Also, what a beautiful outfit. 🙏

Donald Trump is very unpopular and being seen as opposing Donald Trump in clear moral terms is an almost instant path to political and cultural relevance.

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

The cat ghost!!!

Artist: Dennis Goris

How tragic that you could publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish, then re-publish a cartoon like this over and over again...

Tanguy Destable is a series of letters shot through with so much allusive potential that it is impossible to look at the words themselves. That is not a name, it is a shimmering expanse of reference. Don’t touch it, it might explode.

At some point this stuff stopped being fun tie in easter egg shit and became homework

the penne opticon

Illustration: a black cat sits on a mantel above a fireplace, pushing a small vase off. Before him is a scene of absolute carnage which he clearly caused. A flat screen tv lies screen down on the floor. There is a smashed vase with scattered flowers. A lacerated cushion with its stuffing spilling out. An upturned footstool. Smashed picture frames. Caption reads “cataclysm”

“Ah you’re home. Like what I’ve done with the place?”
#art #cats

A clip from The New York Times reads: "But only the entities that officially paid the tariffs are eligible to recover that money. That means that the fuller universe of people affected by Mr. Trump’s policies — including millions of Americans who paid higher prices for the products they bought — are not able to apply for direct relief. The extent to which consumers realize any gain hinges on whether businesses share the proceeds, something that few have publicly committed to do. Some have started to band together in class-action lawsuits in the hopes of receiving a payout."

The average American family paid $1,700 in tariffs last year, according to the bipartisan Congressional Joint Economic Committee. Few will ever see any of that money back. The refunds will go to companies, if doled out at all. What a joke.

THIS. This display of resilience and character is why Declan Rice is my kids' future stepdad

The average person doesn’t give a fuck if AI has some niche use where it actually excels if used properly. In fact, that is what a tool is *supposed* to do and none of us will have a problem if it is used like that. What we see is AI fucking up real life in a massive way.

Action
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Yeah I gotta say if it turns out *this* is the thing that bothers us, rather than, say, what is done to the image of Christ found in the poor and dispossessed themselves, then all those Calvinist warnings about idolatry basically seem correct to me.

A comic about yesterday’s match. (I promise it doesn’t have much to do about the match itself.)

if we eat outside does that count as public consumption

Weirdly, yes. It was a lot like passing a kidney stone.

THANK YOU BOOKCON. what a wonderful time proving love. i am overwhelmed with gratitude and honored by all the true buckaroos i was lucky enough to trot with

User dratsab huffman asks the question: To amuse myself i researched revacholian nationalism as well as measure head's race theories etc etc and focused my character on "traditionalism". Anyway, ive noticed that if i ever click dialogue options that are in tune with my character's political compass, i lose morale. Whats the point of having this as a mechanic if its going to be so detrimental and feels like the character doesnt believe he actually is this or something... is there anyway to overcome that kind of morale loss?

Recalcitrant Jester replies: Being a fascist is a deeply demoralizing experience. You have to not only radically alter your worldview to make reality fit into your unhinged schema, but that worldview is predicated on the notion that the weakest, most unworthy degenerate worms on the planet are somehow overpowering and humiliating you on a moment-by-moment basis. In mechanical terms too, the lowered morale also reduces your volition score—the more you indulge in your delusions, the less you are able to exercise self-control and self-awareness. The point of fascism being mechanically detrimental—the ludonarrative theme—is that fascism is an unequivocally self-destructive ideology, the practice of which only serves to nurture that self-destructive urge and turn it outward. It's not like Dark Side points in KotOR where you can access cool new abilities and get to enjoy being such a nasty lil rascal; you are not supposed to enjoy being a fascist in Disco Elysium. Fascism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike.

"Facism is the act of self-deception in service of making your own life more painful, solely for the payoff of making life more painful for people you dislike."

Okay real talk, spending any amount of time with a baby always gets me thinking how precious they are and how they deserve to be taken care of and happy. From that, I'm like "every baby deserves to be fed, clothed, comfy and homed" and the logical conclusion from there is society providing that.

Lauréat La Physique pour les chats de Tom Gauld un livre de Tom Gauld (image of the book cover) Prix Gotlib 2026

I went to Paris this weekend to collect the Gotlib humour comic book prize 2026 for my book 'La Physique pour les Chats'.
Thanks to Ariane Gotlieb and the jury for choosing my book, and to Éric Fontaine and @editions2042.bsky.social for making a great French edition.

Faculty Defect From Texas Publics, Citing Censorship Fed up with the state’s censoring of Plato, Joan of Arc and Romeo and Juliet, humanities professors are leaving Texas public institutions in pursuit of academic freedom.

'Texas A&M philosophy professor Martin Peterson is leaving the university after administrators told him in January that he couldn’t teach Plato’s Symposium in his philosophy class; they said the ancient Greek philosopher’s work violated the system’s restrictions on gender and sexuality content.' 1/3

i'll take the bold (for bluesky) position that working for raytheon or northrup or whatever does not make you an irredeemable person, but palantir is very different because they are making karp's insane worldview the company's official public position, they're explicitly saying you believe this, too

When you use AI to do your writing, you are telling your audience: “I deserve your attention, but you do not deserve my effort.”

Gob Bluth trying to throw a letter into the ocean

Kash Patel trying to subpoena The Atlantic

This image is a gift to Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens.

VERY COOL PERSON: It's four-twenty, you know what that means?

ME: Hell yeah! [starts shoving blackbirds into a pie]

also, I don’t want anyone to think I am scolding people for joking about this, I make those jokes too.

I just want people to know that it’s not necessarily true that you hurt because you are older, it might be something that can be treated.

My neighborhood has a lot of kids.

On two occasions I've had kids run in front of me without looking. By being alert and driving at a safe speed (under the speed limit in both cases), I had time to safely respond by slamming on my brakes.

I will never blame the kids.

Why is this a hard concept?