drawing of a dark room. almost half of the room is a huge water tank. a big eel-type fish is swimming in, and a character is throwing fish food into the water to lure smaller fish in
late night snack
Macro photograph of a pearly white to rose colored leaf beetle with a metallic green head, pronotum, and various lines and blobs on its back, standing on a grean leaf with a number of flower buds at upper left.
A Calligrapha beetle- named of course for the beautiful inscriptions on its elytra- sits on its dogwood host plant. Texas.
Oh no people were targeting the DOGE boys? www.propublica.org/article/doge...
Hanging out with some baby goats in a beer garden would heal me
well now i’m upset about something other than the news for the first time in, like, forever, so thanks i guess
I guess it’s a little poetic that the tech industry invented a transformative new employment-destroying technology and the very first industry it‘s going to destroy is tech
They're doing the death by a thousand cuts / guilt by association playbook, and if we spent a few minutes looking at the people running the playbook and who THEY support, we'd be telling them to fuck off.
Logos for HBOMax, Telegraph, Gmail, Google, YouTube, and Netflix that have all been redesigned to look like they're from the 1980s.
Kinda in love with these tech logos redesigned with a 1980s look by Kostya Petrenko (@kxdgraphics on Instagram). He's got a bunch more, too:
www.instagram.com/kxdgraphics/
Self-own of the decade: BuzzFeed pivots toward AI slop, loses everything.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
I would also like the Democrats to stop just ceding the Republican framing of everything that matters
we can't be the party of "nothing matters except tax cuts" when teachers have to buy school supplies with their own money and no one under 40 will ever be able to buy a house
I would like to be held to a higher standard of collective responsibility than this
we all want you to make corporations pay their fare share, but the reason for that is because TAXES ARE GOOD and helping people understand why they matter is part of living in a society!!! I give you twenty extra cents a year or whatever in exchange for which we all get to have parks and libraries
one of the earliest lessons in politics I learned as a kid from my parents was to always vote for a tax increase, because you're trading a dollar amount so small you probably won't notice in order to fund something important that benefits everybody. I wish that was how Democrats messaged this stuff!
Imao Keinen - Blue Bird and Spider net, 1890-1900
it is my life’s mission to find the guy who’s pitching “no income taxes below [seemingly upper-middle-class threshold]” to big Dems electeds and hit him with a whiffle bat until he stops doing that
i can’t say with complete certainty that holding wealthy people accountable for their crimes would solve all our problems but you know let’s just try it out let’s just test it
Declaring that no quarter will be given unequivocally violates international humanitarian law. Indeed, ordering that no quarter will be given, threatening an adversary therewith or conducting hostilities on this basis is prohibited and constitutes a war crime.
Hi, I hate short form video content in every way possible
I guess I should appreciate that Katie Porter removed herself from consideration for my vote
this mf said “this scene looks still” there are you happy now
Anybody know how to keep these damn squirrels out of the little birdhouse in my soul
Partial section of the face of a full-size chocolate cat being held over the face of an actual cat.
Phantom of the Opurra
One big problem with the world is how few people in power I can imagine sitting down and reading a book
really does feel like “I will personally destroy this twerp’s life” would be a unifying electoral strategy
prosecute DOGE top to bottom tbh
the last time I went into SF I got stuck in a backup of cars at a stop sign and almost half of them were empty waymos
Jesus. Fucking. Christ. This kid wants to get out of detention in time for his school spelling bee. What the fuck are we doing.
"Palantir CEO Alex Karp says his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men."
Just saying it right out loud now.
newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
Archived tweet from Dr Damien P Williams Warned You About Exactly This @Wolven Sep 30, 2020 Y'all do realise it's only called "Palantir" because "Literally The Eye Of Sauron" was too on the nose, right? Like I heard Peter Thiel was originally gonna call it "The Witch King Of Angmar, Right Behind You, Forever," but then was like "nah people might get suspicious on that"
Long and the short of it is Peter Thiel is a nerd but also an authoritarian, and he thinks Sarumon and Sauron are cooler than the Fellowship.
Watercolour painting of a fluffy, banded owl feather on a piece of textured watercolour paper, with a hand holding a paintbrush over top.
Great Horned Owl feather study #watercolour
As someone who went on the Internet for the first time in the early 90’s, I fucking loved the Internet. It has given so many things in life, and afforded me so many incredible experiences.
And to see it, and technology in general where they are today is kinda soul crushing.
