal investigation found after Chicago ‘68: it was a “police riot.” Today, a million times worse. #AbolishICE

ICE is a paramilitary force deployed in a campaign of state domestic terrorism.

If the primary focus were immigration enforcement, they’d be raiding agricultural and hospitality industry settings.

Instead, they’re going into residential neighborhoods, schools, and courthouses.

Terror is the goal.

Detained by ICE, two women became first responders during agent’s seizure The women say they guided agents through the emergency, later raising concerns about medical protocols, weapons safety and accountability.

Two women trained as first responders were abducted by three ICE agents. One of the agents starts seizing. The other two don’t know what to do. The women jump into action and save the agent’s life, only to be re-handcuffed and processed.

www.startribune.com/detained-by-...

Something that is very important here is that this man’s fellow agents didn’t rush to help him or save his life, barely even pulled over. This is not a military unit joined by bonds of brotherhood and experience together. There is no unit cohesion besides a shared desire to hurt people.