Nicolas diPierro

SHOULD THE U.S BLOT OUT THE SUN AND USHER IN AN AGE OF ETERNAL DARKNESS? - Gallup 2/20/26-3/5/26

NO - 41%
YES - 38%
UNSURE - 21%

<lauging in vegan>

A photo of coronas glowing on the tips of tree leaves.

A photo of coronas glowing on the tips of tree leaves.

A new study published earlier this month in Geophysical Research Letters reveals how the tips of tree leaves burn with ghostly, ultraviolet sparks. These phenomena, known as coronas, had never been seen in nature—until now. 🌿 spklr.io/6042DI2EC

📸: William Brune

Fuck this guy.

Meta Adding Facial Recognition to Its Smart Glasses That Identifies People in Real Time, Hoping the Public Is Too Distracted by Political Turmoil to Care Emboldened by the success of its smart glasses, Meta is working on a way to release a controversial facial recognition feature to the public.

If you buy these things and wear them, you're giving money and other peoples' information to the worst people in the world. futurism.com/artificial-i... #meta

Trump: I am fine. You sound beautiful and cute. How old are you?

Caller: I am eight

Hillary Clinton and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

Pondering making this my cover photo

These monsters are loving your outrage and tears. It energizes them. It’s why they get up in the morning. What people way funnier than I am need to do right now is MOCK THEM.

How ironic that the more money you have, the more spineless you become.

Headlines from around the country about 1/6

Happy coup-niversary

After headlines of “democracy attacked” it’s embarrassing how, five years later, corporate media continues to carry water for those who assaulted our way of life.

And Stay Out

Alan Dye is a fraud that failed upward and that's Apple's fault.

"I’ve never found any examples of Alan [Dye]'s professional work prior to having this job [at Apple as head of Software Design.] -Louie Mantia @lmnt.me

lmnt.me/blog/and-sta...

Happy 85th birthday to Hayao Miyazaki ♡

ffs, if 2026 isn't better than 2025 we are in deep shit.

Are women ruining the workplace at CBS News?

Jaws is a Christmas Movie 🦈🎄🛥️🎁

Raging against Pantone colors is a performative blind alley proving people can’t prioritize their threats. Please give a shit about something more important.

IT’S A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!

If we would reach a degree of civilization higher and grander than any yet attained, we should welcome to our ample continent all the nations, kindreds, tongues and peoples, and as fast as they learn our language and comprehend the duties of citizenship, we should incorporate them into the American body politic. The outspread wings of the American eagle are broad enough to shelter all who are likely to come.

From Frederick Douglass's 1867 "Composite Nation" speech, a defense of Chinese migration to the United States at a time when anti-Chinese sentiment was intensifying.
teachingamericanhistory.org/document/our...

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

Montana Has an Ambitious Plan to End Dark Money in Elections Polls suggest 74 percent of voters in the state will back a ballot initiative to counter the effects of Citizens United.

The state of Montana is on the verge of being the first in the nation to counter the impact of Citizens United via a 2026 ballot measure using an innovative legal maneuver that other states could adopt.

When are these government thugs gonna learn? Never bring gun to a sandwich fight.

Elon Musk is a bloviating nincompoop, either too incurious or too impatient to understand how NYC elections work.

Brad Lander for Governor would complete the ultimate one two punch New Yorkers need right now!

Growing up before the internet meant finding ways to entertain yourself to avoid boredom. I remember just making up new alphabets in school. How could I design a better alphabet with the sounds I have to make every day to form words?

George Orwell thought we’d be here 41 years earlier. We sure showed him!

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

So, You Want to Leave Bluesky... The most important thing you need to know is:

So, you want to leave Bluesky, but you don't want to lose your community and start all over again.

Great news! You can leave without losing anything. Here's how.

Please share if you find this helpful so people don't lose their shit and go back to twt for no reason 🙏💖

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

Guy in camo with thick black glasses

Different guy in camo with Arab style scarf, thick black glasses

From yesterday and today: it certainly appears ICE in Chicago are wearing the Meta AI Ray-Ban glasses.