They confessed to lying to ONE SINGLE COURT more than 50 times in just the past TWO MONTHS. slate.trib.al/BIMQFam
19.02.2026 20:46 โ ๐ 391 ๐ 152 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 7@deborah-c.bsky.social
CompSci, security, SF/F, UK/US politics, feminism, disability, collies. May also contain dangerous levels of Snark. Formerly @deborah_c at the bird place. Librarian groupie and tea drinker
They confessed to lying to ONE SINGLE COURT more than 50 times in just the past TWO MONTHS. slate.trib.al/BIMQFam
19.02.2026 20:46 โ ๐ 391 ๐ 152 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 7The message from the DOJ is unmistakable: Justice is no longer the objective.
Retribution is.
"I've never protested before in my entire life, but, uh [chokes up, apologizes], I watched fourth and fifth grade kids run away from our own government. I never want to see that again."
19.02.2026 18:35 โ ๐ 44 ๐ 12 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 0A tweet from Acyn about RFK Jr. and Kid Rock promoting an HHS initiative encouraging healthy eating and exercise, comparing it to Michelle Obamaโs โLetโs Moveโ campaign. The screenshot shows a CNN segment with a graphic reading โEat Healthyโ and โGet Active.โ
Gee, I wonder why they went after Michelle Obama so hard on this?
19.02.2026 21:30 โ ๐ 1766 ๐ 342 ๐ฌ 57 ๐ 13And the thing is that they NEED it to be the only technology that matters
The growth-at-all-costs model is cancer and generative AI is the purest example of it. They need to eat all the resources they can get, all the investment, just to keep it afloat. They need other technologies to be starved
It has never been cited in a law review. Imagine my delight.
19.02.2026 21:31 โ ๐ 35 ๐ 2 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 0Found the very first regulation of native born subjects in the UK Archives. Itโs over 700 years old. And Iโm going to visit her next month.
19.02.2026 21:29 โ ๐ 65 ๐ 3 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0There is a venn diagram of "We need to believe that AI can develop a real consciousness," "I now adhere to a truly bizarre health routine" and "I need all the money possible and I need it just for me," and at the center of it is "I am terrified of dying and I don't know how to fix that"
19.02.2026 20:03 โ ๐ 922 ๐ 238 ๐ฌ 14 ๐ 17the book cover for t. kingfisher's wolf worm
I REVIEWED @tkingfisher.com's WOLF WORM. I gave it five stars. Five really, really grossed out stars.
Full review here: freeliteracy.jcink.net/index.php?sh...
tweet from @cliftonhowze on twitter Last night at the #DataCenters meeting in Claremore, Darren Blanchard, who has attended most of these meetings around NE Oklahoma & has some pretty impressive FOIA/ORA skills, was arrested after going over his 3 min. allotted speaking time. First arrest I've seen at one of these.
in america, if you go over your 3 minute allotment to speak, men with guns come to take you away.
19.02.2026 16:20 โ ๐ 8996 ๐ 2980 ๐ฌ 3 ๐ 329Andrew released under investigation.
19.02.2026 19:56 โ ๐ 252 ๐ 61 ๐ฌ 6 ๐ 4mobile phone wrapped in a padlocked chain
AI vibe-generates the same โrandomโ passwords over and over
The most random number is 7
www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0B6... - video
pivottoai.libsyn.com/20260219-ai-... - podcast
time: 5 min 32 sec
Today, here in Tennessee โ Gino Bulsoโs attack on marriage equality passed the house. Advocates warn his goal is to overturn Obergefell.
Bulso told us he would be glad to defend it in the Supreme Court, because of course he would.
www.wsmv.com/2026/02/19/t...
The Fifty-Year Reich.
