the newsletter is even better if you are privileged to enjoy Tal’s director’s commentary track while he is writing I learned a lot with this one!

Tal Lavin@swordsjew.bsky.social · 3h ago

in which i take a lot of words and quoted wwi diaries to say i like vegemite better than marmite: buttondown.com/theswordandt...

"youve earned it! chow down, boys!"

Hey Jimmy: go fuck yourself with a teddy bear cholla

Richard Mhortai@mhortai.bsky.social · 9h ago

More Talarico.

This is my original story from two days ago, about Ahmed and two others having an assault rifle pointed at them while a police supervisor screamed, “Shoot him!” It’s on video. bsky.app/profile/gill...

Gillian Brockell@gillianbrockell.com · 2d ago

I cannot stress enough how bad the situation is for the people ICE expelled to Equatorial Guinea right now. Grateful to Ahmed Soliman for talking with me despite the retaliation against him every time he goes on the record. prospect.org/2026/09/09/s...

This is what Ahmed Soliman's attorney wants from you:

His attorneys believe this was retaliation for speaking with the media, including me, earlier this week, about police abuse at the hotel prison.

AN URGENT EXCLUSIVE: Ahmed Soliman, the 30-year-old gay man ICE expelled in April to Equatorial Guinea, a country he has no ties to, was arrested this morning and cannot be located, his attorneys say. They fear he may be in one of EG's torture prisons. prospect.org/2026/09/11/i...

Immigrant Trump Sent to African Hotel Prison Arrested After Speaking With Media, Lawyers Say - The American Prospect

Ahmed Soliman’s attorneys fear he may have been sent to one of Equatorial Guinea’s notorious torture prisons.

prospect.org

@lackingsaint.bsky.social just dropped a 4 minute video where he essentially reiterates something we've all been talking about: once companies get rich enough they are immune from law and consequences and can do whatever they want. They're starting to eat the humans that made their platform, now.

YouTube just killed my channel.

YouTube video by Jack Saint

youtu.be

The implication here that I’m pro COVID 😭😭😭😭

Today's second screen vibe stream is Monterey Bay Aquarium's kelp forest. www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3Lj...

Live Kelp Forest Cam | Monterey Bay Aquarium

YouTube video by Monterey Bay Aquarium

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I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia

This piece was fascinating, getting at a point I'd never considered: bin-Laden's entire concept about what 9/11 would do to America was just... wrong. www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

i think this is the best epitaph for bin laden i have ever seen

eb99@eb99.bsky.social · 7h ago

I think it's more comforting for some people to think of OBL as some evil genius or tragic victim of imperialism rather than a bog standard delusional ideologically extremist billionaire failson who thought he could accellerationism his way to a theocratic utopia

omg not in the frame on display

who’s gonna bite the bullet and go to the Bush Museum and get pics of all SIXTEEN of his 9/11 paintings for the rest of us

George W. Bush painted 16 new works for the 25th anniversary of 9/11

Visitors can see George W. Bush’s new 16-piece Sept. 11 collection in Freedom Hall at the Bush Museum throughout September.

nbcdfw.com

hey guys check this out

Jon Bois@jonbois.bsky.social · 2d ago

drew lock

that’s it, we’ve peaked. Call it a day, go start your weekends.

I can just have a dumb idea and a week later have a bunch of stickers of it and this is dangerous power for me to have

this is crazy powerful

Robin Brooks@assumptionprime.bsky.social · 8h ago

I can just have a dumb idea and a week later have a bunch of stickers of it and this is dangerous power for me to have

‘The Matrix’ creator Lilly Wachowski on J.K. Rowling and the new ‘Harry Potter’ series: “She is funding trans genocide. J.K. Rowling funds trans genocide, full stop. So, if you support ‘Harry Potter,’ you’re supporting trans genocide.” variety.com/2026/tv/feat...

Lilly Wachowski on Her New Studio Anarchists United, the Black Power Origins of ‘The Matrix’ and How ‘Harry Potter’ Fans Are ‘Supporting Trans Genocide’

‘The Matrix’ filmmaker Lilly Wachowski opens up about her new studio for marginalized voices Anarchists United, J.K. Rowling and Elon Musk.

variety.com

Everything about Tesla and Waymo is about surveillance and control. Honestly cannot believe it is legal to have cars on the road that can be controlled remotely by any old asshole

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h ago

“Over the coming days, Stacey found that the parental control profile, to which she had no access, could almost entirely control the car, including its speed, climate control, lock and curfew hours, determining when the car could be driven.”

they were beating up sikhs

Senator Elissa Slotkin@slotkin.senate.gov · 10h ago

But that feeling of a shared bond among all Americans in the early weeks after the attack is something I’m so glad I got to experience. Because it’s the thing that I think we’re missing the most today.

Pretending the days after Sept. 11, 2001 were some kind of gauzy Hallmark special when we came together as a country is nauseating and ahistorical. The country went completely insane and has not recovered

An excellent case for why doing this makes the site less safe and worse

mr pussy (prison arc)@nat.haus · yesterday

THEY DELETED MY KIRKIES

Broke: yeah I'm depressed too Woke: This is disassociation Bespoke: putting people in space and making them experience relativity causes them to function outside of the proper time-space flow

kottke.org@kottke.org · 2mo ago

Astronauts returning from long missions report a “jet lag of the self”: “a sense of watching their own lives from a half-step outside the frame”. [spacedaily.com]

I've spent my entire career reporting on the War on Terror. Many this week have asked me for my extended thoughts on the 25th anniversary of 9/11. Here they are.

Today We Must Finally Remember What The 9/11 Commemorations Ignore

Righteous victimhood fueled the War on Terror. 25 years later, we also have to remember all of those slain under its banner

forever-wars.com

The Fallout mod is AI vibecoded and the Kallax mod features Matt Berry who recently took JK Rowling money to do Sir Cadogan's voice in the Harry Potter audiobook remakes. Do not download these mods.

Aftermath@aftermath.site · 8h ago

I guess mods are something that *checks notes* IKEA and Breaking Benjamin are into now aftermath.site/breaking-benja...

you would have the tv on at like 3pm and Days Of Our Lives or Digimon or whatever would go to commercial and advertise Achmed The Dead Terrorist VHS tapes with that godawful Mickey Rooney level accent. craziest fucking time of my life.

the aftermath of 9/11 led to a comedy scene that rewarded a ventriloquist with a character called "achmed the dead terrorist" and gave him millions of dollars

Senator Elissa Slotkin@slotkin.senate.gov · 10h ago

But that feeling of a shared bond among all Americans in the early weeks after the attack is something I’m so glad I got to experience. Because it’s the thing that I think we’re missing the most today.

Speaking as somebody who spent this entire century watching his mum die in pain and humiliation, this decision is a big fat load of shite. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

MPs vote against legalising assisted dying in England and Wales

Bill fails at second reading despite near-identical legislation being approved by Commons in last parliament

theguardian.com