150 people from 50 countries become US citizens at Mount Vernon on🇺🇸’s 250th birthday flip.it/oAsLb4 I’ve attended dozens of these ceremonies; that they are now so rare & ever smaller is as heartbreaking as it is putinous. We must make them routine again—& attend them as if they are public weddings!

Things are going great

he's going to get uploaded to the Chinese cloud

Given the increasingly elaborate and scripted nature of inflight safety instruction videos I'm wondering what the inflight safety instruction video on a TNG shuttle is like

Someone else is going to have to do it, I've got the flu

Don't forget to keep your laptop and cables on hand today in case aliens attack and you find yourself needing to defend earth by uploading a virus

CRITIQUING THE RACIST MISOGYNIST FASCIST USA EMPIRE IS NOT DOOMERISM FFS JFC

Can't imagine how we'll be celebrating in 2276 AD the 250th anniversary of Taylor Swift's wedding

Rude

I can hype this now that I've ordered mine

Can't decide between watching for the first time ID4 or National Treasure with the 13yo tonight.

Seriously, no wonder people spend so much time talking to LLM bots:

I'm being totally sincere here pointing out the validity of Sarah Connor's perspective in T2 & comparing LLM usage: "It would never leave him, and it would never hurt him, never shout at him, or get drunk and hit him, or say it was too busy to spend time with him" THAT SAID [cont]

This is why Data uses and looks at LCARS terminals instead of interfacing directly with the Main Computer fyi news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4877...

i wonder how much ai psychosis is that people have never ever ever had help or labor they can access before (✋) and are just totally unaccustomed to, unused to, overwhelmed by such a world. by having help. man, it feels great.

Alan Turing is so mad right now

Aryna is wearing dark bloomers. Don’t forget Wimbledon didn’t allow this until 2023. And no man has ever played a Wimbledon match with a period.

expecting microsoft to come back after this weekend to declare its independence from videogames

TEN THOUSAND PEOPLE IN FIVE DAYS ICE arrests 10,000 in 5 days, a sharp late-June surge in Trump's deportation push - The Associated Press apple.news/AayPEZ7nIQzi...

You know there's an entire group of people for whom Crockett's Theme has nothing to do with Miami Vice and instead banking? I mean, it's not all work, work, work... youtu.be/dLAzdB1RvTU?...

"oh them? they're the token human" suddenly takes on new meaning

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There are actually millions of third spaces around you at all times, it's just that like the other 12+ dimensions they're rolled up really really small and inside your phone

So his salary depends on not understanding fondue?

This account is awesome

Suddenly to playing football videogames again so playing EAFC26 (sorry) and it still appears to have no difficulty level between "I win by at least 15 goals" and "barely scrape a tie"

One thing I'd like done better here is search of threads: there's some supergirl commentary I want to find again, but there's no good way to find it even though I know specific keywords from the *thread* from a single author because they don't occur in individual posts

If Totenberg were serious she would've placed a bet on kalshi or wherever before hitting publish anyway

star trek tos season 4 episode 3, "A Dark Vision of Masculinity", written by Ezra Klein

NYC currently has a shark problem DC currently has a jets problem there's only one solution

is there nothing Mamdani can't do

Trolling my family by putting on a Pure Moods CD playlist

Conservative Catholics: I have been excommunicated for my sincerely-held conservative views! Me: For opposing abortion? CC: LOL no...no not those views Me: Opposing gay marriage? CC: No, not those views either Me: Which views exactly? CC: Oh, you know the ones apologies to @ndrew.bsky.social

don't make me yell in the corner again

Lately, there’s been a lot of worry over game discs. But did you know there’s one disc that will never let you down? That’s right: I’m talking about Aten, the disc of the sun— the only god you’ll ever need to worship.

Anyway anyone else get their vision wrecked by 300mg of bupropion / Wellbutrin

"Unless I was physically disabled, elderly, or otherwise unable to do my own laundry, I couldn't even fathom paying a robot (or a maid) to do [laundry]" *stares at never-ending apocalyptic laundry landscape of a 2 adult, 13 and 9yo household*

It's Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes but they're NYT Opinions time!

OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS HAD LOW GAS PRICES AND GAS PRICES WILL SOON BE BACK TO RECORD LOW PRICES ENJOYED AT THE PUMP BEFORE OUR VERY SUCCESSFUL EXCURSION IN EURASIA

eesh, football!

it's MELTING!

best home printer 2026 printing character sheets kids (yes, either that brother laser printer or an epson ecotank from costco)

he's a self-driving hole

has he now

Wait, do people not understand this!! This shit means EVERYBODY.

ok this one appeals to my sense of humour xkcd.com/3265/

Features SpudCells and also ‘snack-filled bubbles’ floating around.

Well this is certainly an England game