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I also really want us all to stop looking at *any* one person as a savior. Nobody can live up to that, and no one person can get us out of this.

But I completely agree with you. The police issue is fundamental. I lost all respect for Karen Bass (LA mayor) after this summer.

Pritzker should be held responsible for the police nominally under his control; that being said, this is going to be a problem for every politician you try to sell us on as a savior. Because everyone of them, and many of their supporters, refuses to actually confront what the police are doing.

Literally true in my case lol (except I rarely bother with my face).

I almost never use PayPal, so when I do and see my old name, I always have a minute of thinking "who???"

I don't think it's intentionally coded to deceive others.

I think that's how he (they) actually thought about it. The only deceit was self-deceit.

THREAD. Did you know that at about 1/3 of all stranger homicides in the U.S. are perpetrated by police? But there's something hidden here that is important to understand in this authoritarian moment.

Cats at least are usually pleasant company.

I, like you, was never scared or freaked out. (I even have a clear memory of curiously watching a needle go in when I was about 5 yrs old.)

My kid is the exact opposite.

(This is true for the 2 of us about pretty much everything lol.)

I've always been curious about how our "lifelong" fears form!

Right, their "solution" is a clear indication of what their goals actually are.

There's some real ugly shit implied in that clause linking
"At the same time as hostages are hopefuly being finally released" to the conversation with Mamdani.

"To this end its social services weren’t offered out of a genuine effort to help those in need, but as a tool of control."

My nana's allergies kept her from eating cereal, so when I showed up for my annual solo visit and she went to the store for treats my mom wouldn't get me, "poison" is what she called the Lucky Charms.

You seem to have used a different recipe, though?

*dies*

Does that enchanted forest appear as the shabbos candles are lit and fade into the mist at havdalah?

These assholes aren’t messiahs or super-geniuses. They’re weirdos who were in the right place at the right time and were all ruthless enough to fuck everyone over they ever knew and shameless enough to build cults populated with other antidemocratic weirdos. It’s infuriating.

Also Normal Women by Philippa Gregory.
The Vasa Museum in Stockholm had a great section on women running businesses, doing physically demanding work in town and on the wharves in the era of this ship - 17C. Sadly, no booklet from this exhibition.

A woman's place was not in the home: Challenging the assumptions about women's work in early modern history New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England's national economy before 1700.

“More than half of the work done by women in the period between the 16th and 18th centuries took place outside of the home, and around half of all housework and three-quarters of care work was conducted professionally for other households” [England]

phys.org/news/2025-10...

That could also be solved by having the default setting as opt out and giving users a warning before they opt in.

I imagine the designers use a similar technique in their romantic lives.

Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.

bitch what

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

People think that furloughing/shortchanging police and military personnel makes them disloyal, but in reality it makes them demand bribes from civilians during spurious enforcement actions

It's very windy out, as well as dry, and I think someone a few blocks away is shooting off a bunch of fireworks and I just have to say, not all the children are the future. Some are just fire hazards with limbs.

Massive escalation at the Portland ICE facility. Worst I’ve ever seen. More pepper balls than I can count. Teargas in the middle of crowd. Violent arrests. Some type of either noise or rubber bullet shotgun fired into the air then later aimed at protesters chests/heads at near point blank range.

What You Tell an AI Chatbot Could One Day Be Evidence in a Criminal Trial User exchanges with ChatGPT and other AI tools are a valuable new form of evidence for law enforcement in criminal investigations and prosecutions.

If the Palisades Fire suspect goes to trial, he’ll be one of the first people in the U.S. to have his ChatGPT history used against him in a criminal prosecution. I spoke to tech and legal experts about the future of digital evidence:

It should be illegal period. I made it 47 years without it, and then perimenopause came along and made me tired all the time but unable to fall or stay asleep.

This is some bullshit!

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Are we letting AI write the scripts now?

Stripped for Parts: American Journalism on the Brink A handful of journalists rebel against a hedge fund that is gutting newspapers nationwide.

If you think you know why US newspapers died, this feature documentary now streaming for free on PBS might surprise you. It wasn't the Internet. Newspapers were specifically targeted by vulture capitalists.

I composed the score for the film, which features electric cello & Crowfoot guitars.

A cat peers out of an open cabinet

As Caturday winds down, make sure to securely store your cats so that you can easily locate them when next Caturday rolls around.

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ICE abducted a 15-year-old autistic boy during a bathroom break and kept him hidden for nearly a week.
His mother thought he was missing. Even local police couldn’t find him because ICE never told anyone they had him.

He was selling fruit with his mom when he asked to use the restroom.

Fun fact about the Salvation Army: they use a form of substance use treatment called work therapy. Oh, and by treatment, I mean they have people who have been convicted of drug charges work for their stores & warehouses in exchange for room, board, around a $1 a week, and minimal actual therapy.

23 Unions Plan to Strike Together If Kaiser Fails to Address Workplace Crises Overworked and understaffed, over 45,000 health care workers at Kaiser Permanente are poised to strike.

The biggest #strike of the year starts on Tuesday, featuring 45k #healthcareworkers. This means tens of thousands across Oregon, California, Washington and Hawaii, in particular. Picket lines at 6 KP locations in Portland area, and will lead the labor march on Oct 18th.
truthout.org/articles/23-...