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We investigate the suspicious death of former InfoWars host Alex Jones who popped like a ballon in his car. Full episode here: https://youtu.be/RX8-VGDK1vQ

just an incredible blog by @albertburneko.bsky.social defector.com/is-it-mitch-...

I've noticed that younger people seem to over-analyze things that bring them pleasure & happiness. There are all kinds of caveats [almost like 'I know I'm really not SUPPOSED to enjoy x y z but...]. I did not grow up with this mindset. I wonder if this is tied to social media & constant surveillance

this is also where the idea stuff is "cringe" comes from. a lot of great, memorable stuff in childhood is cringe! EMBRACE IT! you only get to be young once and what is cringe now will become nostalgia later!

Repatriating a body is an incredibly incredibly expensive process. We ultimately couldn't afford the cost to do so with my dad - so please contribute if you can to Luis's family. It's incredibly meaningful.

Le Guin on the idea that there is a secret to getting good at writing.

1/10 🧵 @jacobgeller.com's new video is brilliant, but it also opens a fascinating academic door. It’s a textbook example of Remediation theory—how new media constantly borrow from older formats to feel authentic. There's a lot of deep media theory hiding under the hood here. 👇🏽

whenever white people deny this about identity politics, it reminds me of this old math joke

Reminder: we are war crime-ing Cuba right now because Trump and Rubio want to collapse their government. Not a major part of the media discourse but it should be.

the fact that a lot of people would rather complain that I used the word "leftish" to describe Platner than address the fact that racists and misogynists are a nonpartisan problem is a huge reason why we're here.

#sketch #conceptart #TTRPGart #scifi #sciencefiction #landscape

“Climate change is here, we are living the consequences and it is only the start of July,” said the fire chief for Pyrénées-Orientales, Eric Belgioino. “This season is going to be a long one for the soldiers fighting fires. You have to help us.”

An interesting dive into the aesthetics, themes, and philosophical underpinnings of divine machines

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Sightings off Southern Africa suggest blue and fin whales may be rebounding news.mongabay.com/short-articl... 🦑🌎🧪

For the month of July 10% of all sales through our online shop will be donated to relief efforts in Venezuela through the International Medical Corps. Shop here: bonedustpress.com/shop Read about the IMC here: internationalmedicalcorps.org/emergency-re...

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celestial seal. sealestial? celestseal? universeal. a starbor(harbor) seal. ✎: gouache and colored pencil on paper

I often hear proponents of industrial carbon removal justify their expensive, long-delayed, underperforming DAC and CCS plants by saying we need them to address "hard-to-abate" emissions. For example, emissions from making cement, steel, and so on. But is this the only way to address them? Hardly.

Laura Jedeed's thread about the DC 250th celebration was excellent, start to end.

I want this to be a painting

...every now and then I realize that I've drawn a *lot* of animatronic and life-sized model dinosaurs. Here's a quick retrospective, excluding the various @calacademy.bsky.social exhibits which would require their own post. First, "Dino Safari" in Las Vegas, 2023. (1/6)

The man in the photo was murdered for this.

America keeps trying to get me to go to her birthday party and I’m like no girl u need to go to the hospital

Not gonna lie, the fact that AI data centers are being cooled while Americans die in the street from heat stoke is really pissing me off.

look, I ain't ever gonna quit. as long as I can make at least one person feel less alone in this life I'm gonna keep grinding out these comics. landlords can kiss my grits.

Incredible moment where Fox News puts up a graphic with all the reasons it opposes the DSA and why people should be afraid of them

Rights of Nature Laws Are Coming Up Against Legal Systems Designed for Destruction @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/0207202...

The family and friends of Mexican animator Luis de la Rosa, who tragically passed away during the Annecy Festival, are asking for support to help cover travel expenses and repatriate his body. A GoFundMe fundraiser has been launched for anyone who would like to help: gofund.me/ae1944d68

Oops, did I really call Matt Yglesias unhinged and unserious? 🫠

In honor of the news that @slimyswampghost.bsky.social's creation Sirenhead is getting a movie (crucially, with him involved!) here's a great interview we did a while back about the character, his work, and how the internet often tries to wrench creations away from their creators.

I love using one cohesive idea when making cover art and design for a whole series! I’d love to get more cover work. I’m fast and easy to work with—and I color my own work. Which covers do you like the most here?!

It’s trivial compared to all else but as computer components & entertainment systems become more prohibitively expensive it’s becoming increasingly clear that we can have AI & data centers & petroleum wars or we can have stuff we actually want like movies & video games & physical media but not both.

It had started to seem like a good idea to get a gun

haunting the homeowner by Hikari Leilani Miya "also, i’m haunting this home as a raccoon." Link ⬇️ strangehorizons.com/wordpress/po...

This interview in Vanity Fair came out in 2010, and this exchange from it has lived rent-free in my head ever since.

I don’t want this point to be lost in the discourse. Going digital-only means inequity for people who cannot afford internet or constantly purchasing new games. Libraries provide opportunities for people to experience games they otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford, and that will be lost.

I love this book so much, I've bought copies just to give to people LOL fat bodies are so interesting and beautiful and fun to draw. And learning how to draw fat will make all your figure drawings better and livelier - we're not just muscles and skeletons!

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

Reposting because of the sony news

Life is Strange 2

The rainbows came through smiling whilst crop dusting fertilizer for the corals and fresh sand for the beaches 🌈🦜🐟💩🪸🏝️ #rainbowparrotfish #parrotfishjungle #parrotfishcapitaloftheworld #howbeachsandismade #coralcitycamera

This is a great reminder that although EVs have environmental benefits they are just as dangerous to pedestrians and cyclists — if not more dangerous than gas-powered cars when you factor in the weight and acceleration.

I think digital media on an individual level is great, on a societal and cultural level, I think it sucks ass and probably has done as much harm as good. I think this is true of many things!

This isn’t even a joke thing for me. Mobile platforms are a closed down technofascist response to computers. The desktop isn’t free of those influences, but they are attenuated and interacting with it makes you experience the full promise of computing. The potential and the freedom.

Brutal thread on heat illness. Take care of yourself and each other, no matter what the boss says. Donate to UFW at ufw.org/sparechange

"If we save our wild places, we will ultimately save ourselves." ~Steve Irwin