my "your kid's school photos definitely haven't been shared with the world's most notorious pedophile ring" shirt has people asking many questions already answered by the shirt

So I think everyone knows what Chuck E. Cheese is but for non-parents who don't know what LifeTouch is, it's the company that for decades has had a near-monopoly on school pictures.

don’t you worry boss, got that jorbs report right here

Discord is a member of Netchoice, the trade organization that's fighting these laws in the US, and they've shown up for pretty much every lawsuit since they joined. I can't say for certain[1] but I HIGHLY doubt they are doing this because they want to.

One of the few generative AI use-cases that I consider completely ethical is generating images & video of made-up people to trick online age-verification & identity-verification algorithms. Nobody's being tricked or exploited except for a megacorp's computer. www.theverge.com/tech/875309/...

In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal

I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.

kind of funny there are prob 1,000 major US musicians and every time conservatives need to put up a music artist to counter a mainstream narrative, they put up kid rock. "ok here's kid rock again" for the next 30 years, an octogenarian man in jean shorts rapping something from the 1990s

one of my personal grudges with Elon Musk is that he has clearly read Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot (1994) at some point, but came to a completely different set of conclusions than me

I have no personal enthusiasm for either of the #SuperBowl teams, despite living in Boston, but the Kraft family (who own the Patriots) are a bunch of Trump toadies, while the Seahawks are going to be sold & the proceeds given to the Paul Allen charitable trust, so guess I'm rooting for Seattle?

people are like "what are we going to do with ICE agents if we defund the agency" and i think we should just put them in the camps we built for migrants and only let them out to be on game shows directed by mr beast

wait wait wait ... TUMBLR. THE PORN BAN GUY FROM TUMBLR IS GOING TO RUN THE WASHINGTON POST. Look I've been pushing back on the idea that Bezos is intentionally sabotaging the paper but COME ON this is a man who thought he could just take the boobs and dicks off of *Tumblr.*

TIL in historical facts that sound like shitposts: there was a Gay Hitler who lived in Ohio, son of George Washington Hitler. Gay Hitler outlived Adolf Hitler by 3 years.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

[taps the sign]

"Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds" is not a well-formed SLO.

one of the greatest human triumphs of my lifetime is the relentless, unceasing, heroic effort by DECADES' worth of doctors and scientists to find a cure for a disease much of the world didn't take seriously for years because it predominantly affected a community they thought kinda deserved it

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GM: Charisma check. Mamdani: [rolls natural 20] GM: that’s a d6 how did you Mamdani: [direct to camera] Did you know you can check out board games at your local public library? 😊

They've shown the world how to fight back—without resorting to the violence being used against them. trib.al/JGOpbbx “You don’t fuck with Minneapolis,” one of the men shouted, waving his finger in the winter air. “Will you never learn?!”

so funny to see republicans complaining about this as if they have not been pulling this shit for 15 years.

even if you don't care about sports you gotta admit it's awesome that this guy had to hear to his face how the world feels about him

Paul Hollywood is a man who looked about 55 years old when Great British Bake-Off began in 2010, and who still looks 55 years old now (he is currently 59)

Virginia State Senator Louise Lucas is just a delight on every level

tag urself, i'm CONTROL OF SUFFICIENT PARKING

i made the mistake of arguing for housing on a neighborhood email list and now the Boomers are all-capsing at me

this rules if you're in boston go get some ice cream i don't care how cold it is

Mongolia Winter Olympics uniform, it’s over, no contest

IMPORTANT OLYMPIC NEWS: THE POLISH FIGURE SKATING TEAM HAS A PLUSH PIEROGI

1. It was not an accident. 2. It was not a staffer. 3. While the president may have dementia his racism is not due to dementia. 4. He isn’t sorry. He means every racist thought he shares. 5. His base agrees with him. 6. He will do it again. 7. No one in power will hold him accountable.

the Spectator accidentally recycled a subhed from a previous day’s article about Tehran

The staffer thing is so funny, like an entirely white nationalist administration has to be like oh no, there’s one of us who’s more racist that the rest of the ethnic cleansers

Dear Dems, the people want you to run on abolishing ICE, not appeasing fascists.

they should make a fall olympics. apple bobbing, leaf pile diving, gourd put, etc

HIS FACE

good to see hard data on "baseball and hockey players have by a large margin the worst politics of any major sport", a thing that every serious sports fan knows intuitively

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

"Sure, ICE is bad, but we need to deport illegal immigrants" No you don't. If immigration enforcement leads to concentration camps and roving death squads, maybe it's time to just get rid of the concept of illegal immigration entirely. You've tried it, it's a bad idea in practice, so bin it.

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"we're not going to have the midterm elections" Look, Trump and his people are power hungry Nazi wannabes but they're also incredibly incompetent

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Here are Ramsey County's mug shots for Jake Lang.

We put on an all-Yiddish community production of fiddler on the roof in Philadelphia and cast member and local artist Sofie Rose Seymour created the most amazing show poster that ever was

I'm glad rich people have Tamogotchis now but if they're not going to devote their lives to ending hunger, homelessness and genocide, maybe they should go to the ASPCA and do something worthwhile but 1% harder.

ME TOO. My Catholic upbringing is good for understanding Vatican drama and hissing "literally fucking heresy you literal fucking heretic" at JD Vance every time he opens his mouth on the subject

this is the "big boat stuck" for former Catholics

Hey, so, I don’t do civil litigation, is it generally considered good when the judge does this? storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

@wyden.senate.gov's record of warning that there is deep and constitutionally-serious dirt being done by the intelligence agencies in secret is unblemished. The vaguer he is, the filthier the dirt is. This is the vaguest I've ever seen him