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Trump just helped bring Andrew Tate — who is literally charged with rape and human trafficking — into our country.

BREAKING: Foreign-born leader comes to Oval Office, dressed down in a disrespectful manner, having already received billions from America, asking for American taxpayers to keep paying him more billions, subsidizing him for years to come:

The NYT Obit for David Jo. www.nytimes.com/2025/03/01/a...

Former Conservative MP and British Attorney General Dominic Grieve:

Another example of music tech being so much fun youtu.be/elcASapCZRY

So it begins

I had my tonsils hacked out when I was a kid. Afterwards they gave me corn flakes whilst all the others had ice cream. Not that I’m bitter

Will the Blues Brothers be banned because of a certain line in the film?

Bluescreen is a Bluesky client with one singular purpose: It identifies the videos from your Bluesky feed and delivers them to you in a TikTok-style endless scrolling interface.

Ok America; you've got actual fascism. You're not going to topple this through the courts, through the federal government, or through memes. Pretty sure it's going to require violence. Sorry, but there it is. The sooner you do it, the less awful it will be.

One significant advantage we have with Starmer attending the emergency summit in Europe on Monday is that immediately after, he won't skip his security detail and scuttle off to Umbria to be debriefed by Lebedev and his dad.

Just watch and listen to Chad Smith’s drumminghttps://youtu.be/jNFEYVADsBU

Double Tenor Wind Wand is a succes 😍 Going to experiment with different size elastic bands to see which ones do the best. Keep an eye out for more news! Prints are super solid as well!! #soundsofgameaudio #gameaudio #diyinstruments #3DPrinting

In other news: More than half of US households have lead in their drinking water.

How utterly dysfunctional that in Trump’s Oval Office there isn’t an aide capable of addressing a poor little boy’s urgent need to pee. He tried telling both the primary adults there, his Dad and the President - and neither of them knew how to handle it or even seemed to care

Elon Musk is for America what Cecil Rhodes was for the British Empire: an oligarch with far-reaching powers bestowed on him to help the state to grab as much of the world’s waterways, land, resources and labor as it can My latest for @foreignpolicy.com foreignpolicy.com/2025/02/07/e...

not a new observation but Elon Musk genuinely isn't very bright, genuinely has no idea how most things work, and his entire supergenius engineer persona is a tech press-enabled mythology (they've never been held accountable for)

If he’d have served his country, he’d have been taught how to render a proper salute. He has no clue.

Unfortunate headline 🫠 www.bbc.com/news/article...

With a drone

If you're looking for fraud, you send accountants, not computer programmers. Also, the electoral college is DEI for red states.

It's outrageous that the UK secretly ordered Apple to build an encryption backdoor that would let it spy on Americans and won't even confirm it. Now more than ever, we need end-to-end encryption www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

"This is the largest data breach and the largest IT security breach in our country’s history” www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...

Well, this got me right in the feels this morning

The Electronic Ladyland Mixtape: Women's Avant-Garde Electronic Music blogthehum.com/2016/09/14/t...

Shall we be dragged by him to the bottom of the sea? Shall we be towed by him to the infernal world?

The BBC describes Trump's press conference performance as "combative" How long has combative been a synonym for bonkers, insane, deranged.....?

Seeing the anti-environmental 'abundance' rhetoric tighten its grip on young male 'progressives' who get their education from podcasts is chilling. Net Zero isn't a game. Failure to deliver it is famine, drought, civil unrest, war, and death for your children. Wake up.

OpenAI furious DeepSeek might have stolen all the data OpenAI stole from us 🔗 www.404media.co/openai-furio...

A SpaceX Dragon docked with the ISS in September - for this purpose - and is already scheduled to return in March. All arranged by NASA while Biden was president. Trump has had nothing to do with it. Fantasy stuff.

Hey siri, how's that whole "Meta is all about free speech" thing going?

I’m sort of surprised that OpenAI hasn’t opened any stores yet. (This is a Google Store on Newbury St. in Boston.)

All our ducks are swimming in the water

Currently listening to this. What became of Lemon Jelly? They were so good

Let’s have some music fun youtu.be/tCY_wsv6-N4

Rupert Murdoch has now spent around £2bn in keeping the truth about the way his news organisations operate out of the courts in the UK and US. Please don’t shrug and say it’s normal. It’s not. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...

Good to see BBC R4 talking about museums. tinyurl.com/yu66ewvf But I do get irritated by the assumption that controversies over museum are new. Museums have always been controversial. That's their job.