You've just opened a Star Trek themed restaurant. What are you calling it? The Gray Earl, and it’s a pub.

It’s sad when monopolies do this. Heinz spent hundreds of millions to convince people that their product is the “right” ketchup and everything else is a knock off. Being proud of getting manipulated is a weird flex.

Space weather forecasters issued an alert on Tuesday for incoming severe solar storms that could produce colorful northern lights and temporarily disrupt communications. https://to.pbs.org/3LFjGcV

Some really troubling trends for reading and literacy in general - and not just in the US. Pretty much everyone is being affected, even those who are avid readers, due to dumbing down of test and the simplification of printed material. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gw9R...

What he said: 💯 🎯

I’m really looking forward to the World Series being over so people stop streaming the games at max volume in every queue and public space.

"There's a war out there, old friend. A world war. And it's not about who's got the most bullets. It's about who controls the information. What we see and hear, how we work, what we think... it's all about the information!" - Cosmo, "Sneakers" (1992)

That article is the syphlitic drippings of a diseased mind made manifest in print. I grew up on TNG and it was my mom who got me into it. Every week we would be sure to end dinner with time to go watch the latest episode as it aired.

Well, that was an unexpected $0.60 find at the record store.

*sigh* Someone please make a browser extension that sniffs search results and flags likely AI slop and SEO garbage that pings your search terms back at you before linking you to an unrelated site. I'd actually pay for something that sifts through that crap so I don't have to.

Apparently we are cancelling anyone who speaks ill of Charlie Kirk. So, fuck that racist, misogynist, dropout loser. Major small-dick energy, no wonder he wanted a society where women were just sex dolls, he couldn't compete sexually with real men. Plant him ass-up so sycophants can lick his crack

I'm a self-admitted AI/LLM/Big Data skeptic (bordering on paranoia), but if you make your digital assistant AI thingy sound like Majel Barrett and answer to "Computer" instead of Google/Gemini/Siri/whatever-crap-marketing-came-up-with, I'm willing to come to the dark side.

Something uplifting and positive today!

Man With the Golden Gorn. Way of the Gorn. Gorn Baby Gorn.

Top Gorn

And who the fuck put him there you barely-sentient shambling colostomy bag?!

New Record Day! I had to buy a bottle of gin to get it. Don't threaten me with a good time!

Could we stop making everything worse? www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pp9M...

That's it, I'm done with the news. The Onion is all I need anymore.

What’s the term for this again? Ah, yes. “Snowflakes.”

The Dark Crystal. Skeksis are the stuff of nightmares.

As RFK Jr. promotes a new initiative to find the causes of autism, ProPublica found that he has taken aim at research trying to do just that. “We need to stop trusting the experts,” he said.

Future historian: Well, the South started sending its National Guard troops into Washington, D.C. because a 19-year-old named Big Balls was assaulted by two 15-year-olds. Please stop laughing this is serious

The GOP in a nutshell.

GENIUS.

Someone updated this xkcd: xkcd.com/2347/

The moment he named his platform “Truth Social” we were headed this way.

Keep the two distinct in your head.

Just one LP, as a treat. Free shipping over $100? Ohhh, limited edition preorder section! Sure, why not get colored vinyl, just for fun? Fuck. I wonder what flavor ramen I have left for dinner?

Hey, Austin-area folks: help ID these three dudes who assaulted a trans woman, her friends and even a good samaritan who tried to get them to go away at Barton Springs. www.instagram.com/p/DMq22NstA9...

A guy from Reno was boasting about how the city sat atop the largest aquafer in N America, so the are could keep developing. He seemed genuinely surprised when I told him that was a consumable, non-renewable resource.

Yes, "toxic empathy" is surely something Jesus would have warned against. The same man who summarized the entire Talmud as "the greatest of these commandments is Love." 🙄

www.npr.org/2025/07/24/n... From the party of States' Rights™: Overrule local policy, remove social services and safety nets, then criminalize your victims into private prisons for profit. It won't just be immigrants in concentration camps this time next year.

asia.nikkei.com/Business/Tec... AI is just not ready to be trusted with critical decisions & information. "Go fast, break stuff" worked when the only thing at stake was your startup, but this is an existential crisis and humanity's understanding of reality is at stake. Techbros are not trustworthy

As usual Picard comes to the front

As if we needed another reason that Krypto is a Good Boy www.thewrap.com/superman-202...

They will try to tell you, “Resistance is futile.” It is never so.

Star Trek The Original Series and Movies

I just saw a comedian describe America as “The Escape Room of Countries” and I see no lies.

a nation on edge holds its breath as the former host of celebrity apprentice huddles with his advisors, the wrestlemania ceo and the former co-host of fox & friends weekends

Anyone else getting flashbacks to the '90s .com boom and bust? I'm seeing the same frenzy of investment, marketing, and application of AI that I saw then for anything digital or web-based. It's like there's a race to be the first to invest in anything with "AI" painted on the side. Popcorn anyone?

A polite bigot is a bigot nonetheless. A true warrior knows that courteous words do not dilute the poison, but only serve to conceal it until it has spread. Civility in the service of hate deserves no polite response.

www.politico.com/news/2025/06... Trump regime openly planning to defy the courts and Constitution. The only hope we have left is military commanders who are willing to disobey Trump and follow the law. When the military is deciding who to follow democracy has already failed.

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From @dsa.la on IG (with alt text)

Straight up Mafia tactics, not even trying to hide it anymore. www.cnbc.com/2025/06/07/t...

I told you that the foreshadowing this season was lazy and forced.

The abusive breakup of Musk and Trump playing out on public social media posts nourishes my soul in a way I didn't know it needed.

slate.com/life/2025/05... A very good article from @Slate that does more than blame a generation for "killing" a thing. I disagree with the author that anything of value is being lost. After work Happy Hours create inequity and in-groups in the workplace; people feel pressured to attend.