Odd that Gender is a biological, immutable certainty AND something you can lose if you own the wrong dog.

Sean Sherman: “Food systems don’t lie. Restaurants are like canaries in a coal mine, and the whistle is blowing. The danger is here and real.” siouxchef.substack.com/p/fck-ice

LG tells us that it will let users delete the Microsoft Copilot shortcut it installed on newer TVs recently. Reddit users spotted Copilot getting installed on their TVs last week, with no option to uninstall. That’s changing soon www.theverge.com/news/847685/...

Yellow-Red-Blue, by Wassily Kandinsky, 1925 (detail, rotated), 📸 by @riogiancarlo.bsky.social

A major part of having dogs is asking why is that wet

Nobody should call these "erroneous" arrests. It's not happening by accident. Flooding cities with poorly trained ICE thugs to harass and racially profile is the entire point.

A Minneapolis woman & American citizen was arrested early Tuesday after confronting ICE officers over the arrests of three neighbors in north Minneapolis. She appears to be the first observer arrested since ICE launched a Twin Cities immigration surge last week. www.mprnews.org/story/2025/1...

What has ICE been up to since it began terrorizing our community last week with its stupid "Operation Metro Surge"? So glad you asked.

If you ever wondered what GOP gerrymandering looks like in red states with blue cities, I present:

Is this cheese grater conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

youtu.be/npuuTBlEb1U?... can pick up a boulder with relative ease

New HHS guidance

it's not that i ever doubted that being a barista was a skilled position, but my year-long effort to try to produce a half-decent latte at home has convinced me that a good barista is easily more skilled than virtually every c-suite executive on the planet

If I were Eagles QB Jalen Hertz I’d have the jersey number 60 and just scream a B note at everyone on the field

I'm on Sunday duty at @defector.com today! First up, my newser on the airport crisis. Spoiler: Trump is fucking you. defector.com/if-youre-stu...

Man Wouldn't Have Worn Costume To Work If He'd Known He Was Getting Laid Off

A few years ago, I consulted on a LiDAR-based game for a company that was basically doing this. Our universal surveillance has been "priced in" to our collective future without our consent.

Brb, using my car’s phone app to parallel park like an asshole and waste half a car length’s worth of space

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

finally. elizabeth shaffer will bring respect to the c suite

democracy dies in dysentery

they don’t want you to know how they treat prisoners because it will grieve you to know it, which is natural and human, and because of your normal human reaction you will want the system changed. It’s important to them that your natural aversion to how the system works not be engaged.

There is so much power in just ignoring Republican framing and making clear statements of values

slightly ominous mailer from the Red Cross

RIP Kaleb Horton kalebhorton.ghost.io/2025-so-far/

We should all applaud the "bullying" of landlords who try to leverage their power over renters to engage in voter suppression and undermine candidates who support expanding renter rights.

am sure this absolutely sucked to deal with but this also looks like the cover for a killer circa-2009 indie rock EP

Cornhole concerns at the zoning committee: "The cornhole game leads to a continuous thunking noise as the beanbag hits the target. When one goes in the hole there's a loud cry of success."

in retrospect, there’s probably never been a name as threatening as “America Online”

Update: Civil War cancelled due to shooter being demographically uncooperative

I saw a thing the other day that basically said “no matter what prompt you give it, the question an LLM is answering is ‘what would a plausible response to this prompt look like?’”

Banning trans people from owning guns is a really REALLY significant escalation and I think the scariest part about it that's not being discussed at all is that the plan is to declare that trans people are mentally ill Moreover, ICE must be destroyed edition.cnn.com/2025/09/04/p...

Minnesota state fair bunnies to cleanse the timeline

I considered writing a long carefully constructed argument laying out the harms and limitations of AI, but instead I wrote about being a hater. Only humans can be haters.

If something happened to be daughter and in response I was told that she is now "with the person who loved her the most," you could not hold me legally liable for what I would do next.

Today, the investigation my reporting partner Kathryn Cleary and I have been working on for over a year is finally out in Africa Uncensored! africauncensored.online/blog/2025/08...

Use enough energy to power a city block for a month because you can’t look at restaurant menus and remember what you like

cdc announces it will be reversing guidance, now recommends you lift with your back

This chud in the screenshot calling it “Washington” instead of “DC” is where I stopped reading

realizing that driving at/below the speed limit in DC years ago would mean that I wouldn’t hit red lights was revelatory. same here in MPLS. just kick back and drive like you don’t want to kill someone

you think mcgruff ever mauled a kid

"generate a map of the USA with each state named"

Dog Named Murph Lives Up To Name

Scatman John - “Scatman”

Wordle ain’t worth it, friends

Repost if you support trans people and think we're neato

to disable the fucking AI chatbot in Firefox: * go to about:config * set browser.ml.chat.enabled to false

@dbrauer.net peculiar word choice from our pals at the strib, huh?