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You know there will be stories after he leaves office explaining his medical condition and concluding that he should've stepped down sooner and wasn't really fit to work, but they propped him up (and kept it quiet) to keep the republican machinations chugging along. www.latimes.com/politics/sto...

When you expect news of Mitch McConnell dying but Lindsay Graham dies instead just to tide us over.

Nature is healing. www.latimes.com/world-nation...

Succulent growing inside a hollowed-out palm tree stump.

FYI, this is malware. If you see this, don’t do this

My tinfoil hat hot take is I think the effort to get us to value views over interaction is about trying to shift agency away from the user and toward the platform. They want us to value what their algo can do over the relationships we build.

If you ever get the chance to watch classic Looney Tunes shorts in a theater (ideally not the Censored Eleven, those are a bummer to sit through), do it. I saw a bunch of these at the Alex in Glendale years ago & seeing that gorgeous artwork on nice 35mm prints was incredible. I miss Music Box tho!

I don't doubt there are a lot of snakes in the water, but just want to point out that this flock people think are snakes are probably ducks — one of them is flapping their wings towards the back around the 0:14 mark.

Last RP: Setting the main point aside for a minute, I had no idea Yard House was revered by convention-goers, but then again if you've ever been to LACC or the L.A. Live complex for a game, AX, WonderCon, SIGGRAPH, etc., there's not much else there. 😅 lamaterial.com/p/anime-expo...

Some more blood boiling context: On October 1, 2025, the City of Los Angeles broke ground on the historic, $2.6 billion Los Angeles Convention Center Expansion and Modernization Project. We are spending money we don’t have to improve a space we aren’t utilizing appropriately to begin with.

I'm not sure if younger generations can fully appreciate how weird of an arc Google's trajectory has been from its inception until now. They started out w/ a great search engine that cut out the ad clutter, and became an engine pushing that same clutter decades later. www.adweek.com/media/publis...

TV writers were right in 2023 and are being proven more right every day — there was a stable television model that made everyone lots of money and put out good shows. Then execs with no understanding of the industry confused the production model and the distribution model, and they blew it all up.

Guess I'll have to see both corpse flowers in bloom this year...😁 www.latimes.com/lifestyle/st...

Just make it exist first, you can make it good later

Reminds me of an unfortunate headline and photo combo at KU when we got a new football coach whose daughter attended there. Bonus: she was in one of my classes, and we got to see her reaction (from a distance) when her friends pointed out the article to her — almost matched the photo's expression.

Old joke of mine from Twitter: Somehow I never noticed that Ritsuko and NERV were ahead of the curve on the racing bucket seat office chair trend.

yeah, that eject spring works

Love Is Every Where BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE BEWARE

The only work from Tony Rayns I know is his Chungking Express commentary, but I found it weird that people called him a critic when it sounded like he was as much an industry insider (if not moreso) than as an outside writer, critic, or scholar. Maybe "evangelist" is a more accurate title?

I was wondering why Jiro's face looked familiar, and now that I've looked him up, I remembered he played Mad Holy in Blue Blazes. This sucks. unseen-japan.com/sato-jiro-ha...

If Nintendo were f̶o̶o̶l̶i̶s̶h̶ wise and hired AC-bu to animate something for them, it would probably start out looking something like this (the final result would be way crazier though).

Our access to historical records is directly affected by this closure. Thanks @chicagoarchivists.bsky.social for their attention to this. blockclubchicago.org/2026/07/06/c...

Reconstituting old, dried up Prussian blue watercolor paint is like trying to liquify a gummy bear using just water and a blunt-tipped stick.

It’s 100x worse for China because so much of it is stage-managed. There was an influencer who realized this a year or two ago in their trip to Xijiang and well, better late than never

It’s a bit like the lovely stories of people visiting the US for the World Cup. Sure, there are absolutely amazing sceneries and the people are extremely friendly, that’s the America one dreams to be, and you should bask in that. But…

Happy birthday to Bill Watterson, the creator of Calvin and Hobbes! Born on July 5, 1958.

I saw a circular rainbow! (Skies look very grey b/c I set my exposure comp. low to avoid blowouts.)

God-fucking-dammit: chaosfem.tw/@jasmine/116... (Mullvad's been my VPN for a while, but not for much longer)

I feel like I should repost this every day until everyone reposts it every day and demands this simple change with big impact

The NPS will launch 850,000 fireworks in the middle of the night. (Last year, they launched 7,000) That will dump perchlorates and heavy metals into the Potomac River and cause the amount of soot and smoke particles to skyrocket (pardon), at great danger to any creature that breathes.

We talk about revisionist history going on with games or books and films all the time, but I never before considered the Cubs' status prior to their World Series curse to be among the revisionist subjects.

Here, hear it from the man himself.

The feds are coming after 99 Ranch. 😭 www.latimes.com/business/sto...

I always found this exchange very, very funny When a 12yo pitches a kitchen sink game to you, and you don't want to rain on their parade. But the 12yo is a 50-year-old WW2 history buff pacifist who loves war machines & grew up under the US occupation. And is also the most famous animator alive

Feels like in the next 5 years, PlayStations are only going to consist of a big PAY ME button, it'll be entirely optional to click, everyone online will say "Who actually presses this? This is the dumbest thing ever", and somehow Sony will still be raking in profits from people pressing it.

오…… 시대를 생각하면 크게 놀랍진 않지만 실망스러운 건 어쩔 수 없다

This is exactly how I remember the novel, incredible

Tonight I'm playing the Les Misérables fighting game

This video is always worth watching, but the LOUD part is no joke (and it's immediate too) — start your volume at just above 0 and gradually work up from there.

We are about to get the best redux of the 2012 San Diego 4th of July Fireworks Incident ever

Algeria fans made a "Thank You Lawrence" banner for their last group game. Rock Chalk Algeria

......... Um. asia.nikkei.com/business/tra... (I think this is subscribers-only, I couldn't read past the lead sentence.)

Sorry, but I only have so much patience for talking past Europeans about why they don't have more A/C. Maybe I'll remember to unmute after a week or so.

*smokes imaginary cigarette while sad jazz music plays somewhere*

YEP YEP YEP. This is why I do my powerpoint on why FANS AND AUDIENCE ARE DIFFERENT THINGS. and why as a creator, if you dont know the difference, you're gonna have a badtime.jpg when it comes to making choices.

a great dissection of why a lot of fandom drama doesn't only boil down to "these people are thinking too much about [insert series here] and need to touch grass." there's another layer to the way folks get obsessed (for parasocial/self-important rewriting/clout reasons, etc) that gets glossed over