The boy’s requested Halloween costume is coming along. Need some modeling putty to fix some gaps on the needle, and a better brace for the mask to fit him, but the collar is stiff enough with the interfacing in there and he’s got room to move. Pretty happy here

mencius moldbug is thinking of fleeing the country because he thinks the trump administration's chaotic half-assing of dismantling liberal democracy is going to bite them all in the ass

Woman Worried She Doing Bad Job Enjoying Massage https://theonion.com/woman-worried-she-doing-bad-job-enjoying-massage-1819579311/

Beano #1685, Nov 2, 1974

Beano #1235, Mar 19, 1966

A memo sent to nine institutions called for 'institutional neutrality', in an unprecedented attempt by Donald Trump’s administration to impose control on the sector on.ft.com/4mQxxdw

Traders scour private data to gauge US jobs slowdown amid BLS turmoil on.ft.com/4nIg4Fh

Pete Hegseth Rails Against Fat Generals https://theonion.com/pete-hegseth-rails-against-fat-generals/

Apple had its own online service like America Online and CompuServe in 1994 called eWorld. It was $9/mo, plus an additional $5-9 for each hour, depending on weekday or weekend hours. The service lasted less than 2 years.

In Japanese, Obaa-chan is a term of endearment for middle aged women, usually aunts, and is loosely translated as "One Battle After Another-Chan"

It's gonna rule when Bari Weiss is doing hasbara on CBS 24/7 and Glenn Greenwald pretends that he wasn't a major figure in laundering her reputation as a principled advocate of free speech

I know not everyone will get this but is is extremely funny to be accused of "mansplaining" for defending Wittgenstein's most important and least controversial point about language "Private language" is not a thing. Everyone does not get to decide what words mean on their own. Language is shared

1. Led by Elon Musk, the far-right has exploded in a campaign to get Netflix to remove shows with queer and trans characters. If Netflix capitulates to their demands, an already strained market for LGBTQ+ animators might become even more dire. Subscribe to support our journalism.

barbarians inside the state because they know it's very hard to kick them out

Hampster Dance

Could have told them, the uni I studied at found out the same way that shock therapy is expensive, but we know the point wasn't fiscal savings

‘Amanda Knox’s new memoir chronicles her attempt to adjust to life after prison – or, as she puts it, “how I failed to reclaim my old life”, and what she gained instead.’ Jessica Olin on what Knox did next: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

The genocidal state of Israel is intercepting the Global Sumud flotilla - shame on Spain and Italy who abandoned these brave people but grandstand at the UN. Shame!

every chiropractor needs to go to jail

YOU - It's not my fault this pinball operation failed. SHIVERS - No, but how does it make you feel, to dig through its trash? YOU - Like I should be grieving something, but I'm not sure what.

Former Baillie Gifford tech investor James Anderson said he remained a 'huge admirer' of Nvidia but added that the chipmaker’s planned $100bn investment into OpenAI presented 'more reason to be concerned there than before' on.ft.com/4nR8S9m

BYD monthly sales fall for first time since early 2024 on.ft.com/3KzstMZ

"It's the MLB playoffs – expect the unexpected." - Jon Bois

Taliban Imposes Internet Blackout Amid Morality Crackdown https://theonion.com/taliban-imposes-internet-blackout-amid-morality-crackdown/

under earth I know you’re a heavy dark mass, circular tuber, a flat severed breast like a loaf of bread, toughened and covered in dirt, bouquet overhead. “Autumn Cyclamen’, a poem by @aestallings.bsky.social: www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

oh you were estranged from your parents? join the fucking club. raised by mee maw? dont give a shit. be a man

Millions of Americans have back rent debt, but it's received significantly less policy attention. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau data from January showed that 14 percent of active renters still carry late fees from the past year

Brussels raids Sanofi in flu vaccine antitrust probe ft.trib.al/u7cHyy6

Trump to announce direct-to-consumer US drug sales programme ft.trib.al/r7n3eUg

Really just a majestically stupid man. "You can't count welfare when you're measuring whether people are in poverty" is incredible

Love it when you communicate your research findings to a broader audience and on social media 50% just react with “duh, no shit sherlock” while the other 50% go for “you moron, you don’t know anything and you are the source of everything that is bad in the world”

stopped by the office to pick up some things and see what the team had been up to

the games industry’s problem isn’t a cost of game, speed of development or a quality of game problem it is a marketing problem. It isn’t romantic, but the online ecology that allowed games to successfully find and grow its market share is going extinct, and with it the discoverability it granted

US set to honour 15% tariff cap on drugs from the EU and Japan on.ft.com/4nRv7My

Video game maker EA nears $50bn deal to go private on.ft.com/42gGntE

im glad private equity is devouring everything

a bunch of american progressives in AOC's orbit are getting bombed on a flotilla headed toward gaza. no statement I guess

The collapse of subprime auto lender Tricolor Holdings has left a trail of losses and questions from Wall Street to low-income immigrant communities The FT’s US banking correspondent Akila Quinio, and Amelia Pollard, US investment correspondent, explain what they’ve found on.ft.com/480JcTb

Opinion: We need the mobilisation of resources on a scale that will secure Ukraine's military resilience, writes Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz. on.ft.com/3VwJoCj

Scary days for Planned Parenthood/Medicaid users, not great for trans people and others.

Jesus

my post-vaccine fever made my nightmare an artsy abstract one where dozens of mud covered T-90s emerged from a river and blasted at nature. At one point a nest of starlings was knocked out of a tree and all the babies flew off. A tank crewhand got out and stomped it.

First Brands’ lenders race to secure rescue loan for car parts group on.ft.com/4gBGaXC

"should i order takeout" most enabling friend:

Right, and instead of pressuring the companies to pony up or encouraging consumers to pressure them AOC just wants the government to drop its clinical trials!

Lowkey one of her most bizarre stunts ever www.peoplesline.org/p/aocs-blemi...

i don't envy the lady who made a boring personal essay that will be mocked every summer forever

just got served up an ad for i think copilot, showing the AI critiquing someone's oral argument. its key piece of advice: this time cut down on the repetition. ah yes repetition. famously up there with primacy and recency as things you should never ever do in persuasive argumentation

abundance YIMBYs as they try to catch some social media attention off a random shooting that has nothing to do with ending regulation

still remarkable this was originally published on espn.com