The buddy film we didn’t know we needed.

These are bad graphs in several ways. First, the facts they represent bad. But they are also terrible at communicating that data effectively. The way they’re scaled reduces them to “number go down”. Fixing them is simple: they should include zero as the base for logarithmic y-axis scale.

This thread sums up the way GOP gets away with manipulating the framing of every news story.

Liberals say that our democracy is in its death throes. They’re wrong—our republic is in its death throes.

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Just about the coolest use of web components ever.

This was a great interview with Murderbot production designer Sue Chan: tvobsessive.com/2026/06/19/s...

If there’s a drive in movie theater near you and you’re not going to it at least once a season, what are you even doing? They rule. They are a sadly dying great part of Americas cultural heritage. Go. Do it now.

ProPublica spoke to dozens of people who had lived in homeless encampments when cities cleared them out in “sweeps.” We distributed notecards so people could tell us about the toll in their own words. ➡️ This is what they wrote: https://propub.li/4veRIqA

I just read Platform Decay, the latest #murderbot book from @marthawells.com. Yet another fun, hopeful story set in about the darkest setting you could imagine. A glorious tonic that is never saccharine. Read it. Read the whole damn series. And when you’re done, watch the show.

oh hey, happy pride month 👋 🏳️‍🌈

Now we know what he was doing with the roadkill raccoon. I didn’t even know raccoons could be autistic.

A really great piece on grieving the end of the American project.

The system working as intended. They want to push trans youth to either leave the state or take their own lives. Idaho got both outcomes here and now the lawsuit against them has to be dismissed.

Memepool - a wonderful curated collection of links that updated every few days. It showed me many wonders, including Zug’s Olestra experiments, the Stinky Meat Project, Real Ultimate Power, and Losers dot org. If Charlie Parker Was A Gunfighter… - the Cowboy Bebop of photo blogs.

I fucking knew it. That 13th amendment loophole creates a strong incentive to monetize your program of mass incarceration.

New blog post: UK Government Kicks Out Palantir https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05/uk-government-kicks-out-palantir/ The UK Government, for all its faults, is pretty good at publishing contracts it has awarded. That's why I get depressed when I see rage-bait nonsense about how companies have been …

In this week’s newsletter I tackle the January 6 protester at the heart of the assault on voting rights. And answer the apparently essential question of whether an 8-year-old can beat up Trump.

Other regrettable Mothers Day track selections: The End, by The Doors Mother, by The Police

This was truly delightful

If your loved one has been detained by ICE, call my office at 503-231-2300. We will show up for you. We have facilitated the release of more than a dozen Oregonians wrongfully detained by ICE and won't stop fighting for our community members.

Tetra ethyl lead all over again. The shocking fact that covering everyone and everything with fumes and ash from burning poison is bad.

In Seattle, we aren’t doing the NCS vowel shift; but we got some vowel movement happening. Locals say “melk” instead of “milk” and “beg” instead of “bag”. And jarringly “bag-ul” (a rhymes with rag) instead of “bagel” (a rhymes with gray). This is absent on the East side of the state and in PDX.

Hey, remember this story? There's a new version of almost exactly the same story. AI face recognition, a false arrest, a woman who was arrested for a crime in a state she'd never been to, months of false imprisonment. archive.is/pDQdR

I think it's useful to think of MAGA political culture as a long running, decentralized reality TV show from which hundreds of "influencers" are profiting by generating new story lines. We're now in season 11 and the shark jumping and brain-breaking plot twists are coming at an accelerating pace.

White America's all, how can we be an inclusive tent? How can we make sure everyone feels a part of things. Oh, erm, except marginalized people not them yet. Raging bigots though? They're cool. And they keep going with this theater they call progressivism.

This administration is the new Murder Incorporated.

I don’t care if it rains or freezes Long as I got my AI Jesus Shining on the lock screen of my phone

Time for him to switch to the GOP.

A great post on reworking your Neovim config for 0.12. My config has grown rather warty and rumpled over the years and badly in need of just this sort of spring cleaning.

Thank god. Christ. But seriously folks. We cannot continue to live like this.

Nice picture. Not Artemis. Just beautiful composite photography with some very good glass. www.reddit.com/r/Astronomy/...

This seems like a great product for business use.

$79 trillion. From the bottom 90% → the top 1%. That’s the story of the last 50 years. Watch this. Then listen to the episode ➡️ buff.ly/j6zrqxm

Like, you should use alt text, always, and especially for screenshots of literal text, first and foremost as an acces issue, but it's also, after that, 2000 extra characters of flavour text, if you want it. Just sayin.

Please read this remarkable piece.

March 20th is Fred Rogers' birthday. Be a beautiful neighbor, or maybe even just spend some time figuring out how and planning to be the best neighbor you can.

Possible solution to the Strait of Hormuz?

Lots of good stuff in the video on this post. The section about how Netflix (and the rest of our IT overlords) use surveillance to draw conclusions about us call to mind a time when Google decided dayglo-white me was Black. 1/2

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Another great episode. @michaelhobbes.bsky.social your video rental job was both bullshit and not bullshit. Helping people access inexpensive entertainment improves their quality of life. Not bullshit. 1/2

I said this a while ago but it bears repeating: The U.S. right is fully captured by a) christian fascist accelerationists seeking to start the Biblical Apocalypse, & b) those actively manipulating (a) for profit. Everything they claim to care about will last only so long as it serves (a) or (b).

Classic WKUK sketch youtu.be/S3o-3pL79O4?...

Industrial scale murder to distract from us from evidence of an industrial scale child rape ring while funneling billions to the men who planned both.

And that’s why it’s worth spending infinite money on.

And another one. youtube.com/shorts/4AKJ-...

Wife: I don’t mind living in a failing empire, but I wish we could do what the English did; find a friendly empire to cling to while it happens. Me: We’re not failing like England. We’re doing what Russia did. Wife: … … … I hate you.

“Meat rose” sounds like the worst euphemism ever.