Michael Fanone's take on Lindsey Graham is one of the most powerful I've read:

victory lapping on this one

As a sociologist who's more of the Weberian tradition, it offends me that he named it after Weber. I thought slow boring referred to his style of writing.

From Time Mag's article on the "funniest Lindsey Graham Jokes" - “We’re not going to deport 11 million people here illegally, but we’ll start with felons, and off they go. And, as to the rest, you can stay, but you got to learn our language. I don’t speak it very well, well, look how far I’ve come?”

US Senator Lindsey Graham has died at the age of 71 after a brief illness, his office said. ft.trib.al/6yfRCqO

A contractor building Meta's data center flushed its "closed-loop" cooling system straight into Cheyenne's sewer. It carried a bacterium and knocked the city's water-reuse system offline for months. They sell these as sealed systems that barely touch the water. This one poisoned a city's.

League of legends on Linux when

League of legends on Linux when

Weird how the journalist didn't think this man was going to try and run them over. DHS could never

Do it. Think of writing a comment to OMB like writing an incredibly powerful post that gets liked by your nemesis.

Bsky now requires age verification to use in any capacity. As always, Firefox users can bypass these things with a custom uBlock Origin filter on mobile and desktop, which is easier than completing the age verification itself: gist.github.com/mary-ext/6e2...

IT'S UP! An article about the rain-soaked disaster that was July 4th in Washington DC this year, including all the videos I couldn't upload of the sad and angry crowds, plus details that didn['t make the thread. Please check it out if you would like to!

But remember, Ebikes are "raising car insurance rates"

Fortune cookies were invented in America

A YouTube creator built the perfect alternative for anyone switching from Photoshop to GIMP. This free and open-source patch turns GIMP into a Photoshop-like editor with a familiar tool layout, keyboard shortcuts, more canvas space, and fully local files

Vizio and Walmart are still scanning the HDMI port and collecting data on what you’re watching. But by making certain decisions during the setup process, you can keep the OS from even being active (and presumably gathering your viewing information), which I’ve never seen on other televisions.

Cloud-to-ground lightning, ground-to-cloud fireworks in DC.

McConnell holding on until July 4th so he can die on the 200th anniversary of Jefferson's and Adam's passing

I'll summarize this: Mamdani asked NYers to keep air conditioning at 78 degrees. A wave criticism hit online. A MSNBC broadcast pointed out the US Department of Energy recommends that 78 degree figure. Immediately after, the US Department of Energy deleted 6,000 web pages related to energy saving.

some amazing things happening over on threads — ever since they “shut down CERN”

Had to dig up a hard copy for this one.

My biggest pet peeve is that there's a ton of scam websites that are "Free QR Code Generator"s then the QR code stops working after a few days and then redirects you to ask you to PAY to re-activate it. I made a page on website for making ACTUALLY FREE QR Codes. Enjoy. konig.games/QRCodes/ #QRCodes

This is the one true recipe for a Reflecting Pool: 2oz rum, 4oz pineapple juice, 1oz blue curacao, one Blue Razzberry Fruit Roll-Up

Reminds me of this classic R. Crumb illustration, which of course came long after the predictions made in that 1925 comic.

From 1925: a prediction that, as more people choose to drive to the countryside, cars will end up destroying the very beauty that people go to see.

“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas and city center in 2021.”

Can't imagine being this afraid Ina home I live in

Saying "vision zero" and "keeping our most vulnerable pedestrians (school children) safe" while participating in a video meeting from your phone while driving a car is really quite something.

as a committed centrist, it saddens me that both parties are falling captive to their extremes - the right to insurrectionist cultists who want to invade american cities, and the left to socialists who want better bus service

What exactly makes these elected persons extremists? Wanting tax dollars to go to social services instead of bombs?

"The modern graduate student will be dismayed to discover that we no longer research what is true but what is profitable" - Lyotard

Occurs to me that we’re at the end of an ultimately very anomalous century-long evidentiary golden age during which it was extremely easy to produce an accurate visual/auditory record of reality, and relatively difficult to produce a false one.

Never before examined data except for all the studies consistently showing greater injury among pedestrians when the vehicle is larger www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

The rise of larger vehicles like SUVs and pickup trucks, with their taller hoods and larger blind zones, has contributed to a 75% increase in pedestrian and cyclist deaths since 2009. Until we design better streets and ban these vehicles, people outside these vehicles will keep dying.

The thing to keep in mind that MAGA, Trumpians, GOP, democrats, liberals, and white leftists are generally more or less on board with “teach these uppity Negroes a lesson” social policy. Very important that you keep that in mind.

For all of you legal academic nerds. Here's the tool. Pulls case citation information from any federal court document. github.com/esqueer/zote...

the year is 2030 and you need a face scan, retinal scan, voice scan and to answer 20 questions about your family, health and employment history every time you use the computer. but don’t worry your personal data is safe with Butterfingers Corp in partnership with The Dark Web

one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

I've under toked before but usually over toke

Placing bets on recognizing Ai as a person in some way.

Here are all 113 alleged members we were able to successfully extract. This data can also be verified via versions of the site captured by the Wayback Machine, even if it doesn't properly render the website.

But that is exactly how the suffragettes operated. With a nationwide organisation of sleeper cells of arsonists and bombers. I’m gratefully people have reached out and referenced my work today. I remain (I believe) the only academic expert on the terrorism of the suffragettes. Links below:

Similar experience but with Lxqt. Compared to experience with Fedora, everything just works out the box

Researchers, you want to know about this website. 🧪🌊

I'm sorry but fuck off with this. There's only one way to distribute apps on iOS and if you don't get enough attention then you can't use it? If you think my toy app is a waste of your resources then I'll happily take another way to distribute my app.

He’s gone because someone didn’t check their side mirror before opening their door after parking. He swerved to avoid the door and a semi truck ran him over. The driver already had a suspended license, had no insurance, and was illegally parked. He will probably get a slap on the wrist.

I was enlisted, in Europe with functioning alcoholics and teenagers who could now drink b/c they were outside the US. Nobody ever got a Nazi tattoo.

Can't wait to hear about some screw worm infused raw milk

Today marks 20 YEARS since Animator vs. Animation by Alan Becker was posted to @newgrounds.com.

This article isn't about Wurman, Barnett, or Epstein. It is not for the Supreme Court. This is for the preservation of knowledge and better public education. With that mission in mind, I hope y'all share this and download it. And that said, when you read my piece, here's what their work does wrong: