I’m not a laws of war expert but it’s my impression that just the threat to commit genocide is a war crime. Threatening to destroy a civilization is a war crime, whether or not you carry through. Not that the sort of people who support Trump care.
People talk as if our neighbors haven't been getting shot in the streets for opposing the regime, and as if we didn't fight on anyway
This disproves a lot of right wing ideas about the causes of the decline in marriage rates
I am not sure people understand the degree to which foreign grad students (and especially Chinese ones) are propping up our universities.
I think not enough people understand that the pushback against renewables and EV's is money.
Without getting too in the weeds: renewables cannot ever be as profitable as oil and gas.
EV's don't make as much money as gas guzzlers.
That's it. That's all you really need to know.
What I’d NEVER do as a brain injury rehab doctor:
• Motorcycle
• Tackle football (for my kids)
• Ignore BP
• Skip helmets
• Normalize repeat COVID infections
Because I take care of what happens next.
The opposition party is currently being led by People Magazine’s headline writers.
people.com/trump-ramble...
>Canadian company builds solar panels in Malawi
>is paid in Malawi's (volatile) currency
>invests those payments in local farmers growing chili peppers
>sells chili peppers to Nando's, in USD
>builds sustainable business model on Cheeky Nando's
This is my favourite news story of the year so far.
Venn diagram labeled “somehow we ended up here” with the overlap between apocalypse and having to go to work.
But for real this time.
Call your reps I guess? I don’t even fucking know.
“.. appears to be the first time any U.S. municipality will go to the ballot to kneecap data center development. .. an aggressive new tactic in an escalating movement to oppose the hulking artificial intelligence factories ..”
@politico.com #Wisconsin
www.politico.com/news/2026/04...
Encapsulation of the “school-to-prison pipeline”: Minneapolis Public School cuts on the table include 20 percent of existing school counselor and social worker positions
Genuinely, one of the best insights anyone has given me on the US is that the rest of the world does not understand it is actually two countries. The first is a Western advanced liberal democracy. The other a theocratic, impoverished, violent and corrupt third world country.
Just going to keep posting this forever:
milliontabs.com
If you are a sitting member of Congress and have not or are not currently drafting articles of impeachment what the fuck are you doing in Congress.
If you're here, it's coursing through your veins. Some even flaunt it on the skin. We add it to paper in print or by hand. It stains and is more permanent than a line in the sand. It's another cognate shared by English and Afrikaans. The #vss365 #prompt for April 7, 2026 is #ink
No other words needed. This is why we keep talking.
#USDemocracy
#AnimalArtTuesday oh deer! #YouLookingAtMe #deer
#ShowHeart #heart #ThingsWithFaces kinda
#DiddleDaddleDoodleADay #doodle #drawing #TinyAndTerrible #DoAnArt #ArtYear #ArtInvite #artist #day97 #week15 #markers #pattern #knitting (almost)
You can really tell America is winning this war when the president panic posts “open the fuckin’ strait, you crazy bastards” at 5 am on Easter Sunday along with an extension on their deadline
It’s pretty interesting to compare Easter messages from political leaders and then consider which ones the media treats as being out of the mainstream or dangerous
One of the hardest things to get across to most software people with great intentions is *how strong defaults are* and how tired everyone else is of dorking around trying to get things to work, but this understanding is the thing that made Apple, for all its many flaws, such a giant.
But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?
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I have finally secured physical copies for all four of the first books my former students put out this year so you people are going to hear about them again.
what do you mean, a /second/ anglophone global empire has ruined its status as a world power by getting caught in a trade dispute concerning a narrow body of water next to the arabian peninsula
