Young, humpback whale launching itself into the sky: #AGoodPlace

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Won my first Gameboy out of a claw machine for $3. One of the best days of my kid life.

“I can’t believe what you say because I see what you do.” — James Baldwin

Political newcomer Paige Loud running for Rep. Jared Golden's seat in US House share.google/f0uFrnxqmhI1...

She is an Indigenous social worker <30, running for Golden's (who just voted with GOP to give trump more iran war power) seat. He knew better than to run for reelection.

Alt text: a small eastern Asian woman with long hair pulled back in a pony tail sculpting three works: a large Asian building surrounded by clouds and detailed fencing, the second piece is an elephant with colorful paint on its body, floor to ceiling in height, and the last is an Asian castle wall

Xiao Qi. I love her art.

10 children were shot today in Shreveport, LA and 8 of them died. The police chief just doesn’t know how something like this could ever happen. But I think he knows exactly how something like this could happen and it has to do with the > 393 million guns in this country w/ very little regulation.

Texas Medical Board Sanctions Three Doctors for Delayed Care That Led to the Deaths of Two Pregnant Women The two women died during miscarriages. The state’s medical board has ruled that substandard care led to their deaths.

So doctors are screwed no matter what they do. Even if these doctors made mistakes (or were anti-choice?) the real culprit is the Texas abortion ban that makes doctors afraid to act. The Texas Medical Board is cementing the anti-choice myth that women's deaths are doctors' fault. No, it's the law.

Also being intentionally obtuse makes you seem like a petulant jackass, not a "data guy".

If you murder your significant other, it seems rather obvious it goes way beyond a breakup and that you go from being that SO to a murderer. It's simple, you don't need to play devil's advocate, we're full on devils.

Opening text of a thread by Palantir from X Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affirmative obligation to participate in the defense of the nation. 2. We must rebel against the tyranny of the apps. Is the iPhone our greatest creative if not crowning achievement as a civilization? The object has changed our lives, but it may also now be limiting and constraining our sense of the possible. 3. Free email is not enough. The decadence of a culture or civilization, and indeed its ruling class, will be forgiven only if that culture is capable of delivering economic growth and security for the public. 4. The limits of soft power, of soaring rhetoric alone, have been exposed. The ability of free and democratic societies to prevail requires something more than moral appeal. It requires hard power, and hard power in this century will be built on software.

Palantir put out a 22-point summary of their CEO's book The Technological Republic. It's pitched as a defence of the West, but if you read it through the VDA framework, verification, deliberation, accountability, what it's actually doing looks rather different.
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+ I.C.E. arresting/trafficking/detaining farm workers for looking Hispanic in the slightest

This isn't the purpose of alt text. Imagine you're blind and can only see text since your phone reads it to you.

Alt text is where you can describe an image for a reader: a black dog sleeping curled in a circle peacefully, looking to the left

The Obamas made the Democratic party wider and pushed it further left. There is more nuance than your black and white thinking.

Have you seen the arsenal that our government has that they have historically used against internal revolution?

There's a couple here in Texas wrapped in the American flag, someone pick me up, it's tacky here

I appreciate your optimism, I find it hard to muster lately.

This country continues to fail women, the legal system that is enforced by cops that also abuse women, is setting our society up for failure.

If you kill your wife, you don't get to be a husband anymore Some lessons from the media coverage of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer's murders.

My latest.

I’ve been watching the media coverage of the murders of Dr. Cerina Fairfax and Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer.

One way media can fight back against male violence:

If you kill your wife, you don’t get to be called a “husband” any more.

You’re her killer.

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Imagine an abolished supreme court replacement with a Parliament of reps replaced every 8-10 years by democratic election.

$3.45 million from AIPAC.

$3.45 million from #aipac

His website doesn't even accept messages from people outside of his zip code, even in the same state. Fucking coward

Congrats on being one of the measurably most evil Democrats on Capitol Hill this week. I hope the kids and generations who will die because of your racism haunt you in this life and the next

So that's a racist stereotype, maybe not the bar to measure things by. Instead I'd call them thieves, shills, empty suits.

What would this be equivalent of today? I know vintage red cheeks pikachu but I've never seen a holo like this

An apex predator

So why did they schedule that bullshit to begin with....

Veterans' trust in VA hits record high: A promising trend for our heroes - VA News Overall trust in VA has reached an all-time high, according to 82% of Veterans who used VA services in fiscal year 2026.

Today's fabricated bullshit numbers to skew trump in a positive light:
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Imagine being so unpopular and evil that you have to drop this amount of money and invent new forms of ratfucking so you can beat a 27-year-old who regularly wears a Snorlax onesie to bed.