Mark Rogaski

ゆらゆら帝国「夜行性の生き物３匹」(Official Music Video) YouTube video by midiinc ミディレコード

Happy Friday, folks.

Coming back after about 8 years, I'm already impressed wit the NPE improvements that have been made. I'll be very interested to see what the new region is like.

Today I Will Look The Burrito Man In The Eye and other stories of manifesting success

Me, dumb and politically correct: Firing on unarmed ships or double-tap military strikes on schools are bad things.

this move will simultaneously increase the average intelligence of the Trump cabinet and the U.S. senate

Mural by Smok Antwerp, Belgium

Mural by Smok
Antwerp, Belgium

#CatStreetArt
#MenWithCats

Our New Iran Correspondent | The New York Times Company

This is the kind of journalist an editor yearns for at a time like this: A Persian-fluent reporter w/ deep experience covering Iranian politics and policies.

She used to work at the Washpost.

Then Bezos dismantled the international coverage.

Now she’s at the NYT

www.nytco.com/press/our-ne...

Despite Promises, Veterans Affairs Department Cut Thousands of Roles for Doctors and Nurses

“Don't tell me what you value, show me your budget, and I'll tell you what you value.” -- Joe Biden

A gray shorthair cat at the moment of release upside down, with its tongue out looking derpy

A new paper on falling cat science came out and I just have to draw people's attention to this image

I've said it many, many times in the past.

I hope one day to have the courage and sense of duty of a retiring GOP senator.

Forever wars are always in 5 week increments.

This is beautiful.

N.Y. Attorney General Orders Hospital to Resume Youth Transgender Care

The New York attorney general's office has ordered NYU Langone to resume gender affirming care for trans youth due to violating New York Human Rights law.

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/02/n...

Bypass here.

archive.ph/4NboB

The Gender Politics of Abandoning Your Girlfriend on a Mountain YouTube video by Rebecca Watson (Skepchick)

"Man convicted of manslaughter after girlfriend dies hiking in winter storm" sounds insane until you get into the details.

He put an inexperienced hiker into harm's way despite explicit warnings and waved away numerous attempts to rescue her! The punishment was too lax here, not too severe.

This mural slaps. Literally turned around so I could get a picture.

Winning just like we are winning on just about every domestic issue, I suppose.

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir If you run a company whose entire value proposition is the ability to see patterns, predict outcomes, and connect dots that others miss, you’d think someone in the building might have flagged…

Ha!

The 5 Big ‘Known Unknowns’ of Donald Trump’s New War With Iran The all-out air assault on the Islamic Republic might be the biggest gamble of the president’s career.

What history teaches us about Trump's new war, and what could be next— @vermontgmg.bsky.social explores the known unknowns www.wired.com/story/5-big-...

"American innovation" now refers to making a kind of atrocity cronut by combining insider trading with war crimes.

Mar 1: A song that begins with the letter M for March

GoGo Penguin - Murmuration

Sympathy, Art by Remedios Varo 1908-1963 1955

"Sympathy"
Art by Remedios Varo (1908-1963)
1955

#MenWithCats

The Actress YouTube video by The Delgados - Topic

The song that's been stuck in my head all week (and I'm not complaining).

"That apparent eagerness to target past political leaders who may have had a falling out with the current government seems to be a signal that they’re trying to eliminate any potential people who could actually transition to democracy but still be a nationalist figure."

Or, they were chosen by LLM.

Graphic T-shirt design showing a fighter jet over a map of the United States with bold gradient text reading: “BORN TOO LATE TO DEPLOY TO THE MIDDLE EAST / BORN TOO EARLY TO DEPLOY TO THE MIDDLE EAST / BORN JUST IN TIME TO DEPLOY TO THE MIDDLE EAST.”

The millennial accounts I follow are handling this about as expected

I would choose the candidate who rose to the occasion. This is not a difficult choice when the stakes are this high and we’re talking about war.
@ericblanc.bsky.social

Trump, the Self-Declared Peace President, Goes to War Seeking Regime Change

'“It is difficult to determine Trump’s decision-making process given the serious downgrade of the N.S.C. and its policymaking role,” he said of the National Security Council. “What options were developed and presented to Trump and the process for generating them are key questions.”'