Flashing lights illuminate the scene as a photographer snaps pictures of the mangled corpse. Several yards away, a uniformed officer is vomiting on the sidewalk. An unmarked sedan pulls up, and a detective emerges. Staring down at the body, he slowly removes his sunglasses and whispers, “Found him.”

If only we’d planned better, “ninja” would have at least one silent letter.

A new Senate report claims DOGE put every American's Social Security number at risk—and that officials at federal agencies essentially obstructed an investigation, all but denying DOGE even exists. www.wired.com/story/armed-...

For all its flaws, the core premise of Tenet is really interesting: We’re being attacked by the future for crimes we’re committing in the present. Unfortunately it goes almost entirely unexplored.

Genuinely cool as fuck.

Is this supposed to be a threat? They did this exact thing while the government was open

Interesting - Sarah Taber re: why farmers voted for Trump youtu.be/badGHJLDpP8?...

I had pretty high hope for the Isaac Chotiner format after seeing my first one (this one) but for some reason they're not hitting the mark. I feel like God is in the details of these. I'd be interested in seeing posts people liked a lot.

For all of our sakes, I’m rationing things you can be upset about.

Radiohead's Amnesiac is a VERY 2025 album.

just found a bullet casing with the entire bee movie script on it

I think this is Gilmour's angriest solo. youtu.be/-AvzPNW_B1Q?...

I stayed alive through the summer for this. I can’t emphasize enough how much I can’t wait.

UE5: Is there a secret cool way to perform lighting* ONLY on the "visible" sub-levels? I only care about specific combinations of sub-levels and lighting scenarios. (Ex. Env_Baseinterior will never be active at the same time as Landscape in the game.)

We are sickened and angered by ICE’s additional abuse of this 73-year-old grandmother in the course of her detention and deportation.

Ooop, "just following orders," take a drink

Would you look at that. I went and got myself a real live Texture Memory Pool leak.

this isn't even a coffee

new Tony Hawk game but it's just him doing normal stuff like going to the grocery store or waiting in the airport security line

i really hope someone empties it out at the end of the day

New by me yesterday —> How about some good news? Could you use some good news today? www.niemanlab.org/2025/09/dall...

Finally got the Welsh Red Dragon finished

NBC News projects: Democrat Adelita Grijalva wins the special election for Arizona House District 7. Grijalva will bring the important 218th signature to the chamber's Epstein files discharge petition — forcing Mike Johnson to handle a fight that has divided his conference.

Now reading.

Seems bad for our society when you can’t make racist terrorists the villains

I’m sorry but respectfully, none of your rapture jokes were funny. Nobody’s were. It’s fundamentally boring. I’m so tired.

I love unnecessarily sexy statues. My favorite being Thirst Trap Lincoln from the LA County Superior Courthouse.

i am seriously begging democrats to bring the same smoke to this story that they brought to jimmy kimmel being indefinitely suspended

Physical/print Onion is the best $100 I spend every year.

NJ PBS shutting down next summer. “15yrs ago Gov. Christie ended 4 decades of state funding for public TV, forcing them to find a new funder. The state cut $750k in funding this yr, but that was hardly the fatal blow; that came from the end of federal funds.” newjerseyglobe.com/media/new-je...

CHOTINER: So your son is 14, is that right? IKARI: It's complex, Isaac. If— CHOTINER: And the “robot” he pilots, that’s actually the child of an alien you keep crucified in the basement, which is possessed by the spirit of his dead mother? IKARI: Look, let me answer the question. CHOTINER: Sure.

Everyone when the Chotiner bat phone rings

Certiorari "before judgment" is how #SCOTUS takes up a full appeal *before* the intermediate federal courts have heard it. It used to be exceedingly rare. For instance, there wasn't a *single* grant of such expedited review b/w August 2004 & February 2019. This is the *23rd* such grant since then.

Landlords heard the word 'property' and jumped up like a dog hearing you making food in the kitchen assuming it's all for them

I just watched an AI-generated "short film". (2 minutes) It looks *okay* (statistically average) but is void of any actual storytelling. This is why the GenAI video stuff has mostly been framed as trailers - it's great as long as there's no "director" who "wants specific things to happen."

I'm surely the last to this observation, but my framing might have a sliver of value: It is now a national necessity to get younger politicians into office. Elderly politicians' long view of history, which they consider a strength, is actually a fatal weakness in the face of a 100-year cycle. 1/3

IMO this is the best version of Wuthering Heights. Kate Bush returns to her first hit. A more mature, soulful vocal performance and better-crafted accompaniment. music.youtube.com/watch?v=4GbS...

@oddenough.art Can I ask you for one free piece of information? When modeling, how much are you thinking ahead about ease of UVing and making *modeling* choices in service of easier UVing?

I was just reminded of the scene in Alien when Harry Dean Stanton gets killed. I can't quite visualize the shots/beats, but the SOUND DESIGN. My god. The water dripping and then hitting the brim of his hat. The chains clanking gently. The cat's hiss and his lonely scream. So good.

it is amazing how many of these guys love to make tough boastful statements then at the slightest sign of pushback back away like little bitches

Genuinely wild that basically every C-suite in America has forgotten why they were doing corporate pride stuff and anti-Trump signaling in 2017

SCOOP — Part of the reason Disney/ABC may have rushed to sort things out with Kimmel is because tomorrow they have a planned price increase for Disney+ streaming, a Disney source tells me. With subscriptions hemorrhaging since last week, they couldn’t risk losing more users with this announcement.

A game on Steam called BlockBlasters which was available for over a month contained infostealer/crypto malware. The game has now been removed from Steam.

UE5 I wish I'd understood, 9 months ago, if you can't use Scythe (I'm locked to 5.3), and you're not using lightmaps: 1. CORNER-PIVOT quads and cubes as base structural meshes. 2. PLUS 3. Triplanar materials. Here's how this is a functional standin for old-school brush editing:

STEPHEN MILLER: you have no idea what you have awakened. we will save the West. we will turn darkness into light. we will rise like a phoenix from the pit of fire and EVERYONE ELSE AT THE DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS GAME TABLE: ROLL THE FUCKING DIE ALREADY

Ex Novo 2nd edition (digital edition) is out, and you can already get it on the game's itchio & DriveThruRPG pages. If you have already bought Ex Novo, you already have access to the 2nd edition. 🏗️ itchio: sharkbombs.itch.io/ex-novo 🏗️ DriveThruRPG: www.drivethrurpg.com/en/product/3...

Finally got my nightmare fuel all in a row

If you want to discourage pop-ins, always be cleaning up blood when someone stops by.

Important: there is a pub in Holborn where a cat wears a ruff. His name is The General