First day on the job and you want respect? Go right up to the most recognizable and respected guy in the newsroom and have him yell at you until you cry. Then it's time to send him a weepy email telling him how disappointed you were that he did all that. Shouldn't have any trouble after that.

If you are commissioning an artist, and want a specific pose, don't run to genAI to try and make it for you. Draw a stick person. Stick person poses are beloved among all artists. We can see exactly what you want. Do not fear sending the stick person. The stick person is magical.

Thanks to the efforts of dedicated "Phone Phreaks" (a countercultural movement that birthed an early form of hacking,) we have the wonderfully weird tale of the Mojave Phone Booth ##WyrdWednesday youtu.be/FZ1XeV225jc?...

I see a lot of charts everyday. Few make me go: THIS IS CRAZY. www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-mean...

Every day is another occasion for a loud “Fuck you” to anyone who didn’t vote for Clinton in 2016. And it’s exhausting.

oh also go set up or check your backups.

Motherfuckers.

Do not stare into the abyss lest you become the abyss champion.

Good thing our foreign adversaries limit themselves to making trivial mistakes on mortgage paperwork, otherwise we'd be in for some trouble

this is my kind of company motto right here

I'm so tired of this garbage. Trans folks deserve the same rights as the rest of us, including the rights to travel, vote and pee safely, not to mention the right to have accurate IDs that aren't invalidated at the whim of some buttholes who'd rather pick on trans folks than solve any real problems.

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Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

NARRATOR: He absolutely played it again. I miss finding internet jukeboxes that @edzitron.com and I could give THE GOOD NEWS that The Boys were, in fact, back. In town. Again.

Welp there’s no unseeing this

Beyond the appointment of an unqualified hack who will do Trump's crazed bidding, this shit is stupid. Congress really should pass some kind of law that people can't be in charge of more than one agency at a time.

Oh thank fricking god. I hate a non-replaceable battery with the heat of a thousand suns.

How did a C-tier WWE guy from Germany become one of the most popular luchadores in Mexico?

"oopsie poopsies it definitely was a widdle accident that we labeled queer folks as pornographic meanwhile we whine about how pissed we are that the site isn't all techbros"

I would love to see a statue of Zelenskyy commissioned and installed in London in the park right across from the Russian embassy.

Tonight’s dumb napkin cartoon…

Reminder that Klingons say TRANS RIGHTS BRING HONOR TO YOUR HOUSE

“Why sir, it’s AI bubble collapse day”

FWIW, if I was the speaker of the House and my predecessor was assassinated in a terrorist attack, I’d ask for a brief moment of silence for her at my convention.

Here’s last night’s story about who Trump has pardoned since he’s been in office, why, and what to do if someone brings a cattle prod to a dinner party. https://youtu.be/crzxR8enx6o

HamNo spitting fire. And holy crap, wtaf, Florida?

The world is grim but do you ever just think about dumplings?

Len Ikitau is such a good rugby player to watch! Oozes utter class. FULL VIDEO: youtu.be/7Gl7iUo8BhU

The thread is growing by the minute showing Paxton doesn't have good Texas credentials. It's absolutely hilarious. Some others: Ken Paxton shops at Albertsons (instead of HEB, #iykyk) Ken Paxton says you guys instead of y'all Ken Paxton thinks a shiner is a black eye Gotta laugh so I don't cry.

A friend posted people's thoughts on how Texan Ken Paxton really is. There are so many but a few favorites are: Ken Paxton mows over bluebonnets Ken Paxton forgot the Alamo Ken Paxton eats breakfast burritos Ken Paxton doesn't know what to do when people sing The Stars at Night are Big and Bright

Hegseth Strikes Female and Black Navy Officers From Promotion List. The net result: a slate of 22 new one-star admiral nominees that bears little resemblance to the broader force these officers will help lead. Of special note: The list has no women. www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/u...

happy *quiet, chill* pride

New Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff 🏥 Margaret talks with Miriam about the people fighting tooth and nail to save lives right now in Vancouver, Canada @margaret.bsky.social @whysophiewhy.bsky.social linktr.ee/coolpeoplepod

If you’re trans & born before 2000, when asked who you are you can legit answer: “Do not ask me for a single title, I have crossed millennia under different names and worn more than one form besides. Revered by some and feared by many, I am remembered differently in each age that survives me.”

It’s the first of June, the beginning of Pride month. Stonewall was a riot. Trans rights are human rights. No one gets to erase us from history. Fight back against book bans. Fuck anybody who thinks we don’t deserve love or bodily autonomy. They don’t get to steal our joy.

Today Microsoft moved all its GitHub copilot subscribers to token-based billing. If you want to see what happens when people have to pay the actual costs of AI, the day is finally here. It's obvious that every customer sees the deep, meaningful value and isn't angry at all.

You used to be able to google the time of the sunset, and Google would give you the exact time right on top every single time. Thankfully, with artificial intelligence, you can now ask Google what time the sun will set and it will conveniently tell you "I don't know."

If I were an action hero, this is what I’d say to the bad guy before the kill shot.

Can I interest you in a moist owlette as a timeline cleanse? This is Sassafras the Eastern Screech Owl from the Cincinnati Zoo (@cincinnatizoo.bsky.social, but via their FB) and I love him very much. Eastern Screech Owls (Megascops asio) are native to eastern North America.

Thank you for joining me in my live reading of the entire Florida Advanced Courses & Tests US History Framework, contained in this thread. Either tomorrow or the day after (or maybe Wednesday, we'll see) I'll be doing a live reading of the 2020 edition of the textbook associated with it.

My annual Pride Month sale starts now! All pride-related items - plus some others - are included. Shirts are 12% off, pins 17% off, stickers 50% off! willburrows.art/shop

These protests were relatively benign and peaceful for days and days until they started getting national attention and now the cops show up and it's just fucking violence and chaos. It's pretty clear who the instigators are here and it's not the protestors.

The most strategic fumble I’ve witnessed among dem leaders is letting their cops beat up their constituents. And it’s been going on for years and weakening us all. It leaves people with few options but to lose faith in the entire system. And faith is all you got because there isn’t very much proof

In the small errata of weird things that happen in war that aren’t war-related, the fight the 130th PA blundered into with the bees of farmer Roulette as they were maneuvering to their attack position is one of my faves The rebels couldn’t make them run, but the bees sure did

Thrirb.

105 yrs ago tonight and tomorrow, an organized and resentful White mob raged through the African-American neighborhood of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma—known as “Black Wall Street” for its wealth—burning and looting 35 city blocks, massacring up to 300 African-Americans, and leaving 10,000 homeless.

Cops busting through a barricade that they set up is pretty tough to misinterpret.