Pulsars are just party goths.
black holes are just regular neutron stars with social anxiety. change my mind
February 14, 2026 at 2:47 PM
Pulsars are just party goths.
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Why are they needed if everyone is going to be deported?
Breaking news: ICE expects to spend $38.3 billion on its plan to acquire warehouses across the U.S. and retrofit them into immigrant detention centers that can hold tens of thousands of people, according to agency documents.
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion turning warehouses into detention centers
ICE plans to spend $38.3 billion converting warehouses into detention centers, according to planning documents, more than the annual budgets of 22 states.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 14, 2026 at 3:30 AM
Why are they needed if everyone is going to be deported?
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Who up Braving they New World?
Who up Calvining they Hobbes
Who up Nineteening they Eighty-Four
February 14, 2026 at 11:41 AM
Who up Braving they New World?
I can’t believe RFKJr lied and mislead senators - about doing things he said he’d do when he campaigned for President.
Weird.
Weird.
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both. n.pr/46QDn9p
RFK Jr. made promises to get his job as health secretary. He's broken many of them
In his confirmation hearings, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told U.S. senators that he would not cut funding for vaccine research or change the nation's official vaccine recommendations. He did both.
n.pr
February 13, 2026 at 2:30 PM
I can’t believe RFKJr lied and mislead senators - about doing things he said he’d do when he campaigned for President.
Weird.
Weird.
I thought I had an 8am interview, grabbed a shirt, and across the front is “¡Adios Pantalones!”
No regrets on the shirt, but absolutely not appropriate for a call on Zoom.
No regrets on the shirt, but absolutely not appropriate for a call on Zoom.
February 13, 2026 at 9:17 AM
I thought I had an 8am interview, grabbed a shirt, and across the front is “¡Adios Pantalones!”
No regrets on the shirt, but absolutely not appropriate for a call on Zoom.
No regrets on the shirt, but absolutely not appropriate for a call on Zoom.
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
Feb 13: Cowboys
One of the most iconic parts of US culture, and most Americans aren't even taught the origin of the word "cowboys."
Read the whole linked thread.
Feb 13: Cowboys
One of the most iconic parts of US culture, and most Americans aren't even taught the origin of the word "cowboys."
Read the whole linked thread.
mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
But I'm still talking about white US history.
Q: Why don't Black folk like things like rodeos, country music, and cowboys! But why are so many Black folk Dallas Cowboys fa...
hachyderm.io
February 13, 2026 at 8:12 AM
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
Feb 13: Cowboys
One of the most iconic parts of US culture, and most Americans aren't even taught the origin of the word "cowboys."
Read the whole linked thread.
Feb 13: Cowboys
One of the most iconic parts of US culture, and most Americans aren't even taught the origin of the word "cowboys."
Read the whole linked thread.
The bad news: this is pretty normal.
Internally, a session cookie will end up mapped to a UUID internally. Sometimes this is to avoid sending bad info, sometimes to avoid sending the same ad too many times.
Sometimes to track engagement, to build a profile.
Internally, a session cookie will end up mapped to a UUID internally. Sometimes this is to avoid sending bad info, sometimes to avoid sending the same ad too many times.
Sometimes to track engagement, to build a profile.
First and last name, location, email address and my personal favorite - "unique identifier" with a fingerprint icon
"Anonymized" data collection
February 13, 2026 at 5:26 AM
The bad news: this is pretty normal.
Internally, a session cookie will end up mapped to a UUID internally. Sometimes this is to avoid sending bad info, sometimes to avoid sending the same ad too many times.
Sometimes to track engagement, to build a profile.
Internally, a session cookie will end up mapped to a UUID internally. Sometimes this is to avoid sending bad info, sometimes to avoid sending the same ad too many times.
Sometimes to track engagement, to build a profile.
:chef’s kiss: perfect. No notes.
It is this humble servant's duty to report that Arnaud Bertrand is never beating the charges of being a thoroughly historically-illiterate dumbass...
February 12, 2026 at 11:00 PM
:chef’s kiss: perfect. No notes.
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Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
Feb 12: Shoplifting / Being bad customers
It seems like Black people shoplift a lot. Is that true? And completely unrelated, why are Black people so eager to adopt new technologies? Early adopters are usually rich, and y'all are not? What gives?
Read the whole thread.
Feb 12: Shoplifting / Being bad customers
It seems like Black people shoplift a lot. Is that true? And completely unrelated, why are Black people so eager to adopt new technologies? Early adopters are usually rich, and y'all are not? What gives?
