I hold many grudges against "Artificial Intelligence", but perhaps the biggest one is how confusing this era is for all us Weird Al Yankovic fans.

"I spoke to the governor, she was very nice," Trump said. "But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.'" Almost ... a glimmer ... "am I in an anti-reality bubble populated by sycophants?" ... and gone.

Responding to my cats meowing with “desire leads to suffering” until they cut it out

BREAKING: Oregon & Portland just sued President Trump to block his order sending federal troops into the city. The plaintiffs call the deployment “patently unlawful” and say it violates the U.S. Constitution and the Posse Comitatus Act.

Bye-bye Mayor Cop, a piece of shit loser who sacrificed your neighbors to ICE so he could spare himself the prison term he deserves. He leaves behind a legacy of closed libraries, escalating unaffordability, off-the-charts police corruption. An oleaginous creep only liberal pundits could respect.

Holds you like this Artist, and friend in hand is @aricat.bsky.social

Live your life in such a way that you don't enthusiastically become a part of an administration that hopes to outshine even East Berlin's authoritarian nightmare of disappearances and fake suicides of its own members when they step out of line, I guess.

So far today, Chuck Schumer has said his strategy for preventing Trump sending troops into blue cities is to win over Republican senators (!) while Hakeem Jeffries praised Eric Adams's courage and authenticity (!!) while refusing to endorse Mamdani. Again. These two gotta go.

Hakeem Jeffries twisting a huge dial labeled “appeasement” back and forth as he anxiously looks out at a crowd of consultants, waiting for them to boo or clap

If a shooter’s politics are hard to pin down, he’s a leftist If a shooter’s politics are right wing, he’s hard to pin down

It was relevant during WW2, too

at what point does a government lose all legitimacy

“Am I watching things on television that are different from what’s happening?” is a great line to be whispered in a hushed, scared voice over an assaulting montage of glitching warping FOX news footage for the trailer to an A24 horror movie about the next few years.

As soon as he owns it, you're all going to stop using it, right? Because that's all you have to do.

Also in Bill's Basement @hyena.sh

Doodle ————- From a mashup of memory while wandering around the alley of my neighborhood.

I tried watching the Homestuck pilot thing out of grim curiosity, and I'm wondering if the voice direction to actors on her shows is entirely "so when you have a swear word, really make sure people can hear it, distractingly, in ways that no people do when they casually swear"? It's nuts.

okay but actually this is me playing silent hill f

Don't look now... it's that freak again 🫣

Another little UPA- styled Earthbound cartoon from the vaults 🌎💫 ft. Saturn Valley

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Man, I hope my funeral isn't an enormous gaudy rally full of people barely disguising their glee at being able to point at an airbrushed t-shirt of me and go "SEE!?!?" to the other side of the culture war for the next 1-2 weeks before everybody moves on to a beanie baby with pronouns or something.

This was always the funniest conspiracy theory to me — that there are MRI machine-like devices that can cure all known illnesses in seconds, but the government has been hiding them — and Trump just posted an AI generated video of himself announcing they're real. We're cooked!

Watching Daria as an adult is opening my third eye. Trent Lane was 21 when the show started. As a kid he felt like a badass, mature older brother type. But now at 26, I’m *older* than him, and it’s so much clearer to me how much growing up he still needs to do.

Someday people will start noticing that the most eminent roboticist in the world has an uninterrupted multi-decade record of deep skepticism about almost all uses of robotics and “AI” that has been proven uniformly correct

A recently-elected Democrat could deliver the tie-breaking vote to release the government’s files on alleged sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. trib.al/EraQXYy That is, if House Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t delay her swearing in—and it looks like he’s planning to.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the meritocracy

“Anti-woke” “free speech” comics only ever wanted to use slurs in an environment of impunity where people were afraid to criticize them.

"Why don't furries make something other than VNs?" says a fool who hasn't played Threefold Recital, Critter Cove, Grimshire, or Back to the Dawn yet.

If I remember correctly, these are the rat costumes from the Australian Ballet's version of The Nutcracker, but the costumes from the English National Ballet are also a vibe. I mean, look at this Rat King!

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Trick OR Treat? Why pick just one when I can combine the two into something grander? Art by the amazing @redicnomad.bsky.social feat. Dumbwhore

Lovely commission from @teamfurtress.bsky.social, which surprisingly ended up being a farewell tribute to the Morro Bay area that, until this summer, had been my home for the last few years.

Portland declares ICE facility out of compliance, demands its clearance. www.portland.gov/mayor/keith-...

# of paragraphs for news orgs to mention there's no discernable need to deploy troops to Portland, Oregon The Guardian: 1st paragraph BBC: 4th paragraph AP: 5th paragraph Time: 6th paragraph Politico: 8th paragraph NPR: 9th paragraph CNN: 10th paragraph NBC: 12th paragraph Fox News: never mentions

Okatsuka posted the censorship rules for the controversial comedy festival, noting how many "You can’t say anything anymore!" comedians have signed on. www.avclub.com/riyadh-comed...

oh just the president laying down the conditions for martial law to prevent elections…

Five years ago, @brandyzadrozny.bsky.social and I did a story about rural Oregon's fever dream that Antifa was coming to their town from Portland. Hundreds showed up armed downtown because they heard on Facebook that "Antifa buses" were coming. No buses came so they said Antifa "retreated."

Fleeing immoderately from suspicion of involvement, Musk crosses over to implying he knew enough of what was up on that island to “REFUSE” but told no one and did nothing to protect the victims.

I think what I like about AFC and FC (both California-based) is that they have a more laid-back atmosphere where you don't need to be a party person to have good options for socializing and enjoying yourself, with lots of nice outdoor open areas and good dining options nearby.

I don't love using "blood libel" to describe anything other than the actual historical phenomenon of accusations against Jews of ritually killing Christian children. But if anything in modern political discourse structurally resembles a blood libel, it's Vance accusing Haitians of eating cats.

A pattern is developing where everyone who fights back against a Trump attack inevitably wins with their reputation much better than before, and everyone who caves to him looks like shit and has Trump coming back for more a month later.

We currently have a Supreme Court that seriously claims (with no explanation) that the current occupant of the Presidency suffers irreparable harm by having to follow existing law, the constitutionality of which has never before been in doubt or even questioned.

Nearly the entire United Nations General Assembly walks out as Netanyahu–wanted by the International Criminal Court for war crimes and crimes against humanity–takes the stage in New York.

Worse than tulip mania.

The most accurate recreation of DS9 I've seen.