I wonder how society would change if we had a rule that there could only be one billionaire and if you become the second billionaire the first one goes back to zero dollars

Call me crazy but I think a CG animated fully over-the-top classic opera would slap And I have zero appreciation for opera

Nestlé Baby Formula: The extra $5 is for Added Arsenic!

Pay me more so I can force you to have something you don't want or you don't get to keep using the thing you need

Cancelling Paramount+ fuck y'all tryna raise your prices as you make your service more awful

Dystopian fiction all like "compete in our deathmatch race to get a chance at becoming a billionaire" Reality gonna be "become a billionaire and you get to compete in our deathmatch race"

Aware that he only had a few months left to live the great Mike Davis gave one of his final interviews to the Guardian in 202. "You’ve been organizing for social change your whole life. How do you deal with a future that feels so bleak?" Lois Beckett asked.

hey Mom can you come pick me up. yeah everyone on the niche microblogging website is arguing about who has the correct emotional posture to the unknowable future again

Geez Hollywood when are we gonna get another Gidget movie already it's been like 60 years

Over 100 episodes of classic Sesame Street have arrived on YouTube

Why do AI spiritualists all assume it's God inside the machine and not a devil trying to destroy them? Diabolus ex machina

Lyft, desperately notifying me: "We notice you haven't used a Lyft in a while..." Yeah dog I haven't needed to go anywhere, chill, I'm not gonna make extra trips just cuz you want my money

What a brilliant idea, employ an identification method that can be completely disabled by a speck of dirt or a strategic smudge

-human tries to use art to perfectly communicate something they see or feel -they fail -in failing, their fingerprints get all over the art -other humans see the fingerprints and find them beautiful, learn something unexpected about the human that created the art which is beautiful

Something tells me a lot of angry white dudes are gonna have huge future trouble explaining conspicuous holes in their resumes around 2025-26

ahh that explains it

lol a full 50% of the new Stranger Things season runtime is characters grabbing random items off a table and explaining the Big Plan to each other

Slightly diminish a band Wu-tang Relative

Gollum should have bounced

I don't know why i feel like i know this but I THINK, in theory anyway, yeah you'd see them all over? Someone who actually knows anything about geomagnetic storms please correct me if i'm wrong.

You know how randomly (like every 450k years or so) the earth's magnetic poles switch polarity? I wonder what happens to the aurora during that time? Does it move across the sky? Could it be seen at the equator and gone from the poles for a moment?

Jesus fucking christ

Add another one to the great big board of "Urban Planning Debates: Academic Research vs. Some Guy"

If you are anxious and sad about the state of the world, that's fine, and there are plenty of strategies for dealing with that. But I think you already know that drive-by online dooming isn't a strategy. It's selfish and adolescent. It's a contagion that only spreads the worst of you, not the best.

We’re entering the age of AI slop that people believe en masse. This post is 100% fake and probably AI generated. All made up. Yet massive number of upvotes, views and shares. Journalist @caseynewton.bsky.social got in touch with the “whistleblower.” The guy faked all “evidence” with AI…

Happy new year! My all sky camera imaged the sky every 15 seconds and this picture shows what happened in the sky in 2025. It shows the length of the night and day with the hourglass shape, the monthly lunar cycle with the diagonal bands, the elevation of the Sun at local noon, and lots of clouds.

I'm going to give Small Saga a little discount for AGDQ, but if you would prefer to play it on the Switch and want to know how long you'll have to wait until that version is out, the answer is "about 3 months". 🐀

Today is the *first* day you can repost this...

EXASPERATED SET DESIGNER: look, buddy,

"Sweet, free albatross!" --Jakebe

What am I doing differently than other people, that so many people seem to have loads of email they need to respond to, and I never do? The number of personal emails I need to respond to is perhaps one per month.

One big perspective change I've had is: I used to believe everyone innately wants to think of themselves as a good person I am now positive that there is a significant percentage of people who are utterly uninterested in that question

"When I was in prison I found Jesus." "Yeah it makes sense that's where he'd end up these days."

Dang it can we not bring two of THOSE onto the ark

That time of year again!

Who is that in the Epstein files

some good climate/energy news: * 96% of new US power capacity was carbon-free in 2024 (56 gigawatts!) * 2025 included the first month ever when 51% of power on the U.S. grid was carbon-free * The golbal trend is overwhelming: The world is now investing more $ in clean energy than fossil fuels

It me

I need a good roasting. Roast me, y’all

Muahahahaha

Discworld QOTD, from Hogfather

People with trauma histories often interpret neutral cues as negative. "You can come if you want." sounds to them like the person doesn't actually want them to come. Affirming that you want them there helps remove any doubts.

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