These are the icy mountains of Pluto. It took 9 years to get these magnificent images… and 4.8 billion kilometers.

"we taught a horse how to code" is an unexpectedly good way to describe the current moment in software development

Fucking wild that our society is so attuned to accepting bigotry now that a national newspaper like the Daily Express can somehow get away with publishing blatant libel with absolutely zero pushback or consequence.

Interesting thread on, well, current events… 🔽

Listen: because I am hearing this a lot from folks who are in caregiving roles with disabled, sick, dying folks, elders, or children in their care: You are not unable to do anything or unable to take action. Care work IS justice work

Beware the rage industrial complex…

Finally picked up the Paul Holden book about the Mandelson and McSweeney’s wrecking project in 2018-19 and their Starmer project generally. It occurred to me there’s already a well-known movie that covers very similar themes, and it is Gone Girl (2014).

And so I wake in the morning and I step outside And I take a deep breath and I get real high And I scream from the top of my lungs

Yeah sure why not. Nothing can go wrong with this plan.

Amazing what ancient people built even though they were all skeletons

“Unpatched critical cognitive vulnerability” is probably the best description of the mind rot that transphobia leads to that I have seen.

In another unsettling development, the portrait who watches things from across the room is now rolling their eyes

I don't know how to convey to people that POLICING in the US is experienced by countless Black and brown people in the way that ICE is currently acting towards people.

Charles Ponzi would have said “hang on, this seems a little fraudulent”

Unfortunately, this is the part where I remind people that Black 10th graders get beat up by cops every day. This is the part where I remind people about modern civil asset forfeiture, where US police steal more value from people (mostly Black) than every form of theft other than wage theft.

Must have been quite some recoil. ☹️

so curious how wearing masks to kidnap and kill people is okay but wearing masks to protect people from potentially life threatening illnesses is not

"I feel the need! The NEED FOR SPEED!" yells Keir Starmer out of the window of his souped up drag racer. he grips the steering wheel as the lights change to green. the engine revs. the tyres spin. Starmer SCREAMS before beginning the first of twenty consecutive three point turns on the starting line

Kennedy and his allies have railed against the “pharmaceutical industrial complex” while building the pseudoscience industrial complex.

Everybody thinks 'https://' stands for 'hypertext transfer protocol secure' but it actually stands for 'head to this place, sucka' followed by a colon and two laser sounds

John Cage, submitting the sheet music for "4'33"" to his publisher: What do you think? Publisher: No notes.

Confidently U-turning. Gotcha.

This is going to get people hurt (or worse).

This keyboard is actually an entire computer. Just plug it into a monitor and you’re set.

Graham Linehan claims he detonated his career, his family, his entire life, to protect women. He often asks people to "apologise to their daughters" if they disagree with him on trans rights. And yet, when someone's daughter is executed by ICE, he shares Right-Wing propaganda that she deserved it.

"Although not the app I just posted this on, obviously..."

BE LIKE DANIEL!

Keir Starmer is truly the PC LOAD LETTER of politics.

you look like you need this dog who thinks he’s a cat

Ofcom: (noun) a way of kicking the can down the road.

is a tie between Firefly and Gill Sans

Because they like swords and can't read. Saved you a click

Attachment issues

I'm afraid there *is* an obvious answer: it can't.

Massively bad decision from the Labour Government. “We’re going to carry on putting government announcements up on a website generating, publishing and distributing child porn at unprecedented rates so that both will appear in the same feed” Is beyond embarrassing.

Hegelly Blonde

"If it goes well it will be good and if it goes badly it will be bad", basically. Cutting and morally principled insight from Fukuyama there

New Enid Blyton updated for the 21st Century. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Reminder for everyone operating at situationally-diminished capacity.

If banning conversion therapy for all people would make your religion 'illegal' then your religion deserves to be illegal.

finally, we're living through precedented times

My whole life, advocating war has been fed to me as “the adult position,” akin to drinking your coffee black or reading the business section of the newspaper. Let’s be very clear — war is the childish nonsense of impulsive destructive idiots playing baby-brained video games with real human lives.

Yes

2026 eh? 😩

Not enough has been written about Schrödinger’s assistant, Otto.

we have gone through to a mirror universe where instead of the government not caring about twitter because it isn’t real life, it doesn’t care about real life because it isn’t twitter

One thing people forget is that the US supports plenty of dictators right now, it has supported dictators in the past, and it has installed its own dictators in other countries through regime change operations. The US doesn't care that Maduro was a dictator or bad, they care he opposed them.

Expect to see a lot of this classic Onion headline, from 23 years ago, over the coming weeks.