Tenth Wave

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

Trivia on 'trivia'

In ancient Rome, a trivium was an intersection of three roads (tri, "three" + vium, road).

According to the Romans, when people met at a trivium, they would discuss trivialis ("inconsequential things") - which eventually helped give trivia its modern meaning.

Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?' President Trump had said he will send troops to Portland to protect U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, which he said were "under attack."

LOL

"I spoke to the governor, she was very nice. But I said, 'Well wait a minute, am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening? My people tell me different.' They are literally attacking and there are fires all over the place...

www.kgw.com/article/news...

Flobots’ “Fight With Tools” album is unironically a timeless masterpiece.

Nintendo is really funny because they regularly do evil corpo shit but get a pass from their fans because their Gameboy comforted them when their parents were fighting.

The last 100 years of US politics

Armored Trooper Votoms (装甲騎兵ボトムズ)

I am once again asking you to stop sending us money.

But we do need your time. ⏰

zohranfornyc.com/events

I really don’t understand anyone who’s against this. It was originally called the Department of War. It was rebranded as the Department of Defense for marketing purposes because it’s easier to have exorbitant defense spending instead of exorbitant war spending.

Anti-war leftists should like this…

Image of tarhiel falling to his doom. Dialogue box says "it gets worse before it gets worse".

no notes, nailed it

Stop talking about Newsom and start talking about the Great Khan of the Midwest

Below: Moses and the Brazen Serpent. Above: Christ's Transfiguration. Packing it all in there in 1683 with Cristobal de Villalpando, whose day is today.

"We do not need allies more devoted to order than to justice,” Martin Luther King, Jr. (1964)

That reporter is a hero.

If only all reporters had that courage…

Igor Dubovoy (Russian, b. 1972)
On the Hill, 2021
Oil on canvas
71.12 × 81.28 cm (28 × 32 in.)
Private collection
#art #painting #painters #BlueSkyArt

ANCHORAGE…

A European Robin in a cap and scarf on a snowy branch. From January 2024

I could sing, woke up to a 58 degree cloudy morning after 4 days of 80s and 90s baking me alive in my apartment.

Bring on the chill and drizzle!

Because this keeps happening, we’ve launched a (free) daily newsletter called Drop Site Daily — very creative name — that you can get by subscribing on our site which I won’t link to since that gets suppressed too. Please share this if you see it.

www.dropsitenews.com/p/rage-mount...

Compete capitulation by the UN today. The backstory:

1. Israel accused Hamas of using SA as a weapon of war, demanding they be blacklisted, an official designation with diplomatic consequences.

I’m sorry but I refuse to stop laughing at “one of whom was doing a wheelie”

Tote bag showing k Vonnegut quote about libraries

Family got a new tote bag!

i really think the only reason we haven't created new states — which was a common political tactic in the 19th century, see nevada and the dakotas — is that 50 is a round number

Americans want universal healthcare, not national guard troops in our neighborhoods.

You cannot be “America First” while treating Americans like our communities as though we need military intervention.

We must not give into the urge to hate each other, our neighbors, family and friends.

Really should have stuck with calling them creepy, uncool, goofy weirdos.

As someone who affectionately uses the term Crapplebees, I’m disappointed in my lack of imagination in making to leap to Crapple 🤣

Life is already beautiful with you in it, and it’s only going to get more beautiful! @shinyvivi.bsky.social