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I know the world is burning but here’s Powder and her new hat 🌼

after careful consideration, we’ve ranked the worst thing to call a female judge: 3. honey 2. baby 1. sweetheart the one so bad, so life-ending that you can’t even rank it with the others: mom

when we scream and shout about doing things, this is what we mean. got popped and still went back again? hell yeah brother

THIS JUST HAPPENED: Brad Lander walked through the fire, got burned, and came back with a fucking gasoline can. ICE arrested him — now he’s escorting migrants right past them, again. Most politicians wouldn’t show up. He showed out.

"Tim Burke did what any good journalist would do. He found the truth, and he exposed it."

Efforts to instill in my children a strong sense of camaraderie with those in labor struggles have failed due to the allure of a free birthday frappe.

trans rights btw this isn't up for debate

The law in its infinite wisdom bans trans and cis people alike from being trans

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

After the latest round of grading papers, I wrote about AI, ChatGPT, the death of the student essay, and what it means for the future of human cognition.

beecome ungovernable

HE DID THE MASH he did the *Monster* Mash

I'm gonna divorce this very stupid thought from actual discussion about Brad Lander getting arrested and putting his body on the line for immigrants. But this was my first thought upon seeing the AMNY picture that's making the rounds.

photography is my passion

This is the last thing the BBC needs

CA5 upholds the federal ban on guns near schools for the unfathomably stupid reason that a 697-year-old English law is sufficiently analogous to the ban rather than that a democratically-enacted law banning guns near schools just, you know, MAKES SENSE. storage.courtlistener.com/pdf/2025/06/...

thinking about how josh barro used to host "left, right and center" on a liberal public radio station, and he'd be "center" and liz bruenig would be "left." incredible range of opinions that's represented in elite discourse.

entrance, storyland, route 30, schellsburg, pennsylvania, 1984

deschwanden's shoe repair ("the big shoe"), straight-on view, 10th & chester, bakersfield, california, 1987

Fascists can't rise to power if you become the fascists first. Brilliant.

Just got back from the *Some* Kings centrist rally. Bill Maher and Piers Morgan were there to lecture us about purity tests and electability. Matt Yglesias showed me a graph of polling data.

I love that a politician can say something like “I believe mice naturally spawn out of grain” and the news will now just treat that as a legitimate line of thought

an exhaustive investigation by the commission on finding out what happened to senator padilla has determined he appears to have been thrown on the ground and handcuffed

I believe you mean “frog unborn babies”

“if they can do this to a senator they can do this to anybody” they already are doing it to everybody wtf do you think weve been saying

A great way for Senate Democrats to protest what’s going on is to not have almost 40% of the caucus keep voting to advance a money laundering bill.

wow I wonder if the cops who lied about the sitting senator even though everything they did was on tape are also being less than honest about the presence of violent agitators at the protests in los angeles. they might even not have told the entire truth about other protests

OY, management, are you sure you guys are doing this right? #voxontheclock

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Ok - who is this psychopath and why is he in my seat?

A terrifying escalation:

pleased to report the democrats are holding a BBW hearing www.axios.com/2025/06/09/t...

I'll have more to say about this later but... Goodness. This article's description of the decisionmaking process on (cleaned up) and including an abbr. for Palestine does not make anyone look good. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... #LegalWriting #Citation #Bluebook22 cc: @scotusplaces.bsky.social

Cops-- pathetic. Fuck off. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/youre-a-bu...

It’s official. Studio Execs are now using Chat GPT to evaluate screenplays. Here’s proof from a friend’s pass letter: Not only is it vague and unhelpful, it references one specific — an antique camera. The problem? THERE’S NO ANTIQUE CAMERA IN THE FUCKING SCRIPT.

Thread from last nights airport BS: (written last night & shared on masto): So yeah. Things started off as they usually do. Couldn’t check in online or at a kiosk. Got to the front desk to check in where I waited over 2 hours for them to get approval from TSA to let me through.

ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.