Death will not release you!𓅽

A few history notes, because as an old person (born before JFK died), I hear people saying stuff that just isn't true.

And have lots of investigations. Constantly drag them before committees and what not. Make them be bogged down in that or have to brazenly defy congress without their little buddy in charge.

All right, who's up for some Industriekultur? First up - here's the Industrie...

I had a student who drew a perfect slurpie cup on the desk in detention. The teacher asked me what she should do. Told her I'd take care of it. Had him promise not to draw on desks. Then I paid him (with mom's approval) to illustrate a children's book I wrote.

"Your Honor, the defense calls Mr. James May to the stand."

I've said this before but the most trouble I ever got in at school was when i left a notebook full of doodles in the classroom of my uptight math teacher. They called my mom because I drew a goth girl with no pupils wearing a "TEIN" shirt, wanting an explanation of whether that was a gang symbol

Trump, Bolsonaro, Netanyahu, Orban, Miele, Bukele and every other far right shithead should be in the same prison. Rebuild Spandau and toss them in there.

The Vincennes disaster warns of AI decisions that are fast, confident, and wrong. https://www.usni.org/magazines/proceedings/2026/october/zombie-ooda-loop

"IA 655 was ascending on an established departure corridor. But the combat system could not map reality. It could only process symbols, and those symbols told a story training and general quarters had prepared the Vincennes’ watch standers to see: a descending military aircraft on an attack profile.

Bolosonaro is being investigated for being on honest to God Brazilian crime lord who was running to do for him and his crime family what our President did for his, lost, then fled Brazil illegally, and if Dems aren’t running this story 24/7 for the next week they are leaving real votes on the table.

The most money is in the hands of the worst people

I want this little rodent behind bars for the rest of his life.

“.. the latest extraordinary setback in Mr. Trump’s wide-ranging campaign to go after his political opponents.” @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/u...

Start light, impeach the Secretary of Defense first. Plenty of hate for him.

1. It will be a new Senate, so maybe the votes WILL be there! 2. Come on. Impeach this monstrously criminal president.

trans people can actually disagree with each other and doing so isn't rooted in transphobia. the idea that we have to be in lock step to "protect the community" or what the fuck ever is toxic as fuck.

I liked to draw dinosaurs eating each other in 3rd grade, and the school called my parents: my father pointed out to them that my drawings were 1. scientifically accurate and 2. they’d almost certainly NOT have been freaking out if I was AMAB. Anyway, this advice is terrible.

In any real country, this is prevented by rules called LAWS, and when people break those rules, it’s called a CRIME and they go to prison. It’s neat, America. You should try it.

How many times does history hour with Vladimir Putin have to happen before people realize that this obsession Russian leadership has with historiography of the region and how it relates to the Russian national mythos is something fundamental to their worldview

"The votes aren't there" is cowardice masked as savviness. There has to be accountability for their crimes. The House has a duty to make the case here and if some GOP senators want to weasel out, make them own that vote. Don't let pundits and "strategists" talk you out of doing your damn job.

Politics is the art of forcing the votes "there." You do that by ratcheting up the pressure through relentless accountability.

WaPo reports this no-bill was the Cassidy Hutchinson case www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

An authorised mining blast by Rio Tinto, globally condemned, took away from all Australians something precious, and irreplaceable. But their stock didn’t go down…

NEW: Remedy's latest game, Control Resonant, is filled with art galleries. The galleries are filled with real art When I began talking to Remedy about it, I was delighted to discover who the artists are: many are the game developers' parents My story... www.gamefile.news/p/control-re...

MLB, unsatisfied with dirty gambling money, is I guess advertising smoking on TV again now too

7 years ago today, I shared my name and pronouns with the world and said we didn’t need to have a big heart-to-heart about it. 7 years later, I’m still here. Still becoming. And I'm stoked to find what comes next.

ultimately, this boils down to congress not giving FDA the resources they need for many years.

Happy early bday love here!

"A Critical History of the Cost-Benefit State: Part 1" by @nathantankus.bsky.social www.crisesnotes.com/a-critical-h... // excellent on the function rather than fantasies of ubiquitized quantitative analysis in government

“A judicial investigation has been launched in Brazil against [Flavio] Bolsonaro for possible foreign financing of his campaign and manipulation of social media algorithms. Flavio still hasn't shown up.” 1/ x.com/biondinicesa...

On the US / BAAJA permitting reform debate, I feel like it's worth restating something. If you are supporting reforms on climate grounds it means that you are **against something** :coal and gas That means you want to oppose and *dismantle* the power tech that makes up nearly 60% of the grid. Good!

Defender PSA: 1. Today’s macOS update from Apple does NOT appear to remove the compromised eMudhra intermediates from /etc/ssl/cert.pem, as far as I can tell 2. Today’s macOS update from Apples DOES clobber manual changes to /etc/ssl/cert.pem and so you will need to reapply them

We must unlearn the deception that public funds "come from" taxes. The truth is that taxes are public collections of private funds created by private banks using credit that they were granted BY THE PUBLIC. To demand full funding of all basic needs, organized majorities must understand this fact.