This was first thing top of my feed after ages away, so I know little about what is going on, but I vote for (1) up & coming band's first album, or (2) players in roleplay game. Mostly I like that we, the viewer, belong to the team because we're the only one looking in the direction they are not.
I'm back. Yay and stuff. ;)
NEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion.
In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patientsβ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
First came the Amazon One palm reader at Whole Foods checkout stands. Now, Sam Altman wants you to pay for thingsβand verify your identityβwith a scan of your irises via an orb that stores biometric information on the blockchain.
my working assumption is that any foreign government who cares to has basically real time access to the inner workings of the Trump administration
which doesnβt really help much when the six fireflies bouncing around inside Trumpβs skull hit a new random thing to tariff
Lol just crazier and crazier
"To put it bluntly, the most powerful people in the world are preparing for the end of the world, an end they themselves are frenetically accelerating.β-- @naomiaklein.bsky.social & Astra Taylor www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
Great write up on a very effective scam that uses a second scammer to call your bank while you speak to the scammer. Don't trust unsolicited calls/texts/emails claiming to be from your bank.
Imagine if YOUR wife, sister or daughter was detained immediately after giving birth & isolated from her baby, her family, her lawyer & friends. She was held incommunicado.
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This regime is lawless.
They are soulless.
They are brutal.
They are Nazis.
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Great sign seen at todayβs #TeslaTakedown.
RFK Jr.βs HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
NIAIDβs Integrated Research Facility is one of the few federal facilities charged with studying Ebola. Last Tuesday, all of its work was put on indefinite pause by RFK Jr.βs department.
So DOGE was just about getting rid of Elonβs troubles.
Corruption Run a Musk
End the Nerd Reich
So Much to Protest, So Little Cardboard
Some signs of the times: Seen today at the joyful #HandsOff and #TeslaTakedown protest here in my town.
A soft wind rustled through some pine trees. You swore it sounded like muffled words. Couldnβt be, obviously. But you listen again. You convinced yourself you heard it. βRainbow bike tunnels in IRA2β it whispered.
Can anyone explain how Alberta has been so poorly treated by Liberals? They bought them a pipeline ffs. And the highest ever amount of oil produced/exported was under Trudeau. These folks aren't living in reality. They'll never be satisfied. They want to hate liberals more than they want the truth.
Calvin's mom says "Life could be worse, Calvin" by a Liberal Party logo, Calvin says, "Life could be a lot better, too!" under an NDP logo, Calvin's dad says, "Life being worse builds character!" under a Conservative Party logo
The forever-correct way to translate Canadian parties to other countries without using their politics for reference
A Haitian woman who was among those held in allegedly inhumane conditions has died after more than 10 weeks in immigration custody.
At least six others have died in ICE custody in fiscal 2025, which began in October, ICE data shows.
Write a letter. Send it registered. Request reply by letter. Write one for each appointment required. Be excruciatingly informative ("I've called on theses dates" sort of thing), but meticulously polite. You are allowed to say that you are finding the process very stressful.
From an Australian cartoonist...
12 Indigenous candidates elected in 2025 federal election
Danielle Smith has one card to play: picking fights for the sake of fighting. If she doesnβt make an enemy out of the federal government, sheβs left with no one to blame but herself.
Albertans are proud to be Canadians. We know better than to play games when our nationβs sovereignty is threatened.
RFK Jr. is ending the federal Narcan distribution program credited with the recent steep decline in overdose deaths. This despite his own past heroin addiction and his own brother dying of a drug overdose in 1984.
Give a person a fisshe and thei will eate for a daye. Teache a person to fisshe and thei will eate for a lyfetyme. Destroye the fish ponde to make a computer tell lies about fisshe, you are a Gen AI companye.
Alberta shocks nation with same election results they've turned out since 1958 #cdnpoli
Follow the money, people. Always follow the money.
America is corrupt from sea to shiny sea.
there is a decent chance i never spend a single dime at target again in my life www.startribune.com/target-gave-...
I hate you
Congress says it's antisemitic to say Jesus wouldn't approve of killing Palestinian children but not antisemitic to say Jews killed Jesus
Ah, the historically *checks notes* better reviewed and better paid authors? thank heavens someone has arrived to help the under-represented from that (as oppressed modern thinker Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote) βdamned mob of scribbling women.β #booksky
Google translate screenshot. Sneglefart: snail's pace
Today's absolutely delightful Norwegian word:
