Bring back webrings

An image of a Miranda-class starship from Star Trek against space and a nebula. The caption reads: "I am not a toy. I am not a Christmas present. I am a 100 year commitment. Please think hard before you give someone a Miranda-class starship for Christmas."

It's that time of the year again, so I'm bringing back one of my all-time posts from the other place.

Gift responsibly, people.

This is also why musicians fought the PARENTAL ADVISORY EXPLICIT CONTENT logo; Walmart used to be a major CD/tape vendor (and the only source in small towns) and wouldn't stock anything with a Tipper Sticker. The point was to cut off disapproved artists from sales, audience, and cultural voice.

A collage of three cats with fish shaped stockings held next to them. Each has their name and a plush cat face that looks like the cat with Christmas accessories

i made custom stockings for my cats!

[ #cat #stocking #sewingpattern ]

My Order to Kill Everyone and Everything Was Taken Out of Context “[Secretary of War] Hegseth ordered a lethal attack but not the killing of survivors, officials say… Amid talk of war crimes, the details and preci...

"Can we all calm down for a minute? It appears my command to take no prisoners, exterminate all traces of life, and torch any semblance of international law has been misinterpreted. You shouldn’t rush to conclusions until you have all the facts."

if you had to design a guy in a lab to be bad at every aspect of 21st century politics you'd come back out with this dude

EARLY CAT: What that?
HUMAN: A fish. You can eat them.
EARLY CAT: Mine now. I need it. I need the fish. Without fish I die. Gimmie fish.
HUMAN: But you're from the desert. How can you possibly-
EARLY CAT: WOE. WOE FOR KITTY. HUMAN INFLICTS A THOUSAND WOES ON-
HUMAN: God. Fine. Have it.

I hope Pelosi lives long enough to see all of her hand picked people lose in a primary.

A collection of 3 realistic plushie jawless fish, Zenaspis. They have horseshoe shaped heads with pointy tails emerging from the back of them. Their beady eyes shine grey or gold. They are patterned cryptically and come in shades of brown and blue.

I've made some smaller beanie versions of the Devonian jawless fish - Zenaspis!

At 25cm long, these are lifesize! www.palaeoplushies.com/shop/zenaspis

I ship worldwide from the UK, US tariffs collected and pre-paid for easy delivery!

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Part of page with Meteors program

I’ve brought back the ‘80s BASIC type-in mag, but for HTML!
It’s a glossy, professionally-illustrated thing with 10 genuinely interesting programs, great gift for computer nerds (but you don’t need any coding experience)
vole.wtf/doctype/

Every Democrat should be an ICE abolitionist.

None of this “we all agree you need to come here legally” or “we all agree the immigration system needs reform.” Fuck focus groups and polls.

Inform the public of these atrocities and shift the Overton window to a presumption of equality for everyone.

Man, I wish Kansas could rebound.

who amongst us

Fuck that guy.

Nvidia is spending $1.3 billion to rent its own chips back from CoreWeave, a company in which it owns a $4 billion stake.

There are, AFAICT, only two explanations for this arrangement:

(1) It's accounting fraud.
(2) It's accounting non-fraud, because we don't prosecute financial crimes anymore.

we care less about your listening habits than your streaming habits.

I appreciate the reporting AND I want everyone to stop using criminal records as a stand in for whether people should or should not be harassed and deported.

incredible instincts on display here

The real question is not "Why is Bluesky so left-coded," the real question is "Why can't the right exist in a social media environment without algorithmic assistance, where people can ignore them"

The hardest thing for a lot of political people to internalize is that most voters are barely politicized and do not understand what they are voting for in any coherent way.

That gives campaigns and movements tons of flexibility but they are in constant trench warfare with their opposition.

Buried beneath all the algoslop and ragebait there are entire communities scurrying in the dark

The Conservative Grievance Business Is Always Hiring | Defector Given his age when he first came to the world’s attention and assuming continued good health in the intervening decade and change, Marine Todd would be in his late 30s today. That would be if he was…

The conservative grievance business is always hiring: defector.com/the-conserva...

First accurate headline I've seen

RETRACTED: Safety Evaluation and Risk Assessment of the Herbicide Roundup and Its Active Ingredient, Glyphosate, for Humans This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (https://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy)This article has b…

I’m no expert, but I’ve seen this paper described as an important justification for claims about the safety of Roundup. And now it has been retracted by the journal it appeared in. 🧪

Adding alt text to this because this is fucking amazing and everyone deserves to read it.

From the inbox: local activists have taken it upon themselves to print and distro this story to the community. Absolutely love to see it.

Great book. Reading it and The Hot Zone influenced how I created and handled the Krytos Virus in my X-wing novels.

the thing is that the conservatives have for decades been building this gun that anybody with the right look and a tolerance for publicity can pick up and aim at any minoritized or simply liberal-coded target they can manufacture a grievance with, GamerGate everywhere. for everybody, forever

Me whispering "he's a murderer, he's a murderer, he's a murderer" like I'm trying to kick a habit every time they drop another Luigi set.

I have come to the idea that we have to collectively, brutally, ritualistically kill Target just to show capital that we truly aren’t fucking around.