Ben Collins, from ‘The Onion’: ‘The powerful have a revenge fantasy, it’s the revenge of the dorks’ The CEO of the leading US satirical website explains what to do when reality is crazy, and how he is trying to buy the website of a famous conspiracy theorist

I love and admire Ben for many reasons, and one of them is how perfectly he is able to distill the pathetic-ness of the right and instill hope and solidarity in everyone else around him.

Anyway, go read his interview with the biggest Spanish newspaper here: english.elpais.com/technology/2...

"It always made me feel less alone." I've heard this said by other MST3K fans, and I think it's just about the most gratifying thing you can hear about something you worked on.

Wyoming dinosaur mummies give us a new view of duck-billed species Exquisitely preserved fossils come from a single site in Wyoming.

Omg this is so cool

Discovered the very first hoofed animal and it isn't a mammal

arstechnica.com/science/2025...

Give a man a fish and someone with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about people getting free handouts. Teach a man to fish? Yeah, that person with a thousand fishes is going to bitch about that too.

I am calling upon the people of Ireland to immediately begin construction of a thread on this site about how you or someone you know was roasted for a fashion choice. We need it.

All roasts must have come from Irish people *only*. Please respect this important rule, it makes a difference.

Tanks

XKCD meaning of auroras cartoon, showing "normal" at poles, "cool and exciting" in temperate zone, "someone should go check on our satellites" in subtropics, and "A bunch of open questions in Solar-Terrestrial physics are about to be answered" at the tropics

Tapping the XKCD sign again to explain that no, I won't be seeing an aurora tonight. Or at least I really hope not. That would be bad. :)

Every technology problem is three social problems in a trench coat

A young woman with long, dark hair wearing a black top and vibrant green eyeshadow. She has bright red lipstick and is smiling while engaging in conversation in a cozy. Still from The daytrippers featuring Parker Posey.

A man and a woman seated in a car. The man has short, wavy hair and is wearing a yellow shirt with a dark green jacket, while the woman has dark hair pulled back and is wearing a red jacket. Still from The daytrippers featuring Parker Posey and Liev Schreiber.

a man, a young woman and an older woman outdoors, near a vehicle that appears to be under maintenance. Still from The daytrippers featuring Parker Posey, Liev Schreiber and Carol Locatell.

Happy birthday to the great Parker Posey! Here she is giving one of her unforgettable '90s performances in Greg Mottola's one-crazy-day odyssey THE DAYTRIPPERS (1996). You can enjoy our edition of the film now on the Criterion Channel.
www.criterionchannel.com/the-daytripp...

🚨🚨 INFANT FORMULA RECALL 🚨🚨

Please share widely

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Screenshot of the top of a Bsky feed, with a red circle around the hamburger menu in the top left.

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default.

Here's how to turn it off.

First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Very well done: world history from west to east and from 4000 BCE to 2000 AD. Interesting!

Grand Theft Auto studio accused of 'union busting' after sacking workers - BBC News A union representing people in the gaming sector said 31 people were fired at Rockstar's UK studios.

If you’re gonna post about the GTA 6 delay, you should also post about Rockstar’s union busting.

I’m not trying to say that they announced the delay today in order to burry the union busting story, but people will miss the union busting news because of the delay news
www.bbc.com/news/article...

This wasn’t about leaking GTA VI.

It was:
Rockstar illegally firing union members to stop the studio from unionizing.

it directly contradicts Rockstar’s PR narrative and confirms almost everything that people suspected was going on.

A little humor I found laying around in the Sociology Department.

Easy meal I never get tired of, with its own soundtrack [duran duran ‘girls on film’]:
🎵 EGGS ON TOAST… EGGS ON TOAST🎵

Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI No more Spirited Away and Demon Slayer in Sora 2.

Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI

As Condé Nast Folds Teen Vogue Into Vogue’s Website, NewsGuild Condemns the Plan The union representing writers at Teen Vogue is slamming the youth-focused publication’s merger with the Vogue website and raising concerns about impacts on staff diversity and political coverage.

The union representing writers at Teen Vogue is slamming the youth-focused publication’s merger with the Vogue website and raising concerns about impacts on staff diversity and political coverage.

The decision by Condé Nast today to collapse this publication into Vogue and eliminate the politics reporting staff at Teen Vogue is evidence that corporate concentration eliminates innovative ideas and silences voices with less power.

It wasn’t Teen Vogue that fired the political journalists, let’s be clear on this. It was Condé Nast, the parent company, who did the deed.

rooseveltinstitute.org/press-releas...

Terrifying, horrifying. And Thanksgiving travel is coming.

‘Tulsa King’ Suddenly Replaces 26 Crew Members Ahead of Season 4 Filming This restructuring on the Taylor Sheridan series comes as the EP accepts billion dollar deal with NBCU and Paramount lays off 1,000 staffers

Before it was revealed that Taylor Sheridan was jumping ship to NBC, Universal and Paramount was preparing to layoff 1,000 staffers, several crew members on Sheridan’s Paramount+ drama Tulsa King experienced their own level of shock

www.thewrap.com/tulsa-king-r...

The Word for World: The Maps of Ursula K. Le Guin is a beauty, with maps & sketches by Ursula, essays & interviews with @davidnaimon.bsky.social and others, edited by @suchmayer.bsky.social, published by @silver-press.bsky.social to accompany the exhibition.

#naturewriting #booksky #magic

INSTANT KARMA! (WE ALL SHINE ON)
→ youtu.be/H6y1GRYLWwo
On 9 October 2025, The Late Show’s Gospel Choir sang a medley of John Lennon songs to celebrate his 85th birthday at the Imagine Circle at Strawberry Fields, Central Park NYC. Watch now on the John Lennon YouTube. #powertothepeople

New Yorker cartoon. A bunch of girl monsters (bride of Frankenstein, Medusa, etc) sitting around at a slumber party. One is reading off a paper and saying "So you're going to marry Godzilla, live in a crypts bave four spawn, and drive a hearse." Title is Monster MASH

Lol

DNA from Napoleon's 1812 army identifies pathogens likely responsible for the army's demise during retreat from Russia In the summer of 1812, French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte led about half a million soldiers to invade the Russian Empire. But by December, only a fraction of the army remained alive. Historical records...

Might be time to update your priors; it might not have been typhus that tore through Napoleon's army on the Russian campaign but rather two other fevers—one foodborne, the other from body lice

phys.org/news/2025-10...

Robert Reich The Shady World of Surveillance Pricing (Ft. Lina Khan)

A new report finds corporations like Kroger and McDonald's are using digital loyalty programs to track your data and potentially charge you more.

It's a tactic known as surveillance pricing.

Former FTC Chair Lina Khan explains. https://youtu.be/-cbtUYshYM8?si=GPRt5_WnLehnjgWR

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Bravery is not the opposite of fear. It is pushing through and doing something despite the fear. We have all done this, perhaps often, but never recognized it as bravery. Know that you are brave, know that you can overcome your fear. Know that you have done it before, and you will do it again.