It also bears mentioning that I had to make this follow-up post because I had not read very far into the article before posting my silly little joke

Mother's day gift

Guitar Drums

going on facebook and commenting "hetslop" on new-baby announcements

This, 1000 times this

Game is good and you can make the prettiest fuckbois

"Can no longer feel pain or joy" is low key the best endorsement I've heard for this game

BREAKING: In a loss for Democrats, the Virginia Supreme Court ruled the congressional map voters approved last month to counter GOP gerrymanders cannot go into effect. The decision overturns the will of voters for technical reasons and gives Republicans a leg up for the 2026 midterms.

This is how every other country imagines life in America

"Officers from the Oswego County Sheriff’s Office called Border Patrol at least a dozen times while holding drivers at traffic stops — potential violations of state law — body-worn camera footage obtained by New York Focus through a public records request shows."

If only the NYT put mouse traps in the water

The straightforward effect of adding more administrative burden on stores will be that fewer stores will accept SNAP. These are the equivalent of abortion TRAP laws, like mandating the width of a corridor.

relentless poll chasing + contempt for your political base + a total absence of principle or vision = political disaster www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/o...

You're telling me if I get a robot to run 5 miles a day for me I will eventually struggle to run 5 miles?!

The fertility rate going down is good because it means fewer teens are having kids, people are thinking hard about how many kids they can actually afford, and fewer women who don't want kids aren't being forced to have them.

tramp stamp idea

Chrome is reaching into users' machines and writing a 4 GB on-device AI model file to disk without asking. It is the weights for Gemini Nano, Google's on-device LLM. Chrome did not ask. Chrome does not surface it. If the user deletes it, Chrome re-downloads it. www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-...

Daffys very role is an unpopular opinion. Chuck Jones said that “Bugs Bunny is who we want to be but Daffy is who we are”: vain, self-centered, terrified at the world and the judgments of others, this plucky duck represents the very darkness at the heart of man’s soul as he struggles against entropy

Best game intro ever youtube.com/watch?v=ZwUJ...

Israel’s National Security Minister Ben Gvir received a birthday cake decorated with a giant gold noose from his wife. The Hebrew text reads in part “sometimes dreams come true”—referring to Ben Gvir’s now-achieved dream of legalizing the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners in Israel.

[to tune of buffalo soldier] Lockheed Liberal

[elon musk creates an army of killer AI robots] sir, your robots won’t stop … gooning

"Mission accomplished"

If you read one journalism piece from me about transness , let it be this piece about my fake childhood, abuse, and the poetry of Kurt Cobain saving me till I found my unwinnable.com/2024/04/05/d...

look i was a bernie supporter so i've had to reconcile the fact that a lot of his online supporters were dumb as rocks but certain platner enthusiasts are really not doing their candidate any favors by advancing the "all american men have a nazi phase" argument

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Happy May Day

Me when I take extra Adderall for my first #dnd session in three weeks and am stunned the whole time

I just want one coach to be the hardest atheist imaginable. No gods. No masters. No salvation but existence. It's 3rd and 17 and we need a first down. The universe will never care and no one is here to help you. Now go get 'em, cowboy.

Just popping up AI bots impersonating real writers, living and dead, without consent, cool, very chill, not dystopia at all - defector.com/vindicated-a...

I have a giant hole in my pants and I've given up on a lot of things

How do you feel about Donald Trump's actions as president so far? [adjacent to an artful and flattering black-and-white sketch of me] Jon, 43, white "I no longer call it the Sun. I call it the Hot Moon. You cannot catch and eat the Hot Moon because it moves too fast because it is late for school."

I work in mental health and cannot begin to describe how destructive all this is, especially to those with serious mental health conditions. We desperately need MORE housing, not gatekeeping. Please read below and comment against the monumentally stupid idea.

Zero Republicans supported banning "whites only" housing. www.abc27.com/pennsylvania...

beast mode

(ANTON CHEKHOV AWAKENS WITH A START)

And 9 seconds later … www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Nardwuar hands me a polaroid of a closed coffin. "What is... is that me?" He's doing that face to the camera. "Is that me Nardwuar?"

Watching hockey @jonbois.bsky.social

😤😤😤

Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeroes

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I just wrote a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social letter: Send a Letter to Tell Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting to Remove Hate Group-Affiliated Panel. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/send...

This guy went to Don Draper and was like "hold my beer"

They weren't Afrikkkaners

watching the Jersey Mike’s worker make my sandwich