Dreaming of a world where we treat people with enough respect that we try and teach them things we understand so they can teach us how to do the thing better for them

I like to imagine that he sometimes actually appears in a little bubble next to her laughing like the Great Gazoo in the Flintstones

I wrote this skeet as a hypothetical and then 24 hours later 🫠

Zohran Mamdani on CBS — “Socialist politics can flourish anywhere, because there is only one majority in this country, and that is the working class. It’s time we have a politics that puts them at the heart of what we’re doing, not in the appendix.”

America’s Mayor can’t miss.

Not if that job is physical comedy

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama read a picture book to a group of children.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh with a group of children.

Mayor Mamdani and President Obama chat and laugh.

Children hug Mayor Mamdani.

Today, President Barack Obama and I read to a group of toddlers at Learning Through Play Pre-K Center in the South Bronx. 

In between singing wheels on the bus, we discussed our administration’s vision for this City — one where New York’s Cutest have the strongest start possible.

Child: I know your name. Mamdani.

Obama: What’s his first name?

Child: Mayor.

The Doctor Will Seek Your Vote Now

'Dozens of Democratic doctors are running for office in the midterms, including some spurred by opposition to Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his anti-vaccine stance.'

Good.

GIFT ARTICLE.

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/18/u...

The Soviet-Chinese propaganda posters seem to be the story of a beautiful interracial gay couple who met in a metallurgical and got married and had beautiful children and a farm [Images of two beautiful men, one white, one Asian, variously: smiling at each other coyly from under face shields; posing with sleeves rolled up; posing with their beautiful children; holding each other in front if an apple tree; holding upraised hands with words FRIENDSHIP FOREVER in Russian and (I assume) Mandarin]

Found this classic looking through my photos and thought some of you may enjoy (since most of you are queer commies ♥️)

Obama/Mamdani bus tour when?

I don't recall any previous transformative technologies that had to be sold to the public so hard. No one in 1999 was going, "Guys. Cell phone? It's coming, whether we like it or not. I think it's important, FOR WOMEN ESPECIALLY, to learn about cell phone. So that we're not left behind!!"

An illustration of Huckle Cat as a streaming gamer. Text reads “A streaming cat just got a follower notification. His stream is very active tonight.”

A Busy streamer

my biggest pet peeve around LLMs is when people (usually those invested in its success) call it “intelligent”. it definitionally, how it functions on a base level, is not intelligent. the way LLMs are built, it can never hit real intelligence. it’s just predictive

So if someone opts in, and has taken photos of friends, relatives, kids, even strangers, they’re “giving permission” on behalf of all those people. So lots of people have no say in this.

The whole “opt in” thing was always a charade but it’s approaching terminal nonsense at this point.

Google Starts Scanning All Your Photos As New Update Goes Live Google wants its AI to see all the photos of "you and your loved ones." Billions of users must now decide.

“Take a moment to think before you dive in. That’s the best advice for Google Photos users, as the company confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation.”

www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

This image is a political illustration from the German newspaper Die Zeit depicting a confrontation between a Pope and a US President.

The artwork is titled "Pope Leo XIV" and portrays a tension-filled scene between the two figures.

You could've welcomed me to the jungle before introducing me to the fun and games without any warning, you know?

The FBI guy is on a paranoid bender and won’t leave his room.

The War guy quotes bible passages from Pulp Fiction.

The Health guy collects raccoon dicks.

It’s an Idiocracy on steroids.

Ben Pennings Facebook - screenshot as described

Thanks to this elderly Jewish man for his courage, and for Ben Pennings climbing a tree to get the footage. This is how many cops Queensland sent to arrest a Jewish man for wearing a “river to the sea” tshirt. No police state for 🇮🇱
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Footage here: www.facebook.com/share/r/1CnM...
#auspol

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.”

www.advocate.com/politics/nat...

Replace "train" with "faster than light travel that is also racist" and you're onto something

"this horse is getting so fast, it's going to become a train any day now"

Remember this fuck when his name comes on the ballot.

Reese Witherspoon? The NFT evangelist?

Congrats on “opening” a strait that was open six weeks ago, and all it cost was at least 13 dead service members, thousands of dead Iranian civilians, tens of billions in taxpayer dollars, our loss in global standing, and the Iranian regime’s increase in power. Phenomenal work.

a two panel meme panel 1 - geordi signalling 'no' with the text data centres and images of data centres Panel 2 - geordi signalling 'yes' with the text "data centaurs" and a crudely edited image of the character data from star trek pasted on top of a centaur

do you ever wake up at 3am and think "shit that's a good idea, I better write that down so I can share it later on"

Why do the Japanese like their buns askew (2026)

Meta Hit with Massive $263M GDPR Fine. 2018 Data Breach In 2018, Facebook faced a data breach affecting 29 million accounts, drawing attention to its security. Meta was fined €251 million for GDPR violations

🚨 Big news! Meta faces a staggering $263M GDPR fine over a 2018 data breach. 📉💰 Read all about it: innovirtuoso.com/technology/meta-hit-with... #Meta #GDPR #DataBreach #Privacy 📊