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go birdes

The Times study found that “300 billionaires and their immediate family members donated more than $3 billion — 19 percent of all contributions — in federal elections in 2024, either directly or through political action committees.”

"The Fabricator" a bizarre goblin creature operating a mechanical arachnid robot body, in Slay the Spire 2

it's good

I'm learning about all sorts of supply chains this week

Machine withe digital screen on front, side has a capital I and wbc sticker, along with the numbers 16, 8, 16, 11, 28, 3, 10, and 14 on it, stack of cups next to it

Italy's espresso machine has the numbers of everyone who hits a homer on it

Due to the slow erosion of the internet, you can no longer find any record of the story of Plunge Gherkins the Cool. It's not a story the Jedi would tell you....

Hatch Gazpacho is BACK

Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends

Crab Just Happy To Be In Bucket With All His Friends https://theonion.com/crab-just-happy-to-be-in-bucket-with-all-his-friends/

Believing the point of Wired—or journalism at large—is to give ideas for venture capitalists to invest in is bafflingly ahistorical and narcissistic.

people on here will post anything. "Bam Adebayo should have stopped at 81 points"

One of the many "goon pizzas," with "goon" here meaning a poster on the SomethingAwful forums, and not, like, a pizza worth masturbating to at marathon durations. This one is a basic frozen pizza, topped with McDonalds hamburgers, fries and McNuggets and a pound of shredded mozzarella.

Another of the unfortunate "goon pizzas," only this time the pizza is topped by seven corndogs, arranged with the sticks in the interior and the corndogs radiating out from the center toward the exterior. Not close enough to symmetry to qualify for fearful symmetry, but CLOSE.

Just for reference, we talked about these pizzas, and if you have not seen them, you should see them:

I talked to dozens of experts in government, academia, cybersecurity, and industry about exactly this scenario last year and not only did not one of them think I was being alarmist, many brought it up unprompted and many said there was zero chance it hadn’t already happened

DHS Ousts CBP Privacy Officers Who Questioned ‘Illegal’ Orders Department of Homeland Security leaders removed top privacy officers who objected to mislabeling government records to block their public release, WIRED has learned.

Scoop: DHS ousted multiple privacy officers at CBP after they questioned orders to purposely mislabel records about government surveillance to prevent their release under FOIA.

Truly, we live in an age of wonders.

www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...

Someone is spoofing ships to make it look like they are entering Hormuz Strait from Indian ocean.

This is false. Ships do not move like this.

Zoomed out version from Marinetraffic. Zoom in version above^

Arlo Guthrie: And they all moved away from me on the bench there

Attacks leave dead vs killed

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I love how many people I see walking the cross-town trail these days. Every morning of every weekend - small groups, big groups, with their backpacks and water bottles. It's a great way to see the city.

Imagining Laurent Binet writing a metafictional account of the death of Epstein and agonizing over the line “dudes, you killed that dude”

Bruce Arena's got the Quakes on nine points through three games, with six goals scored and none allowed.

His entire starting back four and his entire starting front three all played in college. Eight of 11 starters are domestic players.

the quakes are, against all odds, cooking

pablo found the smoking gun

Italy players are celebrating home runs by taking a shot of espresso

How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers between DC and Baltimore in a matter of minutes. The project was a...

this is good; I knew the contours of this story but there’s a bunch of things i hadn’t seen before washingtonian.com/2026/02/12/h...

disqualifying

S.F. immigration courts gutted: 21 judges down to 2 after planned departures At the start of last year, San Francisco's two immigration courts had 21 judges. By mid-March there will just be two left.

at the start of 2025, there were 21 immigration judges in SF. by the end of march there will be 2. there are 120,000 pending cases. missionlocal.org/2026/03/s-f-...

the hotchkiss to abu ghraib pipeline is real

ICE arrested an Oregon shop owner who had her green card in her pocket: ‘They didn’t care’ Juanita Avila later helped expose ICE’s ‘arrest first, justify later’ tactics in a lawsuit that won a major victory for immigrants’ rights

NEW: ICE tackled + arrested Juanita Avila, an Oregon shop owner who is a legal permanent resident and had her green card in her pocket.

When she asked through sobs why they didn't believe her, one masked agent replied: “Because they lie all the time.”

Video + interview with her and her daughter:

lol I went through this exact same reaction this morning