Tian Valerian

everyone i am going to replace chatgpt now. Ask me something and i will drink a gallon of water then give you an incorrect answer

Donald and Melania Trump’s Terrible, Tacky, Seemingly Legal Memecoin Adventure — Bloomberg Businessweek No one wants to claim credit for helping the first couple launch cryptocurrencies that plummeted more than 90% from their peak.

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Thank you. Thank you very much. The initial poems are very moving (reading on now).

This year’s World Book Day theme invites us to Go All In — and there is no better time to go all in on stories that heal, empower, and transform.

The Rest of the Story: Transforming Trauma to Voice, Agency, and Leadership (2025) is more than an anthology. It is a social movement in book form.

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack.

Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.

So far the war in Iran has cost an estimated $5.5 billion.

That's roughly $1 billion per day.

$41,666,667 per hour.

$11,574 per second.

People do not want this.

They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

(Always an apology for AppleNews+ but too much news & can’t be fucked.)

They Went to Dubai for Sun and Low Taxes. They Wound Up in a War Zone. — The Wall Street Journal The Gulf city has emerged as a premier destination for expats, some of whom are finding little sympathy back home

Article about Brits in Dubai. One of the things not mentioned is that Dubai runs on what is in all but name slave labour. Things will become even more interesting if Dubai’s oppressed workers take the chaos as an opportunity to rise up. apple.news/Ah2zmqQsFSti...

Trump Says He Is Replacing Kristi Noem — The Wall Street Journal The Homeland Security secretary’s combative Senate hearing this week was a key factor, advisers say

Markwayne Mullin? Fuck me, we may have gone from bad to worse. 🫤

You can now visualize how a color palette distributes across OKHsv, OKHsl, OKLCh and CIELab, and compare 6 distance metrics side by side. Zero dependencies, raw WebGL2.

Took me 3 years to make something I wasn't too embarrassed to share 🙃

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Another reason to love blsky: ppl wax lyrical about their pencils. 😊

Americans are dead. Prices are skyrocketing. The Middle East is on fire. Civil war is brewing in Iran.

And for what? A war that will leave the same hardliners in charge? A war that can't actually destroy their nuclear program?

This is incompetence. Plain and simple.

😡😡😡😡

I'm looking for more books or readings on Catholic religious trauma. It doesn't have to be academic work, I'm super willing to do a deep dive on blogs, for example. If you have anything on hand or on your bookshelf you think I should take a look at, send it my way!

Reprint of first edition of Kit Marlowe’s Hero & Leander. Cover with woodprint.

Finally, someone says it. Democrats are not obsessed with transpeople, women’s sports and bathrooms. Republicans are. Case in point Fox News has created more content about transpeople, than transpeople. More articles in which the subject is transpeople than publications marketed towards transpeople.

When someone says „Scientists do not want you to know“ you can dismiss everything from there on. Scientists want you to know. They are desperate that you know. They can’t shut up about what they found out and want you to know.

PETITION: Don't Let the Federal Government Regulate Your Reading Not one country's freedom and liberty has ever been increased by banning books.

The Federal Book Ban bill uses funding threats to pressure schools to remove books.

Federal control over local policy - and federal control of reading, writing, and publishing - is unacceptable.

Sign the petition to stop it. action.everylibrary.org/hr_7661 via @everylibrary.bsky.social

Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

Homeland Security wants Social Media sites to expose Anti-ICE Accounts!!!!

The Government is trampling on our CIVIL LIBERTIES!!!!!

#ICE

#Iran

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

I don't know who needs to know this... but...

A VPN is not a privacy application. It doesn't hide your location data, specifically. It doesn't encrypt your data, specifically. All it does is route your traffic through a single server somewhere else.

Let me explain. Or don't, this is the internet.

October 1906 From: Forest's End, Nottinghamshire, England To: Holborn, London My dearest Robbie, Now that we've said goodbye, I must begin to accept that you won't come back. Still, I look for you, useless as it is. I prowl our rooms in the farmhouse, and every corner says to me, He's not here. I go into the bedroom; you're not sleeping under our quilt, covered to your eyes. I walk from room to room with a candle, searching wardrobes and attics, find nothing, nothing. I walk in the woods, not feeling the cold for a long time, and can't bear to return here. When I climb our stairs, I remember how you first climbed them to find me that October night. You were wearing that ridiculous coat, and I said, "Don't come in." But you wouldn't go, no matter how the risk made you hunch your shoulders. I can still see your anxious eyes and hear how you stammered for words. I should have known you would eventually leave. You wanted to paint, and you are painting now, and everything I predicted will come true for you. Still, things will be more dangerous in London. You know it. Be careful whom you trust. Don't be a young fool. If you fall into trouble, write me. My darling, I'm sorry for the things I did and my silences. There are things that happened to me I can never tell anyone, and now I'll never be able to tell you. One thing I am proud of: I kept the promise I made to you. And now I must keep the one I made to myself. You won't answer this, but perhaps you'll read it. Is it too much to add that I'll love you always? Or as my Italian grandmother would say, Ti voglio bene, caro ragazzo mio! You should burn this, perhaps? Your Antonio

Shit. Now that’s how you start a period gay romance.

Kinda the point. The current system isn't working that well & has not at least since Reagan (one could argue earlier).

I do understand the entrenchment of the current system but when it is not serving the nation, well… 🤷🏻

Yes. Most Western nations include the option to dissolve a government that it not serving the ppl. I have oft wondered why the US does not.

A side story, but The Lady of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson has long been one of my favourite Arthurian poems

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BREAKING: New York City reports the lowest levels of shootings, shooting victims, and murders ever recorded for the first two months of a year. Major crime is down nearly 8% citywide, burglary hit a record low, and retail theft dropped 25%

An ancient Buddhist sculpture from Amaravati showing a horse walking through a gateway. The sculpture became part of the British Museum's collections in 1880. Before that, it was used in the construction of a marketplace monument at Machilipatna, sent to the Madras Government Museum, and shipped to the India Museum in London.

For a limited time, you can download a free e-copy of my article, "Decolonising the Rescue Archive: Antiquarian usage of Amaravati sculptures in the British Museum". The article will be published in South Asian Studies journal later this year. Link on my website's homepage www.jenniferhowes.com

my most common self criticism when writing, especially after reading really good prose, is God i am not smart enough to be doing this. but you can't listen to that. you have to keep writing your dumbass little story. you have to

A war that is won does not go on forever 🤷🏻🫤

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ... there's info on who to complain to to try to stop this at the end of the article, lets share this message and try our best to stop it.

BREAKING: Babe, wake up. New war just dropped. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u...