shoutout to one of the greatest tweets of all time

There are many reasons to hate this administration, but up there has to be the fact that I'm hearing one midterm analysis after another and IT'S NOT EVEN FUCKING MAY

Bsky is a cop.

If you think AI surveillance cameras aimed at drivers’ faces is a good idea (no matter how well intentioned the justification), you are a naive fool. This data will be harvested, sold to fascists, and used to imprison activists. Oh, and car companies will 100% use it for ads you can’t turn off.

Can’t wait for like, 500 articles that are like “as I dived under a table to hide from the shooter I realized I had to be even more sycophantic to the White House”

I'm endlessly confused by the wave of legislation to ban children from accessing social media rather than banning social media companies from harming children. And heck, all people regardless of age.

"There's an app for that" but it was a threat

As I get older my thoughts on aging change. I don't think I've forgotten so many things or lost my edge as much as the filing system is breaking down and I don't know where the hell I stored anything.

If you don't know about the Haber-Bosch process, you're about to hear about it a lot more in the coming months.

The apparent theory here--SPLC was defrauding donors by paying right-wing extremist org informants, and also took completely legal steps for obscuring the money trail for very obvious reasons on this totally legal thing to do--is ludicrous even by the notoriously malleable standard for wire fraud.

We should do a double slit experiment on the Straight of Hormuz so we can figure out if the global oils supply is a particle or a wave.

I just need to say this every so often to keep myself sane: IT'S NOT THE FUCKING DEPARTMENT OF WAR IT'S THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CHANGING THE NAME TAKES AN ACT OF CONGRESS

you understand the assignment perfectly

An actual peaceful protest veterans playing taps at the Capitol. Wish my father had been able to see this.

With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars. We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director. Please stand by for more.

Study 1: A controlling style of parenting (threats, guilt, demanding high achievement) leads teens to lie, whereas autonomy support (letting kids make decisions and offering explanations) promotes honesty […]

What's so frustrating about this is that a lot of nations in Africa could really use good data science and population study, but that's not going to be how it's used, is it ☹️

My pet peeve on social networks: people who reply in lectures about alt text that are longer than just writing the damn description in reply.

The funny thing about highlighting the SLAPP suit against gawker is that everything gawker said was, in fact, true. So... yeah, this will have very little to do with truth beyond avoiding it.

You know... there is ofc a lot to hate about this, but as someone who has been cancelled twice, and didn't deserve it either time, this will accomplish fuck all. I hope horrible men depend on it, because that will be hilarious.

Sir? Sir. How *dare* you put me in a comic like this. 😤

honestly it’s hilarious that he’s trying to fight the pope and the pope is like “I don’t think about you at all”

Why am I getting the xenophobic racist hyper-violent perverted Christian cultism but without the cool floating sky ships BioShock promised I would like a refund

I've come all the way from the first dot com bubble to tell you this is probably when you want to sell. (I don't, I never bought, too old, angry, and broken)

Congratulations to photographer Andrew Harnik who has won the White House Correspondents’ Association award for presidential news coverage with one of the greatest Oval Office photos ever captured.

Corruption trickles down. A society where corruption at the highest levels is blatant, normalized, and winked at tends to become a society in which ordinary people are not only dishonest, but view honesty as a trait of saps and fools too dimwitted to see how the world works.

It used to be a virtue to pay your taxes, and distasteful to pretend to be poorer than you were to avoid them. That is the mindset needed to create and maintain a functional modern democratic society.

Absolutely this, though I think it's been bad much longer than most people realize, and it's paired with the degradation of education. We are in an even deeper hole than we realize.

This is culturally really dangerous. Functioning societies depend on most people mostly following the rules even when they could probably get away with not doing so. That breaks down very fast once a critical mass decide that makes them saps and suckers.

Scottish Greens manifesto is out, compare and contrast

Joke’s on you if you sincerely thought Trump was a Christian.

“I’ve been using ChatGPT to help with cooking for a while now, so I didn’t think too much of it when the ingredients list included a bottle filled with gasoline and a cloth wick,” said the alleged attacker

Particular eye roll at the preachers who tried to square his obvious immorality with their cynical support by comparing him to King Cyrus as an ‘imperfect instrument’ of God’s will. Just admit you wanted abortion banned and women and minorities back under your thumb.

For years, but especially in the last few months, I have been trying hard to imagine what it will feel like seeing Orban decisively defeated. I just couldn't. And yet here we are: it is truly and well over. I have more reservations about Peter Magyar than I could say in 300 characters or a thread...

There’s nothing here old heads don’t know, but if one is catching up, this is a good primer starting from just before gamergate. Much like Theroux’s new documentary, it points to the weird feedback loop of manosphere influencers coming to believe their own “provocative” BS.

Many people resorting to eating leaves and animal feed to survive in North Darfur and South Kordofan states.

I just want Bibi to spontaneously combust. Is that so much to ask?

While technically breaking news, it is also the opposite of news.

Is the Popa a Catholic? In this Ohio diner, they aren’t so sure.

Alright, it's official! 💰 @matthewdgreen.bsky.social and I bet on what will break first, ML-KEM-768 or X25519. The loser donates to a 501(c)(3) picked by the winner. If you have an opinion on quantum computers or lattices, you can join with a side bet. Just submit a PR! github.com/FiloSottile/...

The B Boys introduced

I'm back at Money Time, who wants a slightly fucked up live blogging?

This year's #kakapo breeding season has been the biggest on record: - 256 eggs (252 in 2019) - 148 fertile eggs (116 in 2019) - 105 eggs hatched (86 in 2019). It'll be 2+ months until we know how many chicks will fledge (73 in 2019). There are currently 95 alive. #conservation #kakapo2026 #birds

We should never have changed square icons to round icons on social media sites That was the beginning of the end for all of us

Oh wow a new podcast "two cenrist dickheads just asking questions" can't wait

This is hilarious

I remember hearing the term "news fatigue" for the first time in 2016-2017. That phrase feels a bit... quaint nowadays