its freakout february

parmenides claiming all motion and differentiation is an illusion was just the ancient greek version of coming up with the most counterintuitive take possible to seem smart

i’ll hand it to them, “looksmaxxing” sounds way more tuff than “cosmetology” does

I don't generally get jealous of people's houses at work beyond y'know one day wanting to have a house myself but this guy had a little pond by his front door that apparently the local Newts like to breed in and man, that's neat as hell

thinking about how according to marx, what made Lincoln great is he was a regular guy, just like us

it is honestly no surprise that discourse around AI sucks so bad when the public relations story told by AI executives varies between lies and threats

buy used books

MOON WAR! MOON WAR! MOON WAR!

small crab eating a grape (important)

On a 4-3 vote, Federal Way Councilmember Martin Moore was just removed from his position as Council President. Longtime Councilmember Susan Honda was voted in to replace him.

hmm pretty sure i’m recovering from covid then lol forgot to get my booster this year! oops!

you can’t possibly be a company that acknowledges ai is “alive” and then say you “own” the ai and use it for profit right

hey is it possible to have a qualitative/subjective experience of the world without a self-symbol? like does it make sense for a fish to have a “subjective experience” when it probably doesn’t have a concept of itself?

bro are you using a ResultsReader instead of a JSONResultsReader rn? uncouth.

This was her immediately after chicken treat. She ran out of the kitchen (where her food is) and climbed my chair to get my attention.

lol donald trump invaded venezuela and captured maduro all so that they’d stop sending oil to cuba and start sending it to israel jesus christ man its just too ridiculous

cuba is officially isolated from the rest of the world as of today. the president is a serial killer

moon war in our lifetime

cocaine is experiencing a market share crisis among 18-25 year olds

Puerto Rico hasn't had reliable power in a decade. The grid sends occasional surges through the wires that fry appliances. Electricity rates are among the highest in the entire U.S. Heat waves are getting intense in the summer, and outages mean A/C is no guarantee for an aging population.

Holy shit never thought about that Schuylkill county has a railroad too Big Lots warehouse in Tremont PA was just bought for millions by ICE to house detainees These warehouses logistics centers pay no taxes either

Highlighting the speaker who stood in front of the Surprise mayor and told him to consider what the Mayor of Ohrdruf must’ve thought before he died by suicide: “He might have thought ‘how is this my fault I had no jurisdiction over this’ maybe he said ‘this site was not subject to local zoning.’”

how is it possible to internalize the fact that i don’t know everything. help me.

If you take a job that's too hard for you, don't kill yourself. Wait until you're bigger and stronger, then try again.

a ham

storygraph january 📚 grinding pages

Biden literally said "Welcome home" to Trump twelve months and eleven days ago

C.P.E. Bach stands for Customer-premises Equipment Bach

By their own numbers, almost 50% of what Bluesky moderation gets up to is just manually labeling replies as rude. 👍

Darren Aronofsky’s the Civil War

welch’s grape flavor ghost energy drink would kill him instantly

Me, listening to Beethoven: "when you think about it, its pretty impressive that a dog wrote that"

#birdbot

whats really disturbing is it seems like the far right politicians are able to detect a rift from their base and change their messaging in response to it

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zoe i have new orders

George Floyd was murdered by police 1 mile away from where Renee Good was murdered by ICE.

watching ken burns civil war and shooting myself in the head every time shelby foote appears on screen

disenfranchisement for ICE agents when

the 5g paranoia people are gonna lose it when they find out that one of the main features of 6g is literally sensing the positions of objects. could be used for all types of surveillance and defense purposes

really not feeling in the 9/11 spirit. someone just said "death to america" to me and i was like yeah sure man, you too

love that outlook put in a feature to flag whether you’re in-office, and it shows you other contacts who are scheduled to be in the office, except it doesn’t filter to people who actually work in same office as you

i’m calling it, trump is dead or on life support.

Creative Business Unit I is doing real magitech experiments to create a sexual clown and it's not going well

forming the “don’t kill, kidnap, or molest children” party because that’s the new political axis

Does anyone know where I can trade this in for two in a bush?

remember that period where it was theoretically legal for joe biden to kill donald trump if he could couch it as an official act

every single successful general strike in US history has had union backing through the local AFL-CIO this is the first time it’s been called for since the 1940s

Holy shit. Renee Good was alive when the bystander physician asked to check her pulse. She was alive when ICE refused to let him help. She was alive when they told him “I don’t care.” www.nytimes.com/live/2026/01...