ATrophonian

Scrooge McDuck aiming a cannon at the door and holding a lit match to its fuse, shouting "Come in!"

How I greet people coming from the bad place outage:

I think the President of the US responding to a question about the murder of a journalist with "A lot of people didn't like that gentleman" is probably pretty bad.

whoever selected the photos for this article deserves an award for photo selection, this is peak photo selection, unsurpassable perfection, all other photo selector people can just get their coats and go home because this selection will never be bettered

CIA concludes Saudi crown prince ordered Jamal Khashoggi’s assassination Audio recordings, intercepted phone calls and other intelligence link Mohammed bin Salman to killing that Saudis say was conducted by rogue elements.

A reminder that seven years ago almost to the day, the CIA determined that Mohammed Bin Salman ordered the killing of @washingtonpost.com journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

I hired and worked with Jamal for a year.

www.washingtonpost.com/world/nation...

Opinion | Jamal Khashoggi: What the Arab world needs most is free expression The Arab world needs a modern version of the old transnational media so citizens can be informed about global events.

I will never forget having to edit Jamal’s final, posthumous piece for the Washington Post, after he was murdered.

He was calling for free expression in the Arab world. You can read it here :

www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/glo...

"The Bible says you can only be a man or a woman."

"Well the Players Handbook says you can be an Elf or an Orc, so all we're discussing are different made up rulesets."

Authors celebrate “historic” settlement coming soon in Anthropic class action Advocates fear such settlements will “financially ruin” the AI industry.

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

You don't often see this at the end of a whistleblower story:

2001: A Space Odyssey, Star Trek, William Gibson, and PK Dick—none of them prepared me for the best SF story of the year.

YouTube video by The Intercept How to Track FBI Director Kash Patel’s Jet #politics #trump

FBI Director Kash Patel DOES NOT want you to track his luxury jet.

But you can.

Read more: interc.pt/47H9Dg9

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Folks, I did it. I made the Cooks Illustrated competing pear crisps, and then I made my friends judge them blind.

Two pigeons on a London street, pecking at crumbs. Pigeon 1: "I'm sorry you missed out on the Booker prize. I thought your novel was wonderful." Pigeon 2: "It’s a stitch up! They always give it to a human!" Pigeon 1: "It’s nice they considered it." Pigeon 2: "Nobody cares about the longlist, Janet!" Pigeon 2 again: "Zadie Smith had a bestselling novel and an armload of literary prizes before she was 25*." Pigeon 1: "You’ve got to stop comparing yourself to Zadie Smith" Pigeon 2: "Why?" Pigeon 1: "We’ve all got to find our own path through the world. Plus, it’s much harder to type with claws." pigeon 2: "That’s true." They both go back to pecking. Pigeon 2: "I’m glad you liked my book." *Pigeon 2 is 3 years, 11 months and 22 days old, the equivalent of 42 in human years. https://pigeonpedia.com/pigeon-years-to-human-years-calculator/

My latest cartoon for @theguardian.com books pages.

Can they make ai consumers next. so it’s just ai selling to ai. and we can all just go to the beach

there's a moment in PARADISE LOST where Satan arrives in Eden and realizes Hell isn't a place; it's a thing he carries within him and it'll follow him wherever he goes. and i think about that when i see these awful rich men whose monstrous wealth has enriched them not at all

Meanwhile the leading lights of civic society are still lamenting the dreaded Woke Times

The Devil You Know with Sarah Marshall | CBC Podcasts | CBC Listen In the 1980s and 90s, Satan and his followers were accused of brainwashing children, sacrificing babies, and infiltrating North American society on a massive scale — yet these thousands of alleged Sat...

Listening to Sarah Marshall’s podcast about the Satanic Panic, and thinking of the time I was visiting friends in Wisconsin in the ‘90s, and they said you had to be careful (esp. around Halloween) if you had black dogs or cats because “we have satanic cults in the area”

www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-p...

If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.

Sometimes, I kind of feel like a Frankenstein myself. Just a handful of mismatched limbs held together by vibes and one questionable thunderstorm.

your dead AI mother loves you so much ❤️

AfD hails US ban on European leftwing groups as historians fear crackdown on anti-fascists German far-right party urges Berlin and other European nations to also designate ‘antifa’ groups as terrorist organisations

If history is any guide, criminalising anti-fascism in Germany should work out just great for everyone.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...

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Green controller with a white plus symbol. Underneath in pale green is "Child's Play" "Play Games. Feel Better."

Desert Bus wouldn’t exist without Child’s Play Charity. The bus started 19 years ago with the goal to raise money for the children, and @childsplaycharity.bsky.social has partnered with us for nearly as long (after they realized we weren't that weird....)

childsplaycharity.org

Hold up

Lmao

Re: Epstein’s emails

Our editorial stance is kidnappings are bad. This is not Real Journalism because it's important to be neutral about atrocities

again i am perfectly fine with locking every one of Jeffrey Epstein's friends in prison, Democrat, Republican or Whatever.

How a flawed idea is teaching millions of kids to be poor readers For decades, schools have taught children the strategies of struggling readers, using a theory about reading that cognitive scientists have repeatedly debunked. And many teachers and parents don't kno...

how did i go so long not knowing we were literally teaching people to read wrong. i knew something wasn't right but jesus christ www.apmreports.org/episode/2019...

"And James Bond, who did NOT die"