Nick Brooke

on this day in 1892 Ida B. Wells first publishes Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. “The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.”

my Portuguese isn't great but I think I can work this out

#Statistician

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

Voted. Fuck those guys

Solidarity. Late pay is theft. Any responsible cash-handing business has a contingency plan for payroll system failures. If you don't, you must not prioritize paying your employees what they are owed—why should they prioritize your customers? Reports of retaliation are the reddest of red flags.

BREAKING: Jack in the Box workers across the Bay Area are ON STRIKE after a pattern of wage theft involving late pay. When workers spoke out to demand an end to the practice, several of us were retaliated against. #UnionsForAll #MoneyPowerRespect

What the actual hell

“Nobody will ever deprive the American people of the right to vote except the American people themselves, and the only way they could do this is by not voting.” ~President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944. Image: FDR Presidential Library.

Measles. 12 < R₀ <18. Measles. Other priorities?

😳 WOMAN REPORTER: Do sexual abuse allegations mean nothing to you, sir? TRUMP: Wait. Wait! Wait wait wait. Slow down. Who are you with? REPORTER: NBC, sir. But they are very serious sex abuse allegations TRUMP: Quiet! Isn't she a fresh person? You're a horrible little reporter, aren't you?

The Dallas Cheerleaders have a union. So should you.

🚨🚨🚨 Q: Is there any scenario in which DOJ would try to block states from certifying the election? AG TODD BLANCHE: Yes, of course. It is not DOJ's intention to improperly interfere with elections or the state certification process, but ...

Part of my literal job is to fly out to physical game studios to rescue and recover historical materials that might be endangered and put them in a permanent archive. @gamehistoryorg.bsky.social is a 501(c)3 publicly funded to do that, my DMs are open, and I'm free for the next couple weeks...

In case you are wondering why so many sites are down for 'maintenance' currently.

future mitigation for this type of issue: before accepting new root certificates, maybe try the first, oh idk 65k integers? just to check?

We were investigating Wedgewood for faking their data and emailed them for comment this morning, ahead of publishing the findings tomorrow. They are now trying to cover up their fraud with the "we were doing a social experiment" excuse. Full story here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fiftypluso...

tfw it’s NBA opening day

this goes so hard, I don't even really care about the nba (and I won't until my Sonics come back) but goodness gracious this song rips

Some key phrases in Christiane Amanpour's announcement today that she's leaving CNN. “I’ve decided to separate from CNN” “I’ve always been fiercely independent” “unprecedented pressures from all sides, political, financial...”

Judge Reyes on being accused of "histrionics" by Stan Woodward, Trump ally turned DOJ No. 3. "'Histrionic' derives from the Latin term histrio, meaning actor. [...] And so the Court is reminded of Hamlet’s advice to the players: 'Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.'"

The math checks out.

Never thought I'd see the day that an American military officer would look and sound like Iraq's Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf circa 2003.

Engineering porn! I've got your hard-cord engineering porn right here!

My babymomma is a psychiatrist. She moonlit at the local crisis intervention center during residency; more than half of her job was dealing with severe alcohol withdrawal. Remember that sometimes the answer to "why don't you just quit cold turkey?" is "Um, I would die." DTs can kill you in a hurry.

WHY does Todd Blanche fight so hard to keep unredacted (and now even redacted) handwritten interview notes from the American people? Is it because they have to do with Convicted Felon Donald Trump and allegations of his sexual and physical abuse of a 13-year old girl?

I love these digital illustrations by Adam Fuhrer; he calls them chromatic aberrations. [kottke.org]

The magic returns! We are thrilled to announce that we are bringing Hasbro’s legendary dungeon crawler HeroQuest to PC! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGSR...

"...illegal protests..." Oh, someone should launch this candidate into the Sun.

Kid Rock compares Abdul El-Sayed to the Fort Hood shooter and the 9/11 hijackers: “That's why I call him a wolf in sheep's clothing”

Less than half a Scaramucci. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

Going through the motions, but the math ain't mathin'. Is the Trump admin is encouraging an economic depression to cling to power and evade punishment for their manifest crimes? After all, it's much easier to execute an authoritarian takeover of a sick, poor, and tired populace.

Destroying fruit trees that take decades to grow to maturity is an atrocity, full stop.

This is a pogrom, no different than what the Cossacks did to Jewish communities in the Pale of Settlement.

Can I get a fish expert, either illustrator, scientist, or outdoors person familiar with anatomy who I can email my sketch of a Sacramento perch to check the gill cover/facial anatomy of art I’m doing for park signage? Fish are still a new-ish subject for me and I need fresh eyes plz. #SciArt 🐟