i think if you ride public transit enough you learn that most weird behavior is not dangerous, and conversely i think driving a car teaches you that everyone is trying to kill you at all times

Oh hey, a reason to be hopeful: groves of American chestnut trees have once again become self-reproducing in the wild. Turned off comments so 12 people don't show up to tell me why this is actually very sad. Be happy, you assholes.

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Here are some of the scary jack o'lanterns I've made for our cats over the years. First: the cone.

Sussan Ley, whose modified name happens to contain the same letter combination as Hitler’s police force, has tried to make the tenuous case that the Prime Minister wearing a Joy Division t-shirt is antisemitic.

@shrydar "It's an older Toad, sir, but it checks out."

Don't let the result distract you from the fact one pitcher was called Little in English and the other was called Little in German (Klein),perfect game

This announcer realising he's just worked 2 games but still getting paid only for one is the most relatable guy in America tonight

This paper underscores how “misinformation” is not easily operationalized as single pieces of factually untrue content, but often takes shape through the motivated amplification of specific evidence (often true evidence) that serves to build and reinforce misleading frames.

the guy attaching my harness at the rock climbing wall when I double check his work [testily]: I’ve done this a thousand times every guy in a news story about a rock climbing tragedy [crying]: I’d done it a thousand times

the last few years of my job at google were surreal -- watching the executives talk in increasingly positive terms about Elon Musk's management style while objective metrics at his companies were becoming dangerously unstable. it wasn't until 2023 that i realized that they didn't care about profits.

Male loneliness crisis is a fake problem. Just go up to a guy who has a Brompton and ask, is that a Brompton

You'll pry these Oxford commas out of my cold, dead, third thing hands

I understand why they had to stop him but I don’t agree with imprisoning him in the phantom zone

I really need folks to stop acting like Trump's goons are somehow emotionless terminators. They are super insecure bullies who desperately want to seem strong and powerful and popular and it kills them inside when they're not. Like Trump.

For those who call it a water reservoir, we know you mean well.

Me watching a Lambourghini driving very slowly and carefully over the speed bump near my place: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA (those cars are really not designed to be driven that slowly, it's great.)

stuck my tongue out at a toddler who was staring at me in a shop and she rolled her eyes, so that's me told

That friction, which arrived in my life after moving from Illinois (gamble on sports on phone) to California (gamble on sports at casino) has reduced my gambling from weekly, nearly daily in the summer with baseball, to maybe once a year. 0 times last year.

Never let this party tell you they value “fighting antisemitism.” By characterizing Nazi tattoos as “anti-Israel,” they are setting up a dynamic where Democrats dismiss all allegations of antisemitism, and Republicans think this redounds to their benefit, all while Jews are the ones who suffer.

the point of the ballroom obvs has nothing to do with aesthetics. it's to create an architectural structure to honor the patronage networks that currently dominate US politics. previous WH venues hosted maybe a couple of hundred people; this hosts nearly 1,000 rich donors.

The German company that makes the mechanical ladder used in the Louvre heist has used the image to advertise, with the text 'When you need to move fast' 10/10 response, no notes

I will never let the #LouvreHeist die.

A moth got into the shelter tonight and it was the event of the season.

I love this. 😂

once again I am tapping the sign: do not let people you care about join the ADF.

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL CAPS LOCK DAY SORRY FOR OUR DELAY WE DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THIS WAS A REAL DAY.

sodium ion battery w operating temperature range of -40C to +70C? iiiinteresting. (yes this is just a reddit thread, to be taken with a pinch of salt. haha.) www.reddit.com/r/energy/com...

Since I’m seeing the comparisons again, your regular reminder that comparing Trump to Marie Antoinette is unkind. Marie Antoinette helped convince France to back the colonists during the Revolutionary War and was thus a significant positive for America.

Lmao. I looked up if there were any Hutts who weren’t evil and apparently the greatest ruler in the history of the universe was “Blotus the Hutt,” who served a 275 year term as the democratically elected Supreme Chancellor of the Galactic Republic.

Graduate seminar did a deep dive on Thomas Paine’s Common Sense yesterday. At the line, “in America the law is king,” they (14 students from 6 countries) burst out laughing. I've been doing this for 35 years and this is the first time that was a laugh line.

Pro tip for you email job people. If you don't want to show as inactive when you walk away from your computer, set up a teams meeting with just yourself and join it. Your teams will show you as active/busy

In 1990 the Australian Women’s Weekly printed a recipe for Potato Scallops Sorry Victoria. There’s a Beef Wellington on the cover too in celebrating more things Victorians made famous

the triceratops thing is a pun, the rest of my earlier post is accurate though.

TIL one of your 2 bicep muscles connects to the shoulder blade because bodies aren't already ridiculous enough. www.windsorupperlimb.com/conditions/s...

Look, it’s really straightforward to get a publisher as a new name indie in 2025. Simply do 95% of the work making and marketing your game, and if your metrics are trending towards almost certain success, a publisher will swoop in to promise the remaining 5%, deliver 3%, and collect 75%

the Macintosh System 7 was the first W I D E S C R E E N Macintosh.

The cumulative effect was that good, polite folks who wanted to do the right thing disengaged, ceding the public sphere to others.

I’ve been thinking A LOT about 2 related dynamics: (1) for folks on the left, discussing politics (or the ascendance of conspiracy theorizing and right wing politics) became “cringe”; (2) info literacy efforts focused on spotting bad stuff & getting ppl not to share it, rather than empowering them

The NK march, by the most positive lens, was a demonstration expanding reach, shifting the Overton window, building confidence for those who are less committed or fluent in the context & issues. More simply, it’s a great on-ramp for normies, and delivers respectability for institutions that need it.

Here’s what I said to our teenager and some other young folks who were around at the match: there’s a difference between a demonstration and a protest, and you need both because people are at different places in their engagement with a movement, and there are different kinds of power.

If you're a writer/other creator in the United States, consider creating an LLC for your business and then signing up for a local area Chamber of Commerce. Many of them have health insurance plans that pool their members and members of other CoCs to create insurance efficiencies relative to ACA.

Fox says henhouse fence “too obstructive”

Reminder: the ACL is literally 3 guys in a trenchcoat. They represent no one. Fuck the guardian for publishing this dogshit, just another reason they'll never get a dollar from me.

I felt dubious when I started hearing other IT people snarking about "it's always the DNS" a while ago. Anyway, it was the DNS. www.forbes.com/sites/zachar...

Last thought on No Kings coverage: If major papers wanted a stunning angle, how about the fact that 5-7 *million* Americans mobilized and I didn’t see 1 significant act of violence by protesters That is a *remarkable* achievement for a contemporary social movement in a highly polarized society

one of my absolute favorite things is when musicians lose their shit at Republicans for appropriating their songs and I am particularly delighted to see Kenny Loggins joining the list

Verrrry Dectective Dan (THE GOOD GUYS) vibes from Bradley Wiggins in THE DIPLOMAT s3ep4. Very amusing, for a drama. @travisjj.bsky.social

Is this my beautiful house? Is this my beautiful life?

Doctor Who: Robot (1974)