I hope people understand that if Trump gets his way America will soon be part of the global axis of evil if we aren't already. You see it in the Caribbean, you see it in Ukraine, and you see it with Trump trying to buddy up to Xi. We are a malevolent force.

The Wall Street Journal says this investigation led Instacart’s stock price to fall.

It’s been two weeks since ICE took Yuanxin Zheng from his father. He is six years old. He’s still not home. This has to end.

White House Begins Christmas Season With Ceremonial Lighting Of Cross

And, not to be a hater but... If you hear someone saying cooling will be easier in space, you can instantly write them off as someone who has never read a single relevant book or paper and never talked to a single person with undergraduate level expertise. This is very basic.

San Francisco: 50 degrees Half Moon Bay: 70 degrees Yes, that's right. 3 p.m. temperatures in the Bay Area. #CAwx

The only way we could do that is by treating education like a public good, not a fucking business aimed at producing a product, and that would require the wholesale liquidation (perhaps at swordpoint) of the current crop of folks responsible for the organization of American education.

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

My quote of the day Impeachment is not a remedy for private wrongs; it's a method of removing someone whose continued presence in office would cause grave danger to the nation. Charles Ruff

I'm coming up on 48h awake so I don't have the energy to alt-text the un-alt-texted image, but: bog standard rights grant clause, has all the limiters I look for, you cannot run a website without a rights grant clause, zero reason for panic

The U.S. has the highest incarceration rate of any independent democracy on Earth – and its system of mass incarceration is plagued with human rights violations. We're calling for a just & equal world and stand with those fighting for freedom. #HumanRightsDay

Re: LRT A sex scene is an action scene. Like an action scene, it is primarily about what is happening to the characters. Like an action scene, it will be boring as fuck if we have no idea what the stakes are or who we care about.

Now that I have a little bit of spare money for the first time in my life, and given that the world is in such a dire state and our future seems so insecure, I asked for financial advice and was told to invest in precious metals. So I did.

i read stuff like this and can genuinely angry at guys like jd vance who insist that this country belongs to some narrow vision of the "native born"

my comics advice is: show feet it sounds like dumb online meme nonsense but it's not; every 2-3 pages make sure you draw your character so their feet show, it grounds them in the environment and forces you to vary your panel composition.

Daily bunny no.3164 finds the smugglers' hideout

I am brimming with holiday spirit

Time again for my favorite christmas post ever, one that still makes me laugh every time i read it

“I am so bored by AI. One of the things I love about the theatre is AI can’t do it.” Ethan Hawke is a dude 👌🏻

are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson

I...I honestly thought this was an @theonion.com article...surely...

Let's talk about tolls. This is a bit of a sore spot for me, because I grew up in an area that did not have a lot of toll roads. But this is a conversation about my current home: Hampton Roads, Virginia. Home to about 1.7 million people broken up into seven cities and LOTS of water. (1/9)

Today Senator Ruben Gallego introduced a bill to outlaw surveillance pricing nationwide.

"AI is the asbestos in the walls of our technological society, stuffed there with wild abandon by a finance sector and tech monopolists run amok. We will be excavating it for a generation or more." This piece on AI by Cory Doctorow is spectactular. pluralistic.net/2025/12/05/p...

Reminder that not only do library systems have physical media (& many also lend tools, electronics etc), your library card may give you access to streamers Kanopy and Hoopla. We just watched Francis Ford Coppola’s adaptation of The Rainmaker via a hoopla the other night. Pretty good!

Jimmy Fallon would host the Hunger Games.

Broke: Not writing at all Woke: Writing more to get better at writing Bespoke: Writing more so you have an excuse to commission your friends for art to go with your stories

Come work with me! Salary range $85,000-$100,000. Benefits include a union, fairly low insurance premiums and so many cat photos. job-boards.greenhouse.io/propublica/j...

One theory I have is that competence, self-control, responsibility, and expertise have all been feminized, leaving “masculinity” with the realm of impulsivity and petulance. So the divide is not really between “femininity” and “masculinity” so much as between adulthood and childishness.

not sure how to square ‘no one person can be reasonably expected to pay for every media subscription’ with ‘sorely underpaid writers need to make a living’ but my inclination is not to locate that problem with any of the broke ass people on either end of the complaint

this is similar to what I've come to think of as the "reverse turing test" when people find synthetic text is "good enough" to complete a task (homework, business report, email) it doesn't mean the machine is smart. it means they were asked to produce something that didn't matter it's diagnostic

Okay so if they want an AI major, they’re a customer, but if they want a Latin American studies major they’re SOL?

i’m now understanding what being a “single issue voter” feels like

ty to everyone who shared this important meme with me. a blueprint for life, really.

I had a book when I was younger that defined a recession as a depression that spares the wealthy

EXCLUSIVE: We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items. It's not just online. It's in physical grocery stores too. Our months-long investigation with @consumerreports.org and @groundwork.bsky.social found it could cost families $1200/year.

Users of Gen AI climb on the backs of actual creators and stick flags between their shoulder blades, treating them like territory. Us and our work are just ladders to them. The only work they really want to do is to climb over us and claim our talent and abilities as their own.

I received exactly the same answer. Since when is ‘trans woman’ an obscure and unclear way of referring to a person?

to quote myself on this

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If some guy stole my shit and made millions off it while wiping out my job prospects, and you, as my friend, bought that guy's cheap mass market replica of my shit, you and i would for obvious reasons have a problem. It being a massive company, not a guy, actually makes it even more of a problem.

Submitting some 2026 colour ideas to @pantone in case it’s not too late for them to change their mind (more in thread)🏺🎨

About five years ago most of my print sales had human subjects, and that changed about two years ago. People started to almost exclusively want animals and food related prints Multiple customers have told me “why would I want a person I don’t know on my walls?”, which I have so many thoughts about

Pantone meme stolen from @flaroh.bsky.social and @samanthamash.bsky.social because I thought it was hilarious

Daily bunny no.3163 adopts a child

New rule: If you don't know the difference between "your" and "you're" you're not allowed to complain about whether people can speak English.

PSA: if anyone in your life is trying to dissuade you from getting the shingles shot, you should probably assume that person hates you, and wants you to suffer. There is literally no other explanation. Shingles hurts worse than childbirth. Worse than knee surgery. Worst pain of my life.

Women, we don't need to contort ourselves to fit into spaces that are too small for us. From Zimbabwe by Tapiwa Mugabe

taxonomy 101: whales are not fish taxonomy 201: whales are hoofed animals taxonomy 301: whales are fish