The Onion on point as always.

I appreciate the sentiment, but I’m going to say “probably not”. Pretty much only artists have access to a rich set of color descriptors, and the rest of us are limited to comparisons with things in our shared experience. Which is mostly food. Even nature tones like various woods are a mystery […]

Bloody hell. I thought Blair was just a typical misguided neoliberal, but this is a fast walk into outright evil. The closing line here is *solid*. “The foundation and its founder should be nowhere near Gaza. They should, however, be very, very close to the Hague.” 👨‍🍳👌 […]

The local bulletin board has an ad for someone selling a (they claim) successful coffee shop in a good location, and I have rarely been so tempted. Imagine having a place I could open at the stupid hour of the morning that I'm normally up! Maybe with.a reading library of books and manga and […]

Ahh better!

I love how art tools are neatly divided into (a) simple tools that let you draw a square in any color you want and that's pretty much all, versus (b) professional photo editing tools which *could* do anything you might conceivably want, but in which you cannot for the life of you draw a simple […]

Had a brief moment where I wondered, “What fresh, intrusive, AI-enabled hell are ‘smart shoes’?” Then I realized it was ‘smart’ as ‘attractive’. Thank gods. 🙄 https://mastodon.social/@fesshole/115269855194379575

This happens to be the brand I eat several times a week. Not any more. https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2025/09/24/chobani-boycott-planet-harvest-controversy/86328106007/

I can't remember if I posted this here. If you don't know about this site already (https://outbreaksnearme.org/), it is a citizen science project that tracks illness in North America. You answer simple questions for your self or household each week so that the rest of the population can see if […]

I don’t know if I’d actually want to play this, but the video was fun to watch. 👍 https://mastodon.social/@massivelyop/115261774663169516

Also I know appearance shaming and heteronormative makeup expectations are wrong but I see those eyes and I don’t think “Vice President” I think “high school sophomore outside Hot Topic who asks her friends to call her Sybil Gravedance”

The pro women's soccer league has been sponsored by Tylenol this season so whenever they do promotional photos on socials they're also inadvertently poking fun at the stupid government's pursuit of silly conspiracy theories

Once again, a predicted Rapture has failed us. I’m growing pessimistic that we’ll see the backs of these folks in my lifetime. https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/115248299196647365

Schrödinger's Shooter exists as both a deranged leftist motivated by dangerous rhetoric AND as a misunderstood troubled youth who needed Jesus until the waveform collapses

For some reason, I have “body horror” written in quotes on a piece of paper on my desk, and I have no idea why. It looks like my own handwriting, so that’s at least a little reassuring. I’m really hoping that I did, in fact write it, as the alternative is… concerning. 😰

Not now I’m busy being angry at every UFO that has passed overhead that didn’t take me with them.

Reading Katabasis, by R.F.Kuang. As amazing as Babel was, as riveting to read, this is the opposite. A slightly tongue-in-cheek world, like ours but with magic, it took me a little effort to get past its absurd elements. But then the MC developed as a worse and worse person and now, 1/2-way […]

These are my people. #positivenews https://www.positive.news/society/born-to-be-mild-celebrating-banality-with-the-dull-mens-club/

I took a tylenol because wondering where the Epstein files are gave me a headache.

Attention Gen Xers and boomers with registered domain names 🚨 If you, like me, put a fictitious organization in your domain name registration 25 years ago because NetSol or ICANN did not allow you to leave that field blank, recent policy changes will make that organization name the *legal […]

I’m sorry, but if that profile photo were to appear regularly in my timeline, you would not hear me complaining. 😍 https://mas.to/@markwyner/115238883909432982

One of the spice dreams I wrote for #DuneAwakening. I'd say "Spoilers", but you'd have to be high on spice to pick them up.

