Dan Fejes

Anthropic still owes me $3000 for stealing my book

"what are you gonna do, vote for the Greens?" - Labour party heads moments before losing an election to the Green party.

You need to take your job more seriously and treat the office with the respect it deserves, he thundered.

Not sure how that capability develops for emerging outlets but it's a big hole right now. Wonky local stuff like city council meetings don't seem to have a natural home in this new world. LA Taco is super interesting - small food joint spins up journalism operation to meet urgent community need.

Scattered thoughts: fragmentation like this is a response to consolidation at the top. It would be nice for indys to have some loose affiliation for sharing content because most folks can only handle so many subscriptions. Well resourced operations with legal/fact check etc will be missed.

Science of sex and gender being misrepresented by Trump officials, experts warn Scientists say crackdown on gender-affirming care could have impact on healthcare of all Americans

Major thanks to @melodyschreiber.com for interviewing me about what biology actually says about sex & gender

Unscientific attacks on trans rights are fueled by fascism, not science, and harm all of us - cis or trans

Excellent reporting 🧬🏳️‍⚧️

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

How Kansas Republicans weaponized the law to target 300 trans driver's license holders SB 244 was put into effect virtually overnight, causing chaos, panic and fear in the trans community.

New — I spoke to eight trans people in Kansas about the new state law that invalidated their driver’s licenses overnight, what’s it’s like to live there right now, plus details of two DMV emails exclusively obtained by The Handbasket that shed light on the law’s chaotic and cruel rollout:

“As we close out Black History Month during a time when Black and trans folks are under relentless attack in the US, it’s good to acknowledge and celebrate our resilience and capability for joy. Ballroom is an important source of creativity, pride, and belonging for our community.”

bluesky: the headline

Switch the uniforms and soft serve and you have my attention.

just an old lunatic elected by tens of millions of people, folks

The papers are going to have a tantrum over every choice she makes down to the smallest detail. It will be spectacular.

The only way to improve its taste is with onions, is all I will say.

Growing more complex by the day: How should journalists govern use of AI in their products? Journalists at the investigative outlet ProPublica have pledged to strike if negotiations for a contract don't take a turn — in what is believed would be the first such job action in the news industry...

ProPublica union members are “inching toward a potential strike, in what is believed would be the first such job action in the news business where how to deal with AI is the chief sticking point.”

Epstein files contain explicit but unsubstantiated claim that Trump abused minor Department of Justice did not release FBI memos when it uploaded millions of pages of files beginning in December

The Guardian obtained the missing 302s. This story destroys the DOJ's excuse that they withheld the last three interviews because they were duplicative. The accuser covered different ground in different interviews.

They won't use Tylenol but they'll buy alligator protein powder from an unaffiliated Florida panhandle GNC

how the hell did we get leviticus in the divorce

They are infatuated with voters to their right and contemptuous of those to their left.

Keir Starmer has written to all Labour MPs attacking the Green Party for embracing "divisive" and "sectarian" politics

I'm picking up concern among Labour MPs about how this letter will come across to people who have voted/are tempted to vote Green, as it could risk further alienating these voters

How a working-class plumber threw a wrench in Starmer’s election plans | CNN The special election in northern England was supposed to be neck-and-neck-and-neck: a three-way scrap between the governing Labour Party, fighting to keep control of a seat in its historic heartland, ...

pretty good headline, for CNN at least www.cnn.com/2026/02/27/u...

I can’t stop thinking about this.

Cops understand that the process *is* punishment. So beating the rap is nice, but it fucks you up, though theoretically you’re not being punished unless and until you’re convicted.

the utter failure of this labour and tory swerf&terf convergence should be heartening, I think?

I know what crack and heroin are but I hadn't heard of that last one.

Were you that "rules lawyer" at your TTRPG / D&D session who wants to discuss the fine points of implementaiton of everything?

THIS IS YOUR TIME

Use that arcana / hyper-fixation for good

A SKLETON HOLDIN UP A FINGER TO POLITICANS AND THE PEACES OF SHIT WHO WANT TO WRECK EVERYONES LIFES, IF SOME OF US ARE NOT FREE THEN NONE OF US ARE FREE, THE POLITICANS AND BILLIONAIRES WHO RUN THE COUNTRY MEET ON A SECRET ISLAND TO BREED SEX SLAVES BUT THEY WANNA TELL US THAT WE SHOULD BE SCARED OF SOMEONE TAKEN A SHIT IN A PUBLIC BATHROOM, OR MAD AT SOMEONE FOR HAVIN A DRIVERS LICENSE, FASHISM AINT CREEPIN ANY MORE ITS JOGGING, THEY BETTER GET THERE BIG ASS BUNKERS BUILT QUICK CAUSE THERE FULL OF MEAT AND WE GROW HUNGRIER BY THE DAY - DASHARE.ZONE ADMIN

TRANS RIGHT'S ARE HUMAN RIGHT'S - dashare.zone ADMIN

I haven't listened to the rest of it yet, my queue is shamefully long, but I'm looking forward to it. This week it's Superchunk, King Gizzard (Phantom Island is catnip to me), lots of Night Tapes, Kate Nash, soccer mommy and The Beths (Straight Line Was A Lie is a killer).

Screen print from https://gatlin.bandcamp.com/album/the-eldest-daughter The Eldest Daughter by Gatlin You own this

HEY!!!!

(I bought it after hearing Florida Man.)

For what it’s worth, I don’t have any tattoos.

Major new poll puts Scottish Greens on course to overtake Labour at Holyrood

NEW: The Scottish Greens will overtake Labour at the next Holyrood election, a major new poll has predicted 🚨