The thing this always reminds me of is the apocryphal stories of, like, a cargo cult or somesuch hearing a radio for the first time and thinking there must be a tiny man trapped inside.

Happy Samhain! Today at 8:05 us/pacific (2025-11-07T04:05Z), we cross the 45˚ position in our elliptical orbit around the sun.

Tinder CEO: Listen, dating is tough. We all know how disgusting and unpleasant sex is, and emotional connections? Ew. Just nasty. Finally with the magic of AI we can automate that tedium away.

I was visited in the night by a ghostly spectre, bound in chains, who spoke to me of the terrible fate that would await me if I didn't change my ways. I can't remember what it said exactly because I was confused about the chains. Like what function do the chains serve

Hey, any SVG blend-mode experts here? (RT for reach please) Why is this happening? If I set `mix-blend-mode:lighten` on 3 objects to mix full saturation RG and B, it lightens to white, as expected. But if I use `mix-blend-mode:darken` with CMY, it doesn't go to black. izs.me/blend-mode-s...

basically every 2024 truism is dead. Trump did not build a lasting multiracial coalition or turn young men into committed Republicans. You don’t need to cave on trans rights to win. The pundits have nothing left to tell you.

The blue no matter who people, who spent years telling the left to enjoy the camps for telling them that transphobia and genocide are wildly unpopular election-losing positions, ended up voting for a sexual predator *not* running as a democrat who was endorsed by Trump, Musk, and Miller. Who lost.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

Imagine being so dedicated to stealing people's healthcare that you let letters telling them that their premiums were about to spike by 100-500% go out 3 days before an election, while you were also trying to starve 40 million people to bully the other party into letting you steal the healthcare.

Cuomo: Look, in the heat of battle you say strident things. But elections aside I remain the reasonable, moderate leader you know. Reporter: But why are you in blackface? Cuomo: I will ask my lawyer to respond to that Lawyer: Mr. Cuomo has….okay could you possibly take your hand off of my vulva

well I for one am shocked that "every aspect of your life gets worse forever and also look at my marble bathroom" did not turn out to be a winning election strategy

Suck it, fascists, we're going to win.

I’m sorry but “this are simply facts” is extremely funny

I discovered something amazing: you can make an incredible pork chop by using the exact same technique used to make an incredible rib eye steak. 🧵

Look, I basically experienced UBI: I did a funded PhD in the humanities. I didn’t get rich (well I kinda did from my side hustle), but I had enough to live and great health insurance. I did an enormous amount of work that was interesting to me and frankly useless by any other measure.

Part 1 of a series on the occult grammar of communication: What is "occult grammar"? blog.izs.me/2025/11/ogc-...

"On the seeker's path, the wise and crazed are one. In the way of love, kin and strangers are one. The one who they gave the wine of the beloved's union, I'm done hiding, now I'm shining like I'm born to be We dreamin' hard, we came so far, now I'll believe" — Rumi

Golden hiring opp.

"In United States law, depraved-heart murder, also known as depraved-indifference murder, is a type of murder where an individual acts with a 'depraved indifference' to human life and where such acts result in a death, despite that individual not explicitly intending to kill."

consider this part one of what will be an ongoing series making the case for an imperial congress (gift link)

Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have. Python foundation said no and rejected the grant. If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

For Halloween this year I am going to hand each kid a 55 gallon stainless steel drum full of mysterious tar-like liquid from an abandoned Soviet science facility. I got plenty to go around

This video from Portland is a metaphor for what is going on in America. ICE trying so hard to get Americans to cross a line and if they don't, dragging them across the line and violently attacking.

"Stop moving into our city, you're driving up the rent and changing the character of the neighborhood" is the woke liberal version of "build a wall and make Mexico pay for it". Stop being a crybaby loser.

"Cities should remain museum pieces for incumbents and any newcomer is strictly a burden" is the most loser mindset that powers the most loser politics in America today.

Here's a photo of my friend and colleague, Jorge Bautista, getting shot in the face with a flashbang grenade. The ICE Agent is so afraid of Jorge (who was posing no threat) that he has wet himself. Please share this photo. Everyone needs to know what cowards ICE agents are.

I'm sorry your baby is crying right now. Have you tried taking it farther away from me?

Older people watching White House get demolished: Oh this is just like when Soviets installed listening devices in U.S. Embassy in Moscow in 1980s. They used a sophisticated system with the microphones embedded in the pre-cast concrete that was brought in.

Here’s the original clip of Ronald Reagan from April 25, 1987, where he delivered a complete and total rebuke against tariffs. Trump's calling Reagan’s words here “FAKE” and “fraudulent.” They’re 100% real. And the original clip is actually far worse for Trump, as much is left out of the ad:

everyone knows AI is gonna crash the economy and is just kinda standing around watching it happen. i wonder if there’s any visual stand-in for that kind of thing going on right now

surgeon general standing in front of a huge table with a detailed miniature hospital on it, using a big stick to move little surgeons around

A trillion dollars was stolen by this administration.

Calling it the Epstein Ballroom is disrespectful to the office of the presidency. I can’t believe people would even dream of calling it the Epstein Ballroom.

Reminder that Violent J of Insane Clown Posse has the correct response to a lot of the shitty things he said in the early days.

The election Nazi tattoo guy wants to run in isn't until November 2026, maybe people defending him including but not limited to Bernie fucking Sanders could devote their time to finding a candidate without a Nazi tattoo. That they kept for 20 years knowing it was a Nazi tattoo.

Many people are saying the Republicans shut down the government to bulldoze the White House without permission and build the Epstein ballroom.

According to legend, if you see a spider on Halloween, it's actually the spirit of a loved one watching over you. So I guess if you see a ghost on Halloween, it's actually a spider. Confusing but good information to have on hand.

Platner covering up his Nazi tat with a series of increasingly more obscure nazi iconography until finally his entire chest is covered by a hate symbol only ever recorded being found scrawled in a bathroom stall in 1937.

Why does everyone keep calling it “The Epstein Ballroom?” Please stop repeating “The Epstein Ballroom” because it is not called “The Epstein Ballroom!” Don’t tell the news that it’s called “The Epstein Ballroom” and please don’t repost this!!!!!

You can know intellectually that an empire needs to die, but, goddamn, is it ever a bummer to experience.

listen we all know how to solve this make 👏 Platner 👏 do 👏 an 👏 interview 👏 with 👏 Chotiner 👏

Having poured my soul into open source since 2008, I was nodding hard at @cory.laviska.com’s post. “It's all take and no give. And I've already given more than enough for two lifetimes.” There’s something especially irritating in watching companies profit off your work without contributing a dime.

Autistics, I know this is highly arousing content but I must ask that you contain yourselves

As a writer I will never do anything more perfect than my highly organised, colour-coded editorial calendar.

ICE going from a rather niche federal agency to being better-funded than most countries’ militaries gives the Executive Branch a huge, ready-made and highly centralized secret police force, and it’s hard to imagine it won’t be massively employed against citizen targets of the government eventually.

My mistake, you are correct! I generated the file, but I did not give you a download link — let me go get it for you [pretends to walk down stairs behind couch]

if AI guys have their way the keyboard and mouse will be replaced with a slot machine lever which you pull over and over until the computer outputs what you want

Small domino: online bookstore becomes popular in the late 90s Big domino: the encrypted messaging app that pretty much all activist and organizers use is offline for half a day.