My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

If AI was so smart, you'd think it could tell the AI companies how to make a profit. https://isaiprofitable.com/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Deglassco/116704532146635032 I use columns to view Mastodon on my computer. Dr Glassco is the only person who has a column to herself.

I just finished reading "On the Calculation of Volume (Book IV)." Is there some kind of prize for this achievement?

This documentary on Greta Thunberg and the school strike movement, "Strejkarna" (The Strikers) looks powerful. That moment when a man tries to shut Greta up by putting his hand over her mouth! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y31ic4nO1YI

I have to get up really early on Thursday mornings to drive more than an hour to teach meditation and Buddhism in a prison. Reader, I am not a morning person! When one of the inmates arrived this morning he gave me, with obvious delight, this cartoon that […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iamdavidobrien/116693644158702747 I feel sorry for people who spent thousands on World Cup tickets only to have their visas revoked, but a lot of us have been saying for a long time not to come here. We have a fascist regime here. People are being put in camps […]

Watching Star City I was trying to remember the name of the "chief designer" — that's all they call him in the credits. I was correct in remembering it as Korolev, but hadn't realized that even many of the people who worked with him didn't know his real name. While the show starts in 1969, the […]

First, if you haven't watched "For All Mankind," it's the best thing I've seen on TV for a long time. Second, " Star City," its spinoff, is the second-best thing I've seen on TV for a long time. But don't watch it without seeing FAM first.

TIL: The Scottish "Tartan Noir" crime-writer Val McDermid: • Was physically attacked by a woman angered by McDermid's description of a character having a figure like a Michelin Man. • Based a psychopathic character on Jimmy Savile, who she had interviewed as a young journalist and found […]

I'm about to watch the Season 5 finale of "For All Mankind" for the second time — because my son fell asleep the first time. That's no comment on the quality of the episode, which I found pretty satisfying. It's just that after graduating from high school on Friday he had two nights with […]

NEWS: In September, the Washington Post fired me in the aftermath of the Charlie Kirk killing. This week, after eight months, I'll be heading to arbitration against the Post to challenge my termination. karenattiah.substack.com/p/my-case-ag...

Meta has become a more and more disgusting company, and its punitive censorship of a former executive is just one example of why. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/may/31/meta-legal-action-forces-facebook-whistleblower-to-stay-silent-at-hay-festival

Immigrants held in Camp East Montana in Texas have filed a class action against DHS alleging violations of their Fifth Amendment rights and the Administrative Procedure Act. Their complaint makes clear that the Trump regime, particularly DHS, now headed by Markwayne Mullin, is intentionally […]

Federal judge blocks Kennedy Center shutdown plans and orders Trump’s name removed, saying only Congress can rename it. The already struggling institution faces deeper uncertainty as layoffs, cancellations, and falling support mount, and Trump signals he may walk away while legal fights continue […]

This YouTuber's presentation style leaves much to be desired, but listen to the first 2 1/2 minutes to see how similar so many modern songs are. It's a bit mindblowing. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DW0XUsyBBuY

I was out of the house for literally twenty minutes, during which time the dogs discovered they can pull LP's out of my Ikea Kallax storage unit and use them as chew toys. This is a problem. Ikea has glass doors for white Kallax units, but, for some reason […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/116653327892138785 Holy, crap. The Pentagon is where incompetence shades into treason. And then there's Google, which sold marketing lists that 'singled out US government employees deemed “decisionmakers” working “specifically in the field of national security […]

It's a bumper year for seeds from the neighbor's maple tree. I've never seen anything like this! A lot of them are falling onto our roof, which means that the gutters are going to end up being completely clogged up.

‘“Insulting to Jesus Christ.” LOL, as if Jesus isn’t up in Heaven right now annoying his dad like “Is TODAY the day I get to dropkick Donald Trump into a fiery eternal hell? What about now? What about now? What about now?” Jesus and his Father are always having conversations like that.’ 🤣 […]

If you live in New Hampshire, please sign this petition against building a 40 acre data center on wetlands in Nottingham. Please boost so that this reaches the right people. #NH #newhampshire#nh https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-proposed-nottingham-nh-data-center

Those damn trees think they can just throw their seeds anywhere they want!

#writerscoffeeclub 27 May: Do you read outside the genre you write? Of course. I write non-fiction (meditation, Buddhism). Reading only books on those topics would be incredibly restrictive and narrow. I read a lot of novels from various genres, from literary fiction to science fiction. I also […]

Beyond Anglo‑Saxons, Celts and Vikings: DNA uncovers a dynamic history of migration to Britain https://theconversation.com/beyond-anglo-saxons-celts-and-vikings-dna-uncovers-a-dynamic-history-of-migration-to-britain-283532 Population genomics has exposed a history far more complex, dynamic and […]

@LeftEar Please let me know when you've started posting here and I'll gladly follow you back. You'll find most people here don't follow accounts with no posts or bios. (Your bio is excellent, BTW!)

