@CommonMugwort Moi aussi

@CommonMugwort That's a beautiful thing!

@thomholwerda It cheers me up, too.

But it is also good journalism. It puts what follows into a truthful context.

@SuneAuken Perhaps also, because I perceive the pace as less frantic, even when someone appears to be 'splaining', I do check their profile because for certain people, pedanticism is kind of their mode of being. hahah.

@SuneAuken Yes. I can only speak for myself, but I think I may have blocked a total of 20 accounts since I got here 4 years ago.

That is nothing compared to what I used to experience on Twitter.

@nixCraft I hope he appreciates that he has a funny and brilliant wife.

@arafel He definitely helped her parents - who were devoutly Catholic and frantic about the state of her immortal soul. @cstross

@cstross And as a strange aside, because of course suicide is prohibited in the Catholic religion, she was buried in consecrated ground because the priest argued that the removal of the brace was not suicidal. That if God had wanted her to keep on breathing, she would have.

Humans have been fucked up since forever.

@cstross
But I remember her, in my child's eye, as a thin, frail little puppet, jerked by invisible strings. And she was hauntingly graceful and beautiful to me.

But at the age of 18, one night at bedtime, she removed the brace, lay down, and killed herself. She did it in total silence, so her parents wouldn't stop her.

Anyone who tells you not to get vaccines is a murderer by proxy.

@cstross When I was growing up in Madrid in the late 60s, there were still lots of very young people around who had contracted and were scarred for life from polio.

My friend was about 3 years older than me. She had contracted polio at the age of 5. It had attacked her spine, and she had to wear a metal brace 24/7 around her torso and chest to keep her upright so her body wouldn't double over and suffocate her by collapsing her lungs.

It was incredibly painful. She moved slowly and jerkily...

I have been thinking about how many of these members of ICE/DHS are being spoken about by this administration as having been 'highly trained Border Police' who've been serving down at the border for years.

I wonder how many Brown people they murdered down there? With no one taking video?

Because, if you look at the guys who killed Good and Pretti there's a common theme - you don't murder with that kind of casual brutality without practice.

I think I confuse many people. They either know me as a political rabble rouser with socialist tendencies and a willingness to engage in urban warfare

OR

I'm Sewing Susan and Betty Fucking Crocker.

I am devotedly all of these. And I rock it proudly. It took me 63 years to realise I was born to make people uncomfortable.

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@festal/115961254774065427

While I deplore AI and would like to blame it for pretty much everything, cultural stagnation was here long before the AI bubble.

It happened when publishers and record companies would no longer direct any of their profits to shepherd young new talent into the world, would no longer spend money promoting anything that was not in their top 10% of sales, and instead pocketed it for themselves and their shareholders.

On the brink?

Lady, it's way over the brink.

You have masked goons gunning down innocent civilians in the middle of the street in broad daylight with the blessing of the state.

The brink is in the rearview mirror

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/25/america-feels-like-a-country-on-the-brink-of-an-authoritarian-takeover

@Nerdfest Serious caturdaying!

During the summer, during the US and Israeli bombing of #Iran, my friend in Tehran said she was shocked at the sucking silence of all of her American friends, whom she had known for years.

This is just a reminder that, now emails are getting through, if you have Iranian friends, don't forget to just send them a little note to say that they are not forgotten.

Those simple words really matter to people who are feeling isolated.

Someone needs to keep track of EVERYONE in the FBI, in the Justice Department, who has enabled this cover-up, and bring charges in the Hague. Because the witnesses they can bring to testify are legion - all the officials who resigned.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Free_Press/115949888421733874

So where once this might have been categorised as one illegal shooting, perpetrated by one ICE agent, it must now be recategorised as state sanctioned murder.

That is the only logical way to frame it.

What all those participating in this cover-up do not understand is that they are now , as a group and individually, answerable for exactly the kind of systemically sanctioned crimes charged at Nuremberg.

And if the US doesn't understand this, the ICJ will.

@ApostateEnglishman @inthehands

What did we do before drones?

@jwcph @tompearce49

I agree. Although this is a subject I feel less confident to address. The tides that pull America are, I must admit, a bit of a mystery to me.