Baxster, the cockapoo, as a puppy.

Baxster as a puppy trying to understand why I'm giving him a blanket. His side eye game was strong.

Y'all wouldn't believe how afraid of dogs I used to be 12 years ago. (I'm not always unafraid of dogs, tbf.)

One of my dog friends wrote, "We appreciate Baxster for helping you love dogs the way you do. I know this is hard."

That's one of the many ways Baxster changed my life.

Re: nostalgia for VHS tapes and other analog media, I saw someone say like "a VHS tape never sold my information to a nazi" and yes that's true! But the reason it's true is actually because Congress passed a law in 1988 specifically making it illegal for video stores to sell your rental history

A cockapoo named Baxster aka cousin puppy

Could use some prayers up for this little guy.

TRUMP: Do you think men should play in women's sports?

DOORDASH DRIVER: I really don't have an opinion on that. I'm here about no tax on tips.

Not dunking on Zack or this post, I’m just always struck by how easily American journalists will admit that the media shapes public polling and political outcomes when they’re not talking about America.

Narrator: it was not a landslide. For the millionth time.

Not the "pope is weak on crime" 😭

Magyar’s speech is powered. From a contact in the audience: “He’s basically just asked all the puppets, all the supreme justices, all the heads of media, all the heads of the ministries to leave their jobs tomorrow and not wait to be fired.”

I hope more people focus on the import of this turnout last year. Not least bc standing up to bigotry can itself be a rallying cry.

this is why there’s been mass revolt and opposition to data centers being built in communities. it is genuinely a health hazard to live this close to something emitting this much sound. these need to stop being built

This is also how dozens of groups with names like the Pinkerton Institute for Economic Morality end up filing amicus briefs at SCOTUS arguing that the CFPB should be executed

Whoever Flance or Flusk endorses abroad typically loses.

Orbán heads for heavy loss in Hungarian election, according to early results His opponent Péter Magyar is set to win a supermajority in the 199-seat parliament, the figures signal.

Orbán heads for heavy loss in Hungarian election, according to early results

Pentagon Threatened the Pope After He Criticized Trump It was so bad that Pope Leo changed his plans to travel to the U.S.

The blatant intimidation tactic is the first of its kind ever made by American officials to the Catholic Church. It was so bad that Pope Leo changed his plans to travel to the U.S. trib.al/sP6TCHf

I wondered how he was tight with Pam.

Tens of thousands chant “Russians, go home!” at tonight’s anti-Orbán concert in Budapest’s Heroes’ Square ahead of Sunday’s Hungarian election.

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This should not be allowed.

Eligible men will soon be automatically registered for military draft For decades, eligible men were required to register for selective service. Now, the military draft system is slated to change.

If only you could also be automatically registered to vote at 18.

A graphic sharing that Ravenous raised $48,884 of $160,000 (30% to their fundraising goal). The text reads, “Help us launch Ravenous, a new worker-owned food culture media company. Subscribe & donate now: weareravenous.com.” At the bottom there’s the Ravenous raven logo stating there are “29 days left.”

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Analysis Finds That Google's AI Overviews Are Providing Misinformation at a Scale Possibly Unprecedented in the History of Human Civilization A new analysis commissioned by The New York Times suggests that Google's AI Overviews are wrong an astonishing percentage of the time.

This is catastrophic.

Armageddon is terrible, but our only other option was diversity trainings at work.

I’ve said this before but I truly think that reading shit you’re not ready for is how you learn to sit with discomfort. By forbidding the next generation from pushing their boundaries, you’re doing them an immense disservice

I think one of the things about bluesky is that for a lot of its users, it represents a kind of retirement from social media. Like I’m tired and I want to get out of the game

This show has me so upset but I gotta watch until I find out who has the sister. 😭

This week, Brexit finally killed our family business. We cleared out our warehouse, handed back the keys, paid the final bills and said goodbye to our last employee.
What was once a thriving firm died a slow, sad death, all thanks to Farage, Johnson and the gullible idiots they conned. 1/18

Is there a Sleep No More of 2026?

Same graph, but with the time series expanded to three years.

Honestly, it's a minor miracle that a social media company not backed by oligarchs or the state, with no attempt at establishing a revenue stream, and with multiple established competitors, had so much growth in such short time

the one thing that might help in getting new users is not having the same discussion about the site dying every few weeks