As the man said:
"No one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away, until the clock wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone’s life is only the core of their actual existence."
bonus Discworld QOTD, from The Shepherd's Crown
"FOR I CAN SEE THE BALANCE AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE WORLD MUCH BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT, AND IF YOU ASK ME, said Death, NOBODY COULD DO ANY BETTER THAN THAT…"
Eleven years since you crossed the black sands. I wish I could say that the world is better than you left it (although it will always be better for having had you in it) but at least there is a new Young Sam to help carry on the Pratchett name and ethos. Love you always ❤️
Lawyer: You don't regret that people might have lost income?
Cavanaugh (DOGE): No, I think it was more important to reduce the federal deficit from two trillion dollars to close to zero.
Lawyer: Did you reduce the federal deficit?
Cavanaugh: No, we didn't.
every “serious analyst” needs to get it through their heads that there is no plan and anything that passes for one can be tossed out at the mad king’s whim
one upside of all of this is the revelation that the swinging dick bankers and big rah rah capital execs and billionaires are actually meek little scared dogs and president AOC or whoever (god willing) should walk them on a leash and make them drink out of a bowl
That's about half of what it cost for USAID for a whole year www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
Just stumbling around trying to figure out how the world works.
100,000 trans people & allies fill central London for Trans Pride.
Mainstream media: nothing
Thousands of trans people & allies fill Wembley Arena for pro-trans gig with massive names like Sophie Ellis-Bextor & Sugarbabes.
Mainstream media: nothing.
This is what extreme media bias looks like.
A heads down approach will not save science. We need to speak up, live our values, and demand integrity.
www.statnews.com/2026/03/12/n...
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If you have not read How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr I highly recommend it. Incredible how much Americans just don’t get taught about American history
Hell yeah, got a write up in Billy Penn about the @wednightrides.org @skypeascientist.bsky.social collab.
Cyclists chucked seed bombs in abandoned lots last week. Wholesome as hell.
Read more here: billypenn.com/2026/03/11/p...
personally I really appreciate small gestures of performative support because I know the worst-case scenario for that interaction is cringe allyship, not being harassed
I think a lot about a post by someone who ran a hobby shop of some form (forget if it was a comic shop or Warhammer store or what) that basically said putting up a little rainbow flag sticker on the door was the best business decision they made because they served as That Guy repellants.
Yes I’d like to see them be held to some accountability as in having their business destroyed by lawsuits.
I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.
State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.
www.wired.com/story/gramma...
We owe him an apology
When I said the lightning woke me the heck up this morning, THIS was the strike I saw, right as I was turning onto 2nd from Bates. From my perspective, it looked like that strike hit the Mon! (I’m sure it didn’t, but considering my lot is next to the Mon, I was a bit 😬)
worth remembering, David Lynch directed “fix your hearts or die” specifically at transphobes. it wasn’t a generic “no mean people allowed” statement, it was said by his Twin Peaks character in defense of a trans woman he cared for and deeply respected.
So many average citizens have stood up to Trump.
Alex Pretti went to the street to protect his fellow humans, who the Trump regime was harming. He lost his life for it. Renee Good lost her life for resisting.
And sorry, but—these fucking cowards in the Senate can’t vote against Trump nominees?
Sun Tzu (D-NY) - “When your enemy is making a mistake, fix it for him at great cost to yourself.”
I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public.
I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are.
1/ Here's what I can share:
NEW: Allegheny County Council passed a bill tonight banning county police, workers from cooperating with ICE, codifying a policy into law
Bill passed 11-3. Council prez Pat Catena abstained, saying he & his son received death threats today due to vote www.axios.com/local/pittsb...
Maybe that’s why Trump is demanding unconditional surrender — because he thinks it’s easier to demand everything rather than state his war aims in a coherent manner.
Exactly what people like me were warning about right from the start
What even is the endpoint of the current labor market free fall? Basically everyone I know is in a years-long job search / underemployed / stuck in a job they'd prefer to leave
After revelations that companies like Ring have been selling home security footage to ICE, the most common defense of keeping a camera up seems to be, “But what if I’m stalked?”
And as a violence researcher, I’m just here to state for the record that police do not care about your security footage.
leaders like trump are why sun tzu had to write a bunch of advice like "don't write your enemy a letter detailing what tactics you really don't want them to do"
Could not be clearer: RFK Jr. is waging a war on science and public health.
That’s what he was installed to do and he’s doing it.
Because RFK Jr. has allied himself with major corporate interests in America that saw how COVID threatened their bottom lines and said “never again.”
