Richard Chirgwin

In the Depression, my father as a teen worked out there was a country lunch to be had at his grandfather's farm on Saturdays.

But that was only 70km. So well done, kid!

“Well, it doesn’t matter how you feel about it, we’ll just deepfake you saying you love it.”

Corporate media is missing the point about Portland’s Mr. Frog. They are covering him and his menagerie as a humorous side show. In reality Mr Frog has seized the visual narrative by pointing out the absurdity of troops in Portland. In our visual media world. Mr Frog is winning the war. #ProudBlue

Noooooooooooo! I love the Moody Blues, saw them in Concert once, so sad 😔

Informational flyer about Rogers Park Whistle Protocols, explaining how to use whistles to alert neighbors of emergencies, with color-coded alerts, steps for use, and encouragement to form a crowd and stay loud for safety.

I'm so proud of everyone from my old neighborhood of Rogers Park in Chicago. I see what you have been and are doing. I am so proud of how organized the community is and how much more so everyone is becoming. It is inspiring. Just one example... And this is something EVERYONE can do. Everyone.

Whoa!!! 👇

If this is accurate, it's from Australia!

greensdictofslang.com/entry/mtzweba

Probably only Craig managed mostly-nice among the top drivers.

I no longer know what to do about them. Truth doesn't work, because they despise it. Shame doesn't work because they put shame to death.

@zerogeewhiz.bsky.social And Kosteki has to be counted among the greats: only the third driver to nail three consecutive poles.

As a fan of a sport, it's always a special feeling to realise "this kid is the real thing".

I KNOW DAMN IT TO SPLINTERS!

I know what you mean ... the first time I watched the race, an HO Falcon won it!

It's astonishing how long he's been there - first came to the mountain in 2011!

Yep.

I was wondering about this framing considered @edzitron.com's reporting but then I got to "(OpenAI has a corporate partnership with The Atlantic)" and it makes sense why they're calling reality "doomsayers".
Yeah, be like WeWork. Please be like WeWork.

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

I don't know if it's geographical, but Wikipedia records the various names.

"Brush turkey" is, I think, the most correct.

in 2011, the president of antifa hired me to give fashion consultancy to the organization. i recommended everyone wear navy suits with tan shoes, dress sneakers, and golf polos with slim chinos. if you arrested everyone today wearing these things, you'd destroy antifa

‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine Authors tell of book bans, cancellations and harassment – ‘they’re trying to disconnect us from our stories’

‘They didn’t even read the book’: How children’s authors are being canceled over Palestine | Books | The Guardian share.google/R52hQ3vYoUvh...

"we can't give up on misinformation as a way of boosting audience participation"

Donald Trump would have been an unsuitable choice for the 2025 Nobel peace prize – but he may be a more serious contender in 2026 The peace prize rules made it hard for the US president to win this year. But that doesn’t rule him out for 2026.

This is The Onion *pretending* to be The Conversation, right?

theconversation.com/donald-trump...

From dry farmland to thriving wetland, swamp revival provides hope The Mount Burr Swamp in South Australia is brimming with water, giving conservationists hope its success can be a blueprint for the future.

Mount Burr Swamp thriving after rehabilitation from farmland
Rehabilitation work at Mount Burr Swamp is reaping results, with the newest section full and thriving after recent rain.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

A closer look at the ANU books reveals a hard truth about these job cuts The leadership of the Australian National University (ANU) has been claiming it is in financial crisis, with the former vice-chancellor declaring the institution was living beyond its means.

A closer look at the ANU books reveals a hard truth about these job cuts.

(aka they didn't need to happen...)

share.google/Nza7QQit7KZw...

Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’

We desperately need to stop treating rich people like they are smart because they are rich. Just gibberish. (This bloke just fell arse-backwards into a fortune from a firm clipping the ticket on payment processing.) www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

AI Data Centers Are Sending Power Bills Soaring Wholesale electricity costs as much as 267% more than it did five years ago in areas near data centers. That’s being passed on to customers.

Bloomberg research found wholesale electricity up ~270% in areas near data centers

It doesn't seem like nearly enough people are taking it seriously

One A.I. image isn't too much energy, but 5 million videos? Per day/hour/minute whatever. It's not sustainable

www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...

Part 1/3 of a 14-panel SMBC comic update where a woman at a podium states that America will never accept the bizarre units of measurements used by many countries (so many that it requires 8 panels to be listed in full). She then proposes a new difficult unit of measure - America-vectorized units in which all units of length are reference to the magnitude and direction of the Washington monument.

Part 2/3 of a 14-panel SMBC comic update where a woman at a podium states that America will never accept the bizarre units of measurements used by many countries (so many that it requires 8 panels to be listed in full). She then proposes a new difficult unit of measure - America-vectorized units in which all units of length are reference to the magnitude and direction of the Washington monument.

Part 3/3 of a 14-panel SMBC comic update where a woman at a podium states that America will never accept the bizarre units of measurements used by many countries (so many that it requires 8 panels to be listed in full). She then proposes a new difficult unit of measure - America-vectorized units in which all units of length are reference to the magnitude and direction of the Washington monument.

We must not let the modern world take the fun out of toxic nationalism jokes.

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PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm...
STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

AI HUCKSTER: "i built you a machine that reads books for you."

ME: "can you build me a machine that unloads the dishwasher for me so *i* can read a book?"

or even a more reliable Bluetooth, is that too much to ask

The Queensland 'Resources Council' cheers the that LNP government says it'll run the state's 10 little Hitachi coal-fired geriatric generators for another 20 years. That'd be 62 years for the oldest, Tarong unit 1.

Good luck with that, not.

Good God, sleep-posting!