What's especially cool about this: It's a funky cut through a crinoid column. We're seeing the two halves of the column in the top and bottom "teeth," and the right side "tooth" is the back half of the column. It's a 3D visualization puzzle! (Also creepy and cursed as all get-out.)

Mob Pyscho 100 - Be a good person.

keep calling him prince andrew imo, i don't think the institution which shielded and funded him should get to cut ties so easily

Meanwhile, on threads, which actually is like what people on twitter think bluesky is like, a "teacher, author, poet" speaks...

i do unironically love that jailbreaking llms often takes the same form as outsmarting a medieval devil

From Ursula Le Guin's A Rant About "Technology" blog post

“why do you hate technology” as though “technology” were some discrete entity divorced entirely from the context of what it does and what it creates, rather than a category so broad as to constitute reality itself

“404 media also obtained two earlier emails smirnoff sent to all ring employees, about how ring could have potentially been used to help find charlie kirk’s killer,” which likely means *before* he was IDed, at the direction of cops & feds, who were looking for…what kind of person that day? i forget.

It's incredible how it was revealed that the anti-trans push over the past decade was concocted in no small part by a literal PEDOPHILE CONSPIRACY and the reaction of transphobic lawmakers, journalists, academics has been a shrug and a "well, we gotta carry out the orders from pedophile island"

Pardoning drug lords but deporting sick little kids straight from the hospital really sums the whole thing up doesn’t it

"Is there technology the left is excited about?" is the kind of question you only ask if you're wildly naive about technology. mRNA vaccines. Heat pumps. Offshore wind. Urban mining. Sodium batteries. But god forbid we're not fawning over every new implementation of Making Computers Bad At Math.

Year of the Fire Horse

it's hard to see someone else live your dream

what makes this worse is a lot of them are still taking huge tax benefits from "giving". for instance, Elon Musk puts a ton of money in his foundation which is tax deductible as charity, but then the foundation just....doesn't pay out anything. That's illegal, but no one has enforced it of course

Socially transitioning simply means outwardly presenting as the gender you identify with. If a kid decides they no longer identify with that gender they can simply just stop presenting as that gender. They aren’t locked into shit, this idea is dumb.

Gavin Newsom? More like Craven Poo Scum.

Me as a child: it must be very hard to become a CEO and be very hard work once you get the job Guy obviously on drugs speaking at a conference: the next five years of the economy should be about a dream I had where a dog spoke to me

This is actually good news for the playstation 5, it gives more time to add a 5th game to the console.

Voting is the only political leverage you have, which is why you need to promise to give your vote to the first person who says he wants it with no questions asked

"you're going to face consequences" #pixelart #humanart #humanartist

Today's feel-good story: a tegu rescued from the snow by a kind person in Providence, RI, has been saved by ET Reptiles & New England Wildlife Center. Usually, pet reptiles die in these circumstances, but frostbite treatment worked. @rickclaypool.bsky.social even visited the tegu + took this photo.

This is a good thread. There is a huge difference between "the court system is still able to provide some positive outcomes in some cases" and "the court system is capable of providing due process and the system is fair."

1990s American Social Studies Textbooks: "Under Bad Communism, children were very sad, because their parents had to wait in line for bread." 2026:

The democratic party is not going to abolish ICE because deep down on a level of principle they enjoy the system as it functions and just want the violent oppression to be conducted with decorum and proper procedure.

Someone has sure already made this observation but the fact they can convert all those empty warehouses into prison camps means they could have converted them into housing, community centers, job training centers or, hell, libraries or schools all along. It’s always a matter of will not resources.

Sort of gives away the lie that they're arresting hardened criminals who are drags on society when they're setting up traps to lure in Good Samaritans

What sort of definitely real and normal human being writes a three column alphabetical list horizontally?

Franzi Schimmer captured this Grizzly bear in Brooks Falls, Alaska just floating along, tippy-tapping down the river, browsing the salmon. Prior to hibernation, up to 40% of a bear's body mass is fat, which is less dense than water (~0.9 g/cm^2), so the murder-monster is also a floaty-boaty.

…That "Generative AI" does not tell you the truth, that it doesn't give you facts, & that when its outputs conform to factual reality, it's by fucking happenstance. These systems are not all-in-1 answer production machines, they are collections of stats & regularities spat out via fucking dice rolls

How many times, in how many contexts, in how many ways am I going to have to say that this is what "AI" does— what it fundamentally *is*— before it sinks in? That all Bullshit engines do is statistically correlate training data & inputs via their weights to produce outputs you are likely to accept…

uploaded 20 new sticker designs to the shop ko-fi.com/ascalaphid/s...

Cartoon: If anyone in Chicago knows this school or an anti ICE organization affiliated with them I would be happy to donate this art. I only wish I could have fully Sal Buscema-ed that punch :)

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

lol this is gonna burst so fucking hard

The commander in chief telling troops who they have to vote for is itself a presidency ending impeachable scandal.

This is what authoritarians are never gonna understand: average, everyday citizens do not like watching paramilitary thugs brutalize children. All the vaporware memes in the world can't fix that for them

I’m not like him. I’ll never be like him. #ff7

Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.

You can’t reform this

‪Doctors say that vaccines protect children from dangerous diseases. A nepo baby who barbecues dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says that vaccines make children vulnerable to 5G radiation. For busy parents, it can be hard to know who to trust.