Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

Elon Musk is the world's first trillionaire. Here's what that looks like

I love that bats are 30% puppy faces, 30% weird little goblins, 30% eldritch horrors, and 10% all three at once. (📷: Merlin Tuttle, arranged by Bryan Bongey)

Remember when the Republicans were all like, "AOC's Green New Deal is gonna make it so you can't have hamburgers!" And now, their policy is, "You should be grateful that ground beef is 300% more expensive!"

turns out every writer who imagined a dystopian future where authoritarians openly lied to you through the television vastly overestimated the intelligence and commitment of their fictional antagonists

I guess this means he pulte Pulte

The madder that mad king Trump gets about Epstein, the more you can trust that the worst is true. And in the Epstein files. I mean, generally speaking, who would be worried about their release? People who didn’t rape children or people who raped children?

Gonna have to reupholster the couch afterwards

Hi, expert on far-right extremism here, a history of domestic violence and misogyny is one of the strongest predictive variables for violent extremism, especially on the right. We've been raising the alarm on this for DECADES but no one cares.

"AI will solve Canada's productivity crisis" "AI will solve the climate crisis" "AI will prevent the next pandemic" "AI will strengthen democracy" "AI will expand access to education" idk seems like it's usually doing the opposite so far?

sharpen those guillotines, folks

Recap if you missed it

The violent race riots in Belfast are exactly what Trump, JD Vance, and Fox News were trying to make happen to Haitians in Ohio during the campaign and what they wanted to happen to Somalis in Minneapolis as well

he's been dreaming about "taking the oil" for decades. Sacrificing US troops in order to steal oil from the middle east is one of his Big Longstanding Foreign Policy Ideas. He's also very lazy and bluffs constantly so who knows.

Knicks got me thinking maybe I need to start a comeback of my own.

Republicans have already taken $1 trillion out of our healthcare system. They won’t stop until they dismantle it even further and take social security down with it. Americans pay for these programs. They should NEVER be cut just to line the pockets of Trump and the ultra-wealthy.

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SOME PEOPLE (AWFUL): every ceo should die! OTHER PEOPLE (AWFUL): no ceos should die! ME (A WISE JUDGE): we shall cut the ceos in half

working on a gun for trees to use to kill people

THERE IS AN ACTIVE POGROM IN NORTHERN IRELAND. FASCISTS IN SKULL MASKS ARE GOING DOOR TO DOOR PULLING MIGRANTS OUT OF THEIR HOMES AND SETTING THEM ON FIRE.

Commentary: I Work Very Hard, And I Would Like To Try Cake

"Stomp-clap might have coincided with the death of hipster culture; maybe it was even the final nail in the coffin. But arguably the last thing hipsters ever did before going extinct was to resoundingly reject that shit. Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise." Well said.

Fascism attracts mediocre men fearful of being exposed as the frauds they are. Musk is exhibit #1.

Musk buying twitter, Bezos buying WaPo, Ellison buying CBS—all are less profitable now. But they’re political investments that increase the value of the new owners’ portfolios Wealth concentration makes this possible, and that’s one mechanism by which inequality destroys democracy

Can I let you in on a secret? It's easy to create lots of shitty jobs that don't pay well. Yes, the economy added jobs last month, but real wages are dropping. The paychecks of most American workers aren’t covering rising costs — they’re getting poorer. This isn't something to celebrate.

I've surely posted these before, but every time I come across these Art Hupy photographs of Portland's Memorial Coliseum in 1960, as I did today, I stop and swoon. America's greatest midcentury architectural photographer, Julius Shulman, also photographed the Coliseum, but I like these best.

"The Epstein coverup...should be a key part of the upcoming debate on Blanche’s confirmation as attorney general....The vote on Blanche can become, it should become, a vote on Epstein." www.thebulwark.com/p/to-defeat-...

trump take knicks

Without downloading new pics, what is it like to date or be married to you?

This is a devastating interview. Scott Pelley tells the NYT that Bari Weiss directly put a “thumb on the scale” for Trump over the killing of Renee Good. Here’s his explanation of exactly what happened.

taking heart that while old directors on death's doorstep are cashing checks for wheezing "AI is the future we must embrace the slop" the kids just coming up are like "fuck AI it sucks complete ass"

An adaptation of all of Discworld as 41 single season animated series, 1 animated series per book.

Totally unrelated to the article, but this picture instantly reminded me of the cover art for the very excellent The Mercury Program album, A Data Learn The Language (2002)

For Pride I ask you to look at what I think is one of the most powerful pieces of queer art. Electric Fan (Feel it Motherfuckers) By John Boskovich

This thread is crazy. Listen to this: “The DOGE official, private equity investor Jon Koval, said in Schofield’s presence that the purpose of “killing off” the 2.7 million living people was to ruin their lives and push them out of the country.” Illegally declare people dead to ruin their lives.

Cruelty is the point. Thanks to this brave whistleblower’s disclosure, we have more evidence that the Trump Admin used DOGE not just to recklessly slash government programs—they were looking for ways to purposefully hurt people, especially immigrants.

Its starting.

this makes me want to smoke more than peer pressure ever did

This is the inflection point for the political momentum shift in the US

Periodic reminder that Teapot Dome, the worst scandal in American history prior to Watergate, involved $9 million changing hands. That’s adjusted for inflation. This story by itself is 55500% bigger than Teapot Dome. That’s not a typo.

The premise of scaling to X's size being a net good I find extremely dubious. Build a website that's communal, hospitable, and safe. Our experience here will not be enriched by adding 500 million more users. X is a cesspool.

Persepolis is available to read for free on internet archive. archive.org/details/pers... archive.org/details/pers...

It’s a shame no one has ever figured out how to vet a candidate ahead of time

Let’s be clear, because I see a lot of people glossing over this. These allegations are of domestic abuse and physical violence. You could get an order of protection based on these allegations. Domestic abuse isn’t about “hitting,” it’s about using violence and coercion to control your partner.

Saw 'I Love Boosters' last night, and it was good.

THE PLOT TO ENSLAVE AMERICA