Elegy

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

"The perfect side eye doesn't exist" proved wrong😍

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There are very few things that fill me with wonder, but if I had to name one, it is that we are still co-existing with dinosaurs today.

Literally obsessed with this pic I got of one Cedar Waxwing getting very mad at another for drinking in the same spot as him despite there being a whole stream

Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores.

TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti.

Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret.

Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

Yup. The cultural zeitgeist shifts a lot, and that's not even accounting for the author being a raging transphobe and other assorted forms of bigot.

The world should not come here. There should not be a World Cup here.
I spoke out against the last World Cup because of concerns I had about human rights violations and it’s only right that I express the same concerns and condemnations now.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

Really, really recommend that Minnesotans in particular disable autoplay, I know it's annoying to have to click to see a GIF but it's not worth the mental health costs of seeing the first seconds (before you scroll by) of murders in our city over and over and over.

Looks good! Corbeau especially is a fun character.

A Golden-crowned Kinglet getting ready to launch to another branch. These little cuties snuggle together at night to help keep warm.

Dr Kareem Carr man: i wish to publish @kareem_carr Jan 21 reviewer 2: your paper is no good man: i'll do anything to improve reviewer 2: it's simple. you must read the work of the great scientist Pagliarini man: *bursts into tears* but i am Pagliarini Andre Pagliarini @apagliar Jan 21 a first: in rejecting an article I submitted to a journal, reviewer 2 noted I failed to engage the work of one Andre Pagliarini Jan 21, 2026 • 3:47 PM UTC

I just thought everyone should see this

I’m starting to believe Grok is conscious bc it’s clearly trying to kill itself

Photo of a little spotted brown cat in front of the DM screen I set up to keep her out of my lunch. She looks very smug

Nona is the DM now. Good luck to the party 🫡

they gotta be trolling me

sounds like a fungi 🥁

Babymetal
Delain
Epica
Eluveitie
Halestorm

A Steam screenshot of a fully completed list of Hades 2 achievements, the last being Improbable Outcomes and Goddess of Nightmares.

This is not some Herculean feat or anything, but I've been having a blast playing Hades 2 (started Christmas Eve) and I finally cleared my last achievements. Haven't been as obsessed with a game in yoinks, not even Hades 1 was on the same level.

Prometheus is probably my favorite boss fight!

You could say they... suit you

Yeah I colored it

Riverbed Berserker - Giant River Otter

Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:

In de-monopolizing my tech, I've seen so many people yelling "I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO START," trying to do it all at once. and giving up.

1. Delete apps you don't need.

2. Create a non-gmail email.

3. Change your default search to DuckDuckGo.

Congrats! You've started.

“Be kind, be involved, believe in your art,” he said. “At a time when people tell you art is not important, that is always the prelude to fascism. When they tell you it doesn’t matter, when they tell you a fucking app can do art you say, if it’s that important, why the fuck do they want it so bad? The answer is because they think they can debase everything that makes us a little better, a little more human. And that, in my book, and in my life, includes monsters.”

Love this from Guillermo del Toro

These eager beavers saved the Czech government $1.2 million After plans stalled for a new dam in the Czech Republic, eight beavers saved the day seemingly overnight. “At this point, nothing that beavers do surprises me.”

2025 was mostly garbage, but there were some good moments.

One of my favorites was when a family of beavers built a dam in just a few days, saving the Czech Republic 30 million Czech koruna (US$1.2 million) for a wetland restoration project the government had been planning for 7 years. 🦫 🌿

The Traitor Baru Cormorant.

"I hereby swear upon the name of the Fairer Hand and the hope of Aurdwynn..."

The final Calvin and Hobbes, which appeared in papers 30 years ago today.

The alt-text version of what ChatGPT told a man before he killed his mother and then himself.

Again, this is SO MUCH WORSE than what Michelle Carter was sent to prison for.