If you live in New Hampshire, please sign this petition against building a 40 acre data center on wetlands in Nottingham. Please boost so that this reaches the right people. #NH #newhampshire#nh https://www.change.org/p/stop-the-proposed-nottingham-nh-data-center

This is fine 😬 #ai https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/tools-strip-ai-guardrails-in-minutes

It's a start. I'm looking forward to learning what John Swinney's Plan B is in response to Starmer saying that the Scots have the right to determine their own future but he's not going to let us exercise that right. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5y77gp9elyo

A question for you, @scotlit, if you don't mind! One of my family, Mary Stephen of Auchinblae (daughter of my GGGGG grandfather, Alexander Stephen), is mentioned in "The Parish of Fordoun" as having appeared as "Miss Meadows" in a book called "James Meetwell, or Incidents, Errors, and […]

Five questions over Frogface Farage’s £5 million donation https://theconversation.com/five-questions-over-nigel-farages-5-million-donation-283394

Democrats! Remember to tone down your rhetoric. Don't encourage violence by saying things like "President Trump is bad for the country." Only Republicans are allows to explicitly threaten violence, and then blame people for not being able to take a joke when they call it out.

Portsmouth, New Hampshire, is doing a good job of marking its Black history, with a Black Heritage Trail you can follow through town with historic markers and a sculpture garden on the site of the African-American Burial Ground. Now we have a wonderful mural of […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Even FOX NEWS has given up on trying to spin Trump's performance into anything other than a disaster. Interestingly, their article at present has more thumbs-ups than thumbs-downs. https://www.foxnews.com/politics/fox-news-poll-economic-pain-deepens-disapproval-trump-hits-new-high

RE: https://mastodon.social/@avantmusicnews/116638485444204279 By the time I was born, in 1961, Sonny Rollins had already recorded something like 19 studio albums. And he was just getting started.

#RIP Sonny Rollins, Giant of the Jazz Saxophone, Is Dead at 95 www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/a...

Tonight we went out for a meal — not something we do very often. We were probably gone for about two hours. Came home to find that the dogs had hauled a box of Jenga pieces off the shelf, torn the box into tiny pieces, and chewed up as many of the Jenga blocks […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

Outside of television shows, does anyone ever use the expression "Walk with me"? I have heard it dozens of times on TV but not once in real life.

Someone's been trying to hack into one of my Wordpress sites. Of course they have to guess not just the password, but the username as well. (I never use obvious usernames). Tonight someone has tried. I'm picking up on an increasing sense of desperation... 123456789 wp-blog wadminw […]

Perhaps the strangest directorial decision in Tod Browning's Dracula (1931) is that the count has armadillos scuttling around in his Transylvanian castle.

Perhaps one of the reasons the Buddha said that spiritual friendship is the whole of the spiritual life is because it's in recognizing that other people don't deserve to be hurt by our unskillfulness that we find our motivation to change. The specific ways we inevitably hurt each other point us […]

The architecture of Trump's proposed arch reflects the architecture of his reign as American's first monarch since 1776. His plan is for the Confederacy — white supremacy — to finally overthrow the Union — pluralistic representative democracy.

I just watched Tod Browning's "Freaks" (1932) for the first time. Wow, what a film! What a cast! I actually saw Freaks in 1990 as a stage play, directed by Genevieve de Kermabon, when I was working front of house in the #tramway in Glasgow. I think I saw it two or maybe three times. That was […]

My youngest dog had surgery to remove some suspicious growths yesterday, and she spent most of the rest of the day with her tongue hanging out like this.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/116621327185195576 ‘A button gives the option to “text President Trump,” which, when clicked, opens a text message to a pre-selected number with the default text “Greatest President Ever!”’

RE: https://mastodon.world/@jeffowski/116619038437392628 A new Museum of American Treason.

That’s no moon! Oh, wait. It is a moon. Sorry.

This whole thread.

A place down the road that does oil changes has a sign up saying "Live, Laugh, Lube."

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/116617713796430542 Introduce yourself with 10 bands you've seen live: Elvis Costello and the Attractions Frank Sinatra The Rezillos Cuban Heels Gary Glitter (I know! 🤢) Gang of Four The Blues Band Over the Rhine Lucinda Williams Prom Queen Brandi Carlile

"Since its earliest days back in office, the Trump administration has been going after researchers who study and try to counter hate speech, harassment, propaganda, and disinformation online...Now, some of those researchers are fighting back. Last week their lawsuit—which could have global […]