rid

yet another instance of 'fuck you, BW'

anyone else notice that the west took a turn for the worse once the concept of signaling one’s own social virtue became derogatory, almost as if cynically deriding all displays of charity and good will is indicative of a deeply cynical and nihilistic society capable of collaborating in genocide

“I’m worried about my community… I’m out here in a frog costume to show how ridiculous the notion that we’re violent terrorists is, and showcase how that narrative is wrong…”

Serious Q: is it too late to give this dude the Nobel Peace Prize? 🐸 🏆

🐶: “Very spooky! A corpse is a dead body.”

Wen should direct more attention to incidents like these because Americans are more likely to respond to brutality to pets than to brutality to human beings.

Russ Vought v @russvought The RIFs have begun. 12:27 PM • 10/10/25 • 15K Views

Three key points:
1) The admin has been planning mass firings to begin in October since February
2) The work necessary to carry out mass firings is illegal during a shutdown, violating the Antideficiency Act, which carries a criminal penalty
3) This harms America, ridding us of talent and expertise

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

He's like the stoned dudes from PHIL101 back in Santa Cruz, just free associating a bunch of shit together. FFS

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

2. Draw a fish dot com

Just do it. Draw a fish.

drawafish.com

screenshot from AlgorithmWatch newsletter with text: "In 2016, Elon Musk announced that one of his cars would drive from Los Angeles to New York entirely autonomously by 2018. He later changed the date to 2017. Earlier this month – for context, we are in late 2025 – two men attempted to make good on this promise. A YouTuber going by Bearded Tesla Guy, along with a friend, drove (manually) to San Diego, California, with a Tesla Model Y. There, they began the trip back in “self-driving” mode. About 100 kilometers later (that’s 2.5% of the planned journey), they saw something large on the highway lane. “Looks like roadkill,” one said. “No, it’s not,” he added, as the car, which did not brake, started flying after hitting the large piece of metal. Hours of YouTube videos from repair shops follow. In a subsequent video, the bearded guy said he’d continue the trip but added: “I’ll be a lot more conservative in what I consider something I’ll take [control of the vehicle] over for.” Hope dies last. Luis Prada. Tesla Bros Attempt Coast-to-Coast Trip in Self-Driving Mode, Crash Right Away, Vice, 25 Sept. "

beyond parody

SWIFT: Trav, honey?
KELCE: (looks up from first edition Krazsnahorkai in original Hungarian) (pauses rare Steve Reich LP, Japanese pressing) Yes?
SWIFT: What rhymes with "thighs"?
KELCE: Hmm. "Belies," perhaps?
SWIFT: (under her breath) Oh for fuck's sake

People who want to be Trump, Garage, Putin, etc.

Look at her go!
#invertebrates 🌿

The early edition of this was such a fun, simple game! My buddies and I would have a few rounds of this before weekly D&D.

"This Whole Thing Smacks Of Gondor," i holler as i overturn my uncle's funeral pyre and turn the 4th Age of Man into the 4th Age of Shit

Thinking of AI as a Social Problem No need to know the unknowable. The knowable is bad enough.

"Why would OpenAI and Microsoft spend $23 million to give 'free training' on how to use AI to teachers? Because they love teachers? No. Because they want to get their products into public schools in an attempt to cultivate the education market." — @hamiltonnolan.bsky.social

Poster showing a pink/red octopus with a cute face. The background is a white and blue water cartoon-like graphic. The text reads: Would you walk away from Omelas? An Ursula Le Guin Themed Creative Writing Workshop, 11th October, 4 pm, online. In this workshop, led by science fiction writer, poet, and philosophy lecturer Dr Rachel Handley, you will be invited to explore Le Guin's short stories and related themes. There will be opportunities to respond to writing prompts based on Le Guin's and other's work throughout the workshop. The workshop will be very interactive, and writers at all levels are very welcome to attend. You'll also have the chance to read out what you've written during the workshop.

I'm delighted to say that I will be running an online Ursula Le Guin themed creative writing workshop for @octocon.bsky.social on 11th October, 4 pm.

Get ready for some philosophical fiction!

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You spoke the truth.

I said what I said.

My parents live in the same area. Based on their neighbors, it isn't clear to me that the locals not being in control of e.g. law, education, healthcare, and economics would be that bad a thing...

After losing Angelina we built up Bob's confidence.

Today he leaves us but he sent him on his way with all he needs for his new life. A very special boy indeed

I never thought that when America fell it would be this stupid and cringeworthy.

They're such whiny losers.

i wonder what it’s like to look around every day and see the country being run into the ground by pill-poppers and secret police and anti-vaxxers and book burners and you go into work and sit down at your computer and you’re the guy whose job it is to come up with new oreos flavors

Government funding expires in hours and where are House Republicans?

They canceled votes and went on vacation.

Republicans own this shutdown.

NEW: Rachel Maddow drops unseen bodycam footage of feds coordinating the arrest of Newark Mayor Baraka.

I REPEAT: the feds ordered his arrest even though he wasn’t breaking any laws.

Federal agent: “We are arresting the mayor right now per the Deputy Attorney General of the United States.”

trudi_ready 9h Oh well on the one hand it's good for my stock portfolio! 10 On the other hand if you Watch the movie Minority report...that's the beginning of it! Reply

no need for the nyt to publish any more focus groups with frank luntz, the comments under any passive-income guru’s instagram posts touting palantir or private prison stocks are absolutely teeming with the moral bankruptcy and political incoherence of the Median American Voter™️

Nothing against the people who add to various worlds of fiction but honestly every large fictional universe has at least one of these.

A tweet from Robin Light-Williams (@BlondRobin) stating the following: Hello to anyone reading this. I am Robin Light-Williams, formerly lead translator for Carpe Fulgur. I am very sorry to announce that my friend and business partner Andrew Dice, @SpaceDrakeCF, has passed away. Pursuant to that, Carpe Fulgur will be ceasing operations.

Absolutely devastated by this news. SpaceDrake was no doubt a huge influence in drumming up interest for Japanese indie games localized into English and pushing for them on digital distribution storefronts like steam. Huge loss. Might be time for another playthrough of Recettear in his honour.

It finally came true…

First known wild ‘grue jay’ hybrid spotted in Texas Green and blue jays are crossing paths as temperatures rise.

Oh. My. God.

www.popsci.com/environment/...

Shitbags, the lot of them (Though I think the psychotherapist Maier is John T Maier, who isn't a co-author)