Unlawful Orders and Killing Shipwrecked Boat Strike Survivors
An Expert Backgrounder by @mikeschmitt.bsky.social, @rgoodlaw.bsky.social and @tessbridgeman.bsky.social
www.justsecurity.org/125948/illeg...
Title: “ADHD conversations” Subtitle 1: Hyperactive Speech bubble to left looks frantic and says “rapid speech.” Bullets to the right read: excessive talking, speaks very quickly, gets off topic often, unintentionally loud, rambling, tangents, fidgets while being spoken to. Subtitle 2: Impulsive Speech bubble to left is cutting off someone else and reads “interrupting.” Bullets to the right read: Blurts out answers, impatient waiting for turn, lack of filter, quick emotional responses, inappropriate over-sharing, may unintentionally dominate conversations. Subtitle 3: Inattentive Speech bubble to left looks dreamy and says “zoning out.” Bullets to the right read: struggles to pay attention, becomes bored easily, forgets details, appears to ignore others, needs things to be repeated, distracted by background noise or external stimuli.
A book store with full shelves and stacked high right down to the floor on both sides of the aisle
Walking through a second hand book store should feel like you’re flying through the trench run on the Death Star.
Seeing my TikToks / The Anti-Planner featured as a means of dismantling internalized ableism means so much.
Thanks so much for the shoutout, @howtoadhd.bsky.social! 😭💖
1 - girl saying time to be productive 2 - girl getting into her blanket 'wait no. what am i doing. 3 - girl laying down. 'shit'.
Artist: Unknown
"It was real, wrenching, unacceptably painful, so painful that it should quite literally be impossible. Death could happen to anyone at any time, even people like Ed’s dad, big people, solid people, people with the weather-beaten resilience of a surviving Stone Age monument. Even those people die."
"The hours of each day are rationed between unbearable heat and biblical rain, and even though it has only been this way for three weeks, it is impossible to imagine that things have ever been any other way."
"Evenings and Weekends: A Novel" - Oisín McKenna
David Bowie
David Bowie
David Bowie
"I read voraciously. I look around my library some nights and I do these terrible things to myself--I count up the books and think, how long I might have to live and think, 'F@$k, I can't read two-thirds of these books.' It overwhelms me with sadness."
David Bowie 🙏
What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.
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So what's next?
You heal. You grow.
And you help others.
my last thought as I woke up from my dream: "you know, being lonely is just an excuse. an excuse to love someone". I mean... ... what?? that doesn't make any sense at all
Variety of toothpaste flavors
Hacked my hatred of brushing my teeth with a toothpaste menu 🪥
🍓 Strawberry Daiquiri
🫐 Blue Raspberry
🍇 Grape
🫧 Bubblegum
🍬 Peppermint Vanilla Lavender
✨ Crest Densify
❄️ Arctic Fresh
“If you believe, as corporations or as networks, you can make yourselves so innocuous, that you can serve a gruel so flavorless that you will never again be on the boy king’s radar, why will anyone watch you, and you are fucking wrong.”
Oof, Jon Stewart didn't come to play!
WATCH: Colbert’s first monologue since the cancelation. “For the next ten months the gloves are off. I can say what I really think about Donald Trump, starting right now.” youtu.be/VIZegLAvK8o?...
even at the time, Mark Twain was roasting this kind of airless romanticization of aristocracy in the South as "the sillinesses and emptinesses, sham grandeurs, sham gauds, and sham chivalries of a brainless and worthless long-vanished society"
@tomtomorrow.bsky.social @rubenbolling.bsky.social
First they come for the comedians, then the cartoonist. Kings fear being laughed at. We have a funny bone to pick with/without a smile on our faces #Colbert #Kimmel #SethMeyers #DailyShow
CBS canceled Colbert’s show just THREE DAYS after Colbert called out CBS parent company Paramount for its $16M settlement with Trump – a deal that looks like bribery.
America deserves to know if his show was canceled for political reasons.
Watch and share his message.
I've spent a lot of time thinking about this fascinating exchange Colbert had with Dua Lipa, when she asked him about the role his faith plays in his comedy.
The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers, and lovers of all kinds.
NEW: There is a hearing right now concerning Mr Abrego’s amended complaint in which he details his torture at CECOT prison in El Salvador. You can read his account here, but CONTENT WARNING. open.substack.com/pub/muellers...
the big questions for american democracy going forward seem to be (1) can the GOP actually build the federal police state they just funded, (2) in time to finish before democratic checks can be established, and (3) whether dems gaining power would actually try to stop/dismantle it
fucking ghouls
Fluffy, prancing pony: 🔊 #AGoodPlace
Source: www.reddit.com/r/aww/s/Zm0w...
A profile of David Webb @webb-site.com from the NYT; Tiffany May writes, “In the past three decades, David Webb has almost single-handedly taken on the rich and powerful in Hong Kong, tirelessly campaigning for greater transparency from public companies.”
(Free link)
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/w...
Owl core
