Erin Griggs

NEW: The DOGE operative who gutted USAID -- firing thousands of employees and canceling lifesaving programs -- never actually signed the paperwork that's legally required for him to be employed by the agency.

Whether it's creating a funny picture, editing a photo or giving yourself an AI makeover, image generation is among the most energy-intensive uses of AI. Video generation uses even more energy. If you only need information, consider using text rather than generating images. 👍 #GreenLibraries CILIP

"Delays resulting from the U.S. Postal Service’s cost-cutting measures have endangered the validity of ballots cast in rural areas across the country..." www.newsfromthestates.com/article/ball...

Ax ex-cop shot this dad and left him to die at the scene.

NEW: A bird flu outbreak has been raging uncontrolled on a Utah mink farm for two months. Flu experts fear it could spark a devastating human pandemic. But officials haven’t acted — instead prioritizing the financial interests of the fur trade.

Imagine Jamie Fraser going thru the stones, popping out, expecting the future, just to see a giant fuckin' kelpie 🤣🤣🤣

More than 200 complaints regarding sexual violence at schools have been filed with the Education Department since the start of Trump’s second term. The department has investigated only 29 of these, finding fault with a school district only once. www.propublica.org/article/civi...

"The sale was finalized the same day that advance voting started in Kansas, where Marshall faces a tough reelection in which is vacation house has been a talking point..." www.cjonline.com/story/news/p...

Pete Hegseth’s staff break priceless historic globe he requested for office

Microsoft literally told fragile white guys to use AI to compete with Black co-workers.

Hey, tuna! ... there were drawbacks.

Reading this really fucked me up last night. I suppose rape profiteering has been around as long as war profiteering. They’re siblings. That said, there’s something about the unapologetic attitude of betting on the implications of gang rape that bruised the inside of my soul last night.

He's used "Shylock" like this repeatedly now, and it's not because he's familiar with Shakespeare. Guaranteed he picked up using it as a slur from his father because nobody younger than that says it.

I'm not laughing. I hope Tree Law saves us all.

"In Arizona, a Trump Administration immigration judge ordered a 1-year-old baby appearing without a lawyer to file an asylum application, according to court filings..." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/15/u...

Whoopsy — CBS News(max) *reporter* Jan Crawford deleted this tweet helping the bigoted attack on @abdulelsayed.bsky.social Sorry, Jan. The internet is forever.

I have been invited to a Halloween wedding, and I am putting together a costume of which even @cupcakegoth.bsky.social would be proud. I'm breaking out the corset, and I just ordered these amazing haunted castle with bats tights. And it'll be cool enough to wear my vintage Schiaparelli coat.

the second el-sayed chose to treat tommy as an equal and not a nuisance, tommy was cooked

Woke up at 3 a.m. with acid reflux, gonna make tea, just to find one of the beagles took a HUGE shit in the living room. Bitch, we let you out at 10. No excuses. No bueno. Gm bm. Bleargh.

I took this in Jamaica 2019. No filter!

A competent politician.

Archaeologists working off the coast of Turkey have found a shipwreck dating back around 4,700 years....Clay analyses indicate that the amphorae were likely produced in workshops in the Jordan Valley.... 🤯

I do not think an exec branch led by a man who thinks he is entitled to treat federal agents as an arm of his firm, refers to Somali Americans as “garbage” and has said racist things specifically about Omar is capable of neutrally applying the law to her, to put it mildly apnews.com/article/ilha...

This ICE agent’s entire Instagram feed, “shooter.914,” is guns, watches, energy drinks, and alcohol.

You know what's "professional?" TSA staff not grumpy from performative lower back and knee pain. FFS. Idc if folks sit at work as long as they stand up when needed. It's not fucking dark matter astrophysics.

a livestreamed execution is just a lynching

UN says Pentagon plan to livestream execution of Fort Hood shooter would amount to torture – US politics live

If people really want to see live executions they should just follow ICE agents around.

Wow! Texts are super rare for the Hittites, basically there’s just one archive and it’s 95% lists of prayer sacrifices to mountain gods, so this is really, really exciting!

“If you don’t like public executions just don’t watch it” says the crowd trying to ban drag shows and books

San Diego is a huge military town, btw. He's asking enemies of the state to target the civilian families of the American military. Those are *included* in the American citizens of L.A. and San Diego that he advocated being bombing to death by our adversary. Treasonous lunacy.

Have you heard of a medieval black knight from the Arthurian world? Meet Moriaen, the protagonist from a Dutch chivalric romance by the same name, researched by Georgie Anderson, a PhD candidate from the University of Kent.

Watching the freaking animated Hobbit at my grandma's house in the 70s.

I am a latchkey child of the 80s, amd watching Poltergeist the summer after 5th grade rendered me unable to sleep with a closet door cracked for...40 years.

I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president

i worry that men think being A Good Guy is dramatically and heroically intervening on behalf of an endangered woman and then being publicly rewarded on a grand scale when actually being A Good Guy is just usually saying, “hey man that’s not funny” or “wow that’s fucked up” and there is no reward

"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY

This from a man who has asked his son to monitor his on-line porn consumption.

"The price for a gallon of regular spiked 25 cents between Wednesday and Thursday in Iowa, according to AAA. In Wisconsin, it was up 23 cents. In Michigan, it was up 22 cents..." www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/0...

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I keep seeing videos of a guy who catches crabs and lobsters, cracks all the barnacles off them, puts a shrimp in their claws and throws them back. can you imagine. abducted by aliens but they just give you a spa day and hand you two hot dogs and let you go

Criselda Vasquez, American, The New American Gothic, 2017, oil on canvas, 72 x 48 in, private collection The artist's father, portrayed in the painting, was kidnapped by ICE on 31 March 2026