I, unfortunately, invented a new word: Geppettophile

Bong Joon Ho hit me up for the squad you legend deadline.com/2025/11/bong...

Hong Kong fire and Grenfell are just alike. Fire spreading through unsafe building materials installed due to penny-pinching, killing dozens. One difference: before the HK fire is even out three executives at contractors have been arrested, eight years after Grenfell no-one has been arrested.

The older I get, the more I realize that I relate to Quina more than I thought.... God I love Final Fantasy IX #FFIX #FF9

"They just want to know what Americans are up to to undermine our way of life"

I cosign every single word of this anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/h...

so good

Watching all your friends play Dispatch but they won't play Road to Empress

lCE is already active in the triangle (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill) and has been active in Charlotte all this week. Stay safe, help keep others safe. Stay updated here: ojonc.org?lang=en

After a bird flu outbreak tore through Midwestern barns, killing millions of chickens and spiking egg prices, the federal government didn’t investigate if the virus was airborne. So ProPublica did. Absolutely terrifying reporting from @natlash.bsky.social: www.propublica.org/article/bird...

Imagine being so insecure that you believe everyone everywhere is telling you that you've got a small dick L O L

i'm sorry but the possibility that jeffrey epstein scored an awesome deal on seo reputation management has k*lled me www.theverge.com/report/82231...

Extended car warranty Devil

Had a date-afternoon yesterday with @danjitsu.bsky.social 💚

Respect Alice Wong’s call here: “When I am in public spaces and see most people unmasked either because they think the virus is a hoax, that masking is virtue signaling & a sign of weakness, aren't thinking about it, or that they simply don’t care, I feel like an expendable burden not worth saving.”

Is AI making job recruitment less meritocratic? We're getting some v interesting research studies on this question now, and the news is... not good. @jburnmurdoch.ft.com & I dive in, in the latest edition of our newsletter The AI Shift www.ft.com/content/e5b7...

Lots of folks captioning aurora photos like "for a few minutes we didn't think about politics" guess I'm built different, every time I'm out trying to see night sky stuff I frequently think about how much light pollution is entirely preventable with just a tiny bit of regulation

It's great to see women in traditionally male dominated spaces.

NEWS: Airlines whose profits were threatened by Trump’s flight reductions funneled huge cash to the Senate Democrats who voted to help the GOP end the shutdown without preventing huge cuts to Americans’ health care.

Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell

My favorite thing about Trump is that he just tells his base they are stupid to their face.

ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy

Kind of wild that while food assistance was withheld from millions of families, one Trump-supporting billionaire (Ellison) saw his net worth grow more this year than the entire SNAP budget. And the YTD gains of the other four richest men would’ve fully covered salaries for all 2M federal employees.

China has a huge LBGTQ population (obviously) and acceptance among the population (especially youth) has grown significantly over the past three decades since decriminalization, yet the government still drags its feet over legal recognition and protection. Hopefully that changes in the future.

useless fucking democrat representatives

Mood

been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians

The left has to continually brand Democratic leadership as “collaborators” who are more than happy to align with Trump against the working class. There is no room for a party of the status quo in opposition. The message, which liberals increasingly agree with, has to be that leadership must change.

How did you celebrate anti-communism week? Lining up at a food bank? Finding out you’d lose access to healthcare? Being unable to afford housing?

The coordinated nature of this—none are facing voters in 2026—means that either Schumer approved it or failed in his job as Senate Majority Leader to stop it. Dems voting "no" get zero credit until they demand a change in leadership. Schumer out as Leader, Durbin out as Whip.

democratic voters wanted their party to shut down the government for myriad reasons — troops in american cities, masked thugs ripping families apart — but dem leaders insisted the wise thing to do politically was to stay hyper-fxated on this one thing, ACA tax credits. and then they just… gave up

#Worlds2025 THIS ONES FOR DORAT

The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."

Meta's fraud problem: The social media giant projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by @Reuters show reut.rs/4qJTpdH

Something worth noting: Rockstar is leaning HEAVILY on the excuse that the unionising employees were "leaking private company information" They want people to assume this means game info or assets. But I will bet you CASH MONEY this translates to: 'they were comparing salaries and work contracts"

They couldn't stomach a guilty verdict.

This is a broader trend across the industry where North America based studios are no longer seen as a safe bet. "over 70%, and in some years 75%, of the layoffs have been in North America". www.gamesindustry.biz/50-of-games-...

The right is producing content for what is essentially a reality TV show for a national fascist counter-reality that anyone who wants to believe can immerse themselves in and pretend is real (and use as “evidence” for decision-making) but it doesn’t replace actual reality that we can all still see

will be doing another round of slots this friday at around 3pm est ^_^

soft launching a few slots to bug-ify your wols on my ko-fi let me turn your oc into a BUG❕ ↳ 🔗 ko-fi.com/c/d2c2b71ef4

Zohran picked 「卓蘭」("excellent orchid") for his first name and「夸梅」("brilliant plum") for his middle name. The orchid and the plum are among "The Four Noble Ones" in traditional Chinese art, the former symbolizing an indifference to fame and fortune, the latter an indomitable, incorruptible spirit.

This was just posted by a CBS News producer on their Instagram stories.

Even The Economist has to admit that China is more prepared for this trade war than the US.

“…a pair of men screaming “Heil Hitler” and “Hitler should put you in jail”…The intended effect was dampened by the fact that they were on Lime scooters, and also by how frantically they zipped away when a revving motorcycle started to pursue them around the block.”

Modern NYT in a nutshell

this, but for getting the fuck out of here, preferably to a country that actually believes in science

Bro *what*??? It's called a notepad or a sticky note??? You don't need to silicon-valley a fucking notepad.