Katrina Lehto

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Welcome to the revolution

When I worked for Reason magazine during Trump's rise to power in 2016, I was explicitly forbidden by the editor in chief from writing about Trump's racism, or the violence and racism at his rallies.

It was a "sideshow," I was told.

Schumer should be demanding everyone held in a facility like this gets not only released, but naturalized. If Miller wants to hurt these people we should extract the highest possible cost from him

George Eaton @georgeeaton. •5h X The lesson of Morgan McSweeney's downfall - a campaigning project was never developed into a governing one.

“The new government forgot they were supposed to have ideas about governing” strikes me as a fairly major drawback that reflects quite badly on a lot of people.

Savage and accurate summary in the FT www.ft.com/content/2002...

it's weird to see people complain about Bad Bunny's performance being in Spanish when there have been entire operas in Italian, German and French performed in the US and the top song of the last two years, K-Pop Demon Hunters' "Golden" has lyrics in Korean

Chatbots Make Terrible Doctors, New Study Finds Chatbots provided incorrect, conflicting medical advice, researchers found: “Despite all the hype, AI just isn't ready to take on the role of the physician.”

one chatbot told a participant in this study to go lay down in the dark when he was presenting with a brain hemorrhage... what are we even doing

www.404media.co/chatbots-hea...

Yeah. I won't be gone that long but... ugh.

Yeah. That's kind of the thing that gets me. I can't tell them when I'll be back, you know? People are hard to leave but I can still talk to them while I'm away.

I'm flying for work today and damned if leaving the cats doesn't wreck me.

four Olympic skiers holding up their silver medals, crowded onto the portion of the podium meant for two skiers. One of them is clearly hanging his foot off the edge of the podium

tie for silver in the Alpine Combined, the first medal tie in the Winter Olympics since 2018. looks like they had some extra silvers lying around just in case of something like this but they're looking pretty crowded up there on the podium

YouTube video by NFL Bad Bunny's Apple Music Super Bowl Halftime Show

ICYMI, the full Half Time show with Bad Bunny, aka the Benito Bowl.

youtu.be/G6FuWd4wNd8?...

YouTube video by grapefruitdiva MST3k says: Packers win the Super Bowl!

Me today:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=0iqL...

Standing in a wintry forest, a man grips the blade of a smooth black sword that stands hilt up as tall as he is. In a kaleidoscope of thousands of wings, butterflies burst through the woods behind him. Dour faced, Simon is wrapped plainly in heavy green cloak. A snowy lock set in red hair sweeps wide across his forehead. The channel of a scar meanders down from his temple following the curve of his cheek all the way to his jaw. He clutches a white arrow and silver hand mirror in the crook of his arm. Set opposite panel left, the forest opens to a serene view of a lake. Framed by birch trees, a tall cool stone rises from the water. Barely perceptible, a castle sits at the top. The shape of the stone implies an open hand in its gray outline. Evergreens line tiered ridges, arching low on the rock to suggest a bearded face.

STONE OF FAREWELL (1989)
Acrylic on Canvas - 21” X 46”

The main problem in doing what is called a wraparound cover—art that wraps around from the front to the back of the book—is in trying to avoid pieces that look like two different paintings stuck together. 1/4

#booksky #fantasy

I remember these (including the omnipresent ashtrays) from bus stations, train stations and airports.

Texans LGBTQ figure skater taking social media break after 'threats' "I will never stop using my voice for what I believe in."

"I will never stop using my voice for what I believe in."

For MAGA, this form of cross-racial solidarity and anti-authoritarian “neighborism” is acutely dangerous. Trumpism as a political project stipulates that whiteness would override other forms of solidarity. If not, then what do they have to offer with their vastly destructive policies?

In Minnesota, the MAGA regime must now reckon with the fact that a lot of white “heartlanders,” who Trumpist intellectuals love to idealize as “authentic Americans,” are not willing to let race and religion define the boundaries of their solidarity.

I was invited to a con in Puerto Rico soon after the hurricane. They were rebuilding everywhere, parts of the island were still without power. Trump was of course screwing them over.

I didn't feel it was right to go, but I was told repeatedly to please come, they needed tourism back.

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NYC skyline lit up green to celebrate Seahawks victory

my cousin just sent this to me from @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social's new york where they are celebrating the @seahawksofficial.com win

She freaking great. Just super classy. She goes to our PWHL teams' games on the regular. It is neat to run into her.

“I’m mad I can’t understand Bad Bunny’s lyrics because they’re not in English”

my brother millions of metalheads around the world have been happily listening to incomprehensible Finnish shrieks and Japanese death grunts since we were teens, you’re just boring and racist

I'm hardly the first person to note this, but it's enormously instructive that our President and his followers saw the message "THE ONLY THING MORE POWERFUL THAN HATE IS LOVE" and understood it, correctly, as an attack on them

The best part of the pussy hats was honestly the best part of Leftist Supply Depot: being reminded that these absolute nitwits couldn't coordinate their way out of an unlocked room with a map and a guide.

WHERE DID THE HATS AND HANDWARMERS COME FROM??

don't worry your little head about it, sweetie

The only reasonable implication of saying this is he must be removed from office. That's a binary yes/no. To explicitly say no would be insane. To studiously avoid saying either way makes the allegation seem cynical and insincere. There's no splitting "he's a child rapist" from "he must be removed."

Yeah. Awhile ago.

Next time somebody tries to get me to justify the existence of the humanities, I’ll just point out how for the past two Super Bowls we’ve all jumped online and engaged in collective semiotics and hermeneutics of the half-time show as text.

Sigh. What could go wrong?