Depravity Pike

Where on the Visual Storytelling scale does "guy with bandaged hands and a chemistry department hoodie sullenly buying nitrile gloves" fall?

Yes

Lula: "We had to overcome foreign interference through digital platforms, which we will have to regulate. A crime in the digital world must be treated the same as a crime in the real world. We cannot have monstrous companies earning millions... not paying taxes... wanting to steer elections."

It's really important to pay attention to the fact that Lula beat the fascist candidate not by compromising and trying to meet fascist voters in the middle, but by sticking to his guns, promising prosecutions for election interference, and mobilising his own voters to turn out in greater numbers.

hey, Gene Wolfe is REALLY good at this stuff

if he posts through It Happening that will make it so much funnier

NO! Claude Mythos did not “do” that! ANTHROPIC ENGINEERS wrote code that did that! ANTHROPIC should be held accountable for what their code does!!

Today could be the day that it happens.

They should make a database of everyone who gets mad at a post like this and permanently strip them of their driver’s license

leprechaun-ass scammers

There is little meritocracy or competition when it comes to Democratic consultants—they get paid the same regardless of how their candidates perform in the election.

We found that as of right now 73% of your campaign donation goes back to the consultants and vendors (!!!), four times more than just 20 years ago. Only 13% to ads. Even I was shocked.

yospos bithc

Burt is helping remind me to vote no on WA I-638

The design of this building is exempt from building modulations, building setbacks, and tower separation rules because it’s made out of mass timber. Questions I have are, doesn’t it look good? If so, why do those rules exist? Do those rules actually make our buildings uglier?

Hey Seattle, you should have your ballots by now, remember to vote. All 3 of the State initiatives are regressive garbage that you should vote NO on. (The 2nd one is confusingly worded, but basically forces teachers to out their LGBT students.) Use a dropbox if you can for MAXIMUM voting power.

Reminder that meta staunchly refuses to kick off libs of TikTok, an account that has been responsible for actual terrorism

I was hired at a local grocery store when I was 16, but was never told when I was meant to start. A few days later they called me and told me I was fired for not showing up for my shift. 🤷‍♂️

The Superman No Smoking Ad, but I lost the audio track and dubbed it from memory

Just when the Dick Sucking Factory thought it was safe, a new competitor is disrupting the market.

My favorite graphics in "Transportation and the Shape of Cities" #4: A typical office worker has less space in their cubicle than their car does in the parking garage.

This is such important work, and the thing to keep in mind is that when AI people tell you that games will be personalized for you, this is the kind of thing they are more likely to mean.

Level 7: The scent represents only an intrinsic property, and a property that itself has no aroma, nor does it affect the aroma of any object of which it is a property.

Yankee Candle's Stages of Abstraction Level 1: The scent represents a physical object where the object's aroma is one of its distinct properties.

I love these 1500-year-old Little Guys

Comic from 2023: Who would have won WWII if a racist American auto manufacturer had the power to control one side's access to technology?

Poem in the Shape of the Poet Beating Henry Kissinger to Death with Their Bare Hands by Felix

The moral is, if you’re appointed Ambassador to Greece as an unqualified nepo hire, don’t try to do bonus grifts. The grift is being Ambassador to Greece. You are being paid to hang out in Greece for 4 years. Grift accomplished

This is a trend. A lot of officials think they’re $50 million dollar grifters, and get fired when it turns out they’re just $200k grifters Their prize in this administration is not vast fortunes. It’s making the same salary as a doctor while barely being able to read

Yeah, sure, the new AI garbage that requires a $5 billion data-center, cooled by the liquifies souls of orphans, is going to magically transfer itself into my wifi dishwasher.

JD Vance is on his way to killing his second pope.

Had a dream that I went to a cabin in the mountain with some friends & ended up being a sacrifice for some river fertility god. At one point I was warned, "Remember, they can breathe on land AT LEAST as well as you." Now I'm trying to work out the idea of a fish that can breathe air BETTER than me.

Garffeld Pt 17

I remember being 4 and asking another kid in preschool, "Do you want to be friends?" and him responding, "No, Craig is already my friend," and everything just kind of going downhill from there.

The full story is dumber. Crowley basically broke into the headquarters of a hermetic organization. To keep him from coming in an stealing magical secrets, the group started casting spells at him. He cast spells back. Yeats apparently went "Fuck this" and just booted Crowley down the stairs.

Scary

Anguished window, still in the "bargaining" stage of grief, prostrate before 50 graves: "Will the REAL Slim Shady PLEASE stand up?!"