NEW: In a scathing ruling describing RFK Jr. as an “unserious” and “unsafe” leader, a federal judge in Oregon issued an order that will protect doctors and hospitals, and the transgender kids they treat.
*stares directly at camera*
I was waiting to see how long it took for someone in the comments to reference Cones of Dunshire right up until I hit panel 4. Well played
The First WORLD FENCING LEAGUE is happening April 25th!!! I'M GEEKING!!!
Japanese engineers developed this "Sword Tip Visualisation" tracking technology specifically for this event that will make it so much easier for the average person to see what's going on!
I MUST WATCH THIS ENTIRE TOURNAMENT
The one I played was called BagItMan, a fully unlicensed port by Aardvark Action Software
Hey I had this on Commodore 64
April 17, 2026
Cumulative measles cases reported in the United States by year
Johns Hopkins
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Oh:
A 2022 study found that children in households that used voice commands with tools like Siri and Alexa became curt when speaking with humans, often calling out “Hey, do X” and expecting obedience, especially from anyone whose voice resembled the default-female electronic voices.
Péter Magyar, who unseated Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán Sunday in a landslide, shared a bombshell with reporters that the outgoing leader had diverted taxpayer funds to bankroll the American Conservative Political Action Conference. trib.al/ct7GGV3
I've heard that equation was originally used by gross people to determine a *maximum* age to date.
I haven't really researched this claim though because ick
This report on the “Biden Administration’s Weaponization of the FACE Act” repeatedly cites conduct that occurred…during the first Trump administration.
My god. Essential, horrifying reporting here.
conservative free speech is when they speak and you listen or suffer the consequences
Trump Attacks Pope as Too Liberal and `Weak on Crime’ President Trump lashed out at Pope Leo XIV, a critic of the U.S. war in the Middle East, saying he was “terrible for foreign policy”
Once again, the Times uses a “Trump says with great force” formula for the hed and highlights the supposed intensity of how he says it in the subhed—using their tried-and-true Trumpian catchphrase, ”lashed out,” which, I noted the other day, they’ve used more than 60 times in headlines.
EXCLUSIVE: “The [State] Department is actively preventing experienced, cleared, available officers from helping American citizens in crisis,” a group of nearly 250 mostly mid-career and senior State Department foreign service officers told lawmakers.
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swirlies. Per Slash Film, Einbinder shared a pointed message directed at Al creators during a recent Hacks season-five press conference. "You are a loser," she said. "You will never be cool. And you probably had a rolly backpack in high school. I wanna put your head in the toilet and flush." Einbinder, who concluded her acceptance speech at last year's Emmys by saying, "Go Birds, fuck ICE, and free Palestine," didn't sugarcoat her stance when she described people who generate Al content. She noted that she doesn't consider them to be artists or creatives. "They've wanted their whole lives to be special. And they're not special," she said. "They're trying to rob real creative people of our gifts. And you can't. And even if you try, you will never be cool. You guys suck. No one likes you. Anyone who's near you is because they crave power and access over any ethical standard."
TY Hannah Einbinder
I too have written about white conservatives in southern state legislatures rushing through bullshit changes to the law just to thwart the advancement of literally one black man, but I'm a historian who writes about the Jim Crow era South and not a reporter discussing current fucking events there.
GenAI dipshits are still at that stage of the scam where they keep insisting how useful it is as an accessibility aid (the next stage is insisting it helps the global south), and no it fucking isn't.
GenAI actively *destroys* accessibility tools like captions and alt text.
Because we definitely weren't already seeing enough overlap between religious zealotry and the lack of critical thinking skills required to buy into generative ai
An underappreciated part of these stories is how many of the young U.S. citizen children currently being forced out of the country with their parents may face this very same fate years down the road
Graphic: there’s a federal prison in Brooklyn, ICE has filled with our neighbors
Graphic: 204 community members are now jailed at MDC. Most have no criminal record
Graphic: severe kidney pain. Heart complications. No doctor. After 20 months.
Graphic: show up. Bear witness. It matters. Every Tues at 6pm 3rd Ave and 29th street Brooklyn.
New report from inside MDC: 204 ICE prisoners. No criminal records. No doctors. This is happening in Brooklyn, right now. We're showing up every Tuesday — will you join us? 3rd Ave & 29th St, 6pm.
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Picture of the century. 😍
📷 credit: Science Tube
French perspective
JFC. Get out of the way and support an actual progressive. This is no time for corporatist vanity candidates to lose a second time while the populace begs for actual opposition to the fascists
A tweet claiming Trump ordered the dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service, with text stating regional offices are being shut down and research programs destroyed, alongside photos of Trump at a desk and a forested mountain landscape.
Per The New Yorker, the reorg “shuts down the Service’s nine regional offices and relocates its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Salt Lake City” where the “Service will now have, instead of a regional headquarters, a ‘state coördinator’ in the capitals of states where it has large holdings...
Vintage classroom TV setup
I wanna watch the Artemis landing on this.
It cannot be stressed enough how maliciously wasteful Amazon is with their devices. They will forget you. Everything you buy from them is a time bomb unless you find a way to install your own firmware.
