Post your favorite Dragonball character (wrong answers only)

Reading a book set in (an alternate version of) 1920s St Louis, and it feels like science fiction because of the omnipresence of useful mass transit.

The sodium citrate in our electrolyte packets at work has me spending way too much time thinking which cheeses would work with what flavor packets to make weird but not disgusting cheese sauce.

Nowhere to put things right by your window? Sill issue.

Labour MPs calling for an orderly transition but unfortunately their government needs to be at least 18 years old with four doctors to sign off first

The thing is, efficient forms of transport often look empty because they're efficient. A road packed with cars is not an efficient used of space when 20 cars' worth of people can sit on a single bus, or, more or less, 20 bikes. Yet they take up 10 times the space of either. Cars ruin cities.

Not at all what I expected the audio for this dance to be, but hell yeah.

this is really heartwarming. two men exchanging symbolic tokens of things the other has no interest in (football, peace)

"Why can't pedestrians walk an extra quarter mile to cross the street?" It's always the same people that will drive in circles to find a parking space 20 feet closer.

Now pondering whether cold-smoked Peeps would be good, it somehow even more disgusting than the base "food"

I'd go further. This SCOTUS isn't democratically legitimate, but there are other sources of legitimacy: legal/rational legitimacy is also available to courts that abide by the rule of law. But the Roberts Court doesn't even have that. It is *categorically illegitimate.*

a ballroom has a core strategic weakness: the man in the back saying “everyone attack”

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

Take the wrong lesson from a movie: The Princess Bride: If you need some change, check a corpse's pockets.

OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse Media and universities: AI is here to stay

This is an incredibly good take from @doctorow.pluralistic.net pluralistic.net/2026/04/12/a...

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all these universities kept axing medieval history departments as if they thought tyrants beefing with the Pope was going to stop being relevant

Things that help calm the nervous system, quickly: - Box breathing (in for 4, hold for 4, out for 4, hold for 4, repeat) - Immerse your face in cold water (activates mammalian dive reflex) - Humming (stimulates vagus nerve) - Exercise (anything helps, outside even better) - Impeachment and removal

Errrr, I seem to be having a problem with a couple of my Easter eggs…

@zachweinersmith.bsky.social Over 10 years old, still relevant today. www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-0...

484) Hopebot. Finds you in the darkness and tells you that at the end of every tunnel is a light, no matter how bleak the future looks it is still unwritten, you are alive and a human being with mind, the universe's last defence against entropy. Rise. Continue. Be. #SmallRobotsRemastered

Like, I'm still a little stunned that the entire ruling class is like "CLASS WAR IS REAL AND WE'RE WINNING AND ONCE WE DO, HAHA, YOU'LL BE OUR SLAVES OR YOU WILL DIE, YOU STUPID BITCH," and everybody else is still like "hmmmmmmmm perhaps there is some nuance or something that we're not seeing here,"

If HP or not being influenced by other people is more important to you than the wellbeing of the people JKR is using HP money to harm, that’s a value you hold that you should probably be aware you hold. If that conflicts with your self-image, it’s up to you to figure out which to change.

They’re telling me a great empire will be destroyed if I attack Persia. Even the oracles who don’t like me very much, very nasty, they all said to me, “Sir, it’s one of the great empires, and it’ll be destroyed. And all because you attacked Persia.” That’s what they’re telling me.

this is probably my favorite recurring tumblr post

"Generations of Assistant US Attorneys had built the goodwill of that office for your generation to destroy it within a year."

I hate the "How was your experience?" email after eating at a restaurant. I said please and thank you and confirmed the food was good. I paid the bill and tipped well. We don't need to expand our relationship from sandwich and greens to correspondence and homework.

I heard there was a secret cord that David kept in his cable hoard but he can never find it when he needs it

My kid, who adores the stuff, realized you can sing "spam musubi" to the tune of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah" and so will plaintively ghost around the kitchen singing it in hopes someone will make it for him.

Thanks to Cam Rogers on Facebook for articulating exactly the issues around the new animated Firefly that's been announced.

We have to stop calling these schmucks "judges". They aren't from the judicial branch. They have no constitutional power. They're exec branch flunkies. When you ask an IRS agent to reconsider what you owe and they go back to their desk and then send you an e-mail upping your bill? Same process.

We have spent (to date) roughly 38,000 3 year NSF grants on the war with Iran. We can't afford healthcare, research, education, consumer protections... But we can release the taps to kill Iranian civilians in an unnecessary war. The US doesn't have a budget problem, we have a values problem.

I don’t think we talk enough about how the foundational, most aspirational premise of the AI industry is “what if there was a human-level intelligence that didn’t have human rights.” Like. Exploitation is literally the whole point! Of COURSE they hold human life, intelligence and labour in contempt!

if you're rooting for the end of civilization because you think it'll involve more "running around in artfully ripped clothes with a nail bat" than "spending large parts of your life thinking about soil quality" you are in for an incredibly disappointing surprise

holy shit

Imagine being mad that your daughter is a genius

Hey, if you're feeling like life has passed you by and you're too old to start something new, remember that John Brown was 55 before he killed his first pro-slavery settler in the Kansas Territory. It's never too late to follow your dreams.

Nope. We don't have to do this. The courageous act would be to refuse. Jingoist slop like this is an enormous factor in why the US has been terrorizing the world for decades. There are no heroes bombing Iran.

Gotta love how people are more upset that Trump "broke his promises" rather than be upset because he fucked white middle-schoolers and murdered brown middle-schoolers.

“The Department of Defense is calling these strikes “Operation Epic Fury.”” They have confused their operation with my reaction. 😡

If you're still making excuses for Platner--Nazi tattoo, channeling Protocols of Elders of Zion, quote-tweeting white supremacist Holocaust denier Stew Peters--you've declared yourself.

All these dude bros who want to live forever never seem to have any reason they want to live forever.

What really grinds my gears about this is that where Protestant Christianity's definition of religion is the dominant one, those same Protestants turn around and say, "Oh, I don't have a religion; I have a personal relationship with God."

Being cussed out by an Irishman. I call that fookmaxxing.