It took me a few moments to realize that this wasn’t describing some LitRPG character, and to remember that “spirit levels” aren’t a measure of game character progress. 😁 https://mastodon.green/@CiaraNi/115235279710453673

What Went Right This Week, from #positivenews The bit about New Mexico now offering universal child health care is particularly good news. https://www.positive.news/society/good-news-stories-from-week-38-of-2025/

Some fantastic memes in the replies to this, can recommend. 👍 https://glitterkitten.co.uk/@babe/115226635755001123

Something that bothers me a lot is when people conflate "having compassion and understanding for people who hate you" with "letting people who hate you do whatever they want to you". It's possible to have firm boundaries and to take urgent, protective action while also believing that everyone […]

I still have bookmarks that I created with Netscape Navigator, carried over when I migrated to its Firefox successor. Very few of those websites are still around -- but their presence is rich with nostalgia…. ❤️ https://mastodon.social/@jwz/115227121679946876

Reading a fantasy mystery novel, and the youngish main character (a detective’s assistant) is bonding with a youngish military officer, and I can’t tell if they’re being set up for a romance or if I’m just reading into it because of all the queer romances I read. If they’re not being set up for […]

Boycotting the Eurovision is cool (especially because Israelis *really* care about the Eurovision) but this, right here, is another level

It's so hard to judge the ripeness of some fruit, this is really good to know. https://mstdn.social/@lowqualityfacts/114915356064553442

Queen

Now they need a study that compares Breath of the Wild to murder hobo games like Dune and Cyberpunk. Which Achievement brings more contentment? * "Travel the entire Kingdom on Horseback", or * "Kill 500 Atreides Deserters"? […]

I’ve normally like Ok Go’s videos, they’re invariably super creative. This one is also creative but… it makes me kind of nauseous watching it. It’s like the Uncanny Valley and a nightmare had a baby in the Singularity. Not a fan. https://youtu.be/fwzbIUffcR4?si=p-XNhmd7kfAFH7jy

I love The Rabbit of Seville, it’s an honest-to-gosh work of genius. But I’ve had this ear worm for 2 days, now, and it’s getting a bit much…. 🤨 🎶 Ohh, wait'll I get that wabbit! 🎶 What would you want with a wabbit? Can't you see that I'm much sweeter? I'm […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

I've reached the age where my joints ache on cold damp days and seriously, this is bullshit. How do my joints even know what the weather's doing anyway? My hips are completely surrounded by soggy meat at constant body temperature, how do they even know what the weather's like outside?

The radica left is—and has always been—skeptical of God Kings, in the spirit of #ThomasPaine. https://inaniludibrio.com/2024/08/13/skeptical-of-god-kings/

This is a helpful and frightening perspective on why Americans have such different views of who Charlie Kirk was. Screenshot from FB; original poster's name is in the screenshot but I'm not typing it because she might not want it searchable outside FB: "One thing that […] [Original post on c.im]

Enunciating is gay. https://youtube.com/shorts/yMZkRy1_Pq0?si=kfYoOR_sI4_RRIpk

Poor kid. 😂 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/buXS7yjt3LQ

Entirely true. Though, I'm not sure I would “condemn" the hate monger’s murder. “Condemn" sounds kind of harsh. Perhaps, “frown, disapprovingly”. "Raise an eyebrow at it." ”Shake my head sternly," maybe, before going on with my day. “Well, don't make a habit of it, eh old chap? Right, then.” […]

Clam gardens have been used by Pacific Northwest native tribes for thousands of years. They build rock walls to trap sediment, at the right height to be immersed at high tide but also exposed for harvest at low tide. This encourages burrowing clams to settle in […] [Original post on scicomm.xyz]

#positivenews https://universeodon.com/@tksst/115193709600086983

I don’t usually end up on random YouTube videos, but I could hardly *not* click on one about Studio Ghibli’s accidental queer film, and it was well worth it. Super entertaining. And super true, as well. I remember Ocean Waves. Everything about it screams gay love story, not the least of which […]

#positivenews https://spore.social/@rewildingmag/115193191998695397

"The man who shot Charlie Kirk was a conservative white man from Utah. But the fact that we assumed it was a transgender Mexican demonstrates how out of control Leftist rhetoric has gotten." Tomorrow in the Washington Post

What Went Right This Week, from #positivenews https://www.positive.news/society/good-news-stories-from-week-37-of-2025/

Looking up a character that appears in the Dune Awakening game, and the fan wikis that record his history have weird, over the top plotlines for his early and late life. A quick search on the books those bits were from reveals that they’re the ones written by his son and a co-writer, and the […]

That won’t help, unless the party is willing to jettison the politicians who have left us. https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/115187322827869956