Threads like this are why I love blsky

One of the most telling pics of the year ... so far.

Ah, the furries are cute. I don't indulge but I’m an amused ally so don't follow me, it will probably further fuck your algorithm.

That is snark worthy of a brit.

I get a good arty mix. Not as much archeology & history as I used to get in the bad place, alas, but it is slowly building. Maths & physics is sorely lacking.

The politics I consider just for info. I often hear issues here first & can then look up more. 🤷🏻

In February 1777, General George Washington ordered the first mass immunization campaign in American history by mandating that his troops be inoculated against smallpox. He protected the Continental Army from an epidemic that was deadlier than British forces.

249 years later, we have this idiot.

Stop President Trump's unconstitutional attacks on our elections Sign our petition now and join us in rejecting President Trump’s new executive order attacking mail-in voting.

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Signed and shared.

When I was a young teen my father got me into the stacks at Doe Library at UC Berkeley. I still remember it with awe.

So much was lost when kids were able to check books out of the library by ordering them up from their computer in the dorm instead of having to go into the stacks and encounter books they hadn’t planned on seeing

There is that.

I was just looking at ProWritingAid’s AI tools & thinking about how very hard I strive to not sound exactly like everyone else.

I'm in Berlin! Where the green man has a hat on and appears to be strolling along carrying an enormous phallus. Which is everything I hoped and imagined Berlin to be.

Ahead of midterms, Trump’s DOJ is targeting voting in three of the most pivotal swing-state counties "They're basically acknowledging they got nothing," one elections expert said. "It's going to be used for propaganda and PR. And DOJ's law enforcement powers aren't supposed to be used for propaganda ...

With the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) last week demanding 2024 election records from Wayne County, Michigan, the Trump administration is now aggressively targeting the voting process in perhaps the country’s three most pivotal voting jurisdictions. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

If you know anything about the smart glasses ICE is developing, text me via signal at 202-510-1268

I just read about “murdering to death” in an official gov publication, now this. Have we entered a post-literate age where no one knows what they mean & anything could mean, well, anything?

(Then I think of Trump’s blather & have to answer, yes, yes we have.)

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Much more important things going on here but when an official US gov communication includes the phrase “murdering his co-worker to death” we are in such deep trouble.

@morgansinkc.bsky.social

Idiot troll.

Gods I hate it how often these silly numpties are horse ppl. 😑

InfoWars Let me tell you a story. When I was a child, I suffered from night terrors. It was always the same dream: I could hear my family and neighbors wailing…

‘The InfoWars of old was only the prototype for the hell I know we can build together: A digital platform where, every day, visitors sacrifice themselves at altars of delusion and misery, their minds fully disintegrating on contact.’ 😂

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Exclusive: ICE Glasses Homeland Security is making “smart glasses” to collect intelligence on Americans

Here's what a senior homeland official told me about their development of ICE smart glasses: "It might be portrayed as seeking to identify illegal aliens...but the reality is that a push in this direction affects all Americans, particularly protesters."
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This.

Finite space is finite space.

Blame me on my grandfather having Stand on Zanzibar in his bookcase.

A dangerous game to be playing. If protestors cannot speak—even when defending themselves against those seeking to make it impossible for them to exist in public—what recourse do you think remains?

In a nutshell. 😊

Photograph of Smailholm Tower.

Back from 4 days of castle-bothering in Scotland’s west march (and a bit of the middle tbh). It was fab to spend time talking phasing, function and landscape, and to see old acquaintances. As an organiser, it was v tiring, but altogether great visits. Also got the chance to rustle up some new plans!

This. So fucking much this.

Excellent essay.

And the Dow was at 143
Not quite 50,000, and somehow people still survived

This war is so damn confusing. It’s why we shouldn’t let drunks and dementia patients run it.

SO IT'S JUST BEING REALISTIC TO SAY THAT MAGA WILL TRY, SOMEHOW, TO PREVENT VOTERS FROM HAVING THEIR SAY. WILL ICE TRY TO PREVENT BLUE DISTRICTS FROM VOTING? IF THAT FAILS, WILL THEY REJECT THE RESULTS, IN A MIDTERM VERSION OF JAN. 6? CALL ME ALARMIST, BUT REMEMBER: THE ALARMISTS HAVE BEEN RIGHT, AND THE PEOPLE TELLING US TO CALM DOWN HAVE BEEN WRONG, EVERY STEP OF THE WAY. NOBEL LAUREATE PAUL KRUGMAN

Cold will usually congeal, so yes. Cold & dry is best. Farm boy here. I can talk shit for hours.

Trump and the IRS are in talks to resolve his $10 billion lawsuit over leaked tax records — NBC News The president's lawsuit, filed this year, alleges that the IRS failed to take the necessary steps to prevent the unauthorized release of his tax documents.

If the President can’t be sued while he is President, why is he allowed to file a lawsuit during his Presidency when he appointed all the people in charge?
This should be paused until he isn’t the President anymore.
#ProudBlue#Voices4Victory
#OneV1
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I’m not really a child sort of person but this is adorable.

Revealed: The Explosive Secret Recording That Shows How Russia Tried To Funnel Millions To The “European Trump” A close aide to Italy's deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini held covert talks to pump Russian oil money to his far-right party. BuzzFeed News has the tape.

You don’t say

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