GREEN: Hypothetically… And I ain’t saying this for real, but like… hypothetically… If I had to kill a cop, which of these three would be both able and willing. OAK: Squirtle had a type advantage and evolved into a turtle with a gun. GREEN: Fascinating. Continue. OAK: I love teaching young people.

Let’s talk crip/disability tax. This is a concept we use to illustrate the extra costs of surviving that nondisabled people don’t deal with. Let’s use me as an example. In order to keep from dislocating limbs, I need braces, bandages, or splints. Some of these are covered under the NHS, but.

artist: i'll just chisel the tail a bit shorter, noone will notice wikipedia:

The sirens were really a teaching metaphor about honeypots and counterintelligence in a premodern environment send skeet

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

"Which is how we have found ourselves locked in an utterly pointless war with Iran, fighting to secure the conditions to fight the next war, which will be fought to preserve the gains of this war, which was to establish a position of superiority in regards to the next one."

The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!! Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on! I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT

It annoys me that AI slop, specifically, has ruined the niche of the quick photoshop joke. Just an utter flood of garbage unleashed by removing the barrier of "spend a couple hours learning how a piece of software works".

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i don't think that'll make the result any more precise, but sure

if we’re sharing the best clickhole space articles, this one has brought me to tears multiple times clickhole.com/this-speech-...

Oh my god this is MY sagrada familia www.transformativeworks.org/ao3-is-exiti...

Adorable wooden horses on wheels were pulled around by little ones in the past, too. A timeless reminder that play has been part of the human experience for millennia. From Egypt, Roman period, 30 BC-150 AD. 📷 Julia Thorne/Manchester Museum 🏺

I salute the pedantry of the child’s new toy.

Huh, so that's how those stainless steel bowls became iconic and everywhere

This really is a great picture:

My own answer is the Meat-Shaped Stone from the National Palace Museum in Taipei. It's a piece of jasper from the qing dynasty that looks like pork belly.

loot does not drop upon defeating me. the developers didn't expect anyone to attack me, i am so vulnerable, and only trying to help. why did you raise your sword? for material gain? i would give you anything i have if you had only asked. i did not ask to be in this game, i did not ask to have 6hp.

It’s getting to be that time of the year again youtu.be/sjco86ekIlQ?...

Really cool to think about how ore-grade cobalt is like 110-250 ppm of cobalt, while a used cobalt battery might 1000-10000ppm when reckoned against the entire battery. And that's not even considering the other useful resources in a battery.

"Luchs speaks five languages: English, French, Italian, and some German and Russian. She approached grasping Gen Z parlance like she was learning another language. ...An Instagram commenter wrote: 'She’s so natural with it too like it’s not even cringe.'"

"Groomers act like different dog breeds" remains one of my favorite genres of TikTok.

Personally, I would also accept the corporate death penalty for coupang too

IT'S A GOD? That Doesn't Mean It Outranks You!

I like whatever is wrong with my algorithm over there

Reading old court transcripts and, I mean, whomst

Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide. www.science.org/content/arti...

Found this elsewhere online, am sharing it for fellow Iliad enjoyers

cryptography is a mathematical system for transforming problems which aren't key-management problems into key-management problems

Recent discussion about the perils of doors in gamedev reminded me of a bug caused by a door in a game you may have heard of called "Half Life 2". I wrote it up over on Mastodon (I find it's better at long threads): mastodon.gamedev.place/@TomF/115589...

Commentary: Not Sure How They Deal With Criminals In Your Town, But ’Round Here We Use A Restorative Justice Process https://theonion.com/not-sure-how-they-deal-with-criminals-in-your-town-but-round-here-we-use-a-restorative-justice-process/

I continue to not really understand people who want to write books but who don't read books.

Cat running for office: But we're going to get rid of the humans because they've been treating us very badly. And our bowls will be full in the morning- perhaps fuller than ever before

This is actually a perfect meme. Send this to anyone, at any time, for any reason!

pleased to announce that there seems to be a passive-aggressive conflict roiling the august pages of Cooks Illustrated, Fall Harvest recipes edition. allow me to explain:

Blueberries once they shed their leaves look so strange and skeletal

This week on the blog: More Peasants! This week, we're modeling the full(ish) structure of women's labor in a pre-industrial peasant household, very roughly assessing the work required for textiles, farming, cooking, cleaning, childcare, etc. Now with pie chart! acoup.blog/2025/10/10/c...

we need a word for a type of person who spends all their time working to live in a city so they can be near cool things, but they don't actually like going out

Video: a Japanese scientist was attacked by flies while giving the acceptance speech for his Ig Nobel Prize-winning research paper that proved painting Zebra-like stripes on cows led to a decrease in biting fly attacks.

Context: Korean myth says that a lesser son of god came down to earth to carve out something of his own. He and his retinue brought technologies and knowledges such as farming to the barbaric people below and began a civilization. (1/n)

thank u Hades 2 for adding animal familiars 🐸💕

Me, about to be disappointed: I wonder what's going on in the world

With alt text because this made me cry 😭

Hi. It's me. 2 weeks later. This is done. 58 frames over 3 seconds, *50* layers in the final image. WOO. This was a long edit, felt like ACTUAL work so unless I get it again with the actual sunset I doubt I'll be editing more like this. Psyched for the final piece tho! 🪶

Please stop using OpenTorment!!! It's only open-core! TormentLibre is the fully FOSS alternative!