Tear gas is banned in international warfare, yet classified as a “riot control agent” that law enforcement can use for crowd control. “It just doesn’t work well, and it hits the weakest people the most, and causes the most complications in them,” an anesthesiology professor at Duke University said.

it's so funny bc Amy's Baking Company, an episode from like 2013, was the first televised instance of what Trumpism would do to basically everything- the first recorded instance of "Delusions are my Reality" and how it makes these people totally fucking unreasonable and unpleasant as people

Reminder that "jaywalking" was literally made up by american car manufacturers to shift the blame for accidents from drivers to pedestrians. "Jay" was a slang term meaning "idiot" or "rube".

Upset how accurate these prices are in 2026

The administrators of Columbia, Penn, Brown will do their best one day to gaslight us into believing they did the best they could, but it’s harder when others made different choices.

It's honestly such a pain in the ass when one of your friends breaks up with the rest of their rat king. They're like "oh I'm going solo now, I'm so independent". Yeah right you'll be tangling up your tail with 10-20 other large rats in no time, I've known you since college dumbass

remember back when we all doodled the current thing for warmups? we could bring that back, maybe, that was fun

this is what really killed the place even before the nazis fully took over the Venn diagram of “people willing to pay for Twitter so their replies are boosted” and “people capable of making funny comments” is just two completely separate circles side by side

always fun playing a soulslike and being like, "why did my HUD just appear"

I AM FURIOUS. Adobe Animate remains an industry standard for TV animation. Star Trek: Lower Decks was made in Animate. Haunted Hotel was made in Animate. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was made in Animate. And because you can't buy a permanent licence anymore, it'll just be gone.

the epstein files make it abundantly clear that individuals having this degree of wealth is directly the cause of every horrible thing in the world, and any coherent vision of a better future cannot involve billionaires existing. They have to go, be it taxed out of existence or otherwise removed.

what did i SAY

I can see why they felt they had to streamline DQ7 because that shit is one of the longest rpgs ever but cutting out actual good/memorable parts of the game is probably not the way to do it

I made a filterlist for uBlock Origin to remove Generative AI features on websites. Includes blocks for * Google AI Summaries * YouTube Ask button & chat summaries * GitHub Copilot * Facebook AI chat * X's Grok buttons * Deviantart DreamUp * Booru AI images * And more github.com/Stevoisiak/S...

Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)

BREAKING: Judge Ana Reyes, in DC, issues a stay of DHS Sec. Noem’s decision to end Haiti’s temporary protected status (TPS) designation, a decision that was to go into effect on Tuesday and could have ended legal status for up to 350,000 people overnight. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

THEY CUT THE TIME-LOOP VILLAGE??? Oh man, that’s so disappointing. I expected hand-holding, maybe some changes in the narrative, but cutting whole stories? What’s the point?

If you're tired of all the shit happening in the world... here's a suggestion: TAKE THE SCROLLING OUT OF DOOMSCROLLING JUST PLAY DOOM AND HAVE A GOOD TIME

Google seems to assume a pause in user activity indicates a lack of ideas rather than thinking itself. How revealing

The European Commission is pushing hard to extend Chat Control 1.0 - allowing mass scanning of private messages without court orders for another two years. Contact your MEPs TODAY via fightchatcontrol.eu to defend your privacy and digital rights!

BREAKING: Judge Jia Cobb issues a TRO blocking DHS Sec Noem's Jan 8 memo purporting to require 7-day notices by members of Congress to perform oversight visits to immigration detention facilities. The effect is that congressional oversight visits are allowed on request, as is required by Sec. 527.

Yep

It's pretty amazing to me the amount of shit that apparently you can Just Do as an NYC mayor. It makes basically every other American politician look like an incompetent loser. What do you mean there was just a button that reversed wage theft? Why wasn't and isn't everyone hitting it all the time??

i truly hate how much we are living in a bad script

Pinterest CEO says in layoff email: "We’re doubling down on an AI-forward approach – prioritizing AI-focused roles, teams, and ways of working" So it's time for me to move to another platform to save images

I'm reading a story on royal road and the ads can be very trying at times, mostly are just annoying text and ms paint or very straightforward AI, but this one has perfectly hit me in the sternum to drive the wind from my body

Years of covering the business have taught me that “investors” and executives are thick skulled, irrational, impulsive children. I cannot emphasize enough how comprehensive their stupidity is, but their cultlike devotion to regurgitative AI really helps get the point across.

oh i like the new crayvxn song youtu.be/YnO7vY9b4kg

The truth of video game production is that production labor is a fixed entity; the work of production *must* be done for the game to ship and it will be done. The difference between good and bad producers is that good producers do it, while bad producers have it done around them.

good thing i never update any software

Wank Sinatra

This Member of Congress finally got access to the Minneapolis detention center and her report is genuinely appalling. Please watch and share.

no it's mine after getting killed like six times by this fucker but I'll do it for miyuki sawashiro

First person shooters

another classic turning the dead simple formula on its head. not sure there had ever been anything like this map when it came out

CBS censored Billie Eilish saying “Fuck ICE” at the Grammys. Here’s the uncensored version:

who called it findom and not binbou-fication

Jesus Christ lmao this isn't Democrats turning out in force, this is *their own constituency* realizing Trump is looting the country.

He’s been through so much. They shouldn’t have made him fly the plane too.

I have heard about DHS literally every day for over a year

Take me down to the Parallax city where the far moves slow and the near moves quickly

So an odd thing here is that if you say "an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume" your point is to communicate "it is not really Batman" but the problem is that the real Batman, within the fiction of the comic book "Batman", is also, literally, an unidentified man dressed in a Batman costume

Good to see that many Dem elected officials now want to be seen getting involved in the cases of immigrants who have been wrongly detained by ICE. Let's spare a word for @vanhollen.senate.gov, who did this for Kilmar Abrego Garcia back when wise pundits said this was politically dangerous.

this is how you respond. yesterdaty's peaceful protest suceeded. and now people who weren't angry are

The President shit himself on live TV. Melania bombed. The Epstein files are sending shockwaves through the Alt Right. Liam and his dad are back home. A Texas district that was DEEP red for 35 years flipped blue. Pretti's killers have been identified. Small wins, but you can feel the change coming.

*sigh* here we go again. Your phone is not listening to everything around you 24/7 for advertising purposes. *If* you have voice activation on for the assistant, the mic is listening for the activation phrase: the processing power for listening for a single specific phrase is much lower.

I thought for sure this was an old quote. He said this statement this morning.