Dan McEnroe

We're back! Let's kick off a new year of exploring all the ways bad people use the internet to mess with our minds - and what we can do about it. We can't change the internet - but we can change how we react to the internet. And if enough of us do that, who knows what will happen?

Rest of the world: "Drones are the future of warfare!" Hegseth; "Best I can do is dogs with high T."

Imagine waking up to this face. …and realising he’s been standing there watching you sleep for, like, an hour. Then he nods silently and leaves the room.

NEW, from Bloomberg News: “Elon Musk has now given more than $445 million in the current election cycle.”

New video! The recent story about Russian hacking on this very platform demonstrated that not all of us know what propaganda looks like. That's a problem.

I kinda want to go to a Trump rally dressed as a giraffe but wearing a sign that says "camel."

"I did see Goody Proctor consort with the Devil in the moonlight to make fraud upon us."

These guys are always wondering about what the founders "intended." Well they certainly didn't intend for you all to be spineless cowards! (Yes I know originalism is a psyop, don't @ me)

These guys made a flippy rocket car like 15 years ago and none of them are war criminals, so, checkmate Elon.

"It's my ballroom!" (SLAP) "It's my military complex!" (SLAP) "(sobbing) It's my ballroom AND my military complex!"

Trump: "It's going to be the greatest ballroom and military complex combination ever built!" (Has any ballroom/military complex EVER been built?!)

Good lord man, ICE is shooting people in the face, we're betraying our allies, people are getting black bagged into literal prison camps and you're out there saying shit like this? What's the word for this type of thinking? "Privilege" doesn't seem adequate,

Well polish my wand and call me Wanda, I guess

Shit, imagine tailoring your entire existence around Dear Leader and torching any hope of future employment and getting sacked after your first press briefing.

Did we need a Tesla that can turn itself into a missile? The kind of person that would buy this is exactly the kind of person who should never own it.

This made my morning.

Zack and Miri Make a Porno for Tax Purposes

Any government that is still relying (or plans to rely) on SpaceX for anything that actually matters is insane.

They'd better hope it can cure stupid.

Sorry, but we are not doing "Conan, what is best in life" with a dude who looks like that.

Did Ukraine actually blow up all of Russia's bot farms? I have no idea. I've seen conflicting reporting about that. One thing I am sure about is that you can blame the whole bot farm phenomenon on... paper cups. Please enjoy this video I made last year about how Dixie Cups ruined the internet.

Next thing you know Dear Leader will announce that he's finally gotten to the bottom of that Obama birth certificate business. www.bbc.com/news/article...

But wait, I thought the price of diesel had gone up not because of the war in Iran but because Ukraine blew up all the Russian refineries. Where's all that Russian diesel coming from?

If I have to live in a Paul Verhoeven movie, can't it be Showgirls?

Trump’s trying to start riots

Phones are a distraction engine. What if the ban on phones triggered France's high school students' revolt? "According to a professor..., when his students looked up from their smartphones, they discovered that an unbearable world had been prepared for them." legrandcontinent.eu/fr/dimanches...

In a perfect world the manosphere would be a cinematic universe based on Manos: The Hands of Fate.

How I arrived on Bluesky

I can only hope this means Pope Leo turned to one of his top cardinals and said, "We need... a new Caravaggio." "Sir?" "Yes... find me another sick bastard like him. We're doing this."

Weirdest Ikea instructions ever

Hegseth: no fatties or weirdos! Also Hegseth: Elon's in charge now. People are dying and this is the shit he's going on about. Absolutely depraved.

Can't help but think that the "future of warfare" will turn out to be "things that make money for Elon Musk."

I'm so old (as are my cats) that this applies to vomit sounds. We've got hardwood floors, it'll be fine.

A Gatsby remake directed by the guys who did Spitting Image

Happy Stanislav Petrov Day He passed in 2017. As Encyclopedia Britannica puts it, “He is survived by his two children, two grandchildren, and the entire human race.” If you don't know his story, please take 3 minutes now to learn it. @gchalliance.bsky.social @docsforclimate.bsky.social

Xi: "We must avoid the Thucydides Trap." Dear Leader: "Yeah, I almost caught that at Studio 54."

Wait... did Greenland and Denmark just... make money off this nonsense?

In addition to drones and snipers the Triumphal Arch will become the legs of a giant Robo-Natalie that will protect the city if Godzilla attacks.

This is a grotesque spectacle. What are we even doing?

I actually do believe that AI will kill us all in 10 years, but it's going to do it with, like, terrible medical advice and shitty code.

Plot twist: we're all going to get 5,000 bucks worth of Trumpcoin

Counterpoint: that pitcher knows damn well what he did.

Fiskers don't make noise when they start up, just so you know