"The way we do what we do in the House" sent an actual shiver down my spine Abandon All Principles, Ye Who Enter Here. I just fundamentally don't comprehend people who can just turn their morals off like this.

I'm at the gender clinic I'm at the abortion clinic I'm at the combination gender and abortion clinic (No, I'm not telling Al Gore's open internet where it is and I had to go through more layers of security than the airport to get in here 😔)

Protip to students : If you create an API token for you bot, I can pull a report on that. If you put what you're actually using the token for in the "description" field, I can also see that and you're an idiot. Props to this kid for honesty, I guess:

So glad we've got AI to generate these insightful video summaries

Finally, the bug is back with a round of the Guinness.

Did the X-Files lie to me about FBI agents being able to just rock up to any random commercial flight at any hour of the day or night and fly Business Class to Antarctica or whatever?? I feel so betrayed!

Paris of Appalachia, baby~ youtu.be/Q7D0pazY1lk?...

I have never watched the SOTU, even when I liked the guy giving it. Too mainstream. I was into politics before it was cool. I was shitposting on ontd_political before you were even born, fool. Do you even zine, bro?

No non-hispanic American is going around like "ha ha you're Guatemalen", this ICE goon was hispanic I'm sure. I know I'm speaking out of my lane here because I am as non-Latine as it is possible for one to be, but the racism within American-Latine communities appears to be absolutely off the chain.

Leto II contemplating the Golden Path

"Bed 5, foot needs x-rayed. It's so slippy aht, guy fell right in front of his own haus!" "Okay which jagoff stole the gumbands off the nurses station?" "Bed 10, little girl says she got cut on a jagger bush and it's infected. Warsh the wound aht real good and we'll get her some antibiotics."

The Epstein files document what many women researchers have long experienced but rarely seen laid bare so starkly: exclusion operating behind closed doors, shaping who gets funded, invited, mentored, and taken seriously. How many of these networks, norms, and gatekeepers remain in place?

Put this on my very originally named BANGERS playlist last week and haven't regretted it once!

*maniacal laughter* Why do I even do anything? (Tomorrow I will be evaluating whether this thing can even get into our instance, but tonight I'm just cackling and sobbing)

Man, I wish this was possible for us old fat ladies but alas I have both a face and body for radio and idk if folks have noticed but female/femme YouTube creators who appear on screen are less, um, visually diverse than male/masc creators.

QTing my own self here because I accidentally just summed up my career in a single sentence.

You all are watching me become the Joker in real time as I research early AI development and this shit keeps popping back up in current-now-reality. Anyway, here's Roger Schank arguing with Joseph Weizenbaum about whether or not humans are just squishy computers (guess what side he comes down on).

The gen x urge to use vaseline

Relatively mainstream liberals and leftists are sliding into BlueAnon batshittery over the Epstein files. It's scary.

Knowing what this is called doesn't make it stop but I do find it empowering to be able to name and shame when people are doing it: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do-good... Hey, sorry my sincerely held beliefs make you feel like I'm judging you and that gives you a sad :( Sounds like a personal problem.

Here's the problem, though. If you stand up to tanks in the streets, everyone will agree you're a Brave Hero. But if you stand up to the small things -- stopping the train before it really gets started -- you will be coded as *annoying*, as uptight, as moralistic, as uncool.

Fredrick Brennan has died, apparently in his sleep. We went through some crazy sh*t together filming Q: Into the Storm. Fred was one of the most complicated people I’ve ever known, his flavor of genius unmatched. He was hilarious, occasionally dangerous and eccentric in all the best ways.

I love asking the guys trying everything they can to "hack" their longevity why they aren't on estrogen yet

It's Sunday! Great day to pick up a new hobby! I'm listening to audiobooks and painting today. I recently redid my website and wrote up my, uh ...painting journey* in the hopes that it'll inspire at least one person to learn a new skill just for the fun of it. magaro.net/tles/2026/02...

I say this with love as the child of a professor who now works in academic technology support for many faculty who are out there doing selfless, thankless work: you all know who in your department hates teaching and is constantly looking for ways to dodge it.

Share a crush from your youth

Cleanse that timeline, baby

Same problem I have trying to figure out how I'm going to introduce Rationalism, Effective Altruism and Roko's Basilisk to a bunch of normies I'm trying to teach critical AI literacy to. I KNOW IT ALL SOUNDS BONKERS, BECAUSE IT IS!

I've been reading (listening to... consuming, whatever) Player of Games all day today and I'm so Culture-pilled right now that I looked at that illustration and was like, seems legit, why not?

y my frug so dum?

OH GARSH WHO COULD HAVE PREDICTED Except for every trans person and their friends and loved ones. Anyway, reminder:

this article's been going around today and it's just one Hell Description after another, highly recommended harpers.org/archive/2026...

This mouse visits every night, and every night my cats torture themselves

i'm at the war department. i'm at the peace board. i'm at the combination war department peace board.

Idk what other geriatric yinzers need to know this. But the Affordable Floors are on YouTube Music. Yes, even The Sounding. music.youtube.com/channel/UC6Q...

Dubya Bush was the training wheels though. I still say "strategery" and "is our children learning" and very occasionally get an opportune moment to break out "fool me twice... uh... won't get fooled again" Thanks, Obama :(

Still reading Weizenbaum and you guys, he devotes all of Chapter 4 to comparing "compulsive programmers" (as distinct from normal people whose job it is to program computers and then go home) to compulsive gamblers and I simply cannot with this level of prescience.

The Supreme Court:

Well, guess it's time to do some war in Iran. Everyone, look over there!

If you want to see one of our local breeding pairs making eaglets, scrub back to 7:20 AM today on the webcam 😏. We are on First Egg watch, happening in the next week or two. www.youtube.com/live/yPq9aNu...

When I was growing up in the 80s, we still weren't sure we'd be able to bring the bald eagle back from near extinction. Seeing one in the lower 48 only happened at zoos. Today? Pittsburgh has three breeding pairs (at least) in the city limits alone. Like acid rain, ozone and Y2K, we chose to fix it.

Still very good at this game TimeGuessr #995 — 46,404/50,000 1️⃣ 🏆9797 - 📅2y - 🌍485 ft 2️⃣ 🏆9036 - 📅2y - 🌍163.7 mi 3️⃣ 🏆9299 - 📅4y - 🌍238 ft 4️⃣ 🏆9950 - 📅1y - 🌍106 ft 5️⃣ 🏆8322 - 📅6y - 🌍2.2 mi timeguessr.com

Here in the US we faced the same problem as the UK: How make TV show cheap when TV show expensive? UK Answer: Panel shows US Answer: Reality shows It's not like the current British cultural zeitgeist is all that much better than ours but at least they have Taskmaster to console themselves with?

we dream BIG DREAMS in America and i BELIEVE that we have the power and the ingenuity to keep Elon Musk (et al) in a wire cage with a single metal toilet, a little hamster dispenser for lukewarm water, and a diet that consists exclusively of tasteless nutrient-loaf until he dies

Okay, I definitely need to send @hankinson.bsky.social one of my Office of Weird Ideas posters www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR9M...

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Between probabilistic content extruders and gambling on everything, how much of our current hellscape is just because humans are bad at assessing risk

theory ➡️ praxis

i think it’s time to realize that Computer, just like Airplane, is a mature and very difficult to disrupt technology. and this goes right to the heart of the massive misallocation of resources that is the AI bubble. it’s just blood from a stone, dude. the plateau has *been* here.