Worth recalling that Rep. Massie socialized with Russian spies and defended one in the press.
rollingstone.com/politics/polit…

My ask today is that you take seventy seconds to watch this and one more to share it widely. It’s been one year.
#iStandwithevan #FreeEvan

All you really need to know about David Sacks

Somehow I don’t think that Space Karen’s promised war on bots is going so great …

The fiancé has spent too much time in corporate calls. I committed the sin of cutting 2 slices out of the middle of the baguette. Instead of shouting “wtf happened?” he pointed at the offensive bread and said with a sad puppy look: “Can you help me understand what happened here?”

At the request of so many of my followers here: This is my short film on how social inequality and poverty have reached unprecedented levels in Britain, now with English subtitles. Tx a lot for all your comments and the extraordinary feedback this had !
youtube.com/watch?v=gj2WgG…

Q: If you're 68 or older, what's the most common sign that you have a Republican governor and legislature?

A: You're dead.

We talk a lot (rightly) about the threats and risks posed by AI, and sometimes I think we forget why we are pursuing it in the first place.
Which is why it’s really important to me to also tell stories like this:

bbc.co.uk/news/technolog…

Hi Joan,

I made a prize winning documentary about trans history in Berlin.

The very first target of the book burnings was Magnus Hirschfeld’s institute for sexual research, which also assisted in the first gender affirming surgeries including Lily Elbe’s

This is what the internet was made for

“… a group of Nazis who openly identified as national socialists mingled with mainstream conservative personalities, including some from Turning Point USA, and discussed so-called “race science” and antisemitic conspiracy theories.”

When I was 16 in the 1970s I was expelled from high school for being a lesbian and put in a psychiatric ward for conversion therapy to de-gay me. It was so traumatic, I attempted suicide. I was fortunate--I survived. So I am celebrating another birthday, today. But conversion…

The #dentist just now: “You’re one of the very few people I would rather talk to than work on.” File under ‘strange compliments’.

Pro life in the womb.
Pro death in jail.
Indifferent in between.

I guess this is what they mean by the “good old days” …

The Wine Glass, by Johannes Vermeer, 1658-1660

Everyone should read this! #advertising #databrokers

Quite something to complain about how not enough American journalists are reporting on the Russian side of Putin's invasion of Ukraine when two of them – Evan Gershkovich and Alsu Kurmasheva – are *in jail right now* for doing just that

Well respected-international lawyers – from the UK, Belgium, the Netherlands, Japan, and the United States – have endorsed the use of the countermeasures principle to transfer frozen Russian reserves to an escrow for Ukraine.
ft.com/content/7fc033…

And on top of that, 25 GOP-led states have pledged to back Texas in its standoff with the federal government.

This is already spiraling.
commondreams.org/news/25-gop-go…