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Sometimes a direct quote is so confronting you can't quite believe it: "I am directing Secretary of War to provide all necessary Troops to protect War ravaged Portland... I am also authorizing Full Force, if necessary."

It's official, then: America is at war with itself. This is maniacal.

(and trans advocacy)

A very good point!

Pouring one out for my red-green blind family

That post... I want to inject it into people's brains.

The selections were so good. If every DJ I saw published their tracklist, I'd have a lifetime's worth of exploration from a single weekend in Dorset.

Gaza aid site offered a 'women only' day. It didn't stop the killing Families say mothers Mary Sheikh al-Eid and Khadija Abu Anza were shot while seeking aid from GHF station in southern Gaza.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

"Thousands of UK university students caught cheating using AI". The language around AI in education is always of transgression, wrongdoing. Meanwhile, over on Snapchat...

Not sure where to go with this one, but that is definitely not an okay word to use if you ever found yourself in Britain. Nor is the second half tbh

Yes to all of these! Although the socks + tinytiny shoes need to be allowed to exist as knick-knacks. They serve no real purpose but are so fun to look at.

Generative AI has helped me to understand why, in Star Wars, the droids seem to have personalities but are generally bad at whatever they're supposed to be programmed to do, and everyone is tired of their shit and constantly tells them to shut up

Some friends run a goat farm just outside Cheddar, and their cheese is... really nice.

Ah yeah, I get what you mean. Noticing those things can take you out of the story completely. Luckily I'm pretty unobservant.

"Fickle" suggests the story logic is incoherent, how is this expressed?
I thought it was pretty consistent. What did I miss?

A lunar halo around the moon (obvs) in a clear night sky

The moon be out here looking like a Jean Michel Jarre album cover.

Ursula K. LeGuin on technology

Two perfect cat beans in the snow, placed a stretch away from a door. No further beans are in the picture.

My Bluesky first post: a metaphor.

© my cat.