Age verification? When I was a kid, Republicans wanted to impeach the President over sexual impropriety.

There are many things to celebrate about the comedy of @joshjohnsoncomedy.bsky.social, but one that's I've been particularly appreciating in the last several sets he's posted to YouTube is the way he's clowning on Rogan re: the comedic versatility of the stool as a prop.

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/moneyc... #smbc

“Shocking” (air-quotes, eye roll)

Nobody is trying to take away from the monstrosity of what Epstein and his circle did to women and girls. What's blowing peoples' minds as they dredge through these files, though, is the way in which this pedophile cabal wielded power and influence around the world.

Hooray for tacos!

Given the *wild* leftward swing recently seen in the Fort Worth special election, the Trumpian gerrymandering effort might well be set to blow up in his face.

worth noting that the second rich people stopped being afraid of mobs tearing them limb from limb, they stopped building libraries and opera houses and stuff and started ripping the copper wiring out of the walls of society instead

Greg Abbot frantically Googling “gerrymander 30 point swing what happens”

Newly Unsealed Batch Of Epstein Estate Photos Contains Rare Holographic Dershowitz

Good god, I already can barely stand to hear more than ten seconds of Alex Jones at a time, as filtered through Knowledge Fight. If I listened to that shit straight and uncut I'm pretty sure I'd black out and then come to in a strange alleyway covered in other peoples' blood

But wanting to justify himself, he asked Jesus, “And who is my neighbor?” Jesus took up this question and said, "well, first off, definitely not the plumbers. As for sparkies, well..."

Sure is fun from the posting-ineffectually-into-a-featureless-void end of the follower count spectrum to watch a bunch of people who intentionally broadcast their thoughts to tens of thousands multiple times a day that Actually This Is Bad And You Don't Want It

for reasons not totally clear to me, in the 60s, the annual chess tournament in Wijk aan Zee (the 2026 edition is going on right now!) was covered by Dutch press photographer who all went insanely hard on it

Going to war with Norway for Greenland over being snubbed by a Swedish prize committee is insane. It’d be like invading Afghanistan and Iraq over an attack by Saudi-financed terrorists, a thing that has never happened

For a certain kind of comfortably middle-class white guy, to an extent “politics” has always been irrelevant. You stay in your bubble of other people with enough wealth to never struggle that much and your world keeps chugging along no matter who is running things in Washington.

Shit's turbofucked when you're at the point of educating children about today's Tactical Recognition Flash in order to distinguish between their safe ride home from school and the governmental child kidnapping squad

If it wasn’t the last viable job-hunting platform in my industry I’d be off LinkedIn in a heartbeat, but every once in a while the lunatics serve up some entertaining slop. Who wants to go on the “NASDAQ For Ideas” to invest in Seasteading-But-Even-More-Insane?

Probably not coincidental that CEOs (a group in which Dark Triad traits are notoriously over-represented) are pushing this shit in the face of evidence that it makes their businesses worse and less productive.

On the one hand, they *absolutely* wanted to. On the other, it's *mighty weird* that right when the files were supposed to be released, they decided to kick off two international conflicts and escalate a domestic one. (Please don't construe this as DON'T GET DISTRACTED-posting, though!)

the problem with an untrained secret police squad that shoots people in their cars isn’t that they’re untrained

This is a great distillation of the current crisis, but the last paragraph is most cutting. White supremacists' main beef was that belonging to the in-group no longer conveyed special privilege -- now under Trump, actual dunces can mobilize the state to destroy lives with a mere accusation.

That R-11 radiant barrier paint sure looks like it's working great, doesn't it? LEED points well earned! (Footnote 2 in this article from Building Science Corporation, if you're lost... buildingscience.com/documents/in...)

While it's been beaten to death that the US does not currently acknowledge the jurisdiction of the ICC, I will wholeheartedly throw my support behind the first Dem to campaign on boxing up everybody involved and shipping them off to the Hague in 2029.

