Continental Europe does racism at a level that makes much of the US and UK look like the tutorial version

a content creator guy i followed for years also just died recently and it made me even more aware of how much these online ecosystems don't let you make lasting work. you always assume people will be able to move to a greater lane eventually by just sticking around but that usually doesn't happen.

bilb of baggins

looking back on my life it's hard to overstate what an important figure I've been in it

TBH there is no way to design any system to counteract an executive declaring "I have all power and can exercise it arbitrarily" when a majority of the legislative and judicial branches responds with "that's right." Such a society is too primitive for modern governance and the rule of law.

there’s a party that will empower people in their thirties on condition they wreck the country, and a party that commands everyone to line up behind septuagenarians because it’s still their turn

I met Kaleb Horton in an In-N-Out in 2018 and was immediately infatuated—singularly thoughtful, talented, and kind; a guy who worked his ass off to do things with words I never thought possible. He is among the best writers of our generation; a model America hasn’t made since. Rest in peace.

i fucking forgot that amid everything else (and Kaleb was a writer who's every piece i read with a mixture of love and awe and "i wish i could figure out how to do my own version of this"), Kaleb also created this, one of my favourite pieces of internet art ever ever ever. the liars are coming.

Ooo, Ooo! Are we doing Brak Art Projects Show-n-Tell now? Here's mine from an artist friend from Albuquerque (insert Bugs Bunny joke here).

not that I was any good at it either, but I actually had a slightly easier time learning basic chinese phrases while visiting china because I was going to be acutely embarrased in any social interaction anyway. whereas I could tell myself that speaking english in NL was perfectly normal

Messages on a walk around Brooklyn.

"The Democratic Party knows how to greatly reduce economic hardship but doesn’t appear interested in doing it again." damn you don't say

People on here will see Trump ranting about deploying the military and go "that's the ballgame" like these people didn't lose a staring contest to Jimmy fucking Kimmel days ago

The watcher. One of a pack of coyotes I met the other morning while out on the kayak. This one kept a close eye on me from it perch on the cliffs. #mammals 🌿

It’s very funny that the default journalistic norm is, you have to foreground the denial even if the evidence you’re using to push back on it is “other words spoken by the exact same person”.

here is a video of Bitsy embedded in a Twine game! this will be embedded in my Unreal game as story pieces that you can find. the Bitsy is an interactive illustration of the story, so it's like you can investigate memories closer by playing them. it's very cool! 🤓 #ScreenshotSaturday #GameDev

For a lot of reasons this is some proper small time loser shit that perfectly explains why Starmer is doomed and why Labour will be annihilated at the next election no matter what forces are arrayed against them.

are we still going to be invading Greenland or was that canceled

Asked later about his views on the Chinese as a whole, Musetti declared them "a great bunch of lads"

every day I'm obligated to wake up. and for what. to feed cats.

20 years ago, normal people avoided technology and techies would jump on the newest gadgets as soon as they could now, normal people buy smart toasters & coffee mugs while every techie I know is on the verge of retreating to the forest

The bad guy's plan falls apart because it relies on tricking the crew to fire on a helpless ship. Picard may not have memories, but he still has morals. "I do not fire on defenseless people" should be the absolute floor for ethics in military leadership, but the 1990's were a different time

Classic Riker move to put his Risa fuck-statue on his desk, where everyone could see it. It's like your boss keeping a dildo in his office. (For those who don't recall, if you have one of those statues on out on Risa, it's means you're looking to hook up with strangers)

my list MSP who sent me a long email about how banning trans women from women's toilets would protect women and girls etc. has just been suspended from his party for allegations of inappropriate conduct

this image makes me more patriotic than any song or flag or parade ever could

mcternan on here suggests that labourlist's preferred strategy will once again be "have you tried telling them that they are ungrateful cretins"

There's a lot of Riker in this story (derogatory) Within hours of losing their memories, Ro and Riker start to bone down. Yet Riker remains drawn to Troi, and romances her too. Troi is remarkably chill when she finds out about all this, confirming that Troi/Riker are canonically poly

This is terrifying

More datapoints, this time from the funds. Looks like even the official view is when not if, and perhaps soon.

Hello! here's a little bit of gameplay from the platformer I'm working on 🏹 #pixelart #gamedev #GameMaker

my wife pointed out to me one day that it was a different blippi and I simply refused to countenance it

Kaleb Horton was an incredible writer with each new piece appointment reading, but I personally was so inspired by his photography. I had an album of his photos saved on my phone that I’d use as inspiration when writing myself. I needed him to put out that book.

this morning I saw a background actress in a show and I was like she looks familiar and then I realized what I recognized her from. she’s Blippi number 2’s wife. one lobotomy to go, please.

Per capita CO₂ emissions have declined in every state in America. Between 2005 and 2023, energy-related CO₂ emissions per person declined in all 50 US states. The nationwide average drop was 29%, a major structural change in the world’s second-largest emitter. buff.ly/GOf44Ie #ShareGoodNewsToo

Remember the people who would defend the hospital bombings? It’s important to be petty and remember. It’s useful for later.

Can’t emphasize how good it is to have moral clarity on issues that are clearly night and day. Some stuff? Complicated. But the stuff that isn’t? Gosh. It’s nice to not clown yourself, to look back and know you weren’t doing genocide apologia.

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

i guess the only other thing i can say about this is that if you have a chance to (even briefly) speak to someone you think is cool irl, jump on that shit. you may not get another. rest easy, Kaleb

Making satire

I think if humans could talk to lobsters it would be a real Hatfield vs McCoy situation. Real quick. Just the way of things. You can't reason with a lobster. They're too arrogant

Logo design is my passion

US State Dept on X: Earlier today, Colombian president stood on a NYC street & urged U.S. soldiers to disobey orders and incite violence Petro: I ask all of the soldiers of the army of the US not to point their guns at humanity. Disobey the orders of Trump. Obey the orders of humanity Fuckin based

this is one of the most chilling scenes in jurassic park, wherein, rather than showing us the brutality on screen, the movie uses sound effects to imply the gruesome violence as the cow beats the shit out of a bunch of velociraptors

using this as justification for taking my time machine to 1997 and beheading every single living british comedian

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

ummm.. holy shit? tool use in bovids confirmed? holy holy shit?

Really sorry to hear about the sudden passing of Kaleb Horton, a fantastic writer. Only seems fitting to share what he wrote for David Lynch kalebhorton.ghost.io/death-is-jus...

imagine flying over to a new friend to say hi and he has a book open to a page of you