Oh look, it's that time of year again! Time to place your orders for the 2026 Small Robots Calendar! It's £30, and this year's theme is Wistfulbot Goes for a Walk. It's got contemplative pictures and some sort-of poetry I guess? Anyway, the order form is here: forms.gle/AmdadzcTvzt8...

Also why am I not on this list, @slj.com? May unicorns poop in your yard.

About to record EPISODE 1000 of the MacBreak Weekly podcast on @twit.tv ! Does this mean we have tenure, and can never be thrown out of this institution no matter what we do or say? LET'S FIND OUT SHALL WE YES I THINK WE SHOULD

We spend 4 or 5 years learning language and decades learning WHAT to say. With AI it learns language but never learns what to say, we just approximate it with "words that are close together frequently are the right words"

I talk about her in my Black abolitionists of NYC walking tour and usually no one has heard of her but she was Rosa Parks on the bus 100 years before that incident.

imagine having to hear shit like "study confirms giving diabetic children insulin reduces their death rates by 100%" as if that hasn't been known for like a hunred years. that's what being trans is like

Gender-affirming care saves lives

This is such a bullshit article. It lies about EVs taking “hours“ to charge, the idea of replacing gasoline with pure ethanol is mostly a handout to farmers. Protip: don’t use the land you grow your food on, to also grow your fuel unless you really like high prices. (Cc: @michaelemann.bsky.social)

The military has a duty to refuse unlawful orders, but Congress has a duty to remove from office a president and secretary who would issue such orders. There is something off about members of Congress talking about the former while refusing to say the latter, the part that's actually their job here.

3 infant #pertussis deaths this year in Kentucky. "Of the three infant deaths reported over the past 12 months, all three were not vaccinated, nor were their mothers." We first tested maternal vaccination for whooping cough over 80 years ago. It's safe & effective & might have saved these babies.

The Overton Window has shifted and increasingly wanton overt bigotry and evil are mainstream. Don’t accept it. Fight and defy people like this. www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-colu...

I don't think people are prepared to see what horrors "MAGA getting gussied up for a Thanksgiving flight" will unleash.

Look it took me 5 years to get my Bachelor's of Science degree. That's why I just typed the sentance "that makes since" instead of "that makes sense". anyway I caught it before i hit send.

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What the fuck? This reads like one of those plots where the feds actually did everything and created terrorists where none existed. But i can also fully believe maga produced these idiots as well. www.npr.org/2025/11/23/n...

"A 25-person startup" should not be allowed to "disrupt" fundamental inputs to the Earth's ecosystem, hydrosphere, and atmosphere. Like, what are we even thinking here?

thinking about how my parents escaped vietnam, where the CIA destabilized my family's home country by spreading misinformation, and they landed in the united states, which is now getting destabilized bc someone in vietnam is spreading misinformation

Geneticist and microbiologist Rita Rossi Colwell was born #OTD in 1934. She was the first researcher in the US to use computers to analyze bacteriological data, and the first woman to serve as director of the NSF. 🧪 👩‍🔬

1) good, they should be prosecuted, they are responsible for countless deaths 2) always very funny when these people realize the extent to which their billionaire patrons could not possibly give less of a shit about them

oh it’s like this was designed for me specifically

When the wet food is like three seconds late.

speaking as a virginia beach native if these kind of dudes are plotting against ICE then there is wide runway in public opinion for straight up abolishing the agency under a dem presidency

ARRESTED!! THIS IS A GREAT DAY!!

“Betancur’s shirt read, ‘Made in Charlotte by Immigrant Hands.’” “… I need to protect my customers,” he said. "I need to protect my community and myself, because they are just jumping in and throwing people to the floor.” www.charlotteobserver.com/charlottefiv...

Did you know? Four of our elephants are rescues from the game Jumanji.

Woah. Congratulations to @textfiles.com , this is freaking awesome. arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...

I needed to draw this picture

And theists keep claiming atheists are only atheists because they want to sin. If you really want to sin get a church to back you up and force your victims into silence.

when I was young, i used to wonder how people like this would fare in life, as they didn't seem suited for gainful employment. it turns out, the internet allowed them to accumulate a massive audience of similar idiots, enriching them and turning them into a presidential advisor

Oh they don’t like the whistles? Hey everyone, they don’t like the whistles. If you use them it makes the armed goons sad.

"The purges, censorship, and politicization in the worlds of medicine and science are not distinct from the corruption and vandalism of the country writ large. We Want Them Infected doctors are part of it all." (by @joho.bsky.social)

Some day I’d like to read an isekai book where some of the differences between worlds is the use of a Vigesimal (base 20) number system and the pre-decimal British money system. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigesimal

Linus Torvalds being unfathomably based

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everyone who wants Democrats to focus on throwing immigrants and trans people under the bus needs to explain why this is not going to be the end result

I watched this when it aired 20 years ago thinking the whole time “they have to get him a regular spot”, and they did!

Canada doesn't need superheroes because they don't have any supervillians

It must be magnificent to be these billionaires and foreign countries, all of whom secretly scorn Trump, giving him lavish but vulgar gifts that he doesn’t understand are elaborate expressions of their contempt for him, his taste, his principles, and his self-awareness.

I'm split between thinking Trump will die in office and hoping he survives so all his "gifts" can be seized because gifts to the President are gifts to the people and they can't take it with them.

Multiple officers, three sheriff’s deputies and one state trooper, have been shot at a rural Kansas home, according to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation.

I'm seeing people wonder why ICE is going after Charlotte. ICE has been at war with Charlotte's sheriff ever since he won in 2018. We'd covered this at Bolts back in the day; this quote is from that sheriff:

The image of gun ownership in America has been white, rural and Republican, but that's been changing as more liberals and minorities have been buying guns, especially after the 2024 election.

Whether it’s Barack Obama, appearing in a tan suit or Donald Trump appearing 1700 times in Jeffrey Epstein‘s emails, both presidents made some highly controversial appearances.

Weren’t tariffs supposed to replace the income tax?

There are many areas of the country only served by catholic hospitals. This is why we don’t want that.

Billionaires don’t want more millionaires nipping at their feet.

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