David Welch

4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...

Car Size

xkcd.com/3167/

YouTube video by ABC News In-depth The engineer causing a storm with his playgrounds | 7.30

we, as a society, are not designing nearly enough cool playgrounds youtu.be/aLzsG6mg1BM?...

even if courts decide that companies can legally train on copyrighted data without consent, so long as the data is legally acquired — the question of liability for infringing outputs is an absolute mess

environmental storytelling

creatine sounds like shit a medieval alchemist came up with. “this powder will make you incredibly strong! also you’ll be thirstier than you’ve ever been in your life and have to pee every 20 minutes”

the most important question: will “Daniel Clamp”, the thinly veiled Trump parody, return??? I hope yes

the writers are the guys who did the most recent Final Destination, though, so I think they understand the assignment

If they had any sense they would announce this as “Gremlins 2: The New Batch, Part 2”

Around 2018 many millennials started to reach an age where they’d want to start families — and look for homes with more bedrooms. Meanwhile, empty nest boomers decided to age in place, not downsize, and (in general) oppose any new housing. Demand met supply.

As you can see, this old place is falling apart

Pink Floyd really epitomized the "guys in a basement noodling around" genre of rock (complimentary) and honestly feels like no one else is even attempting that anymore

just found out one of the major themes of “The Hunchback of Notre-Dame” is Victor Hugo going off on huge tangents to argue for the preservation of Paris’s Gothic architecture, love it

Air traffic control The LAX-pressway must be stopped

LA is building a new $1.5 billion freeway into LAX.

The very same airport where we just spent $2 billion on the people mover — actually, more like $3 billion, plus another $900 million if you count Metro's investment in the LAX station; so let's just say $4 billion — to make cars go away

Dodger Stadium's parking lot is so big that it could fit an additional 10 Dodger Stadiums.

People think that families were displaced out of Chavez Ravine in the 50s in order to build the stadium, but it's technically more accurate to say that they were displaced to build the stadium's parking lots.

New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again.

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Our (insane) criteria for choosing a home The art of finding a place that won’t slowly kill you

We recently moved. Our criteria were, let's say... "specific". I wrote about it here: medium.com/@watsonwelch...

American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming The Frog is owning the president.

I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...

My boss: so how's our fourth quarter looking?

Me, the sales manager at the company that makes inflatable frog suits: well, you're never going to believe this, but

Great to see that Zach Cregger (Barbarian, Weapons) has dedicated his work to how fucked up the American style of suburban development is

Ingersoll’s calls for violence are in line with the official Republican position. John Gillette, a Republican state representative for Arizona, called for Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA) to be hanged on his X account. Two Kansas Republicans alluded to — “joked” — about shooting a former Democratic colleague on the floor of the Kansas House. Louisiana Republican Clay Higgins threatened to jail the mayor of Denver, while Florida Rep. Anna Paulina Luna threatened to refer him for criminal charges. Arizona Republican Paul Gosar shared an anime video depicting him killing Ocasio-Cortez and attacking then-President Joe Biden. Denaturalization is another favorite Republican threat. Republican Andy Ogles of Tennessee said that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani should be stripped of his citizenship and deported; Ogles later demanded the same for Rep. Delia Ramirez of Illinois. Texas Republican Brandon Gill, Georgia Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene, and South Carolina Republican Nancy Mace have called for Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar, a naturalized US citizen, to be deported.

I feel like we've gotten numb to these threats but it really is something to stack them all next to each other www.theverge.com/policy/79051...

Paramount Officially Acquiring The Free Press and Making Bari Weiss CBS News Editor in Chief: Report Paramount Skydance will be officially acquiring The Free Press and hiring its founder Bari Weiss as editor in chief of its CBS News division, with the deal to be announced this coming Monday, accordin...

In case it wasn’t clear, the anti-DEI crusade has never been about merit. Zero news experience. Never been a reporter. Elevated to Editor in Chief of CBS News, one of the most storied news institutions in the nation. www.mediaite.com/media/news/p...

@bencollins.bsky.social @theonion.com hey what's the deal with Onion SportsDome? will that ever be streamable, or are the rights stuck in licensing hell?

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

BREAKING: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has bought access to a surveillance tool that is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data from hundreds of millions of mobile phones, according to ICE documents reviewed by 404 Media.

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yeah yeah, DiCaprio was good as cocky playboys, but he's AMAZING as total losers

A map titled United States High Speed Rail System showing a theoretical high speed rail system in the United States. Some lines also connect north to Vancouver or the Quebec City–Windsor Corridor, or south to Tijuana or Monterrey. The map is credited to First Cultural Industries AKA Alfred Twu, dated from February 2013, and is downloadable at www.californiarailmap.com

the US if Tylenol actually caused autism

Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.

my favorite robert redford story is that mike nichols considered him for dustin hoffman's part in THE GRADUATE. during their conversation nichols asked redford something like, "have you ever struck out with a girl?" and redford's response was basically, "i don't understand the question"

DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing Following Charlie Kirk’s assassination and the Trump administration’s promise to go after the “radical left” a study showing most domestic terrosim is far-right was disappeared.

The Department of Justice has removed a study showing that white supremacist and far-right violence “continues to outpace all other types of terrorism and domestic violent extremism” in the United States.

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Thinking About Game Difficulty Periodically a wave of discussion about game difficulty occurs in game developer spaces, so I wanted to share some thoughts that Zach Barth and Keith Holman of Zachtronics [http://www.zachtronics.com]...

If you want to think about game difficulty it may help to be precise. Here is my brief writeup of Zach Barth’s Difficulty Pentagram, from Cohost, long may she live.

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