@karimarie
Educator, partner, parent, traveler, trivia buff, data enthusiast, SF Giants fan, host of the inoperable brain tumor known as Donald Lump. She/her. On Nisenan land. #MaskUp 💜
“I cannot hug him, I cannot kiss him.”
One woman, an aunt of a man who was killed during an LAPD interaction by bullets fired from officers. She says it was due to a pretextual stop.
Several aides in the back visibly laughing. Several councilmembers do not look up from their desks.
Absolute fucking bullshit.
So: on the morning of Jan 15, my top boss called. Because I write a lot of obituaries, I answered "Who's dead?" Turns out it was my magazine career! "Today we're going to be making an announcement that people across the the company are being laid off," he said. "Unfortunately, you're one of them."
Crude oil up 30% today
I propose that in october we permanently shift all clocks back by only 30 minutes & then fucking leave them there forever after. And if you think that's somehow more absurd than the DST/SDT dance, please take a deep breath and remember that clock time is fake & was invented for trains. It'll be fine
(Historically, knitting patterns have been used to conceal codes, but apparently this was not one of those instances.)
www.wits.ac.za/curiosity/st...
Also, as a nascent knitter, this had me literally laughing out loud:
"But the FBI couldn’t crack the codes [...] They even brought in a team of bureau cryptologists. [...] Until they realized that the Czech “illegal” was just an avid knitter. The codebooks [...] were knitting patterns."
This article is fantastic. And no, I haven't seen "The Americans", yet, anyway.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Dr. Manhattan on Mars in the comic
It is February 2022. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.
It is February 2026. An autocrat has started a genocidal war of choice, destroying global oil markets in the process.
Ben, a chef in Australia, who worked at Noma in 2012, said that punishing all the employees for one person’s mistake was routine. “He just went down the line and punched us in the chest” while yelling expletives into their faces, said the chef, who asked that his surname not be used because he feared retaliation. “Even the interns who had been upstairs picking elderflowers.” When Mr. Redzepi wanted to discipline them but there were customers in the dining room, several employees said, he would crouch under the counters in the open kitchen and jab them in the legs with his fingers or a nearby utensil, like a barbecue fork. One former cook, who requested anonymity because he feared retaliation, said Mr. Redzepi had physically attacked him more times than he could remember during his time at Noma. He recalled that one night in 2011 Mr. Redzepi noticed that he had left a tiny tweezer mark on a flower petal as he placed it onto a dish. Mr. Redzepi, he said, grabbed the straps of his apron and slammed him against the wall, then punched him twice in the stomach.
Three star chefs are insane, part one million www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/d...
Serious piece of reporting tonight by Julia Moskin of the @nytimes.com on the often violent culture at Noma, which came from the very top: chef Rene Redzepi. (Follows up an impressive collation of appalling stories by Jason Ignacio White, a former employee, on Insta)
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/d...
"[F]or every one bird that dies in the blades of a turbine, domestic cats are dragging roughly 4,000 back to the porch."
www.zmescience.com/feature-post...
Staff at the nation’s largest Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention facility have placed bets on which detainee will be the next to die by suicide, according to new reporting from the Associated Press based on 911 calls and detainee accounts.
Destroying a water desalination plant is a war crime if:
A) Anyone the USA doesn't like does it
B) USA does it
C) All of the above (What are you, a woke commie?)
Eric Trump calls the Ayatollah’s son an incompetent moron who only got his position through nepotism. Irony is dead.
Also, BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS
BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS
Also, BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS
One of the reasons I feel communities of color in Maine haven't given up on Platner is that he shows up in a way that's rare for white folks. Much less a political type. When the ICE surge started here, he reached out directly to me and others to see how he could assist.
I too have a brain injury. It's never caused me to accidentally use ChatGPT to write something I SHOULD BE DOING ON MY OWN
"Author Marie Atallah claims the references were submitted in error, an oversight affected by a brain injury. She provided us with two more reference lists, the first with more nonexistent sources and a final copy with real references."
retractionwatch.com/2026/03/06/l...
I'M OUT
Since the Dow is at 47,500 are we allowed to talk about Epstein now?
Actually, given everything that Jesse Jackson devoted his life to, this is EXACTLY the right time & place.
Waiting for the "she supports genocide so I refused to vote for her" crowd to come out of the woodwork... I'm as pro-Palestine as the average leftist, and Harris was absolutely problematic, but LOOK WHERE WE ENDED UP, YOU WALNUTS.
That’s what I think too. They are meant to manipulate, not inform.
What the fuck is wrong with America. That his approval is anywhere near 40 is madness. He should be closer to 20.
Fuck sake the dems and others are not making the case that he is STEALING democracy from under their noses. In plain sight.
Something must be done.
Absolutely fucking gross.
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