Australia is proposing to tax Meta, Google and TikTok a proportion of their revenue to pay for news reporters. The government intends to introduce the draft legislation to Parliament by July. n.pr/4eOMTi3

Techbros keep being like AI may be unethical, but at least it burns outrageous amounts of fuel, is expensive, and is not good at its job

Tufted Pygmy Squirrel, Borneo.

“Our results have found that since it’s been so long since you had something absolutely terrible happen to you, there is likely a massive calamity coming right down the pipeline,” said researcher Sean LaMonte

Bluesky #EsotericBookChallenge. A #book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL the best #esoteric books in your personal #occult library. Added more

— Kid asks for "more" Rembrandts. That’s some true Connecticut bullshit. — You want to see a hundred Rembrandts? Here. Here’s a bus ticket. Enjoy Manhattan. P.S., it sucks. You want to see five Rembrandts, and really see them? Really engage with each canvas? Come to Boston.

Thankx to THE BOSS for having Public Enemy perform at Springsteen Center American Music Honors ,, we should all always continue to FIGHT THE POWER

Fascism, betting markets, and loneliness are all connected, writes @andreagrimes.com. "To the extent that loneliness is a man-problem, it’s an everyone-problem, because however lonely they may be, men still hold disproportionate power both systemically and privately."

Ah! 19 April – 126th anniversary of the day William Butler Yeats kicked Aleister Crowley downstairs as they fought for control of the British branch of the not-at-all-ridiculous Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in the Battle of Blythe Road. According to legend, anyway... 🧵

Bluesky #EsotericBookChallenge. A #book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL the best #esoteric books in your personal #occult library. Added more books, like Victoria Nelson's Secret life of puppets, and some university books on the gothic and fantastic

#cats and #book

Bluesky #EsotericBookChallenge. A #book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL the best #esoteric books in your personal #occult library. It's okay to skip days if you're really busy. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

New Yorkers! 👀

Halfway Guest House Terrace in Bendiwan Village. a small, scenic mountain settlement located within the Tiger Leaping Gorge. one of the deepest and most spectacular river canyons in the world, in the Diqing Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, China 🇨🇳

HAPPENING NOW: We’re marching with tens of thousands of New Yorkers to tell Governor Hochul: Protect New Yorkers from Trump! Tax the Rich! Keep the momentum going – join us at our rally to tax the rich tomorrow with Bernie Sanders! dsa.nyc/TTRRally

Bluesky #EsotericBookChallenge. A #book per day, in no particular order, until you've shared ALL the best #esoteric books in your personal #occult library. It's okay to skip days if you're really busy. No explanations, no reviews, just covers!

Socialists in Office @kristengonzalez.bsky.social & @dianaforqueens.com are championing legislation to tax wealthy corporations in NY. Join Kristen, Diana, and Bernie Sanders this Sunday in the Bronx to tax the companies who exploit, pollute, and union-bust their way across New York.

Rebekah McDonald cosplaying as Princess Teegra from Ralph Bakshi's and Frank Frazetta's - Fire and Ice (1983)

Wow! #Sinners www.aaihs.org/the-sinners-...

It Only Tuesday https://theonion.com/it-only-tuesday-1819569397/

The Ford Pinto had a death rate of 85 people for 10 million cars sold. The Cybertruck hasn't sold 10 million, but the fatality rate so far maths out to 1,452 people killed per 10 million sold. The Cybertruck may be the deadliest road car, for the occupants, ever sold. fuelarc.com/evs/its-offi...

NEW: A hobbyist has created Nearby Glasses, an app that warns you if someone close by is wearing smart glasses. 404 Media spoke to the creator who said he was inspired by our coverage that uncovers how men are wearing Meta's Ray-Bans to covertly film massage parlor workers.

Report: Oh, Fuck Yeah, Egg Yolk Dripping All Over Sandwich https://theonion.com/report-oh-fuck-yeah-egg-yolk-dripping-all-over-sandw-1819579733/

All The Questions You Have About K-Pop, Answered https://theonion.com/all-the-questions-you-have-about-k-pop-answered/

Hugo eligibility post! “The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.

Shalom friends! Enjoy this blog I wrote for Reboot, a case study in adapting tales from a deeply patriarchal tradition, shaped by male storytellers, into modern feminist Midrash…while STILL having each plot twist and character trait rooted in those same ancient texts! rebooting.com/article/jewi...

"A classic Poncy is identified by its distinctive wheeze, hemophilia, cognitive impairment, incontinence, and limbs that ideally should be too short for actual locomotion. This is Queen Victoria Poncy Spaniel number three, Sir Popsicle Dribbling Quisling Mallard Oligarch."

Literally every bad thing in modern times is because of a roaving band of pedophiles Literally every bad thing in modern times is because of a roaving band of pedophiles Literally every bad thing in modern times is because of a roaving band of pedophiles I'm gonna Mc fucking loose it

Why I don't like the Monty Hall puzzle: for your 2nd guess, a reward is only possible if Monty Hall got rid of one of the loser-doors and not the single prize door

Listening to #beatles on 2009? vinyl

The best live-action Zelda: youtu.be/cjpHzLYHkwA?...

Happy new year, friends! Be yourself this year, be weird, be creative, be the freak you dream to be! #ateez #dailyateez

The BMA has come out swinging for the rights of all trans people in healthcare settings and beyond - both patients and healthcare providers. Genuinely brilliant news amongst the bad - please read it and share, and remember that we are NOT alone. Not by a long stretch.

I used to wander the www Now I am but bound

Snowy in #nyc this evening

Happy Hanukkah to our friends who celebrate. Rachel Posner, a rabbi’s wife in Kiel, Germany, took this photograph in 1931 -- a potent reminder that fascism must be fought in every generation, even if it's wrapped in an American flag and a red hat.

I'm convinced one of the reasons we love the Beatles so much is that we have so few stories about evolving, intense male friendship.

"We are not always what we seem, and hardly ever what we dream" #pixelart

The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.

Revolver is the Beatles' best album, and at least a contender for best album by anyone ever, and the mono mix is, as always, infinitely superior (same goes for the mono mixes of "Paperback Writer" and "Rain"). The deluxe box is remarkable given how much of it is remixes of previously-released stuff

Holy shit, just learned about the typewriter art of Montserrat Alberich Escardívol, a Catalan typist. Using an extra wide typewriter and 180 color ribbons, she built up elaborate images from simple characters like 'm' and '.' and ';'. Here is her typewritten painting of the Cathedral of Barcelona.

Important to understand the Epstein stuff and the fascism and the corruption are, in a lot of ways, really all the same story from different angles: powerful men who can and do abuse vulnerable people around them because they can, and because systems of elite accountability catastrophically failed