I don't usually share short-form videos, but I thought this was really interesting. Very much in the tradition of Eratosthenes calculating the size of the Earth using two sticks in 240 BCE! www.youtube.com/shorts/2MjmO...

In court if you aren’t nice to the court reporters they can leave these in. It’s not that Aoc isn’t nice to the reporter, it’s that she isn’t nice to the billionaire class the reporter licks the boots of.

If you are confiscating writing materials from imprisoned children because they smuggled out a letter that described the conditions they're living under, you are a literal monster and should be treated accordingly.

This is absolutely heroic tbh, incredible work, succinct & precise

We deliver.

I don’t know how to express how extremely gross it was to see the machine make my friend speak English against his will using his own voice.

You cannot begin to understand the disappointment I felt when I signed up for "Draft Kings" and discovered it was a gambling app and not a niche porn site dedicated to this.

“The playing field is poised to become a lot more competitive, and businesses that don’t deploy cocaine to help them innovate in everything they do will be at a disadvantage,” says Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Accenture. Hey, it works!

If Trump does run for a third term despite the Constitution forbidding it, Gavin Newsom is exactly the sort of shit-brained liberal who would get up on a stage and debate him during the “campaign,” rather than organising mass direct action against him.

Telling people to vote for Newsom on Bluesky in February of 2026 feels like posting on Facebook that they can’t use your likeness or content

I feel so cared for and respected as a customer.

One element of this that I think is important, for me personally, is that folks who have “changed sides” or “seen the light” shouldn’t be clamoring for positions of leadership. Someone who is radically changing opinions while still trying to lead reeks of self-serving false belief.

Maybe they could start by not posting on a racist website. If you look at their account stats on X: their posts normally get around 20K view. Their post about Edwin Edogbo got _7 milllion_ views. Organizations still there are opening their employees to racist abuse for publicity.

Vote for me I WILL enforce the death penalty for vaping on the tram

the Black Panthers were right

Listen, we all know that Musk is a moron, and more than that, he's a moron who's had his brain destroyed by drug abuse, but go find literally any Scottish or Irish person and tell them that they have the same culture as England, and see how long you last.

It's a disgrace this hasn't been made available or republished. I'd have *loved* it when I was a nerdy kid in the 1980's, having to learn Irish without there being a single thing written in the language that interested me in the slightest. Fwiw, it enters the public domain on January 1, 2042.

Does anyone know more on this? I saw the call for submissions but haven’t seen any details on publication dates, subscription prices, etc. I’d love to subscribe to a regularly published sci-fi magazine for/by Irish people,so I’m keen to support it if it’s moving ahead, but I've not heard anything!

They already had one

2/12/2026 - Lindenwold, NJ ICE agents chase children who were waiting at a bus stop for an elementary school These are elementary school-age children running from adult federal agents attempting to kidnap them

Tag yourself. I'm "very stomachy."

Star Trek Academy -- only six episodes in and it's already had its first genuinely phenomenal episode. Can't remember in any Star Trek since DS9 being this hyped to see what comes next.

There are some Star Trek fans weirdly obsessed with “decorum” and they really fixate on how Holly Hunter sits in the captain’s chair on STARFLEET ACADEMY. One guy left a comment on the official FB whining about it and so Captain Janeway herself responded to drop the hammer

Anyway, that’s my Star Trek, and why I’ve always loved it.

The future of humanity in Star Trek wasn’t to be one where we were all the same, nor was it one where we had the technology to change everyone to fit that singular way of being. The future of humanity was to make a world where no one would have to.

Today is the day! Or a day, anyway. The Call in its spanking new cover is available right... this... second... in bookshops across Ireland and the UK. Woohoo! My publisher sent me flowers too 😀

Fun game: When you meet a fellow nerd who starts complaining about the amount of wokeness in new Star Trek, passionately agree with them. Then see how long you can keep the conversation going before they realise you don't think there's *enough* wokeness, and that there needs to be lots more.

been watching the olympics and i think i found a solution to the male loneliness crisis

If someone has a goal and fails, they adapt. If they don’t adapt, the strategy must be working. That means that if outcomes persist, those outcomes must reflect the person's true goal. Chuck Schumer has been in Congress 45 years. He's not trying to fix things. He's maintaining the status quo.

"Billionaire" is a state of existence that makes NO sense. These people could fix so many things and the expenditure would barely affect their overall wealth. They simply don't want to. It's not in their nature. And the way we think about them and treat them should reflect that appropriately.

This shit. I see the stupidest people in the world raging because Star Trek showed a Klingon, a thousand years in the future, wearing a dress, and *this shit* is what guys were wearing less than five hundred years in the *past*. Get a grip you absolute losers.

Imagine there was a gang of thugs running your coutry, and this happened to your kids, and the thugs said: "Join us and we'll make them pay for evaporating your children." How would you react? 2,842 times.

Post a banger, not in English. Un Autre Monde by Téléphone

"They're not going to come after people like *me*."

No one has ever tried to sell me drugs as hard as people try to sell me on AI.

a perfidious thing 90s media did was associate the stereotype of the bully with sports via The Jock. sports are cool, you get to hang out with your friends, have fun, get good brain chemicals, and it took me forever to realise that because media told me it was for bad people.

*injecting acid into my junk to improve my performance at the Dublin Indoor Ski Center*

Filtering fascists for 109 years and counting

You non-sports fans have to understand that for people who are really into pro football, today is basically their Super Bowl

Governments hate juries.

I am begging people to stop imagining local police are or could ever be on your side. They are not "prevented from doing anything. They are not watching helplessly, desperate to step in and save you. They are 100% on the side of ICE. They are your enemy and always have been.

They think they’re above us. And by “they” I mean the whole rotten lot of them.

I keep hearing that wokeness is dead but if that’s true how come there’s a TV show about a romance between two gay men who play hockey but no TV shows about a romance between two straight men who play hockey??