the strait of hormuz needs to have regular, predictable open hours or frankly they are going to lose me as a customer

For those keeping track at home. The Iranians have now blockaded the Strait of Hormuz in response to the US blockading it because the Iranians had blockaded it, in response to the US attacking Iran to ensure that the Strait which was fully open at the time wasn't blockaded.

What running over my toddler taught me about B2B sales.

Me when a game’s luck based mechanic lets me win when I don’t deserve it: I am a master tactician adroitly assessing probabilities and adapting to the circumstances like Napoleon.

Me when it happens to me: This game sucks and my opponent is a pedophile who worships Satan and has ugly socks.

Archaeologists in the Holy Land just uncovered a 3,000-year-old Israelite tablet…

It reads: “Iran is only weeks away from developing a nuclear weapon.”

boat in water. a pair of hands holding onto the side

Gianni Berengo Gardin, Catania, 2011.

Also, Mood.

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!

Leaked video from OpenAI board meeting

Decades ago I hit a jogger in my car on the way to an interview. A dilemma: Not be late for the interview Or stop to help the jogger? I decided getting a job was more important. With career success I could help hundreds of joggers. Guess who was interviewing me when I showed up? It was the jogger. He told me what happened and asked "what would you do if you were driving the car?" I said "screw the interview, I'd help the jogger." He hired me on the spot. Always tell the interviewer what they want to hear.

The jogger

My grandfather.

@deptofwar.bsky.social Sec Hegseth, my grandfather served in WW2. He carried a piece of paper in his pocket the whole time, on which he wrote his favorite Bible verse. It'd mean so much if you could recite this verse at your next speech:

"You miss 100% of the shots you don't take." — Jesus Christ

Mamdani: If the NYC apartment you keep solely for bi-yearly affairs with your mistress costs over 5 million dollars, you gotta pay more tax

NYPD officer who’s been on disability since 2006 because he stomped too hard on a lady during an arrest and fucked up his ankle: This is a travesty

BLUESKY IS A WEBSITE THAT TURNS (post by jay.bsky.team claiming that bluesky is made with AI) INTO (picture of bluesky not working)

Jace hand painted in the style of a Chuck Close's portrait.

Legal advisers help migrants pose as gay to get asylum, undercover BBC investigation finds The BBC exposes a shadow industry charging migrants thousands of pounds to help them cheat the asylum system.

Disgusting reporting by BBC using a tiny number of cases to suggest widespread abuse of a system which routinely denies LGBTQIA+ individuals asylum and forces them back into environments of persecution. This article massively distorts the reality of the situation. 1/
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rip to all the people excommunicated by the pope for their heresy but im different. and better. maybe even better than the pope

It's the classic Mel Gibson and Jesus meme where Mel is on set in normal clothes casually chatting to a very bloody Jesus (for those of you who don't know it).

Mel Gibson pictured with his doctor in 2004

there's a giant MICHAEL film poster in wood green and there are constant michael jackson musical posters i keep seeing on the tube, and i feel like there's a been a real concerted effort to brain wipe how bad he was as a person, but it feels especially weird during the time of the epstein files etc

It’s profoundly ignorant to suggest that the Pope should be fighting crime on behalf of the Catholic Church. Anyone who was remotely familiar with Roman Catholicism would know that that’s what Daredevil is for

You can probably support the working class and demand support for people who are struggling because of capitalist inequality and also not pretend massively bigoted rhetoric and action isn't happening or being Trojan-horsed in under the guise of taking down those in power, by the way. Just a thought.

Big deal, I’ve been on earth for years

ESCAPING ASTRONAUTS RECAPTURED

DARING GETAWAY CUT SHORT JUST PAST LUNAR ORBIT

SPACE CRIMINALS BROUGHT BACK TO EARTH TO STAND TRIAL

"We're all in this big blue boat together." SAYS NASA SPOX IN NEW STATEMENT. "No exceptions allowed---not on our watch!"

MOST SUCCESSFUL BREAKOUT ATTEMPT SINCE 1972

The amazing, letter-perfect performance of NASA this week is a ferocious rebuke to the right-wing fools who constantly tell us that for-profit businesses always do a job better than the government.

*hurriedly looking for my planet of the apes mask*

A guy asking ChatGPT to review a series of fart sound effects and getting a serious kiss ass response that calls it atmospheric

I can't stop laughing at this post. It's perfect.

I love ALIEN’s vision of the future. Yes, everyone is still working shit jobs for shit corporations for shit pay. But the good news is they’ve successfully made robots full of milk that are bitchy little fruits

The cartoon of the guy saying “say I am alive” to a computer” and the computer says “I am alive” and the guy replies “Oh my god”

Every credulous buffoon in Tech Journalism:

If someone offered me constructive critique I would simply say no thank you.

oh you've got some notes for me? no thank you!!!