Great moments in Verge background policy here btw - @tinanguyen.bsky.social nailed this one

Terumaru, a bright young lightbulb and the mascot of the Tokyu Denki electric company, trapped in a door yesterday:

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

These stories are all really weird because the sourcing on them all seems to be "a guy's tweet". This one is a man who claims to have invented the career path of "professional engineering YouTuber" who is currently trying to dissuade people from panic selling bitcoin.

the bricks are alive at this day to testify it; therefore deny it not.

An unhinged Republican just tried to ambush me with holy water?? Bc I am “demonic” and “possessed”????? So that video will also be on stream tonight lmao

Every ad now

Do you know how hard it is to politically radicalize someone who joined a website to reply with the cry laughing emoji to the Trix cereal rabbit?

This how I find out I have a son??

i owe so many video game designers an apology

alex blechman: in my post i invented tech companies misunderstanding what the torment nexus is as a cautionary tale tech company employee: at long last, i have misunderstood the Torment Nexus from classic Alex Blechman tweet "Don't misunderstand what the torment nexus is"

mark...we do not need to know the details

This and the Chicago indictments make it abundantly clear that the rule of law is dead at DOJ. The agency has been fully weaponized to smite Trump’s enemies and shield his friends.

Well well well

Lindsey Halligan is a fucking moron.

Blessed are the frogs, for they keep making authoritarians look incredibly stupid

it's not FOR us

STORY: ORANGE MAN LIE AGAIN OLD WAY: “CRITICS SAY STATEMENT MAY BE MISLEADING.” ANIMAL WAY: HIT KICK DRUM, YELL “LIE!” HIT TAMBOURINE, WHISPER “but other side lie too” IN SOFTEST MIKE JOHNSON VOICE.

Brett Kavanaugh: “The Govt sometimes makes brief investigative stops …”

This picture is from 1992 in LA and using it in this post and story shows terrible news judgment.

perhaps the biggest story TFPever ran was a catastrophically shoddy argument that George Floyd ackshully died of an overdose. When confronted with irrefutable evidence that the piece was simply wrong, Weiss didn’t take it down, she asked her critic, @radleybalko.bsky.social, to come on a podcast.

*clears throat*: time to re-post the kavanaugh concurrence again!

Choose your fighter:

Suspending Link after he pointed out the how following Jonathan Chait after being accused of transphobia does not allow you to beat the transphobia allegations. In fact, it does the opposite. To be clear: suspending Link was certainly a choice. And we know what KIND of choice it is.

wow I wonder why my entire body was in the air in the first place

Jonathan Greenblatt no doubt trying to rush out an ADL statement endorsing this decision and condemning the ADL.

I spent some time with OpenAI's new AI video app Sora. Not just slop but ragebait, fake crimes and women splattered with white goo. The implications of all of this are horrifying.

I made it into a coaster

they did it. they finally made a social media app with no social element

The bees have discovered Brutalism

This is a joke, right? A parody account? We have an authoritarian prosecuting his political enemies, destroying the rule of law, subverting Congress, wrecking the economy, and, inter alia, deploying troops and masked secret police to majority-opposition party cities. FOCUS ON HEALTHCARE?????

Interview with the Vampire but the interviewer is Isaac Chotiner

Where is his condemnation of the endless amount of harassment Erika Ishii has received because they're playing the main character in Yotei?

This is funniest possible headline for a song literally called "Song for Bob Dylan"

KID WHO DID NOT GET INVITED TO TED'S AWESOME LAZER TAG BIRTHDAY PARTY: i fear that even the most somber of my classmates are now infected with what I'm calling "Ted's Partyism"

Bluesky is simultaneously an unimportant ghost town and the source of all evil in the universe.

Mario Guevara is here legally and is not facing any criminal charges. He is being thrown out of the country for nothing but reporting news.

This man is one of the campaign’s super volunteers, the nicest dude you’ll ever meet, wildly dependable, and apparently capable of taking the coolest photo of 2025.