In a country where public transport is scant outside major cities, car loans are one of the last things that Americans will let themselves default on. So it is particularly shocking that the share of car loan borrowers missing payments has soared to levels last seen during the financial crisis.

1. Two more colleges announce they will reject Trump's bribe to institute trans sports and bathroom bans. Arizona and USC have rejected Trump's "compact," which features crackdowns on immigrants, trans people, and DEI. They join MIT, Dartmouth, and Virginia. Subscribe to support our journalism.

The superpower of books like Sapiens is that they require expertise in like 12 academic fields to debunk. So you get these super detailed takedowns of small sections that look to laypeople like nitpicking.

new chapter of IRO is up, check it out!! 🔥🍃💦 irovedout.com | patreon.com/alexisflower

The Assumption of the Virgin, by Guido Reni, 1597, 📸 via @RoysEnergy

This is why the Louvre got robbed

swear fealty in body and soul to the saint of thorns

KISSES!! 😘

FIRST LOOK 🚨: Lone Wolf & Cub Deluxe Edition Volume 1 releases on December 9th! Pre-order: https://bit.ly/3VceVt1 For the first time in English, these will read from right to left. Included are original Japanese sound effects and more. By Kazuo Koike & Goseki Kojima, translated by Dana Lewis.

I BE POPPIN BOTTLES

Canvas, the course management platform used by my university (and many others), has been down all day due to the AWS outage. It has prompted some good discussions about how much critical infrastructure is now outsourced to a few companies.

AWS (Antifa Web Services) doing the #NoPings protest today

tfw the company's platform is deeply entrenched in AWS, and the bosses suddenly decided to make it "platform agnostic" and redo everything in GCP too.

hetalia’s impact

CATACOMB OF TORMENT no. 4 is OUT NOW! 💀🌊 @oni-press.bsky.social

It's finally autism 🍁🍂

I implore to everyone to not just believe everything you see on the internet about game models and optimization, people have no idea what they're talking about out there and it pisses me off Unless they're posting garten of banban models those are actually just like that

the attention economy is not immune to the effects of trust-erosion, the ‘influencer’ cottage industry was always unsustainable, the attention economy isn’t going anywhere though, more essay-style content non-reliant on the performance of ‘relatability’ will likely take its place

18 Oct 2025 -- Pop star/singer Sabrina Carpenter will now use her arena tour to funnel proceeds through the Sabrina Carpenter Fund to benefit the Transgender Law Center. Good on ya' SC! @rikiwilchins.bsky.social

Inktober 19. Arctic Missed a day cuz we had friends over. I’ll get 20. Done by today.

may i offer you this vid in this trying times youtu.be/Yfwy-MVXGK8?...

somewhere an alcoholic on-call with severe PTSD just woke up to shattered glass when his phone exploded from being called so hard

So. This is the second time I wake up to a dense fog after playing the original Silent Hill. I think my copy is cursed.

Mixtape-era Weeknd trending again

Actually came together nicely and now I've massively expanded my already voluminous clothing storage space

Went to Yosemite, saw my first black hole in the wild

NC dummymander ❤️ TX dummymander. This, too, is yuri.

This photo accompanying a news story about the heist at the Louvre is perfection.

Heck of a semester to have been teaching Black Reconstruction, I'll say that

did you know the none pizza with left beef guy is a television producer with credits on Big Bang Theory, Young Sheldon, iCarly, Drake & Josh, and The Amanda Show

the Muppets have been real quiet since the Louvre heist

When you finally understand what the trade deficit is

Maybe the only good comic trailer I’ve ever seen

Heartworm - the retro, fixed camera survival horror inspired game I have been working on for five years is out NOW on Steam. Please check it out if you're into that sort of thing! And if you enjoy it, leave a review as it really helps! Thank you store.steampowered.com/app/1257030/...

Which is why I previously stated that shutting down the 5 was a further risk reduction measure. Told by reliable source Pendleton’s firing points all east of the 5. Only reason for overhead fires of the 5 is if one demo’s objectives was to show VIPs Marines landing and placing battery into action.

Thousands of activists rallied outside the Israeli embassy in South Korea's capital to stage a mass 'die in' showing solidarity with Palestinians in Gaza.

Gaza has 2.2 million people. In 2 years, 10% of the population has been killed or wounded. Their entire infrastructure has been destroyed.  Instead of giving more military aid to Netanyahu’s extremist government, the US must work with the international community to rebuild Gaza.

so I gather this is a lot of people's first middle east cease fire.

do we see the vision just been playing around on the commute with my lil laptop so bad performance & no objects yet! (first xpost with twitter for a while, might switch fully over to here again soon)

Silicon Age Collapse core