NEW — Nacelle Toys announces plans for a massive #StarTrek Original Series bridge playset, plus: corrected Wave 1 figures are finally on the way blog.trekcore.com/2026/02/nace...

this false spring in the Bay Area on Super Bowl week beginning to piss me off. the very nice weather deprives SF tourists a core local experience: frantically buying a $100 low-quality sweatshirt bc the fog rolled in and they are caught in shorts and a t-shirt

Late-Stage Silicon Valley: 1. Come up with some broad new alpha-stage tech 2. Invent non-problems for the tech to “fix” 3. Show investors a fake demo to sell them on promises of cutting human labor 4. Shove the untested tech into places consumers don’t want it 5. A few fatalities 🤷‍♂️ 6. Profit?

DEAN! ARE YOU INJECTING DOPE INTO YOUR SCROTUM!?!? YOU CAN TELL ME! I'm hip.

I've hit another threshold of followers! So. Enjoy the Arizona Minuteman Militia Girl Scout Cookie Heist Saga!

For many decades, Olympic Games included "demonstration sports." Some, like curling, became part of the permanent roster. But others, like skijoring, didn't stick around. n.pr/4titkDK

Meet our lesbian Medusa who has struggled all her life for acceptance & a genuine connexion that doesn’t end up in pure drama🐍 The amazing @illaurastrates.bsky.social is drawing the story & we had tons of fun with the design! PS Watch out for the snakes👀 Join us! www.backerkit.com/call_to_acti...

When you're on bottle 6 of baby oil and there are somehow still bits that aren't shiny, and the swimsuit round is in 4 minutes!! 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums "Carlos V and Fury, without Armor" by Leone Leoni and Pompeo Leoni, c1551, Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid. Thanks @griffithstephen for sharing 😁

I wanna personally congratulate Hunter Biden for not only being nowhere near the Epstein files but for having rock-solid reviews from sex workers for respectfulness and tipping

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A heavily redacted cartoon. My @smh cartoon.

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Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

when I was in high school I had male teachers in their 30s who I totally thought I was adult peer friends with. when I was in my 30s and was a high school youth group leader I was like “those are not my friends, those are children.” that’s when I realized those men just had bad boundaries

This is why I am unbothered by the concern about the creative work we would lose by "cancelling" predators. There are so many talented people. If you're really *so* transcendently good at something, people will still listen to your shithead self. And if you're not, why we gotta keep you around?

giant chest of drawers, high point, north carolina, 2001

I've mentioned this before: think about food. Food culture permeates across all borders, survives the worst atrocities. It is damn near impossible to kill a recipe. Now think of how many Native American *recipes*, not ingredients, there are That is how thorough the genocide of manifest destiny was

centuries pass and still it sings. what a gift it is, how time flattens under the weight of a practiced voice. how irreplaceable

This is why the 4th Amendment says “no person” — instead of “no citizen.” If only citizens have rights, then no one has rights because all they have to do is say you’re not a citizen and then you have no right to prove otherwise.

I will take this opportunity, as I do every opportunity, to show everyone that he has not only a portrait in the National Gallery, but a SELF-PORTRAIT. I love Lando:

this is the "big boat stuck" for former Catholics

Swear to god, ICE could just announce they're leaving a city but not leave and the media will just stop covering that city completely even though ICE never left. It's what ICE and the media did with LA and they're doing it with Minneapolis too

I know plenty of other people have said this over the years but genuinely: They should bring back the architecture and interior design of the late 80s and early 90s. Put a Pac-Man machine in the corner. Just become a nostalgia brand.

The Day After It Finally Happens we will see 100s of these stories, all prewritten and ready to go

"Well *I'm* a man and *I've* never done this" Okay, great, hooray, please talk to the other men in your life because they clearly aren't listening to us

If you're in a polycule with at least two people you have blocked wellllll...you might post on Bluesky If you're first instinct when you hear a joke is duck and cover wellllll...you might post on Bluesky If you consider a post with a 150 likes to be a banger welllllll...you might post on Bluesky

Why don't they say anything? Well, because when it happens to YOU, if you say something, that's frequently the ballgame. You get driven out of your community; you get to see what the people you thought loved you look like with the masks off. And way, way too many of them are monsters.

It's funny that every time Elon leaves his carefully curated Potemkin village full of chatbots with suspiciously childlike faces, he's met with a roaring crowd of millions of people calling him a pedophile and telling him to pack a sack lunch and play some sudoku.

my theory why tech bros have gone insane is that tech optimism was their fuel for awhile. that began to fade as the future was looking less utopian and was obviously always about getting infinite money. when the public began to turn on big tech, tech turned to reactionary ideology to fill the void

Folks outside SF/F don't know that Asimov was a sexual harasser because while he was alive fandom thought it was cute (up to and including Asimov being invited to give a lecture on "The Power of Positive Posterior Pinching" at Worldcon, which he, wisely, declined). daily.jstor.org/asimovs-empi...

Context: this speech is from SIR THOMAS MORE, a history written, as near as scholars can tell, in the early 1600s by 6 or 7 people including Dekker, Heywood, Chettle, Shakespeare, and Munday. It was never performed, because Jacobean England was a police state and it was banned by the censor.

Just a regular fox taking an #earlymodern Uber. Nothing to see here. #skystorians

chat they had to stop the surgery and call the bomb squad to this man’s ass

i am trying not to joke about the Epstein stuff because it's so horrible but there's also this ridiculous element where it's like... discovering Dracula is real, he's taken over human society at the highest levels, he's involved in tons of evil and also he's a huge dipshit

this part is so true, i mostly travel in women-and-children spaces in far outer SE, so the exact opposite end of town, and since saturday i've overheard and had multiple conversations about how to launder tear gas out of things like diaper bags including one at the methodist church

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As I often say, as Appalachia went, so goes the country:

I'm impressed at how logistically, Sabrina Carpenter is like the perfect height to host the Muppets

I know, gender, politics, etc., but seriously, a whole push to educate people on home hygiene, food prep & storage, etc., because having a uterus doesn't make one magically an expert in avoiding botulism & sometimes the way your granny did things just meant it was a miracle 4 of her 12 kids survived

This is why I am currently working on a deck of oracle cards, on track for a late 2027 release. (Sorry about the potato quality and huge watermarks, but it's a work-in-progress and big corporations have a track record of stealing and selling my work.)

At a certain point stepping down isn't enough. You gotta hand that hard drive over to the police, buddy.

Westboro Baptist Church tried to make an Anti-Luigi Mangione poster but it just looks like Luigi is threatening billionaires and goes unironically hard af

We got one of these things for the office and every time the newest headline alarms me anew.

Nearly 50 years ago, a prima donna pig made her first appearance on “The Muppet Show” and quickly became its breakout star. With a new Muppets special premiering Wednesday, Miss Piggy is ready for her close-up once again.

I often think of Cleopatra’s daughter who was paraded through Rome after her mother and father’s defeat but apparently delivered such a charismatic performance in the parade that the people demanded that she be spared. the highest-stakes standup routine in history perhaps

I've reread this like 3 times. Freed herself from slavery by running away, *went back a week later bc the slaver was talking shit, set his house on fire, and then escaped again is absolutely incredible queen shit

This thing! VC was supposed to be the way hard, high-risk/high-value, technically complex, academically-rooted ideas got turned into businesses—because they had no other way to get capital, no collateral for loans, and weren't done cooking the product. It wasn't for *everything*.