Fred from Scooby-Doo unmasking the bad guy at the end of a mystery, in two frames. First frame: Left side: a tied up man in a white featureless mask with eye holes. The caption over him in impact font reads, "SOMETHING I USED TO LOVE SUCKS NOW" Right side of frame, Fred has his hand on the mask, about to pull it off. The caption on him reads, "LET'S SEE WHO'S BEHIND THIS." Second frame: The unmasked bad guy has a pencil thin curling mustache, a pointy nose, and dark hair, with a widow's peak. The caption on him reads, "PRIVATE EQUITY"

Evergreen

The sheer contempt publications have for their employees is absolutely gushing out of their pores. It’s bad enough that they’re insisting on doing this and debasing people’s names but that evil is compounded by how fucking nasty and mean their tone is about it.

Connecting some dots here: the Associated Press offered buyouts to ~120 US journalists this month, and among the reasons is that McClatchy dropped AP in 2024. This is a piece of what McClatchy is doing instead.

RFK Jr. wants me to die.

And probably you, too.

Many white flowers with numerous yellow anthers crowd on the branches of a small tree

Seven years ago today 🌿

Prunus armeniaca, the nonnative Apricot, blooming along Grizzly Creek.

I would submit that a gerrymander by politicians saying fuck the voters and one by voters saying fuck the politicians are two wholly different animals

a doodle of an artist kitty looking at an empty sheet of paper

the kitty bangs its head on the paper

there’s now a stamp of the kitty in the paper, and it has a bandage on the forehead

creative process

my most futile plea: for the love of christ do not shuffle slowly up the subway stairs with your nose in your phone. we live in a society!!

am conflicted about the whole redistricting thing but republicans staring at the sowing/reaping meme is kind of hilarious tbh

Given the fact that I devote a full 6 weeks every other year specifically to the idea of voting rights, I have sincerely grappled with the idea of retributive gerrymandering. Like, earnestly. I think there are reasons to feel weird about it, and it's fair!

But this IS a sincere difference.

Inside the DOGE Takeover of the Federal Government In early 2025, Americans first learned about the takeover of the federal government by the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). DOGE had been operating under a veil of secrecy, with l...

"WIRED’s stories were not only groundbreaking; they were singular."

HUGE congratulations to my @wired.com colleagues for this well-earned 2026 Hillman Prize for our coverage of DOGE! www.hillmanfoundation.org/hillman-priz...

Exclusive: Meta to start capturing employee mouse movements, keystrokes for AI training data Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers to capture ​mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its ‌artificial-intelligence models, part of a broad ...

Meta will begin keystroke logging US employees at work -- complete with mouse movements and periodic screenshots -- to train better AI agents.

This comes after Boz posted about a future in which AI will "primarily do the work" at meta.

It's a new era for tech labor. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

The competition for Weird, Cringe, Needy, I-Studied-The-Blade, Very-Moist-yet-Also-Somehow-Dessicated, Divorced-Single-Dad-Hitting-on-Daughter's-Friends-Energy is intense.
Musk, Thiel, Karp.

I will forever be in awe of how these men can make SWORDS uncool.

SWORDS!

HOW DO YOU MAKE A SWORD UNCOOL?!?!?!?!

Elementary, my queer Watson.

I am also laughing at this claim of “post woke” gaming based on a game that is doing none of the shit they were crying was taken from their games. They know they’ve lost and are trying to move the goalpost closer!

Nothing. I love being from Puerto Rico 😎🇵🇷

The Stock Market Expects to Be Rescued YouTube video by Kyla Scanlon

@kyla.bsky.social on the USA Stock Market’s irrationality being based on the assumption of a federal safety net just for them

The cover of "folkish" by kym deyn. Published by nine arches press.

Reading @kymdeyn.bsky.social's 'Folkish' and whispering "fuck offfff" after every poem because it's just so good.

Bluesky thread screenshot Jazzpomegranate: satanists aren’t actually scary TheCybersmith: They murdered hundred of people. One satanist family spend literal decades capturing and torturing people in their "toybox". https://grokipedia.com/page/David_Parker_Ray

I should also note that this guy is the only person for whom citing Grokipedia is possibly an improvement

A cropped screenshot of a tumblr post, dated November 29th, 2017. User thecybersmith reblogs with comment “WRONG!!! This isn’t a videogame. Maille does not cause its wearers to incur a 15% penalty to speed. A fit man can jump, jog, and sprint in a maille hauberk. If bullets had the force to break bones if spread over a large area, they would inflict those injuries upon the person who discharged the firearm they came from. Newton’s third law. The force applied by a bullet is also applied to the gunman. Chainmail is awesome, and the fact that we no longer require our military to supply our brave troops with it aught to be a source of national shame.”

Can’t forget about him thinking chainmail stops bullets

A cropped screenshot of a tumblr post. The account thecybersmith (dated February 8th, 2018) reblogs with comment “I called Joan Of Arc a war criminal for her use of illegal combatants. She was a war criminal for the same reason Joseph Kony was a war criminal. A military commander who knowingly recruits an ineligible person to serve (such as a child, or an invalid), is committing a war crime.” Academiemelusine reblogs with comment “And could you remind us all who exactly the illegal combatant was that Joan of Arc recruited?” Thecybersmith reblogs with comment “Herself, of course”

Oh right and there was that time he called Joan of Arc a war criminal

A tumblr post. User megapope (now deactivated) posts (dated March 4th 2018) “someone has absolutely had to explain to donald trump that as president he cannot have people killed at will”. User thecybersmith reblogs with comment (dated April 12 3018) “Actually yes he can. There is legal precedent (from his predecessors) of both citizens and non-citizens being killed without trial, on an executive order. The Blessed One could end the lives of all his critics, on a whim. Consider that he does not, and what this suggests about his character. Could it be that he is a man of great morality, and exemplary self-restraint?”

Oh my god I totally forgot he used to call Trump “Blessed One”

His Human Pet Guyness has outdone himself again

TheCyberSmith is an old asshole tbf

TheCyberSmith tweeting out: "Human Pet Guy" All my wisdom, all of my intelligence, all of my genius insight is forgotten. You do not consider the hours I spent debunking veganism on Tumblr. You do not consider the fiction I wrote for Deviantart. You do not consider the essays I submitted to Reddit.

this is the funniest shit i've seen all year ngl

this should be dispensed similarly to how the covid vaccine was

because holy shit some of us are getting sick all the damn time and it takes something from our bodies to endure that

Photo of Birdie, the tricolor calico (brown, orange and white with pink nose and white whiskers) accepting a pet from my cat sitter’s left hand. You can see her striped front paws with little white socks. Her left paw has an orange spot in a brown spot on said sock.

Zoomed in photo of Birdie’s paws on a floor rug and you can really appreciate the white socks and the orange and brown spot on the left sock. (That’s her little pink baby bed behind her that she still uses even though she’s about to turn 4.)

tfw your paws are so pretty the sitter sends photos

“Over on Twitter, they’re” shhhhh. Shhh.

Shh.