Kevin van Haaren

Paywalls on court documents impede democracy. But instead of getting rid of PACER fees, the judiciary is implementing a 20% fee hike. free.law/2026/10/21/p...

Yesterday was another extraordinary day on the political-legal front, with few commonalities among the three major rulings to knit them together into a coherent whole — except that the Trump administration consistently lost.

I genuinely don't think "Arabs were doing some really important work a thousand years ago" is a good rebuttal to RFK's racism. Tawakkol Karman won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2011. Omar M. Yaghi won the Nobel Prize for Chemistry in 2005. Maryam Mirzakhani won the Fields Medal in 1977.

Cops are great. @gregdoucette.bsky.social

If we’re doing gerrymandering discourse today, might I suggest www.nerd4cities.com/gerrymanderi...

🎉 Welcome to the Public Domain, EDWARD STEICHEN’S FASHION FOR VOGUE (1930) 📸🖼️ Model Marion Morehouse wears a dress by Madeleine Vionnet in this photograph by Steichen, one of the most influential fashion & modernist photographers of his era. More ⤵️ archive.org/details/vogu... #PublicDomain

It's important to recognize this - and I think it's important for me, as a trans man, to clearly say I recognize this: Rowling's primary motivating factor is an intense irrational hatred of trans women. There's nothing else but that in the entire 2200 word essay.

who's that? #rats #art #ratsky

Kyiv is under ballistic attack again, just five hours after the last one.

• Ahmed Zewail (Egypt / US): Won 1999 Nobel Prize in #Chemistry • Nader Masmoudi (Tunisia): Won Fermat Prize in #mathematics • Abbas Bahri (Tunisia): also received the Fermat Prize • Sir Michael Atiyah (Lebanese descent / British): #mathematician who won both Fields Medal and Abel Prize.

lol, this was how I figured out I had adhd at 50. I mentioned on Twitter (when it was good) that coffee doesn't keep me awake, it just evened me out and an acquaintance mentioned it was a classic adhd symptom and I should read up on it.

The birds I saw on my bike trip through the gorge. 🔗 grafera.zone/archive/sket... #birding #birdart #illustration

We know he isn't talking about the US because he didn't say pisspot

come here

bluesky has four types of users

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.

Election Officials Warn That Ballots Tied To Stray Cat Unlikely To Arrive In Time https://theonion.com/election-officials-warn-that-ballots-tied-to-stray-cat-unlikely-to-arrive-in-time/

Odds a datacenter company will buy an entire city block?

Abolish prisons except for the one we build specifically for Stephen Miller.

Josh Hawley hasn't been denounced by his Jesuit all-boy catholic high school...

My pal Danielle Koenig shared that her father Walter Koenig passed away last night at age 90. A performer whose kindness and warmth shone through the screen. He will be well remembered.

The Heritage Foundation, in 1994, complaining about "attacks" on the "American Tradition of Personal Responsibility" www.heritage.org/political-pr...

The way he says "These are not serious people," like an exasperated parent

The poll found that likely voters favor Bobby Pulido 51% to 44% over Republican Congresswoman Monica De La Cruz. Among Latino likely voters, the gap widens, with about 57% for Pulido, compared with 40% for De La Cruz.

Every so often I think about the number and scale of catastrophes Trump has baked into the global economy/security situation that haven’t eventuated yet and then sort of shrug and pour another cup of coffee because I can’t do anything about it.

The vaccine’s success bolsters hope that mRNA vaccines and individualized cancer-targeting medicines could offer a new paradigm for cancer therapies: arstechnica.visitlink.me/Jwu695

Fuck these guys

What the fuck, have they never heard of RAGBRAI? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAGBRAI

press 4 to pay respects

Not a single word of this is hyperbolic in the slightest. Buy your friends in cybersecurity the drink or chocolate of their choice right now. We are not doing well

Had to draw the ‘cat puddle on a glass table’ photo because WHO COULD RESIST #art #cat

God this just makes me despise Trump, the GOP, RFKjr, all the "maha" fuckers even more.

We're going to find out that a significant chunk of the US debt added by Trump in his 2nd term is direct payments to his family and cronies.

Somebody paid money to find out that Hunter Biden is slightly less unpopular than Don Jr which is, on the one hand, an utter waste of money, but on the other hand, hilarious.

a message from the future

Good. Now we should do real vaccine information and free vaccines for all in Guinea-Bissau arstechnica.com/health/2026/...

Yeah... We noticed.

Wait 'til people find out their router's web UIs are PHP and the router is out of support.

this whole expose was WILD to me and also made so much sense: data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

He looks like he's wearing one of those vinyl Reagan masks

BREAKING: SCOTUS rejects Trump admin's request to allow it to end gender-affirming medical care in prisons — a significant, if tentative, rejection of one of the admin's most extreme anti-trans arguments. Only Thomas and Alito noted they would have granted the stay. More to come: www.lawdork.com

a personal thank you to all of you joining in

I saw rumors of php issues last night, upgraded my lonely personal vm, realized patches aren't out yet, shutoff php and went to bed. Php patches should be out in around 20 min.

This is how stories about sheep being too dumb to step over a wall started but it began as "legs too scrawny to step over a wall"

In light of today's PHP news theonion.com/world-begins-ano...

Has PHP landed yet?

This is the kind of stuff that makes me think Microsoft's AI patch coding may not be going so well (Microsoft has not indicated if this particular patch was from AI, that's my speculation)

Huge follow-up reporting to my scoop: The Guardian confirmed America Next—the conservative nonprofit founded by Bobby Jindal that was offering students $ to disrupt El-Sayed events—paid a firm registered to Tommy Teepell’s dad Timmy $250k for “canvassing and influencer marketing” against El-Sayed.