it is very worth having a decent VPN nowadays, because you never know when you're going to need it.

They called his brother a vegetable.

One of my favorite SCP's is the one where a Foundation employee had a lab accident that made him unable to perceive other people. He woke up in an empty world, and went "obviously an apocalypse occurred" and now lives in the facility as the last man on earth.

Brett Kavanaugh sees no problem with this woman being forced to do this every day for the rest of her life

in case you didnt hate ai enough heres a cool life hack try image searching salvador dali art

Borb with a bib. 🪶

It would cost $30 billion to end homelessness in the USA.

the reason that it's so disturbing when Newsom/Buttigieg/Harris say that they want to force trans ppl out of sports is that it signals that they don't want to fight for trans rights at a time when there is a massive genocidal campaign against trans people. 1

"he won't shut up about how he deserves a peace prize. Maybe we can just pay someone to give him one?" "Only the most corrupt organization on earth would do that" "Get FIFA on the phone"

The onion just prints the news now

BEHOLD: MOON 🛰️

Abolish ICE straight to The Hague (yeah, yeah, I know), but the community response to their attempted "shows of force", in multiple cities, is genuinely giving me a glimmer of hope in all this.

Participation trophies for the One Special Boy from the most corrupt athletics organization in the world. Perfect.

This is a key point. Increasingly the ultra-gentry aren't "well if it gets us a 25% increase in profits I'm fine with the occasional coup" it's "I'm going to be an immortal space vampire lord. We should burn down every living plant to fuel my pet flattery machine and drone strike the poor for fun."

Since becoming a parent I have not, in fact, understood the parents who say “if you were a parent you’d understand” about vaccine hesitancy. Being in charge of this fragile little miracle has me saying things like “give her all the vaccines. Turn this baby into a pincushion” to doctors

Someone should tell us how much it costs annually, per person, to keep increasing the military's budget every year, and how much it costs annually, per person, to keep fucking up with health care infrastructure, and how much it costs annually per person to continue to increase police budgets. And...

I love companies being punished for replacing workers with AI. Gimme more

Don't make me tap the sign.

"All is lost" narratives are popular because people generally do not want to take action. Taking action is tiring so if all is lost, you are off the hook. Nothing is more seductive than not having to do anything.

There is no cost effective way to program “situational awareness” like this into a robotic car. You simply cannot program an algorithm to predict and react correctly to the potentially unbounded anomalies it will encounter in the course of its operations. Humans, OTOH, are uniquely equipped to do so

A new anonymous phone carrier startup Phreeli, launching today, will let you sign up for cellular service with almost no personally identifiable information—not even your name. All it asks for is a ZIP code, the minimum info legally required for tax purposes. www.wired.com/story/new-an...

Are Democratic voters asking the party what their Project 2026 plan is if they win the House? What's the written plan and the timeline? What's the first thing a Dem House would do in jan 2027?

IRW — a Pulitzer-winning nonprofit newsroom at American — and @thebarbedwire.com traced the history of anti-trans legislation. Houston conservatives realized homophobia didn’t fly anymore, weaponized girls’ safety, and parroted segregationist language. It worked. thebarbedwire.com/2025/12/04/a...

this shit sucks ass

The new National Security Strategy is a propaganda document, designed to be widely read. It is also a performative suicide. Hard to think of another great power ever abdicating its influence so quickly and so publicly. It will be worth following the reactions around the world, not just in Europe.

I'm begging any artists still using Twitter claiming it's integral to their work to just leave. It's been revealed the site works off a made up "credit score" from hell and punishes you for posting like a normal human being. Abandon Twitter for good. It's time. It's been time.

Chekov's nipple is relevant in the third act

Democrats need to put out a statement just being like, "hey, this guy is going to JAIL. it might take a few years but this guy is going to be held accountable."

I am not convinced that the Supreme Court will come not come up with a nakedly partisan reason to reject these maps but (1) Dems should do them anyway and (2) defy federal court orders to the contrary

We simply have never seen anything like the Family Swamp Trump has drained all the money into

if you believe this, every single one of you has to be prepared to demand this of your Dem representatives in 2029 and be prepared to primary them if they stand in the way

Yeah, a House member needs to send up that impeachment flag. This is illegal, immoral, dangerous behavior — that is also likely unconstitutional as well.

Roberts Court Republicans use shadow docket to refuse to allow its precedents to be applied because it would be an electoral disadvantage for the Republican Party www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/robe...

Bit too much of that lately

The fact that a second strike like that in an armed conflict is definitely a war crime should not completely negate the fact that *there is no war* and ALL the strikes are cold-blooded murder. The whole chain of command are murderers.

The Supreme Court sided with this dissent:

I just can’t believe Doctor Who would do something like that.

The thought also crosses my mind that being a Black or Latino GOP supporter right now is a very small portion of the population that probably self-selects for various varieties of brain worms

Is there anyone currently monitoring the Spanish-language media environment? I know it was an absolute nightmare in 2024 and I worry that’s gotten worse and not better as I look at these numbers.

When I traveled in China I had to get a letter from my editor confirming that I wasn’t on assignment and wouldn’t be reporting while in the country. I was also advised not to travel with pens or notebooks. This new US rule IS MUCH WORSE

The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE. This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE

To be fair, the antichrist field is a bit crowded these days. There's the golden king who leads the christians in gold worship, there's the guy who wants to insert chips inside people and replace us with his spawn, there's the guy who is Peter Thiel...

look I’m not an evangelical but “a guy calling himself the Beast wants control of your earthly wealth” feels like some kind of sign, no?

heads up, writers—this is the new version of the “I turned your webcam on and I have a video of you jerking off” scam

i buy songs on bandcamp when im able but My God i sure wish kinda-big-artists would start selling their songs Anywhere. the number of artists that have their songs listed on ONLY spotify/youtube/apple music is sad. let me buy your songs!!!!!!!!

Every time a government agency uses iconography or clips from RoboCop, Judge Dredd, The Watchmen, Starship Troopers, the Punisher, the Joker a writer dies inside, because they know the satire could have been MORE over the top, More on the nose, MORE in your face. and people still wouldn't get it.

This goes double for any company/organization that tries to steer you to their app instead of a website or customer service, or that tries to get you to use a chatbot

Constantly being saved by how inept they are, which is not a great long-term solution to save American democracy. bsky.app/profile/ryan...

It's hard to pick from the rogues gallery of murderous ideas, but sometimes I feel the most dangerous thing about modern conservatism is its transparent desire to destroy the fabric of truth in daily life.