Nick Stenning

I will allow Empire State Of Mind played unironically now

As you celebrate Mamdani’s victory, I want to take in that it was not a victory for the Democratic Party. He won in spite of the party.

Watching Mamdani's victory speech, I'm struck by his—and his campaign's—unabashed vision of the US as an immigrant society, a culture built from the ground up from diversity. It is a complete rejection and reversal of the search for a white-washed homogeneity that the political right projects.

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom Zohran completely blew away: His speech was at well above a 10th-grade level. It was complex, erudite, punctuated by deep and fluent references. You don't have to condescend to voters with baby talk! Part of re-establishing norms is speaking like an adult.

pitching a movie in which J. R. R. Tolkien arises from the dead to take academically-coded revenge on the techbros and MAGAs who continue to grotesquely misunderstand his work

Post from Threads user rodneyowl: "Ireland has declared the Basic Income for Artists scheme permanent. This will be officially announced in tomorrow’s budget. Details to follow. Congratulations to all who fought for it and the present and future artists of all sorts in Ireland. That includes me 👌We’re just comin to the end of a 3 year pilot scheme. It’s been a roaring success. For every €1 paid out to the 2000 participants, the government got €1.46 back. Can’t argue with that. Other countries are already taking note."

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

i mean you asked for that one

A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48.

Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

Someone was trying to take a portrait of their two fave Chickens, and this happened.

this is, hands down, the best video I've seen on men's influencer content and it's not close either

Worse for who? OpenAI? Users? Society at large?

(You will always be @mihi_tr even though I’m quite confident you’d have deleted your Twitter account ages ago.)

We think of you fondly every year, Michael/@mihi_tr. You might be gone, but you’re still a role model. ❤️

REPORTER: Mr. President, my condolences to you, Sir. My condolences on the loss of your friend Charlie Kirk. [unintelligible] How are you holding up over the last day and a half, Sir? TRUMP: I think very good. And by the way, right there, you see all the trucks? They've just started construction of the new ballroom for the White House, which is something they ve been trying to get, as you know, for about 150 years. And it's gonna be a beauty. Absolutely magnificent construction. We just started, so it'll get done very nicely. And it will be one of the best anywhere in the world, actually.

oh well, onward and upward

I can officially confirm that the loops are looping.

There are now about 5 full CPU cores out there being occupied by this while loop. I am not proud.

If there was any doubt that I was a Serious Engineer doing Serious Engineering, I would like you all to know that I've just completed the multi-week rollout, affecting thousands of nodes, of... a shell while loop that spends most of its time sleeping.

even if there are apologies due I don’t think they need to come from you! hello from CO 👋

Snowy egret friend!

A wide, shallow, and heavily canalised urban “creek” in Denver. The walls of the are engineered with large rocks and the channel itself is featureless and flat. The whole thing is contained by large concrete flood walls.

Dear urban planners, I am begging you to understand that this is not what a creek looks like.

say what you like about america but damn if the sausage patty isn’t one of the greatest breakfast food items anywhere

We’ve been waiting an awfully long time for anyone in the NYT Opinion section to not be an utter coward. Finally.

I’m sorry, “the vice president’s mother was a drug addict so we’re allowed to just extrajudicially murder anyone we vaguely handwave as being part of a cartel” is a real argument people are making? in public? under their own names?

just an ongoing embarrassment that this barely sentient meathead is secretary of defense

Fascism is an aesthetic movement for people with no sense of aesthetics.

llook we’re alll trying to work out how this spellling error was alllowed happen

How Canada's buck-toothed national emblem could help fight wildfires | CBC News New research out of the western U.S. suggests dams and ponds built by beavers can slow floods, store water and even create green firebreaks in wildfire-prone landscapes.

'The findings add weight to a growing body of evidence that beavers may be acting as ecosystem engineers, reshaping waterways in ways that benefit not just their own survival, but that of entire landscapes.'

if we do ever create intelligent machines this bunch of silicon vallley chucklefucks will have utterly burned the term “AI” so we’ll have to come up with a new one

Making them wear high-visibility vests over camo is such a good joke you couldn’t write it

You do that and I will promise to always let you know when I find some new Kunst on the street.