the penne opticon

the strait of hormuz needs to have regular, predictable open hours or frankly they are going to lose me as a customer

whale head. raccoon penis. it's glaringly obvious that rfk jr is assembling some sort of Super Animal... and i fear he may soon acquire flamingo legs

The Artemis II astronauts return from their historic 10-day mission around the moon. Christina Koch, Victor Glover, Jeremy Hansen, and Reid Wiseman became the first humans to travel toward the moon in more than 50 years, and set a new record for the farthest distance ever traveled from Earth.

For decades, birthday party clowns folded balloons and played games. John Wayne Gacy is taking a different approach.

Key Sticking points in US-Iranian Negotiations: -Admitting the other exists -Object permanence -Linear time

Me walking out of a movie finding out that Viktor Orbán got his ass voted out:

People in the Budapest Metro, Hungary, shouting: “Russians, go home!”

Magyar: “No mercy, they will need to take responsibility for all their actions.”

They flew 600,000+ miles around the Moon and they landed exactly when and where engineers expected them to land. Every day we're bombarded with all the terrible things humans are capable of doing--following this mission from launch to landing proved that humans are still capable of wonder, too.

Republicans today

...God DAMN this is good.

Suzumo sushi machines.

Therapist: So imagine a post on the Internet. BlueSky user: It makes me angry Therapist: I meant like a joke BlueSky user: I'm even angrier

[eight hours later] ALITO [sitting alone in an unlit courtroom, voice echoing off the marble walls]: or, or, or suppose ISIS sent drones with fertilized embryos, millions of molecular terrorists scattered across Kansas and Montana and Idaho, multiplying and growing and plotting

Yes, the American people, known for their ability to grasp the long view of geopolitical events.

It brings me great pleasure to inform you the word "blurb" is named after a made-up woman named Belinda Blurb whose job is to tell everyone how great a book is

Walz: We will never leave the side of our Somali Minnesotans. Here's our pledge to you, our Somali Minnesotans, your great grandchildren will still be here when that orange clown is in the dustbin of history.

I cannot stress enough how these are PTA moms and soccer coach dads and I can best describe the vibe as “festively bloodthirsty”

Holy New York.

Gorgeous day for #nokings

Ezra Klein: I'm Ezra Klein, and today I'm joined by one of the foremost intellectual theorists of Trumpism. He is an associate editor at the Rancho Cucamonga Review of Ideas and a fellow at the Schlafly Institute of Punitive Economics. [a baked potato in a top hat]: Thanks for having me, Ezra.

FT Exclusive: Traders made bets worth half a billion dollars in the oil market about 15 minutes before Donald Trump’s post touting 'productive' talks with Iran sent the price of crude tumbling ft.trib.al/SVLeLoM

WILE E. COYOTE STATES ROADRUNNER WILL BE CAPTURED SOON IF PLAN IS SUCCESFUL

I know it’s unpopular on this site to point out that Democrats are largely very supportive of trans rights but they are, and we should recognize when they do the right thing

Chelsea Walsh prematurely gave birth after firm rejected work from home request in 2021 amid high-risk pregnancy

North Carolina raising the cost of products sold in state prisons by five cents is a significant increase to incarcerated workers who typically earn between forty cents and $1.25 per day.

Tornado Warning for Cabarrus, NC, Mecklenburg, NC. | Max Hail: 0.75 inches | Expires at 10:15 AM 03/16/2026. Take shelter immediately! Full Text https://tinyurl.com/2yfnnvbb

my take on birth rate discourse: If the only way our species can keep going is by forcing the half of the population born with Unlucky Organs into reproductive slavery, we should go extinct, and good riddance

No, I am not worried about 'declining' birth rates, I accept them as post-modern birth rates, the birth rates that naturally happen once the conditions are set that children can be expected to survive to adulthood reliably and that women are allowed to be educated and become full citizens.

Pro-natalist policy is unpleasant because it’s asking women to expend more reproductive labor in order to solve an economic problem. Kate Manne is very good on this topic: open.substack.com/pub/katemann...

Safe separated infrastructure is a win for everyone, let's have more, not less of it. 📷 @tomflood.bsky.social

America’s Funniest Home Videos is still on the air??

Does being a YIMBY give me the full unwaivering military support of the United States because if it does I’m about to turn haters into craters on the landscape of success

Nekima on the Target boycott.

Several major NC Republicans, including Senate nominee (and ex-RNC chair) Michael Whatley, "face a brewing intraparty revolt ignited by their ties to a convicted sex offender-turned-party leader and financial backer of GOP campaigns." From Asheville Watchdog:

I wrote about The Florsheim Affair, and what kind of man wears the ill-fitting dress shoes his weird boss gave him to work. defector.com/report-presi...

Former Fukushima worker devotes life to abandoned pets. Not far from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, former plant worker Toru Akama tends to dozens of pets abandoned after the catastrophe 15 years ago, work he sees as part of his quest for redemption u.afp.com/SuCM

It takes two to TACO

In North Carolina, D share of midterm primary vote predicts general election results (plot has contested Senate & House races since '14) ~57% of votes Tuesday were Democratic — even considering historical reversion to 50%, such a lopsided result indicative of strong tailwind for Ds in must-win race

Dare Graham Platner to talk with Isaac Chotiner, tell him he would be a huge wuss if he doesn't

Fucking burn it down

"Your money's not here. Your money's in Joe's datacenter, and in Frank's micro cap fund, and in Tim's AI startup"

“Conservatism is not merely dead, fascism has paraded the body around, peeled off its face, and is wearing it as a mask for its own amusement as it does a demented little dance.”

This is what Rumsfeld would call an Unnoem Unnoem

BREAKING: The U.S. government must refund all tariffs charged under President Donald Trump's now struck-down IEEPA tariff regime, regardless of whether they filed a suit at the U.S. Court of International Trade seeking a refund, a CIT judge ordered Wednesday. www.law360.com/artic...