Randy, Baron von Greymatter

An upcoming California law requires operating system providers to enforce basic mandatory age verification It's basic, and by the looks of it, near unenforceable.

A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of ID verification (which they’re calling age verification) at account setup.

This makes absolutely ZERO sense if you have even the most basic understanding of technology

The portrait is out of the attic.

The Whom announcing, “Tonight's program will be selections from our new opera, "Thomas."

YouTube video by krazydad Have you seen this lightning bolt?

Can you contribute to solving the mystery(ies) of The Bride’s Lightning?

Texas, TODAY is Election Day! Go vote!

Makes sense.

If you live in North Carolina and haven’t voted in the primary election yet, what the heck are you doing reading this right now? Get out there and vote folks. We’ll all be here waiting for you when you’re done! 😉

Don’t know where your precinct is? Find it here: 👇🏻

vt.ncsbe.gov/pplkup/

‘We didn’t start the war’

YES, you DID!

I think she was a genuine politician, unlike whatever this is.

Incoming...
Truth Bomb 💥

Republicans Wage War As Politics ...and politics as war.

Via @brianbeutler.bsky.social, Dems should politicize the hell out of Trump's Iran bombing:

"It would be a mistake to treat this as an above-board idea over which people of good faith can disagree. There is no merit here, and there was no imminent threat."

www.offmessage.net/p/republican...

This should be done in every State, County, and city in the United States of America

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Lovers walk

World IDs could present tempting targets for theft if they become widely adopted, EFF’s @falsemirror.masto.nyc.ap.brid.gy told @WSJ.com. “You can’t change your iris if someone does manage to get ahold of that information.” www.wsj.com/tech/sam-al...

YouTube video by krazydad Have you seen this lightning bolt?

Can you contribute to solving the mystery(ies) of The Bride’s Lightning?

IRAN'S "TOTALLY OBLITERATED" NUCLEAR WEAPONS GREW BACK AS QUICKLY AS TRUMP'S EAR.

How to register to vote and check your registration status For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

For the 2026 primary elections, NPR has collected deadlines and information on how to register to vote — online, in person or by mail — in every U.S. state and territory.

Norway has decided to push back on the enshittification crisis.

www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/

vimeo.com/1168468796

Hey just following up on this

Donald Trump pretends to know everything about everything. Unless it’s the Epstein files, then he pretends to know nothing.

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Netflix Backs Out of Bid for Warner Bros., Paving Way for an Ellison Takeover

The richest man owns X.

The second and third richest men control Google.

The fourth richest man owns Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp.

The fifth richest man owns The Washington Post.

And now the sixth richest could soon take over both Paramount and Warner Bros.

See the problem here?

Tax them out of existence.

If you're not okay with this, you're wrong.

The ICE agents who now wear masks are the same men who traditionally wore white hoods and burned crosses.

Checking the Facts: Free Speech Edition Did you know that the First Amendment protects sexual expression? Hard to believe, given how motivated our lawmakers are to ban all forms of sexual expressio...

It's not too late to join our panel on free speech & sexual expression with @taylorlorenz.bsky.social @cheriedeville.bskyverified.social and Larry Walters. Q&A starting soon!

Happening now on YouTube:

NEW: A federal judge said in an opinion issued today that the Trump administration violated the tax law “approximately 42,695 times” in turning over immigrant data to ICE

Hungary's leader orders extra security at energy sites, claiming Ukraine plots disruptions Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán ordered extra security at critical energy infrastructure sites after claiming Ukraine was attempting to disrupt Hungary’s energy system.

Viktor Orban is now 20 points behind in the polls - and so he has ordered the military to guard “key energy facilities” against a possible Ukrainian “attack.” Hungarians fear he plans a fake national security emergency or false-flag incident before the April 12 election
apnews.com/article/hung...

See how thunderstorms create ghostly UV sparks on the tips of trees Thunderstorms can generate weak electrical discharges on the plants underneath, but until now, they had never been observed in nature

Scientists observe coronal discharges in forests during thunderstorms for the first time.