hard not to read all this age verification and censorship shit as our deeply reactionary government got the faintest whiff that an unchecked internet severely interferes with their ability to propagandize and decided it had to die
new from me: as the GOP was hammering Biden for record gas prices in 2022 i wrote that the “president does not, as [Republicans] would have you believe, have a dial in the Oval Office that he uses to set gas prices.”
shoutout to Trump for managing to find the most damaging exception to that rule
Pretty crazy how important the blockade of a trade route is right now
NEW: A recently developed Defense Department program was meant to reduce civilian harm during military operations.
But months before the Iran war, the mission was dissolved as Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth made “lethality” a top priority.
By @hannahallam.bsky.social
It's just impossible to keep up with the stupidity of our government
Florida has time to harass trans kids, ban schools from teaching that gay people exist, deprive HIV+ people of vital medicine, and invest in trials to see if horse dewormer can cure cancer, but it can't find enough water to let its citizens bathe: www.newsweek.com/dire-tampa-f...
“The president has a right to knowingly lie about murdering children” - Karolie, basically
(From @acyn.bsky.social )
When you have a history of not paying your contractors and some of those contractors are responsible for keeping your customers from dying, regulators tend to notice:
www.notus.org/health-scien...
Dozens of developers who would normally have gone to the annual Game Developer's Conference are skipping it because "traveling to America isn't safe right now."
arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/...
Technology makes it too easy to go to war... and too easy to lose lives, billions of dollars, and the war itself. The current balance of armaments makes defense much more effective. A handful of $2000 drones can take out a $5million missile deployment. fallows.substack.com/p/the-arroga...
This is amazing.
When the government kills a crucial report, independent scientists decide to write it anyway and release it outside of government channels.
That’s science serving society, even when our political leaders don’t.
* ASKED WHETHER ANY NAVAL ESCORT WILL RESOLVE ISSUE OF TRANSIT IN HORMUZ, QATAR FOREIGN MINISTRY SPOKESPERSON SAYS A VIABLE SOLUTION WOULD BE TO STOP ATTACKS ON OUR ENERGY FACILITIES
@reuters.com
Company Lacks Manpower To Complete Newest Round Of Layoffs
Company Lacks Manpower To Complete Newest Round Of Layoffs https://theonion.com/company-lacks-manpower-to-complete-newest-round-of-layo-1819574660/
Post your favorite Lord of the Rings character. Wrong answers only
It’s Monday. Trump is lying. Iran does not have any Tomahawks. Not one.👇
General Radahn is the most tedious, most boring, least fun part of all of Elden Ring
this probably feels good when you're a printer man we gotta get regular porn back on this website
Funny, Iran anticipated the economic blowback but Trump didn’t. An Iranian officials said today, keep blowing up our stuff if you want 200 dollar barrels of oil.
Trump did not announce a U.S. policy then walk it back. That is not what happened, and media presenting it that way does a disservice.
Trump said words he thought might appeal to his audience in the moment, with no connection to actual policy, then did that again with a different question/asker.
Trump crushed the spirit of democracy in Iran for another decade or so.
www.nytimes.com/live/2026/03...
I found this online and make it a point to look at it once a day
#JustADHDThings
Suicides increased fivefold when adolescents on the waitlist were told they would be permanently waitlisted.
45 kids and untold relatives of these kids are now grieving.
And still they are like, but wait, we don't have enough evidence.
You might be seeing that post about FreeTaxUSA going around and I can vouch for the fact that it works basically exactly like TurboTax but at a tiny fraction of the cost even for the fancier versions and audit defense and all that shit. Will definitely use it again this year.
I know calling reps is very nerve racking. You're not sure what's the right thing to say, and tbh having a script thrown at me makes things just as nerve racking.
I called today, and I figured I'd write up a transcript of how my call went down. Hopefully it helps demystify the process
Americans are going to suffer because Trump needed something to push the Epstein files off the front page.
Combined with anti-monopoly enforcement, huge tax hikes in the rich, and restoration and expansion of the safety net.
Counterpoint: this is a great idea.
