marithlizard

Technically, a dictionary is a book of spells.

this goes incredible places and I love everyone involved

Rep. Delia C. Ramirez has introduced a bill that would abolish not just ICE, but the DHS altogether, repealing the 2002 law establishing the agency and replacing it with one focused on protecting civil and human rights.

I just saw someone admonishing someone trans to shut up about trans rights because there are concentration camps in the US, and you know who I see overwhelmingly and disproportionately on the front lines standing up against concentration camps? Trans people.

I would not like an AI summary, I would not like it on a boat, I would not like the email bloat, I do not like it on a chair, I would not like it anywhere! I do not like them on a phone, I do not like them in my home, I do not want them on a search, I do not like them in a church

This is a great profile on the late Michiyo Yasuda. One of the most influential color designers in animation history. She led the incredible color design for My Neighbor Totoro and Grave of the Fireflies SIMULTANEOUSLY!

1. Biden got a shocking amount of progressive policy through. 2. Almost no one, even progressives, realized. 3. The Biden admin - & Dems in general - are terrible at communicating their wins. 4. Trump et al have been able to undo a lot of those wins, partially because no one knows they're there.

youtu.be/Q9uefFYe6bM?...

Update: We are working on a follow-up to the LG story and have some disturbing findings re: LG's products. It will take us a while to parse everything and we have involved multiple security researchers, lawyers (working on reading around 40,000 words of LG agreements that are, generally, terrifying

I don’t care whether this actually happened or not. I want it to be true.

Benjamin Netanyahu is a war criminal.

Basically the shape of public opinion in the 2020s is that 30% of the US public is implacably in a death cult around Trump and are immune to persuasion, 40% are implacably opposed to the cult, 20% are willing to back the cult if they think it'll help the economy and 10% are insane/misinformed

holy moly @hausofdecline.bsky.social in @inthesetimes.com ???

I'm not posting Odyssey memes because one must be wary of GIFs bearing Greeks.

Crucial, underrated distinction,. the blurring of which is near the center of our big problem: "I think you should" ≠ "you must, and the state will force you to" It's the same thing that treats "I think that's a slur, stop saying it" as equivalent or even worse than forceful government censorship.

I loathe the cult of the car.

So I’ve started Pride and Prejudice, and already I feel bad for Mrs Bennet.

Centrist Dems are way more pissed off that three or four primaries didn’t go their way than they are about peaceful protestors being locked away for 50 years for printing zines.

In "world policy I would dedicate this Nation to the policy of the good neighbor--the neighbor who resolutely respects himself &, because he does so, respects the rights of others-- the neighbor who respects his obligations and respects the sanctity of his agreements in & with a world of neighbors."

Soviet animation is criminally underrated

So let me get this straight: (1) a double rainbow appeared over the Kennedy center when his name was being taken down and (2) the only place in the country with severe storm watches (hail and tornados) tomorrow is very specifically Washington DC? I may need to rethink this whole atheism thing.

From: The Book of the Dead (2005), dir. Kihachiro Kawamoto, Sakura Motion Pictures

Every legal story now is either Ancient Circuit Judge Delivers Crystal Clear 100 Page Rebuke To Trumpist Overreach or In Unsigned Shadow Docket Decision, 6-3 Majority Declares Trump Can Hunt People For Sport

SCOTT PELLEY: Hey quick question, would you say I have "fuck you" money? SCOTT PELLEY'S FINANCIAL ADVISOR: [pulls up spreadsheet] Yes. Why do you ask? SCOTT PELLEY: Just curious.

A law enforcement document obtained by The Intercept shows police scan social media looking for posts opposing AI data centers. interc.pt/4wWOqJT

The first warning arrived on a Tuesday morning, six weeks after consultants advised moving from dependency on six hundred small excel scripts - and nobody at Zenith Ledger Advisory paid much attention. It appeared in the system dashboard between routine audit notifications and a maintenance reminder

Oh hell yeah @amnesty.org comes out swinging: "Amnesty International finds that standalone generative AI systems... are fundamentally incompatible with IHRL. As such, Amnesty International is calling for a prohibition of such systems." www.amnesty.org/en/documents...

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

The photographer in the white shirt in this photo had to go the ER last night with a broken finger after being targeted by an agent and hit in the hand.

The fable has a different ring to it if you add the frog personally supported the scorpion for like 10 years despite everyone else telling them repeatedly that it was going to sting them eventually.

“It exists one evolutionary rung above a looped fireplace video”

do you ever come up with lyrics in the middle of the night & have your dad write music for them & then record the song (even tho you hate your voice) & then animate an entire video one... frame... at... a... time...? or is that just me??? anyway hey here's uhhh this ariellemilstein.com/inkling2026

This is what happens when queer people hate your party. There’s no one there to plan one.

JUST NOW from @statuscoupnews.bsky.social livestream — ICE agents outside Delaney Hall in Newark, NJ pushed a protester into an 18-wheeler causing the truck to run over his leg. They then pinned him on the ground and carried him away.

You don't need Taylor or Kendrick, Mamdani could literally just book the surviving wu tang clan members to exclusively perform solo stuff they released since 2010 and it'd still be a better bill than the America 250 one

on Tumblr I found a thread discussing all the somewhat derogatory terms for "white people" have emerged in dozens of countries but this one is especially interesting

My team uncovered that foreign enemies are targeting U.S. servicemembers in war zones by buying their location data. The threat to national security posed by data brokers has never been more clear. We need to dismantle the surveillance advertising industry.