Exactly one year ago today:

he showed up to a mostly empty auditorium, got heckled by anti war protesters opposing the war he just humiliatingly failed to negotiate an end to, erika kirk stood him up, and he tried to explain catholicism to the pope. the only way he could’ve had a worse time is if he pissed his pants up there.

In awe at their audacity to send Tony’s kid to the New York equivalent of the Pine Barrens. #daredevil

people understand that this is intended to target EVs, right? It gets rid of the gas tax, which only affects internal combustion vehicles, and replaces it with one that disproportionately hits EVs, which are much, much heavier for a given body size. That is why GM and Toyota are promoting it.

Torgo approaching Debbie, hand outstretched in MANOS: THE HANDS OF FATE

Logan and Jean:

It’s pretty interesting to compare Easter messages from political leaders and then consider which ones the media treats as being out of the mainstream or dangerous

I am CONSTANTLY annoying my spouse by finding new ways to tell her that China Beach brought women to the front line.

‘Good Oscars, Good Oscars,’ Repeat Nominees In Forced Post-Ceremony Handshake Line

‘Good Oscars, Good Oscars,’ Repeat Nominees In Forced Post-Ceremony Handshake Line

Sinners deserves Best Cinematographer simply for the fact that it's a modern movie where you can tell what's going on during all the night scenes

I appreciate you bringing up Vagrant Queen. Its origins come from Andrew Jackson in Space and switching perspective from a genocider to Elida added some needed complexity and intrigue. This feels like what firefly should be if it had to come back; a contrapuntal approach featuring the prev voiceless

"Vince was a genius" is a lie that needs to be stopped cold

This is an enormous step forward for women of people.

Also he’s taken credit for helping start gg, so the past 15 years is in part because of him.

He was known as that back when the show first came out. There was a known truce between him and fans that at conventions if you don’t bring up politics around him he won’t bring them up either because he would get aggressive about his beliefs.

I haven’t see his name there, but also he was known as a staunch conservative going back to before firefly, so even if he was in the files, he very much would have done it for free.

Dan Dan, a cool and neat game made by a player, popularized by the community as a fun thing to do, now scalped on eBay for a limited run premium product.

Something doesn't feel right about that. Kinda feels, antithetical to the whole thing...?

A neon light art piece of Samuel Beckett's famous quote "I can't go on. I'll go on" but spaced - it would seem inadvertently- so that it reads "I can't goon. I'll goon".

The formatting of this Beckett quote does still represent resilience and determination, just of a very different sort.

Iranian intelligence has a huge advantage since they can just check polymarket to see what the US will do next.

Just found out in Greek mythology Deucalion is part of a flood myth and I’m so mad it took me over a decade to make that connection. #chikara

No Kings includes Draft Kings

EXTREMELY FUCKING IMPORTANT

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jellyneo post summarizing TNT's post on the neopets TTRPG. Geekify opened up some basic beta testing for the TTRPG on February 4th, posting a Google Document that represented a slice of the upcoming rule book and game materials. (The Google Doc has since been locked off, or we'd post the link.) As Neopians began reading through the document, some lines interpreted as homophobic were discovered and posted about online. (See below.) Other debate was around how battle-focused the game seemed to be, as opposed to Neopia's more pacifistic activities like spinning wheels and fishing. In addition, after a few days, one portion of the document was completely wiped and replaced with the text, This work has not been paid for by John Taylor of Geekify And finally, TNT posted the announcement today to acknowledge the concerns, emphasize that the beta document was not approved ahead of time by TNT, and to say that they've been working with Geekify to address the issues. What was the homophobia? Obviously, the homophobia is the worst part of this, so we wanted to post the text that raised these concerns. Below are the passages, highlighted by JN in bold text, that do not live up to the standards we'd expect from a Neopets product: Yurble: He's still intoxicated and may not fully understand what is going on. He will be belligerent with the party, especially if someone died. He'll let slip that his employer didn't seem to be a Roo Island kind of person, but he never met them properly. Zafara: He is obviously the rookie of the crew. He will blab about the probability of the magic in the bracelet, but he hasn't been able to work out what exactly makes it special yet. He will say that if the boss is as scary as the rest of the crew says he is, they probably wouldn't be caught dead wearing a bracelet that was so... feminine, regardless of what it can actually do.

the funniest thing to come out of the neopets ttrpg kerfuffle is still the implication that roo island is some kind of gay mecca, some sort of neopian san francisco

i kind of unironically love it tbh. it's so campy, especially with a fucking rainbow leading from neopia to roo island

@rascal.news have you seen the update from neopets about the bizzare beta? portal.neopets.com/news/feb20-g...

The political effects of X's feed algorithm https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-026-10098-2 Received: 16 December 2024 Accepted: 4 January 2026 Published online: 18 February 2026 Open access • Check for updates Germain Gauthier,5, Roland Hodler?5, Philine Widmer35 & Ekaterina Zhuravskaya3,4,5 m Feed algorithms are widely suspected to influence political attitudes. However, previous evidence from switching off the algorithm on Meta platforms found no political effects'. Here we present results from a 2023 field experiment on Elon Musk's platform X shedding light on this puzzle. We assigned active US-based users randomly to either an algorithmic or a chronological feed for 7 weeks, measuring political attitudes and online behaviour. Switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed increased engagement and shifted political opinion towards more conservative positions, particularly regarding policy priorities, perceptions of criminal investigations into Donald Trump and views on the war in Ukraine. In contrast, switching from the algorithmic to the chronological feed had no comparable effects. Neither switching the algorithm on nor switching it off significantly affected affective polarization or self-reported partisanship. To investigate the mechanism, we analysed users' feed content and behaviour. We found that the algorithm promotes conservative content and demotes posts by traditional media. Exposure to algorithmic content leads users to follow conservative political activist accounts, which they continue to follow even after switching off the algorithm, helping explain the asymmetry in effects. These results suggest that initial exposure to X's algorithm has persistent effects on users' current political attitudes and account-following behaviour, even in the absence of a detectable effect on partisanship.

A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right.

Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement.

This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

Why isn’t Lestat performing in NYC??

I saw someone say, “Emerald Fennell is Greta Gerwig’s Wario,” and I haven’t stopped laughing 😭