Alan

we need to talk about that Ring Super Bowl ad

Photo by Pierre Lavie. Yes this is me. And I threw my Leica. It landed on the bass plate with hardly a scratch. Another Photographer grabbed it along with my phone and I was able to track him later. I was held face down tear gas deployed right in front of me and pepper sprayed directly into the eye.

Detail

1 RT = 1 love for my art 😭🙏🖤

Bad Dye Job It might have made some sense to bring someone from the fashion/brand world to lead software design for Apple Watch, but it sure didn’t seem to make sense for the rest of Apple’s platforms. And the decade of Dye’s HI leadership has proven it.

daringfireball.net/2025/12/ba...

Comic. [Two roads with signs next to them. The road on the left has a bridge over it with a sign that reads “Bridge: Clearance 10 ft 6 in” leading up to a pre-bridge hazard bar. The second road has no bridge and a sign with a pole extending upward off-screen that reads “No Bridge: Clearance 46 billion+ light-years”

Bridge Clearance

xkcd.com/3174/

comparison between apple's finder icon and mine. apple's is the split blue and white smiley face, mine is two blue and white anime girls making out

comparison between discord's icon and mine. mine is like a screaming cat on a blue/purple slimy background

comparison between celsys's clip studio paint icon and mine. mine is similar but rotated with some comic styling and pink and blue highlights

comparison between mozilla's firefox icon and mine. mine is similar but looks closer to the old firefox icon and brings back the little arm and gives the fox a cute little smiley face

last week i remembered that macOS lets you set your own icons and that *I* have the power to delegitimize the professionalism of the software that runs on my machine, so here's a thread of the 16 new icons i've made so far

i really forgot how fun it was to just sit down and make art for myself :')

YouTube video by Angela Collier internet people lie about fluoride

Great day to learn about the fluoride mechanism so you can explain it to your friends.

Major AI conference flooded with peer reviews written fully by AI Controversy has erupted after 21% of manuscript reviews for an international AI conference were found to be generated by artificial intelligence.

Leopards, faces, etc.

YouTube video by Any Austin Can You Live a Normal Life in Cyberpunk 2077?

I made a new video about working class life in Cyberpunk for you last night by the way: youtu.be/iu5Yfv7fZHk?...

Holiday Gifting Quiz Founded by John and Hank Green with the belief that humanity can be good news. At Good Store, we’re searching the world for the best versions of the products that you use daily, like socks, coffee, or...

Cyber Monday is Very Dumb. But, weirdly, I have found that Good.Store does nonetheless greatly benefit by participating.

So, right now we're doing our BIGGEST DISCOUNT OF THE YEAR.

If you're not sure what we have that people in your world might like, WE MADE A QUIZ! good.store/pages/holida...

please remember to use photos of norman reedus to pass these tests because they WILL store this and it WILL get stolen

Comic. [Person with ponytail pointing at diagram while speaking to three other people] PERSON: If the emergency stop is activated, any riders on the waterslide will be diverted into the beam dump, a large graphite block which will safely absorb their momentum. [caption] We regretted hiring an accelerator physicist to design our water park.

Beam Dump

xkcd.com/3168/

a super cool chrome spaceship landed in an empty desert expanse. Two characters are standing below it looking around confused, about what, who can say? Drawn with micron pens and colored with copic markers.

an old one i forgot to post here

this.

i'm not on SNAP.

but this completely encapsulates everything about what is wrong with the Ds caving last night.

take a stand and don't bacck down, dammit!

there is only so much control one has as the "minority" in congress.

don't just f-ing give it away on a whim!

fight, dammit! fight!

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person.

The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person.

People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives.

And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

Por que no los dos?

Time for me to boost my patreon level, eh?

a woman is smiling with the words " i am a librarian " next to her ALT: a woman is smiling with the words " i am a librarian " next to her

I can't believe I haven't used this gif until today. What a fool am I

🔭🧪

NEJM and public health group are launching rival to CDC’s MMWR publication Two institutions are coming together to create an alternative to the CDC’s vaunted Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report

🧪Farm workers in California are falling sick with H5N1 symptoms. RFK Jr. has ordered to not test or report cases, to keep it under wraps.

Shady actions like this, to keep the public in the dark is why NEJM & CIDRAP are launching weekly public health alerts, free for the public.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.

certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

Grapefruit 😏 #oilpainting #art

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I Need 1% of Georgia to Watch This Video YouTube video by Hank Green

Hey Georgia! @hankgreen.bsky.social has a convincing pitch for why you should vote AGAINST THE REPUBLICANS in the upcoming Georgia Public Service Commission special election! Potentially save consumers money, kick out some Rs, feel good! YOUR VOTE WILL COUNT HUGELY! www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...

My friend Matt Inman made a great comic about AI…

Then why are you providing a $20 billion bailout to Argentina and helping them cut deals with China that crush American soybean farmers?

YouTube video by Angela Collier conspiracy physics and you (and also me)

this is the last physics video for a bit.
and I didn't even get to do any physics.

if wrestling is fake explain this 🤼

Time spent scritching animals is not deducted from your lifespan