Incredibly funny that the president of the United States can do this and retain command of the American Armed Forces, but I said it about a literal Nazi and got fired from a job writing superhero comics.

*nods in sicko* www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

Every once in a while I think about how snack companies spend millions upon millions of dollars and fund food science research to make their processed snacks literally irresistible but if I have an extra Little Debbie Swiss roll it’s my fault and I’m the weak one

formal proposal of a replacement for the vince mcmahon meme format

I was not ready to find out the age of Saxon

Whenever you ask a government official or a politician something and they say they don’t know or haven’t heard, the VERY NEXT QUESTION should be, “Well, now that you know about it, what are you going to do about it?” Follow up! Dig deeper! Push back! Don’t let them dodge!

A human requires 2400kcal per day or 10MJ. A day has 86000 seconds. So a human uses 116W. Humans are thus a hundred thousand times more efficient than computers in cut pasting shit from the internet.

It's tricky, I think, for those who remember the loneliness of being opposed to the 2003 invasion of Iraq to parse what is different about Trump's 2026 Iran War. It can feel like a retread, but unlike in 2003 the US public is opposed *from the start," a shift that didn't happen with Iraq until 2006.

live your life in such a way that nobody feels compelled to call you a nazi in front of Zendaya

idk man the same people telling me communism is bad are utilizing capitalism to loot all of the middle class's wealth

My new novel “Gary’s New Novel Was This Result Helpful to You?” is in big trouble.

BREAKING: In Final Act, Chuck Norris Defeats Chuck Norris

"did you know the USPS is losing money" no I didn't know and I still don't care do you know how much money your president has lost you since January

a billionaire must never make a decision because the billionaire can never be held accountable

So far the war on Iran has cost $25 billion. That's $1 billion per day. $41,666,667 per hour. $11,574 per second. Thousands of lives lost. People don't want this. They want a living wage. They want healthcare. They want to be able to afford a home. They want their basic needs met.

My son came up with the best term for the DLSS 5 and other weird GenAI non improvement (at least the first time I've heard it): "Sloptimization". It's perfect. No notes.

doctor octopus: oh, of course it's you, spider-man. got some more smart alec comments to make? spider-man: [mental wheel of fortune spinning through abrasive puns, dad jokes, etc] spider-man: [lands on BANKRUPT] spider-man: suck my dick, old man. doctor octopus: spider-man: spider-man: sorry.

Just an amazing opening sentence here.

The Simpsons gave us multiple “beware of the obvious grifter” episodes that not nearly enough people paid attention to

Also, speaking as someone whose first/main ttrpg was d&d, I can't stress enough how easy it can be to learn a new ttrpg after that. I'm not telling you to stop playing d&d, but I am suggesting you try new flavours every now and again as a treat.🍩

Pope Leo this week called universal health coverage a "moral imperative." He also said: “Health cannot be a luxury for the few,” it is “an essential condition for social peace.”

Pope Leo is the first Pope to have ever experienced the US healthcare system, so there's that

It's wild how it's ALWAYS PROJECTION

I don't like talking about the cost of universal basic income, not because it's some high number, but because it assumes not doing it is free. We spend $1.5 TRILLION a year on the costs of child poverty alone. We cut child poverty by 40% for a cost of $100B in 2021. That would have been a $500B GAIN

The regime has decided that structurally unfree/unfair elections aren't enough and wants to just straight up start rigging them in favor of reactionary cranks, as well. Like, we've been sliding into this abyss for a while now!

I have an Excel joke it's really good most people rate it Oct 10

"Almost carries no weight, especially in matters of the heart." — The Ghost of Christmas Past, "A Christmas Carol"

the amount of "why aren't gen-z drinking/partying/fucking as much as other generations" articles that get written is really weird considering the generation of the people writing the articles and can be easily answered by the fact that no one has disposable income anymore

Every time I see that screenshot, I imagine Ghost Dog ending very differently. Or rather, exactly the same, with a single added line of dialogue.

I've built a socioeconomic system that depends on everyone to do useful work and act ethically except the people at the top, who get unimaginable rewards for being antisocial frauds and criminals. And I think it will stand the test of time

I can't stop looking at this image of a Great Potoo. This is a real animal & not a Jim Henson puppet. HT @ewacat.bsky.social for drawing my attention to this fucking weirdo. more excellent pics here en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potoo

#GM tip of the day When 3D-printing terrain for your RPGs, print it at 1:1 scale. Then when it's not in use for the game, you can live in it. #ttrpg

“First look at Val Kilmer in his new film” Remember: even if such an august institution as Variety embraces this as inevitable, it still isn’t! Val Kilmer doesn’t have a new film because he is absolutely dead md is kk longer in the having business!

Furthermore, what is mine? I don't know what people expect I'd hate.

People keep saying “oh so you want OPEN BORDERS” as some kind of gotcha and like. Yeah. When I was a kid you could just drive into Canada. On accident, even. It was great, and I think we should do that instead of kidnapping children. Normalize being normal instead of being kidnapping weirdos

Mr President you must go to iran personally sir. You are the only one who can do the art of the deal. This is a situation that calls for the personal touch of a man who got a nobel peace prize at a garage sale or whatever

woke up from a nightmare where the new mcu villain of the next 19 movies had been revealed at comic con and his name was Woke Magneto and he was Robert Downey Jr. in a Peter Pan outfit

Perfect

Just got an email saying something like "Yay you're now using Gemini on an iOS device!" and I'm like 1. the fuck I am 2. where exactly is this happening without my consent, I would like to remove it 3. of course, there is no information in this email about what app on my phone is the Gemini leak

About 70% of the U.S. economy runs on consumer spending. But as wealth concentrates at the top, the richest 10% can’t spend enough to sustain it — while everyone else can’t afford to. Reminder that trickle-down economics simply doesn’t make sense. It’s a hoax.

When media call the negative reaction to progressive and inclusive social actions a "backlash" that makes it sound like some sort of understandable natural reaction, like Newtonian sociology, when most often what it should be called is "prejudice." The discomfort of bigots need not be accommodated.

At some point we are going to have to reckon with the fact that in our society individuals taking on enormous unserviceable debt is an irresponsible vice, but finance guys taking on enormous unserviceable debt to buy media companies, then laying the suffering on the workers, is a virtue.

Finally, a real use case for JavaScript