Rod Stewart to King Charles on his visit with Trump: “Hello, sir. May I say well done in the Americas. You were superb. Absolutely superb. You put that little rat bag in his place.”

Terrific photo that illustrates how prescribed burns work, with a band of fire sweeping through a longleaf pine stand in North Carolina, burning the undergrowth but leaving the canopy untouched. Source: www.ourstate.com/from-the-ash... (📸 Margaret Fields, who doesn't seem to be On Here)

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Gluten Morgen!

An epic webcam capture of the sun skirting the horizon at Utqiaġvik, Alaska, this morning. @alaskawx.bsky.social

Into the abyss.

That's the way to look at it.

Good lord.

Yeah, there really is a book for sale on Amazon called Infinite Jeffs, where they replaced all the words of Infinite Jest with the word "Jeff". It's 25 bucks. www.amazon.com/Infinite-Jef...

No Democrat should be running for any office who does not have a substantial track record of destroying fascists or fascist organizations.

Congratulations, Room!

"From Texas on the Gulf to Virginia on the Potomac, a white curtain has descended across this country."

AI is just a vacuum cleaner for emptying people's minds and souls.

They stole over 3 TB of data from Canvas but 2 TB is just required syllabus language copied from a university website.

'Crude Shorts' would be a good name for a comic supervillain.

"Do you know how to talk to regular people like we're not in a college seminar?" - B. Obama

An amazing article on the Tracy Arm mega-tsunami from last August. If this had happened at several different times during a 24-hour window, it would have resulted in the greatest loss of life in U.S. history. Instead, it is just a scientific curiosity.

Prime with ads. Just how Kubrick intended.

After some heavy drinking in a bar, I took a bus home. It may not seem a big deal, but I've never driven a bus before.

Couple about to sign divorce papers… WOMAN: I wish I'd never joined that Star Wars dating app MAN: You were looking for love in Alderaan places WOMAN: And I wish I'd never married a guy addicted to Star Wars puns MAN: It was a wookie mistake WOMAN: Just sign it MAN, SIGNING: May divorce be with you

Kenny Loggins implies the existence of Kenny Passwords.

SHAFT

Two and a half years from now, just rename his ballroom The Bathroom, the White House The Outhouse, and move the capital to Vermont, where it belongs.

Every splashy New York Times profile of a right wing influencer.

Chinese researchers have created a bamboo-based plastic as strong as petroleum-based plastics, which can fully biodegrade in soil in just 2 months phys.org/news/2025-10...

the world is stranger than you imagine the world is stranger than you *can* imagine www.ft.com/content/3b04...

Not sure what brought it up but I was thinking about Felicia today www.atlasobscura.com/articles/fel...

It's very funny to me that Gmail has added what amounts to Word's grammar check feature from 2003 and is calling it AI.

Candlestick ice in Banff National Park “Rotten ice or candle ice is a loose term for ice that is melting or structurally disintegrating due to being honeycombed by liquid water, air, or contaminants trapped between the initial growth of ice crystals.” /Wiki #Canada

'Ron Weasley' yelling “Expensive Petroleum” while filling up his car might be the peak of comedy. Original post

Iran speaker of Parliament:

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

Los Angeles could elect a Democratic Socialist mayor.

Oo, I think we've found the first tech-bro.

$278 for groceries this week. I shop every 2 weeks for 5 people. I spent $190 before everything went to hell Thats a much bigger percentage than the 4% they are saying. Maybe more like 30%? Its more, for less Less protein for sure I cook all our meals and its getting harder to make a balanced meal

American cars are just Yugos on steroids.

Um… I did not know this was a thing.

And so it begins. Chrome is shipping a Prompt API - giving websites access to the browser's built-in LLM. This is the scope creep I wrote about... websites can now pass your page content, inputs and browsing context to an AI baked into the browser itself. groups.google.com/a/chromium.o...

There is no such thing as a 'surgical strike'. Heart surgeons don't use M-80's to do bypasses.

FDR’s Fireside chat on March 9, 1937 explaining his proposal to expand the Supreme Court stands up surprisingly well. “We have reached the point as a nation where we must take action to save the Constitution from the Court and the Court from itself.”/1

Left my academic job to report local news in the news desert of my home town. Maybe this crowd would still have turned out to oppose a sharp cut to the school budget if our news site wasn't there to report on it - but I like to think our reporting played some role.

For a nice Sunday breakfast, I made eggs scrambled with ramps. You know, ramps are very very good. Take only one leaf per plant.

I have had a hardware startup idea stuck in my head for awhile now. A consumer electronics / durable goods company (TVs, washers, etc) that builds high quality and low tech products with 30 year lifetimes and serviceable parts. Maybe it has legs. wheelfront.com/this-alberta...

Cool.

The Khan Academi-cation of everything www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Lal...

Could Jesus speak English? This seems to me to be a more interesting question than any of that trinity stuff.

No, that was Santa Claus.

Amen to that.

The main thing in art and entertainment to keep your finger on the pulse of the fans and what they want, their feedback is so important.