everyone with an IQ above paste could have predicted this would happen: anyway; these Meta glasses are ontologically evil and anyone who wears them is a creeping blood-worm who should be chased from society with stones and sharp sticks

I maintain my theory it’s not just in-group signaling it’s also cause Trump has bad terrible eyesight and needs people with huge exaggerated features like kabuki masks to read them as faces

This makes me so angry. Not only people will get sick and die but we lose all that we would have learned.

Do you know how much cool stuff people are actually really factually making?? So much! You'll never run out of cool real crafts to look at! And the reality of these projects makes them infinitely more wonderful than a half-considered prompt farted out by a program that cannot know dimensional space!

I don't want to see Ai slop anywhere, but especially not in craft feeds. Impossible crochet in impossible rooms that look like the Sears catalog circa 1986.

Would it kill Disney to hire someone who actually likes the movie industry to run it...?

Multiple former executives of Prime explicitly described it as a loss leader for his dick, because he then had an excuse to meet with actresses and models and so forth. That's why, despite buying fucking MGM, it seems to have gone cold lately

There are so many threads to pull here but the absolute intellectual bankruptcy of the richest men on the planet is impossible to ignore. It can't just be that they personally got lucky, or leveraged some edge at the right time; they have to be undeniably superior to others at a foundational level.

Resistance to the building of concentration camps is of the utmost importance. Salute to every person doing their part to say not in my community.

"Writing with lyricism and great depth of feeling, Crabapple movingly presents the principled Bund... as “a candle to illuminate the tumultuous present.” Readers will be rapt." my starred review on Publishers Weekly www.publishersweekly.com/9780593229453

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idk i think in a time when it feels like nothing matters & all is futile it might actually be time to double down and write your stories & make your paintings & sing your songs & do your art. create the things that make us human and share them.

I had a great aunt we called Aunt Sherry whose real name was Rose. she had a brother everyone called Uncle Dutch, I have no idea what his birth name was. Their brother Aleck had two daughters, my Aunt Doody (real name Edra Lee) and Aunt Bird (again, no idea what her birth certificate says)

This is the second time an ICE employee has been arrested in in a Bloomington, MN underage sex trafficking sting www.cbsnews.com/minnesota/ne...

jeeeeeeesus: theintercept.com/2026/02/10/g...

"Experts and witnesses attributed this phenomenon to Israel’s systematic use of internationally prohibited thermal and thermobaric weapons, often referred to as vacuum or aerosol bombs, capable of generating temperatures exceeding 3,500 degrees Celsius [6,332 degrees Fahrenheit]."

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?” There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.

Ahead of the release of Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, I want to relay something from the Q&A after the early screening I attended. There's a scene where people are shown scrolling a tik-tok-like app showing endless AI slop videos. Per Verbenski, all of them were made by human animators.

Federal authorities never raided Zorro Ranch, north of Moriarty, NM. When state officials were working to investigate the property, the feds told them not to, on jurisdictional grounds.

I really think when Trump won by larger than expected margins (though still small), many conservatives truly believed they had finally won a cultural soft power victory and burned a lot of the actual political capital they had on trying to seem inevitable, and now more people hate them every day.

just an update from when we talked to the reporter: we’ve now successfully connected over 100 families for direct, peer to peer rent adoption. we’ve collected and immediately distributed…a lot. it is a drop in the bucket, but all of this is. everyone is just doing what they can.

Worth watching this in full. The statement is more powerful than this quote alone. Here is is from USA Today, with alt text. Also! Rich Ruohonen is a personal injury lawyer and the oldest athlete to ever represent the United States in a Winter Games at 54 years old.

US Olympic Curling Team member speaks out against ICE: "I'm proud to represent Team USA. But we'd be remiss if we didn't mention what's going on in Minnesota and what a tough time it's been. What's happening is wrong. There's no shades of gray."

