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We’re not fighting for ourselves. We’re fighting for each other. Happy International Women’s Day.

boy in retrospect, really shouldn’t have elected the worst person in the entire country president. that, it appears, was less than wise

I just sent this email to the news director at NBC4 Washington about the unprofessional and disrespectful way they handled publishing the body camera footage of the DOGE raid on the US Institute of Peace that was obtained via my FOIA lawsuit:

OMG they released the deposition videos where they revealed that these two DOGE bros were just feeding grants into ChatGPT and saying "tell me if this is DEI in less than 120 characters." www.techdirt.com/2026/02/19/d...

This repeats yet another pattern from the Iraq War. When the Iraqis did not behave as the Americans wanted — without the deference and gratitude that a foreign military occupier felt it was due — they became targets.

We’re not out here because we want to be here. We’re out here because we have to be here. Thank you to the organizers who brought people together today, and to everyone who showed up in solidarity 💞

oh people don’t want to be out in the streets? the streets that are being bombed? those streets?

Mainstream America: We are obsessed with Heated Rivalry and Drag Race. We love them and can't get enough. American Democrat politicians: LGBT people are not culturally normal. We will not speak of them.

chat is it good when the oil lines go vertical chat come back here chat stop screaming

New — My case for why it’s not enough to call this “Trump’s war” when violence abroad implicates us all, and how we don’t need hindsight to know that unequivocally opposing this war will be the correct (and only morally defensible) choice:

we’ve had two truly enormous crises under Trump and the first one was covid which everyone apparently gave him a pass for despite the fact that he made it worse but this one is completely, obviously, unquestionably his fault and would not have happened without him

half my timeline is just people smarter than I am posting "dawg" "chat is this good" "woof" and/or horrifying graphs

I really needed that hour but they stole it

was scheduled to have my gutters replaced today. after about 45 minutes i hadn’t heard anyone on our roof. glanced outside - they had gone to the wrong house and were about halfway through ripping off my neighbor’s gutters.

he just makes mouth noises until he gets the response he’s looking for and people report them as if they mean something

the best analysis money can buy and they’re all getting circles run around them by “orange man bad”

Just learned that the prime minster of Poland is named Donald Tusk, which is what a Donald Trump-like Muppet character would be called on Sesame Street (walrus, probably).

[bookended by two prolonged periods of complete silence] i’m just sayin’

can we at least bring back disco, guys in short shorts, moustaches, and actors with interestingly flawed faces and bodies

anyone who has been on social media for the last 15 years has ptsd for this exact thing when the charts start to buck and the smart weirdos start to flail and vaguely gesture like this

I don’t even know why I apply for jobs when they always go to people with famous dads

Here's the Karoline Leavitt interview people are talking about. Maria Bartiromo asks if Trump might send ground troops into Iran, because "mothers are worried" about a draft. Leavitt replies that ground troops aren't in the current plan, but Trump won't rule them out. No mention of the draft.

the world is finally fully waking up to the fact that there's no plan, no adults in the room, and no sign of this insanity ending anytime soon

During the liberation of Dachau and Buchenwald in 1945, many of the camp guards tried to escape by disguising themselves as prisoners or civilians. Newly liberated prisoners recognized several guards immediately, and you can imagine how that ended for them.

New, from me: Trump's retribution against Anthropic is over the top. But it should cause Democrats to think about how they will deal with contractors like Musk or Ellison when they return to power. What do you do with vendors working to oppose you? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/procuremen...

people on youtube love putting the words DARK TRUTH and SHOCKING DOWNFALL on the thumbnail of their video about a guy who retired due to injury at age 37

my brain is at the mr burns oversized novelty germ door stage of near catastrophe every time i look at news of any kind

“are LLMs conscious” you cannot get me to participate in this argument on Bluesky of all places, be serious

the funniest part of this article is when the author hits pause to be like "I personally don't read romance, I am in a book club called the Difficult Books Club where we read the Brothers Karamazov and kind of hate it." seems like the wrong person to be writing about romance and fanfic then idk

We know a lot is going on right now, but we just realized that: cabinet/board/panel = things made of wood cabinet/board/panel = terms for organizations

It's *supposed* to be quite difficult. But apparently the US stopped paying attention to the Constitution a while back.

i am hearing that any draft would only involve verified bluesky users

lol they aren’t going to do this and it’s completely insane that they’re even saying this out loud

not really the time for this particular discussion, but for the record, this is a stupid idea www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...

Discworld QOTD, from Lords and Ladies

“Perhaps the most compelling reason not to go to war abroad is that we’re already fighting one here at home. Americans don’t need to be deployed to Iran or elsewhere to experience the horrors of war because one has been domestically grown for us.”

"Gloria" shared this pic of herself picking strawberries in CAs Central Coast. "The water was up to my knees making it very hard to push my cart. My feet were so wet and cold, I couldn’t feel them. Growers have us harvest despite the flooding to avoid losing product." #WeFeedYou

Let’s be fair, it’s also a platform for creating, distributing and selling child sexual abuse material.

Brent oil futures above $100/barrel

we are weeks away from 'Trump attempts to make horse a Senator' and the only thing stopping him is that he is too much of a sociopath to form an attachment to animals

I love the way these cactus wrens (photographed today) have a safe shelter inside a chollo catcus where they built their elaborate nest.

[guttural groan] Stove! We’re going to touch it - can we touch it? Are we allowed to touch it? - there’s only one way to tell if the stove has gone on and that’s to use your hand

The funniest part is her saying she would never ask people from other countries who they voted for, like she had some nuanced take about the differences between Finna Fail and Sinn Fein. Who Americans vote for affects the rest of the world!

yeah this is basically it

Exciting archaeological discovery: the receding snow has revealed our Jan. 18 newspaper.

Just saw the trailer and Toy Story 5 being about LeapFrog is so funny. Pixar dialed in on the big issues of 2002 childhood.

“Even masks are becoming difficult to find. This is a huge mistake. I ask those who have the ability, especially foreign media, to reflect on this situation. What are people supposed to do under these conditions? This is truly a crime against humanity.”

These are my friends and loved ones. These are people I grew up with, I went to elementary school with all the way through high school. Utterly shameful that it has come to this after all our decades of work and warnings to governments

Failed to add context here: This phrase is an ISIS slogan. This situation does not smell like a hoax or an op. It does smell like teens radicalized online and groomed into wanting to commit a legitimate act of terrorism on behalf of ISIS.

My father worked on the railroad (most of the livelong day) so of a train comes at me I know its weaknesses

The biggest way this is like Covid is that Trump has no idea how bad he’s fucking up. And no one he’s listening to will even try to tell him.

An inappropriate relationship at Ohio State? *shakes head* No, it's THE inappropriate relationship

By Jake Lang and his crowd. Lang is the shitty little racist ghoul who recently went to Minneapolis with his little Nazi buddies to try to incite more violence and got water balloons thrown at him until he ran away crying and peeing himself

Trump also wore his dignified-transfer hat while playing golf yesterday. (Via Hugo Lowell on X.)

celebrate this international women’s day by paying for a subscription to a one-woman publication doing some cool shit (imho): www.thehandbasket.co/upgrade

I guess it’s just 90 degrees in LA in March now that’s fun, that seems promising for the future

Mr McDonald is survived by the fish

If a Democrat anywhere says something even marginally controversial, Republicans solidify to categorize it as the position of the Democratic Party as a whole, publicize it, and so on. I sincerely have no idea why Democrats don't do the same about bigotry and religious intolerance by Republicans

are you doing your part for VICTORY www.dailykos.com/stories/2026...

If you’re replying to me with “ride a bike:” A) I live in LA, a city designed to force you to use a car. Public transport doesn’t come to my area of town and the lack of bike lanes will get me killed. B) I’m pointing out that Trump’s illegal war is driving up gas prices for Americans C) log off

That is because they were NOT with the counter, despite Tisch initially describing them as counterprotestors. They ran up and threw an IED, failed to throw another. Media is saying ISIS with reason: As one was picked up following arrest, he said “By God’s will, the Islamic State remains.”

So a co-founder of Palantir is funding political attack ads against a guy pushing for AI regulation, who used to work at Palantir, using the fact that he worked at Palantir against him. (FWIW, I think Bores has some very bad regulation ideas, but still...) www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Trump to America: you fucking idiots, you utter simpering assholes. Shut up and clap! Thank you for your attention to this matter.

Not Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach linking to my Bluesky post in his response to the ACLU's request for a temporary restraining order to block the state's invalidation of trans people's driver's licenses

america and israel proving themselves to be the great evil iran always said they were

at least it was for a good cause that didnt entail countless civilian deaths

Canelo with his 4 month old neighbor bestie, Sir Dunk the Chunk

A few weeks ago, I saw a group of people in a Facebook comments section trying to figure out if a picture of Ilhan Omar was real. (It was not.) I couldn't stop thinking about it, so I wrote about what I'm calling "strategic memes against public participation." www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

The Democratic leadership would prefer that you think of them as feckless cowards, when in fact they are Kissinger-like creatures who support massacring Iranians. In Schumer and Jeffries's realpolitik, they get the war they want while letting the GOP pay the political price. Best of both worlds.

