SΞЯGΞ

Four-panel comic. A reporter's microphone is visible in the corner of each panel, and a young male in a hoodie is asked: Reporter: Sir! How much do you think we should hold feminism accountable for the male loneliness epidemic? Hoodie: There is no meaningful difference between the rates of loneliness between men and women*. The reason we're always talking about men's is that they're making it everyone else's problem. *In fact, several studies (Graham & Ong, 2024; Cigna & Morning Consult, 2021) suggest that more women experience loneliness than men. Hoodie: According to research*, the primary reason that men isolate themselves is because they feel incapable of living up to rigid gendered expectations. The far-right exploits that vulnerability to radicalize young men. *The State of American Men 2025, Equimundo: Center for Masculinity and Social Justice. Hoodie: If anything, feminism is the solution to men's loneliness. Let's deconstruct the gender norms that hurt everyone, before these techno-fascists divide us even more.

Time for your truth pill. Maybe hard to swallow, but trust me, it's gonna help you get better.

INVENTOR: ive got a great new toy idea for you, it's called... the Radio Flyer

TOY EXEC: oh wow, so it's like a plane that flies via... radio?

INVENTOR: it's not a plane

TOY EXEC: oh...Kay, so it's

INVENTOR: its a little red wagon

TOY EXEC: with ... a radio on it?

INVENTOR: theres no radio

Minority representation on TV causes outrage There has been widespread support for prominent Reform MP Sarah Pochin after she complained about the over-representation of minorities on television. Said one angry viewer, "She's right. Every time you turn on the telly there's another Reform MP being interviewed by Laura Kuenssberg." She added, "I respect their way of life and their strange customs, but Reform MPs comprise only 0.7 percent of the House of Commons. Yet Nigel Farage is on Question Time more than Fiona Bruce." "I'm not prejudiced. Some of my best friends are swivel-eyed loons, but enough is enough. There are too many people with angry red faces on television.”

Gotta love Private Eye.
Always cuts through the crap.

Gen Zalphas: lol who still has a printer?

Also Gen Zalphas: hey I'm forwarding a PDF form I need you to print out for me

How Signal’s Meredith Whittaker Remembers SignalGate: ‘No Fucking Way’ The Signal Foundation president recalls where she was when she heard Trump cabinet officials had added a journalist to a highly sensitive group chat.

www.wired.com/story/the-bi...

"Legalize comedy."

Dr. Frankenstein warning the village while continuing development on the Monster.

Split panel: On the left, a proper mac 'n cheese casserole with lots of gooey cheese that's crusted on top. Text overlay reads "Juneteenth". On the right, what appears to be a box mac 'n cheese with a runny, anemic looking cheese sauce. Text overlay reads "July 4th".

Getting excited for the Sioux Falls Juneteenth cookout tomorrow.

Meme: They waited two years to tell over 250,000 enslaved people that they were free. Juneteenth isn't just about the news reaching Texas. It'sa bout how long they kept it from them. Wishing you a beautiful Juneteenth <heart hands emoji>

Even the anthropomorphism in this cartoon is part of the baggage.

Doctors urged to treat pain for IUD insertion and other procedures A major medical group now recommends pain-blocking treatments for IUD insertion and other procedures amid a growing recognition that women's pain should be treated.

Actually listening to women telling you it hurts and believing them... What a groundbreaking concept! 🙄

The medical world has a long way to go in addressing misogyny and racism.
www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Tell me again why Vishnu Bunny had to GTFO last summer with barely 30 days' notice? 8 months in and still boarded up. What was once a jewel in the crown of downtown is now a bloody eyesore. New owners should be fined for every day it sits empty, counting from day one. Do better, Sioux Falls!

Edda Fields-Black Wins Pulitzer For Groundbreaking Book On Harriet Tubman’s Combahee River Raid Edda Fields-Black, a Miami native, won the Pulitzer for her emphasis on first-hand accounts of the Combahee River Raid.

Bought it. www.blackenterprise.com/edda-fields-...

So tired of breathlessly hyperbolic YouTube headlines. I'm not even blaming the content creators per se, it's YT that almost forces them into creating wildly misleading video titles just to stand out from the crowd. And no, it's not just political stuff, it's camera stuff and computer stuff too.

I absolutely love my Bombas grippy slippers.

Same. When I had mine in August I didn't sell much, but what I sold came with some nice compliments. And a very good friendship came out of it as well.

Sara Lee truck with the slogan "Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee". "Sara" has been crossed out with black spraypaint and replaced with "Geddy".

Forgot to mention Geddy in my previous post...

My initial thought was, wow, I'm surprised Bezos is allowing that. But I think his losses due to tariffs will be greater than his fealty to the one who put them in place.

Photo of Bernie Sanders at a podium with a nasty look on his face. Above him the caption: When the riff is so sick you wanna give it healthcare.

Me listening to Jaco, Victor, Verdine, Nile, Mohini et al.

Christopher Plummer as Capt. von Trapp in "The Sound of Music", ripping up the Nazi flag.

You can’t say criminals don’t deserve due process when due process is the thing that decides if they're criminals. Otherwise you're just kidnapping people you don't like.

🎉

If Sting recorded "Englishman in New York" today it would be about having his green card revoked and getting deported.

Pope Francis: "It's hypocrisy to call yourself a Christian and chase away a refugee or someone seeking help, someone who is hungry or thirsty, toss out someone who is in need of my help. If I say I am Christian, but do these things, I'm a hypocrite."

DOGE Oil Executive Put in Charge of National Park Service DOGE now has 'free rein' over NPS and BLM forest management, wildfire preparation, financial management, training, and more.

Called it. gearjunkie.com/outdoor/doge...

Truly a showstopper.

Google AI learns to speak dolphin Now this is the sort of application of AI that really intrigues me. Researchers have developed DolphinGemma, the first large language model (LLM) for understanding dolphin language. It could help us t...

Google Translate: "So long, and thanks for all the fish." newatlas.com/biology/buil...

Idea for "soft resistance": blend speaking like Bob & Doug McKenzie into normal conversation.

verified check for wired

we are sooooooooooooooooo back

more on the blue check here: www.wired.com/story/bluesk...

Also on Reddit today, someone thinking that I am apologetic for being a white dude. Nah, friends. I think we all know that being a white dude in the US is pretty great. My sin, if you will, is thinking everyone else should have the same latitude in life that I get just by being a white dude.