Erin 🧶

There's something about the way men use LLMs that feel like those men at the strip club who believe that the dancers like them for their personality and wit.

They just want a toy that makes them feel good.

Saudi Arabia’s Vanished Princesses King Abdullah allegedly imprisoned four of his daughters. After his death, the princesses’ supporters say, they disappeared.

A reminder that the Saudi Arabian king is a piece of shit, and Trump will suck off anyone who gives him attention

Story on Hegseth leaked Signal file, including line that revelations were "according to four people with knowledge of the chat."

For people in the journalism business, and for people in general, *this* is the killer detail in latest Hegseth-dereliction-of-duty report:

That *four* people on the call were willing to talk about it!

Congrats to the reporters. And most obvious dead-man-walking of cabinet members perhaps ever.

oh my god

my favorite Bible story is probably the one where Jesus disappears an innocent person into a slave-labor gulag and then jets off for a weekend of golf at Galilee-a-Lago

Pascal about JK Rowling and the anti trans law on UK:

‘I can't think of anything more vile and small and pathetic than terrorizing the smallest, most vulnerable community of people who want nothing from you, except the right to exist’

RFK JR is right about one thing: I have never and will likely never play a game of baseball

Not because I'm autistic tho

Democracy isn’t dying in darkness it’s being dismantled at the hands of the Supreme Court of North Carolina. @allisonjriggs.bsky.social won this election fair and square back in November. Her opponent is a petulant Confederate cosplayer who can’t handle losing. Concede Jefferson Griffin.

I agree that this is the logical endpoint, but it is also likely its Kryptonite because then it makes our courts impotent. Courts don’t like giving up their power (see post 9/11). So the endgame, if the courts want to stay relevant, is to say the whole thing is unconstitutional from the jump

If the government can “deport” you for having beliefs they don’t like, none of us is free. Call it what you want, but it sure as shit ain’t democracy.

Nancy Drew and the Mystery of Who Left a Suspiciously Human-Mouth-Shaped Bite Mark in the Shower Curtain

The Onion has truly become too prescient

A Fox News broadcast shows a male anchor in a dark pinstripe suit and pink tie reporting live. The headline at the bottom of the screen reads, "FEMALE FENCER TAKES KNEE AGAINST TRANS OPPONENT." The U.S. Capitol building is visible through the window behind him. A red ticker on the bottom right displays the Dow Watch, showing a drop of 1,425.88 points or 3.38%, bringing the total to 40,799.44. The time reads 11:24 PT.

Trump wiped 2.5 trillion dollars out from the stock market today. Let's check in on America's most watched cable news network!

Federal satellite identification of the wildfires around me currently.

A cool thing about me is that I live where the blue dot is.

The two small ones in the top left just started today. Isn't that fun!

Screenshot of the Atlantic Signal exchanges, including Michael Waltz saying "the first target - their top missile guy - we had positive ID of him walking into his girlfriend's building and it's now collapsed".

Not to be a wide-eyed naïf about such things but... am I right in thinking that they levelled an entire building to get to one guy and *that* is not controversial to anyone in the American media or political class, only that this information was recklessly shared in an unsecured chat?

imagine being accidentally added to a second, slightly smaller group chat where they're talking about how to handle this scandal

Trump: "The cost of groceries. A word that I used a lot on the campaign. It's like an old fashioned word, but it's a beautiful word, very descriptive word."

This is obvious but I think it needs to be said we shouldn't be bombing apartment buildings in Yemen.

Hegseth, Waltz, Gabbard: Private Data and Passwords of Senior U.S. Security Officials Found Online Donald Trump's most important security advisers used Signal to discuss an imminent military strike. Now, reporting by DER SPIEGEL has found that the contact data of some of those officials, including ...

Der Spiegel found mobile phone numbers, email addresses and even some passwords belonging to Mike Waltz, Tulsi Gabbard and Pete Hegseth on the internet. Most of these numbers and email addresses are apparently still in use. 😳

Oh cool so you'll need a passport to vote (y'know those things the government is now denying trans people)

Discovered the child and myself share a migraine trigger: wildfire smoke

please don’t text me war plans, because I’m actually at capacity right now and I don’t think I can hold appropriate space for you. do you have someone else you could reach out to?

anyone want to join my war group chat? it's where we plan war

The kiddo as I walk in the front door: "Don't worry, your cat's not dead, I checked."

Kiki, on the recliner in our living room:

We appear to have a literal neo-Nazi in leadership of pentagon press office.

They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed How a group of Silicon Valley math prodigies, AI researchers and internet burnouts descended into an alleged violent cult

If you're not keeping an eye on the news about this, it's pretty interesting

This skreebly old hag's gotcha day is today. I have now had her for 10 years.

Love you Kiki 💜

low-information voters will have a lot of different stories they can tell to explain this, the important thing isn't supplying the explanation but supplying the reality that Trump is faililng and incompetent and letting them fill the backstory in themselves