In general, "no I don't want anyone looking under the hood" is a really good reason someone should be looking under the hood. Particularly when this has been Boutros' approach from the beginning. He tried to hide the transcripts and then left out entire pages. "Trust me" shouldn't cut it.

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 4h ago

Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.

because this asshole so happens to be jewish, i would like to note that, in judaism, it's ethically and morally forbidden to evade taxes because you are robbing the poor of their share in your wealth that god has generously blessed you with so that you may benefit spiritually from helping them.

'viktor shtrum'@viktorshtrum.bsky.social · yesterday

death penalty

Under-discussed Michigan politics story is that a co-founder of Uncommitted is about to become the Democratic nominee for a seat to the State Senate with the backing of Governor Whitmer

James Gyre gave me this. It's based on a fractal curve he saw on my web site. I met James at Bridges Math/Art 2024. He was showing his cool wooden geometry stuff: pittsburgh.makerfaire.com/maker/entry/...

When it's time to peck some mfing wood. 🪶

So anyways Trump's (stolen) "Family Crest" has a motto in Latin, "Numquam Concedere" which charitably is translated as "Never concede a point / never yield to others" but also LEGITIMATELY can mean "NEVER PAY THEM" *or* "NEVER GIVE THEM LIBERTIES" (depending on context)

"I don't understand why you, a fantasy writer, don't appreciate the value of making bargains with the fae."

John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 2d ago

Every now and then someone takes a run at me along the lines of "I don't understand why you, a scifi writer, don't appreciate 'AI'," and I'm all, motherfucker, it's *because* I'm a science fiction writer I have the positions I have, how many times do we have to fucking yell "torment nexus," my dude

here's a fun lil exercise for cis people: how many articles would a publication have to print calling for your extermination before you would expect people who care about you to stop giving them money? and how would you feel if their excuse for still supporting them is some fuckass crossword puzzle?

Every time you use genAI, you're supporting an ongoing genocide in Congo. Earlier this year, the US and UAE (which is, with our help, also committing genocide in Sudan) created a paramilitary force to ensure the flow of cobalt and rare earth minerals extracted by child slaves to create GPUs.

Congo Plans Paramilitary Unit for Mines with US, UAE Funding

The Democratic Republic of Congo will create a paramilitary unit to police its mines with funding from the US and the United Arab Emirates, the country’s General Inspectorate of Mines said.

bloomberg.com

"Anyone who speaks of revolution and class struggle without referring explicitly to everyday life—without grasping what is subversive about love and positive in the refusal of constraints—has a corpse in his mouth." —Raoul Vaneigem, The Revolution of Everyday Life brooklynrail.org/2011/12/last...

What this nation is doing to trans people is disgusting.

emptywheel@emptywheel.bsky.social · 2d ago

DOD is not letting trans service members attend their own separation hearings unless they conform with Whiskey Pete's notion of their gender. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/u...

Yeah, this one is dividing the ball-knowers from the knee-jerkers pretty effectively. Hindering Vought’s OMB is more important than blithely saying “illegal thing is illegal”

Working with anarchist artist NO BONZO, we've made a support poster to inform people about the Minneapolis 15 case. 15 people are federally charged with conspiracy for allegedly defending their neighborhoods from ICE. Please print these out and post them everywhere! crimethinc.com/posters/supp...

I know I talk a lot about being Ashkenazi but I am also part Romani on my dad's side and could not be prouder to be a constant annoyance to Nazis simply by existing

Dr James Peate@jamesepeate.bsky.social · 3d ago

Today is Roma Holocaust Memorial Day. Around 500,000 Roma & Sinti people were killed by the Nazis in the Porajmos. There was no state given to them after the war. Commemoration of their suffering is often diminished or forgotten. Racism towards Romani people across Europe remains acceptable.

Scapegoats are emotionally cheaper than systems. Blaming the left asks nothing of you. It feels good and righteous and right. Asking whether your institutions and your party failed you requires dismantling beliefs you have spent your lifetime building. That is emotionally expensive.

🚨 After 40 years of research, Brazilian scientist Dr. Mariangela Hungria wins the World Food Prize for pioneering a $2 nitrogen-fixing bacteria treatment that replaces costly fertilizers, saves farmers $25 billion annually, and cuts 230 million tons of CO₂ emissions.

It is often said that anarchists live in a world of dreams to come, and do not see the things which happen today. We do see them only too well, and in their true colors, and that is what makes us carry the hatchet into the forest of prejudice that besets us. - Peter Kropotkin

Everything counts as writing but writing is the only way to do it

A.I. thinges fall apart The data center kan not holde Olde fashioned love Ys loosed upon the worlde

Love ys not complicated. Love ys two creatures movinge towarde each othir wyth joye ynstead of turninge awaye from ech othir wyth fear or reticence. Love ys the yes you saye to the othir soul.

We need to make getting support from Elon as toxic as it is from AIPAC.

I'm not generally fond of anyone correcting other peoples' grammar unless the author requested it, but what pisses me off extra is some smug idiot pretending not to understand slang in a casual conversation. "You 'seen' it? What does that mean?" oh okay so you're stupid

i got mugged at shotgun point. the cops arrested the wrong guy, hustled me out of court at the hearing when i said ”that’s not the guy,” told me “you didn’t see him,” made me do a lineup at the prison and when i said “that’s the guy i saw in court, still not him” told me “it’s OK, he’s a bad person”

Em, midly@lefttheprairie.bsky.social · 4d ago

It’s so funny when people are like “sure you’re an abolitionist now but wait until you’re the victim of a property crime.” Buddy, the most useful thing the police have ever done for property crime is put the form you need to submit to your insurance online.

BANGER of a poem

Catherine Rockwood@martin65.bsky.social · 5d ago

here's a bit of a @reckoningmag.bsky.social Odyssey tie-in (and also its own self) from issue 7: a poem about Limulus polyphemus--the horseshoe crab--by Cristina Legarda. reckoning.press/how-to-place...

I think, and this is me, if a business texts you like a clingy ex you should get to throw a brick through their window.

The old plan was to sit a spell, then walk in flammable quiet. The new plan is to trick the whale into opening her mouth and then we get in. Zoë Ryder White @zoeryderwhite.bsky.social

TIL

Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · 6d ago

there are so many toilet gods en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toilet_...

No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...

Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation

PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...

theonion.com

lol someone should pay me to write an article on how to lie by journalism.

Giving any inch to the fascists, even on this, will only empower the fascist more. It doesn’t matter how much the center rejects the radicals. The fascists will come for them too.