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It was almost 90 yesterday. It's snowing right now. I think we (humanity) may have messed up the climate a bit. #rvawx

Hamas 2 is gonna be a real pain in the butt for Israel.

Investigating AI Deepfakes YouTube video by Coffeezilla

As bad as AI is for society, the truth is we don't need it for propaganda. The regular kind works fine.

Boomers still believe schools put litter boxes out for students who say they're cats. I know this because my dad stated it as fact to my sister yesterday.

People can and will believe anything.

Static cling - Wikipedia

The Wikipedia page for static cling has an amazing main image demonstrating the effect.

Small image of satellite/airplane view in GMaps centered on a road called Skeet St intersecting with W Broad St and between a couple businesses.

Did y'all know Richmond's got a Skeet Street? Someone should put a B&B on it and call it Skeet Street Suites.

USAID: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

I wonder if Joe Rogan lies awake at night thinking about how his platforming of right-wing morons and conspiracy-brained idiots has led to 750,000 deaths from ending USAID alone. Do you think he knows? Would he give a shit if he did?

Bluesky CEO Jay Graber Is Stepping Down Venture capitalist Toni Schneider will take over as interim CEO as Bluesky’s board of directors hunts for a permanent replacement.

Nothing good comes from capitalists taking over a project, so expect enshittification to start very soon. #ripbsky

Could I get a lossless version of this image? I want to send it to a printer and frame it. 🫠

Yeah, I've posted this video before, but I keep going back to it periodically because it's so fucking good.

A screenshot from Knocked Loose and Poppy doing "Suffocate" on (of all places) Jimmy Kimmel's show in late November 2024. Captured is a moment toward the end where Poppy, wearing a lovely white princess dress, screeches like a demon as flames erupt across the stage. Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AYeDnOLfl0g

I've never paid mind to late-night talk shows, so I have no clue of their various histories, but surely this ranked somewhere in the top three for coolest moments featured on one. If nothing else, is it perhaps the most metal shit ever broadcast on national television?

Spiritbox - Cellar Door (Official Music Video) YouTube video by riserecords

The syncopation in the breakdown has got me feeling a kinda way.

It's only DEI when it's people they don't like: women and brown folks.

I'm supposed to be playing video games today, but instead I'm trying to diagnose why my CPU is nearly a GHz under where I've clocked it. 🫠

Comic from Tom Guald in which two kingdoms of equal power and wealth consider the other to be savage wastrels.

Their religious extremism is bad. Our religious extremism is fine. Righteous, even.

This is the second time I've gotten this cashier whomst refuses to use anything but store bags. She's the only one I've had not use my totes. 🤷‍♀️

As for the dog lady, she didn't say that he was jumpy or bitey or anything. She just said "sorry, no" and didn't offer any further clarification. 😡

First, the cashier lady didn't bag my groceries because I brought my own totes…?

Then, a lady with a golden retriever hanging out a rear window parked next to my car, and she said no when I asked if I could pet him.

Maybe Republicans are right that society is overrated and everyone sucks.

So many people are applauding the assassination of a religious extremist abroad while pretending that Christian nationalists wouldn't do the *exact same things* as Iran should they gain equivalent power. As James Talarico said on Colbert, Christian nationalism is the worship of power -- not Jesus.

With AI doing my entire career's worth of skills better than me, maybe this is a sign I should become a delivery driver and make friends with all the dogs I meet. 🤔

Since my brain is jumping back and forth between "Kashmir" and "Tom Sawyer", could someone who knows how to wrangle a music-generating AI slap these two together for me? #slappadatbass

What does Wes lay? 🤔

My boy cat trips me up on the regular because he follows me around like a dog. Unlike a dog, however, he's a stealthy boy, so I won't know he's there until I've kicked him or I'm half falling over to avoid kicking him.

Either I have the most voracious little avian dinosaurs visiting my backyard or squirrels have figured out my "Squirrel Buster®" bird feeder despite its claims of invulnerability against them. The damned thing somehow goes empty after two days. Is that normal? I've never fed winged wildlife before.

Trump has become the first US president to bomb seven countries in one year. He's clearly Bored of Peace. Also, I bet the FIFA guy will soon print him a new medal for his "achievements" in this space.

It's kinda wild to consider that there's a direct line from Obama making fun of Trump at the 2011 Correspondents' Dinner to the US taking out two countries' leaders within two months in 2026. #thanksobama

Charlie Kirk was a white supremacist loser who called for Biden's execution and was backed by vile billionaires. That they've martyred him tells us how far along the neo-Nazi and/or Christofascism progression timeline we are.

I applaud the person who attempted this.

I assume this isn't a strategy that works against professional sociopaths like Karoline Levitt. I'm sure she could defend any position no matter how abhorrent. But most people would likely struggle once you drag them slightly off the path of their prepared responses. In that struggle lies truth.

Asking a simple followup question for clarity and quietly letting the person stumble into and flail around in an awkward mess of their own making is a skill no one in the western media seems to have when dealing with our lying-ass politicians. It's so simple, but instead they get a quote and dip.

Twitter: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) YouTube video by LastWeekTonight

Leon Musk really is a fucking moron. His true motivations are (a) enough money to "win" as the richest person ever, forever, and (2) to make the western world white. He can't say that, of course, so you'd think he'd at least have figured out how to bullshit people with contrived jargon by now.

The original tweet got noted and says this is a map of the frequency of male circumcision. It was meant as a joke, sure, but jokes can quickly become misinformation -- as it appears this one has.