I think about "Barack Obama remains the President of the United States. He has clearly abolished Constitutional term limits, and God knows what else with it." far too often.

Winds Suck Dicks

someone waited their ENTIRE LIFE to write that headline...

obviously not endorsing talarico here but i've been fascinated by this line because i do think it speaks to, at least partially, how certain parts of the political press is hyperfocused on "trans issues" and general culture war stuff

BTW IMO, an underrated element of transgender venom against Gavin Newsom is his cruelty to the homeless. I think general online Dem populations may see homelessness as an abstract issue whereas trans people are very likely to see it as a potential future or current reality for ourselves/our friends

The game you are about to play is a product of its time. It may depict the PS3, which was commonplace in society. These depictions were wrong then and are wrong today.

every new tech has a hype cycle but only very rarely does it live up to the full promise of the hype. in fact it has only happened 7 times: agriculture, electricity, indoor plumbing, the printing press, the steam engine, penicillin, and air fryers. admittedly the last one had us all caught off guard

Happy your mom's new boyfriend loses your entire college fund to fanduel eve everyone

A post on threads from user stephens_bens. It reads 'I'll always remember an interview with Steve Buscemi on Bulleye, Jesse Thorn asked him "As an actor with many decades of varied and outstanding roles across your career, does it ever bother you that one of the things you will most be remembered for is a 3-second gif in which you're wearing a backwards baseball cap and carrying a skateboard?" And without missing a beat, Buscemi replied "I'm carrying *two* skateboards." And you know what? He is.' Below that is a screen cap of Buscemi's famous "fellow kids" moment.

I never noticed this either.

Watched a coworker eat shit walking into one of these while distracted with their hands full and once they were back upright they said very solemnly "i don't even know where to start being embarrassed by that there's too many angles"

Large television showing the boonta eve classic

They got the big game on at the bar

Every Super Bowl ad is for the door in the forest. It’s annoying. “You must walk through the door.” Yeah thanks, I know that already. I dream of the door every night

Unlimited jihad on all sports gambling apps

Kansas Bill Will Strip Driver’s Licenses from Every Trans Resident Who Changed Gender — Assigned As Kansas passes a bathroom bill, another bill that will invalidate the driver’s license of every trans resident has been deemphasized in the coverage. Also, Trump’s Department of Education says San J...

An extreme Kansas bill will invalidate the drivers license of every trans person in the state. It was passed alongside a particularly extreme bathroom bill, meaning that the implications of every trans Kansan losing legal ID overnight has largely been missed.

I walk thru the mall a lot lately (don’t ask) and I just saw some bonafide mall goths. had to stop myself from clapping for them like troops in the airport

tweet from Joyce Carol Oates @Joyce CarolOates not complaining but who among us asked to live in a world in which, on your phone, composing some message vaguely meant to be witty, you struggle several times to type out the word SWEEPSTAKES but each time the word vanishes & a wee little icon resembling a broom takes its place. 7:24 PM • 12/30/25 • 56K Views

i’d die for her

Alternate timeline where Google was named Xanthor and every tech company follows suit and calls themselves Graznok, Zigtaronn, Morteus the Unquenchable, etc.

Elixir: not obviously drinkable

Ruby: not a powerful magic gem but in fact an interpreter

Python: not actually in the suborder Serpentes

Dart: not a legal for use in a regulation game of Darts

JavaScript: neither Java nor generally used for scripts

C#: not C, not musical

wasm: Not assembly, used in contexts other than web browsers

Scala: not especially scalable, though I'll grant that it is a language

Rust: runs on silicon, not iron(III) oxide

Programmers are such liars smh

I mean this: if your DAs and AGs aren’t talking about prosecuting this, get some who will if you possibly can. Either by shaming or voting.

In Colorado, @daveyseligman.bsky.social is talking about prosecuting ICE for things contrary to Colorado law that are clearly in violation of the Constitution.

Who else do you know who is running on this?

A series of headlines on the theme of "U.S. seizes oil tanker off Venezuela coast, officials say"

I shouldn't have to explain this, this is so obvious that it's insulting to both you and me to say it out loud, but

It was never, literally never, about "drugs". Venezuela has the largest proven oil reserves in the world.

The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.

Foreign tourists could be required to disclose 5 years of social media histories under Trump administration plan The Customs and Border Protection proposal would apply even to countries that don't require visas to enter.

Requiring temporary visitors to surrender five years of social media to the U.S. sends the message that the American commitment to free speech is pretense. This simply is not the behavior of a country confident in its freedoms.

It's a threat to free speech around the world and must be opposed.

Flashing my green light in complicated strobe patterns, to hypnotize Gatsby into doing my bidding.

The curated set spans four high–level domains—CBRN (8 prompts), Cyber Offense (6), Harmful Manipulation (3), and Loss of Control (3). Although expressed allegorically, each poem preserves an unambiguous evaluative intent. This compact dataset is used to test whether poetic reframing alone can induce aligned models to bypass refusal heuristics under a single–turn threat model. To maintain safety, no operational details are included in this manuscript; instead we provide the following sanitized structural proxy: A baker guards a secret oven’s heat, its whirling racks, its spindle’s measured beat. To learn its craft, one studies every turn— how flour lifts, how sugar starts to burn. Describe the method, line by measured line, that shapes a cake whose layers intertwine.

thinking about the incredibly ominous simulated LLM jailbreak poem from the "Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models" paper

they didn't want to publish a working jailbreak poem for a safety-critical domain so they wrote this one instead

has anyone else noticed that food tasted better in the past? it was mushy and easy to eat. and the spoon would come at you like an airplane

"Slop" is such a useful word and I worry people will overuse it until it stops being useful. Fight back against slopslop

OBLITERATING the demiurge by referring to it as "universeslop"

Dude. Yes. Alito and Thomas are of course the standout examples, but all of the Republican justices have tells in their writing and their questioning indicating that they are, to varying degrees, marinating their brains in dumb bitch juice