JD Vance is going to be really conflicted about this 30% tariff on upholstered furniture.

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

I'm voting for #Cuprosklodowskite for the same reason as last time. It looks like a hazard in a video game. Come to think of it, since my poor sweet #Paddlewheelite fell, I'm #TEAMCuprosklodowskite!!! (Picture stolen from the voting page)

A spray-painted bronze statue titled “Best Friends Forever” showing President Trump and Jeffrey Epstein holding hands was placed on the National Mall in front of the U.S. Capitol early Tuesday. https://wapo.st/42Dy5vU

Just another reminder that Social Security has a fraud rate of 0.00625% which is FAR lower than private sector retirement programs.

Follow up on that MA story from last week.

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

It's all fun and games until a cop handles a Tylenol gelcap with no gloves and within seconds their socks are bothering them.

Too late, Batman. Once this Tylenol floods the city's water supply, my wiki won't run out of editors ever again

this is the funniest possible way to describe GWAR

Brb gonna take Tylenol and get every vaccine at once to see if I spawn mega-autism. Soon, I will be too powerful

I think we should all let ourselves have a moment of pride and hope. They brought Kimmel back without forcing him to apologize or donate to Kirk’s wife, which was their stipulation at first. Collective action, protesting, and boycotts forced their hand. Celebrate the wins!!

I believe this to my core. They're using trans people as a test case to dismantle individual rights in the US.

"I believe AAC [augmentative and alternative communication] users can collectively bend conventional modes of communication, practice crip time, teach speaking people to slow the f*** down, and have us centered instead of at the margins." @sfdirewolf.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limits." www.computerworld.com/article/4059...

As in Round 1, it’s #Tugtupite for me! It’s got an Indigenous name & as @redsage.bsky.social said it is: tenebrescent, fluorescent in short & long wave UV & phosphorescent—from Greenland, it would go dim & mild during the long winters and then bright and intense during summer(!) #MinCup25

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

🇦🇱 Albania's AI minister "Diella" addressed the parliament for the first time. 👀 Diella said she has been "hurt" by opposition lawmakers who called her unconstitutional.

Good article about some pretty concerning situations, though it's hard to gauge how common this is yet. This whole thing is so 2025, right down to needing to read the article in reader mode on my phone because the advertising was so intrusive I couldn't focus otherwise.

I have a new flash story in Lightspeed! "On an Unusual Kind of Spatially Distributed Haunting" Somewhere in the borderlands between folk horror and hard SF... Hard fantasy??? #Hauntology something. www.lightspeedmagazine.com/fiction/on-a... @lightspeedmagazine.com

AFAICT Sinclair and Nexstar seem to be driving the driving force behind the suspension. I’m still looking for a breakdown of how many ABC affiliates each of them own. It’s been widely reported that Nexstar at the very least needs FCC approval for a proposed merger. As for Sinclair, well….

"Late-night jokes shouldn’t be biting, critical, or funny. Jokes should be more like third wives — anodyne, mostly quiet, and on good terms with convicted pedophiles."

“This can’t be interpreted…as anything else but an attack directly on trans kids.” In my first byline for @teenvogue.com, I spoke with trans students, with Texas teachers, and those who support them about this troubling law that's singling out trans, enby and gender nonconforming young folks:

Sincerely had to check the alt text before I realized that Lurking Death Hat is apparently Melania.

I usually believe in "slow news" and tend to write about things the next day, but this Kimmel shit is such a mess, I put this together quickly. Key points: 1. Most people are pretending Kimmel said stuff he didn't. 2. SCOTUS just last year said that you can't do shit like this.

Back when I was in college and wrote for the school newspaper I wrote a whole thing about the Telecommunications Act of 1996, which eliminated media ownership restrictions, and how that was going to fuck us over forever and people were like "Dan, I dunno this is an art school," well eat shit fuckos.

Colbert’s & Kimmel’s firings are a reminder that corporate media consolidation is a key battery for the creation of state media. State media = authoritarianism State media ≠ democracy Once we scrape the Mad King & his crew out of office, let’s break up media conglomerates.

it's so funny to see America's health insurance companies be like "look. If there's one thing we love it's denying you care. but we ran the numbers - and we cannot BELIEVE we're saying this - and it's cheaper for us to just pay for the vaccines than deal with you going to the ER."

TIL that a curfew is also a literal object! the word has its roots in the French couvrefeu - "cover fire" - and was used to denote a bell rung to warn people to cover their fires overnight to prevent the outbreak of flames between wooden houses. a curfew was a bell-shaped cover for embers!

Dude on LI shared his "money saving tips" to manage a family in this economy and included that his kids aren't in sports like he refused to pay for that. I know it's expensive and we can't afford everything we want but don't brag about your frugality of not supporting your kids' recreation.

Thanks to MAGA, I am learning about SO MANY innovative ways to be racist. This is so nuts. I get wanting service members not to be unkempt but facial hair is just normal body stuff.

jokes about the confederacy are always funny, but you gotta think about it in terms of "Supernatural lasted 5x longer than the Confederacy", which is absolutely hysterical

Forever screams.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States. 🔗 www.404media.co/doj-deletes-...

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Google handed over Gmail account information to ICE before notifying the student or giving him an opportunity to challenge the subpoena.

We can edit DNA now, yeah? Somebody get with me to create teacup yaks for us Cityfolk™. We’ll make millions dominating the as-yet-untapped compact yak market!

Whenever they do this, they had the plan ready to go waiting for an event. Remember how they had the PATRIOT Act ready to go only a couple weeks after 9/11?

I know “every accusation is a confession” gets said a lot but holy shit this is a doozy. The whole conservative media sphere is funded by dark money and being the death drive for a third of the nation is its whole point. Keep buying guns. Don’t get vaxxed. No preventative care. Work until the grave.

2/? This associate of mine is a Biracial, Muslim with a Black wife. They just recently moved into this all white neighborhood in Ohio. Being good neighbors, they joined the neighborhood FB/Online Group. Well, this group veered off last night to praising Charlie Kirk.

For the last week, I’ve had this 2015 song stuck in my head, I Thought The Future Would Be Cooler by @com.y-a-c-h-t.com. These days, I long for the banal dystopia retrofuture of ten years ago. 2025 was waiting in an alley around the corner to attack us all. m.youtube.com/watch?v=R8ca...

Radical right accommodation really does not work. New paper out with this exceptionally talented team @katharinalawall.bsky.social @robjohns75.bsky.social @drjennings.bsky.social @sarahobolt.bsky.social @zachdickson.bsky.social @danjdevine.bsky.social & @jack-bailey.co.uk doi.org/10.31235/osf...

A mineral for marine geologists, mapped by multibeam echosounder! This article (in Swedish) mentions how ikaite pillars play a role in Inuit oral tradition as GHOSTS OF DEAD VIKINGS who apperared after a fight where norsemen were driven out on the sea ice and drowned. www.havet.nu/havsutsikt/a...

“They were able to identify the presence of two rather unique crystals on the surface of washed rind cheeses: struvite and ikaite.” #MinCup25 blog.murrayscheese.com/2018/08/26/p...

I'm seeing some people post this and not realize this is PART of the radicalization. Building an audience from reasonable sounding videos and converting them into the pipeline. Weiss is doing this now as I get The Free Press ads about things like "low tech parenting" and workout fads.

Here are the _public_ email addresses for the reporters and the standards editor listed on the WSJ site. Standards editor: [email protected] Journalists who wrote the article: [email protected] [email protected] Politely and peacefully demand a retraction and an apology.