This is the Executive Producer of the (at least nominally) left-wing news program The Young Turks, with almost a million followers. Really does feel like we're headed down a bad road with this growing Red-Brown alliance.

“Cactus Jack” Garner could have been talking about JD Vance specifically.

Oh hey, this sounds familiar encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/t...

I really hate anti-trans politicians, and I especially hate it because it was a culture war issue where we were clearly winning and then a bunch of nominally liberal people at the Times and the Atlantic decided to reverse that and they did.

in conclusion, Texas is a land of contrasts

Today It Is Snowballs. You’re Laughing. You’re Laughing Just Because We Look Like Delicate Porcelain Rabbits, Fragile To The Touch, Unable To Stop Urinating On Ourselves In Fear. You’re Laughing While We’re Covered in Urine. I’m Soaking As You Laugh. I Want You To Imagine Me Bleeding As I Touch Mys

Soylent Green is family. Soylent Green is community. Soylent Green is people. Soylent Green. Made from the best stuff on earth: people :)

(Epilogue: you're welcome for keeping this one in the drafts)

Horses. Up there with bicycles as the bane of many an artist. However, I figured out a foolproof way of drawing them, and I want to share that with you! 😊

in fact I would say one of the primary traits of a sandwich is it can be slapped together assembly line from ingredients and then promptly consumed with the hands. this actually makes it a fairly unique category, unless your culture eats with hands as primarily utensil, making some rice a sandwich

literally the only difference between a taco and a nacho is that the tortilla is curved. but topologically speaking, taco, nacho, and pizza are the same food

I am no physician but I think you should have started with a lot of eye drops the first day and then gradually tapered off. Just makes sense to me

Wise Wicked Simple Lacks the Capacity to Inquire

This piece points out that Epstein didn’t just assemble a pedophilia club. He specifically “gravitated toward fields and figures that rank humans, explain away cruelty, or biologize inequality.”

I wish the New York Times hated rich pedophiles as much as they hate trans kids.

what's the charge, pondering a room? a succulent Chinese room?

I so love that there is a entire ‘cinematic universe’ which is just Waiting For Godot but Godot is Spider-Man

Suddenly remembering the years Blackburn spent screaming about how net neutrality was "the government takeover of the Internet."

Does being Mayor pay so badly that he needs the $30/hour?

"is soup a drink" "is a quesadilla a sandwich" oh my god can you just convert to judaism already

Peanuts: 24 Dec 1959

frankly it's a disgrace that nobody has yet come up with 'the CIA invented furries' as a conspiracy theory ('Cordwainer Smith' was actually Paul Linebarger, one of the founders of modern psychological warfare. Also Sun Yat-sen's godson and the writer of the first Cold War technothriller!)

The spirit of rec.arts.sf.fandom still lives.

That is an extremely dapper kitty-cat!

I can't remember where I saw this and Google isn't helping me find it, but someone posted the Ghoulies 2 toilet monster captioned as "RFK in the workout video" and I think about it constantly. Props to whoever did it.

Me: 🎶 “I am,” I said! The Tick said “Spoon!” He could not stop me, though; I shot at the moon! 🎶 Chris: No one asked for that.

“Evil starts when you treat other people as things. There are perhaps worse crimes, but they begin when you treat other people as things.” - Terry Pratchett

every one of these guys is like: I'm a genius. you should do whatever i say about business, finance, research.... because i am so smart i have it all figure-- oh, jeffrey epstein? man that guy totally pulled the wool over my eyes. Is that what he was up to? wow.

Palestinians I follow on Instagram are literally pleading with people not to hype up Tucker Carlson because he’s also an anti Palestinian bigot and these leftists are in their replies like “I don’t care he hates (((Zionists))) so he’s my friend” - like????

this came to me in a dream

I regret to inform everyone that Google Gemini is actually kinda useful for doing the sort of stuff that ordinary Google searches used to be good for like 15–20 years ago.

Wow that franchise took a dark turn

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

one of the biggest ongoing challenges is the tension between "rpgs want every little guy to have her own name" and "board games want fungible pieces"

"So you hate waffles?" is def competitive discourse posturing but that's only one stripe of a genuine reading comprehension crisis (or perhaps one that's always existed but for which we now have mass evidence). Online and off it's striking how many people just can't follow the *point* of an argument

"yeah turns out that the reason Hollywood news media kept freaking out whenever an actress was visibly adult, was that their owners were all hanging out with Epstein at the time"

You know, I sometimes wonder, how much longer can John Roberts actually keep up his Principled Institutionalist act? Are Supreme Court pundits going really going to keep buying this stuff? And then I see something like this, and, well, I guess the answers are "a while longer," and "yes."

Teaching probability theory like…

Checking out the glass flowers collection at Harvard. Hundreds of handmade scientific models of plants at different levels of magnification. It’s bananas.

NYT OpEd asked me to explain vibe coding to a general audience, and I took a swing. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...

If you ever find yourself wondering how things like the Epstein story happened, consider the mid-level newspaper editor who admitted in a public judicial inquiry that he destroyed a woman’s life and drove her to suicide to try and impress Piers Morgan.

This was literally an episode of WKRP over 40 years ago!

people think these tariffs are all just a joke, but don't forget this is how The Phantom Menace started

The Supreme Court:

12 Angry Muppets

the community bike shop in tuscon sells patch kits with a sticker that says, "welcome to tucson! we have sharp plants!" and i thought it was just a gag but i used that entire patch kit in a single week just riding around town.

Yes to this thread. But I also think there are men in the MSM who are deliberately trying to strangle a potential AOC presidency in the cradle

Does Trump think it’s a shame that Andrew shared sensitive info with Epstein, or does he think it’s a shame that Andrew got caught and is facing legal consequences? For all of his “straight talk” reputation, Trump is very cagey about not actually saying anything when that suits his purposes.

Why “Mountbatten-Windsor” and not “the Andrew formerly known as Prince?”