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"AHH!! They’re dogs! And they’re playing poker!”

Gut punch of a story about an Amazon engineer who trusted ChatGPT-4o to manage and reduce her seizure med dosages. You'd hope someone who made it into a top engineering position would have known the limits of AI circa May 2024 www.nytimes.com/2026/10/27/w...

After sick corals were placed in direct contact with healthy ones of the same genetic makeup, they recovered at “incredible” speed, scientists found. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/14/c...

JD Vance: I don't know the names of countries I'm doing war diplomacy with and won't learn, put me in charge of foreign policy Susan Collins: I have no idea what any judge will do, I don't look at their record, put me back in position to oversee judges GOP voters: Thank you, this is what we want

The Rakotzbrücke Devil's Bridge In Autumn #Autumn

Top fav Illustrations from this year! Thanks @jaws-stone.bsky.social Happy holidays y’all! #artsky #horrorsky #horrorart #darkart

People truly believed that this was gonna be the End Da Warz presidency when the whole point of this presidency was to meme all the gutter bigotries of the GWOT’s origins into official policy

Your daily reminder that progressive Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny is an American citizen and MAGA lunatic Nicki Minaj is not.

training chun-li #格ゲーキャラ描こうぜ

Cedar has a new favorite toy #cats

Yeah, this is really bad. It's good that El-Sayed distanced himself from it, but I am in awe at how Cenk's left-wing PAC managed to combine antisemitism with transphobia and pitch it as *supporting* the Democrat in this race.

Saint Diana? #wonderwoman #retroanimestyle #saintseiya

Original idea by @/shinBR41N on twitter

Model: Gunhed (Robot Mode) Debut: Gunhed Year: 1989 Designer: Shōji Kawamori

Republicans voted to throw all that away just because they were too racist to live with it. They might not have consciously admitted they were doing this, but when they voted for Trump, they voted for a guy they **knew** would suck, that was their perverse impulse.

Still laughing... "Stick that ballroom up your fat ass!"

“they were always like this” yes they were but they didn’t feel like they could say it out loud at a campaign rally and it was better when they didn’t feel like they could do this

In fact I will say the Earnest and Pious Charismatic Ethnic Minority political figure (AOC, Mamdani, El-Sayed) has been a pretty good bet for the American left so far, whereas the Disaffected Gruff White Guy Showcasing True Masculinity (Fetterman, Platner) has been a worse bet. Just an observation.

generally speaking posting "mods, we're losing, send the cia to help me out please :(" is one of those things you want to keep implied rather than on your main feed

This is a brilliant article from @militarnyi.com on learning the right lessons from Ukraine’s experience.

"But somewhere along the way, price became a substitute for thinking. “Cheap” turned into a virtue on its own. Defence ministries now announce drone purchases by the million, and investors ask for the lowest unit cost on slide two." militarnyi.com/en/blogs/che...

Quincy Institute platforming Joe Kent and I gotta ask, all prior feelings aside, why these guys, an ostensibly prog foreign policy think tank, platforming the guy who ran to the right of fucking MGP

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

i think "vote dem across the board, but for the 4 very worst dems on trans rights you can leave them blank" is a reasonable position (& a reasonable compromise between vbnmw & fears about dems going full uk labour)

I find the prediction markets pretty much useless when it comes to “who is going to win” beforehand, because the sentiment is infected with the personal biases of the degen crypto sickos who participate what they are usually good at is doing math once the results start to come in

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

People saying Trump has no health care plan are wrong. This is it 👇🏽

I do think when historians look back the period the exact moment where it flipped and started going the other way won’t be anything any politician did but my Minneapolis neighbors weathering the worst of the regime in the streets, rallying together, fighting back, and winning

Will is right here, but we Chicagoans did our part too. Operation Midway Blitz was also a callosal failure.

As far as I can tell, Minnesota’s system for choking ICE out of our communities was pioneered in Chicago, massively expanded and refined here, and is now being deployed nationwide

It's well-documented that the president maintained a years-long friendship with the world's most notorious child sex trafficker. It might strike you as odd there aren't direct allegations of Trump engaging in child sex trafficking.. except there are. There are SO MANY. They just never get reported!

I’ve got a job and can touch a lever to make gross stuff go away and not go directly into the nearby water body, and all I gotta do is pay a regular fee? Hell yeah

Colombia's right-wing president acknowledges Lula's win. Donroe Doctrine in shambles.

sometimes i miss the secondhand paint fumes on the other site

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

These guys have won (in practice). Their guys are in power. Cdrsalamander has been whining about how POC, women and other minorities were the only thing stopping the Navy from greatness since like 2007! And they still all sound like a bunch of whiny losers.

Is it our fault that she married a detestable piece of fucking shit?

my god

Obama: "Imagine the power duo of Abdul and Elissa. You got a Muslim man, a Jewish woman, fighting for you in the US senate. That's something, Michigan, you can be proud of!"

The same US president who treats our friend Canada as an enemy is trying to give Alaska to Russia, a country whose absolutely overt foreign policy is to destroy us. This superpower suicide has to be stopped. www.ft.com/content/e9cf...

Héloïse might have made short work of the mantis but for its mesmeric dance. 'Avaunt, hen, and harm me not!' Cried the fae creature. 'For I am the Sibyl of the Shrub, and it shall go ill for thee!' #Boktober Hen and Mantis. Ink and gouache on Fabriano Medioevalis, approximately 95 × 64 mm.