The "cognitive decline and brain damage from repeat COVID infections" and "easy to use robot that makes slop and melts your critical thinking skills" is a hell of a combo in a post-fact media ecosystem

Someone's screenshot of a two-post twitter thread, from user blue (@bluewmist): the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it's called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don't care, but because you care too much. you don't need lower standards. you need less self-worth tangled up in your goals. the work gets easier when it's not about proving who you are.

Found this on the AO3 subreddit, and I'm about to let it change my whole life (or at least work really hard to internalize it wrt my writing).

The "us" in this absurd statement is conservative white people

She’s left us no choice. It’s time for Isaac Chotiner to interview Bari Weiss.

Apple and Google block apps that crowdsource ICE sightings. Some warn of chilling effects Apple and Google blocked downloads of phone apps that flag sightings of U.S. immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration demanded that one particularly popular iPhone app be taken do...

Countries around the world and the UN Human Rights Council all need to consider what it means that a single totalitarian government now controls Google and Apple’s app store content.

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Deplorable. Once upon a time, if a president had use a speech to a military academy for partisan purposes, it would be considered a disgrace by both parties.

Not an educator, but if you personally want to get back into reading books, here's what helped me (thread)

Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie Best thing about government shutdowns… no chemtrails.

I...uh..wtf, Kentucky?

Obviously, this is loser shit, but I think AI has really cemented itself as the visual language of fascism. It's anti-human, flattened, uninteresting, and cheap. It's like looking at a Potemkin Village and thinking that's the same as architecture.

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Troops. In an American city. Using full force.

Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.

What. The. Fuck.

a poster with illustrations of 8 minerals eliminated in the second round of the 2025 mineral cup: pectolite, stibnite, baryte, carpathite, titanite, molybdenite, taenite, mannardite They have a colour variation from greys, beiges, whites and black. One, titanite, is dark green.

The minerals eliminated in the second round of the #MinCup25

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That is an incredible specimen.

I have decided to back persovskite this year, for the technology of the future. Because what can I say, I’m a hopepunk, solarpunk kinda nerd.

Instead of “doomscrolling,” I’m “combing my network of spies” send tweet

You can’t fix autism because autistic people are not broken.

The Executive Branch cannot whitewash a vindictive and selective prosecution by running it through a prosecutor who turns a blind eye to the motivations that launched it. And this is hardly the only time the President has sought to use DOJ to get revenge: The U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia was forced from office for not vindictively charging New York Attorney General Letitia James.1 In our case, the Chief of the Criminal Division resigned rather than bring this vindictive prosecution himself. That Mr. McGuire professes to believe that this case is a righteous one, while claiming ignorance of its origins, is no answer to our motion. It’s a dodge. In the government’s telling, this case started on April 27, 2025, when HSI Nashville presented the case to Mr. McGuire. (Dkt. 121-1 ¶ 4). That ignores weeks of retributive government conduct punishing Mr. Abrego for challenging his unlawful deportation: officials’ statements that he is a “gangbanger,” “monster,” “predator,” “terrorist,” and “wife beater”; an Oval Office Abbott and Costello routine about how neither President Trump nor President Bukele nor Attorney General Bondi—Mr. McGuire’s ultimate boss—had the power to return him; and the ultimate decision, made by officials senior to Mr. McGuire before the case was presented to him, to gin up an investigation and prosecution. (Dkt. 105 at 8-12). On the facts, the government’s perspective is conveniently tunnel visioned. On the law, what Mr. McGuire may believe is irrelevant. Despite the government’s many distractions, Mr. Abrego has presented clear, unrebutted evidence of vindictiveness warranting dismissal or, at a minimum, discovery and a hearing.

Lawgeeks, Kilmar Abrego Garcia's reply filing in support of his motion to dismiss the criminal case in Tennessee for vindictive and selective prosecution is an excellent, powerful (and short) read.

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WHOA
My vote went to the organic mineral, but I want one of these cabochons!

What a legend!

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Judge Orders New Federal Trial in Tyre Nichols Case

I somehow missed this incredible story last month. Apparently the cops who killed Tyre Nichols will get a new federal trial.

Why? Because someone shot a clerk for the judge who presided over the original trial, and the judge believes the shooter is in a gang that's connected to one of the cops.

The day has come! #paddlewheelite is going all the way, people!!

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Anti-Vaxxer Finally Gets Shot Conservative activist and noted anti-vaxxer Charlie Kirk finally received a shot while delivering a speech in front of brainwashed students at Utah Valley University earlier today.

Anti-Vaxxer Finally Gets Shot

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Killing people we disagree with is wrong in every way, whether it’s Melissa Hortman or Charlie Kirk. This is especially true in a country awash with guns and run by fascists looking to amplify their already militarized policies.

No thoughts and prayers. Down with fascism and up with gun control.

pollucite X tugtupite on the #MinCup25 sketchbook as the round 1 match 8 unfold.

two powerful with amazing property minerals. i'm torn, but going with tugtupite this time.

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Tugtupite fluorescing in brilliant magenta. Other minerals in the rock are fluorescing a minty blue.

Sometimes called the “King of Fluorescent Minerals”, tugtupite has fascinating optical properties, including tenebrescence, fluorescence, and phosphorescence.
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