Bill Kristol has gone so far left he's joined us in chastising Hakeem Jeffries for being a morally bankrupt turd. He's gonna be Che in like a week at this rate

Terry put "Latatian" in the series just so he could make stupid Latin jokes, and I deeply respect it I'm also partial to Rincewind's "Stercus, Stercus, Stercus, Morituri Sum" (oh shit, oh shit, oh shit, I am about to die)

Discworld QOTD, from Mort "Then Mort said, ‘What do all those symbols mean?’ ‘Sodomy non sapiens,’ said Albert under his breath. ‘What does that mean?’ ‘Means I’m buggered if I know.’"

Imagine if Sam Altman were held just as criminally liable as if he had personally encouraged users to kill themselves, generate CSAM, and stalk women. If any random person were going around doing that shit, you wouldn't base almost half the US stock market on them. You'd have em arrested.

It's also funny because they are whining about women judging them for their political opinions — while judging women on their political opinions.

i strongly, strongly believe that good writing is downstream of clear thinking and a strong understanding of the subject matter at hand. without fail, tortured writing comes from writers who don’t know and can’t think clearly about anything.

What is lost in a lot of these headlines is the fact that these institutions are vanishing. This is a huge loss for everyone who may ever use a therapeutic medicine in the future. And it isn’t just limited to us unlucky Americans; destroying institutions like the US FDA will have global consequences

as everyone knows, going on a date with a woman and then not having sex with her at the end of it is literally a fate worse than death, and not just a normal thing that people do all the time, whether as a one-off activity or part of a process of getting to know someone better

Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.

One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.

Colleen Hoover: anyway i have a fun, sassy little romance for you that i think you'll all love Hoover: it's totally normal and NOT fucked up in any way Poe: ok this is really not assuaging me Barker: let it go, edgar, i'm excited for this fucked, not normal story Barker: this is gonna be a doozy

What does it say about this country that that the kind of open, rank bigotry Trump administration officials regularly express towards black immigrants apparently has no social cost because of the number of Americans who quietly agree or don't care.

Day 3 #ArtAdventCalendar "Prunus", oil on canvas, 85 cm x 58 cm, 2009 (Private collection) #art #painting #OilPainting #AbstractPainting #ContemporaryPainting #InspiredByNature

December 1, 2025 Western Tanager Background Paint: Prussian Blue #watercolour #watercolor #painting #art #artYear #artSky #rollandpaint #OnlyBeautifulThings #BCBirds #birdArt #westernTanager

Hhm, why the sudden surge in romance scam accounts? Is it a pre-holiday rush?

Lower bills. Tax billionaires. Not sure why that's being described as "a threat..." 🤔 www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...

Valmistautukaa unohtamaan, että tämmöisiä juttuja on ollut: yle.fi/a/74-20177459

„CSU—US’s largest public uni system—went all-in with a $17mill partnership with OpenAI. . .CSU unveiled its grand technological gesture just as it proposed slashing $375mill from its budget. While admin cut ribbons on AI, they were cutting faculty positions, academic programs, student services.“

They gave the physics prize to the dude who said that ChatGPT is the world's butterfly and GPT3 was a caterpillar. The dude who told us in 2018 that radiologists should cease to go to school because the profession was gonna be out in 5 years. But 5 years later he just moved on to the next lie.

Back in the day people used to have a slide at the end of their presentations saying "and that's how the brain works" as an inside joke about Hinton since he was known to talk confidently out of his ass. Now, the Nobel committee brought this upon us like they give the peace prize to genociders.

Day 2 #ArtAdventCalendar Ruska I, acrylic on stretched canvas, 100 cm x 80 cm, 2023 #art #painting #AcrylicPainting #LandscapePainting #ContemporaryPainting #InspiredByNature

This sign raises more questions than it answers

Postcard from my collection, sent 1912.

If they were appropriately taxed, this donation would be unnecessary.

the one where Santa realizes a glowing red nose would be useless in fog so he goes with the other heavily-bullied reindeer, Sonar

It's all so clear now.

A very focused Downy Woodpecker. I was pretty close, but he was so intent on foraging, he took no notice #birds 🌿

Two of my crow friends enjoying autumn, for Day 2 of #ArtAdventCalendar. #Autumn #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #ArtYear #smArtist #Seattle #SensoryArt #Seasons #Crows #Corvids

Scientists if you’re like “man I wish more people knew about X” then I humbly suggest hiring an artist to make a thing that communicates X and then put it into the world because it’s so fun, extremely “hell yeah” inducing, you gotta try it.

she sink

#ArtAdventCalendar #TinyTreasures Theme: A photograph from my walk to-from work each day. #Day2 #CrabApple #VT

Oh, #artadventcalendar, how I've missed you! Here's a something for the eyes: high up in the Warner Mountains above Modoc country, northeastern California

We've already seen how the output degenerates when LLMs and genAI are trained on their own slop. Fingers crossed for the inevitable implosion coming sooner rather than later. This guy is so far up his own ass, dreaming of hard cash, to the detriment of everyone, including his family's future.

Day 2 #ArtAdventCalendar evening. Once In A Lifetime 36 x66 91x167cm Oil on Canvas 2021 A commission based on an actual photo

December desert blooms 🌺

Omggggggg Canada Post has holiday squirrel stamps 😍 store.canadapost-postescanada.ca/store-boutiq.... #sqrlpix

“‘After a few hours of sleep and zero signs of injury (other than maybe a hangover and poor life choices), he was safely released back to the wild, hopefully having learned that breaking and entering is not the answer,’ the agency said.” By poor life choices they mean being a fucking rock star

How is it legal to program cars to break traffic laws

OK...whew. Mostly caught up. Here's my Day 2 #ArtAdventCalendar Tarantula Nebula 30x37in 76x94cm Oil on Canvas 2023 Based on the JWST image of 30 Doradus #Art #Painting #SciArt

This has been my whole freaking life. Every time Republicans take power people are like goddamit this is awful, they get voted out, then two years later people are like hmmm Republicans again

hey so even if you do sweep Dems into power again all those people who are openly calling for your murder will still exist so what is your plan because last time Dems were in office they didn’t do anything about it and now we’re here and my god we can’t keep doing this why do you refuse the lesson

Actually, the likelihood is 100%. In US jurisprudence, accused people are innocent until proven guilty. Hegseth's victims were not proven guilty; they were not even tried. Therefore they were ALL, to the last man, legally innocent. Hegseth ordered the murders of several dozen innocent men.

100% the lawyers said "you can't do that," and 100% the deciders (including) POTUS said "who cares, there are no consequences." And that is 100% the fault of SCOTUS and its wretched unitarism, fully immunized.

You know who else was indicted out of the Southern District of New York following an investigation that was primarily conducted during the first Trump administration (and then convicted by a federal jury and sentenced to 45 years in prison)?

This is an ethnic cleansing campaign

This is too much.

There are net societal benefits when wealth isn’t hoarded by individuals and resources are instead shared for the public good

It's wild but not surprising that last week the White House was leaning into "these seditious Democrats dared suggest that troops were receiving illegal orders!!!" and this week they are scrambling to figure out who to blame for issuing illegal orders.

“This is exacerbated when Amazon then pulls this contaminated water, which is already over federal legal limits for nitrates, up to cool its data centers” Areas in which centers are built are often high contamination drought areas. This process makes it much worse. www.theverge.com/news/834151/...

“While downplaying the immediate impact of AI on power consumption, Nadella admitted that the rapid growth of data centers is “putting a lot of pressure” on the electric grid — and that the public will accept that pressure only if it “results in economic growth that is broad-spread in the economy.”