walked by an embassy today and someone was flying this rare gender flag i'm not familiar with. i assume it's for genderfluid people, b/c dark blue for boy, white for nonbinary, dark pink for girl? it's a good look imo

New image has dropped that’s inspired ideas for what I’m hoping to see in The Monstrous and the Divine submission slush pile 😍 www.instagram.com/p/CTX5BZOBs_...

The national languages of Switzerland are Middle German, English, Tirolese, the Clicking Language and French. No one actually speaks French. It was introduced as the language of business during the French occupation, and we forgot to delete it from the constitution.

Helmpflicht für Kinder wird das Problem lösen.

OUT: tech bros inventing the bus IN: tech bros inventing employees

Wem der BILD-Ticker zu emotional, die Tagesschau zu dem Thema zu schmallippig und die Influencer zu befangen sind, aber trotzdem wissen will, wie es dem Wal geht, ein kleiner Service: istderwalschontot.de

Can't wait to see what it makes of all my cat scream emojis and melting face emojis.

Arby’s Reclassifies Their Food As Entertainment https://theonion.com/arbys-reclassifies-their-food-as-entertainment/

Amazon is cutting off support for older Kindles www.engadget.com/mobile/amazo... - but don't worry! Bountiful beneficent Bezos is "encouraging" you to buy a new one with a 20% discount, so just drop your old one in a canal, hoik it at a baby eagle, or bash an otter to death with it.

www.microsoft.com/en-us/micros... is it good to build an entire economy and software infrastructure on this

hello 👋 i have developed a new tool called blüuümpíi. blüuümpíi will convert every file on your hard drive to a .wav file without asking you, maximize your system volume, and play them on every bluetooth speaker you have ever connected to. if you offer feedback on blüuümpíi i will take legal action

Over the past year, every single time one of the apps or services I use suddenly became less reliable and more buggy, I never have to look far for the "Claude is amazing and now writes most of my code" post for the devs involved.

which way western man

Made low-poly goldfish #256fes 256 polygons, 150 vertices each

We don’t need gender markers on birth certificates. We don’t need gender markers on drivers’ licenses. We don’t need gender markers on passports. We need politicians who will make the bold moves to remove these relics.

Der Berater der "Swiss-American Chamber of Commerce" greift direkt die Bundeskanzlei an, weil diese eine Weisung für mehr "digitale Souveränität" erlassen hat. Eine beispiellose Einmischung eines US-Lobbyisten in die Digitalpolitik eines souveränen Nationalstaats. www.republik.ch/2026/02/27/u...

time to all default to eink tablets www.apple.com/newsroom/sea...

i built an entire x86 CPU emulator in CSS (no javascript) you can write programs in C, compile them to x86 machine code with GCC, and run them inside CSS lyra.horse/x86css/

Finally available in english and paywall-free We are sued for this article. Palantir doesn't want policymakers and decisionmakers or anyone to read this article... Streisand, Galore! 😉 www.republik.ch/2026/02/18/h...

at last, we have invented retrophenology from the classic Discworld text Don’t Invent Retrophenology

I don't know what game this is, but importing the Space Marine 2 character models into it was genius.

"Obviously the baby crushing engine has some drawbacks but we would like to talk about its benefits right now."

To give you an idea of how deranged the UK has become about gender stuff, here's Enid Blyton - the absolute avatar of classic English conservatism and a huge fan of racist "gollywogs" - casually describing a gender non-conforming kid in the 1940s and having their friends be totally cool with it.

Okay fine we're doing a little origin story thread: how did I become a horse game consultant and what does that even mean? 🧵

horse game

my body is a machine that turns intrusive thoughts into poorly-photoshopped gags

Opinion | As a conservative Christian, I have no problem with ICE agents abducting children—unless they are unborn.

WOOO Demo Alert !! ✨ We just launched the demo for PinKeep, a pinball roguelite deckbuilder! Give it spin on Steam 💚

This article provides the perfect view into React brain worms: Instead of a native HTML input radio element It’s somehow easier to import hundreds of lines of code, and implement a faux radio button (that’s actually a button with svg to LOOK LIKE A RADIO), and ARIA rules (to WORK LIKE A RADIO)

Damn, even Sesame Street is scoring off me

Italian voice actor Carlo Bononi was the voice of all of the characters on Pingu. A trained clown by trade, he used a theater technique called grammelot, which consists of "speaking" in a mix of babbled gibberish noises. He improvised all the voices live and unscripted.

For the record, when I need facial plane reference, I use William Nguyen's models on ArtStation. They have adjustable primary and secondary lighting, and can be rotated to be viewed from every angle. Male Head: www.artstation.com/artwork/GX3Ax1 Female Head: www.artstation.com/artwork/6a0Par

historically accurate☑️

A Fool’s Errand — our latest game for @play.date — is out now! Get it now: play.date/games/a-fool... Learn more: www.iorama.studio/afoolserrand

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If you're reporting on the deepfake porn site because of Grok, please make clear in the headline that governments not acting are allowing the scaled abuse of women and children online. Don't say Grok is doing that harm. Grok isn't doing anything. It's human men who are doing these things.

There we go. That there’s a headline.

AI sloppers (is that a term?) crying that their prompts are being stolen is more beautiful than anything AI could produce

amazing how the entire machine can pivot within 24 hours. no need to slowly upsell the argument; just issue new marching orders

Lovable Victorian Urchin's Guide to a Merry Christmas youtube.com/shorts/fLIh7...

The winners of the 2025 SWIGAs are chosen! We hope you all celebrated at one of the watching parties or at home on your comfy couch 🎉 For everyone that did not have the time yesterday, here are our 5 wonderful winners:

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