Read the whole thread.
mekka okereke :verified: (@[email protected])
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
Still working through white US history.
Q: Why are so many Black folk early adopters of tech like Uber and Amazon? Sometimes this willingness to try new tech early backfir...
hachyderm.io
February 12, 2026 at 11:08 AM
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
Feb 12: Shoplifting / Being bad customers
It seems like Black people shoplift a lot. Is that true? And completely unrelated, why are Black people so eager to adopt new technologies? Early adopters are usually rich, and y'all are not? What gives?
Read the whole thread.
Feb 12: Shoplifting / Being bad customers
It seems like Black people shoplift a lot. Is that true? And completely unrelated, why are Black people so eager to adopt new technologies? Early adopters are usually rich, and y'all are not? What gives?
Read the whole thread.
My favorite “corporate” hardware remains SGI. They were not just ahead of their time, but brilliantly engineered.
I love the preservation and upgrade efforts people are doing.
mattst88.com/blog/2026/02...
I love the preservation and upgrade efforts people are doing.
mattst88.com/blog/2026/02...
mattst88's blog - Reverse Engineering the PROM for the SGI O2
mattst88's blog - Reverse Engineering the PROM for the SGI O2
mattst88.com
February 12, 2026 at 11:14 AM
My favorite “corporate” hardware remains SGI. They were not just ahead of their time, but brilliantly engineered.
I love the preservation and upgrade efforts people are doing.
mattst88.com/blog/2026/02...
I love the preservation and upgrade efforts people are doing.
mattst88.com/blog/2026/02...
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My cinnamon tree has flowered! The flowers smell sweet and floral, not cinnamon-y at all. This makes sense as the cinnamon is a bug deterrent in the tree flesh. Flowers are a bug attractant! I’ve never seen this before. Growing plants is awesome.
(Tree has flowered after 10 years growth from seed.)
(Tree has flowered after 10 years growth from seed.)
February 9, 2026 at 8:02 PM
My cinnamon tree has flowered! The flowers smell sweet and floral, not cinnamon-y at all. This makes sense as the cinnamon is a bug deterrent in the tree flesh. Flowers are a bug attractant! I’ve never seen this before. Growing plants is awesome.
(Tree has flowered after 10 years growth from seed.)
(Tree has flowered after 10 years growth from seed.)
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I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid.
I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
February 11, 2026 at 11:53 PM
I called up one of the White House's "special government employees" involved in the Fulton County FBI raid.
I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
I ended up on the phone for almost two hours hearing about the "deep state" "cabal," "Satanists," poison soda, and the "pure evil" of "gay pride." talkingpointsmemo.com/news/meet-th...
Possibly the greatest shot/chaser I’ve seen.
absolutely *incredible* scenes on vichy twitter
February 12, 2026 at 8:47 AM
Possibly the greatest shot/chaser I’ve seen.
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Fuck Russia and all its outsized influence over the IOC.
BREAKING Ukrainian skeleton racer Vladyslav Heraskevych is disqualified from the Winter Olympics after refusing to back down over his banned helmet, which depicts victims of his country's war with Russia
February 12, 2026 at 8:38 AM
Fuck Russia and all its outsized influence over the IOC.
The problem here is a large number of the aid request accounts are spamming, and it’s impossible to tell the difference between a legitimate one and someone scamming.
Not that donating to an aid organization will get people actual help either.
Not that donating to an aid organization will get people actual help either.
palestinian journalist posting on twitter that his bluesky account was immediately taken down purely because he was in gaza. all palestinian accounts are assumed to be spam.
![Tamer Nahed 𓂆🇵🇸
@Tamer_Alnoaizy
BlueSky is one of the worst platforms I have ever dealt with. Within seconds of creating a second account, after my first one was shut down just two days after it was created, my account was closed again. This happened despite the fact that I hadn’t posted anything or followed anyone. I was only in the process of adding a profile photo, yet I received an email claiming that my account was “spam” and that it was “causing harm.” What kind of logic is this?
The painful truth is that the account was shut down the moment it became clear it was created from inside Gaza. It seems we are no longer allowed to write or speak about what is happening to us here. They are not afraid of content itself, but of our voices and the reality we carry with us.
Millions are spent to silence these voices and to erase the truth. I am exhausted by this platform and by how our photos and videos, which document real suffering, are treated as “violations of community standards,” as if pain itself has become a crime.
