Society parried the ozone layer, acid rain, and Y2K back to back and instead of going "wow, parrying is badass" a lot of people went "society didn't even get hit so I guess there's no need to learn how to parry" and instantly took a thousand hits

Oh are we doing that whole bit again where we pretend Brianna Ghey died because of social media rather than because of the people who stabbed her 28 times.

jack asked if i would sketch up a poster to tell people in nearby neighborhoods about the partnership between flock and ring, and this is what i came up with. it can be printed on an 8.5x11 sheet of paper.

Gary Larson: In my cartoon I invented Cow Tools as a cautionary tale Cows: At long last, we have created the Cow Tools from classic newspaper comic Cow Tools

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

I've told the cat I was wrong and she _is_ actually allowed to eat the East Oxford parakeets, if she can catch any more of them, though the mice which are eating the house from the inside are probably a higher priority.

One of the first things anyone learns about facial recognition is that it is often wrong and that it is biased. And yet ICE is using it all day every day to determine legal status & who to detain. And now we have a high-profile example of it being flat out wrong: www.404media.co/ices-facial-...

i wish i could still buy things at the prices i used to complain about

Vet: The cure is simple. Pet the great dog Wagliacci, a famous good boy Dog, sadly: Woof

Make the "AI mode" search bar prompt go away in Chrome: chrome://flags/#ai-mode-omnibox-entry-point 🚫✨

A joke for the history buffs: Germany’s satirical newspaper @der-postillon.com titles: “Vienna Academy of the Arts offers Trump admission as a student — They don’t want to get blamed again“

A pivotal time in history as Europe stands up to the US. We're hoping for a gameshow host, who is also a rapist, to be defeated by idiots including: some guy who fucked his teacher, a racist who's somehow scared of the national anthem, and a middle manager who lies about his dad being an engineer

I'd love to think that there's actually someone at the anti-trans paper who's sending out a secret message to cis women allies: "if you pretend you need help doing your wifely duty, you can get hold of T for the transmasc folks in your life". (I did not know this, useful intel, thanks guys.)

A week is a long time in politics (also nobody who writes anything believes anything, they probably got a lie-generator to write it anyway, nothing matters, it's all just a soup of "content" without real-world context)

Wow, cool tech. Maybe one day they'll also have the ability to recognise cars by the big readable unique identifier on the front and back so they can do something about road crimes!

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Please... one of you capitalist ghouls, please explain to me... why can't the wage slave sing? You've already broken him. He's already a dog in a cage. You can't let this sad motherfucker have any joy at all? Insane.

the girl who started Dashcon, the ill-fated tumblr convention with the notorious ballpit, is now the only US citizen legally allowed to research critically endangered pygmy raccoons. so. i should strive for a next-act swerve that dramatic

I didn't know this off the top of my head (I do know map projections are complicated) but also ... it doesn't matter if I don't know it! I'm never going to go to Greenland, or have any influence over anything to do with Greenland! If Greenland became part of my job I'd find out more about it.

I am begging everyone who writes anything: the worst thing you write, the shittest vogon poetry you crap out of your arse, is still better than anything anyone has ever done by asking ShartGPT. Just fucking *bother*. Just *try*. You're immediately better than all of those talentless cocks

"what if the ship of theseus was sentient" is not a question I was prepared to grapple with on a monday mas.to/@leshiaaimee...

2026: We Didn’t Start The Fire, but the only lyrics are Donald Trump.

Local woman who had been freezing bananas to make banana bread for 15 years but never made a loaf - Dies after opening freezer door and is pummelled by the weaponized frozen fruit.

Start your morning by drawing a horse & watching it run gradient.horse (note the different pens you use for front/back legs so the movement works)

It exposes directional alignment; you still seek to limit, not expand, who is allowed to be human. Yes, you have set your limitation more inclusively than our fascist gang of white supremacists; it doesn't mean you're not also setting limitations & they'll use your limit as long as it serves them.

Robert Jenrick complaining that the country is broken is like Fred West complaining that his patio is uneven.

100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY format.

Remember when they advised saving a primary emergency contact on your cellphone and labelling it "ICE" for "In Case of Emergency". Doesn't seem nearly such a good idea now.

If you can’t be bothered to write it, I can’t be bothered to read it.

If you are in Seattle, please go patronize this store because this is amazing content/promo 😂 (laughing to keep from crying, and I do kind of low-key want that orange spider plant I have never seen that before) Source: www.instagram.com/reel/DTQrTqZ...

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Everything reminds me of him...

damn what is wrong with me, i am having the hardest time concentrating on work, i lament as i compulsively refresh live feeds of unspeakable horrors

A fistbump across the centuries to this one monk writing a stroppy text about his boss.

I assume they’re all narrated by Brian Blessed.

incredible that this ad is targeted at spouses hey girl, did you know it’s your job to manage the entire household’s hormones?

Wow, sure would be pretty crazy if a ton of experts in the artificial intelligence field relentlessly warned everyone about this state of affairs being inevitable over and over for years.

A good essay which more-or-less mirrors my feelings about AI coding tools: pluralistic.net/2026/01/06/1...

The reason for this charge will remain a mystery. Unless you can read.

My parents really did have belief in the power of a small notecard. Just found these - this time they were my father’s.

I find it quite fascinating that my dad put these pieces of pottery (probably found during an archaeological dig) into a plastic tub, and they have stayed the same while the tub has decomposed around them.

SCAM ALERT – IMPORTANT The cat has already been fed.

Similarly, I’ve never asked my fucking dishwasher.

Roses are red Nazis are lurking Beware of them here because

Save us from Oxford City Council elections we know we'll lose, but make it your fault, not ours, says Labour's @cllrsbrown.bsky.social to Labour central government www.oxford.gov.uk/news/article...

Literally every government in thirty years has spent its entire time saying "the last lot had open borders", bringing in absurdly draconian immigration laws, then doing shocked Pikachu face that "controlled immigration" just means, for voters, "no brown people, make it 1948 again"

1982 Roy Batty: I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe… 2026 Studio Exec: thanks to AI special effects, we’re proud to announce Things You People Wouldn’t Believe: The Adventures Of Young Roy Batty-

crazy to think how i struggle to ask for any kind of help but the president of the united states asks "can i have your nobel peace prize?"

gonna have a little sit before you do the thing? NO YOU WON'T. YOU HAVE CREATED A BIG SIT AND YOU ARE LOST IN IT.