I continue to maintain that this discourse about where people choose to yell as though it's the most important thing on earth is driven by journalists/public intellectuals who got permanently brain poisoned into thinking their engagements are a microcosm of human civilization.

What's going on? Heyyyyayyyayyyyayay Heyyyyyayyyyayyyy

Attn: @bransonreese.bsky.social please stop fucking around with the lathe of heaven www.usatoday.com/story/money/...

sorry I can't make it in to work today, I have an Iran

I had to sit through an ed tech product pitch today so for all my #academicsky followers and comrades, here's what Turnitin is currently selling (stick around for what's on their product roadmap) so you can prepare yourselves to strenuously reject it. 🧵

*smash cut to Trump at the golf course all weekend*

The sploot heard 'round the world

Crime and Punishment and Grogu

Translation: "I forgot who's running there and also forgot that I was supposed to endorse somebody there at some point. Here are some generic insults I'm making up on the spot."

This chart is helpful is highlighting the universality of declines across states red and blue, union and nonunion, more urban and more rural, etc. The exceptions, important to look at for possible solutions, were starting from low points.

Added Patrick Wyman's new book to the reading pile Hope springs eternal that I'll scroll less and read more

Made some time to paint some better little flowers. #MakeAThing

Happy May 5th. Starcrash (Italy, 1978)

"They said my body was solid, they never saw such a perfectly smooth body. The MRI showed my entire body was a solid all the way through, like a loaf of Spam. They said 'sir, your being alive is a miracle.' A miracle, that's what they said. And I have to agree."

They probably should've sat down and written a 2-page outline for the sequel trilogy before dumping a billion dollars into making it

www.smbc-comics.com/comic/peace-4 Mr. Micawber's advice, updated.

I wish Stephen Jay Gould had lived long enough to enjoy the Era of Poasting

Slightly diminish a book: Really Big Jest

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and then laundered as important voices through the "legitimate" media platforms those same billionaire pedos have captured

From 1903 to 1907 Augustus Jansson produced more than 30 striking adverts for the Queen City Printing Ink Company, including the wonderful Ink Beasts Parade series, with its "Magenta Ponies" and "Orange-Yellow Ibexiaticus". More here: publicdomainreview.org/collection/a...

trying to play peekaboo with my child but he's a European diplomat: me: where'd daddy go? baby: we must articulate a post-daddy vision of strategic autonomy me: peekaboo! baby: my historic relationship with my father is stable despite recent troubles

Just like they love "America" but hate everything it stands for, these guys love "Catholicism" but hate the actual doctrine. They want to wrap themselves in the aesthetics without any of the content or personal constraint.

"Meditation", Je Shen, Chinese Artist, 2026

Engelbert Lap (1886-1970)

@faineg.bsky.social this was good youtu.be/1s39U0j2jPA?...

(Bill Hicks voice) "Looks like we got ourselves a *reader*"

Some words... ... that explain the sculpture. John Wolstenholme was the brother of the shop owner, a publisher and bookseller that also sold prints. The building on which she stands has some fabric remaining from the 1400s, rebuilt in brick in the 1790s. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #ArtShare

Memories of another cut-out animation: Shugo Tokumaru's "Katachi" music video, directed by Katarzyna Kijek & Przemyslaw Adamski (2013). www.catsuka.com/news/2013-01...

Just imagining the conservatives of the 2060's pining for the RETVRN to TikTok feeds, anime avatar streamers, school shooter drills and 2 for $5 cans of Monster

Their goal is quite literally the extinction of humanity and they're starting to say it out loud www.techpolicy.press/digital-euge...

Leaked video from OpenAI board meeting

The Toast of Hollywood

Fucked up story, and also note how many people would lose jobs and get totally fucked if they can’t get $1600 together to get out of jail.

Blothar The Berserker Of GWAR Explains How Independent Journalism Is The Only Force As Powerful As GWAR. Subscribe to The Onion at membership.theonion.com.

Number 1 Whip-Ma-Whop-Ma-Gate, York. This is York's shortest street. I don't think there is a number 2 but a ginnel at the end leads into Shambles. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing #ArtShare

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Declaring the Palm Beach papacy

A horse gin in Kent. With its own little house made of reused timber, possibly from the nearby 13th century house that was rebuilt at about the same time as the horse gin was installed to raise water from a well. #ArchitecturalIllustration #pencil #drawing #ArtShare

However, they are still just as online as the rest of us Until they get out of range of the internet they will never be free

War. And after that? War. And now? War. War. History might as well be water, chastising this shore. -Carol Ann Duffy, The Wound in Time, written on the occasion of the centenary of the first World War. #everynightapoem

Stephen King: submitted for the approval of the midnight society, i call this Elon Musk: [rising from bushes] eyyy stephano king Barker: look, steve, it's your friend ha ha King: you say that every time clive Barker: yeah it never gets less funny King: yes it does clive

this is disgusting

“They’re destroying more than fifty research facilities across thirty-one states, labs that house decades of irreplaceable long-term science…And they’re replacing all of it — the offices, the scientists, the institutional knowledge, the professional independence — with fifteen political appointees”

JOHN WICK: [shoots fifty dudes] WINSTON: jonathan you’re expelliarmus. I have no choice but to instigato you to the syndicaticus HOT LADY: thats right [she tries to kill John Wick]

Everyone agrees that April Fools Day stinks. The problem? We can all see it coming on our calendars. But what if April Fools could happen everyday? What if April Fools was decentralized? An immersive guerilla experience that could happen in any place at any time? Sharks, I'm here today to introdu

Happy birthday to Maurice LaMarche, born on this day in 1958 in Toronto! One of Canada's most acclaimed voice actors, his roles include Chief Quimby on Inspector Gadget, The Brain on Pinky and the Brain, Kif Kroker on Futurama and much, much more. He has won two Emmys.