Photo of a grackle showing lots of bright color iridescence on his head and wings. He's sitting among pine boughs and appears to be screaming.

Watercolod painting of the grackle, with a lot less of the pine boughs because OMG that's impossible to paint.

Finally finished the angry grackle! I have decided his name is Gerald.

Original photo I used as reference is by @glengrambo.bsky.social . In his original post he noted the grackles were mating, so Gerald is likely shouting something very rude at the girl grackles.

#watercolor #HumanMadeArt

The Mets totally control Major League Baseball.

Good riddance.

Vibe-coded build system NX gets hacked, steals vibe-coders’ crypto NX is build software. You write your code on your laptop, you press “build”, it runs NX, and you get a built version you can put onto your web server. If you could hack NX, you could hit a lot of p…

“exploit the AI to steal vibe-coders’ crypto” is a perfect summation of our modern tech environment, well done all around

Amazonian royal flycatcher: #AGoodPlace

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Did I just argue with a joke? Part of a Bluesky educational series

It’s not about practicality, it’s about solving a particular problem, and having some fun doing it. Science and Tech journalism always like to tie lab results to some future revolutionary breakthrough, but reality is that there’s just steps along a path.

How The Onion Won the Infowars Sale — and Shut Up Alex Jones for Good YouTube video by PABLO TORRE FINDS OUT

It’s done, and it was quite the struggle.

Join The Onion Don’t just read the news. Feel it. Be among the first to feel the news.

For fuck's sake, sign up for The Onion, and get a free limited edition IW tote.

A share of merch sales will go to the Sandy Hook families, which will be the first time they get any money since they filed this lawsuit eight years ago.

Legal fees have been insane. Please sign up and help us out!

Keep this in mind next time Dreher opines on welfare, the state, and minorities.

The Prosecutors cocked up the case

This Is Just To Say

I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update

and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize

Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying

Nobody:

Meta:

Quesadillas are one the things I’ve missed most about giving up dairy.

Musk appears to be unaware of how French investigation works. This should be fun.

A wild thread:

490 million years ago, the seafloor which would become the city of Baltimore was a serpentinite-hosted hydrothermal vent complex.

Those vents laid the ultramafic structures that would, in 1812, be discovered as America's first chromite mine.

Federal judge unloads on ‘unserious’ RFK Jr., says anti-trans policy showed his ‘cruelty’ Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai vacated the “Kennedy Declaration,” finding it unlawfully attempted to override medical standards and restrict care for transgender youth.

Breaking: HHS’s ban on gender-affirming care is struck down. Rarely have I read a ruling this sharply worded.

“This case is one of a long list of examples of how a leader’s wanton disregard for the rule of law causes very real harm to very real people.”

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In 2023, Governor JB Pritzker was joined by Lieutenant Governor Juliana Stratton, Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, advocates, and lawmakers at the Harold Washington Library to sign legislation outlawing book bans in Illinois.

Illinois made history as the first state to outlaw book bans once and for all.

Marginalizing people, ideas, or facts has no place in our state — and they have no place in a democracy.

This National Library Week, we continue our commitment to free thought and free speech.

Bipedalism is hard. People have been working on humanoid robots for decades, and getting one to go this fast and for so long is extremely impressive.

It’s also not an indication that humanoid robots will ever be useful.

Other false media statements identified in the Kash Patel complaint:

1. Special Agents do not, in fact, refer to him as “J. Edgar Shart”
2. Patel did, in fact, know that the FBI is part of the Executive Branch and that Wyoming is a state. He just always looks surprised when you tell him things.
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The eyes really make this one.

Force the Oppressor to make a Lose/Lose Choice Social Change Toolkit: Dilemma Actions

Today in social justice toolkit:

A dilemma action is a strategic action that forces your opponent into a lose-lose situation.

You've given them only bad options.

I give some examples

& then we talk about how to design them.

This one's pretty important.

Read and share, please?

Are they playing the Rockies?

While Anti-SLAPP is a good thing, this is a case where discovery will be beyond entertaining.

A painting of a bird beside the text "that's some real unacceptable shit"

I've Eaten Several Oysters in Maine: Here is What the National Media Doesn't Understand About Platner

You will, however, find that you’re missing the one sticker you need to torque down your cylinder head.

It’s time to end DEI and bring back the meritocracy.

by Buckley Carlson