19.02.2026 21:47 โ ๐ 572 ๐ 125 ๐ฌ 20 ๐ 1Text reads: A story from the Goon show days: there was an undertaker near the studio and during a break in rehearsals Sellers and Milligan wandered in to reception. Milligan lay down on the floor and Sellers pinged the bell on the counter and called out โShop!โ
Someone with a connection to Angela Morley read my book and got in touch with this anecdote from when his dad and Angela played in the Goon Show band:
19.02.2026 13:36 โ ๐ 135 ๐ 22 ๐ฌ 5 ๐ 1/2 Posting about this made me remember the tutorial. It was taught by as guy who was born, IIRC, near Fresno, and went to Davis and USC, but had acquired a very plummy English accent living in London. It required significant self-control not to smirk.
19.02.2026 21:06 โ ๐ 356 ๐ 5 ๐ฌ 12 ๐ 1As someone who took a tutorial on comparative US-UK law for Hilary Term in 1990, I can speak as an expert on Prince Andrewโs arrest
19.02.2026 14:58 โ ๐ 927 ๐ 47 ๐ฌ 41 ๐ 2Very amusing (agonisingly irritating) that the Americans keep on pointing at the UK and claiming weโve got our shit together and have a good sense of justice.
Please readโฆ I donโt know, anything?
BREAKING: Taylor Rehmet was just sworn in as the first rank-and-file union member to serve in the Texas Senate.
Senator Rehmet is a beacon of hope not just for Texas, but for every union member and worker in the state. This is a huge win for Texas workers!
A cartoon illustration of a Godzilla calmly hanging out with pleasant cows in the countryside. Caption reads "He found visits to the countryside, and the cows in particular, helped calm him down."
Kaiju chillout. (Get the print here: gricklemart.com/countryside-... ) #grickledoodle #kaiju #godzilla #cows #chill #calm #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor
19.02.2026 17:02 โ ๐ 665 ๐ 191 ๐ฌ 9 ๐ 9A Houston judge told a jury that "beyond a reasonable doubt" can be as low as "60 percent." This morning the 14th Court of Appeals reversed my client's conviction because of that comment. #appellatesky
19.02.2026 13:14 โ ๐ 129 ๐ 29 ๐ฌ 14 ๐ 6- Historically inspired setting?
- in Ireland?
- Referencing the famous prehistorical bog bodies?
- wih CATS????
- from a studio with "Dream" in its name?
This is *so* my thing. This wouldn't be more my thing if I had designed it myself! I need to play this game right now!
In the midst of the most aggressive and alarming federal assault on the First Amendment since the Palmer raids, the Biden-era free speech warriors have focused their outrage on . . . the injustice of releasing the Epstein files.
19.02.2026 20:49 โ ๐ 1249 ๐ 375 ๐ฌ 33 ๐ 24I keep thinking what this expression reminds me of, and I just worked it out
19.02.2026 21:33 โ ๐ 17 ๐ 1 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0Still, flea-free socks for a while, eh?
19.02.2026 21:33 โ ๐ 2 ๐ 0 ๐ฌ 0 ๐ 032. When you understand this double standard, you can see how the news media actually created conditions during the 2024 election in which some middle-class Americans unknowingly voted for their own immiseration.
And now theyโre mad.
www.editorialboard.com/why-isnt-the...
30. The aligned interests of the Republicans and the billionaire owners of news media corporations is also why, no matter how loudly or how strenuously Democrats accuse Trump of implementing โthe largest peacetime tax hike in US history,โ the allegation rarely breaks through.
19.02.2026 14:04 โ ๐ 51 ๐ 10 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 125. In addition to Trumpโs lies, what prevents reporters from building a narrative about the largest tax increase since the late 20th century is a kind of cognitive dissonance. The story canโt be that big since itโs the anti-tax party thatโs doing it.
19.02.2026 14:01 โ ๐ 59 ๐ 9 ๐ฌ 1 ๐ 023. But she wasnโt taken seriously, not as seriously as Trump would've been had their roles been reversed โ if Harris had proposed a tax increase that keeps increasing. In that case, there would have been saturation coverage abt the peril of raising taxes in the middle of a cost-of-living crisis.
19.02.2026 14:01 โ ๐ 67 ๐ 4 ๐ฌ 2 ๐ 0