I wonder if this was more or less embarrassing than all of the times he's gone to bars and struggled to get up onto the bar stool until someone finally gave him uppies.

I need to find a way to make every lawyer I know read this with their eyes forced open, Clockwork Orange style, so I never have to sit in a meeting about AI tools again.

The US immigrant population generated more in taxes than they received in benefits from all levels of government every year from 1994 to 2023. The Cato study provides the first-ever 30-year analysis of the fiscal effects of immigration on government budgets. https://ow.ly/jy8a50Y8kM3

Remember the incident where DHS claimed officers shot a guy because he attacked them with a snow shovel? Yeah. It didn't happen. They shot him through the door of his own home. And then arrested him. And then lied about it. Again. And they almost shot some kids in the process.

i am happy to fight for freedom with the libertarians but also, we don’t really need to *talk*

If your verification is "we asked AI if the video is real and it says yes" then you haven't actually authenticated shit.

My greatest fear is that someone will accidentally step on him without noticing and be slaughtered for it. How do you even prevent that when there's more than a foot of snow on ground?

imgaine getting sent packing with your ass in your own two hands by some of the nicest people in the world and then showing up in a city that is famous for booing santa claus

It's -1F/-18C in Chicago. The wind-chill is -15F/-26C. A man who appears to be roughly 70 years old just came into this diner wearing shorts to grab some breakfast. Things are bad. Very bad. But they picked a fight with people who fear nothing.

this is the sickest shit ive ever seen

The main thing I learned the day I became a mother is that I don't know a fucking thing and it's wild that we send people home with babies at all. Like, the first few months is basically flailing wildly on 3 hours of sleep a night and praying the baby survives your own ineptitude.

Plot twist: the ficus is also a Communist.

what a legend lmao

I wish we could explain to small children that some day, getting in bed and going to sleep will become the highlight of their lives.

I feel like this, on a tshirt, would be a hit with my autistic community

My family-friendly, pedestrian-heavy neighborhood with outstanding access to at least three public transit options has recently had some minor traffic calming measures installed to try to make it slightly safer and the amount of Facebook wailing about it makes me want to outlaw cars entirely.

It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.

Every woman I know has been on a date with a man who talked about himself the entire time, never asked a single question, and then decided he was in love with us by the end because of who he had decided we were. It really is time we stop letting men do things.

This is one of those things that shows, to me, how different all autistic people. My family, for instance, has several undiagnosed cases where a lobotomy couldn't change their minds, let alone a liberal conspiracy like "facts" or "objective reality"

I am pretty sure this was a plot point in the Expanse series and honestly I'm increasingly uncomfortable on this planet

10/10 take. No notes.

It’s another day. Are you passing the Ms Rachel test?

(from the inbox) Less than an hour later this morning, just before 10:30 at Roscoe and Harding, feds again released gas as they were driving away, unobstructed, from a relatively small number of neighbors.

blockclubchicago.org/2025/10/18/t... 250k Chicagoans is 1 in every 10 residents. 10% of the population. That's *huge*

#NoKings #Chicago

I didn't feel safe taking my six year old to this downtown march due to the size of the crowd but even the family-friendly sign making send-off event we attended had over a thousand people at it this morning. Chicago is showing out for this.

HAPPENING NOW — Thousands gathered in Chicago’s Grant Park for the “No Kings” rally before marching through the streets of downtown Chicago. Chicago joins cities across the country in today’s action condemning the President Donald Trump administration. 🎥: The TRiiBE

Okay witches and warlocks, psychics and demon summoners, it's time

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

When your custom character appears in a cut scene

Hi @npr.org! We worked late tonight putting together this handy pocket guide! It doesn't address road design issues, but if we're going to educate road users, we should include drivers. It's the size of a folded business card. Print it, fold it, put it in your wallet!

It's frustrating reading all of these "political violence is never the answer" opinions. The second amendment is our country's explicit endorsement of political violence as a necessary tool Anyone who wants to say that political violence is NEVER the answer needs to also be advocating for repeal

I imagine that it gave Charlie Kirk great pleasure to die as a martyr to the god of death he worshipped. I wish instead he could have died another way: of old age, peacefully, in a country where all his work had come to nothing, and he himself completely forgotten.

I knew this.

@acollierastro.bsky.social I'm so sorry to put this in your brain but also it's the perfect mashup of your physics crackpot and and billionaire to physics pipeline videos that I laughed out loud when I saw it.

Having to explain a non-smoking sign to my 5 year old who had never actually seen a person smoke an actual cigarette.

“The children are always ours, every single one of them, all over the globe; and I am beginning to suspect that whoever is incapable of recognizing this may be incapable of morality.” James Baldwin

Cis guys, need one of you to spill the beans. When a woman posts something like "A third of men believe they'd be able to land a passenger plane in an emergency" how are you all notified to show up and prove her right? Is there a group chat or a discord where you get a link?

I absolutely love audiobooks. As a mom with a full time job I have almost no time in my day where my hands are free to hold a physical book, but I can indulge my hyperlexia anyway with audiobooks. Amazing But holy shit are AI narrators absolutely destroying my ability to listen. HIRE REAL PEOPLE

Nobody wants to work anymore.

My 5 year old is currently enamored by the story of the Capital Crawl and how disabled activists forced Congress and the media to take notice and take action to pass the ADA. I don't know how I tell her that today they'd all just be arrested, likely beaten and tear gassed, and the media would shrug

Sigh. Next week he's gonna try to buy The Netherlands isn't he

Honestly, I love them continuing to label incredibly appealing, working class, CHIlD supporting policies as "socialism" Theres a nonzero number of young mothers out there weeping with relief that they might get help with childcare costs in NYC and now theyre associating that with socialism GOOD

Wow: ICE Has Deported at Least 70 U.S. Citizens

The Case for Always Getting The Thing At The Restaurant You Like And Know Is Good, my two hour lecture at the Being Old Is Great Actually conference

this is like drake and kendrick lamar but they're both drake

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No one wants to work anymore 😢

Thinking of this @propublica.org reporting today about stillbirths of unvaccinated parents during the Delta wave, before CDC had explicitly recommended COVID vaccines for pregnant people and the damage the virus did to the placentas. www.propublica.org/article/covi...