One of my most deeply held beliefs is that refusing to name truth makes you stupid--literally degrades your intellect.

In case anyone needs it, here is One Cosy Boy refusing to get up on a cold morning.

Good morning. Fuck ICE. Impeach Noem. Love to Minnesota from Berlin.

Reposting with Alt Text.

Nuremberg trials for ICE is the moderate position

This is what love looks like.

Not exaggerating when I say that the collective action in Minnesota will be studied for generations if not centuries to come

Going to boost this one again. This CYOA ending to the Cave of Time slaps ever harder in this age of 18% Gray AI slop

Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.

The wildest thing about these ludicrous boondoggles is there’s no material penalty for having been a booster and no material advantage to having seen it coming. Probably the reverse.

Currently dorking out over this graph about child mortality with my brother. Just mind boggling to take in.

Idiots: "The arts have no purpose" Me:

nope. anthropic made a dataset including fake emails implying a nonexistent engineer was having an affair and the chatbot emitted words related to words from those fake emails implying a fictitious affair. then a bunch of dipshit frauds at anthropic made the home alone face and ran around the house.

I will allow Empire State Of Mind played unironically now

As you celebrate Mamdani’s victory, I want to take in that it was not a victory for the Democratic Party. He won in spite of the party.

Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

pitching a movie in which J. R. R. Tolkien arises from the dead to take academically-coded revenge on the techbros and MAGAs who continue to grotesquely misunderstand his work

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy: www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Worse for who? OpenAI? Users? Society at large?

We think of you fondly every year, Michael/@mihi_tr. You might be gone, but you’re still a role model. ❤️

oh well, onward and upward

If there was any doubt that I was a Serious Engineer doing Serious Engineering, I would like you all to know that I've just completed the multi-week rollout, affecting thousands of nodes, of... a shell while loop that spends most of its time sleeping.

Snowy egret friend!

Dear urban planners, I am begging you to understand that this is not what a creek looks like.

say what you like about america but damn if the sausage patty isn’t one of the greatest breakfast food items anywhere

We’ve been waiting an awfully long time for anyone in the NYT Opinion section to not be an utter coward. Finally.

I’m sorry, “the vice president’s mother was a drug addict so we’re allowed to just extrajudicially murder anyone we vaguely handwave as being part of a cartel” is a real argument people are making? in public? under their own names?

just an ongoing embarrassment that this barely sentient meathead is secretary of defense

Fascism is an aesthetic movement for people with no sense of aesthetics.

'The findings add weight to a growing body of evidence that beavers may be acting as ecosystem engineers, reshaping waterways in ways that benefit not just their own survival, but that of entire landscapes.'

if we do ever create intelligent machines this bunch of silicon vallley chucklefucks will have utterly burned the term “AI” so we’ll have to come up with a new one

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

it’s cool that we built a search engine that’s better at finding stuff when you don’t know what the stuff is called but sometimes lies and now we’re afraid it’s going to destroy the world?

this is so wonderfully weird, give her all the golds 🥇

mental coping strategies for the rise of fascism, distraction edition: today i fought a battle with some crappy off-brand RJ45 wallboxes and won

Bad news, folks. This is what fascism looks like. It’s not coming, it’s here.

The crux of their argument is that if they're found liable, then the consequences of their own actions that no one forced them to take could ruin them and the rest of their industry that undertakes similar practices. To which I say motherfucker did you never hear about Napster

The New York Times uses the word “maximalist” because it’s afraid to use the word “dictatorship.”

RFK Jr could literally pull up to a VA and start murdering patients and some hack would post an article headlined “Does the health secretary have a point or is euthanising veterans a miscalculation?”

I just played at telco engineer and won. I feel POWERFUL.

Has anyone ever tried propagating DSL (specifically VDSL2+/supervectoring) over coax using baluns designed for CATV? Seems like it should work...

I’d like to introduce yall to Rosner’s Law of Double Garnish: Every savory dish is made better by not one but TWO finishing elements added just before serving: one brightening (green herbs, lemon zest/juice, pickled onion), one deepening (cheese, nuts/seeds, toasty breadcrumbs, oil drizzle)

Holy shit. This guy saved a PNG to a bird. (he drew a bird into a spectrogram, played that sound to a starling, and the starling reproduced it back to him with enough accuracy he got his bird drawing back in their call's spectrogram) www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCQC...

RIP Tom Lehrer www.nytimes.com/2025/07/27/a...