So as I understand it, Trump had the military swoop in and kidnap the Venezuelan President and then immediately exfil. I can find no reporting on ongoing US presence on Venezuelan soil... but Trump is talking like he nabbed *one guy* and that means he now owns the whole country?

People have been using the phrase “there is no bottom” as a condemnation when we should have been using it as a warning. There is no low they will not stoop to in pursuit of power and wealth. *There is no bottom.* Make your decisions accordingly.

I can pick many a nit with Dune: Awakening, but Funcom's art direction is not one of them. You can do some amazing stuff with the base building system, and the Atreides faction tileset is straight-up Wrightian at times. Also, check out those waffle slabs!

BREAKING: Explosions felt across New York City as full socialism begins

Even in 2012-2014 when I was still in the dating pool, there seemed to be very few conservative-leaning people out there who didn't also hold repellent moral views. (At the time, OKCupid was great for filtering them out since you could scan their survey responses to see how hateful they were.)

Star BYU Player Suspended After Testing Positive For Coffee https://theonion.com/star-byu-player-suspended-after-testing-positive-for-coffee/

Apologies to the spirit of my great-great grandmother-in-law, who appeared in a dream to give my wife the recipe for the latkes I am currently slathering in pepperoni like some sort of Lunchables pizza

This DuPont livery is what I saw spinning out of the smoke cloud at me when the Big One happened around lap 130 of a full-length Talledega 500 on Papyrus’ “NASCAR Racing,” circa 1998. Jeff Gordon was dead to me after that.

The #1 movie from when you were 10 years old is how your 2026 will go. Feel like this is a bit on the nose given the Architecture Discourse 'round here the last few days. Wouldn't be mad, though.

The TNG-era Federation must be a bizarre entity to the Aliens-of-the day they drop in on. There you are, the Space Caricatures about to put the righteous smack down on your hated foes the Astral Pastiche, when a heavily-armed cruise ship appears in space over your planet and hails your leaders.

oh my god

What are the odds that they did in fact send him out to declare war on Venezuela, but his spongy brain lost track of that talking point by the time cameras were rolling?

RETVRN but it’s to MS Office 2003

Look, if Oprah wants redemption for all the monsters she's created, Dr. Oz and John of God are still out there.

Eliezer Yudkowsky reading the headline and having a crisis of identity

This one's been rolling around in my head a bit and I think I want to refine it - how about a sliding scale based on the ratio of the stolen value versus the victim's net worth? Steal $100m from Elon Musk, that's petty larceny... Steal $100 from a single mom, straight to the electric chair

Behold, the most contented dog on Earth

The answer is “Cluster B personality disorders” but I’m gonna guess that’s too straightforward for the Atlantic

Yet another deadly and preventable high-rise fire, and more evidence for the pile that flammable materials don't belong on the exteriors of towers -- whether they're there only there temporarily as in this case, or as part of the cladding as at Grenfell.

Don’t look at me, I just want to adapt the Porotherm concept to US masonry…

*klaxons, flashing lights* NEW IMPERIAL RADCH STORY, NEW IMPERIAL RADCH STORY THIS IS NOT A DRILL ALL HANDS TO READING STATIONS

The smoke and it's flames now, and the frame is crashing to the ground. Oh, the huge elephant brothel!

Guess now's a good time to float my joke account idea: GyreAI! Gyre would not be AI, it would be Autistic Intelligence... which is to say I'd wait to be summoned to random threads via mention and then infodump for several posts before signing off with some minutiae about high bypass turbofans.

As an undiagnosed autistic kid with computers as my Special Interest, I once thought of myself as an enlightened superintelligence, and that the world would be a better place if those of us who Knew Computer ran the world one day. Then techbros made it happen, and it turns out to be not so great.

Here we see a rare subspecies of the LinkedIn Lunatic, "architectus viridibaptismata." Using planet-destroying AI, it has applied the visual signifiers of natural beauty to objects where they do not belong, presumably attempting to lure in its prey "stultus argentarius" -- the common idiot VC guy.