Why are they all wearing hot dog costumes?

I have argued that we should've had nuclear power stations up and running for the past several decades, weaning ourselves off coal, oil, and gas. I am also happy to argue that we should've been bringing renewable energy sources online for the past decade. There is no reason to not make the change.

one takeaway from the grok noncon porn thing is that much of the media just isn't interested in an issue they can't pretend has two sides or that doesn't give them an opportunity to shit on the left. Also it would be uncomfortable to justify remaining on twitter after acknowledging it

I mean, they've got to honour him in some way, right?

this is how every outlet should refer to X

The death toll is now 80? I know the pandemic made life cheap amid mass death, but 80 dead is staggering

hold up

I see the claimed justification by Trump as no different to the 1930s Germany push for Lebensraum and all those who do not push back against it in all the ways they can are complicit.

Oh, you like cloning? That makes two of us

A college sophomore at an Occupy rally could not have generated such a grotesque outsized caricature of US imperialism

For all that the media has spent years freaking out about what social media does to our brains, I don’t understand why there appears to be little effort to grapple with the fact that these chatbots are, for some not insignificant portion of the population, literally psychosis machines

Also applies to Starmer, Merz and all the other international US "allies".

A recurring “AI” evangelist tactic is using it for tasks that were already solved by tech that is more deterministic, faster, and uses less energy, but has been downgraded or de-emphasised in recent years by software companies Like, we genuinely used to have better search and spellcheck.

Once again: if you're in Greenland or Canada, understand that China has offered a stronger condemnation of Trump's illegal invasion and attempt to take over Venezuela than the UK has.

I wonder what, precisely, a head of government has to do to be "illegitimate"? Is it rejecting the voters who got that head into power? Is it continuing bad policies after campaigning to end them? Is it support of a genocide? Is it support of international criminal acts? I ask because, well…

"international law must be followed" is european for "thoughts and prayers"

Starmer keeps finding new ways to disappoint

So, to clarify, spray-painting a plane is terrorism, holding a sign to support the organisation those that spray-painted the plane were members of is terrorism, but taking a foreign head of state hostage needs to wait for a press conference from the hostage taker for nuance?

All I'm saying is that if we're prosecuting world leaders for crimes committed inside their own countries now, SOMEONE needs to lead the charge on the Epstein Files.

2026 has been a long year.

If he carries on like this it's going to make the FIFA Peace Prize look ridiculous

I am generally opposed to the death penalty, and the carceral system as a whole, but when individuals inflict great suffering on behalf of an unjust, immoral, and cruel system they have given up their moral being. Nobody should follow orders where those orders are crimes against humanity.

I wish people would stop talking about AI systems as if they were human. Quit anthropomorphizing Elon Musk.

i love finding all my early moots from before. my feed I starting to look more familiar. with some new faces* too one though, that is decidedly missing, is Link #FreeLink *PFPs

On the one hand this is great for the general public but, on the other, it's also going to mean we're due a new ubiquitous digital business idea to sponsor YouTube videos.

One thing I have really appreciated is books that say right up front that they are part of a series. If we can also get a little synopsis of characters on the inside that would be even better, yes! I am an avid reader of much so if it's been a while giving me a little nudge to remember helps!

Every time I see "USMNT" my brain parses it as "US Mutant Ninja Turtles" and it makes whatever headline 10x more confusing

Never let anyone tell you there are no new ideas. We're 48 hours into 2026 and they've already found a way to make Twitter worse. Anything is possible.

This is far too clever for this app!

It's literally always acoustic foam + pyrotechnics in a single exit basement club, I don't even need to read the articles. Dipshit owners killing people with their own idiot negligence

This is a side effect of wealth consolidation. The people catering to wealth aren't exactly fine with nazis and pedophiles per say, though it's as near enough. But it comes down to this: - They want money - The nazis and pedophiles have all the money - "Eh, they're not such bad guys"

"Grok" is not an entity, it's a glorified probable next word generator and using it to let people off the hook is bullshit.

Trying to fix a problem with some open source software. Time to find the bug: a few minutes Time to investigate a fix: about half an hour Time to make changes: a few minutes Time to remember how to use git and submit a pull request: a few hours

"AI isn't going ANYWHERE! You better get USED to it!!" "The technology that lets you undress photos of real children?" "Y...yes"

I can’t take the credit for the observation and I’ve forgotten who said it, but if you consider that the audience for this government’s policies and communications consists entirely of politics columnists a lot of things suddenly make sense.

like 75% of dem messaging right now should be “the party led by epsteins best friend is breaking into pre-k childcare centers so they can record your toddlers and put the videos on internet”

As of today, I am a FULL professor. I do not care much for occupational status markers. Still, it is not lost on me that only 2% of full professors are Black women. This goes beyond personal accomplishment. It is a responsibility to do as much as I can for others. That is exactly what I aim to do.

artists, trans individuals, and people who post dog pics, I want to be able to share your work but I can’t if you don’t use alt text. please make the move in 2026 to be more inclusive. ❤️

they have grok posting notesapp apologies now it's time to shut the whole company down

this is such an important thing to recognize and call out the fascism is mostly done being nice at this point, but it got here through well dressed men politely asking questions while the rest of us were scolded for pointing out where those questions led

As a Londoner¹ I feel the opposite way, i.e. that being "a Londoner" is subtly different to being English or British; you can be "a Londoner" even if you're, say, French or American, as it's more a state of mind than nationality. But there's a lot to unpack about national identity here. 1/

The entire party and their supporters want unfettered access to kids genitals. It's more important to them than tax breaks. This isn't a joke post. They're using the full weight of the government to protect a cabal of pedophiles with the President right at the top. What else is there to say

Starting 2026 by seeing who I can upset (click through for even more upsetting)

If Global Warming *isn't* real how comes today is the hottest day of the year so far?

If Global Warming is real how comes today is the coldest day of the year so far?

Significantly change a game by adding or removing one letter. BATTLEECH (it was that or BATTLETCH)

Significantly change a game by adding or removing one letter. Say "The Spire"

Not a bad year of games, truth be told!

DHS now says it's aiming for 100 million deportations. In an amazing coincidence, there are 104 million Black and Hispanic people living in the U.S. right now.