Leon English

Among other things, I haven't had a cigarette in about a decade and right now I might kill a man for a Newport. Never an issue when medicated.

Sometimes I question whether my ADHD medication actually does anything for me and then I forget to take it for a day and oh yeah it definitely does some shit for me

“We hope Bluesky and other platforms recognize that automated moderation systems are being weaponized by the CCP. We urge these platforms to build mechanisms capable of detecting state-level coordinated attacks, rather than forcing victims to bear the consequences of being silenced again and again.”

Disrupting malicious uses of AI Our latest threat report examines how malicious actors combine AI models with websites and social platforms—and what it means for detection and defense.

Teacher Li responds here to a new OpenAI report on Chinese influence operations, which shows among other things “that the CCP has preemptively registered the usernames of well-known dissidents on Bluesky”: x.com/whyyoutouzhe... Report:

Hell* don’t want the gods to misunderstand where I want him to end up

I’m still atheist but I do pray every night to every god I’ve ever heard of to take Trump to whatever he’ll may await him

Bit of a Pascal’s wager situation

I can't decide if the troll itself or the fact that our president won't understand it's trolling is more humiliating

Just had the joy of telling my wife about the FIFA World Peace Prize

fucking hated it

What if we turned struggle sessions into a social media platform?

I don't really feel morally superior for getting off of Twitter before a lot of people, but I DO feel a little bit morally superior that I did it despite my only available alternative at the time being Mastodon.

Of course, I'm an idiot; newspapers are abstract entities and can't have viewpoints.

Maybe Jill or someone would like to tell us about how this isn't indicative of the paper's viewpoints.

PARAMOUNT DOWNGRADED TO JUNK BY FITCH; RATINGS ON NEG. WATCH

"Riding in a golf cart fatly" is a ridiculous phrase that is also profoundly poetic and it will be the "rosebud" of my deathbed.

Just wanted you guys to see “Riding in a golf cart fatly”

yeah you can convey a lot more when every 1-3 characters is an entire word. It's actual microblogging.

Yeah but I've never seen one that has a small dedicated set of users; everyone I've been in is pretty transient, there's no relationships between users that last from thread to thread.

No, I am not saying this would all be ok if they knew how to properly space paragraphs after a numbered list, its just one of a billion examples of how they can't bother to do anything whole assed.

I know this is not even a little bit the point, but it really speaks to how unprofessional our current government is that their formatting looks this shit.

If I make it through this administration without picking up smoking again, I'm going to celebrate with a well deserved cigarette

Might be key that I was always on smaller niche forums that had a dedicated group of regulars

As an old forum user, reddit absolutely did not replicate the forum experience for me, am curious if that has been the case for others

They kill everything we love

Can't decide if its terrible or brilliant advertising (I did look!)

felt like typing that url into my navigation bar was a bit of a gamble

everything went to shit when they killed Reader and blogging with it

I'll walk into a fire before I hand it to Nick Fuentes, pre-emptive fuck off to anyone who tries to rehab that little rat shit

I did that when I first heard of Rob because of the meth.

Honestly was surprised to find out they weren't, chip off the old shit block etc.

SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 25A914 NICOLE MALLIOTAKIS, ET AL. v. MICHAEL WILLIAMS, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY No. 25A915 PETER KOSINSKI, ET AL. v. MICHAEL WILLIAMS, ET AL. ON APPLICATION FOR STAY [March 2, 2026] The applications for stay presented to JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR and by her referred to the Court are granted. The January 21, 2026 order entered by the Supreme Court of the State of New York, New York County, Index No. 164002/2025, is stayed pending the disposition of the appeal in the New York state courts and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari in this Court, if such a writ is timely sought. Should certiorari be denied, this stay shall terminate automatically. In the event certiorari is granted, the stay shall terminate upon the issuance of the mandate of this Court.

JUSTICE SOTOMAYOR, with whom JUSTICE KAGAN and JUSTICE JACKSON join, dissenting from grant of stay. The Court's 101-word unexplained order can be summarized in just 7: "Rules for thee, but not for me." Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts have limited jurisdiction. Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts should not interfere with state-court litigation. Time and again, this Court has said that federal courts should not meddle with state election laws ahead of an elec-tion. Today, the Court says: except for this one, except for this one, and except for this one. Ignoring every limit on federal courts' authority, the Court takes the unprecedented step of staying a state trial court's decision in a re-districting dispute on matters of state law without giving the State's highest court a chance to act. Because that order violates basic principles of jurisdiction, federalism, and equity, I respectfully dissent.

BREAKING: SCOTUS blocks New York state court redistricting order, over the strong dissent of the Democratic appointees.