In my utopian vision of the future, instead of offloading all the pointless, annoying work tasks (like reports that none one will read and needlessly opaque forms) to robots, we restructure work and society so that the pointless tasks don't happen at all.
27.02.2026 23:28 — 👍 2089 🔁 340 💬 6 📌 31
Commuters on the Omnibus, 1864. Demonstrating that manspreading is a problem as old as public transportation! By Honoré Daumier, born OTD 1808.
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Fun fact. Ancient Egypt lasted so long that Ancient Egyptian archaeology was a career in Ancient Egypt.
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24.02.2026 05:09 — 👍 694 🔁 117 💬 11 📌 3
“Stop taking social media so serious. Nothing here is real. Look at this chicken 🐓 🚗 it is bigger than the car”
Bluesky, or Tuesday randomness, juxtaposed that image with this one in my feed:
24.02.2026 12:27 — 👍 17 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
It ought to be noted that the Epstein scandal revealed not just a bunch of people wiling to rape children and suck up to people who did so, but also that a lot of elite people are just loathsome bigoted human beings.
23.02.2026 20:05 — 👍 1759 🔁 375 💬 30 📌 11
Painted snowy urban street scene with figures walking about, including a boy with a shovel
"Winter Scene from My Window," 1933, by Allan Rohan Crite, influential Boston-based African American artist & illustrator whose work is now on view in a show at Rutgers University's Zimmerli Art Museum zimmerli.rutgers.edu/art/exhibiti...
23.02.2026 12:34 — 👍 158 🔁 42 💬 0 📌 1
Good was a height so lofty the weather decided not to climate
22.02.2026 20:14 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The humanities cannot simultaneously be useless and moribund and also so dangerous that they are worth legally restricting.
20.02.2026 14:44 — 👍 155 🔁 42 💬 2 📌 2
Unique Forms of Continuity in Space, by Umberto Boccioni, 1913, (cast 1931 or 1934), 📸 by Wang Zhao
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BREAKING: Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol has been convicted of insurrection for declaring martial law in December 2024, and has been sentenced to life in prison.
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Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement
19.02.2026 12:20 — 👍 13448 🔁 3457 💬 128 📌 127
The only sure way to vet that email is to check with the upstream provider
19.02.2026 01:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Switch backside 1260 sounds like a southern parent’s disciplinary threat
14.02.2026 00:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Bad Beany
12.02.2026 18:25 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just unspeakably cruel
06.02.2026 23:27 — 👍 863 🔁 276 💬 15 📌 1
Prepare for rampant gilding of the interior
01.02.2026 23:58 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Unmarked car, no lights or police insignia. Masked armed men leap out. Victim not in the act of committing any crime. This is not how a serious federal law enforcement agency acts in a free society.
How is this not supposed to be a “right wing paramilitary force loyal to the regime”?
31.01.2026 21:34 — 👍 6160 🔁 2098 💬 148 📌 59
If the world starts melting, do not be alarmed. They say the aquatic solids go first, so there should still be time to find our way back to the flash freeze.
01.02.2026 13:11 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Civil litigator here with years of experience of business people’s emails to each other in disclosed evidence for disputes.
As a general rule: the senior the business person, the less effort they put into emails, and the more effort expected from those reading them.
Effectively a mark of rank.
01.02.2026 11:05 — 👍 2864 🔁 540 💬 36 📌 0
Trump yelling at kid mowing lawn meme
IF YOU ARE A LAWYER AND ARE INTERESTED IN BEING AN AUSA DM ME!
31.01.2026 22:38 — 👍 1409 🔁 217 💬 17 📌 6
Nevermind the jobs you had. Tell me five classes you took in college!
- Prosody in Milton (OB Hardison)
- Castellology (Philippe Durand)
- Literature and Debates in the Art of Revolutionary France (Thomas Crow)
- Transcendental Arguments (Carol Rovane)
- Post War Avant Garde (Johanna Drucker)
31.01.2026 20:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
Prey 2017, which has nothing substantive to do with the earlier game of that title.
29.01.2026 04:12 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Prey is the most polished, tuned, and interesting example of the immersive sim. Nothing else in the genre can touch it… so far!
29.01.2026 04:10 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Thank you, thank you, thank you for crediting the source here. Her cartoons have been used so widely for so long, seldom with attribution. Again you show that you’re a force for good in this world!
28.01.2026 17:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
∴ Sox = -hat
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Shovel, hanging in space
Marcel Duchamp, "In Advance of the Broken Arm," 1915 www.moma.org/collection/w...
26.01.2026 14:42 — 👍 93 🔁 23 💬 2 📌 1
I wish we had a tradition of PMQ in the United States. Drag the president down to the House and have an adversarial setting for weekly examinations.
25.01.2026 14:31 — 👍 199 🔁 22 💬 14 📌 7
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