Can confirm

fox just had a banner referring to mamdani's planned grocery store as "trader zo's," and one must admit that's a good bit

The thing about Platner is that he'll screw up, make some statement, and it's supposed to be fine. Has he met with disabled folks in Maine? Met with advocacy groups? Understood the harm of the word and how the disabled are under attack? He never does the work required to be worthy of redemption.

This is so fucking stupid. www.gadgetreview.com/new-federal-...

Sen. Mike Crapo blocked Sen. Elizabeth Warren's last-ditch attempt to preserve the IRS's free Direct File program. In the last election cycle, Crapo was the top GOP congressional recipient of campaign contributions from the corporate PAC of TurboTax's parent company.

Booker? Schiff? Slotkin? Kaine & Warner? Shaheen? Persuasion & protest works! The 7 Dem Nos: Chuck Schumer & Kirsten Gillibrand (NY), Chris Coons (DE), Richard Blumenthal (CT), John Fetterman (PA), Catherine Cortez-Masto & Jacky Rosen (NV). For those running for reelection, enjoy getting primaried!

Peace activist, 91, walks across Ireland in protest against US military stopovers Lelia Doolan, who finished 220km trek at parliament gates, says use of Shannon airport violates Irish neutrality www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

A decade ago, I wrote that tech tycoons were on a path towards being considered the new robber barons. Now that 750k tech workers have been laid off, it was inevitable things would get rough. medium.com/humane-tech/... When it hits a million, they’re gonna need Pinkertons whenever they go outside.

They've literally made horror movies about this, but if we tried to stop it you might have to walk 300 feet from your parking spot to your front door. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Join us Tuesday for a protest in Albany. We’re coming to expose Hochul further and stop her from raising our bills and increasing pollution by gutting the climate law. Gas is expensive. Solar is cheap. We need the legislature to stop her RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/hochu...

Gillibrand absolutely MUST GO. Who will primary her in this state?

gonna need 3-5 business years to recover from the fact that "stop posting about teleporting" is a real order someone had to give

So glad Reese is pretending to teach women about GenAI out of the goodness of her heart, when I assume anyone could simply ask AI for some quick tips on how to use it. Huh. Funny. 🤑

Seeking Chinese-fluent lawyer in/near Nassau County, NY

We'll say this: Having your AI Val Kilmer puppet whisper "Don't fear the dead, and don't fear me" in a movie trailer is a bold choice.

Your cue: random TV scene that you think about a lot. Go! ❤️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=VQhr...

It's so bad they won't even brief Congress.

A chance find in a London archive has allowed a researcher to pinpoint the exact location of William Shakespeare’s London home for the first time. https://cnn.it/4ceRkkT

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Suck it, Robert Moses. Witness your nightmare: public transit to JFK

Drop your crime-fighting Catholics:

Oh: A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.

the fact that legislators are trying to say that computers are devices that require id verification and tracking to use should put fear into EVERYONE. FIGHT AGAINST THIS.

Leo, former head of the Augustinian order, visits the site where Bishop Augustine (future saint) developed foundational texts to catholic just war theory, about which convert JD Vance is trying to popesplain right now.

Yeah, I think one of the most incredible things about the pope-off is that when previous popes have done similar things, it had to go through a translation barrier, but no nuance and no shade is lost when the American pope is being bitchy [complimentary]

I sincerely hate what men are making me feel about men. I WANT to believe there are good men out there. But Jesus CHRIST. Sure, not all men, but the "not all" part is vanishingly small and apparently smaller than we ever thought.

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Congrats to all humans with some actual brain cells for avoiding SantaCon like the plague! (Also: Imagine spending any $$ on something with “con” in its name lol.)

"And the king will say to them in reply, ‘Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.’" --- Matthew 25:40

The more I've thought about it, the more challenging it becomes. Viktor Orbán's successor, Péter Magyar, has to encourage pro-democracy news media, and leave space for genuine criticism while battling the remains of the Orbán regime. www.euronews.com/my-europe/20... via @brianstelter.bsky.social

A billion dollars is the socio-economic equivalent of a loose nuke, and we should work to prevent the acquisition of the former with the same urgency and ruthlessness we use to prevent the acquisition of the latter.

‘Slow Horses,’ ‘Black Mirror,’ ‘The Crown’ Directors Confront Streamers Over Pay: ‘Royalties Are a Lifeblood’ variety.com/2026/tv/glob...

see: recycling and how plastic and petrochemical companies made *their* mass pollution each of our personal individual problems

“Hey man, we gotta quit flaking. Let’s get up sometime soon!” “Definitely!” — two people who will never see each other again

“AI natives” That’s not a thing You just made that up

The absence of influential nuns in his life is screamingly palpable.

Or AI video.

The only thing sillier than pivoting to video is pivoting to AI

that clavicular guy is a nightmare racist but he's also starting to cross into lolcow territory. a severely mentally ill 20-year-old who got sucked into a really bad part of the internet at 14 (when he started *injecting steroids*) and no one in his life seriously intervened

we don't have to adopt incel terminology even to critique people who use it. we don't have to ironically talk about "mogging"

I always took it to mean they didn’t really want to screen it at all but they know there’s a stigma to that, so they show it at the last possible minute out of spite. They figure it’s probably not going to get good reviews no matter how easy they make it.

I would truly, genuinely love to know which consultants told the studios that they shouldn't let the critics reviewing their movie see that movie until super close to release date, and why

As ever, nothing will mystify me more than supposedly religious people supporting this deeply evil party and administration.

Trump take corn.

DOGGETT: Doesn't your budget propose another 12% cut for NIH? VOUGHT: Most of what you said is untrue. NIH was not cut at all-- D: My Q is don't you propose another 12% cut? VOUGHT: We propose a cut D: Is it your feeling that we just can't afford to invest more in doing something about cancer?

Also: Someone please program a Michelle Pfeiffer retrospective? With the pictures (I Could Never Be Your Woman, Chéri, Stardust, White Oleander, etc.) that people have either never seen or forgotten?

Ah, the Hollywood VFX Shuffle! CEO: You know what would save us money? If we moved our VFX people in-house. Next CEO: You know what would save us money? If we laid off our in-house VFX people & farmed all that work out! Next CEO: You know what would save us money? www.forbes.com/sites/robsal...

Gather, my friends, and you shall learn the esoteric history of fridge magnets, and how they function as tacky little references for human memory: