enjoying jester's privilege (being able to do handstands in public without people assuming I listen to christian rock)

this is the UK version of that miller lite article

Millions of acres of national forests are set to open up for more logging www.npr.org/2026/05/24/n...

Hello I am the president of a country whose economy depends on consumer spending. My two major initiatives so far have been a sales tax on everything and then a war that sent all prices skyrocketing

Anyone who says theres no such thing as love at first sight never adopted a shelter dog

Just so it’s clear, I agree 100% with 100% of the people on this site 100% of the time. I love you, mind-hive.

Getting really into the Fast Grabbing Guys on Instagram

“Bubble” is just the word you use to say “community” when you don’t like the people in the community.

I know laughing at him for saying “anecdote” instead of “antidote” makes me an out-of-touch elite or whatever, but I’m not the one with a PhD in literature from NYU!

It’s a beautiful day, Bluesky is open, and people are having a wonderful time.

Any day now the good old days are coming back!

unczarification czar

It’s international day of the goat (yes, really) so here’s the rightly famous Goat in a Thicket statuette from Ur. It is made from gold, copper alloy, lapis lazuli & shell. It shows naturalistic behaviour for goats as they often seek food in low trees and bushes on their hind legs. 🕰️c2600BC 🏛️📷 BM

The amazing Berlin gold hat is one of four gold hats known to date. Three were found in Germany, one in France. The purpose of this #BronzeAge objects are unknown. They are all similar in shape and pattern. Their conical shape resembles a wizard’s hat, which led to speculations that...🧵1/3 📷 me

No, I will not agree to disagree. I disagree: we agree.

Good work again from @obviousplant.bsky.social

These are great and it's weird to read old cosmic horror that feels like it belongs in the slicks, not the pulps.

Bad news: "we don't want this" and "fuck you" have split the vote, allowing "make everything worse" to win yet again

No it the fuck was not.

My favorite pro-AI argument goes like this: "In the past, other technologies have truly been transformational" and that's the whole argument

This sign is from nearly 30 years ago but there are people out there right now trying to convince you that ‘Transgender’ is a hyper modern addition that doesn’t belong

the silicon valley vision of labor is an utterly abject class of employees surveilled in every particular by a set of tools loyal only to the C-Suite, which spends all its time relaxing in a warm bath of automated sycophancy

Was Craig T. Nelson on Star Trek? No he wasn’t, but Craig Richard Nelson was. THAT’S WHY THE T IS IMPORTANT #CraigTNelson

[once more, for good measure] Everybody thinks when he gets rich he’ll be a different kind of rich person from the rich people he sees around him; later on he finds out there’s only one kind of rich person, and he’s it. —Thornton Wilder, The Matchmaker

"who was president from March 2020-January 20, 2021?" is one of the most fiercely contested questions in American politics

If you're struggling with the paywall, here's a link to the original blog post: mariovittone.com/2010/05/154/

$15 for a 18 pack bottles at my local you cant miss

1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act, welcome to The War on Cars.

I feel like the second somebody starts talking like this somebody should punch them in the face. The pain of getting your nose pushed in is extremely grounding. Showing up at work with a black eye and when people ask what happened you just tell them "I thought my computer was a real guy"

i was visiting a neighborhood bar in boston when a roving gang of elite college professors strode in acting like they owned the place. they saw me ordering a domestic lager and shouted "this motherfucker's not chasing novel gustatory experiences!" and started beating me with heavy wooden rulers

Kura Total Landscaping

Every summer I repost this article on how to spot drowning. Please read it and pass on. In the last few years I’ve had SIX messages from people who saved a kid’s life after clicking on the link from my feed. slate.com/technology/2...

Mary Mallon Caters Mostly Successful Dinner Party

jesus fucking christ lmao

Never meet your heroes.

Starbucks done EFFED up in Korea. Bad. May 18th just passed, Democratic Movement Day, when rose up after the military dictatorship sent tanks to mass-murder citizens. Some inappropriately call it "Tank Day." Starbucks commemorated Tank Day with a sale on tank tumblers. It gets much worse...

i just got outfitted for america 250 summer in dc

We've had time to contemplate, now it's time to settle the debate once and for all: Is "prithee, what?" a truth or a lie?

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If someone wants to leak me a copy of this app (either .apk or .ipa), please reach out on Signal — my username is zackwhittaker.1337 — and I would be keen to run this app through Burp Suite to see how it works. Happy to grant anonymity.

Sometimes a smartass is also a dumbass

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I can't word this perfectly in bite size, but it's pretty clear many people in publishing saw diversity as a burden they've now been permitted to discard, a social media fad they no longer need. 2020 saw so many promises made to writers of color, and the past 5 years saw all of those promises broken