Rob O'Panda

Polymarket Iran Bets Hit $529 Million as New Wallets Draw Notice As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in. Almost immediately, blockchain sleuths began hunting for unusual patterns in recent bets.

As US and Israeli bombs fell on Iran this weekend, bettors on Polymarket — where $529 million was traded on contracts tied to the timing of the strikes — were cashing in

in a literal total collapse of civilization everyone is fucked and the most practically skilled people don't become kings, they just live long enough to watch the people they love all starve so yeah if you think that's gonna happen just enjoying life in the city isn't a bad play

“if you won’t let us use your product to spy on Americans and kill without supervision we will single-handedly destroy your business by fiat” is the single most authoritarian anti-business action I can ever remember any administration taking

fell for it again award

So Israel is launching a "preventive" strike on Iran and also announcing a state of emergency, because they expect Iran to respond to their "preventive" strike by launching missiles. So like... what's being prevented here?

hey we're doing an operation called Based Epic Chad. lol. everybody will think this is awesome. we will never end up like Mussolini

his time is eternal.

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For the nerds

Promo image for the Pocket Super Knob 5000 (2026)

ok all other handheld console makers can go home none of you are going to come up with a better name than this

"The victory of this progressive woman representing a trans inclusive party led by a gay jewish man just goes to show the danger of hateful islamic sectarianism in our society" my latest for Heil Hitler magazine

a sombre morning for british columnists as they move their "The electorate has spoken, we must listen" articles to the recycling bin and upload their "the greens victory shows just how far the west has fallen" articles instead

The Death Star board room scene is low key the funniest scene in cinematic history. It’s a work meeting with an evil samurai wizard everyone else finds mildly annoying and when his manager tells him to stop killing a coworker with his magicka, he has to listen.

Metacritic has sent a reminder email to all games site editors/publishers which is pretty strong, and great:

Some of these faculty are literal, doctorate-level experts in Catholic social teaching. Dissertations on Rerum Novarum and on Laborem Exercens and on the priority of labor and whatnot. This is gonna get ugly and erudite at the same time.

the party that wants to require ID to vote abruptly invalidating a thousand people’s IDs overnight seems like a pretty giant flashing red light

as far as i can tell “bio hacking” is just a goofy term for giving yourself some combination of an eating disorder and a drug addiction

A GE 70 MeV electron synchrotron, a type of particle accelerator used for radiation therapy. 1956-64, it is this huge box that looks like a 1950s fridge on a giant claw where a doctor grabs it from its aperture and aims it at a patient lying on a gurney in a tall empty room.

yeah doc just shoot me with the beam, biggest beam you got, real ominous if you got it

douglas adams was our most accurate futurist

pentagon trying to force Anthropic to make killbots and threading to crush them unless they comply is among the most dangerous things this admin is doing. HOWEVER it’s hilarious that Elon is practically begging to make antiwoke Skynet and the WH is like “no haha Claude is better”

A photo of an ice cream machine with a sign reading, "Anything is possible with ice cream." Beneath that is a hand lettered sign reading, "No ice cream".

2026 basically

No Kings includes Draft Kings

The John Wick series is so effective because it fully embodies the three major tenets of dumb guy fantasy: 1. being able to kick anyone’s ass, 2. living by a code of honor, and 3. paying for things with gold coins

Black and white cat on the back of a chair that has fallen over backwards

I heard a loud thump and found this:

Relating to Spider-Man at 19: I too am underemployed, unsure how to pursue girls, and trying to find my place in the adult world.

Relating to Galactus at 42: I am from an unrecognizable previous millennium, hungry all the time, everything hurts and I live with a tiny person who won’t do what I ask.

Over the past two weeks I've begun to realize that rich people only started funding chatbots once they could no longer email Jeffrey Epstein

Kinda Fucked Up that in our lifetimes we've gone from "never share personal info on the internet" to "hand over your identity to the most incompetent corporations imaginable".

please give us more personal data please please please please c’mon you’re being so mean dude. we only got breached like three times. we’re NOT going to sell it man please please please plus its for like safety? so you’re the one who looks stupid right now come on pleaaaaaase just one data point bro

There is an actual argument that this curse actually worked.

Trump's constant degradation of female reporters is unsurprising but the press corps' collective decision to treat it as background noise is actually kind of sickening

very weird “I am Spartacus” thing happening right now with the worst people on earth