"fearing or regulating it, or opposing technological progress, would hasten the coming of the Antichrist, Thiel said" what the fuck

One thing I'll say about DC not only canceling Red Hood, but recalling the first issue and refunding stores for buying it, is that you can still get Neil Gaiman's work through them. They still work with Otto Schmidt. Eddie Berganza worked there for years AFTER the formation of a policy that no women

For more than a year I’ve spoken with Scattered Spider “caller” Noah Urban from a Florida jail. I wanted to know how they chose victims, their methods and how Noah became entangled in a virtually and physically violent world. We’re publishing his story today: www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

I'm drafting up some new larp rules. This is the same larp where I've rewritten combat rules a dozen times now, and this one seems like a possible winner. I've got the non-combat rules down pretty solid (items, exploring, research, etc etc) and combat isn't a big focus, but this is a good balance.

is this good

The reaction to Kirk’s death by liberals truly shows how incapable they are of understanding that structural violence in the form of harassment, promoting laws, spewing hateful rhetoric, and making hit list very literally KILLS PEOPLE, and in high numbers. Kirk was a killer of hundreds to thousands

"Jezebel paid Etsy witches to hex Charlie Kirk and then he got shot in Utah" is an insane sentence

Talked to 23 people who suddenly have to pay huge tariffs or otherwise cannot get chainmail from Pakistan, yarn from France, retro computers from Japan, metal music from the Netherlands, DVDs from Germany, cosplay supplies, sunscreen, etc. www.404media.co/its-just-a-m...

CEO during huddle: this is a safe space Man I hate: *snickers* Me: I can make it an unsafe space

Gen Z in Nepal burned down the parliament, burned down the homes of government officials, forced the prime minister to resign, and paraded the finance minister through the streets nearly naked.

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obviously what Trump wants to do is horrifying but Republicans losing the NRA over trans people is genuinely one of the funniest possible political outcomes

Relevant.

kid (3.5): “I need a rolling strawberry” me: ??? kid: “I said a rolling strawberry” me: “what does that mean” kid: “[sigh] I need a strawberry that is NOT cut up with the green top STILL ON so I can roll it down the stairs”

“The first wave of grocery-price increases will likely hit this winter. Roberson predicted produce prices could rise 50% to 100% by early next year as inventories clear and new contracts kick in.”

Alright, my dearies. Here we go. Join us for the ride? www.kickstarter.com/projects/lum...

My dad was ordering a computer from Gateway, the ones that came delivered in the giant cow-patterned boxes. He'd sold his coin collection to pay for it, it was a big deal for the family. So he's on the phone with gateway... (Cont)

MORPHEUS: They're coming for you, Neo. I can guide you, but you must do exactly as I say. Take the elevator to the lobby and go to the CVS across the street. Purchase 5 Steam gift cards at $200 each. Scratch off the protective coating on the back and tell me the fifteen digit redemption codes. Hurry

Noticed a bunch of these ornate gold medallions slapped all over the Oval Office. We found em on Alibaba. “High-density Home Decoration Polyurethane Appliques Ornament PU Foam Veneer Accessories” from seller Guangzhou Homemax Decorative Material Limited. sherwood.news/power/shop-t...

Trump doesn't seem to see that some people are still immune to his threats. Jack White criticized Trump's Oval Office decor. The White House then called White a "washed-up, has-been loser... masquerading as a real artist." And White, undeterred, posted an absolutely blistering takedown in response.

Important detail: John Brown was going around fighting and killing slaveowners with the sickest looking longsword I've ever seen

Gavin Newsom horns up so many mid Dems & Bluvians b/c he's a smooth brain's success story: keep posting harder w/lots of emojis + baby talk nicknames + creative spelling + FB insults + AI slop memes + NO DM'S OR PORN PLEASE, and you too can be a Californian governor gooning for a 2028 POTUS run

you can't make this shit up

Ok everyone let’s hear your suggestions for worst possible collaboration of food companies. Omaha Steaks and Hershey’s syrup is a good start

Weird question for law bluesky. Is it legal to get a fake ID if it's not for the purposes of fraud or deception? I'm imagining a scenario where a website requires validation that I am over a certain age (and I am) but I don't want to upload my own actual ID because of the possibility of data loss.

[seeing all the billionaires on their waiting list] It’s important that we let this play out

Here's the rules for The Hunger of Dogs. Probably The Last RRG You Will Play Before You Die (TM.)

TTRPG: The Hunger of Dogs. Character creation is done through hotdog eating contest. The number of hotdogs you eat is your only stat. In contests points are blind bid, and the side that spends the most wins. All points are lost, and if you spend all your last point you are rendered feral.

COVID isn’t over. Long COVID disability is real and more common than you think. Fascism benefits from denialism and ableism. If you’re leftist, liberal, &c, you should wear an n95 in public. As another creative who lost access to public life due to COVID denialism said: “Fix your hearts or die.”

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This is.... I got lung cancer after getting covid. So uh. Yeah.

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A reminder for anyone going to Gen Con next week: Please MASK on the plane there, in the convention, in bars, restaurants, anywhere that isn't well ventilated!!!

But also, adding the list of T's enemies

Corp accountant here, Investor Relations is the team that is legally obligated to handle investor concerns. If you have a fund with MC or Visa in it, I suggest calling and demanding to know what your compensation will be for the reduction in Earnings Per Share caused by cutting off income streams (:

If you want to actually solve the problem, instead of punishing itch, start calling payment cos Collective Shout, which is run by people who get published by Spinifex, a very terf-seeming organization, apparently needed 1,000 people to yell at visa to get this done. We got more than 1000 people.

Folks being like "I'm complaining/protesting/boycotting itch" like, why would you spend energy punching sideways? Itch -knows- it's bad, they're on our side and forced into this position. That same energy could have been put to good use by pointing it at the actual problem: the payment processors.

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….what

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Perfect response to scam recordings who don't kick off till you say something

I cannot overemphasize to you how often law firms are targeted by hackers, sometimes employed by opposing parties in cases they are working on, and how profoundly unprepared most law firms are to defend themselves. www.cnn.com/2025/07/11/p...

When I worked at a firm that had an office out there, they had maybe 30 users out of ~1500, and we got more virus alerts from those 30 than from the rest of the office. And that's just what the shitty antivirus saw.

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TRIANGLE AGENCY LIFEHACK: the existence or non-existence of god has never been "observed", which means you can totally Ask The Agency to lock that shit in place one way or the other

Holy shit.

Most horrifying part of this imo is that this country never *stops* funding these things once they start. We've never closed Guantanamo, we've never shuttered Homeland Security. The potential damage here lasts forever.