NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Oh ffs. Is it uncommon in the US? Absolutely. Is it wrong? No. (Not trying to be a jerk here, it’s just that these clowns do enough real damage that it frustrates me to see people focus on things that are untrue. Using a variant spelling isn’t the same thing as misspelling a word.)

Once again, the correct and obvious answer to "Will you vote for Gavin Newsom for president in November 2028?" is as follows: "I will not, because he will not be the Democratic nominee."

why yes, I did just drop everything and take the laptop over to R so we could watch the new Subaru dog commercials playlist

Breaking: The Olympic gold-winning U.S. women's hockey team DECLINES Trump's invitation to his State of the Union address after he was caught on video mocking them.

New Review: The Debutante Dilemma by Jane Walsh is a lovely sapphic Regency romance set amongst London’s high society. @boldstrokebooks.bsky.social @jennabeebs79.bsky.social #booksky #lesbian #sapphic #BookReview

Thousands of nurses at NewYork-Presbyterian/Columbia hospital have voted overwhelmingly to end their six-week strike and return to work, having won higher pay, improved staffing levels and protections against layoffs, the nurses’ union announced on Saturday evening.

This is the most incredible footage of blue whales I’ve ever seen

#Booksky Jennie Goloboy and Catherine Lundoff are teaching “To Market, To Market” at the Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis on 2/28! Get thoughts and tips from a prominent literary agent and an award-winning small press publisher on what makes a manuscript “marketable.” loft.org/classes/mark...

Just to add to this, the biggest story in the world right now is straight men going to an island run by a pedophile sex trafficker who secured young girls for the ultra rich. Tech CEOs were regular attendees. And the conclusion you come to is … there’s a sinister gay mafia?! Come the fuck on.

When you put it like this, a $75 million bribe to Melania and gutting the Washington Post seems like a small price to pay.

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in grad school my brother's friend insisted to their Asian friends (from a variety of countries) that Uncle Ben's was as good as any other kind of rice it did not end well for him they had a taste test and schooled him, my brother said it was the best meal ever except for dude's sad parboiled rice

Tfw you still have some edge cases to fix in your procedural locomotion system #gamedev

Guys being Dudes

"Their connection was hot and burning, and Logan didn’t know what to do with it, as she’d never felt something as intense before.” @boldstrokesbooks.bsky.social buff.ly/ZqaeyOP

A memorial for Felice Picano in NYC on 22 February

we've been rewatching iZombie and in a fun coincidence on Prime ran across the Xena episode with bb Rose McIver 😍 The last two seasons of iZombie aren't available anywhere, and while I mostly don't care, I am sad about not being able to watch the dance competition episode : (

But if de minimis exception isn’t restored, aren’t small businesses still screwed?

Okay before you read this thread I want you to guess why she got divorced, then click:

Austin used to be jokingly called the People's Republic of Austin. Should have known the GOP would take that as a challenge and turn it into the Austin SSR.

NBC ran a piece where Mary Carrillo went to Norway to find out why they're so good at the Winter Olympics and i was yelling BECAUSE IT'S COLD THERE then she went to a little tiny ski jump for kids and was like "it's free, equipment is provided, & they don't emphasize results" and i was like. oh!

enemies to lovers trope been going strong for centuries

BREAKING: A national security official says Donald Trump is in a catch-22 where Iranians are threatening to release videos of him sexually assaulting children if he bombs them, and Israel is threatening the same if he doesn’t.

Tom Noonan, the actor, director, and screenwriter best known for his roles as Francis Dollarhyde in Manhunter, Frankenstein's Monster in The Monster Squad, Cain in RoboCop 2, and Kelso the hacker in Heat, has died at the age of 74.

BREAKING: FDA reverses course and will now review Moderna's flu vaccine, the company announced Wednesday www.statnews.com/2026/02/18/f...

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

I'm trying to imagine what this would do to higher education NO: religious studies incl traditional texts (the Bible) original sources in history/gov't classes dramas (play, musical) before Phantom philosophy texts poetry before Where the Sidewalk Ends literature before Interview with the Vampire

Giraffes look so awkward and ungainly when they walk, but seeing one in the wild in full gallop is pure poetry and will change your life forever.

Jesse Jackson, civil rights icon, dies aged 84

REMEMBER: All the "Don't use em-dashes" "don't use rule of three" advice because it makes your writing "look like AI" is because they stole actual writers work, and their "predict the next thing" stuff just simulates what WE FUCKING DO. Keep writing well. Use every style and trick you have. Fuck AI.

I wish more USians could experience the decreased background stress level that comes with being outside the US and knowing that nobody around you is likely to be carrying a loaded firearm. So much of the world takes this for granted. We could too.

“Readers should be able to assume that every word between quotation marks is what the speaker or writer said… The writer should, of course, omit extraneous syllables like ‘um’ and may judiciously delete false starts.” -NYT ethical guidelines

Like literally day one of j-school is that you don’t transcribe stammers like this. Every house style I’ve ever seen in 20 years of writing says not to do this

It was a gorgeous spring day. My sister was walking down the hall in her wedding gown, which I was helping to smooth and arrange. She stopped suddenly and I'm pretty sure I ran into her. I turned to see what she was looking at. It was Robert Duvall, looking out the window

I brought this up and immediately got shot down. The community need to understand stand the old rainbow flag is used by LGB without the T gays and TERF lesbians to erase us. It's saying we are ok with sacrificing you for are rights that you help fight for, but don't get to have. #Trans #Stonewall

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Measles is one of those nightmare diseases that, if it hadn't been killing people for hundreds of years, people would ABSOLUTELY be pushing conspiracy theories about right now. It's too nasty in too many different directions to seem natural. But oh, boy, it sure is.

What a great photo of Brazilian alpine skier Lucas Pinheiro Braathen, the first South American to ever win a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

if you don't want to hear Spanish don't colonize Spanish-speaking territories seems simple enough to me

Drop an album that was important to you when you were nineteen

In my 20s I worked in a DC think tank. Every day I read the WaPo, NYT & FT. It breaks my heart to see what they’ve done to the WaPo. How can the capital of the USA not have a world-class newspaper? It’s an embarrassment and a disgrace. I canceled my subscription and don’t even miss it.

Why yes, I am listening to this on repeat, why do you ask?

EXCLUSIVE: DHS based its newest refugee attack on a Trump proclamation that stated it would not apply to refugees. New documents filed in a key refugee case in Minnesota shed light on a broad, aggressive plan to review all refugees admitted since the start of the Biden administration. Law Dork:

Well, now we know why DJT is so obsessed with Hannibal Lecter

SHE’S ALIVE????

This seems to me to be a national security issue. The Republicans are setting us up to be vulnerable to all kinds of illnesses that much of the world is immune to. We write stories about creating plagues and hiding the vaccine—now our enemies don’t have to do either, just expose us to measles.

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