Unless I'm missing something, and I'm pretty sure I'm not, Twitter's AI is cranking out CSAM deepfakes, Elon Musk is making jokes about it, and nobody is doing anything to stop it or hold anyone at Twitter accountable for its creation and distribution. Is that right?

TikTok: How would you like to see this? [MAGA account] me: [blocks account] TikTok: OK, then how about this instead? [alt to the account I just blocked]

Hmmm...I wonder who the kids think is playing the role of Caesar today?

Mamdani has only been Mayor for a day & criminals are already fleeing New York

I've nmow replaced thew saucepan I tragically scorched a few months back via my usual method: "Do without until it shows up in the ALDI aisle of shame."

Reminds me of S2E1 of Severance, where, on a show who's fanbase obsessively catalogues every item available to the innies on the severed floor, fucken Dario suddenly shows up with an espresso out of nowhere. Maybe Italians are just like that.

Congrats! You made it to the first Friday of 2026.

Found elsenet: seems to sum up the zeitgeist nicely!

Vera looked around the room. Not another chicken anywhere. And then it struck her—this was a hay bar.

Good morning! 🪶

As a Rootless Cosmopolitan (no, not like that), I am intensely skeptical of arguments that political movements have to be indigenous to the land, no, I'm not arguing for native Americans / First Nations to be dispossessed, that's an entirely different sentence!

He's a monster, the paper-clip optimizing AI in human form.

Stolen from Reddit: The Floridian out of Chicago. This should be sent to all train equipment manufacturers who want to build cars for Amtrak. Talk all the shit you want about the Amfleets, but they work in these conditions.

This was the Southwest Chief between Chicago and Kansas City, but I've never yet taken the Lake Shore Limited between Syracuse and Chicago in either direction that didn't have lots of similar passengers. The train is pretty much the only game in town for them for long-distance transportation.

ſpamming the long ſ makes thiſ great.

I would encourage these poor soldiers to follow the example of their forerunners in 1917 and mutiny against the Tsar.

I'd wondered how Wrexham would play in a league where they no longer simply have better players than their opponents, and the answer at midseason seems to be: some old-school route one football! They enter the new year firmly established in tenth, and only three points out of the playoff spots.

username checks out!

Only got as far as Horseheads before I ran out of daylight. Road conditions in the places reported to not be having winter weather were atrocious, I was fishtailing at 45 mph in places. Most of the day was clear roads, but I lost enough time that I didn't *quite* make it home. Just an hour to go.

The city shut down the station in 1945 on New Year's Eve. Eighty years later, it's a symbolic venue choice for the incoming mayor's private swearing-in ceremony. n.pr/4bbETpx

*sighs* looks like I'm going home via I-80 and I-99 tomorrow.

Réveillon em Copacabana reúne 2,5 milhões de pessoas

My rule of thumb that "experts outside of their area of expertise are just dumbfucks who think they're not" remains undefeated.

The most shocking side of TikTok I've gotten on is dark feminist TikTok. We watched Zeffereli's Romeo and Juliet in class, for God's sake.

I occasionally post the best of what I see on TikTok here, but don't let that fool you, it's a firehose of garbage, the median TikTok I click the "like" heart on is a woman with large boobs bouncing while wearing elf ears and telling a dumb joke.

Huh. I guess Notre Dame really should have gotten in. If they were the only ones who could beat Indiana I'm going to be super pissed.

Objectively, obviously Messi's decades of excellence trump a brilliant but flawed cokehead who had a handful of brilliant seasons at Napoli before flaming out, but you'll never see me admit it.

Lionel Messi's not the GOAT, that's obviously Pelé (not a bad take, just true), he's not even the best Argentine, that's Maradona (this is the bad take).

FELIZ ANO NOVO BRASIL!

(In obvious jest) Hey baby are you a school? Cause I wanna shoot a bunch of kids inside of you...

Appropriate. Just like the Rhodesians they are going to lose.

Less than an hour to go at Copacabana.

I looked this guy up. Eischenschiml was best known for a 1937 book arguing that Secretary of War Edwin Stanton conspired with John Wilkes Booth to help him kill Lincoln. Keep that in mind. I don't think we have to fear the tyranny of the Chemists just yet.

The next celebrations will happen at 9PM ET, when most of Greenland, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Fernando de Noronha in Brazil, and South Georgia are the populated places using UTC-2. All that doesn't come close to even just Cabo Verde's population.

2.5 million people are expected to celebrate the New Year at Copacabana beach in Rio, recognized by Guinness Book as the world's largest.

Happy New Year to the entirety of Earth's eastern hemisphere! The UK, Ireland, Portugal and West Africa rang in the new year 25 minutes ago, and the next hour will see Cabo Verde and the Azores join them.

I have decided to celebrate the New Year at midnight BRT (10 pm ET), as I was born in Rio de Janeiro and I have to be up early to drive in the morning.

Mine has to be Rammstein's Deutschland, a nine-minute cinematic extravaganza taking you through 2000 year of German history with Ruby Commey as Germania.

the pods of the martyrs will be rewarded

Or you could go see it live, especially if you're near the DC area.

I can't wait until Dutch and Japanese fans roll up this summer to the most scenic WalMart in all of Arlington, TX. Hope they're not looking for efficient public transit, because Arlington is the largest city is the US without it.

Have a good NYE; know when to say when

A luta continua I Por @latuff.bsky.social

“don’t get me started on the fucking navy” is a true bsky sentiment

I grew up watching Jeeves and Wooster with my dad, and was shocked at how much of an asshole House was. Made me appreciate Hugh Laurie's acting, if not the television program.

And good riddance.

This is a solved problem. See Lehrer, Tom, 1959.