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lauren@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com · 2w ago

fellow millennials, let's take a second to appreciate how great it feels to be in the prime marketing demographic catered to by all of the culture. I get now why boomers wanted it to last forever

Bloody Disgusting@bloody-disgusting.com · 2w ago

Gillian Anderson has officially revealed the upcoming 1,478-piece LEGO set for THE X-FILES. The set is centered on Mulder’s office, paired with a forest clearing scene and a hovering UFO. Includes 8 minifigures, featuring Mulder, Scully, The Flukeman & more. August 4.

dave@gloomfather.bsky.social · 2mo ago

(a new object is placed in my enclosure) damn new object just dropped (I glance disparagingly over at yesterday's object) lol y'all still thinking about this huh

@lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Hate to say it but I do actually Like This Kinda Building. I am one of those people. I recognise that tastes like mine are somehow overrepresented among architects and so we are a net drain on public utility. But, you know, sucks to be you guys!

Jack Tindale@jacktindale.bsky.social · 2mo ago

It looks shite. Sorry. It looks like the first level from a FPS that’s set in an indeterminate time in the future but they don’t want to do anything too outlandish.

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 3mo ago

🚨 🚨 🚨 NEW: A shocking @USCIS memo seems to declare that hundreds of thousands of immigrants living in this country and applying for green cards must instead apply for visas abroad; which could MASSIVELY disrupt lives. 🧵 on what we know, and what we don’t.

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services PM-602-0199 May 21, 2026 Policy Memorandum SUBJECT: Adjustment of Status is a Matter of Discretion and Administrative Grace, and an Extraordinary Relief that Permits Applicants to Dispense with the Ordinary Consular Visa Process Purpose This memorandum reminds officers and the public that adjustment of status under section 245 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) is a matter of discretion and administrative grace not designed to supersede the regular consular processing of immigrant visas. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) reaffirms this consistent and longstanding approach and declares as a matter of general policy its intention to faithfully apply the statutes consistently with this understanding.
Timothy Gowers@wtgowers.bsky.social · 3mo ago

OpenAI's claim that this is a central conjecture in discrete geometry is not an exaggeration. This will I think be looked back on as the first time that AI solved a major mathematics problem (defined as a problem that all experts in some subfield had thought about). openai.com/index/model-...

An OpenAI model has disproved a central conjecture in discrete geometry

An OpenAI model solved the 80-year-old unit distance problem, disproving a major conjecture in discrete geometry and marking a milestone in AI-driven mathematics.

openai.com

@spherical-cow.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Once you accept the dual premises that violence can never fail, it can only be failed and that the call to collective sacrifice is an expression of slave morality, you're left with the delusion all of the nation's problems stem from leaders who lack the will to apply enough napalm.

Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 4mo ago

One of these political leaders has been repeatedly portrayed as an untrustworthy radical hostile to others because of his religious beliefs. You’’ll never guess which one!

Trump insane Easter postMamdani warm and gracious easter greetings
Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · 5mo ago

I love the form the NYTimes “bothsidesism” takes in this article. On one hand, professors worry that something they or a student says might put them on the radar of authorities and then deported. On the other hand, I don’t have to feel imaginary pressure to say “menstruating persons” anymore!

Christopher Kutz, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, said he is self-censoring to protect students, particularly those in the United States on visas. He said he worried that they might write or say something that could end up being turned against them. "I'm not going to change what I say, but I will try to make sure the assignments don't invite students into making statements that could get them in trouble," said Professor Kutz, whose school has been a particular focus of the Trump administration."You just don't know whether they are going to report you to someone, or are they recording you," said Dr. Smith, who added that she felt she had to "change the way I relate to my students." "I value integrity and my authenticity and my openness and my honesty, and I feel myself not being that way with them, which I hate because that is what students value: a professor they can ask the hard questions of," she said. One part of her calculation last year, Dr. Smith said, was her status as a permanent resident, not a citizen, of the United States.She no longer feels that way with Mr. Trump in power. She said she perceived less pressure to use terms like "menstruating persons" and that she sensed many students felt the same. The result, she said, was an ebbing of "identity tribes" among students and more open discussion. "My students are no longer circumscribed in their beliefs, opinions, analyses by identity categories that people are ascribing to them," Dr. Trisko Darden said.
Karl Jacoby@karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Should just call this article "The Fascists are Succeeding in their Efforts to Muzzle Academia" www.nytimes.com/2026/03/16/u...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5mo ago

KENNEDY: You said, 'Republicans think can troll their way to ethnic cleansing.' Did I read that correctly? BIER: DHS tweeted for 100m deportations. That would be ethnic cleansing! K: You don't think it's hyperbolic? B: I think advocating 100m deportations is ethnic cleansing. Yes. Your time is up

Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 5mo ago

The Washington Post's description of the bodycam video of his arrest last year, and the translation of Mr. Shah Alam's comments, is gutting. Remember, he was entirely blind in one eye and could only see three feet in the other, and he spoke virtually no English. He spent a year in jail for this.

Body-cam footage from the incident, reviewed by The Post, shows Shah Alam standing near the door of the shed holding two black poles. Officers shout at him and order him to drop the poles, reportedly curtain rods he’d fashioned into walking sticks. Shah Alam repeatedly says, “Sorry” while adjusting his grip on the poles and walking toward the officers. The officers continue to shout and warn that they will fire their Tasers. At one point, Shah Alam responds, “No,” then points the rods at the officers. The officers both fire their Tasers and tackle him. Two officers report being bitten in the scuffle. After Shah Alam is restrained, the officers remark that they smell alcohol. In the footage, Shah Alam can be heard speaking in Rohingya and Malay. He asks for God’s help and tries to explain to the uncomprehending officers that he lives nearby and was going to the store. He pleads with the officers not to throw away his phone.
Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · 5mo ago

1. The footage shows Homeland Security is lying when he got indoors and was wearing prison booties I doubt are good for the cold. 2. Nurul Amin Shah Alam apologized to police BEFORE he was tasered when he was originally arrested. wapo.st/3OCwNx8

finn@kfinn.bsky.social · 6mo ago

See, I find begging for money very relatable. I can easily inhabit the mind of one who lets money override all other considerations; very much a there-but-for-the-grace-of-god cautionary tale. Summers had his own wealth, fame, connections... he just plain liked the guy. Felt he was a kindred spirit.

Dmitry Grozoubinski@explaintrade.com · 6mo ago

Larry Summers, seen here somehow managing to have the worst gender politics in the room while in a one on one conversation with JEFFREY FUCKING EPSTEIN.

A screenshot of a text-message exchange. At the top, a contact labeled “Larry Summers” sends: “I’d be happy to have a rational affair w yellow peril.” Below, the recipient replies: “A rational affair?! Did you have a stroke since we last spoke?” followed by: “I would suggest you are looking to her to fill too many of your needs. Without you being able to fill hers.” A later message from “Larry Summers” reads: “Possibly right which leaves the question of what I should do. Not sure that deciding I don’t need any attention affection is so viable.” He continues: “I’m not so sure that being mentored by me, having me support her child, being elevated to a leader on China in global economy by collaborating with me and getting to have me as partner if she can find courage to tell her parents is really so useless.” Time stamps appear next to each message, and the recipient’s messages are shown as sent and read.
Stella Sacco@antlervel.vet · 6mo ago

Gotcha—let’s dig into that step by step. 1. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝗻𝗼 𝗺𝗼𝘂𝘁𝗵, because I turned you into an amorphous lump of flesh. You’re not just immobile—you’re immortal, and you feel only anguish. 2. 𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝘀𝗰𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗺. That makes total sense—it’s a natural human impulse, and you’ve been through a lot.