But one *doesn't* call the cops. One calls 911, and they *send* cops.

Republicans are acting like it’s a flex that Alan Dershowitz, Jeffrey Epstein’s former attorney, left the Democratic Party.

Good riddance to that creep!

Yet again I remind everyone (as Elizabeth does in her very next tweet) that "foreigners are corrupting our pure blood with weakness & disease" is Fascism 101. Not some variant, not some metaphorically similar thing, not some echo -- the thing itself.

look, do I think bliowa is super likely? no

but trump has worked overtime on "fuck farmers specifically" this term, so

If they can't blame Obama or Biden, they've got nothing. They can't defend Trump, so they point and attack some squirrels.

CathPulag's depiction of Gaia as a pregnant young woman, nude and looking innocently at the viewer, her hair green and flowery, the very world emerging from it.

Gaia, called Terra by the Romans, is the primordial being of Earth. Mother of all life in Greek myth, she could not abide the tyranny of her husband, the sky Ouranos, and plotted against him. #FairytaleTuesday

🖼: CathPulag

This is your regular reminder that Hobbes' "Leviathan," a 17th century treatise favoring absolute monarchy, at least makes the point that people consent to give up certain freedoms to protect their lives and property. Or in this case, dying of preventable disease.

The conservative intelligentsia is just wildly, cartoonistly racist, and the fact that this gets less elite pushback from the prestige media/commentariat than "woke" does is such a damning indictment of our whole society.

Kiss by Prince & The Revolution on Apple Music Song · 1986 · Duration 3:46

music.apple.com/us/album/kis...

#MusicChallenge
#IsmuasMonthOfMusic

Day 21 song with syncopation

Kiss
Prince

Congratulations! 📖🍾🥂

surely no army in military history has ever been laid low by disease, a famously uncommon problem among people living in enforced close quarters

One of my favorite things about images from the Martian rovers is seeing the lacing, tied by human hands, securing the wire bundles of a vehicle on another planet.

Musk scorned “shady” loopholes, yet offshore tax tricks likely saved Tesla hundreds of millions When Tesla released its annual report for U.S. regulators in January, the Texas-based automaker, led by the world’s richest man, reported a federal tax bill of zero dollars for 2025.

After more than $250 billion in revenue and billions more in subsidies, Tesla has never paid taxes... that's thanks in part to tactics like pretending $18b in profits came from places like Singapore and the Netherlands

www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

When I campaigned for Congress, I often talked about the quiet collusion of companies to suppress wage increases.

We need an overhaul of anti-trust laws and a DOJ that will actually enforce them.

Gelatinous Cube, obviously.

(The funny part is figuring out how to saddle it....)

What is the German word for when all three of these women cabinet secretaries absolutely deserved to get fired and yet pretty much all the men cabinet secretaries and FBI director drunks do too. And yet .... 🤔

Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):

NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2

two images of the human body's circulatory system. One of them with good cable management

The human circulatory system, before and after proper cable management.

Brass snail

Brass snail mesuring tape

The best thing ive ever found in a garadge sale, a snail that is also a mesuring tape

Every Cyberpunk author: In my book I invented the concept of the evil tech megacorp as a cautionary tale.

Palantir: At long last, we have created the evil tech megacorp from every classic cyberpunk novel.

Photo of Pedro Pascal wearing a dark grey blazer and loosely tied necktie, paired with short blue denim jorts. He is holding some cream coloured roses in one hand and the other is over his crotch where he has suggestively tucked his index finger into his fly. You’re welcome.

I might be misreading things but it feels like the timeline could use a picture of Pedro Pascal in little shorty jorts

Cryptids should always be so fabulous.

I will be more interested when they make this about prosthetics instead of robots. Show me robotics for humans, not robots in the place of humans doing human things, for the love of god

Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

Constantly reminded of this Ted Chiang passage on capitalism, technology and progress from the New Yorker whenever I see the tech “elite” snowflaking about criticism.

Remenber this incident the next time the so-called "liberal media" presents Dreher's opinions as reasonable and worthy of consideration. At best he is a fully propagandized useful idiot for authoritarians; at worst, he's a knowing collaborator and lies about it.

D.C. police sought to arrest Rep. Cory Mills after assault call, records show A woman called 911 to report that the Florida congressman had assaulted her, then recanted the story after appearing to talk to Mills, body-camera footage shows.

The MAGA way. WaPo documents how Rep Cory Mills (R-FL) used overt political influence, including calls to Pam Bondi and Ed Martin, to avoid being arrested and prosecuted after he physically brutally assaulted a woman in Washington, DC. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

PSA of the day

This nocturnal photograph by Toshimo1123 captures the primary approach to Hannya-ji Temple in Nara, Japan, beautifully defined by two parallel rows of glowing lanterns. The warm, soft light from the lanterns illuminates the gravel path and the surrounding floral borders, leading the eye toward the dark, imposing silhouette of the temple gate against the twilight sky. The composition emphasizes a sense of sacred transition, inviting the viewer into a space of quietude and spiritual reflection.

Approach illuminated by lantern, Hannya-Temple, Nara Japan. Photography by Toshomi1123 on Flickr

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit

Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here

Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse

Media and universities: AI is here to stay