A lot of people on here don't realize Wishbone was in the Panama Papers. Yeah. I'll say it: we all knew he was reading too much for a dog.

Reactionary politics is de-baathifying yourself

the new paper on bouba/kiki in chicks is utterly compelling canonical, elegant method from comparative cogsci & its partner in developmental science, ultra-simple design, ultra-clear effects, no need for fancy analyses, machine learning, or AI it appeared in an appropriately badass venue (Science)

i often think about this review

@seattleaquarium.bsky.social let's make them, feel something let's remind them, what the ocean is for

So apparently I was right to shittalk m00t this week because it's been revealed that his boneheaded decision to establish /pol/ and subsequently ruin the website was allegedly born out of a one-on-one meeting with Jeffery Epstein.

ICE is riddled with sex criminals. A January 2026 report by the Pacific Antifascist Research Collective identified 30 ICE and CBP agents with documented convictions and arrests, some for serious violent and sexual crimes. At least 20 committed offenses with underage victims.

hey folks, six figure opinion columnist here and gotta say, made a big ol’ whoopsie on the most consequential and honestly, probably the most obvious opinion of my life. thats my bad. anyway, guess I’ll just keep getting paid to give my opinion, thanks for reading

L.A. Metro, the main transit operator for Los Angeles, just voted to oppose SB 79, a law legalizing the construction of housing near stations. You can't make this stuff up. Legislators should remember this the next time they come to Sacramento begging for more money. laist.com/news/housing...

there's so many of these

The FDA won’t tell Americans where their generic drugs are made, so ProPublica did it instead. Use information from your prescription label to locate the factory and see if the plant has a history of inspection violations ⤵️

It’s ironic that they’re like “if we do ethnic cleansing we’ll have a high trust neighborly society” and then Minneapolis is literally doing high trust neighborly society and they’re like nooooo

A nonviolent normie protest in literal Nazi germany was successful at impacting policy! The world is not a binary between “enlightened liberal democracy” and “nothing except violence can ever possibly matter”.

We asked legal experts what ICE agents can and can’t do, and about the rights of anyone who is approached by ICE or who witnesses an encounter.

it is the duty of the strong to protect the weak and the vulnerable. strength has no other purpose but this

Not crazy to say there was a much clearer criminal case against MBS, who ordered the murder of an American newspaper columnist, than there is against Maduro.

Wisconsin author Michael Schumacher, who produced an array of works ranging from biographies of filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola and musician Eric Clapton to accounts of Great Lakes shipwrecks, has died at age 75.

Pretending to have principles is how you get principles anyway

Forced labor for people with no conviction at a private enterprise is the trifecta of dystopian red flags.

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

If you go bald in your mind you go bald in real life

[somberly] You cannot serve both god and money [upbeat music hits] Until now. Introducing god as a service

The response to this feels somewhat akin to the response to Hillbilly Elegy— that certain liberals must read it and praise it so that they can properly and publicly perform humility to atone for their eliteness. This is despite both of these books being written by Ivy Leaguers.

"But these -- crumbly foods! Scones, 'cookie crusts' and so on...they purport to be something you can either eat on the go or dissect on a plate with utensils when they are truly -- neither...not a food at all! An unprepared, undigestible *thing*, I -- I cannot stand it..."

I think we need a mega thread of everyone's craziest archive stories.

nice try your honor, but I too brought a gavel

A big story here is that major tech firms really did over-hire during the pandemic, they did waste a lot of money on low productivity personnel, and when firms realized this and cut staff they assumed every institution on earth operated like this too for some reason.

If you load this page it contacts 82 IP addresses executing 256 separate HTTP transactions to download 18MB of data writing 64 cookies to your device to tell you “no”

One of the most underrated stories over the last 5 years is the Dems who have been corrupted by crypto money (growing every day as crypto pours money into primaries) causing a big split within the Dem caucus

Yeah what really needs to happen is university level adaptations: locked down computer labs with monitoring software on the machines there, and you must write and submit your paper on one these, where there is a keystroke record of you typing it up.

(while telling a politician to off themselves) I'm king of da information superhighway

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I’m personally befriending every lonely young man in america. what the fuck is roblox

I know the material reasons for the rise of fascism. I also think another reason - which doesn’t get talked about as much because it’s embarrassing that humans can be that naive - is that when you are financially comfortable but bored, abstract cruelty can give you a sense of purpose.

Current status: we're smuggling eggs in from Mexico now. So let's talk about WHY Mexico's egg industry has been stable- while US egg prices are through the roof! 1. Mexico puts people in jail for price-fixing. 2. Mexico lets farmers vaccinate their chickens against bird flu.

Factory farming is a technology for creating viruses of pandemic potential, as @brandonkeim.bsky.social examines in this sharp piece The mass production of animals for food, like car dependence, makes us poorer, sicker, & squanders the resources we could be using to 1/ nautil.us/the-unnatura...

It’s so goddamn easy to get people to like you for doing good things. When I was a teenager I spent tons and tons of time volunteering at the food pantry, visiting prisoners in jail, doing work for any civic org, and I did in fact get awards for it! Just go volunteer at a food pantry!

i wonder why these guys hate the CFPB so much ohh

the only people who benefit from this are child predators and i'd like dem officials to say so into a microphone

i hope records survive of how incredibly inane this all was. i hope no one thinks anyone who did this to the world had any dignity or gravitas at all.

Enjoying my Irish friends' social media posts right now like "found a new bookstore :3" and "I bought too many carbs but who's counting ;V"

surely a 19-24 year old silicon valley guy would be well positioned to resist a woman telling him he's so smart and clever and strong, can he tell her the most important secrets he knows.

so you've chosen the latter

whatever, Trotsky, probably other stuff could happen instead of all that -- you're such a doomer

This train conductor is on an insightful yarn: everyone in his hometown works at the prisons ("if you're a nurse, you're a prison nurse, construction, you're prison construction, no skill -- guards"), but an unintended consequence is prisoners' families move there and "ruin it".

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