Political cartoonists are not fuckin’ around this week. (thread) 1. Pat Bagley

The post is titled "Just Do Something." We feature it in the public article above, but here is a direct link just in case.

"Judge decides to ask nice rather than enforce court order." www.cbsnews.com/news/lindsey...

My brain is currently equal parts work, leisure, and "so the only reason we're not at war is appeasement, wonder how that'll work out this time."

Let's talk about generative AI, contaminated information, and rhubarb. Once upon a time, Europe was at war. Food was scarce, and the government of the quote-unquote United Kingdom looked for alternatives. 1/

Found out yesterday that placeskull didn't renew their domain. Subsequently found out that placekitten is likewise gone for good. Sad day. Placebear, you're all I've got now.

I believe we are currently at 4 on the couple-week-long Democratic cycle and 1 on the Republican?

For the love of God, defeatist mfs please shut up. Please. Keep your doom and hand wringing to group chats. Shitting on people making suggestions REALLY doesn't help in this shit ass landscape and beating everyone down with this shit is helping the wrong people. Fuck.

Experts Point To Long, Glorious History Of Successful U.S. Bombing Campaigns https://theonion.com/experts-point-to-long-glorious-history-of-successful-u-1819575498/

Today we’re launching Jayce’s Fighting Ships of Wolf 359 A project that began as an idea and became something much bigger: a community-run act of creativity. The book is now public. It’s yours. tranquility.press/jayces-fight...

It's fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

When clocks strike midnight on the first day each year, a quiet creative revolution starts as hundreds of works move from private control into the public domain, unlocking stories, songs, and images for anyone to reuse. The world celebrates this big moment with an official Public Domain Day. (1/2)

Sigh. No problem, {charity_data~name}. No problem.

In case anyone hasn't seen it, RRR is the best action adventure comedy romance bromance musical dance historical mythological drama ever made where one guy throws a leopard at another guy. I realize that's a small category but I'm pretty confident in my assessment.

I don't know how many times it needs to be said that you absolutely should not let fucking "AI" anywhere near your legal contracts, either in creating them or evaluating them, but apparently it needs to be said at least one more time, so allow me to say it again, here, right now

When the clock strikes midnight on January 1, creative works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will enter the public domain in the US, like: 💄 Dizzy Dishes, first Betty Boop cartoon 🕵️♀️ First 4 Nancy Drew novels 🚂 The Little Engine That Could 🎩 Morocco 🍑 Georgia on My Mind and many more! 🧵👇

REPENT 2 UR WEATHER LORDS

Donating food to food pantries is nice, but donating money is better, because they can make a dollar go MUCH farther than you can. A dollar gets you a can of beans; some food banks get ten meals out of a dollar *counting operational expenses*.

Americans having to bootleg broadcast news about our government’s offshored concentration camp is a level of fascism that immediately precedes democratic societies dropping leaflets on us from weather balloons.

here's the 60 minutes cecot video part 1 of 5 - recorded/uploaded by and all credit to @jasonparis.bsky.social I just reduced background noise, chopped the 14 minutes into 3 minute segments each compressed under 100 mb for bsky's limits, cropped and rotated a few degrees for easier viewing on here

this is just to say I have loosed  the blood-dimmed tide that you were probably saving for the ceremony of innocence forgive me the best lack all conviction while the worst are so passionate and so intense

you can tell so much about people by whom they give the benefit of the doubt to

CATO INSTITUTE: Despite DOGE slashing jobs, government spending in every month of 2025 “was greater than in every other year .. An observer who did not know when DOGE started could not identify it” on a chart. 🤡 www.cato.org/blog/doge-pr...

Challenge for comics nerds: Put together a Justice League, but... * You only get 4 people. * None of the Big Seven. * Mix of genders and races. * It has to be _recognizably_ Justice League. Like, someone shouldn't be looking at the team and thinking it's the Titans.

Confidential to N.S.: live so that you never feel compelled to write a snide, defensive, multi-paragraph explanation of what an analogy is in order to refute people saying you’re a dipshit.

'Tis the season for the Salvation Army's We're Not Bigots Anymore PR blitz. Looking at their public facing material, you might start to believe them. So in the festive spirit, have a 2024 SalvationArmy.org article on how trans and gay people are one of Satan's "most insidious and dominating" plots.

a ring camera is not your friend

Honestly, this is one of the disagreements I'm having with Silksong. "Here are a dozen mobility upgrades, now fight these twelve dudes three at a time in a cramped box." www.tumblr.com/prokopetz/80...

I have very mixed feelings on using oral exams to avoid AI use. On the one hand, as a science teacher it's very easy to tell when someone's bullshitting you in an oral exam. On the other hand, it encourages vibes-based grading, where more charismatic people get higher scores. Rubrics are so key.

I intend to keep shouting into the wind on this stuff, in the hopes that internationalism/cosmopolitanism wasn't just a brief break in history from which we'll inevitably revert.

Yeah! What this fucking guy said. Finally, some jerkoff gets us.

In Washington, the spotlight is suddenly focusing on US Representative Seth Magaziner’s proposal to ban members of Congress and their families from trading stocks.

NOW abduction is bad?????

Some say it is best to live without regrets, but sometimes regrets are necessary to uncover honor within yourself. We learn kindness from the example of others, but also from reflecting on times when we were unkind, regretting those moments, and vowing to do better.

"Don't report something as spam if what you really want to do is block it" yeah, GMail and Android Messages, I know. I didn't ask for this, it's a solicitation for money, it is the very definition of spam.

I'm at the combination

If you live in the greater Boston area, it behooves you to know the area's two finest weather sources: @weatherishappening.com and the French Toast Alert System at www.universalhub.com/french-toast . These two have never steered me wrong. Or wronged my steer either.

I'm for everything here except "Night". Admin work *must* be done during work hours for people to understand what it requires of the company.

A roll of aluminum foil is maybe one of the most incredible things you will ever hold in your life. That was a creation for kings and you wrap it around food and throw it in the dumpster. You talk about planes as aluminum cans, as if both are not one of the most incredible creations in history.

"You'll be visited by three spirits" the three spirits:

re: roblox dude's interview crashout. the thing he wants to say but can't is "at scale, kids are gonna get hurt. that is the price for scale." the thing nobody wants to say out loud is "maybe scaling to a level where harm isn't manageable is bad, and scale should be contained"

The classic text-based adventure game of incalculable influence will live on.

Exclusive: The U.S. Coast Guard will no longer classify the swastika, nooses and the Confederate flag as hate symbols. The military service drafted a new policy that classifies them as “potentially divisive.”

Unlike most apps these days, Scrivener does not use AI in any way. However, if you’re on a Mac, you may see an AI prompt. . Here’s why, and what you can do if you want to remove this: buff.ly/MlAq0rL

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Astrophotographer snaps 'absolutely preposterous' photo of skydiver 'falling' past the sun's surface | Live Science This photo is breaking my brain. 🤯 https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/astrophotographer-snaps-absolutely-preposterous-photo-of-skydiver-falling-past-the-suns-surface