there's a new scam going around where they offer you a place to live in exchange for a monthly fee but no matter how many times you pay in excess of the property's value they still keep charging you to live there

2026 basically

the bit about genAI that I just flat out cannot wrap my head around is that however good of a virtual assistant or whatever it is, there's a non-zero chance it will just lie to you. does that not bother you? that you have to go back and do the work again to make sure it's not making up numbers?

Me at 20: I’ll have it all figured out by the time I’m 40. Me at 40: wtf do you mean they rearranged the grocery store

Star Wart

sometimes, if you’re up early enough, you can hear them turn the birds on

Post a banger that isn’t in English youtu.be/4K2yd7ojiYw

the magic of the Muppets is that there are two fourth walls. they constantly break the one that reminds the audience they are performers. they NEVER break the one that reminds the audience they are puppets. this dynamic is the key to their entire comedy style

Box says small.
Spice says challenge accepted. #cats #BlueskyCats #gato #CatsOfBluesky

When the doohickey truck shows up in town you get your ass to the storm shelter

ohhh ‘democracy dies in darkness’ was aspirational

@hawksley.bsky.social My phone says it’s Sadi’s birthday. Happy happy! 🥳🎉

Mordor she wrote #LibraryShelfieDay

When I was a pup, there was "Rock Against Drugs". Now it's Rock Against Fascism.

Can't argue with that

Can I just say something...? 🧣

The way Ake slouches around in semiliquid form on every surface makes me think Holly Hunter is part cat 😄

A major winter storm is expected to impact more than 200 million people in United States this weekend. Freezing rain and ice is a particular concern. n.pr/4sUzMR9

Extreme winter conditions, including ice, freezing temperatures and heavy snow, are expected to blanket much of the U.S. later this week and into the weekend. Here's how to prepare for winter driving.

Important note: NON-CLUMPING LITTER. Clumping litter is just clay. It will make things worse. Get the cheapest litter at the store. Plastic containers are easier than bags. Plastic parade cups are great for spreading it, too. Put the litter in the trunk over your rear axle for stability.

Remember when Tea Party protesters marching against Obama invoked the tree of liberty being refreshed with the blood of tyrants, and threatened using the 2nd amendment against tyranny? Now that actual tyranny is upon us, those poltroons are amazingly quiet.

It ys Wednesdaye my felawes

ALSO: put blankets and, if possible, a small shovel in your trunk. If available in your area, a snow brush/ice scraper combo is cheap and will clear your windshield/rear window quickly.

Hey southerners, put a bunch of containers of kitty litter in your car right now. Put it under your front wheels if you get stuck and it will often give you enough traction to get out.

For those living where this weather is a rarity, here's a tip from a crusty old north-ish Midwesterner: if your car starts to spin on icy roads, turn your steering wheel INTO the direction the rear is going. This can, and hopefully will, help stabilize you.

I was born and raised in Bloomington. Nice to see IU actually play football :D (that poor team was in the lowest rung...so low they had to dig down to add rungs...for decades.)

Perfection

More like AHRRRRchbishop, mateys.

In the back of the front of my mind, I'm hearing this: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uh9i...

"The idea of a Universe didn't fit into their world picture, so to speak. They simply couldn't cope with it. And so, charmingly, delightfully, intelligently, whimsically if you like, they decided to destroy it."

Wait til he finds out about the Boston Tea Party and the Battle of Bunker Hill.

Perhaps the surest sign of AI not being super intelligent is the amount of tailored scams targeting the finances of authors, which is as rewarding as trying to mug a seagull.

Here's the crux of the gist: we're on the cusp of a brink

50 runaway sheep ram-paged through a German supermarket in rural Baa-varia, causing shear mania on Monday morning. After breaking away from their 500-strong herd, the brazen sheep spent 20 minutes milling around in the Penny supermarket before ewe-turning and seeing themselves out.

Star Wars under George Lucas: "Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side, kid." Star Wars under Dave Filoni: "Hokey religions? Ancient weapons? This is the way."

you could probably capture our president by writing "nobel peace prize" on a pie plate and putting it under one of those boxes held up with a stick tied to a string

Yes, hello? I don’t think 2026 is working properly. I’d like to cancel my free 5 day trial please.

You can’t drag an American president into court, because it would distract him from the job of dragging other presidents into court.

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

New York Public Library 1917

This is true and I was the only one on set excited about it (and playing the song on my phone to blank stares)

On the twelfth day of christmas, my true love gave to meeeee

ruin two bands by combining them: the rolling stone temple pilots

Every installment of this MTG rehabilitation tour feels like “Nice Scorpion Regrets Past Stings, Needs Help With River Crossing!”

I thought this was @terriblemapshq.bsky.social for a second!

Sherlock Holmes - The Blue Carbuncle (23rd December 1968). Watson and Holmes examine a battered old hat to see what clues about the character of its owner can be deduced from it.

Cativity

Wombie was a bright light on my social media timeline for years, going back to the place whence many of us had fled. Rest in peace, friend.

Gift link, probably the funniest thing the Wall Street Journal has done this year.