There we go!

Sensing a theme? The Fantagraphics Bookstore & Gallery is hosting a fantastic exhibition, Seeing Nancy: A Tribute to Ernie Bushmiller’s Iconic Cartoon Character, featuring work by Noah Van Sciver, caroline cash, Tom Robbins + Ginny Ruffner, and more--opens 6/13!

Sorry haters but Normal is the best Pokemon type

thinking of juror 96

hell yeah, ordered

i wrote about Coupling (2000-2004), the pretty sexist british sitcom that almost singlehandedly created my sense of humor www.patreon.com/raxkingisdea...

He tried to warn us.

538 electoral vote campaign platform

"That's a great act, what do you call it?" "The Electorate!"

behold the coming of bagnarok

NEW: Several fmr @signal.org devs + others have a new project out today, Encrypted Spaces, which provides the technical model for building end-to-end encrypted versions of collaborative apps like Slack/Discord (& maybe a lot more). @agreenberg.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/signal...

It’s not really surprising that people are becoming more distrustful and cynical about tech (and everything else) when there’s a constant drumbeat of stories, like this, about a seemingly innocuous game/tool/website harvesting data that is then used for murderous purposes:

"We could change that such that people would be more facially politically neutral or have a more right wing slant...But most work would still be bad, and that's the real problem here." most sensible thing I've read on this topic in quite some time sootyempiric.blogspot.com/2026/06/the-...

Rom Reddy is what Scooby Doo says when you ask who his favorite Traveling Wilbury is.

“yeah i can tell it was AI generated. how? just vibes, yeah. it has that certain gen-AI sais quoi”

There really is a tweet for everything

Actual quote by a guy on our local online message board, arguing that the t-shirt & slogan for the town’s annual 4th of July parade was too woke & anti-Trump: "I for one do not want to see a 4th of July parade celebrating revolutionary resistance."

Strong case for Snakes on a Plane, I think

I always loved this New Yorker cover too

Knicks 2, Spurs Nun

“My Mayor is Muslim, my bagel is Jewish, my Christian’s Dior… Knicks in 4!!!”

pretty obvious at this point that the reason why the dirtbag left has a preference for seeking voters on the far right rather than the left is that they'd rather pursue people who find their politics repugnant than people who find their personalities repugnant

Much wisdom in this thread

New crusade: FILL THE CHART Tag yourselves, comrades, which word are you putting into circulation this month

It seems relevant to the accusation that the NYT slow-rolled the story that early voting for the primary, which is on Tuesday, has been open for nearly a month (and closed yesterday).

Well put (thread). I’m so tired of this asshole.

Important news: My wife, who worked in Detroiters’ art department, has located the original Karn on the Cobb file in her archive.

first good idea I’ve heard all day

Fuck SeaFair I want a Washington State Ferry Festival

Alex is doing important security work, and now trying to raise funds for a training in order to utilize and share that knowledge with folks on the frontlines of the fight for human rights. I chipped in $50, who's going to match me?

What a nice excuse to spend some time thinking about The Westing Game, a perfect book about which Dan is 100% correct

me, a Mainer, every day:

what are we even doing?

What you are seeing is a dog reaching a level of self-actualization that most of us can never hope to achieve. No thoughts, just herd. Nirvana.

we’re finally doing strait pride month

“What’s Opera, Doc?”

let's be clear, let's be very clear, let's be incredibly clear about something: Marcia Lucas is why you love Star Wars. She's why Star Wars worked. She's why it has heart. She's responsible for the in-media-res beginning, she's responsible for basically everything charming and unique about >

A thing that has always bothered me is that people will talk about “solving the alignment problem” for super-human intelligence when it is clearly an unsolved problem for human intelligence

Incredible quote from Wyden, that it is time to "start treating the adtech industry as a national security threat."

👍⬇️ Polysemy is a real roadblock to dialogue, and while I am no ambassador, technical meanings are distinct from their commonly understood meanings. But that slippage goes both ways, and is precisely why we should avoid terms like "reasoning," "intelligence," "creativity" in the first place

Honestly, the cloying desperation to find a perfect definition that will exclude trans women from legible, legitimate womanhood has in and of itself demonstrated (almost as well as any materialist feminist can) that sex is social, mutable, and a regime of violent policing.

I’m bad at this idc

Every “direct to consumer” interaction now involves four tech company intermediaries that all also want to establish a relationship with me (for payment, rewards, recurring scheduling, etc.). Just let me buy some goddamned socks.

Yiiikes

some jokes write themselves

🎶 Well, the word got around, they said, "This kid is insane, man" Took up a collection just to send him to the mainland "Get your education, don't forget from whence you came, and The world's gonna know your name, what's your name, man?"

Santa Claus is Coming to Town — Bruce Springsteen