It's kinda funny how you can apparently make a SCIF the same way college kids make 3 "bedrooms" out of the living room

This is the way.

New comic! Just in case you want a distraction from the whole World War III situation: nonadventures.com/2026/02/28/c...

"A date which will live in infamy"

Initial conditions: m1=15.7 m2=33.1 m3=38.7 (solar masses) v1x=1.277 v1y=3.923 v2x=-4.342 v2y=-6.051 v3x=4.264 v3y=-4.674 (km/s) x1=18.0 y1=2.0 x2=16.0 y2=32.0 x3=27.0 y3=-26.0 (AU from center) Music: Symphony No. 5 (1st Mvmt) – Beethoven

I'm currently a receptionist and I try not to complain too much bc a job's a job but today I stepped out the front door to see the charred remains of a bunch of trash someone set on fire and our sidewalk sign in the burnt trash and also someone took a huge shit directly outside our door. So,

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Apparently it also bypasses UK Age Verification so why not have this availible

Came across the phrase "cognitive DDOS" to describe our present culture. Understood instantly what it meant.

The Polly-O String Cheese commercial meme format is causing me psychic damage.

High winds and snow recently created "snow rollers" in Deep Creek Lake. A snow roller is rare and happens when snowballs form naturally as snow is blown by the wind, according to the National Weather Service. They collect more snow along the way.

Woe, wall of astigmatism be upon ye

NEW: Amazon is telling people who use its wishlists feature to switch to post office boxes or non-residential delivery addresses if they want to ensure their home addresses remain private, as part of a change in how it processes gifts bought from third-party sellers.

The IRS lost about 40% of its information technology workforce and nearly 80% of its technology leaders last year — deeper losses than have previously been reported — at a time when the agency lost a quarter of its overall workforce. marylandmatters.org/2026/02/19/i...

also the USPS should do web-hosting and email services

Next year Congress should refuse to hold a state of the union address, on the theory that he's not the fucking president

Never ask a man his salary, a woman her age, or a small business owner where they were on January 6, 2021.

the funniest thing about AAA vs Indie discourse is that it is a truth universally ackonwledged outside of video games that working for a small business is literally the worst torment it is possible for a man to experience and would take a faceless evil corporation 100 times out of 100

“the president’s speech is going to be over two hours long!” they’re doing kalshi shit guys. they’re leaking a bunch of stuff about a super long speech and he’ll go about 2 minutes short of the supposed mark and everyone in the white house will make $200k on it

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it's always striking how everyone with a big important business job is like "due to the blizzard we will be closed Monday and also maybe Tuesday, fuck it" and everybody who owns a retail or food service establishment is like "get here through two feet of snow NOW or i will blow this place up"

[whispering to paramedic before I pass out] save me but not enough that I have to go to work tomorrow

a mundane curse #comic

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Initial conditions: m1=126.1 m2=50.2 m3=136.8 (solar masses) v1x=-3.755 v1y=3.935 v2x=2.81 v2y=1.222 v3x=0.442 v3y=1.087 (km/s) x1=26.0 y1=33.0 x2=-24.0 y2=30.0 x3=-21.0 y3=-14.0 (AU from center) Music: Prelude in G Minor – Rachmaninoff

people think saving elixirs and never using them even after the boss fight is a funny video game thing but you realize that's just who you are as a person when you clean out your fridge and find a jar of sauce from 5 years ago

Gemini crypto exchange fires 25% of staff, blames AI February 5, 2026 https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=gemini-layoffs-2026

South Korean prosecutors lose $22 million of seized crypto to the wallet inspector, later recover it February 19, 2026 https://www.web3isgoinggreat.com/?id=phishing-attack-on-south-korean-prosecutors

do cocaine like an adult

Twitch is requiring new Affiliates, before their first payment, to give government photo ID and a separate photo to Persona, the same Persona that has connections to government mass surveillance programs. When I asked Twitch support for another option, they said there isn't one. #twitch #persona 1/4

They just don't make commercials like this anymore

New Louvre heist dropped.

This is the future that liberals want.

It's not quite the same as when you're a kid but it's still nice when work declares a snow day.

"Why are you still on Twitter?" ask people still on Substack.

lmao

Any car that hasn't moved in the period between the last storm ending and the next storm beginning should immediately be towed, stripped of hazardous materials, and dumped into the Atlantic Ocean to become artificial reefs like they do with old subway cars.

It seems like the majority of people are just looking at the headline and interpreting this as another "whoops! user data got leaked! our bad!" What was actually exposed was code used in Persona's software. Code showing that this company is doing A LOT MORE THAN CHECKING YOUR AGE.

Look, now that we're trying for real consequences for the Epstein files, maybe we should also take another look at the Panama Papers

IT HASN'T EVEN BEEN A WEEK!

About two years ago, John Roberts wrote the court decision ruling that Donald Trump cannot be prosecuted for ordering the killing of John Roberts.

It is notable that Andrew has been arrested for "misconduct in public office", which is precisely what the US Supreme Court decided no American president can ever be charged with.

Local car dealer has been sending me trade-in offers every few weeks, and the "up to" number keeps going up, on a car I keep putting miles on Is the market for used EV's getting hot or something?

Not a Tesla. You can tell by the way the driver's side door is open in an emergency.

Pro tip, use the reader view in your browser to make reading articles on websites like PC Gamer less infuriating.

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Lunar New Year + Mardi Gras = fat fire pony?

Just reading up on the history of the Border Patrol. After recounting a list of extrajudicial executions and covered-up murders, you get to the time they shot up the Laredo police station because the cops weren’t white. But then they created a training program in the ‘30s which surely fixes them.

Here it is, your moment of zen.

"Washington's Birthday," because the usual suspects are still mad at Lincoln.