Killing people should not be something we do quicker than the speed of thought
06.03.2026 13:10
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Killing people should not be something we do quicker than the speed of thought
Still not clear on why the insider trading company targeting kids with gambling ads is permitted to legally operate, but then again I feel that way about a lot of tech companies that would have been broken up and forced to close as flagrantly criminal enterprises even 20 years ago.
1967 - Dystopian Sci-fi novel, Donβt Create The Torment Nexus published
1974 - Cult classic BBC mini series
1997 - BBC remake
2002 - Hollywood movie, upbeat ending added
2019 - Nexcon - A Torment Company IPOβs, $324 Billion market cap
2026 - Polymarket bets on who will be tormented next
I continue to be gobsmacked at 1) how common this formulation is 2) how antisemitic and generally bigoted it is 3) and how for all the talk of anti-semitism this is never cited as an example even though itβs quite literally the original incarnation.
Let me be clear: Iβm glad Kristi Noem was fired. But we still have to abolish ICE.
I've seen lots of coverage including in the international press. What I haven't seen is Democratic electeds bringing it up daily therefore driving coverage.
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.
If anyone is up for boosting, Bandcamp is holding a fundraiser for the Trans Continental Pipeline to help trans people escape from Kansas!
One of the reasons I distrust GenAI is that I've been doing tech support in one form or another for 35+ years, and I've seen every way that tech can be misused, break, or behave outside of expectations; GenAI ticks every 'uh-oh' box for me.
As I get older I'm coming to increasingly radical views like "you have to do things to get good at them" and "you have to think about problems to solve them"
ICE killed another person in custody.
Abolish and prosecute every single person working for the agency.
My school district is being forced to lay off several educators and a librarian because of a $500,000 budget gap, or roughly the amount spent on the war while I was typing this post.
The interesting thing about AI is how committed executives are to using it after it measurably fails catastrophically at its goals. Like there seems to be no limit to how badly it can fuck up and still be heralded as the future of technology
they knew they could get away with it because they practiced all those times on the βnarco-terroristβ boats, where they also killed the survivors, and nobody sent them to The Hague about it so they are running completely unchecked right now with full use of the arsenal. I do not know how this ends
Genuinely, what purpose does the UN serve if it is unable and/or unwilling to hold the US to account?
Seriously.
Leave him in the bin.
Toss Newsom in there too.
We have to do better than this.
blender piece/comic depicting an introspective mole
mole's thought
Hoping prison abolitionists will bite and share this one: research-informed, Palestinian-led mental health support for nearly a hundred kids who suffered in occupation detention.
You support goes towards materials & facilitation. We have FOUR WEEKS: chuffed.org/project/hmg
Script if you need it:
Iβm calling to tell Representative ____ to oppose H.R. 7661. This bill would pressure schools to remove titles that discuss lived experiences that some politicians find controversial. I donβt think trans people are controversial. (contin)
If I can get another like $200 I can take my car in this morning to get looked at but I'm just short of being able to cover brake pads/rotors and I absolutely can't drive without getting them fixed today ;;
I can also take a couple pet portraits for $100-$200 each
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I have to drive to work tomorrow so I need this by the morning!
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The US never ever gets to describe itself as the hero that it imagines itself to be: you are exactly the evil empire your films imagine others to be
Read nonfiction, read fiction, read broadly and deeply and capriciously. Support authors who know what theyβre doing and talking about.
A composite image of photos and text. Photos are of a book cover reading "Rise of the Zombie Bugs," and a white woman with glasses labeled "MINDY WEISBERGER." A banner on the left reads "Tuscon Festival of Books, Mar 14-15 2026, University of Arizona Campus, www.tusconfestivalofbooks.org"
The latest "pinch me" news about Rise of the Zombie Bugs is that I'm at the Tuscon Festival of Books next week, my first-ever festival! (cue internal screaming)
My panels: "The Strange & the Fierce: Stories from Earthβs Wild Side" & "Plants, Predators & Parasites" tucsonfestivalofbooks.org #BookSky
Taking a break from current events to boost a #MediaLiteracy education tool from @critikid.bsky.social. Critikid.com is creating some really useful and reasonably priced teaching resources for key aspects of logical thinking for upper elementary and middle grades kids. ππ #TLSky π§ͺπΊοΈ
They fund it in Gaza. They're doing it to Venezuelan fisherman. They're doing it in Iran. They're doing it in the streets and in concentration camps to immigrants in the US. They've done it to US citizen protestors on the streets in Minnesota.
There are no limits to what they are capable of.
Favorites from figure drawing last night!
It is so weird when younger people think that getting older means ceasing social participation
This is also why so many of you fear aging. You think that you will be forced away from life and society
an illustration of Larkspur Aucoin, a young cleric lady, in a field, sitting under a tree and playing a harp while also singing along to the melody she's strumming. Larkspur is wearing an orange dress with a white collar and a red ribbon in her hair. As she's strumming on the strings of the harp, she's looking upwards towards the sky. Rays of sunlight are breaking through the foliage of the tree, creating beautiful dappled patterns on the greenery and trunk of the tree below, and on Larkspur too.
πΎa serene moment in a sun-dappled fieldπΎ
a b-day gift comm for @saetje.bsky.social's friend Dana (pencilgator on insta)
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