a “Space Force”, if you will

Wood chipper, feet first.

One thing to keep in mind,going into the holidays shopping season: huge corporations can offer deep discounts because they never intended to sell items at full price anyway- prices were always grossly inflated to make big discounts look like Deals. It’s built into their marketing.

There's this woman doing an absolutely wild social experiment on TikTok. She calls random US churches with the sound of a baby crying in the background, explain the baby hasn't eaten in over 12 hours, and asks for 1 bottle of baby formula. She has a public spreadsheet of how each one responded. 1/3

This could be another example for @gretchenmcc.bsky.social 's ongoing series of novel and bizarre sentences that speakers of a language are nevertheless able to understand perfectly well.

Let's talk about why "just spell it how it sounds" is actually not straightforward, especially for a large language like English. The big questions are: "How it sounds" when spoken*by whom*? And who gets to choose? #linguistics

I legitimately don’t fucking feel good right now. I don’t care how that man died I’m glad he did and I hope there’s a hell just for him and I hope the rest join him soon.

Today is a good day to remember, and to say, that the #MeToo movement was right, and was righteous, and has been vindicated over and over again. There was no overreach. There was no excess. There was no they-went-too-far. So much work remains to be done.

The font would appear to be English 111 Adagio CE, available for the highly presidential sum of just $39.75 USD Note "The" is not kerned correctly (see perspective-corrected still for reference)

Friendly reminder that dishwashers made after 1995 or so are so water and energy efficient that even if you ran them twice fully loaded it would still use less water than handwashing the same load. So many "green" things feel like sacrifices. Dishwashers are not one of them.

Jimmy Kimmel mentioned all of Cleto Jr's family members by name. Every medical person that helped his friend. Knew Cleto Sr's life story. Knew & spoke on Cleto Jr's life story. Mayne, that's love personified & multiplied. And it's really nice to hear men express how much they love their friends.

Ugly crying over here. Jimmy Kimmel couldn't have given a better tribute to his best friend. Rest in peace Cleto. youtu.be/0xlVAr6JZ9A?...

This is what I try to always tell people: food banks can do way more with your money than you can, due to bulk buying deals. And they can do way, way more with your money than with the canned goods you didn’t want to eat

spoke with the executive director of my local food bank today and got this really incredible line: "if you donate 1 can of green beans, we can give away 1 can of green beans. but if you donate a dollar, we can give away 6 cans of green beans"

Tell me you don’t understand risk pools without telling me you don’t understand risk pools

“what are you talking about?” oh my GODDDDDD

Good morning to everyone but especially to Lady Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, whose judgement against Rudy Giuliani for defaming them and turning their lives upside down cannot be pardoned away by the president

Star Trek has been associated with being the inspiration for many things but I'm not sure many folks realize the impact it made on endangered humpbacks. The awareness from this movie possibly saved them from extinction.

The 20th anniversary illustrated edition of A Feast For Crows seems to be packed with AI art. Given that GRRM is currently in a lawsuit against Open AI, I imagine he was not aware of this. Credit to u/InGenNateKenny on Reddit for catching these examples

Are we there yet? #art #oilpainting

Gotta say, I’m not so confident that you do

10/10 take. No notes.

I need you all to know that my mother sent me this. 🤣 That is all.

Adventures in hilarious cross-cultural mistranslation #linguistics

Um, @variety.com? That’s…not what that means. 😳 variety.com/2025/music/n...

NEW: A federal judge said the decision by Trump WH to end sign language interpretation at briefings by Trump and Leavitt likely violated the Rehabilitation Act and harmed deaf people who communicate in ASL. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

To be clear, I am not asking anyone’s “opinion” on whether I “count” as Jewish. I know I’m Jewish whether you say so or not! But the way you classify non-religious Jews makes a big difference to the takeaways from the statistic

The real lesson is to put an actual hard number on income categories instead of shit like "the top 10%." People ALWAYS massively overestimate what percentile they're in, but a hard number for comparison lets them say oh yeah, fuck the rich, I ain't ever gonna see that number in my life.

Really looking forward to the Speaker of the House claiming to be unaware of the election results.

Mamdani has won more votes than there are people in South Dakota.

“He doesn’t have a mandate” are you fucking kidding? Dick Cheney died the day Zohran is elected he has the mandate of HEAVEN

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.

“The last thing I’m going to do is accept that type of racist, nasty language to describe human beings.”

I’m good with my taxes subsidizing social welfare for people who can’t afford food. I’m enraged with my taxes subsidizing corporate welfare to businesses that won’t pay a living wage.

“Let them go a month without meals. Maybe they will get a job” First, many SNAP recipients have jobs. They’re just living below the poverty line because of tremendous wealth inequality. Second, many are disabled and children and can’t work. Third, no one should starve to death.

Updating my LEGO White House

the mutual aid-based harm reduction collective i do work with is also literally always happy to receive donations of menstrual supplies. we do not have relationships with manufacturers/distributors. mutual aid groups seldom have those relationships, because they are *mutual aid* groups.

he's the one that wants to run for the senate as his first elected office this is like jumping straight from high school to MLB then complaining that everyone throws 100 mph, like yeah bro you're trying to join the big leagues

The AWS outage bricked people's $2,700 smartbeds, leaving them in a reclining position or with the heat up. People were unable to use them, basically. A GitHub repo exists that lets people operate their beds without reliance on the normal infrastructure www.404media.co/the-aws-outa...

Modern endodontic painkillers are flipping amazing. Had a root canal today and didn't feel a goddamned thing.

I am going to leave the Platner thing alone soon I swear, once I'm done being disappointed at people for whom "no literal Nazi tattoos" is a bridge too far, but I want to point out something is off here about his statements and I think this might be another lie. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

100%! If you remade Back to the Future today, it would be the perfect replacement: "You made a time machine...out of a *Cybertruck*??"

After an afternoon reading bylaws of said organization, it probably would've been better for them if the publisher just let me say they sucked 😂😈

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

No? It’s actually: 1. I’ve invested barely any time in learning how it actually works and I believe it’s magic wand/substitute for a human. 2. I’ve invested time learning how it actually works & see some use cases but if it looks like magic it’s bc there’s a lot of human labor behind the curtain.

It is time to do an episode on The Da Vinci Code

oooh. Bookmarking this! "How to turn off AI tools in Apple, Google, Microsoft, and more." Step-by-step instructions from Consumer Reports.

Yes your taxes should support disabled people. They should support homeless people. They should support those living in poverty, children and the elderly. This is literally the purpose of taxes, and I would far rather support those who need it than continue to enrich the elite.