Dana DeRuyck

*wails of SoCal anguish*

Used the phrase “roiling boil” and someone corrected me and said “it’s rolling boil” and we went back and forth then looked it up and roiling boil is an older term for rolling boil and we both left the conversation dissatisfied and everything feels like that these days

Also me right now. I went all the way to ding-dang Iceland a few years back and only got to see a smidge of “oh yeah, I guess that is aurora!” type activity on one night. The envy I’m feeling toward the northern US is possibly what’s giving me heartburn.

Oooooh noted!!

I was back at 26 Federal Plaza today, where an ICE agent violently threw this bereft woman to the ground in front of her kids. She had not touched him. She did not pose any threat. She had to be taken to the hospital. (🎥: Elias Eliahu)

This is what unity looks like.

Lordddd, I got fleas in my bedroom carpet once after a very stupid incident 4 years ago, and I STILL shudder at the thought of Fleapocalypse…

oh, so you’re just posting my inner thoughts on this app? ok, fun trick

quote this with your reaction to gettin left behind during the rapture

*considers the newsboy caps I wore in the early 90s* Yup, checks out.

BREAKING: Federal agents in plain clothes and unmarked cars tried to snatch 1st graders from LA elementary schools—told staff they had “parental consent.”

They lied. When pressed, they HID THEIR IDS. DHS admits they sent them. This wasn’t a welfare check. It was a test run for a police state.

Every time they say “we can’t afford that,” remember: they could afford armored tanks, a dictators birthday parade, and enough tear gas to choke a city. They just don’t want you fed, safe, or alive.

full blown police riot in progress. never let them reframe this.

not sure there's a more embarrassing profession than ICE agent. Oh, you dress like a soldier to abduct sous chefs and throw flashbangs at protesters? Get a real job you loser

California National Guard troops in trucks arrive at the federal building at dawn

California National Guard troops have arrived at the federal detention center in downtown Los Angeles.

This is pure theater. It will never stop Angelenos from protesting ICE kidnappings occurring throughout the vast, 4,000-square mile area of Greater Los Angeles.

Just a reminder, it's only peaceful for as long as the police allow it to be. It is always the police who decide if a protest is going to be violent.

Greta Thunberg in a keffiyeh speaking aboard the FFC aid ship end route to Gaza

I know there was a lot going on in American politics today, but I wanted to take a moment to highlight how much I admire the work that Greta Thunberg and the Freedom Flotilla are doing.

They're sailing an aid ship across the Mediterranean to Gaza right now, despite lacking Israeli permission.

"…higher confidence in GenAI is associated w/less critical thinking, while higher self-confidence is associated with more critical thinking."

"Used improperly, technologies can and do result in the deterioration of cognitive faculties that ought to be preserved."

www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

There's nothing to do but make jokes. What else is there to say, other than:

To EVERYONE in charge, EVERYONE in a position of power, EVERYONE with money, EVERYONE with influence: you are failing us, completely. We are terrorized, we are stressed, we are homeless, we are dying. You are failing us.

If you haven't checked in on covid info in a while, this is a great piece.

They’re gonna need to start season 51 with a “We Didn’t Start the Fire” level recap.

I’m not sure if you can overdose on schadenfreude but we’re about to find out

Do we all still ultimately pay for their hubris and greed?
Yes.
Is the condemned man allowed to chortle when the approaching executioner slips on a banana peel?
Also yes.

Ohmygodddddddd

“Sit down, I’ll catch you up, because you are not gonna BELIEVE what just happened…”

This feels like Alien vs Sexual Predator

this is just like the parable of the scorpion and the scorpion

I'm just glad one of these men has the nuclear codes and the other has all our personal data.

Watching Trump and Elon fall out is like watching two thieves argue over who got caught on camera.

Newsflash: it was both of y’all.