I love that they're doing the creepy Overwatch announcements from Half-Life 2 but it's about people mucking around in a public fountain.

i am not being shy i am assessing my surroundings

I have been at the UMN for 12 years and cuts/layoffs have occurred every single year. Every year, people are told to produce more work with fewer resources. Tuition always goes up, but somehow department budgets keep being cut.

My mayor? Muslim My bagel? Jewish My rent? Frozen My soul? Bathing in the light of Islam

im over here eating my culver's shrimp and uhhhhh there's a cinnamon toast crunch in it?

Some CN History: I got told I was getting promoted. My new coworkers trained me for this new position. Once I was comfortable, they let them go, and had me work both my old and new positions with the same pay and title. I quit my job, then they fired everyone I worked with and sold our building :)

Queen I would buy you shrimp three times a day if you wanted

Alright we're bringing back ancient shrimp discourse

Shrimp discourse, eh? *shakes my head and chuckles knowingly*

Gardening win, one of my random yard plants is a coneflower, all part of my plan 🧠

Heat discourse fun fact: heat exhaustion/stroke makes you more susceptible to it in the future, because your shit is damaged

This is really great, with many quotable portions, but I will just highlight "making the rejection of democracy sound like futurism" is such an elegant way to describe the what's going on.

More info, courtesy of @spaceweft.bsky.social: this is from "William the Curious: Knight of the Water Lilies." written and illustrated by Charles Santore in 1997. Of note: though he was a lifelong professional illustrator, Santore didn't complete his first children's book until he was 50 years old.

Atlanta having fun at World Cup … Look at that little baby 😊🥹

FBI agent: When you said "waow" you really meant "based" right? Me, lips directly on the crack of the front door: I hereby invoke my fifth amendment right against self intimation and will not speak to you again without a warrant and my lawyer present bye bye have a bad day

The well of grift is deep

Update from the road:

I've been watching the og twilight zone. There are a lot of Types of Guy we don't have anymore. One episode is about a guy who has a lot of weird interests to the extent he has all sorts of problems. Of course an angel offers to make him normal and he doesn't like that and turns back.

They need to make a vape that looks like a big stogie so our blue collar caricatures can be period appropriate

So we had buzzed headlines as a meme for awhile. Now people are writing in this LinkedIn AI format that also sucks. Some day I'm going to unplug my devices and never come back

A good time to pull out one of my favorite videos ever made

I could get 15 of these and still be less than that Steam Machine with a controller… one will bring joy for years and the other plays video games

May I present a bumblebee in lavender

As our food has become more and more inert substrate with added flavors to make them (hyper)palatable The nuance in flavors has become more important So it’s not just strawberry flavor is “green Californian early crop strawberry flavor”

the democratic rank and file is being arrested for posting newspaper articles and getting 50 year sentences for distributing zines and democratic leadership is more concerned with their friends getting primaried than any of it

The yard is getting fun. This one hazelnut plant decided this is the year to bust. Also lots of volunteer carrots around this year

Bungie has been responsible for some of the absolute shoddiest treatment of video game teams over the last several years even though they also had one of the most uniquely talented teams in the industry and it's just... the rage I feel for the way this studio was managed is bottomless.

Time to do Discourse™ about whether air conditioning costs money!

She posted Jonathan Ross’ name and “I think today is a great day for Jonathan to be indicted.”

I’m going to settle the UK/US debate once and for all: both of our societies suck shit

SoftBank’s investor presentation is one of the greatest things ever made. I’ve been thinking about it all day. These are the real slides shown in a speech where Masayoshi Son said he wouldn’t retire for at least another decade. The goose stuff is truly demented. Bravo group.softbank/media/Projec...

Ok Lohar whips Also khopesh mentioned

A fun thing to do is keep track of how many moderates spend all their time talking about the need for “ideological diversity” when it comes to white supremacists and attacking trans people and eliminating women’s rights and then immediately wet the bed the moment a Muslim or leftist sniffs power.

I think it was wise the original series didn't have these dragon battles because the story would similarly be trapped in power scaling debates

see u at Arasaka Tower.

The ultimate predation machine Inner and outer views of the claws of an Atlantic blue crab, Callinectes sapidus Note that one claw has canine-like teeth (left in this case, though not always) while the other has molar-like structures Any creature must fear this beast a bit and be careful

Upsetting flatware continued

I biked past six hours later. I counted at least 17 cop SUVs on the lakefront between 55th and 57th. Congratulations Chicago, you just paid a small army to hang out by the lake doing nothing all afternoon!

My therapist asked if the ICE abductions were still happening and I was dismayed to see how much this ongoing terror has fallen out of the public eye

Man, the uncut end to Skyfall was wild

They should make a poster that can fall asleep

I saw a row of ducks swimming like baby ducks but they were full sized so yes good job guys you made it to adolescence wooo

A cartoonist named Daniel "Des" Rolando Sanchez Estrada was tried as a terrorist and sentenced to 30 years in prison for having anti-Trump comics in his car. Prosecutors connected him to a 2025 anti-ICE protest he didn't even attend because he was in the same book club as others who were.

CHAT I AM SCREAMING

So turns out “blue no matter who” was just a scam to make people vote for shit democrats. Who knew!

went down to the centrist convention. they’re all shaking and crying, I heard one guy say “I’m starting to think a better world IS possible.” the lady next to him slapped him in the face

Algae is loving this news cycle. They’ve never been more relevant. Microzooplankton sitting at home changing the channel like, what about us? we even have cilia and pseudopods, this is bullshit.

Wait wait wait Trump "inspected" the reflecting pool's paint job by getting *driven around inside the empty pool* in the 6 tonne presidential limo, and supposedly vandals with some sharp sticks are the culprits for the damage?