So she was fired for… *checks notes* making insightful and factual statements.

Yeah, that tracks for @washingtonpost.com these days. 😑

The transporter room from Star Trek, the original series. The machine is currently in the process of doing one of two things: 1) disintegrating five people into their constituent atoms, or 2) cloning five people who have recently been vaporized elsewhere

Point: Despite the name, Star Trek transporters transport nothing. They vaporize you and create a copy in another location. That clone has your memories, but they are not you. The clone assumes the life you abandoned, until one day they too are beamed away

Counterpoint: 10 second commute

Plausible deniability.

And here I stand both to impeach and purge

it’s even more demoralizing when the history you’re repeating is history you were around for the first time

It’s a good thing Congress isn’t alive to see this

We’ve bombed Iran. And dismantled our joint terrorism task force. And sent a third of the FBI to help ICE. And gutted the National Security Council. And a drunk guy is in charge at the pentagon. And our intelligence allies probably won’t share intel with us. Because people couldn’t vote for a woman.

This moment when the penny drops that trying to implement bathroom bans is an impossibility for the former Tory Chief Secretary Simon Clarke is delicious.

With new, specialized, ground-based telescopes coming on line, our knowledge of hazardous asteroids and comets will grow exponentially in the coming years.

Seems like a bad time to reduce science funding to NASA. Just sayin'.

YouTube video by WIRED How Governments Spy On Protestors—And How To Avoid It | Incognito Mode | WIRED

www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL34...

Yeah, I think this one of a series of images by the artist. Comforting to think my ‘ghost kitties’ are still with me.

Twenty Lessons, read by John Lithgow Key selections from On Tyranny, for viewing and sharing

"On Tyranny" is a #1 NYT bestseller again. I wish the moment were different. But I’m glad the book is useful. And grateful for all the kind words about putting the 20 lessons to work.
snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

How is it that every time Bill Maher trends for being a piece of shit there’s STILL a new group of people JUST figuring out that he’s a piece of shit?