Galina Esther Shubina, my coffee is my own

Dubai and Ukrainian city of Kharkiv are being bombed by same Iranian Shahed drones today.

The sentence I never thought I would ever need to say

🚨 BREAKING: Iranian ballistic missiles have struck Dubai International Airport, with photos and videos from inside the terminal showing smoke and visible damage.

The airport is now evacuating. UAE authorities have not yet issued an official statement on casualties or the full extent of the strike.

During the work trip to Dubai in January, we were across the beach from this place. This is a purely touristy area.

what a crazy night for sam altman to be like "yeah we got that dept of war deal, and there's no moral concerns here"

The medical AI influencers are an order of magnitude worse botlickers than then "we solved coding with AI" crowd.

This week’s main story is about Twitter. Or “X” if you’re a hall monitor. How it went from bad to worse under Elon Musk, how it’s impacting us all, and why there’s exactly one account there that we’re still fine with.

Those who live in glass concentration camps shouldn’t throw stones.

Yeah and one big benefit of Las Vegas is that one can rent a car after a day and drive off to Grand Canyon or Zion or one of the other great national parks.

I was in Dubai for work last month, and it is basically Las Vegas on steroids. A fake fake place, with haves and have nots, service sector imported from south India, living in dorms. I was told that you get ticketed for having a dirty car. The place is a massive Potyomkin village.

Are they using Grok to generate campaign names?

Preemptively bombing every country with brown people into peace.

I like to distract myself from the terrifying political news by reading the ridiculous political news.

YouTube video by NRK Medieval helpdesk with English subtitles

😂🤣 Brilliant. Medieval helpdesk to the enshitificators www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQHX...

Propaganda is definitely more automated these days

This is amazing.

www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com

Glad Cory Doctorow's verbiage caught on in the mainstream.

What did Trump officials tell the Netflix CEO today at the White House?

Looks like crony capitalism with the President corrupting the merger process in favor of the billionaire Ellison family.

According to that logic then America is only truly safe if it occupies Canada

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses "The legislature did not include a grace period."

Transgender adults in Kansas have received letters ordering them to surrender their drivers licenses until they obtain a new one with a marker reflecting their sex assigned at birth.

Their current licenses are now invalid.

www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...

The first US Cabinet happened in 1789.

Today it is snowflakes.

They beat a blind refugee who speaks no English for failing to obey police commands he could not understand. Then instead of apologizing, they charged him with possession of a “weapon”—HIS WALKING STICK. Then they dumped him miles from home without notifying anyone, after which he was found dead.

Please read this article to the end. Even before ICE got involved, this started because this *blind man who speaks no English and uses a curtain rod as a walking stick* got lost on a walk and some Karen called the police on him and they tasered and beat him bc he didn’t drop the rod. WTF

Border Patrol released Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a 56 yo man, nearly blind with serious medical conditions, at "an old address & his family had since moved" in Buffalo, NY in the winter. "His family was not initially notified." He was found dead. @news4buffalo.bsky.social

www.wivb.com/news/local-n...

Just came from watching Hamilton live, which is oddly appropriate given the Mad King George bits and a 2-3 hour SOTU journalists will probably have to listen to today (that or transcribe and summarize with AI, huh).

I'm constantly trying (/failing) to get this point across.

If you're a trained expert in a field, then it may be worthwhile to question the scientific consensus of your peers.

If you're not, the scientific consensus is absolutely the best you can do and it's arbitrary foolishness to disregard it.

About a year into ICE detention, he lost the tip of his right pinky after another detainee bit it off and ate it, according to Garza, who filed several grievance forms about it. After a trip to a hospital, he said he was thrown into solitary confinement for several weeks. "I wasn't given a shower, I was just thrown in a cell that was leaking," he wrote. He wasn't given antibiotics for months and it was only after his infected finger burst while he was sleeping that he received the medication, he said.

This piece by @ryannemena.bsky.social about Adelanto will make you angry.

www.dailynews.com/2026/02/23/i...

Miniseries!

Yeah, makes sense now - you seem to be right about the reference. I've clearly lost some kind of cultural touch at this point. Not a bad thing, necessarily.... 😅

I've been trying to tell Stirlitz jokes to kids, but it's hard to translate either into English or Swedish.

1971 -- half decade before I was born. I've read the wikipedia page now. Thanks.