Well this was sad news to wake up to.

Jerry Greenfield - one half of the iconic Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream brand - is resigning from the company he built with Ben Cohen, as a result of being silenced by Magnum Global.

Here is his statement on why he’s leaving the company.

Uh. Yall....

Netanyahu family plans to enter underground bunker in Jerusalem should Iran launch attack

Oh look who’s hiding in tunnels now. I thought only cowards did that.

They said this shit about Seattle in 2020: wasn’t true then, isn’t true now.

That time the minister responsible for the future of EMS in Alberta put out a tweet on the future of EMS in Alberta…

Using a private ambulance company in the graphic.

Cool.

#abpoli #ableg #cdnpoli

[a single bead of sweat drops down my face as I focus. I know that if I say the correct words I will finally crack through to all my nerdy gay friends and get them to go line dancing with me] it's the . . . dark souls . . . of dancing

'Shock' and 'panic' as new daycare operators in Alberta told they won't get funding after all | CBC News Albertans in the process of setting up new child-care facilities say they've had the rug pulled out from under them as the Alberta government abruptly informed them last week they would not qualify fo...

“Albertans in the process of setting up new child-care facilities say they've had the rug pulled out from under them as the Alberta govt abruptly informed them last week they would not qualify for grants under the federal-provincial child-care agreement.”

www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

Jill Sobule, Singer-Songwriter of Groundbreaking 1995 Song ‘I Kissed a Girl,’ Killed in House Fire Jill Sobule, whose 1995 hit 'I Kissed a Girl' is considered the first openly gay-themed song to crack the Billboard Top 20, died in a fire Thursday.

This is a gut punch. One of the very best of humanity and a person who was so important to me and so many others. variety.com/2025/music/n...

Why does this echidna look like he’s about to drop the hottest jazz piano album OF THE YEAR

Beaker in The Scream by Edvard Munch.

the muppets in famous works of art: thread

Moment of appreciation for the fact I can drive on 50th and not worry about getting stopped for 10 minutes as a train crawls back and forth thanks to a new overpass.

uhh...this sucks

Putting mass grave in quotes is next level sinister.

MY FRIEND: taking revenge on me for slandering him by walling me inside a stone chamber in his basement after luring me with the promise of good wine

ME: aaah this is nice

they're telling us at work that the future of software is no longer clicking on things, but "asking what you want in natural language." what this fails to account for is that clicking on things is already faster than that and requires a lot less development time

The spate of high functioning professionals being revealed to be consulting LLMs for How Should I Think stuff just seems to reveal how predictably those people think on their own. If you're asking a machine to think for you then you're telling on yourself in a really exciting way.

[just thinking about a regular-sized brother] life is pretty good!

GEORGE ORWELL: do y'wanna see something really fucked up?

The dumbest people will believe the dumbest things, and their belief in the dumbest things makes them vote for the worst people, who lied to them about the dumbest things because they understand just how dumb they are.

Nobody will remember:
- your salary
- how busy you were
- how many hours you worked

People will remember:
-that time the waitress said "enjoy your meal" and you said "you too"
-you hoped nobody noticed
-everybody noticed
-they think you're so dumb

DAD: son you can be fast or you can be furious. Nobody can be both. Now go to your room
VIN DIESEL: *muttering* I’ll show you someday dad you’ll see

The comic that got us demonetised on Facebook back in August. (We’re no longer on Facebook).

I can’t get over how cartoonishly evil this is

putting in your fucking “hate speech” policy that a particular kind of hate speech against a particular group of people is explicitly allowed - and therefore encouraged - is the kind of shit that should be done from a volcano lair with a shark moat

Goes doubly for American evangelicals who continue to “bless Israel” in the midst of committing genocide.

Lots of clarity today

Anecdotal results: if you want to make a random person's day, take your dog through a drive through.

As a cat person I don't entirely get it but... Eh. I get coffee, dog gets a change of scenery pre-walk, and seems to bring joy at little cost.

So... That's what I chose for a first message here

I am dumber for having read this

Metal: Everything sucks, but I have my rage.
Punk: Everything sucks, but I'll focus my anger.
Rap: Everything sucks, but I know how to survive.
Folk: Everything sucks, but there is beauty.
Ska: Everything sucks, let's ignore it.
Emo: Everything sucks, and I miss you.