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TIL that India has the only accurate culture conception of an Owl, an animal with problem solving skills ranked somewhere between those of a carrot and a potato.

May not even be they're all being "pulled" to the right, but they've self-selected for not being bothered by the kinds of bigotry and brutality that ICE is presently exemplifying.

So there's likely some unmasking going on as well.
But... we know propaganda works. We know blanket messaging works.

Well this fucking sucks. The Amazing Digital Circus is fantastic, and fans acting like this can go straight to hell.

Stop being assholes to people doing cool stuff online - if you don’t like the direction it’s going, go watch something else.

Painting of Link with a million little gadgets and weapons from across the games. I worked harder on this in a 5 week period than any other thing I’ve ever painted. I think I almost died working on this lol

Happy Zelda 40th anniversary!

my bunny Fizgig in pink lighting

barbie girl

Mustard in a grilled cheese sandwich.

COVID-19 vaccination status during pregnancy and preeclampsia risk: the pandemic-era cohort of the INTERCOVID consortium COVID-19 vaccination with a booster reduces the odds of PE by 30% approaching 60% reduction among women with pre-existing morbidities.

Remember when RFK Jr. unilaterally decided that COVID19 vaccines should no longer be recommended during pregnancy?

Well, COVID19 increases the risk of preeclampsia.

And it turns out that getting boosted, either before or during pregnancy, significantly reduces the risk of preeclampsia.

In search of fighty bastards (affectionate): do you live in SC, are you a user of DW (or any other social media), and would you be willing to tell the court how what sites like us would have to do to comply with SC's terrible law would restrict your speech and association with others?

People are really starting to realize, perhaps slowly, that products are not being designed FOR THEM or THEIR PROBLEMS but instead purely for metrics / short term profits.

It's a long held mistake letting businesses self-define their Purpose as "to generate profit" or "Maximize Shareholder Returns"

Until I read this, it did not even occur to me that priests are using ChatGPT to generate homilies, but of course they are, and my long-lapsed-Catholicism is kicking down doors in my skull yelling “HOW DARE THEY?!?”

Kurt Vonnegut stop being so applicable to all time periods of American life, you can’t do that Kurt Vonnegut, your insights are too evergreen Kurt Vonnegut

General Matter, this is BWXT erasure. How dare you forget these hardworking Americans that keep our reactors fueled and the nuclear fuel cycle going.

Stop making me say nice things about BWXT, techbros. It's uncomfortable.

Trans people for the past decade: This isn't actually about sports or ensuing there's appropriate screening before someone starts medically transitioning. The goal is to effectively criminalize the existence of all trans people.

Very Reasonable Journalists: You're crazy

Innovators became rent seekers and are very aggrieved that they’re no longer treated like innovators.
Sorry the public doesn’t see the world’s biggest companies and richest people pushing enshittified, mediocre, or damaging products as plucky start-ups doing exciting things. But whose fault is that?

CAN CONFIRM

All of this actually makes sense if you just understand that he has no idea what a tariff is

Important thread from @davetroy.com:

"We have a real problem brewing with the “Board of Peace” and it needs much more attention.

1) There is no legal entity for “Board of Peace” organized under the laws of any country, meaning it is subject to NO country’s laws.

With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity.

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker.

Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

This, but also for a lot of non-tech C-suite.
They only know "business" so they're holding back businesses.
Need corporate leadership that actually deeply understands their industry and niche rather than fungible mannequins.

You cannot develop technology without understanding obsolescence and the fact is that this whole generation of silicon valley "leaders" are obsolete. They have literally nothing to offer except each other's recycled dumbfuck ideas

Margaret Sullivan on how Trump coverage still falls short "A different, more skeptical approach is absolutely necessary."

New in PN: A conversation with @sulliview.bsky.social on the state of political coverage in 2026

"This is a long-term campaign against a reality-based press. Thanks to a lot of factors that are going on in the overall media ecosystem, it’s been successful."

But really, people did get significantly more comfortable being more openly mean and anti-intellectual since 2020. Like, yes, it's always been bad, but I can't recall it ever being quite this widespread.

That tracks.
Though for at least some of my
(Now former, thank fuck) neighbors I'm pretty sure their whiter-than-mayo families are still just property in their eyes.
It's bleak, this result of decades of unaddressed shit

It's extra depressing because frequently those same people are the ones that babble on and on about "loss of community"
And you can't help but wonder just how narrow their definition of the word is

Incredible opinion. It holds that the common ICE tactic of jumping out of an unidentified rental vehicle and seizing suspected noncitizens while masked violates the Fourth Amendment because the *manner* of the seizure is incompatible with a free society governed by the rule of law.

I ain’t hit no pithy jokes no more.

We gotta start actively knocking these fools out

And we have to learn that
the reason they hate sex education and 230 and cultural studies and gender studies

Is because they don’t want their victims to have options to avoid or report them

look if a Democrat wants me to be really fired up about voting for them, they will promulgate the Crimes Against Humanity Reparations Act which gives US citizenship to everyone targeted by the Trump administration.

Again, Flock, and other public surveillance companies, is a deeply immoral and invasive business model and really shouldn't be tolerated, least if all in unaccountable private hands.

egg baby (data archive)

All of this.

Also, as I keep pointing out re the flood of fundraising texts/emails: You can’t have it both ways. If you don’t want Democrats to take money from corporate PACs etc, they have to get it from *somewhere*, and that means US.

Those annoying texts suck but they’re part of it.