Steve C

A 1944 map by geologist Harold Fisk charts a 40-mile stretch of the Mississippi River from Friars Point to Gunnison, Mississippi. Fisk used aerial photos and maps to estimate the past and then-present channels. Source: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/mississippi-rivers-hidden-history-uncovered-by-lidar?fbclid=IwY2xjawQYXkdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETFCZ2JBT2tWdVlXMmEzNU5Uc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHsbjW-Yuubr_o_Kfeh0Elzc94geDwfXIZmeNL7NyljEBAOEjH53m2QLSo1NF_aem__4NkCIJ_D8J6mI1e8eMByg

Rivers are living beings.

We're at a point where there are no cheap options to retreat to and no price points that guarantee quality. Every run-down studio is $1400, every fast food meal is $17, every luxury condo has peel-n-stick tiles, every $300 pair of boots falls apart. Endless expensive mediocrity.

“My total and utter victory over my ex-wife will be signified by her moving in with that guy Rick.”

Mayor Mamdani and a child play with Legos while looking very serious and concentrated. The child is impossibly adorable and wearing tiny blue glasses.

No interruptions, please. We’re building universal child care.

the baby (20 months) brought me her jacket and gestured for me to put it on her & zip it up. then she said “WEADY!” and walked off. stay vigilant. she is coming

I’m glad someone said this to his face and more of these CEOs need to hear it: If the conversation around tech seems negative now it’s because you, your products, and what they’re doing to our society fucking sucks. You stopped making optimistic technology and unleashed MechaHitler the job killer.

I don't have any time for a morality that gets bent out of shape over what consenting adults do with each other, or what substance choices reasonably-well-informed adults make. But a sense of morality that says you should be a pariah if you do insider trading on war-action betting? Hell yeah

I saw a witch today. She asked if I'd like to see her pussy. I thought "that's a little familiar"

“Enshitification” did not emerge because customer satisfaction is soaring. It’s fucking Ferngully out here and we’re little jungle critters chased into smaller and smaller pens of detached territory by malevolent bulldozers of consumption.

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Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

First time I saw The Apprentice, I thought, "Hopefully someday I will be informed of this man's every bruise or skin condition."

Thank you, Sir, for speaking plain truth.

top 5 all-time poster. “riding in a golf cart fatly” is outstanding

very aspect of life in this country is designed so that people do not form bonds or relationships with other people, it's wild to watch in action. Never seen divide and conquer applied this rigorously to a domestic population that is not under foreign occupation

If you're at the airport and Kristi Noem is doing the ominous little message from the TSA screens, you no longer have to do anything she says. Leave your laptop in the case, whatever.

PEPFAR, the program to stop hundreds of thousands of children and adults from dying of HIV/AIDS, was $6.5 billion a year.

What his administration has ACTUALLY been doing is banning trans teens *who have the full support of their parents and doctors* from being able to even access non-surgical medical interventions. That's what all the administration's/GOP state bans do.

SEPTIC TANKS PUMPED SWIMMING POOLS FILLED NOT SAME TRUCK

Appreciate the clarity

My wife says I like The Pitt because "where else do you see competent people in positions of authority trying to help?"

cartoon with self portrait of tom tomorrow talking to a weird little brain shaped guy who says hello it's me again your anxiety

my loyal companion

me: if i had kids, i’d be such a helicopter mom

you: you DO have kids

me: WHAT

I will add one last thought. Many of the responses from Democratic lawmakers and liberal commentators (even the good ones) contain some ambivalence - some hope that perhaps the fall of the Iranian regime, even at the hands of Donald Trump, will be for the best. I understand why. I am the son of an Iranian immigrant. Ultimately I want freedom, democracy, and dignity for the Iranian people. The problem is that I've seen the American government promise all of those things a hundred times, and I've never seen them deliver it once.

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Saw a thoughtful thread about AI, don't want to QT or argue. But. The biggest rage factor with LLMs is the people who, because genAI is transformative for coding, think it's transformative for everything else, because they devalue every other form of work and labor and knowledge.

This is what everyone should be worrying about. Not Trump canceling elections, but Republicans taking the trips they've been playing on everyone else and doing them to white voter precincts.

This thread is a painfully perfect description of how it will go down.

I think one of the things that bothers me the most about the way Polymarket presents itself to the world is that it's adopted the language of journalism to make itself sound more legitimate. Like look at this post from yesterday morning incorrectly "projecting" the winner.

Anyone who invokes betting markets for anything predictive is someone who you should immediately file under "idiot to be ignored on principle"

If Silicon Valley psychos have taught us anything it’s that you can embrace Reddit atheist thought and be much more of a piece of shit than a Lutheran grandma

I'll always be obsessed with this edit made by @tommchenry.bsky.social

Maybe - and I know this is so crazy - but maybe Democrats should just go out and campaign against Trump and his policies bc they are massively unpopular and start worrying more about being seen as insufficiently tough and less about how to be a somewhat Republicany Democrat. Just a thought.