haven't tapped the sign in a while: "support billionaire-free, worker-owned, independent media" when and how you are able

Fluffy gray tabby on a window seat, lying sleepily on his side and resting his lone rear foot delicately upon the seat’s wire support.

anyway good night

Got exactly one citation and ignored by several major pubs covering the official Microsoft post here, looking forward to Thursday when they get to do it again when token-based billing is announced ❤️

Still thinking about this from yesterday: “We just assumed the ex-MI6 spook would work out a full policy platform and strategy for deployment without consulting anyone”

Well it finally happened.

I got Bluesky'd.

The people who use AI on Github are losing their entire minds, swearing they'll all just move to Claude without realizing that's just going to force Anthropic to increase costs even faster.

None of them seem to comprehend that this shit doesn't scale.

"Look, the machine said we need to spend $50 million dollars on Bobson Dugnutt, so get me Bobson Dugnutt goddammit!"

I'd say it's pretty stupid to antagonize someone who will likely be in charge of Congressional investigations by this time next year, but who are we kidding? If Jeffries is Speaker of the House, he'll be easily cowed.

PUT IT BACK

As a matter of principle, you can either have a dinner that celebrates the First Amendment or you can have a dinner that features Donald Trump. You can’t have both because the president holds the freedom of the press in contempt. www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump...

They not only won’t cancel; they’ve handed the entire event over to the fascists.

Stephen Miller and Pete Hegseth are sitting at CBS’ table.

FCC’s Brendan Carr has actually been invited, while he’s trying to take away press freedoms.

The geopolitical equivalent of having shat your pants 10 feet away from the bathroom, & deciding that simply standing still & continuing to shit will produce a new & splendid solution to your predicament.

die

At some point, there needs to be an investigation into the construction costs of the bunker, and if gets that far, his stupid fucking arch, because if Trump hasn't tried to get kickbacks on it, I'll be genuinely surprised.

Every accusation of Trump's is a confession.

Tasneem's youngest daughter, Alma.

Reuters: "Israeli strikes kill five in Gaza. The deaths were the latest violence to overshadow the U.S.-brokered ceasefire deal."

Life is treacherous for the thousands of displaced Gazans.

Please give to my friend Tasneem. No amount is too small. And give to others. 🙏

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Sherlock Holmes Is Finally Free To Be Gay I recently watched the utterly ridonkulous TV show Young Sherlock, which takes some delightfully strange liberties with the character of Sherlock Holmes....

As of 2023, Sherlock Holmes is finally in the public domain in the United States -- which means that Arthur Conan Doyle's heirs and random other rights-holders can no longer insist that the character be free of any trace of homoeroticism.

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We need a labeler here that lets everyone know.

ACTUALLY WENT TO THE 2026 WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENTS DINNER

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Iran going after Bsky is a genuinely funny waste of resources.

and by "neutral" and "objective" we of course mean corporatist and right wing

He has merely gotten 98.5% of what he wanted, it's been a divided court all along

Trump absolutely will not extend the cease fire unless he extends the cease fire.

They're saying it's the most unbiased poll question ever. echeloninsights.com/insights/apr...

Trump Encourages Companies Not to Seek Tariff Refunds (Bloomberg) -- President Donald Trump said he’d remember companies that decline to seek refunds on duties paid after the Supreme Court struck down a large swath of his tariffs. Most Read from Bloomber...

But why is that a problem?

I thought the other countries were paying for the tariffs.

Man, this is a real head-scratcher.

Soup without a texture

Damn soup has no texture

God what a rag. And on Substack no less.

We give up the for-profit insurance industry as it exists, that's what we give up you fucking dingus, you dipshit of dipshits, you utter tumor.

I'm reminded of that article today saying they can't find anyone competent in the DOJ to prosecute people and that regular defense lawyers are bouncing them around the block like they got "Spaulding" branded on their asses.

Did Kash Patel read his own lawsuit?

When asked why he was locked out of his computer — as The Atlantic reported and Patel *admitted* in his lawsuit — Patel denied it happened: "I was never locked out of my systems," he just claimed.

What his lawsuit says: buff.ly/JTRuZKf

A tweet that reads "TUCKER CARLSON: "I'II be tormented for a long time by the fact that I played a role in getting Donald Trump elected. And want to say that lm sorry for misleading people.'" This is a very humble and honest statement. Big respect to Tucker."

Fuck off, Tucker.