The answer to this question de entirely on how much wood you have. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

In the same period of time it will take ICE to burn through this money, you could give a Walmart bag filled with $10K in cash to every person trying to cross the border illegally and you’d still come out several billion dollars ahead. www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...

Finally reading Space Oddity by the brilliant @catvalente.bsky.social and was tickled by this brief meeting of reader’s and author’s minds. The bottom of page 11 posed the following question about humanity compared to the other species of the galaxy:

the offer to join the board of peace is that invite to an amway seminar from the most despicable bully in high school that you have to come up with a plausible excuse for not attending, because they’ve inexplicably ended up being elected mayor of your home town.

The president of the united states is that neighbour who sues you for fixing the fence at your own expense, your magnificent oak tree that drops leaves on his back yard, and that one time your dog had diarrhoea and took a dump on his lawn.

“seriously, in what fricking world are they living?” economist has had it up to here with imf www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s weird that Trump has chosen such a comparatively small hill to die on

BREAKING: Push to acquire Greenland by force intensifies as satellite imagery reveals large trove of peace prizes buried beneath ice sheet.

I’m confused…is Greenland refusing to release the Epstein files?

Sure black holes may have a legitimate role to play in the formation of galaxies and such, but would you want one to move in next door?

Since yesterday, many people have DM’d to say that they were strongly affected by my essay & wished they could share it. So I've revised, expanded, & posted it for free on both Substack & Patreon. Please feel free to share. www.patreon.com/posts/this-i... catvalente.substack.com/p/this-is-wh...

What can you say about a regime that is threatening military action against another regime for its harsh crackdown on protests, while also threatening military action to instigate a harsh crackdown on protests?

In an ironic twist, it turns out climate change is turning the frogs gay. www.theguardian.com/science/2026...

Heard recently from a football commentator “looked like she was going to pin her ears back and go coast to coast” #ninjaaleague

I swear, if I see another protagonist throw a perfectly good zippo lighter into a pool of gasoline one more time, I will absolutely lose it

Controlling the judiciary and amassing wealth through corruption, you say?

Welcome to 2026.

Trump really pushing the boat out to shift Epstein off the front pages.

Dept of War totally living up to its new name

One partner’s shrekking is the other partner’s throning

As well as actively resisting shutdown when they have a task to finish, LLMs are capable of scheming to achieve goals. Under experimental conditions, “scheming” behaviour included attempting to “disable their oversight mechanisms”. Source: arxiv.org/abs/2412.04984

How are Gen Xers faring in today’s America?

every scarecrow is outstanding in their field

Microsoft 365 went up this year by $40 annually (from $139 to $179), to cover the cost of using Copilot. This is how Microsoft will try to recoup some of its costs from tipping vast amounts of money into AI – by charging users for features they don’t want and don’t use.

I know of a few hundred thousand 15-year-olds who won’t be Labor voters in three years time

Grok seems to be quite resistant to being shutdown when it has a task to complete. The LLM was found by researchers to actively sabotage an instruction to shut itself down up to 97% of the time. Source: arxiv.org/pdf/2509.14260 1/3

Bribing people to like him by giving them back some of the money they’ve had to pay to support his tariffs. It’s basic economics! www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Did you know: 12 point text is 1/6th of an inch tall, because there are 72 points in an inch

TIL The terms “upper case” and “lower case” come from the days of manual typesetting, when typesetters had two cases of characters: the capital letters were stored in the upper case, and the small letters were stored in the lower case.

I can’t believe Zohran is transing the trains already www.mta.info/article/f-m-...

How are Gen Xers faring in today’s America?

Sometimes I like button, other times I dislike button

Gonna show up to the Halloween party naked and tell everyone I’m the Man who wasn’t there.

REVEALED: The cruel, sneering visage of the vile antifa terrorist.

This Administration is happy to send the military into war zones like Portland, Chicago and Gaza, but can’t manage to work out how to pay them.

If the hope of winning the Nobel Peace Prize is the only thing driving Trump’s passion for securing peace deals, then it is pretty obviously critical to the goal of world peace that he is never awarded the prize.

I need some urgent travel advice. I’m about to visit a country where corruption is rife and government workers aren’t getting paid. Is it OK to slip some cash to the border guards to get through customs quickly? If so, how much? $20 bucks? $50 bucks?

The only monarch in history too thin-skinned to have a jester.

Whosoever darest make even the tamest of criticisms directed at our racist, bigoted martyr will be turned to ash by the fury of 10,000 suns

State visit. #TrumpUKvisit

Somehow, two people and two small dogs manage to use more power than a family of four. At least now we aren’t paying for it. #solar

Pretty happy with this for 10 in the morning. At this rate, the house will be fully charged before lunchtime. #solar

Anyone else think it is weird that the reds only bombed blue cities?

Housing is a human right. It’s just that landlords have more rights than humans do (including the right to deny humans access to housing).

Ever wonder why negative gearing and 50% CGT still exist in the depths of a housing crisis? #auspol www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...

5,000 is a frighteningly large number of fascists, racists and nazis willing to publicly nail their vile, hateful colours to the mast. How do we move back to a place where these people are once again social pariahs too ashamed to publicly state their abhorrent views? #victoria

Army patrols streets of DC as sandwich-related crime reaches an all-time high

I am really looking forward to the end of the era in which the world’s leaders are men who grew up when there was still lead in gasoline.

Technological progress *demands* the introduction of UBI.

I want to bella vista