So Justin's partner in crime, Nate Cavanaugh, was also asked "what is DEI" and he comes up with "making decisions on the basis of something other than merit." And then says that "DEI" grants are "wasteful and unnecessary." youtu.be/hhah1ZjPAno?...

man i went on twitter and the timeline I got was just a full economy/ai/war crashout on all fronts this evening

In the newsletter this week, I mapped out the nearly 400 LLCs in which the president reports an ownership stake. www.howtoreadthisch.art/where-trumps...

look I know James Harden annoys the piss out of everyone for flopping reasons but he is an all time passer and this is one of the greatest assists I've ever seen in my life

"Guillermo" is harvesting romaine lettuce in Maricopa CA. "This is a very difficult job. You need to work fast while you are continuously bending down and getting up and using a sharp knife to cut the lettuce." #WeFeedYou

from the moment i wake to the moment i sleep. and i have insomnia

To justify killing civilians in Iran, CENTCOM is claiming the Iranian regime is using them as human shields. Notably, the Pentagon itself is located in suburban Virginia. (Link to full statement on X: x.com/centcom/stat...)

"electability" is such a dumb concept. if you win an election, you are by definition able to win an election.

A massive data center that would’ve been powered by a 1.4GW natural gas plant was rejected in Alberta over a lack of public consultation and significant problems with its application.

Oh, so we’re definitely heading for the cool zone then. Great. I didn’t want a stable global economy anyways, that’s just boring.

NYPD confirms IEDs thrown at white supremacist rally and counterprotest contained explosives. Incompetent assembly ensured it did not become a mass casualty event.

Think we may have lost the moral high ground when it comes to dispensing refugee advice to other countries. More broadly, the US has been simultaneously telling Europe it is destroying itself by accepting refugees from the Middle East, and also setting the scene for the next refugee criss.

(person who doesn't have to get up before 7:30AM) i call it "daylight savings"

Thanks to PragerU and the White House, we have the Freedom Truck which hopes to educate kids via AI slop George Washington (and others) of their America can do no wrong version of US history. @mjgault.bsky.social reports. Full story: www.404media.co/i-visited-th...

AI enthusiasts should really grapple with the fact that their fellow Americans would probably be a lot less mean to them on the Internet if our country actually had a semi-functional social safety net.

hey wanna see what I've been working on on-and-off all week that's been making me more and more depressed? dw-advocacy.dreamwidth.org/1493.html

Who wants to read an overview of how Trump's SOTU rhetoric about the economy has held up over the past two weeks? www.ms.now/opinion/trum...

"Armando" sent this from WA where workers are ready to go into the field and prune grapevines on an early morning where there's snow on the ground. He says: When it's this cold the branches are brittle and they could snap back as we prune the vine so we need to be careful. #WeFeedYou

Listen, this story implicated the president of the United States in one of the worst crimes a human can commit, and he spent almost a year and much of his political capital trying to cover it up. But let's not go wild with it, as if it's on the level of a woman using home email at work.

Spell like no one is watching.

hagueing is too good for these people

Meanwhile, Trump is golfing. (Photo via hugolowell on X)

I remain fascinated by people who are 100% all-in on using LLMs at their jobs (and telling everyone that they're doing it) and who appear to have never paused to consider "what value am I personally adding in here, at this point, and why do I think my employers won't eventually figure this out"

When you book at the 11th hour using some hotel app that Priceline lifetime subscription members think is too sketchy to be trusted, you get some wild places for a hundred bucks.

A small marker of our times: this phrase in a news story (rather than opinion) and it being completely accurate. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/08/u...

First off…first off…happy, happy…International Women’s Day

The successor to the late Ayatollah Ali Khamenei will be his son, Mojtaba Khamenei, according to a senior Iranian cleric: “The name of Khamenei will continue.” Mojtaba Khamenei is considered MORE hardline than his late father.

indeed, Bluesky's inherent overall hostility to AI means that the AI enthusiasts still willing to hang out here are usually far smarter and more thoughtful than the absolute dribbling freakshow AI cultists who dominate Twitter/X

So the new Ayatollah Khamenei? Yeah, well: US-Israeli forces have killed his father, mother, wife, son, sister, brother-in-law, niece, and nephew in the past week—AND injured him.

Many know Ada Lovelace, but too few know about women like Mary Allen Wilkes, who wrote most of the software for the first "personal" computer—the LINC. Here are stories of modern and historical women in tech and digital rights that inspire us. How many did you already know? #InternationalWomensDay