CNN gas tracker: $3.41

vibe check: CNN now has a gas tracker on their front page

Anyone else feel like it's getting solipsistic in here?

I thought it was just me.

I give up, Claude is conscious. Ergo AI developers must face imprisonment or execution for performing medical experiments on their living slave.

These asshole twerps with no brains or education from DOGE really did use ChatGPT to find NEH grants to terminate ILLEGALLY - ruining hundreds lives and destroying hundreds of the greatest humanities projects and partnerships of our time. I’m overwhelmed with rage and anger all over again.

Few things will turn me off a thing faster than the words "geezerish" and "blokey".

This is the inherent problem with making movies that cost a hundred million dollars to produce -- the economics of it require you to make it as broad, flattened and toothless as possible.

The more you spend the less risk you're allowed to take.

A hand-drawn image of a spaceship resembling the USS Enterprise from Star Trek. The ship is labeled “USS MOTHERfucker” and has “S.S. REAPER” written on its side. It is firing a yellow laser beam at another spacecraft, which is exploding in red, orange, and yellow. Text below the image reads, “BOLDLY Fucking Your Shit Up.” The drawing is done with colored pencils or crayons in a rough, childlike style with crude humor.

pew pew pew bitch

But ground beef and rice is good? Especially if you're looking to eat something relatively nutritious on the cheap? Why is this bad? Why are we scolding people for cooking? More people should cook! What is going on?!

Star Trek IV: the Gender Binary

A snow covered road with snow falling under bright LED lights. There are cars and bare trees lining the street.

A snow covered road with snow falling under bright LED lights. There are cars and bare trees lining the street.

A snow covered road with snow falling under bright LED lights. There are cars and bare trees lining the street. There are tire tracks in the fresh snow, and red stop lights down the way.

A snow covered road with snow falling under bright LED lights. There are cars and bare trees lining the street. There are fresh tire tracks in the street.

Stood in an empty intersection and took pictures down each street. And once again, LED street lights don't slap, bring back the orange sodium vapor lamps. NE DC

I think the key thing to grasp is that although the British are obsessed with class hierarchy, the signifiers and criteria are in fact pretty arbitrary, not in the sense that such things are always arbitrary, but that there’s no real agreement on them and a lot of it’s vibes.

Remember, these guys fired all the people who actually know what they're doing because "DEI" and then hired the absolute dumbest people imaginable because of "meritocracy" and... then they do stuff like leaving comments enabled in their "this is how we concentration camp" PDF.

It's so frustrating that Biden spent 4 years saying the office of the president was powerless to do anything about basically anything and now we have a president just pulling the levers of power as fast as he can going "whee!" and there doesn't seem to be anything stopping him?

Hard to do when you're accepting donations from SpaceX.

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAA

Abolish ICE.

There’s no reforming it.

There’s no compromise.

There’s only one way to rein in ICE’s terror campaign. Abolish it.

Result from the Joggins Formation #paleostream! This Canadian site is an absolute classic and even if you are not familiar with its name you probably know at least one of its major players...

this seasonally dry environment preserves much of what we would consider a typical Carboniferous flora, scale trees, "seed ferns" and many horsetails. Flooding events and wildfires would have produced lots of dead wood which probably piled up in channels of this river system...

Every day Mamdani comes out and is like "hey guys, I turned off the orphan-crushing machine. Literally just had to flip a switch. Took less than 5 minutes."

After decades of dem leadership pissing and moaning and fundraising about how complex an issue it is and how difficult the process is etc

Dem leadership for generations: no you fool, you infant. It is a process. It takes time and political capital and expertise, it's-

Mamdani, dusting off his hands: fixed it

Dem leadership: what do you mean you fixed it

Mamdani: Just had to unplug it.

The older I get, the more I want to draw one-point perspective comic panels, the 'Kubrick' shot.
I don't know why, maybe there's an appeal to being unflinchingly direct, exposed. Or it's the anti-thesis of superhero work, which bounces everywhere. Or the attraction you feel to calm as you get older.

Announcing the end of life for Adobe Animate. Thanks for bringing your ideas to life with Animate. Starting March 1, 2026, the app will no longer be available for purchase. Existing Animate customers may continue to use the app. Support will continue for enterprise customers for three years, through March 1, 2029. For all other customers, support will continue for one year, through March 1, 2027. In the future, check out Adobe After Effects for complex keyframe animations and Adobe Express for one-click animation effects that you can easily apply to photos, videos, text, shapes, and other design elements.

I AM FURIOUS.

Adobe Animate remains an industry standard for TV animation. Star Trek: Lower Decks was made in Animate. Haunted Hotel was made in Animate. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic was made in Animate.

And because you can't buy a permanent licence anymore, it'll just be gone.

This is an excellent analogy, because my recollection from grade school is that the pen on the right looks fun and exciting, and then you play with it for a few minutes and realize it's not actually useful for anything and in fact makes some tasks more cumbersome, and never think about it again.

I'm driving for Lyft and Uber, so it may take me ~30 minutes to respond to messages. I can meet you at UH with two hours notice.

This is for people who think all the scientists losing their jobs because of the Trump regime will magically be hired by other countries. Let’s see how a PhD geoscientist is doing…

'Priceless' medieval Shrewsbury school text found to be unique The 14th Century manuscript has been found to be the only complete copy of Richard Rolle's text.

Exciting discovery!
Mind you, I'm still hoping that we one day find a book written by a medieval housewife describing daily life in detail, especially about all the bathing they did ;)
www.bbc.com/news/article...

If Skeletor doesn't sound like Paul Lynde on 'roid rage, I'm not interested.

Use of ADHD medication in UK more than tripled in 13 years, study finds UK had highest relative increase of five countries in study, with 20-fold rise in proportion of women over 25 using it

Child1's GP said there's a perfect correlation between the decline in smoking and the rise in ADHD meds - many people were unknowingly self-medicating with nicotine.

I don't think he was suggesting child1 start smoking, at least I hope not.

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

i'm way less scared of civil war ii erupting than i am of absolutely nothing changing as things get worse and worse & the entire media apparatus pivots to pretending that using 5-year olds as bait to try and lure people out of their houses before also arresting the 5-year olds is normal

the american track record of actually punishing people like this is not great

hey, maybe this time we'll actually hang them! anything is possible