Dan the Gnome

We live in hell

There are a lot of posts out there with the close-up visual of Markwayne Mullin on January 6, but this is a better perspective.

He’s not protecting others; he’s protecting himself and hiding. You can see plenty of people at the entry door, ready to take on the insurrectionists, but not Markwayne.

Maybe a giant potato dream journal...

when the internet was new, random Limewire users were sued for 6-7 figures over downloading individual songs

today, if you're an AI company, i guess you can just steal entire people's identities with no repercussions

New spoon rest. Sore after putting in a tree this morning. Plan to take photos tomorrow. Nemesis says, "Biiiig stretch!" #pottery #ceramics #clay #craft #dog 🧶

She was born in Dallas County, Texas. If this can happen to her, it can happen to anybody. I guess MAGA gets joy when this happens.

There's no alt text on these screencaps but the doc they're taken from is linked in the next post in the thread. Like I've been saying all along: he's known what his tattoo meant since 2009 *at minimum*.

A flat lay image of a knitted colourwork cowl. The cowl is gray, with a knitted purple virus, a purple DNA, and a bright pink molecule. It is shown next to a black calculator and a model of a caffeine molecule

When I saw the Science doodle cowl by Jamie Lomax I knew that this was a must knit, so I decided to make it for #scrapalong2026 🧶

Did I build complex molecule especially for this photo? Lol, yes, I did! And is that Caffeine?! Why, yes, it is! ☕

#knitsky #knit

So close! It's been a good learning experience, though. Spending full days in the studio to maintain my sanity. Tuli says good work and keep going! #pottery #ceramics #clay #craft #dog 🧶

This. In fact MOST of the white military dudes I knew/know.

He has fallen for the greatest trick in the book: mediocre white man syndrome. I cannot fail, I can only be failed by everyone else.

He honestly believes this bullshit works and he was prevented from achievement. Rather than the obvious which is this bullshit is WHY he failed.

Seriously, WHY would you let him do comms? Or even NEAR comms?

Fun note on this article, this company uses comfyUI, which boasts a collection of some of the most unethical and exploitative GenAi models.

This whole deal is Netflix normalizing the exploitation of the creative workers—whose works GenAi companies stole to train their models— they hope to replace.

this really feels like the last days of social media, because if/when this place goes to hell I don't have another jump left in me.

It's really hard to overstate how wildly this departs from HUNDREDS if not THOUSANDS of years of literature and data, data he would understand if he hadn't failed every school he was sent to. Things like RoEs did not arise out of nothing!

P.S. Rumsfeld tried this, and he was smarter than you, Hegs

Quick! Someone find a secret unknown Florida volcano in Palm Beach!

Incredibly illuminating to compare income and hours worked across countries and states for ***the bottom 95% of earners only***. The typical Belgian earns as much as the typical Californian but works about 24% less

via sethackerman.substack.com

have a bisque firing warming up today, but managed to get this crock all snaked up. the weather is warming up here, the toads are coming out of their burrows, and i nearly stepped on a little copperhead the other day... alll good though #pottery #handmade #snakes #folkart #clay

I'm so exhausted. Which is, I know, the point, but still.

just thinking about how USAID was dismantled under the rationale of cost savings but there's an unlimited budget for war

So. Fucking. Tired.

Minneapolis residents who pay immigrant neighbors’ rent ask city to delay evictions A council committee voted to temporarily extend eviction notice filings from 30 to 60 days; the full council will vote again.

Tomorrow the City Council has the opportunity to listen to this call and take a step to take care of our residents.

i'm not an economist but if 900 people can afford to fund $3,000 checks to damn near everyone else in america and still be insanely fuckin rich afterwards maybe they have too much fuckin money

Ink and watercolor illustration of a lush flower garden. A chair is in the middle with a couple of books on it, a witch's hat, and a blanket. Some bees are flying around. The chair awaits an occupant!

Dreaming of getting back in the garden 🌿🐝🪻🐞

Especially when my area might be getting another 2-6 inches of snow tonight. 😭

alexschottenpoetry • & Threads 6h It would be really poetic if the cure to militarized Al is just painting decoys on the ground [picture of decoy on ground] ISRAELI MISSILE HITS HELICOPTER SHADOW DECOY ISRAELI MISSILE HITS HELICOPTER SHADOW DECOY AFTER IRANIAN GROUND ILLUSION TRICKS STRIKE

the LLMs can be defeated by POETRY, its only fair the ai can be defeated by ART

About time someone said it to their faces

'Potential'. A dryad holding a magnolia in front of the night sky. She looks very much like a tree, and she has dark eyes and a hopeful expression. Made with colored pencil and green and brown watercolors.

'Death'. A woman in a romantic dress lies dead on the autumn forest floor, and a crown of white mushrooms grows on her head. Made with colored pencil and watercolors in yellow, brown, and green.

'Life'. A willow fae looks directly at the viewer. Her long green hair is covered with buttercups and butterflies, and white abstracted line art representing their growth, life, and movement. Made with colored pencil, yellow and green watercolor, and white ink.

'Dream'. A naiad in profile underwater, with swirling weeds all around. She looks very much like water, is transparent, and has white line art in her hair that looks like the movement of water. Made with colored pencil, blue and green watercolor, and white ink.

Hi, I'm a mixed media traditional artist based in the US, and I'm inspired by nature, folklore, and fantasy. ✨

It is so damning of US news media that so many outlets refuse to just straight up say that Senator Tim Sheehy assaulted an activist.

He did not "help" Capitol police. They did not need his help. He wanted to assault the guy and did. He should resign.

Patreon post header graphic for "Shouldn't Need to Be a Lawyer" by Matthew Cortland, dated 03/04/2026. Title reads: "Steven Pinker Helped Epstein's Lawyers Argue Sex Trafficking Wasn't Sex Trafficking. The NYT Just Gave Him a Platform to Argue Disability Isn't Disability."

In 2007, Steven Pinker argued that "entice" didn't mean entice, to defend child rapist Jeffrey Epstein. In 2026, he's arguing that "disability" doesn't mean disability, and the New York Times is letting him do it without mentioning his history.

I wrote about it

www.patreon.com/posts/152259...

This. Both JD Vance and Trump are virulent racists despite being married to immigrants.