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The US has, in slightly over a year, torched what was once one of the best repositories of legal talent (the DOJ) in favor of...uh...total hacks now struggling under an impossible workload made all the more impossible by an administration that is acting without even the faintest color of law.

Even if AI could write a novel what problem has been solved? The problem of knowing what you’re reading was written by another person? Who loves reading novels but hates the part where your mind briefly and mysteriously touched another?

Posting works.

For every educator trying to find the words to explain why policies requiring us to out trans students are unacceptable:

I know people are very sensitive about the use of the word “genocide” but the attempts to medically eliminate trans children is very clearly meets the standard because they are trying to eliminate a population and also they know some of those kids are going to kill themselves

Queen Camilla at the 2026 Commonwealth Day service. Getty

InStyle invites its readers to "Shop the Look" for a literal queen wearing royal jewelry

When I went to their gig a few years ago. "I'm watching modern slavery" wasn't really in my thoughts

🎶 Remember despite our estrangement
I'm your nan
You'll be back
Soon you'll see
You'll remember that you love my tea
You'll be back
Time will tell
You'll remember biscuit tins as well🎶

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

Someone in my friend's family had a baby and they've found out she's deaf, so my friend (trying to be helpful) said to a family member "oh, you know my friend Soph - she's deaf"

And the family member said "well yeah but she's not REALLY deaf is she?"

I haven't stopped thinking about that all day

It's pretty disgusting that women are forced to publicly disclose being sexually assaulted or raped in order to be taken seriously by their peers.

The Singularity is upon us: Apple's AI summarized a text message that read "I'm still down to clown if you are" to.... "clown event still possible."

macro photo of a small geometrid moth on a blue-gray wooden deck. the moth is mottled black with a row of rusty orange splotches across their upper wings.

Time to get the Macro Muscles back into shape (oh believe me - it's a whole thing!)

Practicing with the amazing flexible twin flash @jencross.bsky.social gave me because my off camera flash muscles literally atrophied from my broken humerus in '19 😭

Genus Eupithecia moth

#inverts #becurious

Every now and then this site gets an old fashioned Main Character of the Day dunk contest and it's like watching a gang of ex pros come out of retirement

“Whether killing children or saving them, America bad”

the most dead-eyed soulless capitalists can read fossil fuels’ writing on the wall and are investing in clean energy. the problem is there are more people exist who romanticize fossil fuels because coal miners and roughnecks are men

This has always been the point of ai being absolutely crammed down our throats. It allows CEOs, policy makers, military officials and people at the top to deflect blame for anything decision they make.

I need a party hat.

gender turns out to be a harder problem to solve society-wide than decarbonization

I love my job at Amazon. At first I thought that wearing a catheter to work to avoid bathroom breaks was unreasonable, but after several sessions of deep hypnosis with the company therapist I’ve come to realize that the catheter is just a part of my body—a body of the future.

Long-time buddies Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols were out for a pleasant van drive in Oklahoma when, all of a sudden, their lives would change.

We have got to stop allowing people to portray women as gold diggers just for seeking the same remedy men do in business all the time.

Either everyone seeking redress via civil lawsuit is a gold digger or no one is.

“I don’t want their money, I just don’t want them to have it,” she told jurors. Lindsey Acree, an artist and gallery owner, testified she was raped by Tal Alexander and another man at a home in the Hamptons in 2011 after taking a drink that left her feeling paralyzed. The woman said she sued last year even though she will "never need their money" because the Alexanders "kept calling us gold diggers, shake down artists, con artists." "If there's a kid with a stick who keeps hitting people, you take their stick away," she told the jury. "Money is their stick, so you take it away so they can't hurt people anymore."

From a victim of the Alexander brothers, on the claim that all the women suing them are ‘gold diggers”:

#サンドの日
サンドー！ずっと大好きだよー！💛

What I love about that six word Hemingway story, "For sale: baby shoes, never worn" is that in those few words we instantly grasp the sadness of what it is trying to tell us: the baby was so freakishly massive when it was born that it could never wear the shoes its parents had bought for it.

In what in retrospect seems to have been a characteristically savvy bit of ambiguity, Trump never specified who would do the unconditional surrendering in his Iran war.

Two pairs of beavers released in Cornwall by wildlife trust Wildlife experts say the release is a "landmark" for nature recovering in Cornwall and nationally.

Enjoy a full minute of beavers being released into the wild in Cornwall. These little fluffbutts are the first to swim in these waters in a very, very long time - the last official records of beavers in the wild in England are from the 1300s. BBC buff.ly/BnMwCOx
#ShareGoodNewsToo

Brian Wilson: I’m going to need 9 years and this list of musical instruments only made in the mountains of Nepal to create my masterpiece, it’s called Goofy Goo Bananas

bluesky is where it is today solely on the efforts of the courageous artists drawing the horniest gay art ever to grace a timeline 🫡

The moss-carpeted base of a tree, which has many arms, and a cute face, and makes you realise why history is full of people who went out for walks in the countryside and wrote stories about bullshit creatures and events.

Very much enjoying this mossy octo-bear creature I found hiding in a tree trunk on a walk in the Blackdown Hills.