ICE was only created in 2003. When you are asked to imagine a world without ICE, you're basically being asked to remember where you were when Lilo & Stitch came out.

US folks: Want to buy some girl scout cookies online? Erin Reed has a list of LGBTQ girl scouts you can buy from! (Yes, sadly, this is on Substack. But you don’t need a Substack account to read it.)

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/2026-trans-girl-scouts-to-order-cookies

Alternatively, you could support the child of a Mastodon person! Send a DM to @metalplates to get info on buying from his child.

#trans #LGBTQ #food

Hi folks,
So my sister is a zookeeper and takes care of the birds. She often sends pictures.

This is Baked Beans. He is a baby screech owl and is being raised for the zoo's ambassador bird program.
I would die for Beans.

#BakedBeansOwl #owls #screechowls #zoo

Also she can't actually do anything - our police is the Philadelphia Police Dept. The sheriff's office does court security and prisoner transport and house auctions. #Philadelphia #Bilal

If you believe nonviolent protest is more effective, then simply advocate for it. The "don't give them an excuse" line is disingenuous victim blaming. They make shit up. We see it every single day, so please stop embarrassing yourself.

"Our behavior doesn’t drive theirs."

Why are we so against art theft until the art was made by a sexworker?

If you see accounts that get off on posting stolen nudes, tell them to get off Fedi.

It's art theft. Report them.

My body, my right to share it.

#PornRequiresConsent #StopArtTheft

Seeing a lot of non-local to #Philadelphia people post about sheriff #Bilal and her comments on ICE. Some context on her: she's corrupt, incompetent, completely disdainful of the city, the public, and the idea of transparency. Her bit was cute but just her usual baseless grandstanding. Check the philly inquirer for some reliable background - too many to link.

people: we want macbook but repairable

framework: gotcha, thinkpad but fascism

RE: https://mastodon.social/@bruces/115869158915213819

"Intelligence is not a ladder, with steps along one dimension; it is multidimensional, a radiation. The space of possible intelligences is very large, even vast, with human intelligence occupying a tiny spot at the edge of this galaxy of possible minds. Every other possible mind is alien, and we have begun the very long process of populating this space with thousands of other species of possible minds."

Thanks, I'll get this refilled right away

#art #fascism #Frankenstein

"Guillermo del Toro: Saying ‘art is not important’ is ‘always the prelude to fascism’

The director accepted the directing honor at 10 Directors to Watch and Creative Impact Awards brunch during the film festival, reports ‘Variety’.

He said, 'Be kind, be involved, believe in your art. At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.

Elsewhere in his speech, he spoke about the 'religious experience' of watching James Whale’s 1931 ‘Frankenstein’ for the first time

As per ‘Variety’, Sara Karloff, the daughter of the original ‘Frankenstein’ star Boris Karloff, was his guest at the event.

He further mentioned, 'Sometimes the world gets so complicated, you can only explain it with the power of monsters. We are in a time like that right now. It’s not just the size of the screens, it’s the size of the idea. Ambition includes failure, it’s right next door to success. There are no numbers on the door. You’re going to knock on that door, and it’s going to open, and it’s either a supermodel of your dreams or your mom in curlers'.

‘Frankenstein’ was released on Netflix on October 17, 2025."

https://www.socialnews.xyz/2026/01/05/guillermo-del-toro-saying-art-is-not-important-is-always-the-prelude-to-fascism/

Panorama views of Star Trek ship bridges, nicely done:
https://mijofr.github.io/st-panorama/

I love that there are people in my everyday life who understand when I say I almost knifed someone over his inability to fork

Holiday #lights at city hall #Philadelphia #PhiladelphiaCityHall

The Dunning-Kruger Effect and the Streisand Effect, when merged, become the Bari Weiss Effect

Windows User: My computer froze again. I have to restart it for the third time today

Linux User: That’s rough. My system has been running for 3 years straight without a single crash

Windows User: Wow! What have you been doing with all that uptime?

Linux User: Trying to get my usb ink printer to work 😅

And driverless cars have killed and injured people. (More than we are told about, that's for sure.) What would you do if a Robo-taxi ran over someone you loved? How could you ever find closure?

https://www.highspeed.blog/if-a-robotaxi-ran-over/

If someone comes to you super excited about something new to them (band, book, idea, whatever) and your response is always always to make sure they know you already knew about it, you're an asshole and you suck joy out of rooms you're in. I don't care if you have to fake it, don't do things that make people regret talking to you.

While a bunch of journalists were at the Kennedy Center taking pictures today, I asked the VP of Facilities and Operations at the Kennedy Center a direct question:

“Matt, is this the first time that you’ve defaced a public building?“

Only at Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/q-and-a-defacing-kennedy-center