Kelly told me this one was too weird, so please make it popular so she has to roll her eyes. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/spooky-3 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

Here at the Reflecting Pool where a big chunk ofTrump's blue paint-apoxie has peeled off the bottom of the pool and is bobbling in the water.

I did not realize that a large part of The Onion buying InfoWars was about getting the Sandy Hook families the money they were supposed to have gotten from the lawsuit against Jones, and honestly that's some top-tier human decency right there?

Ye gads, a THREAD and a half. Science! Expertise! And optional Idiots! 😀

i wish it wasn't the case but elon buying X seems to be one of the most successful propaganda campaigns of all time. he bet that people would be addicted enough to posting that they wouldn't leave no matter what. he was basically right and can effectively change how they think and act now!

You know what he did say? “To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

oh yeah, in terms of good news- I haven't seen anyone talking about this??? In short- worst case scenario of 4C warming by 2100 is no longer possible, new worst-case is 2.8C now DOES NOT MEAN we just relax- the only way we got here is through hard work- but it means THE HARD WORK IS WORKING

From the Glasgow antiracist rally.

if his birthday ends with everyone running from a horde of gnats we are truly on a path to healing the timeline

Medieval city centres are nice and all, but they don’t feel relatable to lots of people in North America. I want to see more stories and examples from European suburbs like this.

Figured I'd break out one of the new templates with a lame Pop Culture joke.

humans have known how to construct a shoulder seam for thousands of years, but with AI, we are unlocking untold new ways to fuck it up

Over on Whatever, I talk about the legit business email I got that was written with "AI," why I thought it meant the sender's domain was hacked by scammers, and why using "AI" in business emails automatically lumps you in with scammers and frauds. Don't do it! whatever.scalzi.com/2026/06/11/p...

For comparison, more than 13,000 eligible federal inmates were released early to home confinement during COVID, a policy which the Trump administration tried to reverse. By 2023, only 22 had reoffended.

Thread. Because so many people don't know about this...

Since I do not see the New World Screwworm issue going away any time soon, I’m just gonna make a thread I can pin to my profile. Do you want to know why the screwworms have come back? Check this thread: bsky.app/profile/tkin...

Grand juror: "Are you actually presenting any new actual facts …?" Mecklenburg: "Are you going to be able to listen with an open mind?" Grand juror: "I heard this case like last week and I thought it was a crock of shit."

ICYMI: While at the WaPo, Philip routinely debunked the various theories floated by Rep Comer about the "Biden Crime Family," annoying him so much that Comer began attacking him by name.

obsessed with thomas. happy pride 🪿🌈✨

Striking graphic in this latest Reuters piece, which finds that while President Trump and his family have profited by at least $2.3 billion since he retook the presidency, their more than a million investors have suffered $2.3 billion in net losses. www.reuters.com/investigatio...

It looks like proportional representation with multi-member districts: protectdemocracy.org/work/democra...

Hello. My name is Iguana Monitorya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

JUST IN: 111 former federal prosecutors who served in the Northern District of Illinois have issued a statement about Chicago U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros' office, expressing concern about an exodus of talent, grand jury irregularities, collapsed cases and a breach of trust with judges:

Here's an easter egg in the new Lego Batman that I think all of you will REALLY appreciate. It's so good, I had to make a video.

vid i made several years ago that will prob stop being relevant at some point

In the "Really Unclear On The Concept" dep't... 😏

The Fred Rogers Production has started uploading every episode of Mister Rogers' Neighborhood for free. www.youtube.com/@misterroger...

AI detectors are gonna cause such terrible witch hunts

The valuation of SpaceX is based on this page in their filing*. Estimated future market: 28.5 trillion Of that Grok/AI is: 26.5 trillion 93% of the SpaceX valuation is Grok NINTY THREE PERCENT OF THE SPACEX VALUATION IS GROK!!!! * www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

Chipotlai Max is an AI agent that runs on “stolen compute” from Chipotle’s AI chat bot. They are looking to borrow from bots from Ikea, Expedia, Home Depot, and others. (via @masnick.com) [github.com]

Rest In Power

People will say it's "Tech Week" here in NYC. Well, any event run by Andreessen Horowitz is illegitimate, because the NYC tech community has values, and one of its most fundamental is its humanity. They have forfeited theirs.

As always, Mr B addresses the present with a learned understanding of the past. There's another quote from President Lincoln I keep thinking about, from his first Inaugural:

Someone actually did a study a while back that showed the most effective way to get women out of TERF groups wasn’t people trying to change their minds, it was them getting literally any benign hobby, like learning other languages or taking up needlework

Heh..... heh heh XD

This is honestly making me cry a little. It's just straight up vandalism, destroying a long-term scientific investment and undoubtedly many scientific careers for no reason at all. ("Cost savings" isn't a reason. This whole system is cheap compared with days of war.) www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/c...

Congratulations to Ian Sample, science editor at The Guardian, for writing the lede of the year.

THERE ARE NO TRANSPHOBES WITH HONOR. NO TRANSPHOBE WILL SEE THE GATES OF STO’VO’KOR.

This is a massive crypto-style pump and dump. Except instead of just stupid musk simp fanbros being left holding the bag, it’ll be millions of current and future retirees

New: Hackers have been stealing high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the email associated with the account they want to steal. Shockingly easy, terrible flaw associated with offloading support to AI: www.404media.co/hackers-simp...

Science communicators (and also all secular people) should watch this Lily Alexandre video. “I guess I thought eventually I’d find something that was still sacred up close” youtu.be/Q-sE2C-5xrk?...

That A.I. is trained on copyrighted material is not a subject of serious debate…. Unless you think Anthropic paid a 1.5 billion settlement to authors & publishers out of sheer generosity

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

You have to admit, "Be stupid" is an easier motto to follow than "Don't be evil."

“There has been much discussion in recent years about the supposed scourge of ‘virtue signaling.’ But we could stand to spend more time discussing a related and increasingly pervasive phenomenon: vice signaling.” @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social on how the Trump administration is doing and what it means:

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This is fascinating. Started with Leonard French’s summary try of the legal issues and starting to work through the hours of other content. Company did wrong and the legal system is not set up to do much about it, unless the attention actually gets criminal theft charges to occur.

Of all the harm this administration has done to US science, today's proposed changes to the way federal grants are awarded and administered is the most damaging yet. The text of the federal register document is impenetrably tedious by design, so here's an excellent summary of what it says.

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.