Andromeda Yelton

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

Four little dinosaurs printed in a pink and purple and blue gradient.

the same dinos: a bronto, a pterodactyl, a stegosaurus, and a triceratops. This time in Northern Lights vibed colors!

now the dinosaurs are RAINBOW

these are the OG dinosaurs, printed in my desert sunset colors. also so old the picture is from before I got a light box!

We'll be closing the store for the final week of March so I can recover from surgery, which means selling as much as we can now.

Great time to buy something & force me to actually recover from surgery by not working!

(hey I ADDED ALL THE DINOSAURS!)

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As the laid off Middle East News Editor, I concur. Management eliminated the positions of every single staff correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East.

Just started doing new data analysis and I know I keep saying this, but: I really, really don't think people appreciate how much this moral panic was a deliberate and extremely expensive invention.

Unassailable logic

OCTOPUS RING

Resist ‘dangerous and socially unacceptable’ age checks for social media, scientists warn Computer scientists are campaigning against the global march toward age checks online.

A large number of privacy and infosec researchers have published a detailed letter calling for a moratorium on laws requiring age assurance technologies until there is a scientific consensus on the risk/benefit tradeoff of using them

www.politico.eu/article/age-...

📚 go to town, digital preservation nerds

We all know what it means for something to be divine providence but what does "Divine Pawtucket" look like?

Now I am at my destination and my calendar tells me I need to take a run but my body tells me I really, really need to take a run.

Possibly she was a lawyer or journalist, who knows. But she had a windows laptop and terrible opsec and a boring yet belted outfit. Seemed kinda fed. As ever, frustrated that I don’t think fast on my feet in social situations (insofar as the amtrak quiet car is ever social…)

Pretty sure I was sitting next to a Nazi on the train. She politely asked if the seat next to me was taken, and helpfully picked up someone’s dropped pen, and worked on quiet little CBP spreadsheets.

NEW: Four federal judges have formed a firewall against ICE in West Virginia — and say they’ll punish state and federal officials of they continue detaining people in ways they have ruled illegal and unconstitutional.

www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Hello internet stranger, I love your living room decor

This post brought to you by my fourth Amtrak ticket in a week plus no coffee yet

1. Fairies are allergic to iron (common knowledge)
2. Life finds a way (Jurassic park axiom)
3. Variation + selection eventually results in adaptation to many niches (Darwin)
4. Fairies gain strength when people believe in magic (Tinkerbell theorem)

-> there exist iron-road-adapted Train Fairies

When this ICE shit started, a mutual I’d never met asked how to help. I sent him to a friend’s kid’s preschool that was struggling to find patrollers. He’s been there almost daily, even in brutal cold, at a school where he didn’t know anyone, to keep folks safe. We finally met and got beers tonight.

i'm not going to fall over myself complimenting them for adhering to their own policies, but i do think that choosing to hold the line forces this issue at a lot of other tech companies in ways the administration is unlikely to prefer

A mug depicting KC Green's This Is Fine dog comic, but tragically faded

I've had my This Is Fine mug so long that the dog has become a ghost and all that remain are flames

Television pioneer Fred Rogers, gone 23 years ago today.

His acceptance speech for the Lifetime Achievement Emmy Award is always worth a watch.

#RIP 💔

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Absolutely nothing, I beg of you (as a person with perfume allergies)

photo of a very cute black and tan young goat, looking at the camera with a smiling expression.

Cutest little Norma Jean! She looks extra cute in the winter when she got her thick winter fluff. 🥰

CBS, Fox, the Washington Post, and Twitter are all owned by Trump-loving billionaires and soon CNN will be too. Here's why American media has a liberal bias problem.

I have no idea but that sure sounds cool!

To be clear, Kansas Republicans rushed through a confusing and disastrous bill, created a panic, and wasted untold number of tax dollars all to target 300 out of the nearly 3 million people in the state.

A grey hoodie with text which reads: “Buy a man eat fish, He day, teach fish man To a lifetime.”

Wise words

What a delightful human being.

Heroic Chicago trans comedian recalls saving infant from ice-cold Lake Michigan: ‘I guess I’m going in’ “The most important part of this entire story is that the baby is okay,” Lio Cundiff told The Advocate.

“It’s weird,” he said. “I just did something that I would think anyone would do. What do you mean you would watch a stroller and a baby just sink?”