Trapped in The Haunted Mansion. Don’t send help.

See cool frogs. Share them with @seananmcguire.bsky.social. That’s the rule.

Maybe instead of committing atrocities, we could just make the rich pay their fair share and have universal healthcare and affordable housing instead. Idk, just spitballing here.

*stares in Adelita Grijalva*

It's that giving time of year again, so this is a reminder that no matter how they try to dress it up, the Salvation Army is not a charity.

firefox AI and slop disablers from tumblr for the people from local hero mckitterick. Tried it on my end and the browser is significantly faster now (copy paste-able in the alt text)

‘You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’

Why the fuck should anyone care what a retailer needs? Tell corporations to stop buying so many lattes, lay off the avocado toast, pull themselves up by the bootstraps, etc. No retailer is entitled to profit, and anyone who claims so is as much of a dipshit as Jennifer Williams & the WSJ editors.

Imagine if they just subsidized newspapers and magazines the way they’re subsidizing this slop

i wanted a sign for my table so i ordered a handful of prints for the season. swing by my table this weekend and next weekend and the weekend after if you want one! (stickers should be here by next week too)

Introduce yourself with five concerts you've seen: Paul McCartney Lake Street Dive * Sara Bareilles Billy Joel / Elton John Weird Al Yankovic * * multiple times

We're gonna need a truth and reconciliation commission and Nuremberg style trials to reckon with all of this evil, and any Dem candidate for office who shies away from a full reckoning in the name of "moving forward as a nation" can get well and truly fucked

Peppermint Patty lost her mind screaming at Charlie Brown because of Snoopy's unconventional Thanksgiving meal. What did she expect? The dog made the dinner. If your dog prepared a meal like that it'd be amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuG3...

He is risen

This may be the greatest scientific study of our time (or, at least the funniest).

i’m not crying you’re crying xkcd: Fifteen Years

"What are you working on?" I put the soldering iron on its stand and inspected my work. "A time travel receiver. I figured out the machine can't travel in time itself." "Do you have a transmitter too?" I plugged the power in. "Not yet." A newspaper appeared in the machine. "I will, next year."

Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

There are going to be prominent Democrats and mainstream media voices who insist that we have to "turn the page" and "forgive and forget" and they should all be roundly ignored, if not mercilessly mocked.

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

I feel like this strip directly led to the dialog style in “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”

November 18, 1985, the world met Calvin & Hobbes

The best comic strip of all time.

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

When we retake our government and restore sanity at this country, these men need to be held legally accountable; we need to arrest them in front of their families, their friends, their pastors, and their God.

We (the world at large) are making enough fucking babies. We're cool on the babies. We need to start FEEDING the babies and VACCINATING the babies and WELCOMING the babies to various places, but we have babies out the wazoo. They just might have different melanin levels

The Epstein story gets a something that is tearing at the heart of the electorate: elite impunity. The idea that wealthy and powerful people can do terrible things *at scale* and face no consequences for them. Whatever political party actually stops it could rule the country for a generation.

If the Democrats had a hair on their ass they would start a nationwide campaign where they had commercials showing all the Republicans convicted of sex scandals plus the emails with they’re not like us playing in the background.

If Bluesky bans well known anti-authoritarian voices with no explanation, everyone will assume they did so for pro-authoritarian reasons, either their own or those of someone else with influence. That's the only explanation available, "just trust us" isn't an explanation.

instead of saying this was good strategy, maybe senate dems should say: "the republicans were going to kill people by starving them to death, and because we aren't monsters, we decided to let this fight go. We'll keep fighting. Stop electing monsters."

BREAKING: The Supreme Court denied an attempt to challenge Obergefell v. Hodges, the case affirming marriage equality nationwide. Our freedom to marry remains the law of the land.

"i asked grok" "i asked chatgpt" yeah well i asked carl sagan and he said the greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge 🧪

40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion

$39 a year folks. Thats what killing 600,000 to date will save you. Would it be nice to live on a world where every country with the means worked to make the world a better place? Yes. Of course. In the meantime if you say preventing the deaths of millions isn’t worth $3 a month, fuck you.

Sobering news for a lot of top Democrats, tonight, as they realize people would prefer they actually fucking do something.

“Speaker Johnson, many Americans are wondering why you’re unable to see or hear any developments in the news. Some are speculating that you were kicked in the head by a horse; others theorize that you’ve been huffing spray paint. Which is it?”

it's time for journos to start asking Johnson meta questions "Speaker, on 5 occasions last week you said 'I haven't seen it' when asked about news events w/big implications for public policy. Do you ever read the news, and do you agree it's problematic for the Speaker to be so woefully uninformed?"

Look folks gen AI videos are out in the wild so if you weren't already being careful about sharing rage bait videos then now is a great time to start If you can't trace a video back to a trusted source then I recommend leaving it where it is, like a slice of bologna you found on the street

I've been getting back into the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series after many years, and the most relatable part is how everyday objects like doors and elevators have been imbued with artificial intelligence and it just makes them obnoxious and frustrating to use and everyone hates it.

Superman by @itoscaresme.bsky.social

2nd Nov. 2025 marks the 25th anniversary of the ongoing human presence off-world. That is, humans have continuously occupied the ISS for exactly 25 years today. So if you're <= 24 years old, you've never lived in a world where humans were *only* terrestrial-based. Image by HEO (from above!) 🔭🧪

I love how Rep. Joe Neguse reframed this question.

After every interview Mike Johnson buries himself in his hermetically sealed anti-news bunker until he’s called to meet with the press again where he can truthfully say he knows nothing.

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

Find someone who looks at you the way Elmer looks at Bugs.

I truly can’t imagine the person I would be, the art I would’ve made, the choices I might’ve made, the wide-open vistas that might exist in my brain if the constant anxious horror of the last 10 years in America wasn’t just 24/7 squatting its horrible carcass on every cell of it.

Gonna repost this every time I come across it on socials. 💚

> @newyorker.com