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The Far Side comic strip by Gary Larson from Wednesday, March 11, 2026 | TheFarSide.com A cartoon from The Far Side® comic strip by Gary Larson from Wednesday, March 11, 2026 | Transcript: … Say, Bjorn … Do you know “Burn that Saxon Village Down, Boys, Burn that Saxon Village Down”? Yea...

this one always hits so hard for me

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I can get behind this proposal!

They call people who don't like ai "denialists" and meanwhile the dude is just saying this out loud

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor Let there be as much outrage from politicians in Washington when kids go hungry as there is when I break bread with New Yorkers. Quote Coach Tommy Tuberville @SenTuberville · 4h The enemy is inside the gates. x.com/EndWokeness/st… 12:50 PM · Mar 12, 2026 · 82.6K Views

رَمَضان كَريم

"There were no books." It's just painful.

Dear Historians of the Future:

We don't have a fucking clue as to what quite caused all this total collapse of sanity, either.

Former Expectations: A world, however flawed, moving toward a more cooperative & engaged future with empathy as an actual part of policy.

Current Reality: Forever wars run by kill-hungry crueltymongers designed to enrich the contemptuous wealthy, all with a veneer of racism antisemitism & misogyny.

I'm not used to agreeing with Tim Scott, but...

"When President Trump and Elizabeth Warren and the Senate majority of Republicans can all come to the same place on a housing bill, what it says is you put partisan politics aside."

Damn straight.

We used to use Occam's razor to understand things, but now I think for the current political climate we need a corollary:

After ruling out all rational alternatives, pick the godawful stupidest & most asinine reason for a thing to happen, and that reason, however absurd, will turn out to be true.

The answer to this is so easy, so obvious, so compelling...and covers the £5, £10, *and* £20 notes!

Gave up all of the currency and promise of the “idea” of America (however flawed), in exchange for “we kill people. We kill lots of people.”

How Hegseth Came to See Moral Purpose in War as Weakness

Maybe the most disturbing thing you read today: The story of how an eager but limited mind can move away from any sense of morality, in favor of death & destruction as a purpose, rather than a means.

'If only we kill more people, and break more things, then we will win' is the final human failure.

there is much to like in that idea

‘Violently assaulted’: Judge releases S.F. man who fought Mayor Lurie's security Tony Phillips was charged with assault on a San Francisco police officer. The judge says he’s the one who was assaulted.

This case is just so completely FUBAR. And so indicative of the systemic failures of our system to address the many needs of the unhoused and mentally ill.

OK, so it seems that we are monitoring a "presumed suspicious vessel" in an undetermined location off an unspecified area of the western coastline.

It's good to be alert. It's stupid to jump to conclusions. And Patel inspires the opposite of confidence in this area.

😳😳😳 aww thank you! I will do my best to uphold mine better than Klein.

Yes. He is a fucking idiot on coke.

No capacity to reach the West Coast, certainly not with midrange drones.

Oh, now - we got hot turkey cutlet and lukewarm macaroni and cheese! although granted, it was the Poconos...

Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature The feature, which Grammarly shut down Wednesday, presented editing suggestions as if they came from established authors and academics—without their consent.

I'm suing Grammarly over its paid AI feature that presented editing suggestions as if they came from me - and many other writers and journalists - without consent.

State law requires consent before someone's name can be used for commercial purposes.

www.wired.com/story/gramma...

What a week and it's only Wednesday!

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Thinking back to those lustrous days in early February, when Brent crude was $68/bbl and the world hadn't yet desperately released 400 million reserve barrels of oil in an apparently futile effort to calm markets as the Trump & Netanyahu plunge the world into war

ahh those dear dead days

My parents would have disowned me. It was bad enough when I experimented with saxophone as a teenager (but in the end they were right, it was a phase)

they read Easy Books!

It's like none of them ever read Vonnegut

reading material for the same people who get excited by eating/drinking nothing but soylent instead of, you know, food.

such a mess.

The funniest thing to me is all other things aside, the person who probably has the most capacity as an actual executive - leaving aside political acumen, personal charisma, or deep power connections that can be levered - is running dead last.

But hell. I'd grimace & take Swalwell.

There is nothing I can bring to mind that better captures the true paternalistic spirit of american conservatism than this factoid.