Worth noting that this also effectively disenfranchises most trans people.

and by the way, if you look at who Condé Nast is getting rid of in its constant downsizing (people of color, queer people, trans people), it’ll start to look a lot like “yesteryear” in that building

today in NYT, an interview where the writers declared we are past the “brutal Condé Nast of yesteryear.” Of course, no acknowledgment of the illegal firings or targeted layoffs beyond an aside about Teen Vogue being “folded into” Vogue’s website

apropos of something: impersonation of ICE agents to do kidnappings and other crime happens so often that it has its own wikipedia page

When a sitting representative refers to the Super Bowl halftime show as “pornography,” people should use that to reflect on how they and other representatives are simultaneously working to ban, censor, and restrict “pornography” and what that actually means

The only reason you go to the mattresses to keep the masks on is because you know people are gonna find pardoned J6ers and guys on those sex offender lists who couldn't get jobs elsewhere amongst the ranks

Sometimes if you cut it down correctly, you can still see the last meal a tree had in its stomach when it died

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Listen, if you ever found shared community at a D&D table, if you ever used D&D to explore the possibilities of who you could be, if some of your most cherished memories involve rolling dice, you should stand in opposition to this deal. Honor demands no less.

Hasbro owns the trademarks for Wizards of the Coast and is therefore the controlling company of Magic: the Gathering snd Dungeons and Dragons. D&D and M:tG will not get another cent from me until this deal is dead.

So I think everyone knows what Chuck E. Cheese is but for non-parents who don't know what LifeTouch is, it's the company that for decades has had a near-monopoly on school pictures.

Dismissed because of jurisdictional confusion, it should be stressed, rather than any new revelation that would discredit the survivors of sexual assault who have come forward.

This is a famously messy Norwegian biathlete who was banned in 2023 from the Biathlon World Cup because he accidentally fired his competition rifle in his hotel room (he was also teary and apologetic then)

The SAVE Act is a literal poll tax for married women who changed their last name.

Maybe -- here's a thought -- we shouldn't be letting any American deportation flights refuel in Ireland while they're doing concentration camp bullshit: not without requiring they let the passengers off to apply for asylum *here*, at least. (I know we're shit about it but we're less shitty.)

I keep saying, lifetime eldercare is what every elderly congressperson believes they are entitled to. There used to be the occasional scandal about things like "house staffer forced to pick up dry cleaning" but you might have noticed they have all decided their staffers are their servants

I'm so thrilled that The Librarians is finally available for anyone to watch. This documentary features many of the most amazing people I know, and some of the bravest, most selfless people in the world, and a dire warning about the fight they are undertaking for all of us.

Great to have the West St. Paul City Council join Minneapolis, St. Paul and Roseville in calling for an eviction moratorium so no family is forced to choose between making rent and risking being kidnapped by ICE. Governor Walz is choosing not to stop evictions for our neighbors in hiding from ICE.

This is like when the little whiny office guy in the Incredibles walks around ranting

"In Irvine, California, ICE is moving into offices located next to a childcare agency. In New York, ICE is moving into offices on Long Island near a passport center. In a wealthy community near Houston, Texas, ICE appears poised to move into an office building blocks away from a preschool."

NEW: ICE is leasing offices throughout the US as part of a secret, months-long expansion campaign. WIRED is publishing dozens of these locations.

The cat videos will continue until morale improves

While this absolutely sucks, we are going to see a lot more places implementing universal global age verification over this next year, because the number of states and countries legally requiring it has gotten to the point no one can keep up anymore.

This is starting to get like universal basic income where every single objective study shows the same result but the people who don't like that result go "uh, well there's just really no way to know"

I noticed the commentators saying these guys were using AI-generated music. Given the high likelihood of plagiarism/theft and resulting issues with showing it on television, I don’t know why they’d allow this. There’s enough music.

We spent a good chunk of the teens arguing online that children should never be noisy in restaurants and public spaces, and now every child in restaurants and public spaces is quietly rotting their brains with an iPad. Good job, us.

And the new NCI Director moves to piss away his scientific credibility. First, killing cancer cells is a very low bar; many compounds kill cancer cells and are not the least bit useful for treating cancer. 1/2