In contrast to the current situation?

Counter-proposal - himbo gatcha tub.

WHEN YOU PURGE THE EXPERTS, YOU INHERIT THE CATASTROPHES THEY WERE TRAINED TO PREVENT.

We are starting to see this unfold

whoever coined this should be given a ticker tape parade

It's like 1995 all over again.

Or watch the Bogart/Bacall classic film "Key Largo". Time well spent in any case.
Then re-watch the gangster-cheering-up-the-boss speech until you can repeat it verbatim to your MP/congressperson/etc.

Making a note for future travel.

HUNGRY Official Trailer (2026) Killer Hippo YouTube video by ONE Media

It's happening, IT'S HAPPENING @sarahgailey.bsky.social (although I know I must be the 100th to tag them for this)

youtu.be/xqI2gsWmPY4?...

a bear vacuuming a floor as a japanese salaryman looks on in terror

found out about the manga kuma gurashi which is like those ones where a manic pixie dream girl comes into a salaryman's life and starts doing all his domestic chores for him to heal his heart except in this one it's a realistically drawn bear and the salaryman is terrified on every single page

This is the content I'm here for. Thank you so much.

Same.

Ooh! What flavour?

Sharon Knettell (@sknettellart) • Instagram 137 Followers - 51 Posts - "My husband and his Iranian exchange engineering students a few years ago. Delightful, smart, brimming for enthusiasm and…"

So I just learned that the artist for Jem, Sharon Knettel is on IG and still painting to this day.

www.instagram.com/sknettellart...

A flatscreen display on a "smart" water fountain, demanding to be reconnected to the internet.

In 1999, I was playing a decker in Shadowrun, and tried to distract a guard by hacking a water fountain to overflow, and my GM said "why would a water fountain be on the network? That's fucking stupid. No you can't try."

Well it's 2026 and I just want you to know, Phil, that I FUCKING CALLED IT!

Now that I think about it, they could probably have made more money charging people a hundred bucks each to dress up as a bear and maul their Rolls. Or even a junker Honda.

They were mauling their own Rolls Royces, which is fine, but for the insurance fraud not the lols.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers have made a HUGE breakthrough towards a UNIVERSAL antiviral. By targeting sugar molecules found on the surface of many viruses that SHARE structural similarities, they identified FOUR compounds that successfully BLOCKED infections from SEVEN different viruses.

Maybe, but you seem to have a good track record with a free hour, judging by your posted art.

You lose San Francisco then - anything like that starts with a shot of Fernet-Branca.

Janis Joplin?

I feel like this update narrows down the probable reasons, but that may just be me.

It begins

This one's educational!

Throwing the signal up to my #ttrpg friends, some of whom I've already contacted about this -- anyone got a contact for Sean Preston, who ran the rpg game company Reality Blurs? Did some great Savage Worlds settings and the amazing Tremulus horror game. Last thing I can find is a 2020 blog post.

Honestly, watching you change a tyre would be way more fun than going to that thing.

We in San Francisco welcome you to the club, I guess?

Even more so when it's glowy or clicky or surprisingly toxic.

I had no idea they were _that_ popular, and am very excited to hear more on the topic.
I knew some stuff about the bone wars in paleontology, but always thought it was just a normal academic feud taken to unusual levels. And that's not really geology, of course.

Umm. See item #2 in your list above, and maybe try to cut yourself some extra slack.