“Everyone has their own method of coping, some more effective, or self-destructive, than others...” He gives you a meaningful look.

One of my favorite ttrpgs is The Veil. Each roll is modified by an emotion, so players have to stop to consider how they feel before every action. "I hit him back." Okay but why? Are you scared, angry, hurt? Do you feel powerful because you can? You must know to continue.

I couldn't find my earbuds, so I played the loud chirp to find them, and they started ringing in my ear.

"Why haven't researchers proved the null hypothesis?" and other deep thoughts from the CDC.

morning! so, it's my birthday today and I'm now 50 (yikes) but it turns out i have a present for YOU! a new episode of @americanmedieval.bsky.social w/ the exceptional @sarahebond.bsky.social! we talk dinosaurs & the American obsession w/ Rome (among other things...) Listen now!

I hope they leave his boots on on the day they lay him down. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B90s...

Geography of Nowhere. It wasn't groundbreaking analysis, but it neatly packaged a lot of urban planning ideas. I returned from a semester in Europe to my US college town, and I realized how *wrong* everything seemed, and it gave me a vocabulary to understand why.

If you see an otter stealing a surfboard, no you didn't. www.upi.com/Odd_News/202...

Another incredibly shameful article from the NYT. They spent months portraying the protests as antisemitic and violent, and then they write about how the students regret not doing as much good as they hoped. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/u...

People imagine picking up and finding *something better* is an easy solution. But how is that supposed to work, when all your time and energy goes to staying alive? You have almost nothing to set aside to actually fight your way out.

Every young Republican right now:

Disney will probably be really cool about Grok using their princesses in porn.

Fontina is the best cheese for grilled cheese and it's not even close.

add an 'l' to change the meaning of a movie Superbald

Can anyone help me inscribe the entire text of Infinite Jest on a bullet?

This is why we got off Facebook to share photos of my kids. It was a pain to get everyone to install a new app, but man was it worth it.

Metroidvanias are either Protestant or Catholic. Castlevania? Catholic, of course. Metroid? Protestant. Blasphemous is Catholic. Dead Cells, Protestant. Hollow Knight is Protestant, but Hollow Knight: Silksong is Catholic. That's why people are complaining the game is hard. Cause it's Catholic now.

Stagflation, anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, new Star Wars franchise, President doing crimes, national guard deployed to American cities. If the Steelers can put together a solid defense we're back in business.

In case you’re not done celebrating, here’s a spectacular essay from Defector, in which James Dobson is literally compared to Satan.

I’m sorry Ms. Jackson (oooh) I am

Since nothing matters anymore, Massachusetts should issue me a letter of marque. I promise to be cool about it.

ECHO MAKER - “Capital does not believe it can fail, which is why it must fail.” VOLITION - So young. So *unbearably* young… HALF LIGHT - Why do you see the two of them with their backs against a bullet-pocked wall, all of a sudden?

New ALAB dropped just in time for my 12 hour flight

This, on the dangers of AI for the classroom, is excellent engelsbergideas.com/essays/a-war...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

No NYT, it's not a Hitchhiker's reference.

Ms. Rachel had the same arc as Ta Nehisi Coates where learning the basic facts of the situation made her go “this is unambiguously wrong” and it freaks out the credentialists who think serious people are supposed to say it’s complicated

Finally some good news for once. www.404media.co/the-universe...

Q: What's the difference between Elon Musk and famous Nazi rocket scientist Werner Von Braun? A: Werner Von Braun was a rocket scientist.

I really wish I could describe GenZ what it felt like growing up in a miracle. My grandfather on my mother's side was a dentist. He had a grand encyclopedia collection and it was just this incredible thing. You could pick up a random book and go to a random page and just be regaled with information

Pro-natalists: you need to have at least 10 kids Normal people: why, are you expecting half of them to die before puberty due to lack of modern health and sanitation? Pro-natalists: you're never gonna believe what we also advocate

Things are bad, so take some time to enjoy the little things.

A big gripe liberals have with reactionary movements is not the violence and destruction they bring, but that the reactionaries are inefficient and incompetent when executing the violence and destruction. It's a pitch to the ruling class that they can be more effective managers of empire.

You can tell Bluey is a fantasy show because an archaeologist and an airport security worker have a home with a playroom like this.

This place used to be communists and titties. Now it's liberals and no titties. No point having 25 million people on your website if 24 million of them suck shit.

This is a Nazi speech with Nazi policies, delivered by a fucking Nazi.

You know what's good practice for acquiescing to fascism, tho? Acquiescing to your government's active support for genocide.

Under Trump, we have finally gotten rid of minimum-variance unbiased estimators for being too woke.

The funny thing about reddit is that ultimately it's run by unpaid volunteer labor, so the power of admins is tempered by their desire for people to keep working for free.

Well, well, well… look who’s mismanaged all of their waking hours again

Democrats have learned nothing the past 8 years. Not one god damn thing.

Biden leaves the Democratic Party an empty husk that has forsaken its claim to all moral beliefs. www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/stand-for-...

Bouncer at exclusive underground club: what's the secret handshake? Me: [does the secret handshake] Bouncer: and your 2-factor authentication? Me: [pulling out hamster, who also does the secret handshake] Bouncer: come on in

Back in the day, we'd spend 50 hours getting the coffee maker to interface with a Linux box. Now I just want to buy a toaster that doesn't need to connect to my wifi.

Adobe: "AI will make creatives obsolete!" Wall St.: "Wait, who uses your products?" Adobe: "..."