This one has been in my brain since childhood. There was an HBO show in the early 80s called Not Necessarily The News, and Rich Hall was on there with one of his bits being Sniglets, words that don't appear in the dictionary but should.

Musquirt stuck with me. 🤷‍♂️😂

Drimmer Drummer
Drummer Drimmer

Let's call the whole thing off

The mustard version is called Musquirt.

I've been asking for days trying to raise even just $50. Please help.

#mutualaidvoid #mutualaid #helpfolkslive2026

<smdh>

Concentration camps.

i don’t know why i am keeping a toll in my head. but it feels important to name these as deaths from the climate crisis.

it’s here. it’s killing people.

DOCTOR

Gonna seek yours out!

Being one of the oldz, I still remember many of the classics (the one that always pops into my head first is "Third Planet From Altair") 😂🤷‍♂️

No.

Been struggling for weeks to even find the energy to want to care.

Anyways, I won in the "non-student" category. Knowing my competition in that category has me kinda scratching my head, but okay!

<Toad "I'm the best!" dot gif>

I found out some amusing news last night.

So my radio station had one of its twice-yearly fundraising weeks recently, and they were running a contest internally to reward the best fundraisers.

I admittedly had been tapped out this semester due to scheduling fuckery and didn't put up my best work.

Just want to be clear: I acknowledge I wrote qual instead of quant.
1. His thesis was not distinguished thus originally when he posted on Bluesky, to much pushback.
2. The Chron is allowing him to shape the narrative.
3. Please focus on his rampant contempt for his colleagues/rightwing grift.

"Consider Sam Altman telling the world that he needed ChatGPT to tell him how to raise a baby. You exist. I exist. Our parents did not have LLMs, or even AI, and yet somehow we survived our childhoods"
Its a combo: intense hubris, contempt for other fields of knowledge, and lack of object permanence

Whoa. Did not know they were still being made.

kaiju (but make it haiku)

you picked a bad day
to take the el train, buddy
down the hatch with you

kaiju (but make it haiku)

the moth i become
grows tangential to your flame
my wings blot the sun

Selfie of Matthew throwing a peace sign in front of a mug saying Libraries work because we dk

From a fellow librarian, trustee, and patron, sending solidarity to library workers across the world on National Library Workers Day

Libraries work because we do ✊️

If you have 50k followers and you say one (1) stupid thing on this site I will block you no questions asked

Wealth inequality disables democracy.

🧵

Nobody mitigates

There's a dearth of data to even trust (other than people constantly reporting being sick)

Shit would fuck me up far worse than I already am

Yeah, it was just so easy to give up a life I wanted to continue living because I had the nerve to want to continue living period. 🙃

My edgy Covid take: The Pandemic isn’t over. 100s to 1000s in the US still die every week from this virus. 1000s more will join the millions who must navigate life w/ Long Covid—w/ no standardized treatments yet available. There are simple things we all can do to help drive those grim numbers down….

So this may come as a surprise to some folks on here, but there are people still living like this today because they can't afford to get reinfected with Covid & the pandemic is *not* over

I still can't believe that you can flush tens of billions of dollars down the drain on something that's an objective failure (e.g. Zuck/metaverse) and you still get to keep the role of "tech business genius". No performance reviews for the people who have enough money to destroy the world seems bad.

(A line from my forthcoming book): the most important thing to understand about tech futurism is when Musk, Altman and their peers are wrong about the future of technology, they don’t have to give the money back.

A deliberate decision was made to keep covid circulating because capital was spooked by the idea of people working together to improve their lives and eugenicists incorrectly believe it will strengthen the overall population.

oooh I knew the Vercel thing was bad but I didn't know it was hilariously bad

Rural Virginia already is fucked over. Morgan Griffith won’t even take my calls anymore. Are any of the rest doing anything for us?

Be really cool if, you know, some people on this thing could have their discussion about where I live, and where me and many people like me also vote, without blanket calling us all the fucking klan with pictures and all that.