can’t believe a narcissist is being so publicly humiliated by a reflecting pool

it makes me very happy personally that everyone is talking about algae recently

“There are colors that I want to show you, but I can’t. …You probably saw some of them today, but I can’t show them to you on a screen.…Instead, I have to show you how to find them in the real world.” Forget touching grass, just stand under trees. And more! moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

“Scots discovering tailgating” could be a real Prometheus stealing fire moment

The perfect obit headline for this particular climate denier, who knew better but preferred to live a lie heatmap.news/daily/lee-raymond

The story of Icarus provides us with a valuable lesson: never fuck up real bad

Wastewater data for June 1 is now available: • Citywide COVID-19 level: Very Low • Citywide flu level: Not Detected • Citywide RSV level: Not Detected Find data about your neighborhood, reports, and more at boston.gov/wastewater.

Perennial reminder that our tools construct us as subjects. Designing a tool REQUIRES making decisions that privilege some applications over others. Every usable technology has a path of least resistance (tasks/outcomes for which it's most suited) and will naturally draw you to those outcomes.

The miniKanren and Relational Programming workshop is accepting submissions until June 5th! You (yes you!) should submit! We accept short or long papers, about miniKanren or relational programming more widely - and, this year especially, about relating the two! :) icfp26.sigplan.org/home/minikan...

Got a notification from a medieval copyright lawyer

I feel like I’d really like losing money on running a coworking space. I’d also like to learn how to make candy. I would make money at neither of these things.

MSNOW is spending a lot of time noting how crowded the room is, how it's hard to evacuate, how full it is of Cabinet members and other high profile targets, and it's making me think I might have *undersold* how horrible an idea it was for anyone to attend this.

Cosigned.

all lemonade has the potential to be the lemonade that kills you but you have to drink soooo much of the regular stuff

congratulations to the astronauts who get credit for a moon mission using rocket development work by trans women who had to quit their job and flee the state of florida and can’t celebrate this win with their coworkers

Why does Boston keep posting about wastewater levels?! Wastewater monitoring is a tool we've been using since 2020 to track increases in viruses days or even weeks before people become sick. In Boston, we track viruses like the flu, COVID-19, RSV, and measles. Want to learn more? Keep reading! ⬇️

What would the most *awkward* foundations of mathematics be? Like one where if aliens used it we'd be like "do we actually want to be in a Federation with these peeps?"

Absolutely incredible Nutella ad.

Sometimes readers are skeptical when I tell them that retailers would rather pay for self-checkout kiosks and product lockup systems and all manner of other questionable in-store tech rather than staffing because of an ideological preference for capital spending over labor spending and, well,,,

This bar is doing karaoke tonight and I did see whether “The Smallest Church in Sussex/Saint-Saens” by Sea Power was on the list and it is not

it is funny that this stuff is literally out of the left behind series

Artemis is a hopeful reminder that government can be a good thing if we staff it with passionate, skilled, and honorable people.

your grandparents voting for reagan

spouse immediately replied that we are all going to have archeologically detectable neck injuries from staring at our phones which… ouch

police lie, and have no duty to protect you

The Meta Streisand Effect is that nobody remembers what the thing Barbara Streisand was upset about is.

my attack? massive.

My… Giants?!!?!?!? They… might(?) be?!??? 🤷

My garden? Savage. (But ultimately sound)

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

Himesh Patel will star opposite Danielle Deadwyler in the ‘X-FILES’ reboot series. Ryan Coogler will write and direct the pilot. (via deadline.com/2026/03/hime...

my working assumption is that Trump is mad at Reuters

5 hour early arrivals means the amtrak crescent is now time competitive with any atlanta–northeast corridor flight as a bonus, you get to sleep those 5 extra hours away instead of standing in the tsa line

a fun fact that I will never tire of is that the brits cooked up the idea of a “vote of no confidence“ specifically to ditch the govt that lost the war against the US colonies, which is why our constitutional tradition doesn’t benefit from their innovation

Yeah… my specific fear is that this is why graham platner is gonna be JD Vance’s running mate

I've said it before and I'll say it again: this tech breaking through at the same time as Trump II reorganizing all of American culture around the repugnant vices of him and his cronies is an inseparable factor in the backlash to it

based on the valuations I think the bet is that we’re all gonna pay Anthropic $4000 a month forever

In frankly horrific news today, at 12.50pm, Pacific Standard Time, it will be the 20th anniversary exactly of the first ever tweet. Yup. Twenty fucking years. Still, it did later give us one of the world’s great headlines...

Did you know? The year 2025 is evenly divisible by 5, the last time in history that this will ever happen! Wait what

"government can't deliver so you might as well not pay into it" is nothing more than a suicide note for left and liberal governance

High effort shitpost of the day candidate right here

I’ve participated in lot of the internet criticism of the writers, and I’m not going to say they are without fault for some of the more heavy-handed stuff, I think we’re starting to see some elements of their vision finally come into focus as we head towards what might be the series finale

none of these things are berries

The story of how plastic industry executives convinced American society that their industry's waste should be everybody's problem.

(x) "7am" is a social construct (x) social constructs are actually very important

It’s so difficult to maintain what I really do think is the epistemologically correct stance of “it’s a big deal but there’s a lot of bullshit”, because like, there is a *lot* of bullshit