yeah this is monstrous

painting of ET getting pelted with pinecones i did a few years ago

Its insane this dude was the director of intelligence for CENTCOM, director of intelligence of the Joint Staff, director of intelligence for ISAF, and director of the DIA (under Obama)

the short answer is that this specific semirealistic style came from grafting the large convolution blocks from anime models onto the small convolution blocks from photorealism models

You might ask yourself, as I did, if this piece will prove to be a pretentiously justified rejection of empathy and a denial of the trauma of rape. The answer is yes. (Paywall free link in replies.)

Sunday Taquitos #8: Never Wrong Art by Ivan Ehlers.

October-7th and what followed have radicalized me very hard against ethnonationalism. Just legions of people on every side who should and absolutely do know better saying “ok but [attrocity] is good when it’s us tho” and being taken seriously for some reason. Fuck your blood and fuck your soil.

guilty

it is extremely funny that RFK both does not believe in the germ theory of disease and is a lab leak truther

yeah we need more tech regulation in general, for everything, for ever. like 50-60% of all of our current problems somehow go back to the complete lack of any interference in tech. we made them billionaires and then they became sociopaths

Sometimes it feels like “nuance is lost on social media” is deployed not as a cautionary note to read more carefully, but as an excuse to read less carefully

The reason that SpaceX is going public and announcing nonsense about data centers in space: 1. The outside client launch manifest is flat and becoming more competitive 2. The total TAM for starlink was never going to justify the valuation 3. Growth for commerical/residential Starlink is shrinking

Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys mocking people who wear masks while talking about What Is To Be Done is exactly what Jon Stewart and the pod saves guys are, it's the most Jon Stewart and pod saves guys thing possible.

David Attenborough [whispering]: “Like a grain of sand in a vast desert, the predator blends seamlessly into its environment, nearly imperceptible to the naked eye.”

💰Trump’s wealth increased by about $2.5B since his reelection, to $6.9B 💰 Eric’s increased 10x, to $400M. 💰 Don Jr.’s 6x, to $300M. 💰 Barron, a college sophomore, is worth $150M.

it’s pretty nuts how a throwaway line in so many stories about various public figures is like “btw the president of the united states said this person should be killed”

was unaware brigitte bardot was such a monster. reading how she treated her kid and then, like, her opinions on every single thing as she aged - goddamn

A Wet Road By Moonlight, Wharfedale https://www.wikiart.org/en/john-atkinson-grimshaw/a-wet-road-by-moonlight-wharfedale

thought i had as i drifted off to sleep last night: “i feel bad for whoever has to be in the wicked porn parody because they have to put all that green makeup everywhere”

The bollard hasn’t moved a single inch. Total domination. #WorldBollardAssociation

Drinking water in plastic bottles contains countless particles too small to see. New research finds that people who drink water from them on a daily basis ingest far more microplastics than those who don’t. www.wired.com/story/people...

Whenever Trumpism ends I think you are going to hear a lot of talk like this about the remnants of MAGA and I think people like this need to be politely, but firmly, asked to leave.

and they dont want me to do it folks, “you cant break the seventh seal of Valarynx” they say. “mr trump if you unseal the final scroll it will unleash a thousand years of darkness and pestilence.” i don’t know folks, what do you think should i break it? *crowd going absolutely ape shit*

Solar power made up 9.1% of US electricity this October, up from 7.8% last year Over the last twelve months, solar has made up 8.4% of US electricity, a record high!

Guys who claim to be "free speech absolutists" suing for defamation. Keeps happening. Read the complaint. It's ridiculously weak. Doesn't even attempt to show actual malice. Repeatedly cites opinion statements as if they're factual. Censorial bullshit from Taibbi.

At one point, the two men in this video don’t identify themselves to daycare workers, demand to know where the children are, and then try to yank open the door as the female employees pull on it to keep them out.

sean feucht accidentally left the chatgpt prompts at the end of his post lmao

Best Twitter riposte of the day

the first time in history this shit has happened. first time and it's on camera. what a privilege

Always come back to this observation from @adamserwer.bsky.social

By amplifying this post calling Kilmar Abrego Garcia a “terrorist,” the Trump administration just violated the court order that they reference.

They had contempt for Biden because they believed he had values; they have respect for Trump because they know he doesn't. Mentality of whipped dogs.

Barely a blip in the news. 🦗from the New York Times editorial and opinion pages. Compare with days of Hunter Biden Hysteria about unprecedented abuse of the pardon power.

The United States Constitution does not create an executive less acceptable than Kings George III or Charles I

I am staking out the position that none of these pardons are valid; the president is not entitled to grant a pardon the act of which would be a legitimate basis for his own impeachment

Note: Trump admin has repeatedly used this image and invoked to the story it’s meant to depict — namely, Washington praying at Valley Forge. But historians — including the head of Washington’s own presidential library — believe the story is likely entirely made up. religionnews.com/2025/09/29/c...

Here’s to 2026

The median INS agent did not carry a weapon on their person. The median ICE officer carries both a long and short gun. They were heavily militarized based on an absurd premise that Al Qaeda was going to "invade America" in meaningful numbers for the actual reason of disciplining labor

love it

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This is a metaphor for the tech industry overall circa 2025

made head roads at ice skating but holy shit this is hard. also hard to see these 13 year old girls just absolutely fucking crushing it while i am this chaotic mass bouncing off the wall

In 1932, FDR was elected with 57.4% of the vote. He brought us the New Deal. In 1964, LBJ was elected with 61.1% of the vote. He brough us the Great Society. In 2025, Trump was elected with 49.8% of the vote. He's attempting to destroy everything FDR & LBJ built. The rest is commentary.