Just One Dacey, Really

These people are evil. Never stop saying so. Don’t be intimidated into shutting up.

Having been through the Rapture a couple, two three, times, I gotta say: I think the Rapture is just the friends we made along the way.

Directions? A warning?

Replace every time he says president with "your girlfriend".

every so often i think that it would be helpful to talk to my ancestors from 500 or 2000 or 20000 years ago and find out what the whole deal is with the planet and existence and everything but they probably didn't know either. my grandpa used to eat squirrels and drink hot water. dont think he knew

Microsoft Backing Out of Expensive New Data Centers After Its CEO Expressed Doubt About AI Value After its CEO expressed hesitancy about AI's real-world value, Microsoft is backing out of the construction of new data centers.

Figures
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So this happens to *all* of us?

Gretchen, stop trying to make Gulf of America happen! It's not going to happen!

Yup! "Bitey Tube" is just a really good tactic, as far as evolution is conerned, so it's happened a bunch.

Elon Musk and JD Vance publicly supporting the neo-Nazis of Germany's AfD, just as an AfD supporter/Elon Musk fan kills 5 and injures 100+ in a terrorist attack at a Christmas market in Germany. Vance's pro-AfD statement came *after* the attack.
It's bad. Not sure what else to say. Dark times ahead.

YouTube video by pufferbelly We Got The Eggnog If You Got The Whiskey - The Hickoids

'Tis the Season
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blu ray package showing a PG rating for TRADITIONAL GODZILLA VIOLENCE

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It's a matinee of a capella punk and new wave covers Seaoned (eh, eh?) with Christmas songs by the Kinks and...umm...Fear!

This headline is like enjoying a big bowl of ice cream and then discovering a used band aid at the bottom.

One of fascism's main tactics is to physically and mentally exhaust you. To flood the zone with outrageous bullshit, to make you bite on a dozen pump-fakes — so that when the real shot comes, you're too worn out to react.

We need to pace ourselves. It's only been a week. Alert fatigue is dangerous

Putin has had them for a while? Self-preservation seems to be holding.

buying twitter for 44 billion is a bad deal, but buying the US government for 44 billion is actually an amazing deal

take some small solace in the knowledge that Big Pharma has now officially opened their darkest beast cages in their darkest tunnels at the heart of the fallen earth

The funniest thing they could do is change nothing of the look and feel of the website and just publish onion stories verbatim. Like, there's precedent

Rough beast, still slouching towards Bethlehem. News at 11.

I dig things like this where someone discovers something unexpected and kind of fantastic and the guy who made is was like, yeah, I was just goofing around on company time.
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I know it's 20 years from now but but get extra glasses for the next eclipse. I was handing them out to hopeful strangers. For one beautiful afternoon, I was the eclipse glasses fairy.

I think familiarity with the Farmers Almanac might calm down these yahoos freaking out about the eclipse. Hell, a little Mark Twain couldn't hurt, either.

In the age of AI, April Fool's Day is just another damn day.

There are about 12,000 active liquor licenses in NYC. If the city had the same ratio of pubs to population as the typical 19th Century industrial city it would have over 48,000.

Your daily reminder that to really understand a lot of history, “Everyone was shitfaced” is often important context.

Israel 'not successful' in bid to minimize Gaza civilian casualties, Netanyahu says | Reuters Israel is doing all it can to get civilians out of harm's way as it battles Hamas in Gaza, including dropping leaflets warning them to flee, but its attempts to minimize casualties were "not successfu...

No shit Sherlock

time was on twitter you could make a cask of amontillado joke and everyone would eat that stuff up. people loved getting the reference. they’re probably expecting one at the end of this post. there’s not. but i can show you where one is