The Straight of America

“A map is a weapon” - Lt. Col. E.M. Jack, Royal Engineers, Maps GHQ, BEF

My heart is heavy. Walter Koenig, our Ensign Pavel Chekov, passed away early today. Walter and I met on the bridge of the Enterprise in the 1960s, and we stayed friends for nearly six decades. When Brad and I married in 2008, Walter stood beside us as our best man.

Looking forward to an era of bespoke code, where hipsters lovingly hand-craft subroutines. They’ll talk about modules and packages like sommeliers talk about fine wines … “You’ll find this C++ library offers notes of inheritance balanced against a robust backdrop of templatized type independence”

I’m sorry, but using PowerPoint has given me agenda dysphoria.

I bet if King Arthur and his knights of the round table were alive today they’d be pretty fucking good at pickleball.

I’m sure it’s just a coincidence, but both Elizabeth Holmes and the National Review built their careers on sucking up to old, wealthy white men.

"I was told," said the princess, "that the point of fairy tales is not to tell children dragons exist, but that they can be killed." "Oh, absolutely!" said the dragon. "You agree?" "These rich, selfish, powerful, cruel beings that need killing, did you think they're literally dragons, princess?"

GAINESVILLE! They keep telling us Florida is a red state. But y’all packed that auditorium so full that Senator @sanders.senate.gov and I had to take the rally OUTSIDE to speak to the more than 3000 who came out!   Florida, we’re going to WIN this thing! #AngieforFlorida #Gainesville

“Coding is hard”

Every time I mention how much I hate James Carville, even in the context of a joke, someone on here will try to tell me that he's a great fighter for Democracy and he's doing his best to make things better and I need to give him respect. Get it through your head, James Carville is a malignancy.

I’m not on the same side as anyone that throws trans people under the bus. Literally the least you can do is just shut the fuck up.

Thread full of Pede-o-philes.

It’s incredible how we’re grown-ass adults, olds even, and yet when we go to visit mom it’s like we’re 5 years old again. Sneaking ramen and snacks and goodies upstairs to eat in bed. Crumbs! In bed! Like Gandalf on the bridge at khazad-dûm.

#EpsteinAshley: Donors linked to Jeffrey Epstein are pouring money into Senator Ashley Moody's campaign.

this is so obviously correct it is deeply bizarre and corrosive how many people who should know better are unwilling to simply say it

There are a whole lot of people whose citizenship is not backed up by immaculate documentation or who bent a regulation in navigating the immigration system. I might be one of them. Let’s not start down this road. It doesn’t lead anywhere good.

There is absolutely no viable path forward for this country that doesn’t hinge on extreme accountability for everyone involved in this administration. They’re going to whine about politicization and credulous media types will echo them, but the thing is, they’ve committed tons of obvious crimes!

I no longer say “see you in the camps”. That’s out of fashion. I now say “See you on the eastern airlines deportation flight to Rwanda”. Much more relevant! Unfortunately, I will not be available to say “see you in the shallow mass-graves”.

Why assume the AI wants you alive?

Florida is home to the largest Haitian community in the nation. I’m demanding that Rick Scott and Absent Ashley Moody use the influence they claim to have in Washington to push the Senate to pass S. 4814, which would reinstate TPS for Haitians until 2029. #AngieForFlorida

Heads Heads on pikes People This is your right

What is his name and where does he live?

The third age of man is drying your balls in the Dyson hand dryer at the health club.

“Don’t send me to fight the rebels”

Mike Rogers wants to put a data center in your backyard because he's getting rich off of them.

Bin Laden won the War on Terror.

This is an eye opening article. My only conclusion is that, if India truly wishes to become a world power, it needs to first euthanize 90% of its male population.

We’ve been kicking this dead horse for a decade now. We need a community coffee jar and anyone who relitigates the 2016 election has to put in a dollar.

What’s not to love?

I know it’s more than a little insane, but it’s also very impressive how capital investment can mobilize so quickly and so massively. Like the nimblest 800 pound gorilla you ever saw.

Its mother loved it.

Piddington Bear, the adorable stuffed animal from darkest Uruguay, who came to the UK and is now an irredeemable racist.

This is Maeve. She may be the sweetest, most good natured, most trusting dog I have ever met. She was abandoned in DC last week, and since I’m not able to adopt a dog now, I had to turn her over to the Brandywine Animal Shelter. I want to make sure this absolute delight of a dog finds a good home.

The world has made real progress in steering away from some of the darkest climate futures where global emissions doubled (or more) this century. But as David Wallace-Wells and I note in today's NYT, we are not out of the woods yet, and climate uncertainty is not our friend: www.nytimes.com/2026...

Iran will have a nuclear weapon within a year. Godspeed.

so i may be out of my depth here but hes at 30% approval, you elites can stop capitulating now

This is shocking to hear! Einstein kept a picture of Maxwell on his office wall and admired him more than any other scientist. Every fall I teach a whole course about his work. This is like hearing that Westminster Abbey might be purchased so a new car rental place can built on Newton’s grave.

Truly a moment for all us sickos to look thru the window, rub our hands and say “Yesss …”

Now would be a good time for the people of Venezuela to rise up and take their country — and their oil — back.

Yuuuuup…