It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again. www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

I’m no Humpy but I do have an unusually powerful “Rally Time” video.

To be clear: LA County has declared a state of emergency BECAUSE OF the federal government. The Feds, LA County is (correctly) saying, have CAUSED the emergency. This is a striking political moment of internal collapse. Local govts feeling compelled to protect their ppl from … their own govt.

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

The world lost a genial man, a genius communicator and a supreme artist. I lost a friend - beloved Drew.

Too many people view reading as “something you do” rather than “a skill that can be developed.” If you want to get better at kicking a football, you have to kick a lot of footballs. If you want to get better at reading, you have to read a lot of books. Also, it’s fun to be good at things!

OK there's my Unhinged Literary Opinion: Pratchett is the greatest humanist/philosophical writer of our era.

Reading this anecdote and begging, BEGGING people who are not in creative fields to wrap their brains around the fact that figuring one's way through those stuck transitions *IS THE FUN PART*.

lede = introductory section in journalism bury the lede = hiding the most relevant pieces of a story within other distracting information Allegedly, it’s spelled ‘lede’ to avoid confusion with ‘lead,’ which was the strip of metal that would separate lines of type.

A great article from Rachel, who really understands the heart and soul of Dad’s work.

"Eat the Rich (and nachos)" Seen in Liverpool, UK

all discourse aside, there is one machine with consciousness. it's printers. they are alive and conscious and they hate you and they'd take your arm clean off if you let them. never trust a printer.

Every time I light a candle these days, I end up side-eyeing the smoke detector like "don't YOU get any ideas." (I have yet to set the detector off with a candle. I _did_ manage to do it with the toaster.)

Daily bunny no.3100 is just a branch away

Daughter of Robin Williams, Zelda Williams 💔

Tiptoeing through the tulips NOT ALLOWED

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

He will tell his tale…

(solemnly) You've had mail.

ok we are definitely dead and in hell

Oregon AG Rayfield: I know for a fact, from talking to cities across Oregon, that if you pick up the phone and ask, “What could be helpful?” the answer would not be the United States military.

nothing matters ::throws confetti:: thewalrus.ca/the-publishi...

Well don't I feel stupid

You've all read Pratchett's MONSTROUS REGIMENT, I expect? Do you recall the Abominations issued by the god Nuggan? Nuggan issued Abominations against chocolate, cats, dwarfs, the color blue, garlic, crop rotation, the smell of beets, and much more, and the reader sees that Nuggan is clearly mad.

Worth noting that this new version contains the word 'doggo'. 🥹🥹💙

“I use it for brainstorming.” is quickly becoming my most hated pro-AI statement. YOU TOOK YOUR BRAIN OUT OF THE EQUATION. THAT IS NOT BRAINSTORMING.

Undoubtedly the funniest thing I've seen about the Jimmy Kimmel saga: people sending messages to the wrong ABC. In Australia. Oops. www.instagram.com/p/DOz073bjy9p/

Saturday is for replacing your car door.

Discworld QOTD, from Night Watch

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

[writing the constitution] Benjamin Franklin: Write down "no dumb fucks as president" Alexander Hamilton: Stop saying that Benjamin Franklin: I'm tellin' you. You're gonna regret not writing that down

I would love to be part of the conversation on MSNBC related to the Kimmel story and it's chilling effects on first amendment, but unfortunately I was terminated by MSNBC for stating that "hateful thoughts lead to hateful words which lead to hateful actions".

Good sign of being old and set in your ways (and also possibly a bit dim), Mac user edition: When you need to empty the trash, you automatically mouse over to the right side of the menu bar, not the left where the Finder menu is. Because the right side is where the Special menu was, dammit.

Disney learned nothing from Andor.

ah, well

WE WERE THERE FIRST. LLMs only have em-dashes because *actual living writers* have used them for 100+ years. LLMs use them because *we used them first* and they stole them *to sound like real writers.* SCREW THE WRITING MACHINE! Read REAL writers. And reject the machine that steals from them!

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

I think about tornado wornado every single day of my life

Greek mythology DnD ranks up there

I was torn between this one and the “Can You Lick The Science” post (linked) www.tumblr.com/quousque/149...

Easy. Spiders Georg