From the makers of "ChatGPTickleMeElmo"...

It should bother you more than it does that analog clocks have three “hands,” and that the *third* hand is called the *second* hand. We all just let that happen.

I really hate it when scientists keep saying that “we need to rebuild trust in science,” because it implies that scientists are to blame for the mistrust rather than the millions of dollars of dark money that have funded political attacks on science in order to advance a far right agenda.

A woman has been banned from at least seven trendy New York City restaurants, as police said they keep arresting her for ordering lots of food — then refusing to pay the bill.

WAPO EDITORIAL BOARD: “.. These distortions .. are beneath the office of the president.” @washingtonpost.com #Kashoggi www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

they protec but they also attac 🔪 #art

My Nerd Nite talk on lessons from fixing Y2K and how it might get a sequel, part of the 2025 @dragoncon.org Science Track (@dconscitrack.bsky.social), is now available on YouTube. A slightly updated version is also coming soon to @nerdnitepdx.bsky.social... more on that later.

NEW: A panel of federal judge bars Texas from using its redrawn congressional map, which Republicans enacted earlier this year in an effort to shore up their narrow House majority in next year's midterm elections.

“Quiet, Piggy” getting more pickup. @cnn.com @peoplemag.bsky.social @dailymirrornews.bsky.social

NEW: When Andrew Tate landed in the US, Customs & Border Protection seized his electronic devices. But @propublica.org found that a White House official told DHS to return the devices, emphasizing that the request came from the White House. By @robert-faturechi.bsky.social & Avi Asher-Schapiro

2/3 I have made three of my cartoons into new, limited edition prints. You can get them now at www.tomgauld.com/shop

Whoa: A federal court just barred Texas from using its new congressional map, drawn by the GOP to target Dems. "Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map." Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

NEW: US airlines (Delta, United, American, etc) will shut down a program in which it sold hundreds of millions of your flight records to government agencies, including ICE, FBI, ATF, more. Comes after intense lawmaker-pressure and 404 Media's months-long reporting www.404media.co/airlines-wil...

Coming Tuesday... a technology history lesson and future cautionary tale from yours truly, recorded live at Dragon Con... youtu.be/wib8FBoQ93E #y2k #y2k38

We’re looking for a news reporter interested in writing about weather science and weather history for a social platform. This is a really great team and you should join us careers.wbd.com/global/en/jo...

they're going after holocaust survivors

Your last saved meme is your moral philosophy.

He's a 10 but his life, his love, and his lady is the sea

A foreign country bribed the president with a bar of gold. Where are my Originalists at?

TRUNK HARDMEAT!

Before anyone gets too carried away here.

Post your favorite Star Trek character. Wrong answers only.

at one point, i watched a cook county sheriff’s officer (who appears to be in charge) point out a priest in the crowd. he and a couple officers then went into the crowd , dragged him into the street, and arrested him. situation is still tense as crowd jostles with police to get into the street.

this is a far more explicit death threat from people with the actual means to carry it out

Goodness me, I stayed up late reading and it’s already Partially Muscled Skeleton Screaming by the Perimeter Fence Day. Hope you’ve all been good this year!

Not being a bit weird might be the weirdest thing of all 🐈‍⬛🤍

Attention @brennanleemulligan.bsky.social

it's so funny that alex jones was totally right about everything, the government is a bunch of drug-addled pedophiles and masked regime thugs are grabbing people off the streets, and now he has to pretend it's all a hoax

Oreoboros

What I love about SFF Cons is that they are refuges for people to share their joy of whatever nerdy thing they love. It's supposed to be a place of celebration where you can be what you want to be. I hate that creepy con guy ruined it for her. I hate that there are so many creepy con guys.

1) Ethics officials at Fannie Mae investigate how Bill Pulte got Letitia James mortgage docs 2) They send findings to Inspector Gen. of FHFA, which Pulte heads 3) IG sends it to Lindsay Halligan, new USA prosecuting James 4) IG and ethics officials are all fired. www.wsj.com/finance/regu...

"These emails are cherry-picked." "Ok, but you get that it's a problem that your tree has ANY cherries that are emails conspiring with a paedophilic sex trafficker?"

a “Space Force”, if you will

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

Oops

Our CEO will be pardoning one turkey next weekend, in the traditional manner. The other 99 turkeys will be forced to keep working in our Bitcoin mines.

TV conspiracies: we’ve hacked their computers but they’ve perfectly cleaned up the evidence! Real conspiracies: To: conspirator From: famous person Attachment: evidence.png

BREAKING: Rep. Adelita Grijalva signs the Epstein discharge petition, serving as the 218th vote to force the bill to the floor for a full vote of the House.

Letterheads and signage alone would quickly run the bill upward of $1 billion, with a full overhaul likely rising to double that amount.

If you see this, post a #StarTrek

Today I learned that if you turn a canoe upside down, you can wear it like a hat. Because it's cap sized.

we need a department of kerning

When jokes become an EOD deliverable, your joke writing process has to be air tight. @elliottkalan.bsky.social walks us through how he grows jokes from tiny ideas into full-blown laughs. Listen to a new episode of 99% Invisible wherever you get your podcasts 👉 99percentinvisible.org/episode/646-...

Every day I work at Big Tech I understand this guy more and more

The first and last lines of Joni Ernst’s legacy as a human on earth will be that she was instrumental in the confirmation of the Sec of Defense most hostile to women serving in military, and she knew that when she voted for him.

At some point embarrassment MUST come

To be blunt: Before I went on SSRIs, I struggled with 24/7 suicidal ideation and acted on it once a very long time ago. SSRIs literally saved my life. Fuck RFK Jr.

First they came for reproductive rights. Then they came for vaccines. Now they’re coming for mental health. There is zero evidence SSRIs cause mass violence. You know what does? Guns — and the fact that anyone can access weapons that kill hundreds in seconds. #GunReformNow

In times like these, links are needed because it's far too easy to throw up a faked headline. So I'm sliding in to assist with the receipts: www.texasobserver.org/ice-prosecut...