Update: gamification continues well. I’ve hit 117km, putting Frodo and Co. at Crickhollow, which means it is time for me to sing you Bilbo’s bath song. on.soundcloud.com/HLTnicOlApju...

This is a YouTube add that keeps popping up. I don’t know what they are selling but I hate it.

I cannot overemphasize how wrong and destructive this is. I didn’t know who needs to bloody well hear this, but ADHD (and autism) are not a lack of “communication skills” training. They are biological differences in brains. Don’t let the snake-oil peddlers of bullshit steer you wrong.

Incredible. We got to "Is a pedophile island really all that bad?" five times faster than I thought.

I do think there’s a certain type of Democrat that realizes it’s possible we are dealing with a perfect storm where almost any Democrat will win, and are terrified we might nominate radical candidates who will actually engage in needed change instead of status quo corporate centrist bullshit.

Just stopped for gas and the guy at the next pump had a goat in the back. Of his minivan. I don’t know if this is of any significance, but we are in North Carolina, just for the record.

Measles is a bellwether. Because it’s the most contagious vaccine-preventable disease, when vaccination rates drop, it’s the first to start spreading. Now we’ve got mumps rolling up. Expect more. This is just the beginning of RFK Jr.’s successful infectious disease reintroduction plan.

why is there anti-homeless architecture in pokemon

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

well i for one couldn’t be more excited for the possibilities of AI. finally a technology that answers the age old question ‘what if clippy was wormtongue’

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

I don't know if it's really clear, outside of coverage of Mpls and pockets of organizing elsewhere, that hundreds of thousands of people are actively and at every level of society fighting our government as it abducts and imprisons and torments our neighbors.

More than 400 people, including hundreds of citizens, were “sorted” at gun point into racial and ethnic groups by 200 ICE agents who fired flash-bang grenades into cars with people inside, pointed guns at children & demanded their zip tied parents not comfort them. apple.news/Ausdx6kWtT0e...

Anytime I see Jeff Bezos mentioned I remember the time he flew to space with William Shatner and when a very emotoinal Shatner was trying to describe the experience Bezos interrupted by spraying champagne like an idiot child

Like hell I will. Listen, if someone reading this makes these kind of decisions: we don’t want this and it can go fuck itself. Find a better way to use your time.

Haven't gotten divorced and have friends who actually like me so...yeah

Current state of Republican Party politics: The president posted an image of the first black president and First Lady as apes; no one at the White House will publicly say that is not appropriate; the most likely person to face consequences is the party’s sole black senator — for calling it “racist.”

Regardless of one’s feeling about it, such a public response to a political leader is news, and deliberately failing to mention it is self-censorship. It’s like if reporters agreed not to report on the man who threw a shoe at George Bush. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

my dad's libertarian friend gave me $175 in crypto for my college graduation and was like "don't pull it out, it's gonna go up." i left the flash drive in a box and forgot about it, i checked it the other day and its worth $26 now lmfao

Call me petty, but I hope the manic little creep has actually done something wrong and that they absolutely nail him for it. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Child at the podium: “A woo woo woo.” Mamdani: That’s how I felt when we came up with this plan. Together, we will expand the idea of what is possible in our city—and what sounds and noises we can make at a press conference.

"Epstein and company weren't specifically preying on youth." OK, but if this is true, please give me a list of the 45-year-old women who they were trafficking. I'll wait.

I hope all 23 Democratic Attorneys General open up simultaneous investigations into Elon's extraordinary lawlessness and depravity.

I hate the demonization of UBI as a thing for the lazy. It covers basic housing and food. Pretty much everyone will still work.. cause people will want better food or housing, or clothing, or games/books, or vacations, etc. #cdnpoli

Friends, for the love of all that is holy: if your email is more than a few sentences, please observe conventions for line breaks and paragraphs. If you send someone a long-ass email with no breaks, I guarantee it will take them significantly longer to answer it.

My story on Elon Musk cutting safeguards at xAI is on the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com. I’m also among 100’s of reporters laid off. I absolutely loved my job my brilliant coworkers & the thrill of reporting @ the center of forces upending the world: AI & Silicon Valley’s political power

While the pasty incels who work the federal agencies continue to churn out feeble, bloodless AI pastiches of Axis propaganda, here’s how a living breathing artist powerfully invokes design history. This is by illustrator Emily K in South Philly, a free poster-sized download on her website: →

pizzagate and qanon were not onto something, they were orchestrated by pedophiles to make accusing people of pedophilia make you look insane so that they could continue doing pedophile shit. fucking christ

Basically, just pause and think for about thirty seconds before you reshare a post? The days of blithely assuming that “it’s true because I saw it” need to be well and truly over, friends.

Love this! Pro tip: some of these things are relatively easy to do yourself even if you aren’t a trained journalist. A reverse image search might show you where else and when an image has been posted, for instance. youtube.com/shorts/nodpN...

It’s pretty fucking wild that the DOJ is releasing files that include accusations that the President of the United States raped underage girls, to distract from the fact that the DOJ is covering up murders of US citizens by their own government.

Elon Musk has publicly claimed he never visited Epstein's island and barely knew the man. New documents show Musk emailing Epstein in Dec 2013: "Is there a good time to visit?" Epstein: "always space for you" This was 5 years after Epstein's 2008 conviction and sex offender registration.

UPDATE: After seeing this video, I informed ICE of my intent to visit the Baltimore facility today. I was told I would be denied entry. It’s clear Trump's ICE would rather engage in a cover up. I will not stop pressing until we get answers. We need transparency & accountability.

Did you know that there is a real-time tracker for Scottish snow plows and that they all have individual and hilarious names? I didn’t. Not sure which is my favorite. I’m torn between “Skid Vicious,” and “Sled Zeppelin.”

I don't know if this is true but I really want it to be and clearly need to learn the Irish version.

brass solidarity band performing “stand by me” in the streets of whittier next to alex pretti’s memorial. the crowd started chanting “the people united will never be defeated” so they incorporated it into the song. i love minneapolis

Turning this off on general principle... opus.ing/posts/how-to...

Walz: "If it was the intention of Donald Trump to make an example of Minnesota, then I'm damn proud of the example that the world is seeing"

love you chicago

Best guess (based on the text and Christopher Tolkien’s map) of where Frodo and Co. encounter the Nazgûl for the second time and are inadvertently rescued by Gildor and his company of elves. Just in case anyone was wondering.

Rick speaking like this should be noted. This is not how he posts.

“Corrupt goon squad kidnaps children.” There. Fixed your headline for you.

Ingesting older media/historical content is honestly startling because it makes me realize how insidious purity culture has become. Like the panopticon has everyone desperate to be a sexless, unproblematic Übermensch. Others have written about this ofc, but it just jolts me when I think about it.

Staunton City Schools are making 4-day meal bundles available to students who might need food support due to likely school closures because of extreme upcoming weather. Pickup is today, 1/23. staunton.k12.va.us/en-US

We couldn't let World Handwriting Day go by without sharing Kathleen Lonsdale's penmanship ✍️ Lonsdale conducted pioneering research in X-ray crystallography and worked at the Ri. In 1929, she proved that the structure of benzene was flat—the chemical was also discovered here, by Michael Faraday.

What (and I cannot stress this enough) the FUCK.

Your regular reminder that when they say “protect women and girls,” they mean, “I’m about to excuse something horrible by claiming it’s to protect women and girls.”