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holy shit

Stylised illustration of busy highways over a river full of ships with buildings in the distance

Artwork by contemporary artist Angela Smyth #Monday

They're going to poison a city with 17 million people

I'm out of words here

Every single professional journalist who uses the phrases “Department of War” or “Secretary of War” without scare quotes should be lined up on a public viewing stage and bopped on the head with a giant inflatable hammer that says DUMB DUMB on the handle and makes fart sounds.

March 8, 2026 - Tehran at sunrise today. But the sun is hidden behind a sky filled with smoke. After a night of intensive strikes on oil facilities, thick black clouds now hang over the city, turning morning into something that feels like night.

Grey cat in a box on lap of its human holding onto human’s arm and looking into camera

Had to duct tape his box back together after it exploded mid nap a while ago. Pixel will only sit on our laps in his box 📦

Caitlin KALINOWSKI over X I resigned from OpenAl. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn't an easy call. Al has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I'm proud of what we built together.

OpenAI head of robotics just resigned over company deal with the Pentagon saying…

“Surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got”

I get yelled at for saying this but for many hundreds of years people went to university not to get diplomas or be employable but because immersion in the humanities was considered foundational to a good life, and school must return to its original purpose: the joy of learning.

Cover illustration by Harry Grant Dart for the magazine "The All-Story", October 1908.
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True independent thinkers don't change their clocks just because everyone else does. I will do my own research and determine what time it is

Guardian points out reporter Estefany Rodriguez “produced reports that were unflattering to ICE” — and she and her husband were in a marked Nashville Noticias vehicle when they grabbed her🤔

She is reportedly being held in Alabama

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Not the Idoru I imagined, l’m afraid. (Actually the previous sentence can be two, as well.)

A cartoon from the 1950’s that’s more relevant than ever 💔

BLM Announces Plan to Fell Oregon's Last Great Forests One billion board feet per year... 30 days to make your voice heard.

morethanjustparks.substack.com/p/blm-announ... there's info on who to complain to to try to stop this at the end of the article, lets share this message and try our best to stop it.

yes and thank you for the excuse to share one of my all-time favorite tweets (from @longwall26.bsky.social)

Launch a war that jeopardises the safety of over half a million Americans from Jerusalem to Dubai? ✅

Send a histrionic alert after the fact telling them all to “DEPART NOW?” ✅

Pause to ensure that we have the capacity to evacuate our own citizens? ❌❌❌

Clown show.

It must be nice to be a sociopath, because all the new products are for you. The smart glasses will give you that woman’s address, the betting apps will finally let you make bank on war crimes.

For ppl who aren't aware:
Old temperate forests are insanely rare nowadays and extremely important ecosystems lost forever once cut.
They're not just "old trees" but intricate networks of trees, fungi and all kinds of living creatures.
You CANNOT replant this!! Once it's gone it's lost FOREVER!!!

Distraction turducken.

Monochrome photograph featuring a white woman on a scooter in a street facing left dressed in a long black dress and hat

In 1916, Florence Norman, a suffragette in London, used a motorised scooter known as a Autoped #WomensArt
Every month on Womensart is #WomensHistoryMonth 💙

all seems like fun and games until the measles outbreak, incel mass shooter, or Shahed 136 drone hits your kid's school I guess

whether war, vaccines, or critical infrastructure there is contingent of the right that seems to believe that their security from the worst things that happen is some kind of metaphysical principle rather than the result of specific historical processes that could've gone otherwise and still could

a thing historians will marvel about when they study this era is the extent to which the "war is a thing that happens to poorer, browner people" class went about systematically dismantling every aspect of the global political order that confined the costs of war to poorer and browner people

They're calling it SuperBenghazi.

is everyone on glue

Put ICE agents on the front lines. They are already in costume.

relax you guys! those planes got shot down because the AI said the biggest threat to the troops is the troops so it's eliminating troops that threaten the troops

You cannot talk like this about any other minority in America.

And if it was any other president’s adviser who said something like this about any other minority, it’d be the instant end of their presidency.