Even when they happen it sucks: 1: Demand the majority of funding from gov subsidies 2: Devote 1/3 of budget and half of site to structured parking 3: Fill storefronts with the same mid-market chains you can find all over suburbia 4: Lose money hand over fist 5: Demand bailout, get it 6: Leave

Holy CRAP. This is unreal. The point of pre-validation data is knowing what “good” results are for that product - how many people are redoing assays because they think it’s their fault that their blots are smeary? And what does it tell people that the “only” route to perfection is to lie? 🧪

i was visiting a neighborhood bar in boston when a roving gang of elite college professors strode in acting like they owned the place. they saw me ordering a domestic lager and shouted "this motherfucker's not chasing novel gustatory experiences!" and started beating me with heavy wooden rulers

Peak car-brained infrastructure! Think of how much less space this would take up if those hedges were bicycles instead

Musk v Altman JUDGE: The jury has sent a question and the answer is no, the death penalty is not "available for both sides" please return to the jury room and limit your consideration to civil damages.

Regrettably, Prosecution of Second-Dumbest Motherfucker Alive Is A Political Show Trial That Must Be Begrudgingly Opposed Out of Principle

a beautiful and moving tribute. I’m weeping openly

Bluesky’s current main character is Posting Through It in a way that is a bit unhinged, yes… but autistic food aversions can be *intense* and NT parents who Don’t Get It can create a lot a lot of traumatic memories by insisting on a clean plate. I don’t endorse their position, but I understand it.

Buttons, Butt-butt, Butt Butt Butthole Buttholington, Murder Mittens, His Eminence, Jefferslim Poobinchoops

Interesting, but not a drop-in replacement for most plastics - especially thermoplastics. Rather than melt processing, this system requires creation of a gel that has to be placed in a mold and treated with ethanol for several hours to harden it.

Planners only want one thing and it's disgusting.

God *damn* that looks good

🎶 hideous, in their apotheosis! 🎶

Generational tweet that might even spawn a school of architecture.

AHAHHAHA IT'S WORKING Just need to implement some route pruning logic to avoid a bunch of roads running in the same general direction...

*Laser targeted* at my sense of humor, good god

Just an evening of completely normal DM things, like learning NumPy to generate a road network connecting the settlements that you created with an algorithm taking into account arable land and water availability. Completely. Normal.

Further hate to the way all sports media is now talking about-head segments with greasy podcast bros Zooming in from their home office to tell you what their favorite parlays of the day are. This shit used to be fun

On today’s episode of LinkedIn Lunacy, uhhhhhh

"This is why I need my Fuhrerbunker!" shrieks man who is pathologically incapable of asking the next question

Not that they would have the stones for it, but: heckle him. Relentlessly, mercilessly, constantly. Mock his makeup. Mock his incontinence. Mock his frailties and his failing mind. He wants to cow a captive audience, but if they want to they can destroy him.

Oh good, it’s finally Infrastructure Week

a+++ pedantic footnote

Not sure what they think they're going to be able to do with the combined $79 million they've got now from selling their shoe business and securing a loan. Under current market conditions that's just about enough for 128 entire Gee Bees of DDR5 RAM

Coming out of agnostic retirement to rejoin the Counter-Reformation on the side of the papists is not how I expected my fifties to go.

tfw you’re doing the “global pariah state” speedrun and it’s going so fast that the sportswashing reputation buffs don’t work anymore

Babe wake up, there's a new Catholic schism

I propose that, like the Hubble Constant, Lizardman's Constant is increasing over time

Yeah, I'm not even seeing this much. The volume of incoming retaliatory fire is pushing Iron Dome to its breaking point, the IDF is mired in another expeditionary conflict in Lebanon, and Israel is even more of a pariah state than before. This is a war to keep Bibi out of prison, nothing else.

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!

“And when you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and on the street corners to be seen by others. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full. But when you pray, go into your room, close the door and pray to your Father, who is unseen."

I am cursed to need LinkedIn for my career, but blessed to have made the acquaintance of many interesting folks, which means every once in a while I get a glimpse at French Train LinkedIn in between AI-slop drivel about 🚀disrupting 🏗️the construction industry 🤖with chatbots

The Tank From Battlezone, brought to you by The OMA Guy's Nephew

I wanted to make a questionable "No Russian" joke but realized that these fashy embryos might have still been in diapers when that installment of CoD came out.

The @sarahseeandersen.bsky.social “heckin good puppet” strip except it’s “pegnate,” “pregante,” “prangent”

given the modern conservative fascination with Sparta it's at least a little funny that they've engineered a situation in which Persia is able to level a dramatically uneven battlefield by forcing the conflict into a narrow pathway

Brand-newest of brand-new sentences

*first day on arrakis, haven't got the hang of walking without rhythm* *hear a low rumbling* worm (muffled but becoming less so): THEY CALL ME DR. WORM GOOD MORNING HOW ARE YOU I'M DOCTOR WORM I LIKE TO PLAY THE DRUMS *as i am swallowed by worm* I THINK I'M GETTING GOOD BUT I CAN HANDLE CRITICISM

A moment of silence for my 473rd-great grandpa Thag, please

That feeling when you're rooting against your retirement savings because Line Go Down is the only threat with any leverage over the idiots in charge to make them stop doing apocalyptically bad things.

And after flushing $70+billion down the drain on Miiverse In Goggles, Meta said “hold by beer” and rolled even more money into generative AI…

Waiting patiently for OSINT footage of cruise missile strikes on insurance company HQs…

Me, imagining a fantastically grimdark tableau: yes, this is gonna be good Me, six hours of writing later: ah fuck, this is just The Cube

Found this scrolling back through old posts and am still salty that nobody appreciated my killer aerodynamics pun.

Glassholes 2: Pervert Boogaloo

RETVRN but to the days when wealthy idiots used to have doomed fantasies that were only self-destructive instead of world-ending

One grandpa went from rural lineman to mainframe programmer to upper management over a decades-long career with the Phone Company. The other was a Marine turned Secret Service agent who was on the protection details for five Presidents, started a courier service, then retired to a cattle ranch.

“It sounded like an airplane crashing into the rocks!” says bystander, of airplane crashing into rocks