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PhD candidate, Educational Studies. MA, Human Development, Learning, and Culture. gamer (not the bad kind), budoka, NOLA girl. I blog about POTS at barefootwriterhaspots.com

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Russia is providing Iran intelligence to target U.S. forces, officials say β€” The Washington Post The targeting information has included the locations of American warships and aircraft in the Middle East, the officials said.

Not quite sure what it will take for MAGA to see Putin as an enemy.

06.03.2026 12:56 πŸ‘ 367 πŸ” 168 πŸ’¬ 39 πŸ“Œ 6
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Hegseth Finds His Footing as
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As conservative critics question the assault on Iran, President Trump's TV-ready defense secretary is going on offense.
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Top Stories Markets THE WALL STREET JOURNAL. Opinion Business Tech U.S. Hegseth Finds His Footing as Epic Fury's Front Man As conservative critics question the assault on Iran, President Trump's TV-ready defense secretary is going on offense. World

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06.03.2026 03:57 πŸ‘ 262 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 25 πŸ“Œ 9

So Philip Glass just joined TikTok. He only has like 4 posts and they’re simply him in what I assume is his living room playing the piano. First comment on one I saw was β€œyour piano is too close to the fireplace, you’ll dry it out” and if that’s not the internet in a nutshell I don’t know what is.

06.03.2026 03:10 πŸ‘ 3463 πŸ” 708 πŸ’¬ 44 πŸ“Œ 43

If you're doomscrolling, guess what? So far there are 51 kākāpō chicks hatched and thriving this season, the same number of birds as we had in TOTAL in the 90s! Only one chick has died and there are still fertile eggs waiting to hatch!

06.03.2026 04:31 πŸ‘ 5151 πŸ” 1383 πŸ’¬ 60 πŸ“Œ 50
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Airtable | Everyone's app platform Airtable is a low-code platform for building collaborative apps. Customize your workflow, collaborate, and achieve ambitious outcomes. Get started for free.

If you're normally a Eurovision fan but joining the boycott this year, I've put together a spreadsheet of all the national selection winners with links to their songs, so you can watch without giving money and views to the Eurovision YouTube channel:

airtable.com/appT6K9duzXl...

06.03.2026 08:12 πŸ‘ 25 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0
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Netflix Taps Ben Affleck to Help Get More Filmmakers to Use AI The video streaming company announced that is buying Ben Affleck's AI tech company InterPositive.

Affleck can go fuck himself. What a traitor.

gizmodo.com/netflix-taps...

06.03.2026 05:03 πŸ‘ 126 πŸ” 47 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2

Fucking Mad Max-ass caterpillar.

06.03.2026 06:26 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I can only quote the great Annie Dillard and her magnificent "Pilgrim At Tinker Creek: "Fish gotta swim. Birds gotta fly. And insects, it seems, gotta do one horrible thing after another."

06.03.2026 06:24 πŸ‘ 307 πŸ” 46 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 1

Hey, did you hear about the Republican group chat that was inundated with hateful slurs and threats of violence?

No, not the Arizona one.

No, you're thinking that college one from last October.

06.03.2026 05:31 πŸ‘ 62 πŸ” 30 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

but those are good things, and they don't lie to you; they *reliably* automate tedious processes. my father owned a print shop. as a child, I played with Letraset. he got in on desktop publishing fairly early on. I used those tools in high school and as an adult in the corporate world.

06.03.2026 05:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

My dad was one of the first people to realize the internet could be useful for organizing and had their entire org on compuserve when it was still DOS-based! I was on CompuServe forums as a 7 year old. Like, I was basically groomed to loooooove tech and I still hate this GenAI shit.

06.03.2026 04:34 πŸ‘ 364 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 10 πŸ“Œ 0

The thing about me being a GenAI skeptic is that I am a third gen early adopter. My machine worker grandpa thought computers were the future and had an Apple IIE. I had two Geocities sites. Was on Facebook when it was still Harvard only. You know how hard you have to try to make me hate new tech???

06.03.2026 04:32 πŸ‘ 1100 πŸ” 139 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 20

I love M*A*S*H too. I think we already knew this about each other.

06.03.2026 04:52 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

lol, I have told people I was social on the Internet before social media existed. I got my first Internet account and was IRCing in 1995.

06.03.2026 04:51 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I have not seen this episode, but I love this character.

06.03.2026 04:47 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...

Reuters Exclusive

"U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school."

"The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."

06.03.2026 02:50 πŸ‘ 9175 πŸ” 4899 πŸ’¬ 569 πŸ“Œ 595

Wait, *another* one?

06.03.2026 02:07 πŸ‘ 524 πŸ” 139 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 3

oh, absolutely. we are only ever construed as human capital that must augment our value. we no longer get to be anything else, including political people who think and speak and act. just produce and consume.

06.03.2026 01:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

A less dangerous example, but still illustrative of the problem

06.03.2026 01:12 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Al Franken was accused of non-consensually groping EIGHT WOMEN

06.03.2026 00:00 πŸ‘ 273 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 0

I do know completely healthy normal poly people but unfortunately part of being healthy is that they don’t do press about their relationship

05.03.2026 22:36 πŸ‘ 260 πŸ” 26 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 4

ngl, one reason i am not going to start using LLMs (besides all the other reasons) is that literally everyone i've ever encountered who goes all-in on slopcoding ends up talking like a creepy cult evangelist about them, and i'm not interested in becoming a creepy cult evangelist.

04.03.2026 18:41 πŸ‘ 90 πŸ” 17 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 3

If you are in line to post a Kristi Noem getting fired joke - STAY IN LINE.

05.03.2026 19:10 πŸ‘ 949 πŸ” 186 πŸ’¬ 20 πŸ“Œ 7

Need to reinforce: These documents contain unsubstantiated allegations against Trump.

Notable: These documents were posted the day after Pam Bondi was subpoenaed by the House Oversight Committee.

06.03.2026 00:07 πŸ‘ 1329 πŸ” 245 πŸ’¬ 51 πŸ“Œ 9

BREAKING:

The Justice Department just posted online three FBI interviews that had been missing from the massive trove of Epstein files initially released.

They're related to unsubstantiated sexual assault allegations against Donald Trump.

DOC 1: www.justice.gov/epstein/file...

06.03.2026 00:05 πŸ‘ 5204 πŸ” 2321 πŸ’¬ 190 πŸ“Œ 206

are all of the neurons in his head completely jumbled? another 9/11 was one of the first things I thought about.

06.03.2026 00:22 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die' In an interview with 'Time,' President Donald Trump acknowledged the possibility that Iran retaliates with attacks on U.S. soil, saying, 'We think about it all the time. We plan for it'

Trump Says 'I Guess' Americans Should Worry About Iran Retaliating on U.S. Soil: 'Like I Said, Some People Will Die'

people.com/trump-says-i...

05.03.2026 23:38 πŸ‘ 965 πŸ” 343 πŸ’¬ 107 πŸ“Œ 239

Elected Democrat Thrilled He Doesn't Have To Do Anything

05.03.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 3220 πŸ” 544 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 2

Please tell me they have to pull their investment in Twitter lolol

06.03.2026 00:12 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It is 2026 and we are not fucking doing this anymore. EIGHT WOMEN came forward and told stories of Franken GROPING AND FORCIBLY KISSING THEM. The man was a sexual abuser. He did not and does not belong in congress. Fucking period. End of conversation.

06.03.2026 00:02 πŸ‘ 2246 πŸ” 428 πŸ’¬ 40 πŸ“Œ 19