See, here's the thing. I do not doubt for a moment that Iran is trying to use civilian infrastructure as cover for military activities (which is illegal). In normal times, I would treat these assertions by DoD on the rebuttable presumption of good faith.
But Hegseth has squandered that.
Under President @jbpritzker.bsky.social I fully intend to quote from the Torah at my daily press briefings.
An NJ legislator doing... good?!
Two cactus wrens sitting atop a chollo.
I love the way these cactus wrens (photographed today) have a safe shelter inside a chollo catcus where they built their elaborate nest.
ChatGPT driving rise in reports of ‘satanic’ organised ritual abuse, UK experts say
My daughter reported that the ICE presence outside her school during recess last week involved ICE officers sitting IN AN ICE CREAM TRUCK. And this wasn't kids misinterpreting. We had an email from the school the day it happened; we just didn't get the ice cream detail in the email.
Top Trump officials plan to lock themselves underground and then cross their fingers that nobody welds their bunker doors shut and fills the ventilation intakes with cement.
New: Immigrant rights advocates filed a lawsuit in Boston seeking to stop President Trump's administration from next week ending legal protections that allow nearly 1,100 Somalis to live and work in the United States, after he derided them as "garbage." www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
bluesky being immediately negatively polarized into going with skeets because we were asked not to was the first sign that we were going to make it as a posting site
every true posting forum declares forever war against the mods
make darth the ceo and no one tell him til he gets back
Real-world implications: Credit Bureaus Are Leaving More Mistakes on Frustrated Consumers’ Reports Under Trump’s CFPB @joeljacobs.bsky.social
I know, "low-info" voters and all that, but I still marvel at how people don't realize everything gets worse under Republicans. I get far more scam calls than I used to. All these little laws go from "grossly insufficient" to "wholly unenforced."
Love this kind of science. Also “The squeal of peeling tape, explained” feels like the title of a banger poem
Generational talent!
this also makes U.S. politicians incredibly unprepared for a vigorous fight. look how George Galloway - a piece of shit! - was able to walk all over the Senate committee trying to attack him, largely for *stuff he actually did*
because intelligent, interrogative interviewing can get you shut out of access, most U.S. media - especially TV news - actively *discourages* it in political reporting. Contrast the UK, where the unavoidable status of the BBC paradoxically meant it could be much bolder, setting the norm for others.
the weird American deference to office and incumbent advantage doesn't help.
foreignpolicy.com/2023/05/06/u...
Truly, as Hadley Freeman called him in The Times, Trump is a "feminist champion".
If you need some good news this weekend, "Experimental Files", an anthology of short stories inspired by @gemmafiles.bsky.social's "Experimental Film" is now available.
Edited by Sarah Walker and Elizabeth Mitchell, all profit generated by this book will be donated to autism research efforts.
A very belated STORY DAY shout from me! My story "Distant But Unmistakable" is in the Experimental Files anthology, full of short stories inspired by @gemmafiles.bsky.social novel "Experimental Film"!
It’s wild to me after all these years I still have to remind even close friends that I am literally always on their dog’s side and never theirs. Ever. I don’t care what you say the dog did. The dog is right and you are wrong. You are 100% at fault. And also a nark btw. Maybe try not being a snitch.
Okay, look, readers have preferences, literary tastes adn dominant paradigms are always in a state of change, whatever, but maybe if you don't like worldbuilding, fantasy is not actually the genre you should be reading?
Okay what's not mentioned here is that we are at 815 so ONE THOUSAND IS NOT THAT FAR AWAY
CROM WANTS YOU TO BACK THIS MAGAZINE
I can’t wait. The best part of this is getting to be in the same realspace room with both @older.bsky.social and @annaleen.bsky.social for the first time ever!
"The evil that men do lives after them"
www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/03/bo-g...
Woops, the @societyofauthors.bsky.social have a new scheme to put 'Human Authored' into new books and Tracey Chevalier (author of Girl With A Pearl Earring) goes on the BBC Today Programme to promote it... and promptly admits that she uses genAI for historical research.
