Lots of people will tell you, "It's centripetal force, not centrifugal." But no one is brave enough to say, "We should rename the machines to 'centripuges'."

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered. He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here : www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

Wife: While we're at the library, Daughter wants us to see if they have the boardgame "Hues and Cues" to check out. Me: Is that a Star Trek: TNG board game? Wife: Heh. [60 seconds later] Wife: HUGH'S AND Q'S

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

"Last time I went after them, they gave me $16 Million Dollars. This one sounds even more lucrative.” Bowing down to a bully never works. And we can’t become numb to this corruption in plain sight.

Me: So, I'm good at math, but I've always struggled with understanding probabilities. @poorfrisco.bsky.social : That seems unlikely

And on the subject of #realartatters: AI poisoning tool NIGHTSHADE is now free for artists to use: venturebeat.com/ai/nightshad...

You ‘run the gamut’ and ‘run the gauntlet.’ You don’t ‘run the gambit.’ gamut = entire range or series gauntlet = severe trial Gambit = Alpha-level mutant who can convert potential energy to kinetic energy

Listen, I had to.

My Cousin Vinny: Ace Attorney Had to finally release this from my head

Germany gave people €1,200/month no strings attached. They kept working, slept better, switched to better jobs, and even gave more to others. Turns out, when people aren’t drowning, they swim further. #UBI doesn’t kill ambition, it frees it.

End of June (1/5) This comic is also available to read on Webtoon: www.webtoons.com/en/canvas/na...

X-Men as Simpsons Quotes PROFESSOR X

It’s every parent’s nightmare, isn’t it? you check your child’s bulletproof backpack and find a picture book about gay penguins

That’s a tough question. Resisting masked armed thugs in any circumstance can get you beaten or killed by the armed thugs. If the masked armed thugs are agents of the U.S. government it will also get you prosecuted for “assault on a federal officer” or “resisting arrest.” /1

The perfect bird feeder doesn't exi--

"What movie traumatized you as a child" All of them. It was 1985, there were no non-traumatic movies to watch as a child

Journal comics- escapism failed aka an excuse to draw ps1 graphics

You can never count Sherman completely out.

*crab-walked

Tom Humberstone's excellent comic about the Luddites' history. thenib.com/im-a-luddite/

That's it. The dumbest conversation on this platform. Apparently, I made up House of Leaves. It's not a real book that's been in print for 25 years.

Rubio publicly criticizing an ally for cracking down on right-wing extremism. And Germany hitting back. We are in a new world

this would be so funny if this guy wasn’t president

What would encourage you to add to the baby supply?

A colleague emailed me today to flag the fact that the superb Fourth Circuit Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson ended a quotidian insurance opinion with an unusually introspective conclusion.

How did we get from "Do not use Wikipedia as a source" to "ask hallucinating chatbot everything"?

Number of people who go bankrupt every year because of medical bills or illness-related work loss: Australia 0 Canada 0 Denmark 0 Finland 0 France 0 Germany 0 Iceland 0 Ireland 0 Italy 0 Japan 0 Netherlands 0 Norway 0 Portugal 0 Spain 0 Sweden 0 UK 0 United States 530,000 There’s a lesson there.

Me: Would you like to come in? Pedantic vampire: ...yes. Me: Hmm. [Neither one of us moves]

Wife: How long do you microwave the bratwurst for? Me: I microwave bratwurst the way I make love: full power for 45 seconds.

"We are deeply appreciative of all you do in the care of our students and community. Also we will be using your engineering class as a trap for students who protested a genocide before they're shipped off to a Trump blacksite, and it's not optional."

He tried . . .

You guys. As a member of the Oregon Trail generation, I just.

I think about this headline all of the time.

Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

The worst part about having an OC is knowing no one is gonna care about your specifically curated playlist of songs for them as much as you are

I unironically love this silly submarine-aircraft-carriers-in-space movie. David Suchet brings his A game where you least expect.

Hi! Quick note: The Onion accidentally posted a stock photo from a vendor with an AI generated image in it. We pulled the post down once we found that out. Our commitment to not using AI is very real. It's in the union contract to disclose it if we ever do. World is a slop minefield and we're sorry.

Surely I'm not the only one getting this vibe from the Switch 2's joycons:

Happy birthday, Joan Baez. The legendary singer-songwriter turns 84 years old today. Photo by Selin Alemdar / Redferns

Kon Satoshi only directed four films and one TV show in his all-too-short, nine-year directorial career. While most are thrilling, mind-bending psychological masterpieces, one happens to be among the best, most crowd pleasing Christmas films ever. Learn more, in our video below.

Everyone’s mad that Trump has appointed almost all billionaires but you have to understand that billionaires are a good choice because they are immune to the temptations created by things like empathy or recognizing other people as autonomous human beings rather than objects

Optimist: The cup is half full. Pessimist: the cup is half empty. 911 Telecommunicator: WHERE IS THE CUP NOW

Every time I’m cooking with corn starch.

It says a lot about our imagining of the past that in the video game Oregon Trail, you can die of cholera or typhoid or dysentery but not of consumption, even though consumption was the most common cause of death in 19th century America, especially among westward travelers. In this essay I will

I’ve never heard any of her music but I kind of like Sabrina Carpenter because in every photo of her I’ve seen she looks like she might be about to pull out a knife and start stabbing and stabbing

BUT THE CARMEN SANDIEGO INTERACTIVE SPECIL HAS THE CAST SING THE ORIGINAL ROCKAPELLA SONG AS AN EASTER EGG :(