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If you're looking for fascism, you should never look for the government to say they're fascists, you just look for when the government says being anti fascist is a crime.

I realize that to people outside the PNW this is just an interesting news item, but if you're in the PNW, where tracking orca pods is a local religion, this is basically like being visited by alien gods

IDITAROD 2026: A musher on a mission - ICT Jody Potts-Joseph wants to encourage young Alaska Natives to travel the way of the ancestors

If you aren't keeping up with the Iditarod this year, here is a good reason to: Four mushers are Alaskan Native: Kevin Hansen, Inupiaq; Ryan Redington, Inupiaq; Kaiser, Yup’ik; and Jody Potts-Joseph. Another, Jesse Terry, Anishinabe, is Indigenous from Canada. #Uglydogs

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Oh my lord. Well, I’ll just say … it doesn’t affect me personally at this point, but if it did, it wouldn’t anymore after this if you get my drift.

Can’t believe nobody wanted to read the articles nobody bothered to write

ah, the reputational damage of other people hearing the things you said and did

The escalation trap: how the Iran war could become more costly and complex Iran’s is trying to create wedges between Gulf states and the US, but Trump is very comfortable on the ‘escalatory ladder’

1/2 In the 1920s and 1930s Britain tried to control opposition to its mandated rule in the Middle East and NW India through air power. The RAF justified its role after WWI by exaggerating the effectiveness of imperial ‘aerial policing’.

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WOW.

Israel planning massive ground invasion of Lebanon, officials say "We are going to do what we did in Gaza," said a senior Israeli official.

"We are going to do what we did in Gaza," a senior Israeli official said, referring to the flattening of buildings Israel says Hezbollah uses to store weapons and launch attacks."

“The Trump administration’s immigration enforcers are requesting unfettered access to the government’s ‘most powerful people-finder system,’ which contains sensitive information on children and victims of domestic violence.”

no better music for fuckin' than Figrin D'an and The Modal Nodes

"What happened to CAMPUS PROTESTS?!?!?"

watercolor paintings with brains and anti-AI text

two new anti-AI watercolors in the shop artologica.etsy.com

The Batsh*t True Story Behind Werner Herzog's Wildest Production Ever Even by Werner Herzog's wild standards, 'Fitzcarraldo' was a shoot from hell.

Is anyone considering Brian Sweeney Fitzgerald's idea as a possible solution to the #StraitOfHormuz problem?
#Fitzcarraldo
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brilliant marketers, these videos are a blast

AI toys for young children need tighter rules, researchers warn In first study of its kind, Cambridge researchers found AI toys could misread some children's emotions.

Oh my god people are giving small children AI toys and expecting them to learn communication from them??? THIS IS LITERALLY WHAT HUMANS SHOULD BE DOING THIS IS NOT AI'S JOB WHAT THE HELL www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Many are the repositories whose digitized collections are held together by paper clips & twine paid for with an uncertain budget that may not get renewed in the next fiscal year because there’s long been a zeal to “just” digitize things but not to invest in their careful documentation & maintenance.

“Her daughter’s new student enrollment form was denied due to “license plate recognition software showing only Chicago addresses overnight” in July and August... “Although you are the owner on record of a house in our district, license plate recognition shows that is not the place where you reside.”

I am sort of shocked that both the outlet and the journalist seem to have thought that nothing bad would happen because, I guess, only a certain class of person has their gambling get out of hand?

Watch this clip.

Professors will recognize this kid as the student who didn't do the reading but still has very strong opinions about how it's all "bullshit," except this time he's not the callow student who's going to fail your course, he's the reviewer who's going to cancel your grant.

Have just read this extraordinary sentence in New York Magazine

!!!

'A ghostwriter who had a “slow year” made $164,768, most of which ($107,768) was from ghostwriting famous people’s Substacks.'

I genuinely believe that 2026 is going to be the beginning of the return to the indie web, and more individual internet/computer related things

linux will become more accessible, people will begin self-hosting again, it's gonna be great, I BELIEVE

No religion or political ideology will protect you from bigotry. The only thing that protects you from bigotry is your own vigilance. "I can't be prejudiced against X because I believe Y" is not a real thing.

Sexual Misconduct by J.R.O.T.C. Instructors Is Pervasive, Report Finds

If the NYTimes says JROTC instructor abuse of high school kids is "pervasive" you know it has to be bad

You can't prepare individually for a societal level disaster.

we expelled them, blacklisted them, called cops to beat the shit out of them, and deported them. why aren't they protesting again? i'm very smart

A hay bale tied to the back of a truck with a pied peacock laying comfortably on it, its long iridescent train covering the top of the bale.

Want to add a touch of class to any object?
Put a peacock on it 🦚
Instant luxury

Male Vermilion Flycatcher perched

Vermilion Flycatcher looking like vermilion dollars 🪶

Early photos of enslaved people in 1850 head home from Harvard to South Carolina museum Harvard University turned the photos over to the International African American Museum in Charleston after a seven-year legal fight, the museum announced Wednesday.

Harvard University turned the photos over to the International African American Museum in Charleston after a seven-year legal fight, the museum announced Wednesday.

UFC Fighters to Train FBI Agents in ‘Historic Seminar’ This Week: We’ll ‘Be Even Better Prepared to Protect the American People,’ Kash Patel Says UFC fighters will head to Quantico, Va. this week to train FBI agents and students in what FBI director Kash Patel is calling a "historic seminar."

What a joke. FBI agents are not street brawlers. They interview witnesses, uncover documents, analyze intelligence, and testify in court, usually while wearing a suit and tie. Just one more frolic for Kash at taxpayer expense.
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