"When you open me, you might be looking for a spot where someone, anyone, ideally the doctor, explains me to you. It gives me more pleasure than I care to admit that there will be none of that here." www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/im-...

I think about this a lot.

is this bad

Brilliant idea for some LoRa network stress testing!

congress sounds so cool i wish it was real

In the civilized world we call this kind of thing a 'bribe'. Same way we call 'campaign donations' by the same group of companies and individuals a 'bribe' here. The USA is as corrupt as the 1980s USSR, if not worse.

I've just updated a visualization I made of shared board members and executives to show government connections. There are nodes for the treasury, state department, cabinet, military, and presidential advisors. You can click on any node for specifics Check it out. It's ... thought provoking

Free will rules

Updating my LEGO White House

Even as a designer, I honestly welcome this push from the EU, just like their usb-c requirement push years ago.

Built-In Batteries: a Daft Idea With an Uncertain Future hackaday.com/2025/10/23/b...

LEGAL RELEASE FORM: You agree to let us film you ME: Seems OK FORM: We own your face forever ME: Ummm FORM: We own your face via technologies that haven’t been invented yet ME: FORM: in other galaxies ME: OK hold on FORM: If we kill you during filming you’re not allowed to scream

Every now and then I go back and read the Citizens United ruling to see if it is as unhinged as I thought, and every time I do that I see it is actually far more deranged than I remembered. levernews.com/book

Harrisburg, PA — there are so many older women in banana suits at the Capitol holding antifa signs and none of that sentence would have made sense to me 10 years ago

Excuse me: bb turtles

when i was a kid people asked me a million times if i thought everything was a joke and all the question did was cement my personal philosophy that everything is probably a joke

WHY IS EVERYONE

i love when i overthink a problem so profoundly that i actually do uncover something new at the bottom that puts me at ease. it wasn't an anxiety spiral, i was simply swirling down towards the answer-hole

The first thing every unqualified boss immediately does is mess with the org chart.

more mayors should be cheeseburgers

The Internet as it was intended to be used

lede = introductory section in journalism bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

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I’m telling you: ridicule works. These guys are supposed to intimidate the citizenry and it’s very hard to do that when a guy in a frog suit is just staring you down and daring you to do something that makes it look like you’re afraid of a cartoon

Arguing online is a waste of time. I would rather do something productive, like procrastinate for weeks at a time.

I just read the phrase “reality generated video” - as opposed to artificially generated video - and I’m going back to bed

a Wikipedia editor with the username Vigilantcosmicpenguin explained, "I contacted Brian David Gilbert with a request for freely licensed photographs. He delivered."

Does this creature have a soul

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

ER doc here! This is a lie. Wait times are up because the American healthcare system is an unsustainable business model and a for-profit national healthcare system just doesn’t work. These problems will continue to get worse until we change that system. It literally has nothing to do with immigrants

Who would win in a fight: a) economic indicators regularly cited as evidence for the health of the economy b) 3 large tech companies passing the same $20 bill around in a circles

(bluesky user bursts into Waffle House) OH SO YOU HATE PANCAKES??

#HAZTOBER IS UPON YOU

“To us, masks are associated with cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan. In all our history we have never tolerated an armed masked secret police.” - Judge William Young, September 30, 2025

PSA

Nobody asked for it. We did it anyway. If you ever used Winamp during the later years, it had an awesome, awesome visualizer called Milkdrop. The Webamp people implemented a workalike called Butterchurn. Internet Archive now supports Webamp and Butterchurn. Just click on the llama!

Thinking of him* today * a cool octopus from Auckland Art Gallery

Wake me when “he’s gone too far this time” becomes action instead of rhetoric.

do these people not get embarrassed

Of all the phases of matter, gas is the most irritating.

Me: *makes a single small purchase from a brand* Brand: We are now betrothed

"Verily, I speak it unto you. Every great big massive hard-on to the tiniest little tinge of horniness is My doing. I have created your bodies such that they be beautiful, such that they may live and let live, and it is for such that I did create the boner."

the political policy cure for “male loneliness” is - more time to hang with the fellas (4 day work week) - more money to spend with the fellas (higher wages) - more things to do with the fellas (taxing the rich and building 3rd spaces)

"please rate your package delivery" i mean ill click the smiley face because i assume it impacts the poor bastard who delivered it but i must impress upon you that forcing both him and i into this situation is an act of utter inhumanity and furthermore that god frowns upon your deeds

[me, trying to relate to 25 strangers at once] look, we’ve all got diarrhea right now