Are racists thick, or are thick people racist?

Did it though?

Of course the world doesn't hate the USA; hating a whole country is what the hard-of-thinking tribalists that got you into this mess do.

They don't TRUST the USA any more though, and won't as long as the electorate can be tricked into enacting fascism with no safeguards.

25 stacked subframes on a Dwarf 3 a couple of nights back.

I think the great thing about capturing a gibbous moon is the depth of texture you get near the terminator.

Bortle 5ish

Orion Nebula, photographed with a Dwarf 3 smart telescope, processed with Siril.

First light for the Dwarf 3, and for me as #astrophotography! Pretty pressed with the results; Orion Nebula, 120 subs 30/60/4K, 55 usable, Siril, GraXpert, VeraLux. Need to get my head around this whole stretching thing!

Also note how the denser chlorine tends to hug the ground, which the smoke does not.

Now I want to know which CNN reporter or producer doesn't know the word "sycophant."

The arsonist who shows up to extinguish the fire...

This is an inevitable extension of the way law enforcement in the USA has been misbehaving with impunity for decades.

A reminder to the news media: “conflicting accounts” is what you say BEFORE the incontrovertible video evidence appears. After that, your job is to ask why one side is lying, not to repeat the lie and pretend no one knows the truth.

Can you imagine!?

Indeed! Would they accept this as an excuse from an undergrad for a late/missing assignment, do we think?

"The AI dog ate my homework".

A hammer is a nerve agent... 🙄

Whistleblowers just shared a memo showing DHS instructing ICE to force their way into peoples' houses without a proper warrant. Why is this not on all the networks right now? This is a criminal conspiracy to violate rights under color of law.

Probably massive internal bleeding from being driven past.

IPA = India Pale Acetylcholinesterase-inhibitor!

Weird to be chucking out accusations like 'narc', when you're the one spreading misinformation likely to make people believe they'll potentially face catastrophically toxic chemical agents if they protest...

😂

POO!

Most of the (London) centroids are coloured at the bottom end of the crime and ASB scale also?

Looks like a chart to scare people who don't understand charts, and confuse those that do.

Any protection is better than none when punching Nazis though; wouldn't want to catch anything!

"AI" is a misleading term, given there's no intelligence in these systems, artificial or otherwise.

I propose a more accurate term: Pseudo-Intelligent Stochastic Systems. 😉

Is it better or worse than "Septic"? 😉

Yep. Also, Grok is being anthropomorphized, so Musk's name is not in the headlines.

Yes. I'd have thought it was obvious, and it seems like a deft, and apt, turn of phrase.

If you're asking in good faith, I'd be delighted to explain it to you?

another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

Just wow. @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy came out swinging in this article. He's right though and that's the coolest part.