Ladies & gentleman & they/them:

We found him!

One of my proudest pieces,
"Isometric Exercise"

A picture of a library shelf with a small rolled up note on it. The note says “read this” in child’s handwriting.

A picture of the note unrolled. In the same child’s handwriting it reads “beware of the future!!”

Still thinking about this note I found in the children’s section of the public library when I worked there back in 2018. This kid tried to warn us…

I wish I could be a pretty girl.

Tiger Woods told police he called Trump following his rollover crash: "I was just talking with the President."

Trump Seeks $152 Million To Reopen Alcatraz As Active Prison The request was tucked into a proposed budget the White House released to fund the government for the 2027 fiscal year.

The White House is seeking $152 million to reopen Alcatraz into an active prison

A portrait of Pam Bondi in a trash can

Just a day after her firing, former attorney general Pam Bondi’s pictures have been taken down — and thrown in a trash bin, MS NOW reports www.ms.now/news/pam-bon...

I describe literally everything as "commulism" as a fuckin joke.

And they just said workplace safety is communism.

Immigrant Workers in Colorado Lead “Historic Strike” at JBS, Largest U.S. Meat Processor More than 3,000 meatpacking workers in Greeley, Colorado, have been on strike since mid-March, the first major labor strike in the U.S. meatpacking industry since 1985. Workers at JBS USA, the U.S. su...

"The strike is mostly led by immigrant workers," union leader Kim Kordova says of the historic JBS strike in Colorado. "This workforce is made up of workers that speak around 57 different languages from all over the world, doing this really important work, feeding our communities."

Judge Halts Trump Effort Requiring Colleges To Show They Aren’t Considering Race In Admissions Trump ordered the data collection in August after he raised concerns that colleges and universities were using personal statements and other proxies to consider race.

A federal judge halted efforts by the Trump administration to collect data that proves colleges aren’t considering race in admissions

why, exactly, is Polymarket posting this? like, what's the specific reason that this is relevant to its prediction markets that definitely do not allow contracts on mortality.

the only lasting 9/11 memory i have is when the budweiser ad with the kneeling clydesdales came on during the super bowl and i said "those horses are praying to mecca" and my friend's uncle got so mad that he had to go in the backyard

I am presently reading Karen Hao’s Empire of AI and about every five pages I’m “friend’s-uncle-needs-to-stand-in-the-yard” mad

This is getting worse, faster, than any other event in my lifetime.

And:
-100% self-inflicted, by Trump.
-99% foreseeable, by everyone except Hegseth and Trump.

The Next Coup Attempt And How to Stop It

We are seven months away from the most consequential midterm election in US history. Meanwhile, we are fighting a war. These are the structural conditions for a coup attempt in which a president tries to nullify elections and take permanent power as a dictator.
snyder.substack.com/p/the-next-c...

one time I was walking into the bar and saw someone beating the shit out of a guy who was already on the ground and before I could intervene a regular was like, oh, no, he was sticking his fingers into girls’ mouths. see that same kind of thing on here every day

Bears repeating that he is threatening Iran over something that wasn’t a problem until he bombed Iran. In this sense it’s very much like many other problems he’s promised to “fix” bsky.app/profile/pale...

An image of the entire Earth, with Northern Africa and the North Pole visible at the lower left. It looks like daytime but it is actually illuminated by moonlight. There’s a bright arc along the lower right where the sun is coming through from behind. There’s a bright dot on the lower right (Venus) and a glow (zodiacal light). A few stars can be seen in the dark beyond the Earth.

An image of the entire Earth, with Northern Africa and the North Pole visible at the lower left. It is dark with muted colors. There’s a very bright arc along the lower right where the sun is coming through from behind. There’s a small dot on the lower right (Venus). The background is dark with a few faint stars visible.

The whole-Earth-at-night photo from the #Artemis II mission was brighter than many expected. That was mostly due to camera settings; here’s another pic taken just before with diff settings. Digital photography is always subjective—even before processing! (HT @swapnakrishna.com @jasonc0.bsky.social)

TMZ asked John Cena if he thinks WWE is ready for a transgender wrestler.

Video Transcript TMZ - 00:00 Do you think WWE is ready for a transgender wrestler? John Cena - 00:04 I'm a storyteller, my friend, and that's what we do in WWE. And it, uh, it doesn't. It's not segregated to, to sex, race, creed, religion, any of that. So as long as the story's good, it, it belongs in WWE. TMZ - 00:17 That's wonderful. I appreciate that. That's very good.

Video transcript

John Cena is a master of defusing questions designed to get celebrities to say controversial things. Truly, a master of the craft.

hmm. odd, that. who could've predicted. oh you say there were constant warnings. from myriad reputable experts. ah well nevertheless. etc etc

one of the most literal applications of manufactured consent i've seen

Just remembering the time we were out for drinks with a friend and this grindset bro was totally pitching her at the bar and kept talking about the pressure of running his start-up and then asked her what she did and she said "I'm a Medevac nurse on the helicopter team at CHOP" and he left

This is absolute trash. Kids are submitting their original art for AP Studio Art classes. Claiming copyright over that work is genuinely evil.

Bluesky: The Book

NASA just dropped this image of Artemis II astronaut Christina Koch looking back at us. The first woman to ever see our planet in its entirety. I’m not crying you’re crying 🥹🔭🧪 📸: NASA

I don’t think BlueSky is dying but I do think it‘s stagnant because there are only so many unpleasant terminally online politically hyper-engaged left of center aging millennials with personality disorders and a history of underachievement to draw from. We’re pretty much all here already.

Meanwhile in Japan

yeah when you tell the enemy "by the way we aren't abiding by the rules of war" you can't really expect them to follow any rules in return

@Ranting_Trans Anyway, here's K.A Applegate, author of Animorphs. photo of K A Applegate wearing a t shirt that says protect trans kids

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