What is happening is not simple moderation or policy enforcement. It is an attempt to erase our existence and bury the truth. And honestly, this is shameful and unbearably painful.
[the original poster has included two screenshots showing the email from bluesky admin informing him that his account has been taken down for being 'spammy, inauthentic or disruptive to users'. it's the standard boilerplate you get when they take moderation action.]
2:45 PM · Feb 10, 2026
https://twitter.com/Tamer_Alnoaizy/status/2021234178461704409](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2l6seozmjsqc4kfukjejat77/bafkreiga45xjdal6lfcqt2zmambaymeoelxafbrlt7fi2nmoahpbqj3cja@jpeg)
February 12, 2026 at 6:16 AM
The problem here is a large number of the aid request accounts are spamming, and it’s impossible to tell the difference between a legitimate one and someone scamming.
Not that donating to an aid organization will get people actual help either.
Not that donating to an aid organization will get people actual help either.
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Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.
February 11, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Thirty years of concern. Never enough courage.
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The Epstein files have been updated; it now consists of nearly 430 GB of data and 1,500,000 files.
This includes documents that have since been deleted by the Department of Justice.
ddosecrets.org/article/epst...
Donate to help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets
This includes documents that have since been deleted by the Department of Justice.
ddosecrets.org/article/epst...
Donate to help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets
February 11, 2026 at 2:36 PM
The Epstein files have been updated; it now consists of nearly 430 GB of data and 1,500,000 files.
This includes documents that have since been deleted by the Department of Justice.
ddosecrets.org/article/epst...
Donate to help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets
This includes documents that have since been deleted by the Department of Justice.
ddosecrets.org/article/epst...
Donate to help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets
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A couple of years ago I was in an old shopping mall in Edinburgh where one of the empty units had been turned into a "living history" exhibition for kids, full of "how your grandparents' living room/bedroom looked when they were your age".
... They'd turned my teenage years into a museum gallery.
... They'd turned my teenage years into a museum gallery.
February 10, 2026 at 12:18 PM
A couple of years ago I was in an old shopping mall in Edinburgh where one of the empty units had been turned into a "living history" exhibition for kids, full of "how your grandparents' living room/bedroom looked when they were your age".
... They'd turned my teenage years into a museum gallery.
... They'd turned my teenage years into a museum gallery.
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Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
February 7, 2026 at 3:39 PM
Breaking: Tragedy at the Winter Olympics
It’s either disappointing or surprising that DinoCon is holding people more to account for their association with Epstein than the US government.
February 10, 2026 at 8:16 AM
It’s either disappointing or surprising that DinoCon is holding people more to account for their association with Epstein than the US government.
Age verification?
[shows punchcard with name and ID number]
[shows punchcard with name and ID number]
Age verification?
[emits modem noise]
[emits modem noise]
Age verification? I used tokens on the subway and paper transfers on the buses in New York
February 10, 2026 at 8:14 AM
Age verification?
[shows punchcard with name and ID number]
[shows punchcard with name and ID number]
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I remain shocked by how much work was done after Katrina (subj of my diss) on evacuating pets in disasters relative to evacuating people without cars, or with disabilities, or with poverty, or elderly, or, or, or
I tell you what, Ring figured out exactly how to weaponize white people’s empathy in service to a corporately controlled surveillance state.
Tell them it will find your dog.
Tell them it will find your dog.
February 9, 2026 at 9:19 AM
I remain shocked by how much work was done after Katrina (subj of my diss) on evacuating pets in disasters relative to evacuating people without cars, or with disabilities, or with poverty, or elderly, or, or, or
This is a great read. Didn’t watch the show, because I actually have to sleep (and was sick).
Disturbingly detailed analysis of my first rewatch incoming
February 9, 2026 at 6:56 AM
This is a great read. Didn’t watch the show, because I actually have to sleep (and was sick).
Oh good. I’m right in the megacolon.
I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself!
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
bluesky-map.theo.io
I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail
Bluesky Map
Interactive map of 3.4 million Bluesky users, visualised by their follower pattern.
bluesky-map.theo.io
February 9, 2026 at 6:42 AM
Oh good. I’m right in the megacolon.
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NPR FTW www.npr.org/2026/02/08/n...
March for Life attendees may have been exposed to measles, DC Health warns
D.C. health officials are contacting people possibly exposed to measles at the March for Life in January, as confirmed cases rise nationwide.
www.npr.org
February 9, 2026 at 5:01 AM
NPR FTW www.npr.org/2026/02/08/n...